1990s in Songs Bracket

We now have a top 10 songs from the 80s. Time for the 1990s. Hoo boy. The grandaddy of them all.

What are your top 10 songs from the 1990s?

 

10. Tom Petty - You Don't Know How it Feels
9. Ini Kamoze - Here Comes the Hotstepper
8. Nirvana - Sappy
7. Soundgarden - Outshined
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
5. Oasis - Acquiesce
4. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
3. Outkast - Rosa Parks
2. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
1. Nirvana - Drain You

 

Pat obsessing over Oasis for years on this site and then not picking any of their top 3 songs for the list is WILD

 

Willing to form an alliance because I can't decide between Waterfalls and No Scrubs

 

I gave up while trying to make this list for the Pitchfork poll. Will try again, I suppose.

 

1. Sublime - Badfish
2. Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
3. Oasis - Live Forever
4. Nirvana - All Apologies
5. 2pac - Keep Ya Head Up
6. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
7. Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet
8. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
9. Nas - The World is Yours
10. Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Drive By

 

Hard list to cut down.

1. Powerline - I2I
2. The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
4. Pearl Jam - Black
5. Wu Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus
6. Tupac - Changes
7. Nas - Life's a Bitch
8. 4 Non Blondes - What's Up
9. Robin S. - Show Me Love
10. Notorious BIG - Mo Money, Mo Problems

Plus:
American Football - Never Meant
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
The Cranberries - Dreams
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Weezer - Across the Sea
Janet Jackson - Together Again
At the Drive-in - Star Slight
Nirvana - All Apologies
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
blink 182 - Dammit
Green Day - JAR
Korn - Got the Life
Limp Bizkit - Faith
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Snap! - Rhythm is a Dancer
Corona - Rhythm of the Night
Blind Melon - No Rain
Boyz II Men - It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Michael Jackson - Will You Be There
Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Drive By
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me
Amber - If You Could Read My Mind

 

I feel like this decade is gonna be the most varied yet. Stoked to see what everyone comes up with

 

1. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
2. Celine Dion - Water from the Moon
3. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
4. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
5. Matchbox 20 - 3am
6. Cher - Believe
7. Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman
8. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
9. Boyz II Men - End of the Road
10. Destiny's Child - Say My Name

My initial list was about 40 songs longer than this and still felt incomplete.

Edited to add Whitney.

 

10. Beastie Boys- Sabotage
9. Lucinda Williams- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
8. Tori Amos- Me and a Gun
7. Tupac- Keep Ya Head Up
6. Rage Against the Machine- Freedom
5. Sinead O'Connor- Nothing Compares 2 U
4. Public Enemy- By the Time I Get to Arizona
3. Lisa Loeb- Stay
2. Tori Amos- Cornflake Girl
1. Rancid- Radio


HM:
Natalie Imbruglia- Torn
Counting Crows- A Long December
Mazzy Star- Fade into You
Gin Blossoms- Hey Jealousy
Green Day- Basketcase
Outkast- Rosa Parks
Alanis Morissette- You Oughtta Know


Way too many songs to fit into a top 10 though

 

10. Counting Crows - Round Here
9. Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy
8. Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash
7. Fugees - Ready or Not
6. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
5. Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Drive-by
4. Pearl Jam - Corduroy
3. Pulp - Common People
2. Weezer - Across The Sea
1. American Football - Never Meant

 

not having champagne supernova as a top 3 oasis song is a you problem, not a me one

 

I didn’t realize that there were two Show Me Love’s by singers with the same name (albeit spelled differently) until a month or so ago

 

1. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
2. Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
3. Tom Petty - Learning To Fly
4. New Radicals - You Get What You Give
5. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
6. Tal Bachman - She’s So High
7. Radiohead - Creep
8. Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
9. Semisonic - Closing Time
10. The Cranberries - Dreams

A lot of tough omissions but I'm posting it before I change my mind again

 

Woof this is gonna be hard

 

Brutally tough

1. Pulp - Common People
2. The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
3. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
4. Foo Fighters - Everlong
5. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
6. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
7. Modest Mouse - Dramamine
8. Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
9. Refused - New Noise
10. Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike

Honorable mentions:

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Outkast - Rosa Parks
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Drive-By
Ride - Vapour Trail
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Portishead - Sour Times
Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
Counting Crows - Omaha
Archers of Loaf - Web in Front
Mazzy Star - Fade into You
Blink-182 - Dammit
Four Non-Blondes - What's Up?

 

when did it switch from disco 2000 to common people being pulp’s best? not even arguing just always felt like that was the consensus until like five years ago

 

When William Shatner brought it to the youth

 

when Jarvis rhymed college with knowledge

 

I will probably change this

1. Smashing Pumpkins- 1979
2. Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun
3. Notorious BIG- Juicy
4. TLC- No Scrubs
5. Shania Twain- Man I Feel Like A Woman
6. Sheryl Crow- If It Makes You Happy
7. Nine Inch Nails- Hurt
8. Britney Spears- Baby One More Time
9. Alanis Morissette- You Oughta Know
fuck it 10. Spice Girls- Wannabe

 

I’ve whittled it down to 25. I know only the 10 would count but I may post the additional 15 for this decade

 

1. Bjork - Hyperballad
2. Pulp - Common People
3. Refused - New Noise
4. Faye Wong - Dreams
5. Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
6. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt (Lost in His Work)
7. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
8. Elliott Smith - Angeles
9. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
10. Alanis Morissette - Thank U

11. Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
12. The Sugarcubes - Leash Called Love
13. Counting Crows - Round Here
14. Kate Bush - Eat The Music
15. Sigur Ros - Ny Batteri
16. Billy Bragg - Sexuality
17. Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
18. Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House
19. Cap'n Jazz - Oh Messy Life
20. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Mistakes and Regrets

Hyperballad is my favourite song ever - first song I have any conscious memory of listening to, and specifically wanting to listen to again and again.

 

Common People has always felt like their most iconic song, at least in the UK. That'd be the one that most people know, and the one you still hear all the time.

 

1. Radiohead - Let Down
2. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
3. American Football - Never Meant
4. Bjork - Hyper-Ballad
5. Eminem - As the World Turns
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
7. Bjork - Pluto
8. Bjork - Play Dead
9. The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
10. The Cranberries - Linger