4 Non Blondes – What’s Up? Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know Beck – Loser Blur – Song 2 Chumbawumba – Tubthumping Elliott Smith – Between the Bars Fastball – The Way Fiona Apple – Criminal Foo Fighters – Everlong Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Jimmy Eat World – Lucky Denver Mint Mazzy Star – Fade into You Meredith Brooks – Bitch Oasis – Wonderwall Pavement – Cut Your Hair PJ Harvey – Down by the Water R.E.M. For more alternative music, check out our list of the 100 best alternative songs of the 90s. Bands like Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers, though, continued to make sure that mainstream rock would continue to be a dominant force in the music industry into the 21st century. Jimmy Eat World helped usher in emo music’s ascension within mainstream rock, and Pavement brought slacker cool to campuses across the country. Elliott Smith appeared to be the second coming of Bob Dylan, infusing his folk-inspired 90s songs with tales of heartbreak and depression. Female stars like Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette proved that women not only had a seat at the rock table, they were sitting at the head. In its stead came artists willing and insistent on changing the rules of the game in favor of something weirder, edgier, and rule-breaking. Gone were the days of hair metal and arena rock. The 90s saw an influx of alternative artists shape the sound of rock music. Here are just a few starting places for you to explore the decade.Ĭan’t get enough 90s music? Listen to our 90s Music playlist as you read our list of the best songs of the 90s below.
The 1990s represented a grab bag of unimaginable wealth for music fans. Jazz saw an experimental renaissance after a tough decade, and Latin music started its long ascent to becoming pop music in the United States. Electronic music hit the mainstream with force, as both underground and mainstream acts helped define the dance culture we now see at festivals worldwide. Jamaican dub and reggae were prevalent in ska and punk music, and Afropop found its way into a variety of genres. Music from around the world, too, was becoming more popular in America. Country music took a bold step into the mainstream, and became a defining music of America thanks to a plethora of new stars. Alternative music saw a number of genres proliferate outwards from it in the 90s, like indie rock and emo. Rap and R&B dominated the charts, bringing Black American culture around the world thanks to the prevalence of MTV. The songs that you only remember how much really loved whenever they pop up on the radio again.The best 90s songs reveal a simple fact: The decade was a Golden Age for many types of music. Now, I don't mean the songs that we will remember all the words of until the world finally ends, like Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" or Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy." I'm talking the songs that you listened to on the radio in the car, and then promptly forgot about as soon as you got to your destination. And while those bands are obvious hallmarks of the time, the music that really makes me miss the '90s and early '00s are the forgotten artists and songs - the ones that really made an impression for a few days, weeks, or months, and then disappeared into the abyss of music that couldn't quite keep its place on the charts. Who could forget Britney Spears, the Spice Girls, NSYNC, or Backstreet Boys? No one ever, that's who. For those of you who share my nostalgia for those times, it's easy to remember some of the more famous pop culture phenomenons in music of the day.
But nothing really makes you wax poetic more about the past than music. Some days, I get extremely nostalgic about my childhood and formative years in the '90s and early 2000s - the fashions (jelly sandals were a staple), the teen heartthrobs (JTT, I still love you), the games (Tamogotchi, where have you gone?).
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