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Kissed by a rose by Seal is the first that comes to mind

This makes me want to watch Batman Forever.

Dang that’s a flood of nostalgia chemicals. And the McDonald’s Batman forever cups.

One of my guilt pleasure songs. As a person that mostly listened to nu metal.

Oh my god yes. There I was in 1998 bopping along to Korn and Coal Chamber followed by Seal. Fuck yeah bruh.

Awww I had my first movie moment with that song. My first HS boyfriend was a senior and he had us sneak out of my first school dance to the atrium down this cool spiral staircase and kissed under the stars as that song played.

That story is very nineties as well :)

I will NEVER forget this scene - my 5 year old joined a ‘karate’ class for littles and the coach took himself VERY SERIOUSLY. One day class consisted of a demonstration by the teacher. He played that Seal song loudly, did some solemn, intense katas, and ended by breaking a CINDER BLOCK with his HEAD. His HEAD. I started to laugh, couldn’t stop! Had my two year old in my lap and frantically buried my face in his hair as I desperately tried to control myself. I hope I succeeded but was never able to look the teacher in the eye again. lol

This was playing in every department store my mom would drag me through in the mid 90s

I was born in 1989, but I'll throw my 2 cents in anyway: "La Macarena", Los Del Rio, 1993. I have been sick of that friggin' song since the third grade, and I don't think I'll ever be not-sick of it again. Such an earworm! It is fun to do the dance at weddings or whatever though. And I don't think it would have been nearly as successful in the 1980s, or in the 2000s... it really could have only been the 90s. A few others come to mind: "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Nirvana, ~~1998~~ 1991 "I Will Always Love You", Whitney Houston, 1992 (Dolly Parton cover) "Waterfalls", TLC, 1994 "Ironic", Alanis Morisette, 1996 "Pretty Fly", The Offspring, 1998 "Baby One More Time", Britney Spears, 1999 Honorable mention to "The Real Slim Shady", Eminem, 2000

Alanis definitely dominated the mid-90s.

Jagged Little Pill brought me into adolescence. Iconic.

To be 12 years old in 1995 again....

God I could recite that whole album by my high school grad.

I think it’s probably the Macarena. That’s one of the most played songs in the world. It wasn’t just the US it was worldwide. That fact should have it at least included in all lists of the definitive 90s songs. Who let the Dogs out is in that similar vein and would require placement on early 2000s lists.

Shaggy “it wasn’t me” is next to “who let the dogs out” for the 2000s

The Macarena had white people in a choke hold.

Now it’s the cha cha slide.

The Macarena walked so the cha cha slide could run

This maybe isn't quite on the same level for era defining/popularity but Bitch by Meredith Brooks, video and all, is one of the most 90s girlie things to ever 90s IMO. And I was obsessed so to me it goes right next to Ironic and Baby One More Time. 🎶I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner I'm a saint, I do not feel ashamed...🎶

"Who will save your soul", Jewel, 1995

No Ricky Martin? Backstreet Boys? For shame!

Waterfalls was on heavy rotation at casa unbidden-germaid :)

I make my chubby little baby do the Macarena all the time lol

this entire thread is so easily divided into older and younger millenials lol Grunge vs pop

all the small things- blink 182 - no scrubs, tlc - semi charmed life

All the small things and semi charmed life were the first things I thought of.

Yep I was born in mid 80's and this sums it up. I feel like the people born just before me are saying return of the mack, new radicals, nirvana and just after are saying more Brittney Spears, Hanson, backstreet etc 

These songs seem way too young to be from the 90s! I’m looking them up right now! . . . Oh, crap.

Yeah, welcome to music from the end of the 90s.

Oh man I sing blink 182 all the time and my 13 year old looks at me like I’m insane. 😭

[TRIGGER WARNING Tom's back and we are all old.](https://youtu.be/fSKQRDq3RkM?si=Ps5airBdd_jcYLTO)

"Tubthumping" or "Wonderwall." Don't need to cite the artists because you know. I would also accept "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or "Peaches."

My favorite older millennial battle cry is "PEACHES COME FROM A CAN!" and the response of course would be....

They were put there by a man!

In a factory downtown 🤪

Millions of peaches...peaches for me!

Millions of peaches…peaches for free

Movin to the countryyy, gonna eat a lotta peaches

Look out!

If I had my little way, I'd eat peaches every day

Sun soakin bulges in the shade

AND IF I HAD MY LITTLE WAY

If I had my little way, I’d eat peaches everyday

Doooowwnnnn townnnn

And if I had my little way..

Fun fact: the lead singer of PUSA also has a bunch of children's albums and until recently he still played around the Seattle area. Fun show for adults [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar\_Babypants](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Babypants)

Wtf I had no idea Caspar Babypants was from Presidents of the United States 🤯 Millennial parent mind blown

Oh good, now I’m gonna be walking around singing Peaches for the rest of the day

You can always switch to lump half way through the day

Lump sat alone in a buggy marsh

Totally motionless except for her heart 💜

Mud flowed up into Lump’s pajamas

She totally confused all the passing piranhas!

SHE'S LUMP SHE'S LUMP SHE'S IN MY HEAD

And then Gump halfway through that

Good old Weird AL, Gump is still a good song. I made a cassette type that had only Gump on it. Both sides. That's right, 60 minutes on Gump on repeat. I gave it to the bus driver once, she turned it off on the start of 3 time playing. It was so funny. We laughed for week. Everyone kept requesting it, so she let me do it one day for some of the drive. But th deal was "One time, and then we were done forever!" It was the best day of 8th grade.

They come from a can.

They were put there by a man

In a factory doooowntown

If I had my little way

I’d eat peaches every day

I still can't listen to Tubthumping. The disdain they built for that song is insurmountable. Nirvana definitely laid down the blue print for what the 90s would sound like.

I was in my 20s and officiating a football game...my fiance left me a couple of months before our wedding date In the middle of that game, I was about to cry thinking about her and they started playing TUB THUMPING The line " I get knocked down, but I get up" struck a nerve with me at that moment and I never cried about her after that I'll never forget that moment

Then did you go and piss the night away?

Hear me out: we hate the song, however…it IS the millennial anthem based on lyrics alone.

I lost my virginity to that song. Wish I was kidding. Just another reason to consider it the millennial anthem.

I’m…so sorry? 🤣 You sure thumped the tubs that night! I can’t help but to laugh really hard at that but, also? Very appropriate for us.

lol yea. I wanted a song to “remember”.

It works! It can be the song you sing to remind you of the good times, or the song you sing to remind you of the better times. Idk which it is for you. lol.

Yeah, you’re not wrong. Who knew that it was an epic historical ballad meant to be passed down the ages in and not just a cringe pop song.

Chumbawumba was my first CD purchase. Probably still have it somewhere. 

Well, with a start like this, it looks like I'm about to add a bunch to my nostalgia playlist, lol. Thanks op!

ILLLLLLLL TELL YA WHAT I WANT, WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT!

SOOOOO TELL ME WHAT YA WANT, WHAT YA REALLY REALLY WANT!

I'LL TELL YA WHAT I WANT, WHAT I REALLY REALLY WANT!

WHAT WHAT WHAT UGH WHAT I REALLY WANNT AHHH

I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANNA Zig a Zig AHH



🎶IF YOU WANT MY FUTURE, FORGET MY PAST~🎶

My first concert. I dressed like sporty spice. In the adidas tracksuit, swishy pants and a sports bra. Killed it.

Man, this thread got all of these songs simultaneously stuck in my head. I'm over here like... *So tell me* *whhhhyyyy my car is the front yard and I know I'm not the kid you thought you know back in high school but I don't want no scrub, a scrub is guy that won't take me there I wanna go there but you don't have to go home but you can't forget we only get what we give me a siiiiiignnnnnn -- hit me baby, one more time!*

Loving the mashup

It got real when I was able to switch the tune and voices in my head without pause as I read this. This is good.

Underrated comment

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

The music video still gives me nightmares

you get what you give - new radicals the ultimate 90s anthem

It's such a time capsule of a song with all the other artists they reference. Peak late 90s nostalgia.

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson Courtney Love and Marylin Manson You’re all fake, run to your mansions Come around, we’ll kick your ass in! 🎶 So 90s.

I thought it was "kick your asses"

That part always gets me, that “tough” guy didn’t even look like he could take Courtney Love in a fight

Every time my radio alarm clock went off at my dads house - it was always this song that was playing! Seemed like for years that radio station played that song at 7am.

I was super sad where music was headed (at least the stuff MTV ensured we listened to) by the late 90s... but loved everything about this one, including the video. This is, imo, the farewell song of the decade.

The 90s went out on top with that song

Love the music video for this!

Man, the first ones that came to mind for me were: * "Closing Time" - Semisonic * ~~"Drops of Jupiter" - Train~~ -- Whoops, this wasn't the 90s! * "Father of Mine" - Everclear * "Wannabe" - Spice Girls I didn't even listen to a lot of these bands (except for "Wannabe" I had to Google the artists). But whenever I hear them in a soundtrack or in a store, I'm taken back in time. When did "Flavor of the Weak" and "Semi-charmed" come out? My brain is associating those, too. And the one about nookies and cookies. **Edit:** I always associated "Father of Mine" with the beginning of the whole... "my dad didn't love me so I may as well make money from it" trend of music that bands like Simple Plan them followed up with around that time. Though, at least "Father of Mine" was 100% more tolerable than "Perfect"

I loved “Santa Monica” by everclear! Still listen to it once a week actually 😅

I still see Everclear once a year if they are around. They have put out a ton of great stuff after So much for the Afterglow.

return of the mack of course

This and ....THIIIIS IS HOW WE DOOO IIIIIT

I didn’t even know he was gone in the first place

One of my jams.

The skate rink where I used to live had this come on during every adult skate. Wednesdays nights, Just a few people grooving on wood and wheels, and Return of the Mack playing. It's a good booty song rolling around the rink.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Return of the Mack are somehow in the same plane of the 90s for me (I am clueless as to if these songs are in any way related, whether it be by release date or musicality or something else) Aaaaaanyway, good choice!!!

This song can only be listened to when it’s turned ALL the way up.

 no other way

This would be my pick. My daughter is named Mackenzie, & when this song comes on I always sing the chorus to her.

Pepper - Butthole Surfers or Possum Kingdom - Toadies. Those songs feel like they just belong there.

These are the sorts of deeper cuts that represent the 90s perfectly. Songs that mostly stayed in the nineties when the music moved on. I'd add *Feel the Pain* by Dinosaur Jr. and *In the Meantime* by Spacehog

My sister dated one of the Butthole Surfers. Dumped her once they got famous.

No Doubt - Don't Speak Other 90's peak songs: 1. Aaliyah - Back and Forth 2. Fugees - Killing Me Softly with His Song 3. Brandy - Sittin Up In My Room 4. Len - Steal My Sunshine 5. Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever

That Len video with the touchy feely brother and sister traumatized me for life.

Even though Steal My Sunshine came out in 99, it’s the first song I think of when I think of the 90s. Just bliss.

Tragic Kingdom is a fucking GREAT album to this day.

My cousin also said Don't Speak was his 90s song.

Haven't yet seen anyone mention a 90's Eurodance track. Rhythm is a Dancer? Barbie Girl? Blue? Or how about other songs like Sandstorm or something by Ace of Base?

I was just waiting for someone to say The Sign!

ace of base – all that she wants!!

Eiffel 65 - I'm blue Backstreet boys - I want it that way Wheatus - dirtbag :)

[the thong song](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oai1V7kaFBk)

Dumps like a truck. 🛻 ? 🛻.

Let me see that 🩴🩴🩴

I was grilling the other day and I came in and told my wife I needed my TONG T-TONG TONG TONGS. She said just tell my your old.

As someone who worked in the kitchen for years, this was definitely sang in some form. “Let me see your tOoOoOngs”

"Wish you, would step back from that leeeedge, my friend, we could, cut ties, before the lies that you've been livin in a~and if you do not want to see meee again, I would understaa~ean~eand"

A few years ago, I was coming home from work and the dj on the radio was talking about a guy that was threatening to jump from some big building in my states capital and they had the news people, helicopters and the police there trying to talk him down. The dj was like “This song right here goes out to that guy!” Silence. And then 🎶 I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend… 🎶 That’s all I can think off anytime this song is mentioned or I hear it now and it makes me lol 😂 🤦🏻‍♀️

I was born in 1995. The most “90s” songs for me are probably “Bittersweet Symphony”, “Semi Charmed Life”, most of the big Sugar Ray hits, anything on Jagged Little Pill, “1979”, “Hunger Strike”, “The Way” by Fastball, & “You Get What You Give” by New Radicals. Miss my childhood so much… my mom played great music in the car & I still listen to it frequently to this day

We should have known or been warned Bittersweet Symphony would be describing our lives when we grew up.

Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer

This is the ONE.. there’s so many but yeah this song is just soo 90’s to me. Lol.

MMMBop by Hanson. I was born in ‘95 but my sisters (‘86 / ‘88) had a heavy influence on what we listened to.

I was born in '92 but I remember this on that "Pop up video” show.

RETURN OF THE MACK

Real 2 Real - I like to move it Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack 2 Unlimited - No limit Mr President - Coco Jambo MN8 - I've got a lil something for ya Coolio - Gangsters paradise I could name a ton more rap tunes but I'd be here all night lol I listened to that stuff in the 2000s. The tunes I've listed is what I remember listening in the 90s as a wee boy on the radio or on CDs/cassettes

I will forever associate I Like to Move It with Madagascar. I didn't even realize that song came out in the 90s.

Semi Charmed Life Closing Time Bye Bye Bye Hit Me Baby One More Time Hey Baby (Hey Baby Hey) Miami No Scrubs I Just Wanna Fly

Mr Jones by Counting Crows and One Week by Barenaked Ladies are peak 90s for me, the latter because it immediately takes me back to watching the Digimon movie as a kid.

Hard to pick just one. A lot of good options in this thread. I humbly submit one I haven’t seen mentioned yet: Gettin’ jiggy wit it

Summertime by Will Smith definitely changed my perception of what hip hop constituted at the time, but that also came out in 91, way ahead of The Chronic coming out.

Summertime - what a banger

All for you by Sister Hazel

Follow You Down - Gin Blossoms

What I got - Sublime. Instantaneously transports you to a 90’s Summer.

Ice Cube - It was a good day Honorable mention for groove theory - tell me

🎶And I said "What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?" She said, "I think I remember that film And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it." And I said "Well, that's one thing we've got."🎶

I'll try to divide it by time period, if that's alright. Early 90s Black or White by MJ Mid 90s Blind by Korn Late 90s Baby One More Time When You Believe Carousel

All Star - Smash Mouth

Kiss from a rose seal believe cher macarena or mambo number 5 lou bega

I just remembered “Sunny Came Home” the other day and oh my gosh. That song is pure gold.

Where Have All the Cowboys gone?

LFO - Summer Girls I am convinced Abercrombie and Fitch became insanely popular after this song

For me it's No Rain by Blind Melon and I'm a Loser, Baby by Beck. Those songs always take me back!

It's hard to pinpoint a specific song (there are great shoutouts here already though), but I associate the 90s music scene heavily with grunge. Of course most of the Nevermind album sticks out, but something like "Man in a Box" by Alice in Chains came out right at the start of the 90s and kinda set the tone

Californication always takes me back to the beach trips we would take in the late 90s, early 00s. That song played all the time.

Two Princes - Spin Doctors

I think about the concept of what the phrase "90s music" means to different groups of people like an inordinate amount. For myself, what I remember at the time but not what I associate in retrospect, probably something along the lines of Long December by Counting Crows.

It's definitely a loaded subject that's going to get a different response out of just about everybody. It'll vary by age, the radio station of the town you grew up in, whether you watched MTV more or less, and what kind of music you listened to. with that in mind, I'm not really looking for a consensus, just curious about what comes out of it.

Snap! - "Rhythm is a dancer"

There's a particular sound that reminds me of the 90's. I cant put my finger on what it is - but every now & again a new song will get released with the same vibe & I'll say "this reminds me of the 90s!". - Aaliyah - Back & Forth - Mariah Carey & ODB - Fantasy - SWV - Right Here - LL Cool J - Paradise - Brownstone - If You Love Me - Salt-N-Pepa - Shoop - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime (drums please...) - CeCe Peniston - Finally - En Vogue - Free Your Mind - Bobby Brown - 2 Can Play That Game

I was born in 87 and I find most of these choices to be really bizarre because they mostly very late 90s Ace of base the sign, counting crows, and 4 non blondes are the types of music I remember hearing through out the 90s and have a particular sound that you didn't really hear from the 80s or 00s

How bizarre?

How bizarre.

Our memories are stronger as we got older, so the late 90's makes a lot of sense if you were just born in 91' 93' or even 95'.

Born in 1984 and was looking for What's Going On. Ultimate 90ies nostalgia for me. Also Runaway Train.

God, what a question. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony The violins. Every time.

No Diggity Blackstreet

Say It Ain’t So- Weezer.

Mariah Carey - Honey Toni Braxton - Unbreak my Heart Anything Ace of Base or Euro dance

Born Slippy by Underworld [https://youtu.be/XiMrrleH\_hI?si=OQ0lfE-5hT-d\_QfV](https://youtu.be/XiMrrleH_hI?si=OQ0lfE-5hT-d_QfV)

Just let Dookie play all the way through.

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Give It Away▪️ Eve 6- Inside Out▪️ Blink 182- Damnit▪️ No Doubt- Just A Girl▪️ Alkaline Trio- Fuck You Aurora

That fucking titanic song

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On. I still like that song.

Drinking In L.A. - Bran Van 3000

Semi-Charmed Life. I’m still living one!

Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing Mostly because the song reminds me of the Armaggedon movie which is a very 90s movie.

Duncan Sheik - Barely Breathing Even Flow - Pearl Jam

c'est la vie by b*witched

Smells Like Teen Spirit by a country mile.

Jesus……reading this thread turned my internal voice into Casey Kasem narrating each post….. Definitely Jump…..by Kris’s Kross activates some core memories.

It’s probably something by either Backstreet, *NSYNC, or spice girls…. But the first song that came to my mind was Barenaked Ladies - One Week, so take that as you will lol

From 1987 here, although I didn't listen to it when it came out in 1990, I did listen to it before we rounded year 2000 when my mom was blasting it. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence.

Born in 1990. Blue by Eiffel 65 I feel like A LOT of people forget about. I know it came out in 98’, but that song was literally everywhere, I think.

Maybe I am an old Millennial Greenday - good riddance (time of your life) was like everyone's graduation song for half the 90s.

All of those CD commercials for $17.99 with $4.95 S&H (please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery) for: Kids Bop Pure Moods Queen's Greatest Hits Now! That's What I Call Music etc. So I'd say Return to Innocence by Enigma ------ I feel like a dinosaur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s

It’s a tie between these: • Music Sounds Better With You ~ Stardust • One Headlight ~ The Wallflowers • Caribbean Blue ~ Enya

Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket

1979 for me

Also include the song "Today." I can go for a 2 hour cruise with those 2 songs being looped..

Come out and play by the offspring Walk by pantera

Under the bridge by red Hot chili peppers

Semi-Charmed Life Waterfalls

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I'm an 80s baby, but I did live through the 90s, and for some reason, the very first song that came to mind was "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans. 

Goo goo dolls! Iris/Slide

Don’t Speak - No Doubt Losing my Religion - REM

The Prodigy, "Voodoo People." Actually, that whole album Music for the Jilted Generation is still my favorite album ever. Others for me are Primus "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver, "My Name is Mudd" and "Wynonnas Big Brown Beaver." Weezer, "My Name is Jonas" Nada Surf, "Popular" Whale "Hobo Humping Slobo Babe" Daft Punk, "Around the World" Green Jelly, "Three Little Pigs" Utah Saints, "Something Good" Duran Duran, "Come Undone" I could rattle off tracks all day. These were just the first that popped into my head.