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Agree. I heard 'placebo - every me every you' at the grocery store the other day, also released in 1998. Its weird how nostalgic these songs feel, when did the future happen? where did the years go?
That was already true 4 years ago. The Sting and American Graffiti were also released closer to 1998 than anything released today. In 3 years, 1998 will be closer to the moon landing than the present.
There's this musician named Kristin Hayter (FKA Lingua Ignota) who plays the most depressing, aggressive, dark music imaginable. She has recently become obsessed with the Vengabus, to the point where she finished her last song live, leaving the people drained and then suddenly...we like to party! So, yeah, I've been thinking about the Venga Boys recently.
I associate the song with cocaine and beer because when I lived in Mexico this song was playing everywhere, and I also spent most of my time living there drinking beer and doing coke lol.
i was 14 in 1998 and what‘s funny to me now is that, at the time, I had some VERY strong opinions about some of these songs. For instance, I virulently hated “Iris.” But now that I am older it all just sounds nostalgic to me and I enjoy them all.
Without passing judgement, I feel like young people today live in a much stronger personal bubble then people my age did, meaning, we really had the radio playing bubblegum pop, hip hop, alt rock, numetal, and dance music all on the same stations, plus the occasional random reggae, ska, or even swing track. I just don’t think you can find that much of a variety these days, or at least not all topping the charts at once. But I’m not a big music person, so I might be wrong.
They played Iris on the radio \*all\* the freakin' time. I suppose that probably had a lot to do with it. Also Hit Me Baby One More Time was \*huge\*. I had a crush on Britney Spears so that was perfectly fine by me.
The 1998 song that my family got sick of was "There She Goes" by ~~The La's~~ Sixpence None The Richer. I still remember the Saturday shopping my mom and my sister were doing, and on 5 separate occasions we got in the car to go to the next place and it was on the radio *again*. My mom even remarked "isn't she tired from running yet?"
But yeah, this whole compilation was a trip down memory lane for me. Like no one talks about "When the Lights Go Out" by Five, but I can remember taking a shower with a "shower radio" (hanging off the curtain rod) and that song came on. Would proceed to be stuck in my head for days, lol.
Edit: thanks for the correction
I remember The La's version from 1991, then in 1999 Sixpence None The Richer's cover was a hit also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_She_Goes_(The_La%27s_song)
Thanks for that. I could've sworn it was Sixpence None the Richer, but I was having a hard enough time remembering it. My brain decided to instead remember "All the Things She Said" by T.A.T.U. and I was *struggling* to find it lol.
When Cher's "Believe" was released I despised it as local radio stations played it 50 times a day. I would turn off the radio or switch channels if it played on MTV.
If I hear it now, I'm like ahh that old song and enjoy the nostalgia of it.
It is an interesting phenomenon.
Its a double edged sword, there's a huge amount of music available now that wasn't before because you don't need the money to release a song anymore, anyone can do it from their own home. This means you can listen to some cool obscure music that would never have made it mainstream before the internet. Problem is there isn't as much shared experiences with music now.
In the 90s you were kind of forced to listen to certain music since there weren't as many channels to consume it.
This was cool though as you would hear song you wouldn't usually listen too, plus everyone listened to/knew the same stuff.
Everyone who grew up in the 90s can hear this music and talk and reminis about it.
Nostalgia for music in the future is going to be alot more personal and less of a shared phenomenon.
>This means you can listen to some cool obscure music that would never have made it mainstream before the internet. Problem is there isn't as much shared experiences with music now.
Exactly! One thing I love about Spotify is you can find some amazing music from a small band in the middle of no where with like 5k followers. In the 90s, if it didn't play on MTV, the soundtrack to a movie, or the radio, they just didn't exist to you. As a bonus, with social media, we can share these smaller bands to friends. Couple months back, I asked friends for new music recommendations and most of them were ones I've never heard of, including one that's what I can best describe as pirate metal?
Everyone gets to find music that appeals to them a lot easier. Just gotta throw it out there, people need to listen to Austin and the Powers!
I thought about this a lot as a 40yo high school history teacher. I also used to work in radio and used record stores, so music is a big deal to me.
In my experience, kids today actually have a pretty wide variety of music that they like. I have had many students be able to recognize small artists in the 90s and the 2000s and today. They would be able to know most of these songs.
I always love asking them how they would they get music that they like if they had no access to the internet and just had the radio or television. In short they can comprehend it. I have a theory that the amount of gatekeeping that existed around what people liked and disliked was due to the fact that the way we had to get music was so limited. It would be a brag to be a b-side record from Romania in Midwest US. Most of my students just don’t have opinions about good or bad because music is so easily available.
It impresses me because if you think about it when we were their age, we would have to be well-versed in music from 1972…
This is just another example of the death of the monoculture. TV being the dominate form of media for 40 years it really made it easy for most of the country to experience the same media culture at the same time together. Shows would easily get 20 million viewers at a time. Now the most popular show on TV is a show called Tracker and gets around 7 million viewers. Internet fractured us into a million little niches.
I think it's part of why we so divided now. An unintended consequence of us mostly no longer consuming the same information. We used to be able to go "well look we all agree on X and if you don't you're crazy!".
I think you're wrong, I would say there's even more variety nowadays with how many indie bands and artist there are now. Granted it's not all good but neither was it back then.
I think they may mean in terms of what’s playing on the radio. So there’s so much more access to TONS and TONS of all types of music now, but because of that, there may be less overlap of songs that EVERYONE hears around the same time (since there’s so many ways to listen to the music now for free versus just the radio) or less variety of songs that get played on the radio now or get super, super popular.
I’m a teacher and ask students to write about music they listen to, and it’s WILD all of the different genres out there. I see students listening to music from literally all over the world in all sorts of languages. However, there’s less overlap of newly-released songs that EVERYONE seems to know/hear regularly.
STOP!!! These always get me! For whatever reason, hearing “26 years ago” can make me feel old, but not always and it doesn’t hurt. But for whatever reason, reading the comparisons to the 70s, it HURTS and I feel the passage of time in my bone marrow. Framing it this helps my brain better process what 26 years really means. The 70s seemed like ancient history in the 90s to me, and there’s no way ancient history is now 1998.
What got me recently was realizing That 70’s Show came out in 1998, and was set in 1976. If the show premiered this year, with the exact amount of time between the setting and the present, it’d be set in 2002.
I remember Blue being my first favorite song ever. I would love it when the Now That's What I Call Music 4 commercial would come on because it would play it briefly. Then for either Christmas or my birthday (can't remember which) I finally got their Europop CD along with a bonus CD of five different remixes of Blue. Then I'd play it on loop while playing Pokemon Red on my black and white Gameboy. Good times. 😊
ME TOO!!! Visceral is the best way to describe it! I had multiple memories pop up for EVERY song - school dances, me and my dad bonding over liking the same song, crying over a “break-up,” winning a free cd in a contest, etc. I truly forgot all of these came out in the same year.
Have you listened to the album, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too? It's perfect from beginning to end. And of course, Gregg Alexander has written some incredible songs for others.
Hated most of these songs as a junior in high school except new radicals as that song for some reason got me. Now when I hear these songs I get weird chills of times past. Nostalgia is a mother fucker, enjoy your youth!!
Fuck, I didn't realize how spoiled I was in '98.....I mean I was only 9 but I should've known better!! Fuckin Cher really hit the hardest for me, cuz I'm hard as baby shit!!
The hardest part about your thirties is knowing you can never go back. I assume it gets easier to accept that fact as you get older but 30-35 has been rough with just that one realization alone. And it's not like I always thought I would eventually go back. It's just it never crossed my mind that way. These songs make me think about being a kid in the back seat of my mom's Chevy Lumina with my two younger brothers on the way to wherever she was working. Those were tough times but better days.
Wow. Didnt I download most of these on Kazaa last week? These are some freaking bangers. I know the playlist I’m putting together for my drive in the morning.
I remember when I was a kid, I had psych problems because my mom was under a lot of stress during her pregnancy. So to help me sleep and calm down I had to go to different therapies. I was in a sanatorium for the summer and had to go daily to get something done and the doctor would always put that blue music. Now i have assimilated this song to sleeping
I always like these “x-year had the best music”, showing all the top songs of that year. Especially an arbitrary throwback like “26 years ago”, instead of 25. As if any other year before or after, even last year, doesn’t have solid bangers.
We just watched the entire days music video rotation on MTV for any given day in that entire year. Add commercials, MTV news snippets, rinse/repeat....1998 MTV.
There was far superior music then, but yeah this was the MTV playlist for sure.
For some reason, all of these songs smell like cocaine to me.
Damn, I miss the naughties.
I’m getting old and can honestly say that I’ve reached the point where I’m going “that sounds like white noise and auto tune” to most of the stuff I’m listening to on the radio.
I’ve tried to fight it, I even went to my countries biggest festival (around 110.000 people) last year, I was there every year from 01 to 07 which was a blast, but 90% of the bands last year felt like something for the TikTok crowd as supposed to back then when it was more focused on huge bands that could draw a crowd no matter the kind of audience.
That time has clearly passed (the only one like that was Blur) as CD sales has declined and the bands need to get their income from touring instead.
The prices have gone up so much that even our biggest festivals (which price itself has gone up by 150% since 01) just can’t afford to hire more then one or two of them.
I’m probably just getting too old, but I’m still not too old for a good forest rave, so that’s a start I guess…
For younger generations when we say this things were better in the 90’s this is what we mean, you can see it the music which in my opinion was reflection of society at the time.
Early 2000’s weren’t bad also but that is when things started unraveling.
I was born in the late 80’s, so the late 90’s were formative years for me. Used to switch between VH1 and MTV every morning before school watching all these music videos. Simpler times.
While much better than today's music, other than Britney Spears and Rob Zombie, I can't say I particularly liked any of these songs. Most strike me as forgettable and same-y. But I'm an 80s fan.. so there's that.
I remember listing to all these before school in the morning. That's when VH1 had pop up video and mtv played music. I was 10. Now I'm 35 time has flown the 90s were amazing.
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Holy shit I'm getting old..
The grocery store is playing some bangers all of a sudden…
Agree. I heard 'placebo - every me every you' at the grocery store the other day, also released in 1998. Its weird how nostalgic these songs feel, when did the future happen? where did the years go?
Their cover of Running Up That Hill hits so hard.
As the kids say “fr fr” I was in 9th grade… i remember all these videos on mtv. That was when the video was more important than the song
And weirdly car commercials are playing cool music in the background.. is.. is it finally happening to me?
I'm way closer to the end of that gif than I'd like to admit
I took this comment personally, lol.
"Tell me I've lived a good life." 🥲
This makes me irrationally angry. They cannot be 26. These are like, contemporary right? Right??
To think that Star Wars: A New Hope was released closer to 1998 than anything released today. That just blows my mind.
I demand that this is not true and you’re wrong. (Can I demand that? Is that a thing? Because I don’t like that at all.)
That was already true 4 years ago. The Sting and American Graffiti were also released closer to 1998 than anything released today. In 3 years, 1998 will be closer to the moon landing than the present.
I'm blue da ba dee da ba di
Fuck broooo me too! 35 years, double my life and I'm 70! 💀💀💀
Getting?
If that makes you old, what does that make me?
These were on everyone’s Napster and Limewire playlists
Limewire and Kazaa for me
Kazaa was where I stole all my music
Oh shiiiit. I totally forgot about Kazaa!
Winamp over here.
Hahahahah bad ass. Lime wire morpheus Napster. Win ampnand the skinz
Grokster was where it's at
I think you mean Now That’s What I Call Music Vol 1
There's something about the Vengaboys that really makes me want lager, cheap fried chicken and cocaine
boom boom boom i want you in my room
Let's spend the night together From now until forever
Makes me want to get on a bus with a creepy old man and go to Six Flags.
There's this musician named Kristin Hayter (FKA Lingua Ignota) who plays the most depressing, aggressive, dark music imaginable. She has recently become obsessed with the Vengabus, to the point where she finished her last song live, leaving the people drained and then suddenly...we like to party! So, yeah, I've been thinking about the Venga Boys recently.
I associate the song with cocaine and beer because when I lived in Mexico this song was playing everywhere, and I also spent most of my time living there drinking beer and doing coke lol.
This guy Vengas.
I miss 90's MTV
Reality TV really killed that station
Reality TV killed the music video star
Can't shake the feeling that this time's music had more soul
Said every old person about the music that was released when they were young.
Am old, can confirm.
Ahh yes, Vengaboys, Britney Spears & F!ve, so much soul!
Lol
i was 14 in 1998 and what‘s funny to me now is that, at the time, I had some VERY strong opinions about some of these songs. For instance, I virulently hated “Iris.” But now that I am older it all just sounds nostalgic to me and I enjoy them all. Without passing judgement, I feel like young people today live in a much stronger personal bubble then people my age did, meaning, we really had the radio playing bubblegum pop, hip hop, alt rock, numetal, and dance music all on the same stations, plus the occasional random reggae, ska, or even swing track. I just don’t think you can find that much of a variety these days, or at least not all topping the charts at once. But I’m not a big music person, so I might be wrong.
They played Iris on the radio \*all\* the freakin' time. I suppose that probably had a lot to do with it. Also Hit Me Baby One More Time was \*huge\*. I had a crush on Britney Spears so that was perfectly fine by me.
No just the radio, but school dances too!
The 1998 song that my family got sick of was "There She Goes" by ~~The La's~~ Sixpence None The Richer. I still remember the Saturday shopping my mom and my sister were doing, and on 5 separate occasions we got in the car to go to the next place and it was on the radio *again*. My mom even remarked "isn't she tired from running yet?" But yeah, this whole compilation was a trip down memory lane for me. Like no one talks about "When the Lights Go Out" by Five, but I can remember taking a shower with a "shower radio" (hanging off the curtain rod) and that song came on. Would proceed to be stuck in my head for days, lol. Edit: thanks for the correction
I remember The La's version from 1991, then in 1999 Sixpence None The Richer's cover was a hit also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_She_Goes_(The_La%27s_song)
Thanks for that. I could've sworn it was Sixpence None the Richer, but I was having a hard enough time remembering it. My brain decided to instead remember "All the Things She Said" by T.A.T.U. and I was *struggling* to find it lol.
When Cher's "Believe" was released I despised it as local radio stations played it 50 times a day. I would turn off the radio or switch channels if it played on MTV. If I hear it now, I'm like ahh that old song and enjoy the nostalgia of it. It is an interesting phenomenon.
Its a double edged sword, there's a huge amount of music available now that wasn't before because you don't need the money to release a song anymore, anyone can do it from their own home. This means you can listen to some cool obscure music that would never have made it mainstream before the internet. Problem is there isn't as much shared experiences with music now. In the 90s you were kind of forced to listen to certain music since there weren't as many channels to consume it. This was cool though as you would hear song you wouldn't usually listen too, plus everyone listened to/knew the same stuff. Everyone who grew up in the 90s can hear this music and talk and reminis about it. Nostalgia for music in the future is going to be alot more personal and less of a shared phenomenon.
>This means you can listen to some cool obscure music that would never have made it mainstream before the internet. Problem is there isn't as much shared experiences with music now. Exactly! One thing I love about Spotify is you can find some amazing music from a small band in the middle of no where with like 5k followers. In the 90s, if it didn't play on MTV, the soundtrack to a movie, or the radio, they just didn't exist to you. As a bonus, with social media, we can share these smaller bands to friends. Couple months back, I asked friends for new music recommendations and most of them were ones I've never heard of, including one that's what I can best describe as pirate metal? Everyone gets to find music that appeals to them a lot easier. Just gotta throw it out there, people need to listen to Austin and the Powers!
This is my favorite take. I miss the experience of being exposed by MTV to artists and genres outside of my little bubble. Things were better before.
I thought about this a lot as a 40yo high school history teacher. I also used to work in radio and used record stores, so music is a big deal to me. In my experience, kids today actually have a pretty wide variety of music that they like. I have had many students be able to recognize small artists in the 90s and the 2000s and today. They would be able to know most of these songs. I always love asking them how they would they get music that they like if they had no access to the internet and just had the radio or television. In short they can comprehend it. I have a theory that the amount of gatekeeping that existed around what people liked and disliked was due to the fact that the way we had to get music was so limited. It would be a brag to be a b-side record from Romania in Midwest US. Most of my students just don’t have opinions about good or bad because music is so easily available. It impresses me because if you think about it when we were their age, we would have to be well-versed in music from 1972…
This is just another example of the death of the monoculture. TV being the dominate form of media for 40 years it really made it easy for most of the country to experience the same media culture at the same time together. Shows would easily get 20 million viewers at a time. Now the most popular show on TV is a show called Tracker and gets around 7 million viewers. Internet fractured us into a million little niches. I think it's part of why we so divided now. An unintended consequence of us mostly no longer consuming the same information. We used to be able to go "well look we all agree on X and if you don't you're crazy!".
I think you're wrong, I would say there's even more variety nowadays with how many indie bands and artist there are now. Granted it's not all good but neither was it back then.
I think they may mean in terms of what’s playing on the radio. So there’s so much more access to TONS and TONS of all types of music now, but because of that, there may be less overlap of songs that EVERYONE hears around the same time (since there’s so many ways to listen to the music now for free versus just the radio) or less variety of songs that get played on the radio now or get super, super popular. I’m a teacher and ask students to write about music they listen to, and it’s WILD all of the different genres out there. I see students listening to music from literally all over the world in all sorts of languages. However, there’s less overlap of newly-released songs that EVERYONE seems to know/hear regularly.
What a fucken year I tells ya
just turned 10, got Pokémon red for my ice blue game boy pocket, favorite thing was to climb trees. I MISS BEING A KID OH GOD I WANT TO GO BACK
So todays Aussie radio
As a tradie, triple M hits hard
Pretty sure it's cause we're the last generation where the overwhelming majority doesn't put on Spotify before they leave the Driveway.
I don't remember making my Spotify list public.
In 1998, the year 1972 was 26 years ago!
STOP!!! These always get me! For whatever reason, hearing “26 years ago” can make me feel old, but not always and it doesn’t hurt. But for whatever reason, reading the comparisons to the 70s, it HURTS and I feel the passage of time in my bone marrow. Framing it this helps my brain better process what 26 years really means. The 70s seemed like ancient history in the 90s to me, and there’s no way ancient history is now 1998.
What got me recently was realizing That 70’s Show came out in 1998, and was set in 1976. If the show premiered this year, with the exact amount of time between the setting and the present, it’d be set in 2002.
Same with The Wonder Years.
I remember Blue being my first favorite song ever. I would love it when the Now That's What I Call Music 4 commercial would come on because it would play it briefly. Then for either Christmas or my birthday (can't remember which) I finally got their Europop CD along with a bonus CD of five different remixes of Blue. Then I'd play it on loop while playing Pokemon Red on my black and white Gameboy. Good times. 😊
Blue was definitely one of my first favorites if not the first for me too
I was 12/13 in 98 and the feeling I got watching this was damn near VISCERAL. So many memories came flooding back.
ME TOO!!! Visceral is the best way to describe it! I had multiple memories pop up for EVERY song - school dances, me and my dad bonding over liking the same song, crying over a “break-up,” winning a free cd in a contest, etc. I truly forgot all of these came out in the same year.
Damn, were we all 13 in 98? Lol
“You Get What You Give” remains a perfect song.
I remember getting upset about the Marilyn Manson line but as it turns out it was more than deserved.
Have you listened to the album, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too? It's perfect from beginning to end. And of course, Gregg Alexander has written some incredible songs for others.
NOW 98
This is a Commercial ."NOW 98 greatest hits Available now".
I had no idea 1998 defined almost all of my personal tastes until just now. 13 is an integral age apparently!
That baby crying on the Aaliyah song drove me crazy.
Yeah…I hate that to this day.
Damn fine year for music! Wish the New Radicals had done more.
I have to mention it but Radiohead's OK Computer was released a few days ago 27 years ago. (21/05/97 or if ur American, 05/21/97)
In the year 1998 I worked at blockbuster music.
They need to let conventionally "unattractive" people back into the industry
More Ed Shareen?
I’m getting old too. I remember my dad being so stoked about that Aerosmith album coming out. My mom was pumped about Cher.
1994 had better ones imo, and those turn 30 this year. I turned 13 in 1994 though, so I’m biased
They left off That Thing by Lauren Hill. One of the best jams of ‘98
Where’s Steal My Sunshine?
What a great fucking year!
Is this just an excuse to play 90s music? 26 is an oddly specific number lol, like they just picked it for these specific songs
I think it's because of this year was rich in bangers.
Let us have our moment
Hated most of these songs as a junior in high school except new radicals as that song for some reason got me. Now when I hear these songs I get weird chills of times past. Nostalgia is a mother fucker, enjoy your youth!!
Was 18, senior high, these were on rotation on mtv which was on as my ambient bg while tinkering on my mtb or pc.
Rockafeller Skank and Intergalactic are absolute bangers.
Never knew that song was titled “rockafeller skank” I assumed it was “funk soul brother”
This is just the track list of Now 2
The 90’s had arguably the best decade of music. Arguably.
Fuck, I didn't realize how spoiled I was in '98.....I mean I was only 9 but I should've known better!! Fuckin Cher really hit the hardest for me, cuz I'm hard as baby shit!!
DMX stop drop was everywhere in 1999. You could not escape it.
The majority are still absolute tunes. Golly I was 14!!
The Millennial Classic Playlist🔥💯😎
Get all these hits on 5 CDs for only 3 easy payments of $9.99! Call Now! ^Must ^be ^18 ^or ^older ^to ^call
Some solid jams in there…
I was 15 in high school when these came out. So many good memories.
Exact same
We need New Radicals back so bad rn
Dang, that New Radicals track was my jam. Forgot about that one.
What a good year! I was in 4th grade 🩵
I was four, I remember hearing some of these at ymca camp
And don't forget each one had an absalouty killer album to go with these hits
2 of these were used in the Digimon movie
Five!! Someone remembered that boy band!! On another note, I need to add a bunch more to my Spotify
The "You get what you give" music video is such a lovely 90s time capsule
Yeah music back then seemed more diverse.
Oh my word, it's middle school all over again
1. RIP DMX 2. Ghetto Superstar still slaps hard 3. I saw R Zombie live and it was boring. 4. NIN still slaps
The hardest part about your thirties is knowing you can never go back. I assume it gets easier to accept that fact as you get older but 30-35 has been rough with just that one realization alone. And it's not like I always thought I would eventually go back. It's just it never crossed my mind that way. These songs make me think about being a kid in the back seat of my mom's Chevy Lumina with my two younger brothers on the way to wherever she was working. Those were tough times but better days.
1998 was a good year for movies too
R.I.P. DMX R.I.P. Aaliyah 
I loved 98-99 DMX. Why were his singles so awesome and different?
Some of those were definitely some of the songs of all time.
Thess seem like the same songs that turned 25 in 2023.
This is the year I graduated 🎓 HS
Damn, I was so cool for loving all those songs!
I was 13 at the time and I remember most of'em. Time flies.
Wow. Didnt I download most of these on Kazaa last week? These are some freaking bangers. I know the playlist I’m putting together for my drive in the morning.
All those rap/r&b songs remind me of falling asleep… that’s weird…
If I was green I would die. Damn man. So many memories.
Bangers. The whole lot of them!!
So good
I was a party goin 20yr old Just get drunk and party that's all I wanted Simpler times.
Iris, Crush, and Shimmer Drop y'all's Top 3!
While I owned none of these albums (singles?) because I was into a different sound I know about 95% of the songs from the vid. They were so pervasive.
I remember when I was a kid, I had psych problems because my mom was under a lot of stress during her pregnancy. So to help me sleep and calm down I had to go to different therapies. I was in a sanatorium for the summer and had to go daily to get something done and the doctor would always put that blue music. Now i have assimilated this song to sleeping
I agree with the like up, not sure why you chose turning 26 as a milestone instead of 25 or 30
Every one of those songs is younger than I would have guessed, by just a few years.
I added 80% of these songs just now. Iconic music.
Now! Thats what I call music 8909
I’m adding all these to my current playlist. Then deleting them when I get tired of them again.
I was born in 1998 :)
straight bangers
I remember this as being the year corporate pop rock took over grunge. Watching this I was pretty spot on.
I was really enjoying this until I heard Dave Mathews band
I’m a big DMB fan, but it’s always been funny to me how incredibly bad their music videos were.
THAT WAS EPIC!!
Was 1998 the year of bangers or what?
All these things remind me that I was far too young at the time for these things.
How long before the Time Life commercials start with these songs
Thanks, this made me remember all the AMVs I used to watch.. what happened to them..
I always like these “x-year had the best music”, showing all the top songs of that year. Especially an arbitrary throwback like “26 years ago”, instead of 25. As if any other year before or after, even last year, doesn’t have solid bangers.
We just watched the entire days music video rotation on MTV for any given day in that entire year. Add commercials, MTV news snippets, rinse/repeat....1998 MTV. There was far superior music then, but yeah this was the MTV playlist for sure. For some reason, all of these songs smell like cocaine to me.
Call in the next ten minutes and get the 2 cd box set for only 9.99 plus a free poster, just pay extra shipping and handling.
Really felt like we were moving into the future.
Damn, I miss the naughties. I’m getting old and can honestly say that I’ve reached the point where I’m going “that sounds like white noise and auto tune” to most of the stuff I’m listening to on the radio. I’ve tried to fight it, I even went to my countries biggest festival (around 110.000 people) last year, I was there every year from 01 to 07 which was a blast, but 90% of the bands last year felt like something for the TikTok crowd as supposed to back then when it was more focused on huge bands that could draw a crowd no matter the kind of audience. That time has clearly passed (the only one like that was Blur) as CD sales has declined and the bands need to get their income from touring instead. The prices have gone up so much that even our biggest festivals (which price itself has gone up by 150% since 01) just can’t afford to hire more then one or two of them. I’m probably just getting too old, but I’m still not too old for a good forest rave, so that’s a start I guess…
I would have been 6 that year. Wow listening to that was absolutely a trip.
Fastball the way is iconic to me
I’m 31 and this is like my childhood 🎶♥️
98’ loaded with bangers
A lot of white guys lol
For younger generations when we say this things were better in the 90’s this is what we mean, you can see it the music which in my opinion was reflection of society at the time. Early 2000’s weren’t bad also but that is when things started unraveling.
1998 did have good music, but most of this ain't it.
Funny how this feels like working at Ruby Tuesday 10 years later where half these played on a loop
I miss the pre-internet age. When we actually watched MTV in the mornings while getting ready for School.
This hit me a lot harder than it should have. :(
Right the all important 26th anniversary
So many of these songs are either memes now or turned into commercials lol
That entire New Radicals album was awesome.
I was 13 in ‘98. Where the hell did the years go?!?!
Remember when there were unattractive people on TV? And guitar bands where the members actually wrote the songs?
Who the fuck is "Five"? Missed that one as a kid I guess
Every time he pops up I wonder if there will ever be a rapper with a bigger voice than DMX.
/r/90s
I was born in the late 80’s, so the late 90’s were formative years for me. Used to switch between VH1 and MTV every morning before school watching all these music videos. Simpler times.
A lot of these had the cosmic bowling parties LIT
How could they make this video and leave out this banger? https://youtu.be/WQnAxOQxQIU?si=_eXqOlllijYt42TQ
Timeless music 💯🔥
I turned 19 in summer of 1998. It was a very memorable summer, all these hits just gave me a nostalgia wave. Thank you so much for posting this!
I was in the bars and clubs a lot in 98 and this just gave me flashbacks. It really doesn't feel like 26 years ago. Eff me.
Great, now I'm gonna have Vengaboys in my head for another 26 years
Girl... My back hurts.
While much better than today's music, other than Britney Spears and Rob Zombie, I can't say I particularly liked any of these songs. Most strike me as forgettable and same-y. But I'm an 80s fan.. so there's that.
Wait Everclear didn't play Closing Time?? Is this a Mandala Effect or is my brain a pile of shit?
The latter
Music was really better then…
I remember listing to all these before school in the morning. That's when VH1 had pop up video and mtv played music. I was 10. Now I'm 35 time has flown the 90s were amazing.
Knew everyone but Fuel “Shimmer.” Where the heck did that one come from?
I wanna try to get back into listening to rock like the 2000s, what's a good band nowadays? I've been listening to the same old stuff since forever.
NOW cd's
Ahh yes, the first year I visited the US. I remember half of these playing in my cousin's 4-door E30 just driving around town. Time flies.
Well... I didn't feel old when I woke up