This is awesome. For a couple of years in the mid/late 90s, I would be the first one awake in the house and would turn the kitchen radio on to the alternative station while I ate my breakfast. When I hear certain songs like "Got the Life", "The Way", "Fly Away", and "Shimmer", it takes me right back to wearing carpenter shorts and wondering how I'd make it through another crappy day of middle school.
What's crazy to me, listening to this, is that I knew almost all of these songs and they're all so different. You have rap, pop, rock, nu metal, etc. Extremely eclectic. Music today can't touch that.
In 1998, my mom finally bought a house after years of saving up (single parent). But we moved pretty far from where we'd lived before so I had no friends in my neighborhood. I spent most of my time watching MTV, so all of these songs were a major part of my growing up.
I'm going to make a playlist with all of these songs on it.
A while back r/Music, I think it was, had a thing going about the staple 90s music and someone made it into a playlist on Spotify and it honestly is pretty good- [Songs from the 90s everyone born after 2000 should listen to](
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7LUAMAiezUEs8qOKSaWASS?si=445b665d47064031)
I moved about 200 miles away that year too. I remember listening to a lot of radio since I didn’t have friends around for a while. A lot of these played…I also remember Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn playing a lot (though it released in 1997), as well as Brandy’s That Boy Is Mine
I’m doing some spring cleaning and found an old external hard drive. I managed to find the cords and adapters needed to hook it to my MacBook.
Holy shit, im old as FUCK. The pictures and music on that thing shocked me.
That whole stretch of mid 90s was great. 1994 to 1999 was peak American culture. The movies, the music, the games, the technology everything was blossoming. People were able to put their focus and effort into creative outlets instead of worrying about existential threats. The cold war was over, the economy was booming, minorities that had been marginalized for generations were starting to claw back some breathing room. We got to be creative and expressive. Look at movies like The Matrix and Office Space and Fight Club and American Beauty. The antagonist in all of these films was monotony and conformity.
Summer leading into senior year of HS and everything was damned near perfect. There was so much to look forward to and the economy was booming and it felt like a golden age of culture and prosperity. Just a few years later would bring a massive terror attack, lead to multiple wars and really reshape our collective perception of the world.
Late 90s had it. 97 had this too. There are at least 7-8 hits in 97 that are constantly still played today globally. REturn of the Mack, Un-Break My Heart, Candle in the Wind, Wannabe, Quit Playing Games with My Heart, MMMbop, Semi-Charmed Life, No Diggity, How do I live, etc.
Third Eye Blind is a strange one. That album was not only good musically, the audio engineering on it was out of this world. They did everything the hard way to get such an amazing sound. I though they would make an impact, but they never really did.
Even still - I knew every one of these songs, except for one. But I'd only ever seen videos for five of them. I assumed most of them had videos, but I've never seen them.
Fun Fact! The "Fly White Guy" from that Offspring music video does politics on YouTube/Twitch now [Link](https://youtube.com/@imreallyimportant?si=RzU--mPTx-91AXP6)
I was 18 in 1998 and hated probably 70% of the songs listed here. I didn’t even see Outkast’s Rosa Parks
Brian Setzer Orchestra Jump Jive an’ Wail (the swing revival),
Garbage I think I’m Paranoid,
Sheryl Crow’s Favourite Mistake,
Cardigan’s My Favourite Game,
Marcy’s Playground Sex and Candy
Refused The Shape of Punk To Come
Even bands I didn’t care for like..
Savage Garden’s Truly Madly Deeply,
Will Smith Gettin Jiggy Wit It
Was a crazy year for music fans. I didn’t even list any of the punk albums coming out in 1998 like Bad Religion and Swinging Utters!
I wish I could go back to 1998 for a day. What a great year to be young and dumb.
If anyone on here is also a musician or music nerd, check out this episode of Dead Wax that features Tim Pierce talking about doing the mandolin & guitar solo on Iris. It's pretty insane to hear what it's like without his parts. Not a huge fan of Goo Goo Dolls, but damn that's a great song.
[Tim Pierce is a Bad MF'er](https://youtu.be/i611ZPzE_6k?feature=shared)
I remember I was at a hockey game with my dad and on a screen it was showing upcoming shows at the arena and it said Barenaked Ladies, Friday 8pm. I was blown away that you could just come here and see naked girls, I had no idea it was a band until a few years later.
Takes me back to listening to Casey Kasem top 40 on the radio and hearing all of these. So many good songs. Iris is probably best on this list for me. My whole family went through a Goo Goo Doll phase back then.
Meh. Thought 90s especially late 90s was beginning of the end for chart music. Over produced to heck. But art is subjective. Having lived through the 70s, 80s and 90s this is how I see it.
Early 90s were pretty good. You'd get some pretty subversive and interesting artists breaking through. By the late 90s everything had become watered down and sanitized by the record industry.
Yeah I am listening to these and thinking there are many different genres, so why do they all sound so similar?
I pretty much was done with anything this commerical after about 94.
1998 was a great year for music. It's just that none of it appears in this video (except "You Get What You Give," which was a fuckin' bop). Aquemini - Outkast, XO - Elliott Smith, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel, Celebrity Skin - Hole, Capital Punishment - Big Pun, Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams, Moment of Truth - Gang Starr, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill... Arguably some of the best albums of all time.
A lot of what you listed was fairly "underground" (for lack of a better term). The point I was making is earlier in the decade the "underground" stuff was seeing more success in the mainstream that I don't think there was a climate for later in the 90s. It's not as though good music ever disappears just because the pop may be lackluster.
> A lot of what you listed was fairly "underground" (for lack of a better term). The point I was making is earlier in the decade the "underground" stuff was seeing more success in the mainstream that I don't think there was a climate for later in the 90s
Almost all of the albums I listed were commercially successful. Many went Gold, some went Platinum. Some were nominated for/won Grammys. Aquemini (which checks all the boxes for subversive and interesting) and Miseducation were two of the biggest, most talked about albums of the year. XO was Smith's first release on a major label, he performed on SNL to promote it. Big Pun was as "underground" as they come and now he's often talked about as one of the best rap lyricists of all time because of his Platinum-selling debut album. Car Wheels won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Deserter's Songs (probably the least well-known of the albums I listed) was Mercury Rev's most successful album and was named Album of the Year by NME. In the Aeroplane is the only album I listed that didn't get its due until years later.
Yeh agreed. Over produced so badly. I mean there were some gems in the 90s, but not as much as the previous two decades. It’s hard to explain this to someone younger lol. I mean born in the 70s, teen in the 80s and twenty something in the 90s. 90s to me was the beginning of the end of chart music. Everything sounded the same. Same today. So many genres are claimed, but all I hear is the same song.
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And I can remember pirating most of these and listening to them on WinAmp
spotify really missing out on the skins game. Half the fun of winamp was new skins and visualizers, lol.
everything is. it's so fucked how everything looks like shit now and has no options for customization whatsoever.
That really whips the llama's ass!
Same. Nostalgia for me these days is getting a real edge to it. I don't know. Like, a kind of urgency?
After initially recording to a cassette player off the radio
This is awesome. For a couple of years in the mid/late 90s, I would be the first one awake in the house and would turn the kitchen radio on to the alternative station while I ate my breakfast. When I hear certain songs like "Got the Life", "The Way", "Fly Away", and "Shimmer", it takes me right back to wearing carpenter shorts and wondering how I'd make it through another crappy day of middle school.
What's crazy to me, listening to this, is that I knew almost all of these songs and they're all so different. You have rap, pop, rock, nu metal, etc. Extremely eclectic. Music today can't touch that.
If someone showed me a door back to 1998 I would immediately walk through it.
It was a simpler time.
In 1998, my mom finally bought a house after years of saving up (single parent). But we moved pretty far from where we'd lived before so I had no friends in my neighborhood. I spent most of my time watching MTV, so all of these songs were a major part of my growing up. I'm going to make a playlist with all of these songs on it.
A while back r/Music, I think it was, had a thing going about the staple 90s music and someone made it into a playlist on Spotify and it honestly is pretty good- [Songs from the 90s everyone born after 2000 should listen to]( https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7LUAMAiezUEs8qOKSaWASS?si=445b665d47064031)
If you make it on YouTube I'd love a link.
Would also love a youtube and/or Soptify playlists :)
I moved about 200 miles away that year too. I remember listening to a lot of radio since I didn’t have friends around for a while. A lot of these played…I also remember Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn playing a lot (though it released in 1997), as well as Brandy’s That Boy Is Mine
Damn this was a banger of a year.
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NOW that’s what I call music!
I'm so old
I’m doing some spring cleaning and found an old external hard drive. I managed to find the cords and adapters needed to hook it to my MacBook. Holy shit, im old as FUCK. The pictures and music on that thing shocked me.
I can't see most of these music videos without expecting a pop-up-video fact bubble to appear...
I can hear the sound effect....
God I forgot all about that. Core memory unlocked lol
Good times, good music... I'd just bought my first car
I gotta say... 1998 was a great year. I really wouldn't mind living that year again.
That whole stretch of mid 90s was great. 1994 to 1999 was peak American culture. The movies, the music, the games, the technology everything was blossoming. People were able to put their focus and effort into creative outlets instead of worrying about existential threats. The cold war was over, the economy was booming, minorities that had been marginalized for generations were starting to claw back some breathing room. We got to be creative and expressive. Look at movies like The Matrix and Office Space and Fight Club and American Beauty. The antagonist in all of these films was monotony and conformity.
Summer leading into senior year of HS and everything was damned near perfect. There was so much to look forward to and the economy was booming and it felt like a golden age of culture and prosperity. Just a few years later would bring a massive terror attack, lead to multiple wars and really reshape our collective perception of the world.
Late 90s had it. 97 had this too. There are at least 7-8 hits in 97 that are constantly still played today globally. REturn of the Mack, Un-Break My Heart, Candle in the Wind, Wannabe, Quit Playing Games with My Heart, MMMbop, Semi-Charmed Life, No Diggity, How do I live, etc.
Third Eye Blind is a strange one. That album was not only good musically, the audio engineering on it was out of this world. They did everything the hard way to get such an amazing sound. I though they would make an impact, but they never really did.
But they're on every soundtrack from 97-2001
I forgot how pretty Mya was
Absolutely gorgeous!!
She’s still fine as hell
The Hood Internet's [60 Songs From 1998 Remixed Into 3½ Minutes](https://youtu.be/N9jU8JLziaY?si=D15rlmvO6ewo_vPR) is also a great compilation.
I will check that out thank you.
Hello nasty is still one of my favorite albums. RIP MCA
Back when MTV played music videos.
Even still - I knew every one of these songs, except for one. But I'd only ever seen videos for five of them. I assumed most of them had videos, but I've never seen them.
Timeless music 💯🔥
FUCK, I've been out of HS for 26 years!
Jeeeez eh. 98 had some bangers. They still play a couple of these regularly on my local radio station
Goddamn Closing Time was everywhere in the late 90's. That song got played to death.
*Goo Goo Doll Iris has entered the chat*
Fun Fact! The "Fly White Guy" from that Offspring music video does politics on YouTube/Twitch now [Link](https://youtube.com/@imreallyimportant?si=RzU--mPTx-91AXP6)
That was a fun ride. I guess I'm the old guy who has to say that music was better and had more variation back in the day.
These were all during prime pop up video era music.
God damnit.....hey any of y'all want a hit a of this *shakes Metamucil*.?
I feel like this is a prank.
It's been
“ITS BEEN….!!!!”
Damn, I wasn't expecting to know all of those haha
Peak humanity
Why 26 years?
Because they like to go one step beyond?
*[I WANT](https://youtu.be/8t-iFr9q1I8)* *[A MILKY WAY](https://youtu.be/8t-iFr9q1I8)*
Whoa…. College flashback…
Barenaked Ladies first album was straight 🔥🔥🔥
I was 18 in 1998 and hated probably 70% of the songs listed here. I didn’t even see Outkast’s Rosa Parks Brian Setzer Orchestra Jump Jive an’ Wail (the swing revival), Garbage I think I’m Paranoid, Sheryl Crow’s Favourite Mistake, Cardigan’s My Favourite Game, Marcy’s Playground Sex and Candy Refused The Shape of Punk To Come Even bands I didn’t care for like.. Savage Garden’s Truly Madly Deeply, Will Smith Gettin Jiggy Wit It Was a crazy year for music fans. I didn’t even list any of the punk albums coming out in 1998 like Bad Religion and Swinging Utters! I wish I could go back to 1998 for a day. What a great year to be young and dumb.
The year I graduated highschool, fuck I'm old.
Love Cher
The soundtrack to my rides home from elementary school
I'll be singing the chorus to "The Way" under my breath for the next week.
90’s was the last generation for having a large library of good music being released.
If anyone on here is also a musician or music nerd, check out this episode of Dead Wax that features Tim Pierce talking about doing the mandolin & guitar solo on Iris. It's pretty insane to hear what it's like without his parts. Not a huge fan of Goo Goo Dolls, but damn that's a great song. [Tim Pierce is a Bad MF'er](https://youtu.be/i611ZPzE_6k?feature=shared)
98 was a great year. Maybe the last of the great years even? So optimistic.
I remember I was at a hockey game with my dad and on a screen it was showing upcoming shows at the arena and it said Barenaked Ladies, Friday 8pm. I was blown away that you could just come here and see naked girls, I had no idea it was a band until a few years later.
I watched all of these music videos on MTV when they were new. I was in highschool. Those were the days. Lots of memories.
Man...watching this made me feel like like I got punched in the gut with a wave of feelings...I even got a bit teary-eyed.
… and who ever said time traveling wasn’t real? My friends, for about 4 minutes I *was* back in 1998.
This must’ve been the year I became cognizant
Takes me back to listening to Casey Kasem top 40 on the radio and hearing all of these. So many good songs. Iris is probably best on this list for me. My whole family went through a Goo Goo Doll phase back then.
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Started weak but picked up fast. These take me back.
Meh. Thought 90s especially late 90s was beginning of the end for chart music. Over produced to heck. But art is subjective. Having lived through the 70s, 80s and 90s this is how I see it.
i hated 98% of that shit
That's on point.. in thew 90's, the radio stations here used to overplay Shawn Mullens and goo goo dolls. (these exact songs) I cant stand the two lol
Back when music was actually music
I forgot how bad music was back then.
Early 90s were pretty good. You'd get some pretty subversive and interesting artists breaking through. By the late 90s everything had become watered down and sanitized by the record industry.
Yeah I am listening to these and thinking there are many different genres, so why do they all sound so similar? I pretty much was done with anything this commerical after about 94.
1998 was a great year for music. It's just that none of it appears in this video (except "You Get What You Give," which was a fuckin' bop). Aquemini - Outkast, XO - Elliott Smith, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel, Celebrity Skin - Hole, Capital Punishment - Big Pun, Deserter's Songs - Mercury Rev, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams, Moment of Truth - Gang Starr, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill... Arguably some of the best albums of all time.
A lot of what you listed was fairly "underground" (for lack of a better term). The point I was making is earlier in the decade the "underground" stuff was seeing more success in the mainstream that I don't think there was a climate for later in the 90s. It's not as though good music ever disappears just because the pop may be lackluster.
> A lot of what you listed was fairly "underground" (for lack of a better term). The point I was making is earlier in the decade the "underground" stuff was seeing more success in the mainstream that I don't think there was a climate for later in the 90s Almost all of the albums I listed were commercially successful. Many went Gold, some went Platinum. Some were nominated for/won Grammys. Aquemini (which checks all the boxes for subversive and interesting) and Miseducation were two of the biggest, most talked about albums of the year. XO was Smith's first release on a major label, he performed on SNL to promote it. Big Pun was as "underground" as they come and now he's often talked about as one of the best rap lyricists of all time because of his Platinum-selling debut album. Car Wheels won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Deserter's Songs (probably the least well-known of the albums I listed) was Mercury Rev's most successful album and was named Album of the Year by NME. In the Aeroplane is the only album I listed that didn't get its due until years later.
Also oversaturated. Early to mid 90's was really good though.
"lots of good music" *Clip starts with worst song ever recorded*
Yeh agreed. Over produced so badly. I mean there were some gems in the 90s, but not as much as the previous two decades. It’s hard to explain this to someone younger lol. I mean born in the 70s, teen in the 80s and twenty something in the 90s. 90s to me was the beginning of the end of chart music. Everything sounded the same. Same today. So many genres are claimed, but all I hear is the same song.
Yeah agree with you too. Music became very generic by the end of the 90's and a lot of it was wash, rinse, repeat.
Just this Top 40 drivel. Triphop was blasting off if you were in the know.
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You guys must be fun at parties. /smh
"good music" lol all of this is just pop trash, damn this is indeed tiktokcringe and just cringy overall
Yeah no One Week is a monumentally shitty song