Vh1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's list

[loveangelc]

100 GREATEST SONGS OF THE 90's

**Please embargo rankings until December Wednesday, Dec. 12**

1 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. U2 One
3. Backstreet Boys I Want It That Way
4. Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You
5. Madonna Vogue
6. Sir Mix-A-Lot Baby Got Back
7. Britney Spears ... Baby One More Time
8. TLC Waterfalls
9. R.E.M. Losing My Religion
10. Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U
11. Pearl Jam Jeremy
12. Alanis Morissette You Oughta Know
13. Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) Nuthin' but a "G" Thang
14. Mariah Carey Vision of Love
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers Under the Bridge
16. MC Hammer U Can't Touch This
17. Destiny's Child Say My Name
18. Metallica Enter Sandman
19. Beastie Boys Sabotage
20. Hanson MMMBop
21. Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On
22. Beck Loser
23. Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue Whatta Man
24. House of Pain Jump Around
25. Soundgarden Black Hole Sun
26. Eminem My Name Is
27. Counting Crows Mr. Jones
28. Ricky Martin Livin' la Vida Loca
29. Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby
30. *NSYNC Tearin' Up My Heart
31. Radiohead Creep
32. BLACKstreet No Diggity
33. Spice Girls Wannabe
34. Third Eye Blind Semi-Charmed Life
35. Oasis Wonderwall
36. C+C Music Factory Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
37. Green Day Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
38. Christina Aguilera Genie In A Bottle
39. Goo Goo Dolls Iris
40. Color Me Badd I Wanna Sex You Up
41. Spin Doctors Two Princes
42. Collective Soul Shine
43. En Vogue My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
44. The Fugees Killing Me Softly With His Song
45. Hootie & the Blowfish Only Wanna Be With You
46. Shania Twain You're Still the One
47. Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch Good Vibrations
48. Matchbox Twenty 3 AM
49. Jewel Who Will Save Your Soul
50. Alice in Chains Man in the Box
51. Tupac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) California Love
52. Sugar Ray Fly
53. Naughty by Nature O.P.P.
54. Joan Osborne One of Us
55. Fiona Apple Criminal
56. L.L. Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out
57. Jay-Z featuring Amil and Ja Rule Can I Get A
58. Sophie B. Hawkins Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
59. Weezer Buddy Holly
60. Bell Biv DeVoe Poison
61. Sheryl Crow All I Wanna Do
62. Live I Alone
63. The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase & Puff Daddy Mo Money Mo Problems
64. The Presidents of the United States of America Peaches
65. Digital Underground The Humpty Dance
66. Edwin McCain I'll Be
67. Deee-Lite Groove Is In The Heart
68. Will Smith Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
69. Korn Freak on a Leash
70. Jamiroquai Virtual Insanity
71. Arrested Development Tennessee
72. Barenaked Ladies One Week
73. Marcy Playground Sex and Candy
74. Cher Believe
75. Kris Kross Jump
76. Blues Traveler Run-Around
77. Ice Cube It Was a Good Day
78. Lenny Kravitz Are You Gonna Go My Way
79. Meredith Brooks Bitch
80. Right Said Fred I'm Too Sexy
81. Paula Cole I Don't Want to Wait
82. Geto Boys Mind Playing Tricks on Me
83. The Breeders Cannonball
84. Snow Informer
85. Cypress Hill Insane In The Brain
86 The Cranberries Linger
87. Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart
88. Duncan Sheik Barely Breathing
89. Liz Phair Never Said
90. New Radicals You Get What You Give
91. Sarah McLachlan Building a Mystery
92. Public Enemy 911 Is A Joke
93. Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories Stay
94. Fastball The Way
95. Montell Jordan This is How We Do It
96. Nelson (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection
97. Prince & The New Power Generation Gett Off
98. EMF Unbelievable
99. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
100. Gerardo Rico Suave

[Droopy]

1. How the hell do the Breeders rank below Right Said Fred?

[NewJeffCT]

24. popularity?

Right Said Fred's one song was a novelty hit.

Breeders were a far better band overall, but never were that big.

[Kucinich4America]

2. When 5 out of the top 10 songs suck royal ass.....

I don't even bother finishing the list. :puke:


1 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. U2 One
3. Shit
4. Shit
5. Shit
6. Sir Mix-A-Lot Baby Got Back
7. Shitney Spears
8. Shit
9. R.E.M. Losing My Religion
10. Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U

[graywarrior]

3. Suave should have been #1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hVQVkpjg2VE

[opiate69]

4. Yet another shit list from a shit source.

How the hell did Tool get completely left off? Hell, the noise tracks on AEnima are better than 80% of that crap.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uCEeAn6_QJo

[DS1]

5. Rico fucking Suave?

:puke:

Kris Kross Jump :puke:

Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You :puke:

this list is a joke, right?

[HughBeaumont]

21. Yes.

One that's been played on America's music fans since 1987.

[Kucinich4America]

6. #13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEMmbtcxbpc

[flvegan]

7. Only ONE Beastie's song, and at #19?

Heresy.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Where..the hell...are the SMASHING PUMPKINS?!?!?

What the hell is this all about? 100 songs and you can't fit one--ONE--spot for the best rock band of the decade?

Today?
Tonight, Tonight?
Disarm?
1979?

Hell, I'll take "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" just to get them into the list, somewhere.

I'd go through the list to point out the horrible, horrible songs that got picked instead of the Smashing Pumpkins, but there are just. so. many. of. them!

Of course you've got your teeny boppers (Backstreet Boys, Britney, etc.) That awfulness and injustice speaks for itself. But Korn? Korn? "Freak on a Leash"? What the hell????

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. .

You're kidding, right?

I'm so happy I haven't had to listen to anything new by Billy Corgan in ages. That whiny voice of his makes me want to hurt things. And I owned a copy of Gish when it came out!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Billy Corgan is a lyrical god

And is incredible with the guitar. (Just one listen to "Starla" off of Pisces Iscariot will confirm that.)

Yes, his voice may sound "whiny" to some, but so what? It beats the million and one lead singers who all try to sound like Eddie Vedder.

Simply put, Siamese Dream is about as perfect as a rock album as you'll ever find. Mellon Collie, too. And the later albums are all great too, if a bit misunderstood.

Pearl Jam and Nirvana will always be the face of 1990s alt rock, and rightly so--they were great bands who deserve the accolades. But Smashing Pumpkins will forever be the heart.

[fudge stripe cookays]

15. We'll have to agree to disagree.

I think he's an untalented hack.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

29. Perhaps if you listened to more than just Gish and a couple of the radio singles....

...you'd think differently. Gish was good, but it was their debut and they still had to fine-tune their sound--it is probably my least favorite of all their terrific albums. By the time they did Siamese Dream, they hit their stride. Listen to Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie in their entirety, and not just the singles, and you'll understand why they are viewed as one of the best rock bands of the decade.

Look at it this way: Siamese Dream is the only major rock album of the 1990s I can think of that has an average 5 star rating of over 400 reviewers on Amazon.com. Not even Nirvana's Nevermind or Pearl Jam's Ten or Vs. can claim that level of acclaim amongst rock listeners.

[fudge stripe cookays]

45. You don't get it.

His voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard. I don't WANNA listen to more of it.

I had to hear that Melon Collie bullshit working at Record Town in the 90s and didn't see any difference between that and anything else.

If you wanna into ratings, I'd rather hear this guy wail anyday over any whiny Corgan crap:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Love-Afghan-Whigs/dp/B000002HLG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197937079&sr=8-4

[Chovexani]

40. I think I might just love you.

The Pumpkins were an essential band of the 90s, and they deserve to be on the list if for no other reason than that.

[Mad_Dem_X]

31. You're right

SP should have been on there somewhere.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Lots of shitty music on a list compiled by a shitty source?

Inconceivable!

[abq e streeter]

12. What a fucking joke

No Rancid, Soul Asylum, Sponge or Smashing Pumpkins, but Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera , Celine Dion, MC Hammer and the Spice Girls. And VH1 being soulless corporate media, they're no doubt not embarrassed in the least by this.

[Jamastiene]

13. Where the fuck is Hole? That's right. I asked where the FUCK is Hole.

And don't give me shit about that question. Yeah, HELL YEAH, I asked where the fuck is Hole in that list. VH1 can kiss my ass. x(

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. You think they'd include "Celebrity Skin"

Although I like Malibu best out of their singles, personally.

[fizzgig]

14. this is one amazingly shit-tastic list

no nine inch nails? really? but vanilla ice is on the list? achy breaky heart?

this list makes the 90s look like a musical fucking wasteland (not that it was all fantastic)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. The 1990s were better than both the preceeding and suceeding decades in terms of music

Not that you would realize that from this list, though.

[NewJeffCT]

25. Pretty Hate Machine came out in 1989

it didn't really catch on until a few years later, though, which is why many think it was released in the 90s.

Granted, they had other good songs in the 90s, but I still think of "Head Like A Hole" whenever I think of Nine Inch Nails.

[taterguy]

18. I hate to sound like a music snob but a list with no Alejandro Escovedo ain't much of a list

Seriously.
I did a quick search of my music by year. Stumbled onto his masterpiece 1996 album With These Hands.

Every track on that album is better than most of the songs on that list

[Tektonik]

19. One?

fuck that song fuck this list

[HughBeaumont]

20. Wow, I like approximately 8 songs on this entire list.

That's not a good ratio.

Why does popular music get more vapid and lame with every passing decade? Say what you want about 70s AM pop, but even the schmaltziest of that group is still listenable to this day over diva air-raid-sirenfests like "I Will Always Love You" or anything sung by a modern R&B group.

Then again, underground music thrives year after year on an almost consistent basis. That we can be thankful for . . . until the band breaks up due to starvation or label screwjobs.

[BulletproofLandshark]

22. Yet another useless VH1 list

The whole damn thing looks entirely random to me. I thought all they gave a shit about anymore was "celebreality" anyway.

[Alter Ego]

23. Wow. Most every song on that list is complete shit.

[Deep13]

26. Can they really find 100?

Doesn't look like it.

[gbate]

27. There are only a few that are actually decent.

9, 12, 25, 27, 31, 50, 83, 85 and 94

BNL had better songs than "One Week"

Alice in Chains - "Heaven Beside You" is much better than "Man in the Box" (esp the radio edit)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. My top three bands/artists are a big o-fer in that list

Pumpkins. Nails. Tori. All great. All 1990s bands/artists. All absent.

[SoxFan]

41. Got your back

Well, on NIN and Pumpkins, at least (not a big Tori fan). How you can ignore these acts while "Rico Suave" is on there is beyond my powers of comprehension.

[Jamastiene]

43. Oh, shit, I just noticed that too.

Something is wrong with that list also if it doesn't include Pumpkins...Dayum, what's wrong with them? :wtf:

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. Holy crap - I recognize all these songs

I'm so used to seeing lists where I don't know any of the songs. I know all of these. Wow!

But Backstreet Boys, #3? Above Pearl Jam? Come ON! I knew Nirvana was going to be #1. :eyes:

[Beer Snob-50]

32. except for a few selections on this list

u2, rem , pearl jam. sarah mclachlan, sinead o'connor, and liz phair- this list proves that the 90's were generally a musical wasterland.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

34. Actually, compared to the 1980s and 2000s, mainstream rock in the 1990s was good

It moved away from a lot of the noisy, glam hairband stuff that plauged the 1980s (not saying that there was no good rock music during the 1980s, but that seemed to dominate). Songs became progressively better written and better performed. However, by the late 1990s, nu-metal was beginning to infiltrate the scene, and by this decade, it seemed to really take over.

[Beer Snob-50]

35. i didn't care for the hairbands either.

but i guess i find a lot of the music I listened to to be far better than much of what was on the list.

[MissMillie]

33. wow... the 90s sucked

at least according to this list they did.

[AllegroRondo]

36. Rush is snubbed once again.

"Dreamline" should definitely be on there.

[Dr. Strange]

39. Damn straight!

Along with "Where's My Thing" and "Driven".

[KamaAina]

37. Vanilla Ice AND Color Me Badd?

Were they smoking meth when they made this?! :eyes:

[southpaw]

38. Oh. My. Gawd.

That is truly horrid.

[LanternWaste]

42. There were Great Songs in the nineties? Who knew?

There were Great Songs in the nineties? Who knew?

hey-- if you have good taste in music, you're well aware it's funny 'cause it's true.... :hide:

[Bake]

44. Just reminds me how shitty music was in the 90s.

Really, really shitty.

Bake

[Jimbo S]

46. This is why I stopped paying attention to pop music around 1985

Other than "Achtung Baby" and the emergence of grunge, the 90's was a waste.