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What is THE definitive 90s song?

121 replies

IntelligentInputDarling · 12/02/2025 13:43

For @Doggymummar 😂

And for purposes of balance...

What, for you, is the ultimate 90s tune?
Again, it might not be your favourite, but what song embodies that decade in your opinion?

Everything I Do (I Do It For You) perhaps? 😆

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TotallyAddictedToCoffee · 12/02/2025 14:34

What's Up - Four Non Blonds
anything off the Definitely Maybe album by Oasis
Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden

too many to choose from really

WoahThreeAces · 12/02/2025 14:35

Set You Free N-Trance

SchrodingersKitty · 12/02/2025 14:36

Agree with Whats Up. Or maybe something by The Beautiful South?

Thingymajigii · 12/02/2025 14:39

She's got that vibe - R Kelly
Shame it's ruined for me now!

LauraNorda · 12/02/2025 14:39

Hmmm. Slim Pickings here.

I'd got for Adamski - Killer, Crash Test Dummies - Afternoons and coffeespoons, Oasis - Champagne Supernova, Whigfield - Saturday night and Robbie Williams - She's the one.

cactuswoman · 12/02/2025 14:40

Tubthumping .... obvs!!! 😂😂

Comedycook · 12/02/2025 14:40

Rhythm is a dancer

Bluevelvetsofa · 12/02/2025 14:42

It’s got to be Chesney Hawkes ‘The One and Only’

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 12/02/2025 14:43

Haddaway- "what is love" has to be a good contender or Gala "freed from desire"

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 12/02/2025 14:44

Comedycook · 12/02/2025 14:40

Rhythm is a dancer

I get nostalgic shivers when I hear that song, what a tune

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 12/02/2025 14:44

If it’s 90’s then it would probably be Oasis.
Not that I ever want to hear ‘Wonderwall’ ever again, but it was very defining at the time.

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 12/02/2025 14:47

Pulp - Common People
Faithless - Insomnia

I'm a young woman again when I hear these.

Saturdaynightlive · 12/02/2025 14:47

WoahThreeAces · 12/02/2025 14:35

Set You Free N-Trance

Yep 100%
We used to drive around in my friends Ford fiesta Xr2 with this blasting.

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 12/02/2025 14:48

Here’s the top sellers of the decade in the UK.
Most of these are absolutely awful.
Have to say Britney’s really stands out here - it really did occupy its own space.

What is THE definitive 90s song?
Mizztikle · 12/02/2025 14:48

Montell Jordan-This is how we do it
Blur- Park life
Spice girls -Wannabe
Britney Spears baby one more time
PM dawn -Set adrift
Brandy- I wanna be down
Ace of base-All that she wants
Adina Howard-Freak like me

FudgeSundae · 12/02/2025 14:49

Macarena. How has no one said this yet???

Needhelp101 · 12/02/2025 14:50

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 12/02/2025 14:47

Pulp - Common People
Faithless - Insomnia

I'm a young woman again when I hear these.

Agreed! I'm the same.

sandrapinchedmysandwich · 12/02/2025 15:00

Smells like teen spirit Nirvana

Freak like me Adena Howard

90's Girl - Black Girl

November Rain - Guns n Roses

Keep the Faith - Bon Jovi

Regulate - Warren G

Oh goodness so so many

IntelligentInputDarling · 12/02/2025 15:02

SchrodingersKitty · 12/02/2025 14:36

Agree with Whats Up. Or maybe something by The Beautiful South?

I've just heard 'A Song for Whoever' in my car, bloody love it.
And 'A Little Time'.
They don't get much airplay but great tunes.

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Mizztikle · 12/02/2025 15:15

simply red- fairground
The Verve- bittersweet symphony
East 17-stay another
M people - hero
Corona- rhythm of the night

Wickedstitch · 12/02/2025 15:17

Chicane - Offshore

picturethispatsy · 12/02/2025 15:18

There could never be one song but a few for me:

1990 The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
1993 Love You More - Sunscreem
1991 Moving On Up - Primal Scream
1996 I’m a Dreamer - Born Slippy
1991 Smells like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
Anything by Alanis Morrisette
1997 Song 2 - Blur
1991 Are you Gonna go My Way Lenny Kravitz

BaronessBomburst · 12/02/2025 15:20

Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 12/02/2025 15:21

I was watching something yesterday and More Than Words came on and I thought that was definitively 90s

IntelligentInputDarling · 12/02/2025 15:24

I'll add my early 90s favourites -

Lightning Seeds 'The Life of Riley'
and

Erma Franklin's 1992 'Piece of My Heart' Levi's ad

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