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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? 😆

OP posts:
gemdrop84 · 12/02/2025 23:26

Wannabe Spice Girls
You get what you give by The New Radicals

Chuchoter · 12/02/2025 23:28

Smells like teen spirit by Nirvana

PaperAeroplane · 12/02/2025 23:30

The first one that springs to mind is Everything I do I do it for you, Brian Adam's.

Mountainfrog · 12/02/2025 23:31

Though I think common people/ wonderwall might well have been the mr brightside of the 90s

MrWise · 12/02/2025 23:41

Bitter Sweet Symphony
or
Scatman Grin

Anotherdayanotherdollar · 12/02/2025 23:43

DeanElderberry · 12/02/2025 17:35

Can I have two please? - N17 and A Woman's Heart

You're Irish, yeah? 🙂

VeryDeepEverything · 12/02/2025 23:45

Alanis morissette jagged little pill album (cheating as not a song... Maybe isn't it ironic from the album if I'm sticking to the rules?)

VeryDeepEverything · 12/02/2025 23:47

Crocodile shoes - Jimmy nail?
🤣🤣🤣

Saveusernsme · 12/02/2025 23:49

I’ve not seen it listed yet! Has to be Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl

Maybe Spaceman by Babaloon Zoo but only because it featured in the Levi advert. It was annoying and now I can’t get it out of my head!

iremembersnappedandfarted · 12/02/2025 23:56

Stay by Shakespeare's Sister

Vivid memories of the music video and being totally fascinated by the story of it.

pitterypattery00 · 12/02/2025 23:58

So many good tunes. There are a few that when I hear them I'm a teenager again!

Goo goo dolls - Iris
Pulp - Common People/Disco 2000
James - Sit Down
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Otherside
Nirvana - Teen Spirit
Spin Doctors - Two Princes
Mr Big - To be with you
REM - Losing my religion

I'll stop there before I get carried away 😂

TaggieO · 12/02/2025 23:59

No no
no no no no
no no no no
no no
THERE’S NO LIMITS

Saveusernsme · 13/02/2025 00:01

And of course, there are the Rembrandts, who have been there for us since 1995!

Bluebellwood129 · 13/02/2025 00:09

winewine · 12/02/2025 22:38

Baby D let me be your fantasy.

Yessss! Love that song.

shellyleppard · 13/02/2025 00:11

Natalie imbruglia.... torn absolutely love the video. Or David gray white ladder album still listen to it now

ArmyBarbie · 13/02/2025 00:12

Smells Like Teen Spirit
Girls & Boys
Common People
November Rain
Zombie

OneFineDay13 · 13/02/2025 00:14

Rhythm of the night - corona

Mittens67 · 13/02/2025 00:18

PaperAeroplane · 12/02/2025 23:30

The first one that springs to mind is Everything I do I do it for you, Brian Adam's.

God, I was so sick to the back teeth of that song. It just lingered for bloody ages.
Still couldn’t listen to it now even after all these years.

ItGhoul · 13/02/2025 00:20

Groove Is In The Heart by Dee-Lite
Unbelievable - EMF
Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin Criminals
Shiny Happy People - REM
Step On - Happy Mondays
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Born Slippy - Underworld
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Wicked Game by Chris Isaak

TenderChicken · 13/02/2025 00:21

For me, nothing transports me back to the 90s like "You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals.

IdaPrentice · 13/02/2025 00:28

Supergrass - Alright
Just sums up the 90s

We are young, we run green
Keep our teeth nice and clean
See our friends, see the sights
Feel alright

notmyrealname101 · 13/02/2025 00:34

Someone please do me a mixtape of all of these? Anyone handy with Spotify playlists?
All the best ones have been mentioned but I'll add Things Can Only Get Better - D:Ream - because of all it stood for at the time

MorrisZapp · 13/02/2025 00:35

Right, for the last time:

If it HADN'T HAVE BEEN for Cotton Eye Joe
I'd HAVE BEEN married a long time ago
Where did you come from... etc.

Trombolese doesn't get a look in 🤣

HappyFellWalker · 13/02/2025 00:38

Linger by the Cranberries and Ironic by Alanis Morrisette, they came into my head first

purpleme12 · 13/02/2025 00:38

Mixed tape 👍