AH, THE 1990s. For many of us, it’s where we cut our musical teeth.
But the songs that spoke to back then? Many are mouldering in the dusty vaults of, er, YouTube.
Here are the ones you loved… and then left behind. (You can also listen to them all on Spotify here.)
What have we missed? Add your own in the comments…
1. Spin Doctors – Two Princes
AKA the “Go Ahead Now” song.
All together now: “If you! Want to buy me flowers…”
YouTube/EvilFox302
2. The Connells – ’74-’75
Got no reason, for coming to me with the rain running down. Got no idea what this song is about. Doesn’t matter.
YouTube/Rick Pollock
3. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
So wait – did they have something in common, or not? We never knew.
YouTube/falcige
4. Bran Van 3000 – Drinking In LA
I woke up again this morning with the sun in my eyes…
YouTube/drscaryu
5. Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Was this the most screwed up song of the 1990s? Probably.
YouTube/crashtestdummiescom
6. OMC – How Bizarre
The video to this is also bizarre.
YouTube/Ivan Barros
7. Barenaked Ladies – One Week
Only in the 1990s could the Barenaked Ladies have been taken in any way seriously.
YouTube/warnerbros
8. Boo Radleys – Wake Up Boo!
If this wasn’t the soundtrack to at least one summer in your 1990s, you weren’t there.
YouTube/genimas
9. They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse In Your Soul
The song that teenage dweebs everywhere (shout out!) felt clever because they knew the words to.
YouTube/Shuda7
10. White Town – Your Woman
Can you sing the intro to yourself before you hit play?
YouTube/emimusic
11. Third Eye Blind – Semi Charmed Life
All together now: Doop doop doop, doop doo-doop dooooo….
YouTube/wamloquamlo
12. Space – Female Of The Species
Weird Welsh rockers come up trumps.
YouTube/punkrockfuneral
13. James – Laid
“She only comes when she’s on top.” We didn’t know what this meant. She only visits when she can have the top bunk?
YouTube/fishnchips14
14. Blueboy – Remember Me
GING-GA-GING GA GA GING GING GING.
YouTube/VidZone
15. Soul Asylum – Runaway Train
Never coming back.
YouTube/Brinton James Bingham
16. Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
Even a terrible Fatboy Slim remix couldn’t drag this doozy of a summer anthem down.
We had no idea what he was talking about though.
YouTube/CornershopHQ
You can listen to all the tunes in our Forgotten 1990s Tunes playlist on Spotify.
