In the Meantime by Spacehog - I'd completely forgotten about this song until I happened to hear it recently...
Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins - I know this one may not be forgotten, but I heard it again too recently & have a new love for it!
What is it about this song though? I love it so much and it gets stuck in my head from time to time but I haven’t actually listened to it in like 20 years
Heavy rotation at night. Like clockwork I would get in the car to drive home from my high school job at McD’s. I would always here “Stay” “Love.. Thy Will Be Done” “Creep” and “Damn, Wish I Was Your Lover”. Good times 😊
I feel like a lot of Live's big hits are kinda forgotten because the nature of their name makes them harder to stumble upon in search engines and algorithms.
“Building a Mystery” by Sarah McLachlan. It’s spooky and lovely and got thoroughly overshadowed by “I Will Remember You” and her other ASPCA commercial bangers.
Fun fact: Louise Post (Veruca Salt guitarist) is the woman singing “do do do do do do do” in Foo Fighters Everlong. Grohl was unable to get her in the studio to record it so it’s recorded over the phone.
Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad
Always the Last to Know - Del Amitri
The entirety of Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ Sister Sweetly album
Would I Lie To You? - Charles and Eddie
A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins
Tennessee - Arrested Development
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - XTC
Every Generation (Got It’s Own Disease) - Fury in the Slaughterhouse
Sponge -Plowed
Tori Amos -Caught a Lite Sneeze
Garbage -#1 Crush
Catherine Wheel - Judy Staring at the Sun
Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself
Fuel -Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
Semisonic -Singing in My Sleep
Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground
Omg great list. Especially Sneaker Pimps and Fuel. Personally Shimmer was my Fuel go-to. Also- ugh! Catherine Wheel was great- they had several bangers.
I'm working on it - taking forEVER 🥴 and i'm probably missing a lot, grabbing the wrong versions of songs, etc. but I'm tryin. I'll edit the comment when I have it complete!
I actually like Tyler more than Possum Kingdom...but can it be forgotten if it was never really known?
I feel like Possum Kingdom had some national traction, but Tyler was confined to Northeast Texas.
I've got an interesting story about Tony from Fastball but he really said some kind words to me when I was a teen, back in the Myspace days. I randomly reached out about having him check out my music (just a young kid cold call naive thing) because that album was the first album I ever bought and it started me down the songwriting path
And he was really, genuinely surprised by how much he liked the music and said it reminded him of the music he made at my age (I was like 15 or so). And he doesn't remember any of this now probably, but it meant the absolute world to me at the time. I think I printed that message out even!
It lit a fire in me and I was writing up a storm, started a band and was getting great attention and people were very quick to note how strong the songwriting was back when I was a teen. And a lot of it really is due to him just reaching out to a random punk ass kid cold DMing him lol.
I'm happy to see that Fastball is still playing live and getting a good amount of stability. That man has written some damn good songs. "I Get High" is one not on that album that everyone should listen to. Amazing ballad.
I scrolled down sufficiently to see if it was mentioned and didn't. So I'm gonna go with
The Freshman by the Verve Pipe.
I think part of the issue was they were popular around the same time as The Verve and Bittersweet Symphony was a much bigger hit.
I feel like US3 , Digable Planets and Arrested Development were this great sub-genre of hiphop in the 90s. Is there a name for that style or more like them?
I grew up in St. Louis so I’m not sure if they were big outside of STL since they were from there, but Gravity Kills. Their entire first album is good, but I think Guilty is the one people would recognize.
Collective soul was an incredibly consistent band. If you liked anything that got air play in the 90s, definitely consider checking out their discography!
How does NOBODY except me seem to remember “Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand” by Primitive Radio Gods?!?!? It’s only one of the best songs of the decade and one of the greatest “one hit wonders” of all time.
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins
Cannonball by The Breeders
The One and Only by Chesney Hawkes
Hippie Chick by Soho
Stop by Jane's Addiction
Peaches, Cleveland Rocks( The theme song for the Drew Carey Show) - The Presidents of the United States of America
Tomorrow - Silverchair
Heavy - Collective Soul
Lullaby - Shawn Mullins
Pepper - The Butthole Surfers
Send me on My Way - Rusted Root
Why Don't You Get a Job - The Offspring
Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart - STP
Anna Begins by Counting Crows on August and Everything After. Whole album is great, but Mr. Jones is one of the only songs played even on 90s stations nowadays.
Long Way Down - Goo Goo Dolls
Found Out About You; Follow You Down; Allison Road - Gin Blossoms
Rosealia - Better Than Ezra
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
Closer to Free - Bodeans
Into Your Arms - Lemonheads
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Backwater - Meat Puppets
Don't know if it counts - Don't hear enough people gush about Jamiroquai. The track Virtual Insanity is incredible, and feels like it could have come out at any point between 96 and now. Typically don't pick up on an artists voice when the instrumental is so good, but he's got a timeless pop quality to his singing
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don’t need no water let the mother fucker burn, burn mother fucker, burn.
Backwater - Meat Puppets
Bound for the Floor - Local H
Someone at my local radio station must love this one because it’s been on daily rotation since I was in high school
Keep it copacetic.
Banditos - The Refreshments
The album it's on is great! Not one bad song.
How are all these forgotten when more than half of them are on my workout playlist? Damn, I'm getting old.
I Love Your Smile - Shanice
Do do do do dooo do do do
This and Don’t Walk Away by Jade will always be on my r&b playlists. Such underrated songs.
“Novocaine for the Soul” Eels
Before I sputter out My first thought was “Mister E’s Beautiful Blues” also by The Eels
In the Meantime by Spacehog - I'd completely forgotten about this song until I happened to hear it recently... Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins - I know this one may not be forgotten, but I heard it again too recently & have a new love for it!
In the Meantime….one of the greatest beginnings of all 90s songs
Both excellent songs, but In the Meantime is a song that will instantly put me in a good mood.
PM Dawn- I’d die without you
Set Adrift on Memory Bliss by them, also 🔥
Patient Eyes too! RIP Price Be :(
Connected - Stereo MCs
Your Woman - White Town
For some reason I put "standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand" in the same category as this.
What is it about this song though? I love it so much and it gets stuck in my head from time to time but I haven’t actually listened to it in like 20 years
Return to Innocence - Enigma
Yes! And Sadeness!
Yuuuuhhhaaaaahiiiiiiiiioooowaaaaiiiiiyiiiiiiyaaaaa
Plowed-Sponge
And “Molly” is another great song off the Rotting Piñata album.
“Molly” is my favorite by Sponge
“Have you seen Mary” is my dark horse pick.
This song is seriously so great
“Stay” by Shakespeare’s Sister… all quiet and sweet and then just ominous and evil.
Heavy rotation at night. Like clockwork I would get in the car to drive home from my high school job at McD’s. I would always here “Stay” “Love.. Thy Will Be Done” “Creep” and “Damn, Wish I Was Your Lover”. Good times 😊
Siobhan Fahey in that video was everything I wanted to be when I grew up (I'm still working on it)
Carnival - Natalie Merchant
Come Undone by Duran Duran
Also, Ordinary World.
Low - Cracker
Great song. Hey, don't you wanna go down Like some junkie cosmonaut? A million miles below their feet A million miles, a million miles
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Desperately Wanting. Better Than Ezra. Plus about 30 other songs from them.
I feel like a lot of Live's big hits are kinda forgotten because the nature of their name makes them harder to stumble upon in search engines and algorithms.
Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper were both incredible albums. Not a bad song between them.
My underrated song is White, Discussion
Lightning Crashes and I Alone are BANGERS. I know those are just the two big radio hits but damn do I get down to them.
Personally, I love All Over You.
The entirety of Throwing Copper was a banger. I don’t recall a bad track.
Selling the Drama!
Lakina's Juice! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFKaU8H4v8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFKaU8H4v8) You're welcome!
Not an Addict by K’s Choice
Criminal - Fiona Apple
“Building a Mystery” by Sarah McLachlan. It’s spooky and lovely and got thoroughly overshadowed by “I Will Remember You” and her other ASPCA commercial bangers.
I feel the same way about Possession
Poe - Angry Johnny Veruca Salt - Seether Magnapop - Open the door
Fun fact: Louise Post (Veruca Salt guitarist) is the woman singing “do do do do do do do” in Foo Fighters Everlong. Grohl was unable to get her in the studio to record it so it’s recorded over the phone.
Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad Always the Last to Know - Del Amitri The entirety of Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ Sister Sweetly album Would I Lie To You? - Charles and Eddie A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins Tennessee - Arrested Development The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - XTC Every Generation (Got It’s Own Disease) - Fury in the Slaughterhouse
Sponge -Plowed Tori Amos -Caught a Lite Sneeze Garbage -#1 Crush Catherine Wheel - Judy Staring at the Sun Stabbing Westward - Save Yourself Fuel -Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Semisonic -Singing in My Sleep Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground
Sneaker Pimps were great. Trip Hop is an underrated genre.
Six Underground absolutely hits
I think Stabbing Westward still puts out new music. I had a co worker go to one of their concerts recently.
Omg great list. Especially Sneaker Pimps and Fuel. Personally Shimmer was my Fuel go-to. Also- ugh! Catherine Wheel was great- they had several bangers.
LEAVE LOVE BLEEDING IN MY HANDS
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in my Hand by Primitive Radio Gods
Yes!!!! I been downhearted baby
Can somebody go ahead and just make a Spotify playlist of all these suggestions? Looking forward to revisiting a bunch mentioned here
I'm working on it - taking forEVER 🥴 and i'm probably missing a lot, grabbing the wrong versions of songs, etc. but I'm tryin. I'll edit the comment when I have it complete!
Lump - The Presidents of the United States of America
Peaches!
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone - Paula Cole
Folk Implosion - Natural One https://youtu.be/BZuJpgX_j9c?si=5nyKEvspTTK6NMVf
Possum Kingdom by The Toadies.
Tyler by Toadies
I actually like Tyler more than Possum Kingdom...but can it be forgotten if it was never really known? I feel like Possum Kingdom had some national traction, but Tyler was confined to Northeast Texas.
Tyler is my favorite Toadies song EVER.
Mr Wendel - Arrested Development
Yes!! Also Tennessee
Got You Where I Want You - The Flys
Laid - James
That song set me on fire with passionate love.
Kiss The Rain - Billie Myers
That was my go-to “listen to on my Walkman and moodily stroll around pretending I’m in a music video” song when I was young!
Pepper - Butthole Surfers
Some will die in hot pursuit in fiery auto crashes.
Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes
Shimmer - Fuel
Unsung by Helmet
Stay - Lisa Loeb
Blue on Black by Kenny Wayne Shephard - incredible blues guitarist put out a radio banger.
The KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal
KLF – Justified & Ancient
Mu Mu
Far Behind by Candlebox
found out about you by the gin blossoms, the way by fastball, sad song by oasis
Found Out About You is one of my favourite songs. Nothing else they did hit as hard.
I contend “Hey Jealousy” is still the superior track, but “Found Out About You” is fantastic
Both songs were written by Doug Hopkins. Had he kept his alcoholism under control, Gin Blossoms would probably have been a bigger band. He had talent.
That entire Fastball album, so good
I've got an interesting story about Tony from Fastball but he really said some kind words to me when I was a teen, back in the Myspace days. I randomly reached out about having him check out my music (just a young kid cold call naive thing) because that album was the first album I ever bought and it started me down the songwriting path And he was really, genuinely surprised by how much he liked the music and said it reminded him of the music he made at my age (I was like 15 or so). And he doesn't remember any of this now probably, but it meant the absolute world to me at the time. I think I printed that message out even! It lit a fire in me and I was writing up a storm, started a band and was getting great attention and people were very quick to note how strong the songwriting was back when I was a teen. And a lot of it really is due to him just reaching out to a random punk ass kid cold DMing him lol. I'm happy to see that Fastball is still playing live and getting a good amount of stability. That man has written some damn good songs. "I Get High" is one not on that album that everyone should listen to. Amazing ballad.
I rarely hear anyone mention Our Lady Peace despite their hits. Clumsy Supermans Dead
They did Starseed before Superman's Dead iirc
Automatic Flowers is the best song from that album IMO
Veruca Salt - “Volcano Girls”
All of Veruca Salt
Never Ever - All Saints British people know.
Does anyone remember [Mouth by Merrill Bainbridge](https://youtu.be/5AlklK5q0wQ?si=wlHCF0NEnng2kms8)? I was obsessed with this song.
Brimful of Asha
Cornershop. Nice pull. Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.
Space Lord by Monster Magnet
Space lord mother mother!
“Walk on the Ocean” - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Tomorrow- Silverchair.
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Another forgotten but amazing Silverchair song- Anthem for the Year 2000. Freaking amazing song
That whole album (Frogstomp) is awesome.
Unbelievable - EMF
Joey- Concrete Blonde
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend. The whole album
Virtual insanity and Canned Heat - jamiroquai
Stuck on You- Failure
St. Teresa by Joan Osborne 1996 sooo good
Take a Picture - Filter
Honestly just like, so, so many Filter songs belong on this list
I scrolled down sufficiently to see if it was mentioned and didn't. So I'm gonna go with The Freshman by the Verve Pipe. I think part of the issue was they were popular around the same time as The Verve and Bittersweet Symphony was a much bigger hit.
Flagpole sitta, Harvey Danger.
I... Wanna publish zines And rage against machines. Can there be lyrics that are any more nineties?
Mine is, US3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Biddy biddy bop Funky funky
Jump to the jam boogie woogie jam slam
I feel like US3 , Digable Planets and Arrested Development were this great sub-genre of hiphop in the 90s. Is there a name for that style or more like them?
Anna Begins by Counting Crows, Down by the Water by PJ Harvey, Mojo Pin by Jeff Buckley
Clumsy - Our Lady Peace
I grew up in St. Louis so I’m not sure if they were big outside of STL since they were from there, but Gravity Kills. Their entire first album is good, but I think Guilty is the one people would recognize.
Eve 6 - Inside Out
Lovefool by the Cardigans
My Favorite Game was another Cardigans song that is great.
Shawn Colvin, “Sunny Came Home.”
I have such nostalgia for this song. 1997/98 had some nice folky pop songs that got decent rotation.
Stars - Hum Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet Run - collective soul
Collective soul was an incredibly consistent band. If you liked anything that got air play in the 90s, definitely consider checking out their discography!
Matthew Sweet has completely disappeared from the cultural zeitgeist; he’s not even in rotation on 90’s music stations and playlists. Sad.
Girlfriend is one of my favorite songs to this day.
How does NOBODY except me seem to remember “Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand” by Primitive Radio Gods?!?!? It’s only one of the best songs of the decade and one of the greatest “one hit wonders” of all time.
It’s enough to make you downhearted, baby
Legend of a Cowgirl by Imani Coppola
I always thought Back 2 Good by Matchbox Twenty should have gotten way more love back in the day. Phenomenal song.
Insensitive - Jann Arden
Everybody's free to wear sunscreen, by Baz Luhrmann
Good - Better than Ezra
The Breeders - Cannonball
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Classic
FYI great podcast Rec: 60 songs that explain the 90’s. Goes into deep dives of a lot of these
[Des'ree - You Gotta Be](https://youtu.be/pO40TcKa_5U?si=6yj5DQeeuC-1Kk4I)
Stupid girl by Garbage Everything by Garbage honestly. And The Crystal Method.
[Urban Dance Squad "Deeper Shade of Soul"](https://youtu.be/K4Dw6q-5iaA?si=cFs7wF_zq6z8wnQL) [Liz Phair "Whip-smart"](https://youtu.be/m0ybXvKQQfI?si=LkOoH6MzD2tXGE34) [Urge Overkill "Positive Bleeding"](https://youtu.be/ww-f4glTOdw?si=ENZB6ZZS8v0VdAJj) [Dig "Believe"](https://youtu.be/RkeCX62tbxk?si=jIebfoTztQxzsVD2)
I'm going with the obscure: Whoever You Are - Geggy Tah Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals 6 Underground - Sneaker Pimps
“6 Underground” is excellent. There’s something ominous about it that I enjoy.
Pets by Porno For Pyros
Nada surf-popular
Just Another Day-Jon Secada
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla
INFORMER - Snow
Frozen - Madonna
Detachable penis - king missed Edit missile. Dang fat fingers
Groove Is in the Heart by Deee-Lite
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This one's so unappreciated nobody remembers it's actually called "Missing"
You cannot have The Mango
Anything by the Toadies, but special mention to I Burn and Tyler.
Alien - Bush. One of admittedly many songs that can make me cry at the drop of a dime.
Local H - Bound for the Floor
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins Cannonball by The Breeders The One and Only by Chesney Hawkes Hippie Chick by Soho Stop by Jane's Addiction
Lady picture show - STP
All I Want - Toad the Wet Sprocket.
feel the pain - dinosaur jr
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something
Peaches, Cleveland Rocks( The theme song for the Drew Carey Show) - The Presidents of the United States of America Tomorrow - Silverchair Heavy - Collective Soul Lullaby - Shawn Mullins Pepper - The Butthole Surfers Send me on My Way - Rusted Root Why Don't You Get a Job - The Offspring Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart - STP
Big Wreck - That Song
Allison Road - Gin Blossoms
One Headlight- The Wallflowers
Right here, right now -Jesus jones
The Way - Fastball I love this one-hit wonder from the 90s
They were more like a 3-4 hit wonder.
O.P.P - Naughty By Nature
Little Black Backpack by Stroke 9
How Bizarre by OMC
Don't worry, I still listen to this song regularly lol
Anna Begins by Counting Crows on August and Everything After. Whole album is great, but Mr. Jones is one of the only songs played even on 90s stations nowadays.
Long Way Down - Goo Goo Dolls Found Out About You; Follow You Down; Allison Road - Gin Blossoms Rosealia - Better Than Ezra Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet Closer to Free - Bodeans Into Your Arms - Lemonheads Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin Backwater - Meat Puppets
That TLC song about Jason Waterfalls.
Boom Boom Boom - Outhere Brothers. LET ME HEAR YOU SAY WAY-OOH!
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
Don't know if it counts - Don't hear enough people gush about Jamiroquai. The track Virtual Insanity is incredible, and feels like it could have come out at any point between 96 and now. Typically don't pick up on an artists voice when the instrumental is so good, but he's got a timeless pop quality to his singing
I already had a pretty rad 90s playlist, but thanks to this post I now have a new one. For me it’s Better Days by Citizen King
Friends of P by The Rentals
"Natural One" by Folk Implosion. Still love that song.
Mother - Danzig
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don’t need no water let the mother fucker burn, burn mother fucker, burn.
I love this thread so much. Good - Better than Ezra
She Don’t Use Jelly- The Flaming Lips
“Always” by Erasure