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90′s Music, Chart-Topping One Hit Wonders from the 90′s PART ONE
The 90′s was my prime. And there are so many great songs that I still listen to today from this crazy cool era. Here is a list of 25 awesome songs (with a lyric tidbit) from the 90′s that you either still love, hate, or you break down in dance every time you hear it.
The following songs are 90′s hits generally favored by guys, stay tuned for part two, 90′s songs that girls still love!
1. LL Cool J- “Mama Said Knock You Out” – “I’m gonna knock you out.. mama said knock you out…”
2. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch- “Good Vibrations” – “It’s such a good vibration… it’s such a sweet sensation…”
3. Tag Team “Whoomp! (There it Is)” – “I’m takin it back to the old school, cause I’m an old fool, who’s so cool…”
4. Will Smith “Gettin Jiggy Wit it”- “ na na na na na na na na…”
5. House of Pain’s “Jump Around” – “Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin.. I came to win, battle me, that’s a sin…”
6. Michael Jackson- “Black or White” – “Now I believe in miracles, and a miracle has happened tonight.. but if your thinking about my baby, it don’t matter if you’re black or white…”
7. Wallflowers’ “One Headlight” -“Come on try a little, nothing is forever, there’s got to be something better than in the middle.. but me and Cinderella, we put it all together…”
8. Beck- “I’m a Loser” – “I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me…”
9. Blind Melon- “No Rain” – “All I can say is that my life is pretty plain, I like watchin the puddles gather rain.. it’s not sane…”
10. Dr Dre- “Nuthin But a G Thang”- “Like this, and like that and this and uh, it’s like this like that and like this and uh…”
11. Counting Crows- “Mr Jones” – “Mr. Jones and me, tell each other fairy tales, and we stare at beautiful women on bar stools…”
12. Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash Into Me” – “Sweet like candy to my soul, sweet you rock and, sweet you roll. Lost for you I’m so.. lost for you…”
13. Mc Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This” – “Break it down, Stop… Hammer Time!”
14. Puff Daddy and Faith Evans ft. 112- “I’ll Be Missing You” – “Every step I take, every move I make, every single day, every time I pray, I’ll be missing you…”
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge” – “Sometimes I feel like my only friend, is the city I life in, the city of angels, lonely as I am, together we cry…”
16. Blackstreet- “No Diggity” – “Getting pad is a forte, each and every day, true player way… I like the way you work it, no diggity, Im bout to bag it up…”
17. Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train”- “Runaway train never goin back, wrong way on a one way track, seems like I should be getting somewhere…”
18. The Proclaimer’s “I’m Gonna Be” (500 miles) – “When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be, I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next to you.. and I would walk 500 miles…”
19. Coolio- “Gangsta’s Paradise” – “As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothing left, cause I been blastin and laughin so long that even my momma thinks that my mind is gone…”
20. Santana Ft. Rob Thomas- “Smooth” – “And you say, this life ain’t good enough, I would give, my world to lift you up…”
21. Jay-Z “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” – “It’s a hard knock life, for us, steada treated, we get tricked, steada kisses, we get kicked…”
22. R.E.M. – “Losing my Religion” – ”Oh no, I’ve said too much.. I haven’t said enough. I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you say…”
23. Smash Mouth- “Walkin on the Sun” - “And if you follow there may be a tomorrow but if the offers shun, you might as well be walkin on the sun…”
24. Nirvana- “Smells Like Teen Spirit” – “With the lights out, it’s less dangerous, here we are now, entertain us…”
25. Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week” –“How can I help it when I think your’re funny when you’re mad, tryin hard not to smile though I feel bad. I’m the kinda guy who laughs at a funeral…”
***Youtube them for a little refresher!
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Counting Crows – Mr. Jones (Official)
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Rock Video Monthly – Pop Releases: Spring 1994 Special Edition Contains videos from the following artists: Ace of Base, Counting Crows, Lighter Shade of Brown, Travis Tritt, Funky Poets, Mary J. Blige, Mint Condition, Sheryl Crow, The Cranberries, Crash Test Dummies…. |
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