Top 15 Songs Of The 90s

[namkcuR]

What are your top 15 songs of the 90s? You need not put them in any order, just list them. And for the sake of of this list let's limit ourselves to no more than two U2 songs on the list. Go wild.

One - U2
Please - U2
Black - Pearl Jam
November Rain - Guns'N'Roses
Karma Police - Radiohead
Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Unforgiven - Metallica
One Caress - Depeche Mode
Today - Smashing Pumpkins
Wonderwall - Oasis
Losing My Religion - REM
Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
Lithium - Nirvana
Desert Rose - Sting
No Surprises - Radiohead

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

oh wow, now that's really tough. I'm um... not... sure.

 

[Lancemc]

Right now I'll just list a couple Radiohead songs that are among the best ever recorded. Thinking of the best of any band from the 90's would just make my mind melt.

Radiohead-
Fake Plastic Trees
The Bends
Let Down
Life in a glass House
Street Spirit

 

[WinnieThePoo]

1 . Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
2 . Guns' N' Roses - Don't Cry
3 . R.E.M - Loosing My Religion
4. Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
5. U2 - One
6. Radiohead - Creep
7. Prodigy - Smack My B***h Up
8. Blur - Song 2
9. Oasis - Wonderwall
10 . RHCP - Under The Bridge

 

[mikal]

keep in mind that Kenny G and Michael Bolton released albums in the 90's.

 

[Harry Vest]

I guess this is my personal favorite "Top 15 of the 90's" right now - it could change by tomorrow...
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
2. Welcome to the Terrordome - Public Enemy
3. Stakes is High - De La Soul
4. Black - Pearl Jam
5. Nearly Lost You - Screaming Trees
6. Nightswimming - R.E.M.
7. Love is Blindness - U2
8. Nautical Disaster - The Tragically Hip
9. Brothers Gonna Work It Out - Public Enemy
10. Hate In A Puddle - Illogic
11. To Forgive But Not Forget - Outside
12. Gone - U2
13. Soots And Stars - Smashing Pumpkins
14. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
15. Born Slippy - Underworld

 

[beau2ifulday]

No particular order:

1. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
2. REM - Losing My Religion
3. U2 - Until The End of the World
4. Madonna - Frozen
5. Prodigy - Firestarter
6. Shakespear's Sister - Stay
7. Pulp - Common People
8. Radiohead - Street Spirit
9. Sarah McLachlan - Adia
10. Oasis - Acquiesce
11. Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It's Like That
12. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
13. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
14. Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
15. The Verve - Lucky Man

 

[Bono's shades]

U2 - One
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Radiohead - Creep
Beck - Loser
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Toward Ecstacy
Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
REM - Losing My Religion
Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
Radiohead - Exit Music
U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
Alanis Morisette - Uninvited

 

[timothius]

1.Crowded House - Weather With You
2.U2 - One
3.Prodigy - Breathe
4.No Doubt - Don't Speak
5.Oasis - Wonderwall
6.Alannis Morisette - Ironic
7.Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
8.Crowded House - Private Universe
9.Crowded House - Distant Sun
10.Killing In The Name Of - Rage Against The Machiene
11.Unforgiven - Metallica
12.Fall At Your Feet - Crowded House
13.Hero - Foo Fighters
14.Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
15.Song 2 - Blur

 

[IWasBored]

top favorite songs that i liked during the 90s, or that i like from the 90s in general? cos those would be seperate lists. there are definetly some bands that had exellent stuff out in the 90s that i wasn't listening to until 2000 or so. hell, u2 would be one of those bands.

 

[Tennis05]

Does listing all of achtung count?

 

[namkcuR]

Does listing all of achtung count?

let's limit ourselves to no more than two U2 songs on the list.

 

[RA-D]

why 15?

erm, in no order (except for first 1)

1. Simple Minds - See The Lights



Manic Street Preachers - No Surface All Feeling
Manic Street Preachers - Masses Against The Classes (may officially be Jan 1st 2000)
Manic Street Preachers - Design For Life
(I'll limit my MSP to 3)
U2 - One
U2 - The Fly
Oasis - The Masterplan
Oasis - Morning Glory
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
Kula Shaker - Hey Dude
Simple Minds - Let There Be Love
Stereophonics - Plastic California
Radiohead - High & Dry
Catatonia - Don't Need The Sunshine
Sarah McLachlain - Possession

hope that my counting's alright.....

 

[dandy]

i'll take a stab this. in no particular order:

massive attack - angel
liz phair - fuck and run
pj harvey - rid of me
nine inch nails - hurt
radiohead - high and dry
pearl jam - do the evolution
tori amos - silent all these years
depeche mode - enjoy the silence
u2 - the fly
bjork - army of me
nirvana - heart shaped box
blur - song 2
smashing pumpkins - 1979
portishead - teardrop
foo fighters - everlong

edit to add in an honourable mention:
lamb - gorecki

 

[Sleep Over Jack]

The La's - Looking Glass
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
U2 - The Fly
REM - Losing My Religion
Guided By Voices - Don't Stop Now
Oasis - Wonderwall
U2 - One
The La's - There She Goes
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Blur - Beetlebum
The Verve - On Your Own
U2 - Hold me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Supergrass - Richard III
Radiohead - Karma Police

 

[POP-ROMANCER]

Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me - u2
Discotheque - U2
Magic pie - Oasis
Cigarettes & Alcohol - Oasis
Paranoid android - Radiohead
The drugs don't work - The Verve
Innuendo - Queen
What's the frequency kenneth - REM
Mystical Machine gun - Kula Shaker
Patience - Guns n Roses
Sun hits the sky - Supergrass

 

[MsMofoGone]

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Inxs - Suicide Blonde
Inxs - The Stairs
Queensryche - Empire
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Journey - Message Of Love
Sting - Desert Rose
Sting - Fragile
Splender - I Think God Can Explain
Splender - London
No Doubt - Don't Speak
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Radiohead - Creep
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

 

[jkid]

Here's my top 15 songs of the 90's (in order)

1. U2 - "One"

2. Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

3. Pearl Jam - "Alive"

4. Bob Dylan - "Love Sick"

5. Soundgarden - "Fell On Black Days"

6. Metallica - "Enter Sandman"

7. R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion"

8. R.E.M. - "Man On The Moon"

9. Bruce Springsteen - "The Ghost Of Tom Joad"

10. Rage Against the Machine - "Sleep Now In The Fire"

11. U2 - "The Fly"

12. Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt"

13. Johnny Cash - "Thirteen"

14. Tom Waits - "Goin' Out West"

15. Radiohead - "Karma Police"

 

[grbounds]

Live - Lightning Crashes

 

[Angela Harlem]

This thread has the best music ever. Wow.

INXS - Suicide Blonde
INXS - Beautiful Girl
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Lovesong
Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
U2 - HMTMKMKMMM
NIN - Closer (90s?)
Live - Pillar of Davidson
REM - Losing My Religion
Suzanne Vega - Caramel
U2 - Ultraviolet
Blind Melon - No Rain
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
EMF - Unbelievable

 

[gareth brown]

(no order)

Radiohead - Lift [the best song of the 1990's]
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Manic Street Preachers - Design for Life
U2 - Zooropa
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Spiders - Neighbourhood
Blur - Girls & Boys
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This
Eiffel 65 - Blue
Lightning Seeds - Sense
James - Sit Down
Supergrass - Alright

honourable mention: Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?

 

[Zoots]

This thread has the best music ever. Wow.

That's cos the 90s were the best decade ever!

In no particular order...

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Pearl Jam - Evenflow (really any of these: Jeremy, Alive, Black)
3. Blind Melon - No Rain
4. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
5. No Doubt - Sunday Morning
6. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
7. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
8. Blur - Beetlebum/Song 2
9. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
10. The Eels - Novocaine For The Soul
11. Duran Duran - Ordinary World/Come Undone
12. Suede - Animal Nitrate
13. Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
14. Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline/Plush
15. U2 - One

All that's left to be said is

edit: shit, forgot REM... Honorable mention: REM - Man On The Moon

 

[Zoots]

(no order)
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

Oh man, at the time I used to think that Spaceman was the coolest song ever!

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

U2 - The Fly
U2 - One
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Metallica - Fuel
The Rolling Stones - You Got Me Rocking
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Oasis - Cigarettes And Alcohol
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine
The Cult - Wild Hearted Son
Bruce Springsteen - Better Days
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia
REM - Man On The Moon


There were other U2 songs I wanted to put there.

 

[intedomine]

In No Order....

U2 - discotheque
U2 - the fly
REM - what's the frequency kenneth
Gin blossoms - I'll follow you down
Rembrandts - I'll be there for you
Oasis - Wonderwall
Live - Freaks
Live - All Over You
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Pearl Jam - Even Flow
Alanis Morrisette - Head Over Feet
BoDeans - Closer to Free
Don't Go Now - RATCAT
Hero of the Day - Metallica

 

[myusernamehere]

in no order

1. Nirvana - Come as you are
2. Alanis Morrisette- Not the doctor
3. Alice in Chains- Would? (in fact anything off the Singles soundtrack is worthy of a mention)
4. Bush- The Chemicals Between Us
5. U2- One
6. U2- Gone
7. Fiona Apple- Criminal
8. Jeff Buckley- Hallelujah
9. NIN- Closer
10. Poe- Angry Johnny (I think that's the name of it)
11. Primus- My Name is Mud
12. Smashing Pumpkins- 1979
13. Tori Amos- Hey Jupiter
14. The Wallflowers- 6th Avenue Heartache
15. R.E.M- Drive (or just about anything else they put out for that matter)

 

[Angela Harlem]

OMG YOU SAID A BUSH SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you a fan???????
Please tell me you like them? Or at least pretend?

 

[madonna's child]

RHCP - Under the Bridge
The Cranberries - Zombie
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Live - Lightening Crashes
Madonna - Take a Bow
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Oasis - Wonderwall
Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
Radiohead - The Bends
REM - Losing My Religion
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
U2 - One
U2 - Mysterious Ways

 

[Jack In The Box]

11. Primus- My Name is Mud

great song, great band... great bass player

 

[financeguy]

(in no partic. order)

Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
Some Might Say - Oasis
Drive - REM
E-bow the Letter - REM
Losing my Religion - REM
The Wild Ones - Suede
Animal Nitrate - Suede
How do you Sleep? - The Stone Roses
Tears - The Stone Roses
Love is Blindness - U2
One - U2
November Rain - Guns and Roses
Airbag - Radiohead
Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode