TOP 20 ONE HIT WONDERS OF THE '90s
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2022
- In this episode we countdown the Top 20 One Hit Wonders of the '90s!
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Man, what a walk down nostalgia lane! Anybody else miss guitar music on mainstream radio?
And the lack of autotune... man music today is just terrible
god yes. music on the radio period. they don't play anything anymore.
I literally just asked my fiancée this today. What the hell happened to guitars on the radio.
4 non blondes in top 3 for me..
Music today on the radio is awful. These songs are soooo much better.
What an optimistic decade the 90s was. End of the Cold War. Economic prosperity. No smart phone. No social media. It shines through in the music.
We were in a recession for much of the 90s.
The Berlin wall fell. Biggest thing for us in Germany. Things were really looking up until about 2001.
@@Kup1208 9/11 affected all the western world...
@@Marcus-id5ur but what an optimistic recession it was. Really shines through in the music.
@@Marcus-id5ur uhh, like 8 months in 90-91, rest of the decade was pretty good for economic growth.
0:07 Unbelievable (EMF)
0:35 Bitch (Meredith Brooks)
1:06 Tubthumping (Chumbawamba)
1:36 Stay (I Missed You) (Lisa Loeb)
2:18 In The Meantime (Spacehog)
2:59 Possum Kingdom (Toadies)
3:49 Steal My Sunshine (Len)
4:21 Groove is in the Heart (Deee-Lite)
4:47 Flagpole Sitta (Harvey Danger)
5:30 Inside Out (Eve 6)
6:11 Save Tonight (Eagle Eye Cherry)
6:46 You Get What You Give (New Radicals)
7:26 What’s Up? (4 Non Blondes)
8:06 There She Goes (The La’s)
8:41 Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice)
9:18 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Deep Blue Something)
9:56 She’s So High (Tal Bachman)
10:53 Closing Time (Semisonic)
11:34 Kiss Me (Sixpence None The Richer)
12:18 Torn (Natalie Imbruglia)
Actuality There She goes is also played by Sixpence None….
It’s not, it’s played by the La’s
@@rafaelborrego36you're right, but I think Sixpence None the Richer just covered it.
Great list, but it's got to be You Get What You Give by the New Radicals which still sounds amazing to this day, with The La's joint top!
Silverchair's "Tomorrow" from the album Frogstomp is a strong contender for this list
I never ceased to be amazed by Rick's ability to nod his head, do a little air guitar, point at the camera, nod his head a bit more, say 'amazing', tell a little anecdote about where he was in the year the song was released, and then intensely nod his head a bit more. Slick, Rick. Slick.
The best song missing is probably “No Rain” by Blind Melon, a really great song. As this list shows the 99s weren’t just grunge, there was a lot of diversity of stuff that fit under the label of rock music.
It would not be on a one hit wonder list. Blind Melon had at least two hits
Absolutely. That was one of the best one hit wonders of the 90's. I still have it on rotation.
RIP Shannon Hoon. Their cover of “Three is a magic number” is fantastic.
@@OSheaShenanigans No Rain was the only one that made it to #1. Galaxie (arguably a better song in my opinion, but not as iconic of a music video, which used to mean something) peaked at #8 on the US Alt chart and #25 on the US Main chart.
@@OSheaShenanigans Depends upon where you are, at home Natalie Imbruglia had more than one top-ten hit and more than five top-forty hits. Blind Melon only had one hit in said country.
One of the things I like about Rick’s videos is he jumps right in to the topic. No talking, no buildup.
In the Meantime is an excellent song. The bass line is 🔥
Yeah!
I actually came here for this song and thought it would be mentioned. Great tune.
Fair point. It's really annoying when you need to go through 5 minutes of admin/self-promotion before you get to the content.
I was at a truckstop outside of St. Louis back in 1996, and this band had set up their instruments in the parking lot next to their bus. My friends and I walked over and asked who they were. I was the only one who'd ever heard of Spacehog! They invited me to play drums and we played a Police song ( I think it was Can't Stand Losing?). Of course, I went home and bought their record after that, which was great.
I've heard that cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Add to the list:
- 74/75 ( The Connells )
- Narcotic ( Liquido )
- Connected ( Stereos MCs )
That entire Spacehog album is freaking awesome. Also I would say a lot of these bands like Eve 6, Semisonic, and Sixpence are more like 2 or 3 hit wonders.
I can still hear that Space phone ringing.
My favorite from Eve6 is Promise
Spacehog one of my favs
Great list - was kinda expecting Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground to show up - kind of a quintessential 90s one hit wonder for me.
Me too.
They got Saint Joe on The School Bus and Sherry Fraser - not as big as Sex And Candy but both were moderate hits in the Billboard charts
@@benjaminlaygoiii2171 well Eve 6 is on this list and Heres to the Night was a legit hit after Inside Out.
@@benjaminlaygoiii2171 Saint Joe on The School Bus peaked at 31 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, but never made it onto the Billboard Hot 100, which is the true measurement of a whether a song was a hit or not. As a college freshman who watched MTV constantly at the time, not once did I see the video air on the channel.
Ditto on Marcy Playground. Also expected the Verve and Bittersweet Symphony.
It's incredible how 90s songs sound so fresh compared to the ones in the top 10 today.
more melody, more soul, more joy, real music... miss those mtv days 😐
Music today is questionable. Blows my mind how some of todays artist are making millions in music bc it based on it’s video’s dance moves, or ex bf break up, it digitally enhanced. I feel today’s music is successful based on how much $$$ was spent on their marketing verses the talent behind the singer & musicians.
Thats called nostalgia
@@scottdunbar8228 It may be that, but it is also far better quality music.
@@haleyrichardson8818 thats probably not actually true. There is far more artists flooding the market now so the lows are very low and there is tons of mediocrity but good music is still as good as it was in the 90's. Also you have to realise that literally every generation tends to find the next generations music awful. Just a fact of life you like what you are used to and what you grew up with and stuff you arent used to tends to sound bad. Not to mention that the 90s was full of awful music just like every other decade of music. You remember the good ones and forget the bad ones.
"Save Tonight" was such a bop!
Closing Time produced my class motto: “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
I was NOT ready for Spacehog getting a mention. Pure magic.
They had a bunch of good music, just never seemed to "make it."
I was pleasantly surprised to see them pop up here. Absolutely would put that ong on my own ranking.
Another of my favorites no one else seems to know
Great album too.
Can I “like” this video 1000x? Born in ‘80, graduated HS in ‘98. This is the soundtrack of my adolescence.
82 in 2000
You were the hot senior when I was a freshman
@@Merknilash 1983. Yeah, she was the hot senior.
born in 85 here, and all these songs are such bangers, lmao, kids will never understand how much more they tried in the 90s. i mean we used to get toys in our cereal FFS
“In the meantime” is so good
"There she goes" was also released by Sixpence none the Richer, but "Kiss me" is their finest song. Leigh Nash sounds just wonderful.
The Boo Radleys have my favorite rendition from so I married an ax murderer
Was about to comment this.
Someone once said that "Groove is in the Heart" is the moment 80s music became 90s music. Pretty accurate.
one of the best songs, and music videos, of all time.
Totally agree. For me, it's the verse from Q-Tip that does it. An early sign that Hip Hop is going to be a influence on pop music going forward.
I'd say the moment the Stone Roses first album came out.
I agree. I remember the song was on mtv and the radio in the fall of 1990. The early 90s had so much great music from pop, rock, and hip hop.
Such a silly video but a good catchy song
I’ve always liked Mazzy Star’s “Fade into you”….one hit wonder and great tune
Love that song. Hope Sandoval’s voice is haunting.
Amazing song. I also like Look On Down From the Bridge.
“Into Dust” always gives me chills
All Hope’s songs are dope and I used to play so that tonight I might see every night at Kansas U in 94… epic
I still love "Steal My Sunshine" to this day and its in my regular playlist rotation.
Probably my nostalgia glasses but I feel the 90s summers and this song (just 90s in general) was just so much more colorful and optimistic than today? I don’t know.. Maybe not the grunge (which I also loved)
We are all headbanging here with you Rick Beato greatest hits ever 😎
It's a great day when Rick geeks out to 90s songs with us. 🎧🎵😜
Agree
It's a great day when Rick geeks out. Period!
"In the Meantime" is one of the most underrated 90's songs, I wish that it was more well known.
Agreed
And dude sang and played that bass line. I always give mad props to lead singing bass players.
Amazing song. Bowiesque AF
Royston Langdon, the writer, made a killing in royalties and married liv Tyler. I want to write and underrated song!
Great album, that song has the best bassline
Add
- 74/75 ( The Connells )
- Narcotic ( Liquido )
- Crash Test Dummies (Mmm Mmm Mmm)
- Spin Doctors (Two Princes)
- Countring Crows (Mr. Jones)
90s was great but 80s were the best
"The Way" by Fastball was all over the radio back in the 90's. Definitely a solid one hit wonder.
Definitely not a one hit wonder. Fastball had a few hits. Out of My Head was another big one, which was a top 20 hit, then there's Fire Escape from the same album and You're an Ocean from their next album.
@gary Ditto
I would say the same thing about "All for you" by Sister Hazel. It's far and away Sister Hazel's biggest hit, and would be considered a 1 hit wonder... if they didn't have the smaller hits... mainly "Change your mind".
Just so happens, Sister Hazel and Fastball are my 2 favorite bands.
They also have another song that quite popular, out of my head.
@@enigma0876 read the replies, it's exactly what I said.
@@garymaidman625 it reached top 20 on billboard's top 100, I don't think they are a one hit wonder.
Great list! Really brings back some memories!
One track missing is “Sex and Candy” by Marcy Playground. They released two albums in the 90s (Marcy Playground and Shapeshifter) which are both AMAZING! If you haven’t heard them and only know the band for their hit please give them a spin - as can happen sometimes their hit is not one of my favorite songs of theirs.
WIKIPEDIA::
Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, a record bested four years later by Nickelback's "How You Remind Me".
Barrett of Paste ranked it fifteenth on Paste's list of "25 Awesome One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s" while Consequence of Sound ranked it thirty-fourth on its list of "The 100 Best One-Hit Wonder Songs."
Marcy Playground emerged in the late 1990s. Influences include David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Wham! and the Beatles. The influences are quite clear on Marcy Playground's self-titled album
You insult Rick by suggesting he missed it. And the rest of us reading comments. OG-Tier no talent A$$ clowns, sir. You should delete this. They managed to create corporate rock and smear lonely people as weird, self-absorbed incels and fed it to a brain dead audience of needle movers and unit shifters... athough he included Natalie Imbruglia, another no-talent a$$ clown who did the same to forlorn emo girls with insecure attachment disorder.
"Hangin' 'round downtown by myself, and I had so much time to sit and think about myself
And then there she was, like double cherry pie, yeah, there she was- like disco superfly"
God I love that song, as much as Flagpole Sitta.
Couldn’t agree more. The albums are PHENOMENAL! And no one knows about them
YES! Replace Eve6 with this Marcy
Hated Sex and Candy, lol. They still play it all the time on my local modern rock station.
Great list, I didn’t know a couple of these but for the most part it took me back. What a time to be alive
One song that I think missed this list was “freak of the week” by the marvelous 3! Such a great song, fantastic hook, amazing production.
The album it came from (“Hey”) was loaded with power-pop gems also
This was one of my favorite songs of that era. Made me a lifelong fan of Butch Walker and I still enjoy his catalog and song collaborations to this day! Wish Marvelous 3 still toured. I’ve seen Butch multiple times but never had the pleasure of a Marvelous 3 show. I wouldn’t call them a one hit wonder though because I enjoyed everything they put out! They are good in my book! Check out the stuff Butch produced as well. Gold!
@@resherman19 I couldn’t agree more! I have been a huge marvelous three fans since I first heard them in 1998, but like you, I never was able to see them live. Even when they just had their set of reunion shows, I wasn’t able to make it to any one of them.
I’m also a very big Butch Walker fan, I like all of his solo stuff and love every band that he has produced. His latest stuff for “the gaslight anthem” is really great, definitely check it out!
@@resherman19 I absolutely love everything that Butch has done since the marvelous three, I love his solo albums, and all of the artists that he has worked with.
I still think Rick Beato interviewing Butch would be fantastic, I hope it happens one day!
Two Princes by Spin Doctors definitely deserves a spot, the song is killer from start to finish!
They had more than one big hit, though.
I thought it might be #1. Spin Doctors suffered from a bad name. Sounds like a DJ outfit but they were a smoking rock band!
Another phenomenal album!
Remember they also had Little Miss Can't Be Wrong which was top 20
@@michaelboggus9993 and Jimmy Olsen's Blues...
Great list!
A very 90s song for me is “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” by The Crash Test Dummies from Canada
It was huge here in Sweden and Europe in 1994. It was a #1 in Scandinavia, Germany, Belgium. Australia also. It went #4 in the US too, according to Wikipedia. Their albums had lots of fantastic songs, but I can’t remember they had more hits.
The reason that song always comes to mind for me is because of the Weird AL version
We had a local covers band called “Dumb Crash Testes”
loved CTD! don't think mmm⁴ was big enough for top 20 tho
They had a reasonably successful follow-up with God Shuffled His Feet and Keep A Lid On Things got airplay and rotation on MTV.
Which reminds me of Mmm bop by the Hansons. I think. Was that the 90s? And where they a one hit wonder?My brain is addled.
In the meantime is one of my favorite songs of all time! So happy to see it in here.
A few you missed IMO
1. Silverchair - Tomorrow from Frogstomp (1995)
2. The Flys - Got You Where I Want You from Holiday Man (1998)
3. Fastball - The Way from All the Pain that Money Can Buy (1998)
But kudos for including The Toadies and Spacehog.
God, I miss the 90’s.
This^
All the way around!
I turned 21 in 97. It was fun.
I'm with you on that!
I agree but I miss the 80's more. For a young guitarist like me, the 80s were the bomb. Great Hard Rock was mainstream and every guitarist ripped. It was an amazing time to be a young guitar player. Cheers!
"In the meantime" and "Possum Kingdom" are my favs and I like that they were back-to-back on this list.
Me too. And they’re the only songs on the list I actually care to hear again lol.
Both great songs, and coincidentally neither is a one hit wonder.
Read this and hoped it was going to be Helmet!
@@chadsstillalive What other hit(s) did Spacehog have? Toadies have a good amount of plays on some of their other tracks, but not spacehog..
Great song that’s been stuck in my head for the last few days.
I'm STILL in love with Lisa Loeb. Still!
Well impressed by the inclusion of Spacehog
You ripper , its an epic track.
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Closing Time, and Kiss Me are such beautiful stories.
Kiss Me…..amazingly soft voice.
MMMBOP by Hanson should be on this list.
Out of the top 10 songs.. Never heard of closing time.. And I don't think it sounds that good too.. And 4 non blonde is below it??? Come on..
I absolutely loathe breakfast at tiffany‘s…
What is the beauty of the story? Can you enlighten me?
@@bingobongo1615
What??
First, the music is good, the story is self explanatory. It's a message of hope for the singer, to a person that's just not feeling it.
And I said, "What about breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said, "I think I remember the film
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."
Come on, You've got to smile after that.
Cute story
I'm extremely surprised that nobody here seems to remember "Cannonball" by The Breeders. A huge hit by a talented band!
Great tune!
Completely agree - great song!
Kim Deal still performs and is from my hometown of Kettering Ohio, I've ran into her once or twice at Omega Records in Dayton, unfortunately outside of Cannonball, the album 'Last Splash' didn't really do too much else in the way of blowing up The Breeders, MTV deeming Cannonball a 'Buzz Bin' video also definitely helped boost their audience and popularity at the time, honorary shout out to Sonic Youth / The Pixies / The Melvins also!
LOVE that song!!
Thing about the Breeders is they have loads of great songs. I guess Cannonball was their only "hit" but still...
Is Eve 6 quite a one hit wonder? "Here's to the Night" still gets airplay today. They def deserved more hits than they got tho. The entire album that Inside Out was on was great.
The New Radicals album was great from start to finish too. I think both Eve 6 and New Radicals had some more unusual and innovative music, which is why I loved them, but also I think, why they didn't do quite as well maintaining commercial mainstream fame.
Peter Svensson (Cardigans) is from my hometown Huskvarna, Sweden. I remember my music teacher in high school wore so proud that she had been teaching him. Like also that you add Eagle- Eye Cherry as number 10 (he is a swed🙂) .
You may already know, but Husqvarna is a brand of chainsaw.
Great List, Rick! There was also this song "The Way" by Fastball, which could qualify, plus someone below already mentioned "One of Us" by Joan Osborne. Both great tunes. Waiting for more lists like these, or any other videos. Keep up the good work! Greets from Poland. :)
The Way is great but these are one hit wonders, they had more
I mentioned "The Way" in my own comment. I think "Fire Escape" and "You're An Ocean" could both be categorized as hits, too, even if they never quite matched up.
I'm surprised at myself that "One Of Us" wasn't one of my first thoughts, or at least didn't pop into my head when Meredith Brooks popped up (they peaked on the chart literally one year apart).
One of Us is a great song. I saw her open for The Who and she was amazing.
The Way was a great song! Fastball had one other hit, though: Out of My Head, which for a period of time I felt like it was impossible to be in the car for more than 10 minutes without hearing.
@@madmanatw great guitar solo on that track!
Sleeping Satellite from Tasmin Archer was a huge and underrated hitin EU in the 90's too. Timeless song.
Love that one. It instantly takes me back to 1993.
I was looking for this..
This list is proof the talent falloff was already running full steam ahead.
Holy Eff!! Harvey Danger was our Red Wings jam at our playoff games. Great memories!!!
"Sunny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin. "No Rain" by Blind Melon. "Freshmen" by The Verve Pipe. "Tomorrow" by Silverchair. "What Is Love" by Haddaway. "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla. "Sex and Candy" by Marcy Playground. "All I Want" by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Bitter Sweet Symphony and Lemmon tree
Yeah far out....I was 12 when Silverchair came out and my god it was and still is Amazing. Me being Australian it had a huge impact.
Silverchair isn’t a one hit wonder, neither is blind melon.
@@liamshorter292 fwiw we are talking American hits (not sure if you are too). No Rain is the only BM single to crack the Hot 100, as well as their only #1 single on the rock and alt charts. They had 2 other singles show up briefly on the rock charts but this was obviously residual success from No Rain.
"Tomorrow" by Silverchair reached #28 on the billboard Hot 100 chart and charted for 18 weeks, roughly doubling their next closest song (only 3 songs ever charted for Silverchair).
TtWS had plenty of hit songs.
Two of my favorites "Your Woman" by White Town and "A Girl Like You" by Edwyn Collins!!!
Your woman rules
i never comment but was thinking of White Town's "Your Woman" immediately
Not only "A Girl like You" but the whole Empire Records soundtrack is full of great one hit wonders. "Until I hear from you" by Toad the Wet Sprocket could be added to the list as well!
Love "your woman"
Rick, thank you so much for reminding us such a great hits ❤
The Proclaimers “500 Miles” was a true 1 hit wonder from 1993, such a fun infectious tune!
@nessy It was a hit in just about EVERY country around the world in 1988.
For some reason, the Americans picked up on it 5 years later.
They had quite a few hits in the UK
I could have sworn “There she goes” was also by Sixpence None The Richer, making them a two-hit wonder. Might be Mandela effect.
Great song but came out in 1987. Also The Proclaimers had other hits, "Letter From America", "Sunshine On Leith" and "I'm On My Way".
@@thesvenssons They covered it and it was a hit for them, as least I think so.
The slide solo in Torn is everything ❤
Everyone needs to watch the mime version of Torn
it really is
For a teenager in the late 90s the video was also something else, u know, i at least know of 1 other friend who was also mesmerized by natalie, wouldnt doubt there were many more who felt the same way
Its great, but man, the rhythm guitar through the verses is some of the slickest ever put down. Just a perfectly arranged and performed song.
@@TroublesomeOwl agreed
Rick - You are the man. Love the list and love your analysis of the music. I have never met anyone who listens and loves music like you do. And I have never met anyone who's ear matches my own so closely. Great stuff, keep it up!
Maybe Bitter Sweet Symphony from the verve should be in the list?
"You get what you give" is my singular favorite song of the 1990s. I'm a core Gen-x member, so spent my entire teens in the 1990s, and it's one of my favorite songs of all time. So good.
All of Gregg Alexander’s songs are awesome. He also wrote for others. He did “The Game of Love” which Michelle Branch and Santana recorded.
It is an incredible song. One of the last great pop/ rock songs in my view. I remember thinking most nineties music was very poor but that stood out as a track that could have easily stood with the best of the eighties.
I graduated from HS in 1994 and college in 1998, and hearing this list gave me such PTSD over adolescent insecurities and lost loves that I give it an A+ in accuracy! Well done, sir!
Wait, that sounds about like my 1990s 😆. Even spent a few weeks in a Behavioral Health place. You were one year ahead of me.
Same here Jason. I could swear Rick was going to include Crash Test Dummies!
@@pequalsa so true. Great lost. But I thought for sure there would be something from the band Live.
I was fighting in the Bosnian war. Coolest time ever, with banging tunes!💪👍
Nailed it. Graduated in 1992. Great list
Wonderful very enjoyable. Good to hear those songs again. Thank you.
When I listened to the radio. Wow how time flies. 90's was my 20's.
Excellent list! I was surprised to not see Duncan Sheik’s “Barely Breathing” on it. You couldn’t escape that song for most of ‘96 and ‘97. He even got a Grammy nomination for it.
I came here to say the same thing. I couldn't get enough of that song. Still can't. I can still remember cruising around in my beat up Chevy Cavalier with a few of my buddies while that song played on the radio. Such good times.
@@MrPhilm00r indeed! This is one of those songs that never gets old. 🙌
Who?
I had forgotten about this song despite having it in my iTunes. Great song as well and I will now go listen to it! lol
I couldn't remember that song so I just listened to it... I remember the song, but I never noticed how fucking terrible the vocals are before.
03:58 Steal My Sunshine - what a fantastic tune. One of those that, within a couple of bars, transports you straight back to that era.
Transports me to look up the song and listen to what it was sampled from, "More More More" by Andrea True
@@seanspring8991 Didn't know it was a sample. Interesting!
Funny, when he started explaining the song I knew exactly what it was going to be. Fun good time song.
Could come on the radio now and be a hit I feel.
@@Iosaiv 💯
I'm not sure why There She Goes is on here - it was released in '88. Sixpence None The Richer is also debatable considering they had another hit with their cover of (coincidentally enough) There She Goes.
The whole story around Torn is kind of wild because of just how many versions and covers there are. Although Ednaswap wrote and performed it, they didn't record it until after a Danish cover came out. Ednaswap recorded two versions of it (the Wacko Magneto version is totally different than all the others and is absolutely incredible). There was one more cover by Trine Rein before Natalie Imbruglia's cover came out.
Thank you so much for this list. You made my new year's morning.
I could probably tell a personal memory from most of these songs (but I won't put you through that).
Torn, There she goes and Kiss me almost touch perfection as for pop ballads.
And Flagpole sitta's a good discovery that reminds me a bit of Blur's Parklife.
Happy new year from southern Spain (feliz año nuevo)
The list you made goes straight to any Gen X'ers heart. Love every single one of these.
And even some older millenials ✋️🥲
@@DanielYanezF Gen Jones too
As a first year millenial ('81) I know all these songs...
I aint no name...
Wrong. I'm Gen X. Most of that music was chick music garbage.
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth by Primitive Radio Gods should be included in the list of honorable mentions. I also like Talvin Singh's Jaan.
A few mentions of The Way by Fastball, and I’ll immediately mention they had a few more hits off that album.
I bring it up because that album, All the Pain Money Can Buy, is phenomenal.
So many iconic songs. Wonderful to hear them again.
Notice how most of these songs were HAPPY and POSITIVE, very unlike the recent times . Very much reflecting the mood of the era
Oh, the 90's weren't all strawberries and cream. Have you never heard of grunge, or alt rock? The 90's was littered with the stuff. Hell, it's mostly what it's known for. Even The Cranberries has some really dark tunes.
Let me guess, you weren't around in the 90's, were you..?
I looove the 90’s, those are my formative years, but I remember them a little differently. Not to say you’re wrong, I don’t think you are, it’s just the tiny of “glasses” we all wear.
When I think of the 90’s, I think of angst. So much alternative and grunge music was “look how deep we are with all our brooding and hidden meanings in our lyrics. Many movies were weird and dark and experimental.
To your point, there’s also the happy poppy side. Pop music was really having a moment, a lot of fun comedies and rom coms that were legitimately good without being to self serious. The 90’s were fun in many ways.
I suspect every decade is just as layered.
"The Way" by Fastball I think should totally have been on this list. Great chorus, great melody, great solo.
Fastball's "Out of My Head" hit #20 on the Hot 100.
Fastball had a few hits
That album had two hit singles, right, so you can't reasonably put it here.
But was The Way Fastballs only hit, since this is a compilation of one hit wonders? Certainly The Way is a consummate 90s tune otherwise.
High school flashbacks on all of these
I’ve been listening to Bitch by Meredith Brooks, Tubthumping, save tonight, you get what you give, what’s up, there she goes, breakfast at Tiffany’s, she’s so high, kiss me, and torn for 10 years (which is when my parents first gave me access to the internet). I was born in the 2000s so I wasn’t around when these songs were released but in my opinion, 70s, 80s, & 90s music is truly timeless as anyone can enjoy them regardless of whether they were around during those decades or not.
Awesome list.
Soundtrack to every American Pie movie.
"No Rain" by Blind Melon, "Butterfly" by Crazy Town, "Mmm mmm mmm mmm" by Crash test dummies, "Mmmbop" by The Hanson, "74-75" by The Connels... so many one hit wonders of my youth :)
Wow yeah great list of songs there!! "74-75"... that song is so haunting...
That Crash Test Dummies album "God Shuffled His Feet" is a tremendous album.
Agreed about "No Rain", but the others are not one-hit wonders. Crazy Town had a few others, Crash test dummies had several and Hanson pretty much half their album as singles and were all hits. I have no idea what the Connels are though
@@mauriciomontardo4411 I was going to say Blind Melon wasn't a one hit wonder. "Change" is my favourite of theirs, but probably wasn't that big. I thought "Galaxie" was a decently big hit, but maybe that was just in Canada. I was going to say Crash Test Dummies weren't a one hit wonder here in Canada. "Superman's Song" was probably their biggest hit here, but they had others as well. "Peter Pumpkinhead" and there is another one that I can't think of the title now that were both big.
@@mauriciomontardo4411 That might be linked to where you live in the world, I'd say. I'm in western Europe and I can say for sure that neither Crazy Town nor Crash test produced *anything* successful around here except those two tracks. I recall the Hanson releasing singles after Mmmbop and while I don't remember any, I'll agree with you on this one, not really one hit wonder. If you're 40 like me, I'm pretty sure you know the song 74-75 by the Connels (you just don't know you know it :D)
"YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE" from The New Radicals it's one of my favorite songs ever, it's just very uplifting ❤
Great song. I always thought they were Better Than Ezra.
I love how the song is all positive and then at the end he suddenly comes out of leftfield with a super agressive diss at Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson 😂
@@ieroen if by Super Agressive you mean Super soft…
@@taintedlife2618 "Come around and we'll kick your ass in" ... Oh yes, no sign of aggression there!
@@TheRealMrLofasz Better than Ezra did Good which could have been on the list as well.
Amazing songs. What a decade for music.
I miss the 90s, I was in Junior High and High School. It was the best of times.
You Get what we give , new radicals still raises goosebumps and has the best message . don't give up you got reason to Live ....
Always thought this was Mick Jagger singing lol.
Gregg Alexander still writing great songs - he’s won a Grammy (“Game of Love” performed by Michelle Branch snd Carlos Santana) and was nominated for an Oscar (“Lost Stars”)
It also talks about physically assaulting people
Along with EMF's Unbelievable, I always relate that with Jesus Jones' Right Here Right Now. Both songs were hits right at the same time and always seem to be played back to back on the radio.
Same. Those were also the two songs that got me as a 7 year old to switch from VH1 to MTV.
Can't even read "EMF's Unbelievable" without going "OH!" in my head.
_Sex on Wheels_ was often played in the same blocks-at least on Seattle alternative radio.
Didn't Tom Jones cover it?
Right Here, Right Now is great, and there are at least 2 other great song on that album, that weren't "hits"
Great list of 90s hits! I wouldn't however, classify Lisa Loeb as a one hit wonder!
"Ready to Go" - Republica
In the Meantime is such a great song. All these years later and it still puts a smile on my face whenever I listen to it.
Great jukebox song.
Such a ripping bass line
Agreed. Best song on the list for me. Although I do confess to having danced and time or two to Groove is in the Heart (though it's always stuck me as more of an 80's song).
As a survivor of the 90's, I'd have to say that Deee-Lite's "Groove is in the Heart" should be #1 for sheer audaciousness, infectiousness, and ubiquity
It's a pretty genius song. Really really clever arrangement.
Right when that was on the charts I took a flight from NYC to London and Deee-Lite were sitting in the row behind me. They looked just like they did in their videos.
Again another song that indicated to me that the 80s musically were now in the past…
Bootsy!
The best
tubthumping is such a beautiful song
Could've been so many other songs on here, such a great decade - Spaceman/Babylon Zoo, Blue Da Ba Dee/Eiffel 65, Bittersweet Symphony/The Verve, How Bizarre/OMC, Sister/The Nixons, 500 Miles/The Proclaimers, One Headlight/Jakob Dylan, Two Princes/Spin Doctors, Stay/Shakespear's Sister, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm/Crash Test Dummies, Hold On/Wilson Phillips, Mr Wendal/Arrested Development. I was born in 1976, but was a teen in the 90s, and these all bring back so many great memories from my formative years. It also reminds me of people from my past who I no longer know and kind of makes me a bit bittersweet too (no pun intended).
"Torn" is a song written by Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, and Phil Thornalley. It was first recorded in 1993 in Danish (renamed "Brændt", Danish for "Burned") by Danish singer Lis Sørensen, then in 1994 by Cutler and Preven's American rock band Ednaswap, and in 1996 by American-Norwegian singer Trine Rein. Natalie Imbruglia covered the song in 1997.
When I think about the 90s, the first song that always comes to my mind is Two Princes by Spin Doctors.
^^^ this!
I love their rendition of have you ever seen the rain
They had “Little Miss Can’t Do Wrong” which got a lot of airplay as well.
Refrigerator Car is an EPIC tune. Weird time, weird lyrics, dark, hard guitar parts…
The entire Pocketful of Kryptonite album was fantastic! A ‘10’ all the way through! I sure thought a great career would follow that one, but they struggled to find something great after that, and never really made it. It certainly didn’t help that they had huge detractors in people that HATED them & HATED “jam” music. One of my favorite new bands of the 90s, I always said, more than anyone else, there were 5 bands that, for me, SAVED the 90s from total bleakness. In no particular order, the Spin Doctors, Live, Collective Soul, Indigo Girls & Kenny Wayne Shepherd (with close runner-up the Black Crowes)!
And quite unsurprisingly, 4 of these songs appeared in "Weird Al" Yankovic's polka medleys. Man has an ear.
.....a FEW more: "Drawer" - Summercamp; "Invisible Balloon" - Midget; "Seems So" - Apples In Stereo; "Hey, Genius" - Rebekah; "Pride" - Rachid; "I Know" - Dionne Farris;- "Better Than Nothing" - Jennifer Trynin; "Kashmir" - Kevin Gilbert; "Kill The Cowboy", "Doctor Vine" - The Big F; "We Cry Out" - Warrior Soul; "Dry Land", "Beautiful" - Marillion; "This Can't Be Forever" - Ephraim Lewis; "This Generation" - Roachford; "Sweet Liberation" - Family Stand; "Your Ghost" - Kristin Hersh; "Tell Me" - Billie Myers; "Last Plane Out" - Toy Matinee; "Me And Elvis" - Human Radio; "Mockingbirds", "Spring Released" - Grant Lee Buffalo; "Rocking Chair" - Greta; "Take Me As I Am" - October Project; "Touch Me With Your Love" - Beth Orton; "Kill My Soul" - Catherine Wheel; "The Grooveline" - Stevie Salas; "Deep Sleep Motel" - Nancyboy; "Resurrection' - Eric Gales Band; "Slam", "Doin' The Love Thing" - Dan Reed Network; "Dance Where The Bullets Fly" - Nuclear Valdez; "Heartshine" - Mother Love Bone; "Strange And Beautiful" - Crimson Glory; "Psychedelic Eyes" - Electric Boys; "The Way Home / Coming Home" - Enuff Z'nuff; "Flowers In The Rain" - Stress; "Sleeping Satellite" - Tasmin Archer; "Showgirl" - Auteurs; "Inviral Love" - Something Happens!; "Hang On To Your Ego" - Frank Black; "Sugar Ain't So Sweet" - Mindfunk; "Ready To Go" - Republica; "Kevin Carter", "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" - Manic Street Preachers; "American Life In The Summertime", "King Of The Blues" - Francis Dunnery; "Jump Right In" - The Urge; "All You Good Good People" - Embrace; "Phoenix From The Flames" - Robbie Williams; "Sister Havana" - Urge Overkill; "Sick And Beautiful" - Artificial Joy Club'; "Hold Me Up" - Velvet Crush; "Are You Out There?" - Dar Williams; "It's Not A Love Thing" - Geoffrey Williams; "Ira Jones Goes To The Country" - Arnold (TRUST me on ALL of these!)
Two notable mentions:
“Banditos” by The Refreshments
“Brimful of Asha” by Cornershop
YES!
Brimful of Asha is freaking fantastic!
I got the pistols, so I'll keep the pesos, and that seems fair.
I get such a nostalgic punch to the gut hearing songs from the 90's, even songs I didn't particularly like at the time. Nearly every single song on this list evokes a vivid memory from my teenage years, be it a place, specific friends, ex-girlfriends, exam stress, parties etc. Fuc, I miss those days.
Early 20s for me, but the same kind of emotion.
@@tricky92x agreed same
same here
Same! So many memories
You bring back memories listening to the top 1 hit wonders 70 , 80,90 and 2000 good job
Toadies are my fave band of all time and they are still making great music and touring today. They may be a one-hit-wonder in terms of national fame but they are amazing (and in Texas they get more attention and respect)
I just love so much "Ready to go" by Republica. Didn't think that much of the song at the time. Re-discovered it some ten years later and it's always in my list since then. So dancey, catchy and yet with rock spirit. The "pre-chorus" (Rick's lingo) is sooo cool... Those four chords put together in that way! And leading to a killer chorus. Deserving of a "What makes this song great" episode if you ask me.
Ready To Go was a great example of 90's one-hits! But don't think they were well-known in the US, but more of a European hit, which is why Rick didn't mention them. Speaking of European bands, Sneaker Pimps also had a one-hit wonder called "6 Underground."
Great tune!!
Republica was kind of the english Garbage but didn't get the same exposure and imploded too early.
Perfect song and production.
Also, thought of Elastica Connection, which I love.
One of my favorite one hit wonders of the 1990s was Dishwalla’s “Counting Blue Cars.” Such a beautiful song and I think it deserves an honorable mention. Great list!
Awesome song!!
Dishwalla had another really good song (not much radio airplay), called “give”.
Came here to say that !! Love dishwalla !
great call, and the only song I really felt was missing on the list.
Diswalla is so huge here in the Philippines.. angels or devils every little thing is always being covered. Love diswalla
I love all of these songs. Great picks!
Great list 👌. I also had to look up some Nixons, Dishwalla and Vertical Horizon and Got you where I want you by the Flys… great video.
I think The Freshman by The Verve Pipe should be on this list. That song was huge for the band in the 90's, and it was their only big hit. The Verve Pipe is from around my area. They are still playing today.
I have to agree
Came here to say that. It was a top three in my opinion. Granted I'm from their home state, but that song is better than almost all of these
Bitter Sweet Symphony was a big hit of theirs as well.
Photograph was also released as a single and in My opinion a better song
@janiceparnell8707 that's by a different band...
Flagpole Sitta is just one of my all time favourite songs - just hits the same every time. Love it. Such an impassioned, confused, empowered vocal.
Mark and Jeremy agree
Nice selection, helped me to remember some cool songs of the 90s 🤘🏻
Watching Rick bopping to these songs really puts a smile to my face. Nostalgic music decade. Love the 80s too!! 😊
Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods is DEFINITELY a one hit wonder and probably my favourite song of all time. The production and arrangement is beautiful and haunting and the BB King sample is perfect.
Agreed! Spot on
Such a good song, and fantastic use of unusual samples.
Amazing song
Totodoodoo doo doo
YES!!!
“One of us” by Joan Osborne and “If you could only see” by Tonic are honorable mentions 👍🏻
joan osbourne for sure
@@monkeysuncle2816 you are SO RIGHT! I love that album and used to listen to it when I worked in a book store--still listen to it but when I had it on in the store I really started paying attention to it and realized how incredible it is!
That Tonic song was my favorite of the 90s.
Tonic wasn't really a one hit wonder. "You Wanted More" was pretty popular, too.
@@monkeysuncle2816 Agreed. Relish is a solid album.
Always great videos!
The video for Torn is one of the all time greats as well
Amazing list. What a decade! Here are some honorable mentions off of the top of my head ...Dishwalla " Counting Blue Cars"... Primitive Radio Gods "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth..." Seven Mary Three "Cumbersome" ... Skee-Lo "I Wish"
I still have a Dishwalla CD somewhere...loved them!
Lucky was a hit by 7M3, so technically more than one hit.
Throw Cardigans Lovefool in there as well
Skee-Lo sampled Spinnin' from Bernard Wright's first album.
@@Modernjazz1 Nice, I did not know that. Just checked that song out !