The 10 best songs from the 90's

Basically replicating what I did on the '70s thread, but I'm bored, so why not -- not a top ten list per se, but one song from my favorite album of each year of the decade:
1990: Jane's Addiction - "Ritual de lo Habitual": "Three Days"
1991: Nirvana - "Nevermind": "Drain You"
1992: Alice in Chains - "Dirt": "Down in a Hole"
1993: Nirvana - "In Utero": "Scentless Apprentice"
1994: Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral": "Closer"
1995: Smashing Pumpkins - "Mellon Collie...": "1979"
1996: Stone Temple Pilots - "Tiny Music...": "Big Bang Baby"
1997: Radiohead - "OK Computer": "Climbing up the Walls"
1998: Outkast - "Aquemini": "SpottieOttieDopaliscious"
1999: Eminem - "The Slim Shady LP": "'97 Bonnie and Clyde"

Honorary mention to that live performance of LONG SEASON by Fishmans that has become popular through social media. Believe the hype, it’s worth the runtime.

More discussion on the phenomenon here

Decades-old stuff that was fairly unknown in the West but suddenly got very famous online (aka: the Fishmans thread)

the best fishmans track is "yurameki in the air" fwiw

Show Me Love - Robin S
Freedom '90 - George Michael
I Must Be Getting Over You - Nick Lowe
The Lakes of Canada - The Innocence Mission
Born At The Right Time - Paul Simon
Where Will I Be - Emmylou Harris
New Year's Day - Chuck Prophet
Round Midnight - James Carter
Closing Time - Leonard Cohen
Past The Mission - Tori Amos

Should've fit "Flagpole Sitta" in there somewhere.

For years I woke up every morning with Flagpole Sitta stuck in my head and I could never figure out why.

I'm sorry I posted 7 different lists in this thread.

10+2:

01 Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (DNA remix)
02 Everything But the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry remix)
03 Missy Elliott - The Rain (Supa Supa Fly)
04 The Wrens - I've Made Enough Friends
05 Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy
06 my bloody valentine - Don't Ask Why
07 of Montreal - Don't Ask Me to Explain
08 Jeff Buckley - Grace
09 The Cranberries - Dreams
10 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

+1 Nas feat. AZ - Life's a Bitch
+2 Stan Ridgway - Picasso's Tear

Teenage Fanclub - "God Knows It's True"
They Might Be Goants - "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
The Future Sound of London - "Papua New Guinea"
Blur - "There's No Other Way"
Blur - "Chemical World"
Underworld - "Cowgirl"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Hummer"
Stereo MCs - "Connected"
Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Badly Drawn Boy - "The Treeclimber"

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:30 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fuck this shit. “The Treeclimber”? Two Blur songs? There was way too much great music released in the ‘90s for me to seriously consider narrowing down all my favorite songs to only ten.

Isn't seeing how well/how poorly they age half the fun of listmaking exercises like this?

(Stereo MCs "Connected" made my shortlist, fwiw)