In HS I got on air requesting this on z100
My favorite forgotten 90s hit:Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
I guess this wasn't a hit hit but it was on 120. Young Vitamin C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGhYqAgwh4
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link
I miss the 90s but luckily all the young ppl are reliving it through fashion so I can just put on my headphones and pretend.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
I look at this thread and I feel like the answer should actually be "Steal My Sunshine," but I don't know why I feel that so strongly.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
That's seriously one of the greatest songs ever and probably in my top 10 and not at all in an ironic way.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah, round these parts NOBODY forgot "Steal My Sunshine"
I *did* forget "Dream", and I'm glad sleepingbag reminded me, because holy lol trip-hop crossover hits
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Geggy Tah - Whoever You AreGin Blossoms - Allison RoadNatalie Merchant - Kind and Generous
Possibly Merril Bainbridge's Mouth, I'm not sure how forgotten that one is at this point.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
Holy shit, I was literally about to post the Geggy Tah and Merril Bainbridge songs. Nice work, MarkoP.
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Heard "Allison Road" recently and even posted about it here
Taking Sides: Gin Blossoms vs. Toad The Wet Sprocket
― Ye Mad Puffin, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
Salt - Bluster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaKsLmrIhhQ
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
Gerardo "Rico Suave"
Nearly every time I get a ticket at work and have to work on a Ricoh printer I hear that goofy chorus line to this song in my head.
"Hey Man, Nice Shot" by Filter is one that comes to mind for me on this list.
― earlnash, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1jSrSz4wd4
Dandelion - Weird-Out
― los blue jeans, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link
fyi: 50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff
― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 June 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are
This one is the one I was going to post.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 June 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
who rememberts this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n26hAOmkmFE
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 22 June 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
*slowly raises hand*
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 22 June 2015 02:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfAhpX_wIBk
― J. Sam, Monday, 22 June 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
Swirl 360 - Hey Now Now
― MarkoP, Monday, 22 June 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
London Beat - I've been thinking about youhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixBryyQSrD8
― kinder, Friday, 3 July 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
Billie Myers - "Kiss The Rain"― Jennifer 8. ( (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:01 AM bookmarkflaglink
― Jennifer 8. ( (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:01 AM bookmarkflaglink
Holy smokes, I had memory holed this song so hard that I didn't even recognize the artist or title when my friend posted it on facebook just now. Immediately upon hearing the first "hello...(hello)..." the whole of 1997 entered my body like a demonic possession.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 May 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
The other day the song "Mean Machine" by Sugar Ray popped into my head, and I was like, "Why do I remember this song so well? This was never really hit"
― MarkoP, Sunday, 16 May 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
recently heard Smoke City - Underwater Love again, that seems to have been completely forgotten.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 16 May 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
Out of nowhere recently, I remembered the existence of "Sucked Out" by Superdrag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQmChykuZ9w
Though relistening to it, I realize I completely misremembered how the pre-chorus went
― Vinnie, Monday, 17 May 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link
every time I hear "Sunshine Superman" I think of "Legend of a Cowgirl". how big a hit was that really? feel like it was on the radio all the time but my friends don't remember it
― frogbs, Monday, 17 May 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
I remember seeing Imani Coppola's name, but I can't say I've ever heard this song before.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 May 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link
Knowing that Fever's in my age range, I stuck Billie Myers Kiss the Rain into a YouTube search, despite really not recognizing the artist or song title...
... and holy smokes! had the same exact reaction.
― pplains, Monday, 17 May 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
I did too, but drew a blank.
― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Monday, 17 May 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
What is that Alanis Morrisette/edward g. robinson singing style called anway.
― pplains, Monday, 17 May 2021 03:01 (three years ago) link
Trying to figure out *why* I'm so deeply familiar with "Kiss The Rain," despite completely forgetting its existence. I was pretty far removed from listening to commercial radio around that time, so it must have been in regular rotation at grocery stores or malls or something.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 May 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
No idea—did anyone ever name it?—but as ubiquitous as it was for several years, I never hated it as much as I hate the last decade's marble-mouthed thousandth generation Billie Holiday impressions.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 17 May 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link
xpost Same, and I think it was (feel like I remember hearing it piped through the halls of the student union) because I'm intimately familiar with it despite largely avoiding the radio back then.
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link
Cibo Matto’s Viva la woman turned 25 today.
Love that one
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 17 May 2021 05:04 (three years ago) link
Fastball the way
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Monday, 17 May 2021 06:27 (three years ago) link
Specifically the intro of Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want"
I knew the chorus was in my head somewhere it's unlikely to ever leave, but I had a deeply Prousty moment when those first celluloid-flickery notes called to me from a restaurant patio.
― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 May 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
Peach Union (Or simply Peach as they were known in the UK) - On My Own
― MarkoP, Monday, 17 May 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Another one I just remembered, from the same era as the Vertical Horizon song: Evan and Jaron, "Crazy For This Girl"
― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdll9uAGfoc
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
It wasn't a Billboard hit but it got a lot of alternative radio play. In my neck of the woods, anyway.― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, May 17, 2021 12:11 AM bookmarkflaglink
"Mean Machine" got radio play here too. which is why it was hilarious when "Fly" came out
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
totally agreed w/ this, altho that song didn't rly enter the stratosphere until 2000 (i certainly hadn't heard it until then)
it had a kind of a medium-rotation presence on both top 40 radio and mtv. certainly some folks who were otherwise relatively plugged in might have missed it
― dyl, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
start of this thread is ridiculous, lots of very memorable hits.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
here is one for Britishers, this duo had FIVE top 20 hits in 97/98, this is the only one I can rememberhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2X2fnRuss
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
xp "Legend of a Cowgirl" chorus immediately tripped a switch in my 90s-top-40-listener brain, didn't remember the artist or any of the rapping bits though
― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs
― Maresn3st, Monday, 17 May 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
I just want to add to the "'Kiss The Rain'? I have never heard of this before OH THIS IS THAT SONG" reactions
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
ah the 90s, when everyone subscribed to the Linda Perry School of Constipated Singing
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Stakka Bo was absolutely everywhere - I found it really irritating and I only listened to commercial radio and it was always onKiss the Rain was also everywhere.Never heard that Peach one yet it sounds exactly like if you mixed up half the stuff in the charts at that time.Alisha's Attic were also pretty big? Without googling, they also did Alisha Rules the World, er... and many many more (Indestructible! That's it. The Incidental things! In my mind these are categorised as Corrs songs...). They never pop up on those Remember the 90s shows though, so yeah I'm surprised if many people remember them.Just seen that they also covered 'Still Life' for that Childline album, which I'd never heard despite Suede + covers being my wheelhouse.
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Since 'Legend of a Cowgirl' is being evoked itt today, this would be a good time to note that Imani Coppola has made a lot of really good music and a lot of really odd music (often simultaneously) in the intervening years.
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
Goodnight Moon by Shivaree is one that came into my head a couple of years ago. I'd forgotten all about that one. I feel like it was used on some TV show in the very early 2000s or something.
Also, they weren't quite hits but a friend reminded me of the singer Nut who put out a couple of great singles in 96/7. I hadn't thought about her in such a long time but somehow I knew her singles Brains and Crazy so well. She must have got a decent amount of radio play at the time. Probably some buzz on the ITV Chart Show!
― kitchen person, Monday, 17 May 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link
I put 'Scream' on the first mixtape for my now husband back in the day. I didn't even know she had other singles!
― kinder, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:01 (three years ago) link