Show me a 90's hit that is somewhere in my head but I just don't know it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfAhpX_wIBk

Swirl 360 - Hey Now Now

London Beat - I've been thinking about you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixBryyQSrD8

Billie Myers - "Kiss The Rain"

― 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.

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"

recently heard Smoke City - Underwater Love again, that seems to have been completely forgotten.

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

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

I remember seeing Imani Coppola's name, but I can't say I've ever heard this song before.

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.

I did too, but drew a blank.

What is that Alanis Morrisette/edward g. robinson singing style called anway.

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.

What is that Alanis Morrisette/edward g. robinson singing style called anway.

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.

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.

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"

Cibo Matto’s Viva la woman turned 25 today.

Love that one

Fastball the way

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.

Peach Union (Or simply Peach as they were known in the UK) - On My Own

Another one I just remembered, from the same era as the Vertical Horizon song: Evan and Jaron, "Crazy For This Girl"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdll9uAGfoc

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

Specifically the intro of Vertical Horizon's "Everything You Want"

totally agreed w/ this, altho that song didn't rly enter the stratosphere until 2000 (i certainly hadn't heard it until then)

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

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

start of this thread is ridiculous, lots of very memorable hits.

here is one for Britishers, this duo had FIVE top 20 hits in 97/98, this is the only one I can remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2X2fnRuss

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs

I just want to add to the "'Kiss The Rain'? I have never heard of this before OH THIS IS THAT SONG" reactions

ah the 90s, when everyone subscribed to the Linda Perry School of Constipated Singing

Stakka Bo was absolutely everywhere - I found it really irritating and I only listened to commercial radio and it was always on
Kiss 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.

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.

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!

I put 'Scream' on the first mixtape for my now husband back in the day. I didn't even know she had other singles!

Goodnight Moon was in a Tarantino film iirc? It was on my ipod in the 2000s.

https://i.imgur.com/VmcaSla.jpg

brought back so many memories, great post

xpost Looks like it was Kill Bill for Goodnight Moon. Just looking the song up, I'm shocked to see it only got to number 63. In my mind that was a top 10 single.

Nut ended up releasing an album that did nothing. Her three singles were all solid.

Can't see what that video is :(

Yeke Yeke by Mory Kante popped up on my playlist the other day, that was nostalgic af if you went to terrible clubs in the mid 90s

Pretty sure I only knew Goodnight Moon because Mark & Lard played it on the Radio 1 breakfast show for like a week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z193UHZnhB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rW8dg7drXA

This and the last one were on all the time iirc, I don't particularly like them but they are very nostalgic

Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby

Another rain-themed one - Wendy Moten - Come In Out Of The Rain

Tina Arena - Chains
Lutricia McNeal - Ain't That Just The Way

I feel like Gin Blossoms were sort of pretty popular in the 90's but I haven't heard them anywhere in the past 20 years.

At least "follow you down" and "till I hear it from you" were successful singles iirc.

Inbreds - Any Sense of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQNaA8LEAc

Trashcan Sinatras - Hayfever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYXRDAsL7o

the trash can sinatras album that comes from is amazing

<i>I feel like Gin Blossoms were sort of pretty popular in the 90's but I haven't heard them anywhere in the past 20 years.</i>

You're just not in the right place. Still huge in drug and department stores.

I remember that Inbreds song… didn’t they have some unique instrumentation setup? Just bass & drums