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

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

Yeah, just two guys.

I'm definitely hearing proper electric guitar on some of the other songs on the album, but bass & drums seems to be the core of what they do.

Rockell - In a Dream

^^^ there was some video meme (tiktok or perhaps even vine?) at some pt in the past several years w/ rockell "in a dream" as the music. warms my heart slightly

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.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, May 17, 2021 8:15 PM (three hours ago)

at least around where i live (and presumably elsewhere in the states) i would say "hey jealousy" may be their most enduring hit, even tho it was a lesser chart presence at the time of release

if we're bringing up rockell we should definitely bring up this other great freestyle single from around that time that didn't quite cross all the way over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVipDwHE8Ho
(jocelyn enriquez "do you miss me")

Not much absolute trash Eurodance ITT so here is Anticapella - Move Your Body

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXrk35khv_0

I was going to post Capella! U Got 2 Let the Music was part of a nutritious diet of Urban Cookie Collective, Culture Beat etc.

I'm not a big fan of that Jon Secada tune, but it does give me very specific "coming home from karate class at 8pm on a Friday night c1992" vibes

Lucas With The Lid Off was probably a bit more prominent in the US and Aus than the UK, but I still get it stuck in my head fairly regularly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY5zaDZq0sc

Makes up an important part of the "Sunny D 98" canon: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xGgyNUisgkVLUj6C0vZqI?si=deb25eaf8511455c

This was huge at the time. A super-catchy posthumous Eurodance remix of a 1985 Freddie Mercury solo song, 'Living On My Own'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdd8QxifbY

Amanda Marshall - 'Birmingham'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIzMcCNAmp4

Boy Krazy - 'That's What Love Can Do'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlRnnd9xeMI

Captain Hollywood Project - 'More and More'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-rS174AUT0

Darden Smith - 'Loving Arms'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHj7Y-feyK8

Exposé - 'In Walked Love'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00OMUFSbjb0

For Squirrels - 'Mighty K.C.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBbl3RpgNN4

Go West - 'Faithful'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0oAyDMHOjg

The Heights - 'How Do You Talk to an Angel'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csATriX8Ed0

Imperial Drag - 'Boy or a Girl'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kuk9hnp234

Jeremy Jordan - 'The Right Kind of Love'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV05oji5doc

K7 - 'Come Baby Come'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8CUfVtrAT8

Little Texas - 'What Might Have Been'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEE3ycDH9_8

Martin Page - 'In the House of Stone and Light'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEE3ycDH9_8

Nixons - 'Sister'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wEok7dFgBs

Oleta Adams - 'Get Here'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS-INaPNJw