Top 10 Decade Defining Songs: 1990s
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- The internet was at our finger-tips, PlayStations were in our living rooms, "Friends" was on TV, and these were on the radio! Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 decade defining songs of the 1990s.
This video is part of a new series called 'Decade Defining Songs' where we've picked 10 songs that were the most successful, had the most inlfuence and best represent the time period. You know, they "defined" the decade! Stay tuned for the rest of the series!
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"The internet was at our finger-tips, PlayStations were in our living rooms, "Friends" was on TV" Just like 2015 then
Your right I still watch friends and I'm 12
+Paul Pinargote what does your age have to do with anything??? My children watch friends and they're all under 5. What are you trying to prove???
+Eliza Pancakes friends is... Kinda innapropriate...
DillPickleTV Well, they're my kids not yours.
Eliza Pancakes
Let your kids watch all the Friends/Seinfeld etc - they will be very thankful in the future when they realize how many references etc they will catch.
*Puts green day on thumbnail*
No.10 Green day
GENIUS
(Jojo reference intensifies )
I know
Black Hole Sun is better (1994)
@@duncan3998, false
Hey the thumbnail actually being on the list is rare for watchmojo so ill take it
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
Oh, I know this one! What are two awful songs by two of the worst bands ever!
@@gogiggs6416 troll
Those were on the another list called top 10 90's Alternative Rock
Uhmmm yessss be my friend
@Ned D. You have good choices my friend
It's weird how nostalgia can make you enjoy a song you grew up with even when you didn't enjoy it back when it came out.
I live my life that way brother!!
Sad but true.
We can all smell the number 1 song
weld el 7ouma j ha nice!
That's the spirit
Eminem?
LOL
I thought it would be vogue
Let's be honest, we all knew ANY nirvana song would be number one. Kurt will not be forgotten.
💗
We all knew which song by Nirvana it would be.
Kurt sucked.
Kenyon Vincent ugh
Kenyon Vincent ... your mom.
“If the ‘90’s are responsible for popularising one genre, it’s grunge”
Only includes one grunge song, and throws in mentions of other grunge bands haphazardly
Because mojo is run by millennial women , who have no clue what was good 91-95
@@SidviciousWisconsin Trying to cover songs that defined the whole decade when there are multiple genres that were hugely popularized during that decade...? They should have made it a top 20, rather than a top 10. It has way more to do with them trying to select from multiple genres. What defined the 90s for everyone was different. Just because it popularized the genre doesn't mean it defined the decade for everyone. Smells Like Teen Spirit is basically THE grunge song that people who didn't listen to grunge listened to. Sort of like
Shit, I was half-expecting to see Baby Got Back on here, because lawd knows I couldn't turn around in the mid 90s without that song playing somewhere. Or the Macarena. Because those were songs you just couldn't freaking get away from. Same with Smashmouth-All Star and The Hanson Brothers-MMBop.
Yeah I was really expecting all of the bands sounded the same
You got the band right. I always felt "Teen Spirit" was the song that made people notice Nirvana but those first iconic guitar notes from "Come As You Are" was the sound of popular culture shifting away from 80s hair bands to grunge.
Grunge was a very big part of the 90's I'm very surprised that only one song was on the list
I'm surprised they picked Nirvana, and not Pearl Jam.
+Kirk “DarknightRemix” Sullivan or even Soundgarden
Na nirvana had a bigger influence and kicked the era off with nevermind
Kirk Sullivan
+matthew cole Nirvana was being outsold by the both of them XD
The most defining songs of the 90s
1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
3. TLC - Creep
4. Mariah Carey - Fantasy
5. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
6. Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
7. Blind Melon - No Rain
8. Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.
9. Beck - Loser
10. Radiohead - Creep
And for the record, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer did not define the 90s in any way, shape, or form. All they defined was 1990, which was still in the 80s.
Black Hole Sun
1990 wasn't in the 80s
Greenguy4301 Culturally, it was still the 80s. Even though the subsequent years were closer to the 90s side, the 80s didn't completely die out until about 1993 when Clinton became president.
Data hell. TLC creep?!?!
Ben Rodriguez Well Creep is tied with Waterfalls then. I don't know. I thought both of those songs equally defined the 90s. So I just had to pick one just to be fair.
My Top 10
1.Smells Like Teen Spirit
2....Baby One More Time
3. My Heart Will Go On
4.Wonderwall
5.Wannabe
6. I Will Always Love You
7.Enter Sandman
8. Basket Case
9. Enjoy The Silence
10. Creep
Honourable Mentions :
Wind Of Change
Nothing Compares 2U
Losing My Religion
Song 2
Under The Bridge
I Want It That Way
Loser
Alanis Morissette - Ironic / You Oughta Know
Black Hole Sun
Killing Me Softly
U Can't Touch This
U2 - One
November Rain
Don't Speak
One Sweet Day
Gangsta's Paradise
It's impossible to pick just 10 songs out of every decade - they should do Top 20 instead of 10
I really expected All the Small Things, Fly, and Semi-Charmed Life.
I'd hardly call anything off Enema decade-defining for the 1990s since it was released in '99 😂
@@nickdonkers6937 I would lol. It defined the entire next decade of pop punk and created a bajillion Blink wannabe bands.
Dude Ranch is still their best, though.
Same here
All the small things is on the 2000s list
All the small things technically came out in 2000 even though the album was 1999
Punk revival was HUGE in the 90s. Should've had a lot more than basketcase on this list.
No. Pop punk is a scourge on the world
weasel3k in your opinion maybe. I for one and millions of others love bands like blink, green day, and the offspring.
weasel3k Good thing most of the punk songs released were punk rock...
ERGTDK No. Punk in general is a scourge on the world*
Ha, I'm joking, I like all these bands. But it really wasnt as huge as you people make it seem
weasel3k Cool
Nirvana literally changed the game overnight so it's not a surprise it's #1. I was a senior in HS in 1992 when they came out and it felt like one day I am listening to hair bands all of the radio and MTV and the next day, BAM! Grunge.
So i assume you're in mid-40s now?
It was literally that!!
@@duncan3998??? Your point is?!?
Let’s be honest : hair metal like Poison is totally garbish.
Wtf? Where is Black Hole Sun? 1979? Bullet With Butterfly Wings?
I was totally expecting to see Runaway by Soul Asylum here too. So disappointed
No
On another WatchMojo list
Agree.
These are songs that defined the decade, not the best songs of the decade. It can’t just be alt-rock because that wasn’t the only thing playing (not even close actually). Also Bullet with Butterfly Wings is the worst smashing pumpkins song, Today and Tonight, Tonight are way better.
Bittersweet Symphony, Don't Speak, Semi-Charmed Life, I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing, This is How We Do It, RETURN OF THE MACK, Mr. Jones, You're Still the One (Shani was EVERYWHERE), No Rain, All My Life, Nothin But a G Thing, Jeremy or Alive (WTH?!?) ... Several of these belong. Easily.
Don Verb Street Hop All my life by who?
@@heyjuderabbit85 i think i was referring to Jodeci
well now we know your top 10! :)
@@TheAdrocky just the biggest
Jeremy definitely deserves a spot in the top ten. No questions.
Basket Case should've been WAY closer to #1
+Kate The Great (AmazinglyAwesome02) true
jajajajaja nop
+Kate The Great (AmazinglyAwesome02) WONDERWALL IN THE TOP 5.
It should have at least been in front of that stupid Mariah Carey and Boys 2 Men song... no offense to anyone who likes Mariah Carey or Boys 2 Men.
agreed. It destroyed Nirvanas Nevermind that year.
I saw green day & clicked on the video
That's what I did 😂
SAMe
me too
Me too 😂
+punkyrussett x ikr
Yeeess
10# basket case- green day
4# enter sandman- metallica
1# smells like teen spirit- nirvana
Did you know Enter Sandman was originally going to be about cot death, but pressure from their label and producer made them change to the now iconic lyrical content.
Tbh the 90's had loads of great and iconic rock songs Smells Like Teen Spirits, Basket Case, Enter Sandman, Creep, Black Hole Sun, All the Small Things, Say it Ain't So, Wonder Wall, Californication, Losing My Religion, Everlong, Song 2, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Beautiful People, Killing in the Name and Bittersweet Symphony to name a lot, and thats just one for each band.
love bitter sweet symphony.
You are correct! There are SO MANY to list!! One of the greatest decades ever! 60’s May have been just as awesome musically. Seventies and eighties weren’t bad either, and all of which made the 90’s into what it was, but how unfortunate and sad have the 2000’s, 2010’s and 2020’s been musically. 2000’s were oookaayyy feeding off the nineties, but nothing to write home about either.
There is definitely a lack of passion, musicianship and perhaps even creativity in this day and age from all I can tell.
NIN-Closer, Beastie Boys-Sabotage, Prodigy-Breathe, Aphex Twin-Windowlicker, RHCP-Under the Bridge, Offspring-Pretty Fly, Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah, Radiohead-Paranoid Android and the most confusing miss RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE-KILLING IN THE NAME
You have fucking amazing taste in music. They should just get you and me to make the music lists hahaha
It is in fact only a top ten. You ready to sit through 10 more minutes of honorable mentions? lol
shhhh watchmojo implied they honorably mentioned half of those w/ Nirvana...that's the story of anything good relatively close to Nirvana.
Patrick Szymanski yeah because I'd include all the songs Watchmojo had in the list...
You Oughta Know or Ironic by Alanis Morissette?? Jagged Little Pill DEFINED mid-90s at least.
you oughta know should have at least been an honorable mention
I agree, easily One if the best albums of the decade, and the best female lead album.
@@alistairwright2935 Exactly-INSTEAD OF Ice Ice Baby
Yeah, there's absolutely no way this list can be taken seriously without that.
I'm a hardcore Nirvana fan, I knew Smells Like Teen Spirit would be 1st. Rest in Peace Kurt Cobain
I think we all knew this legendary song will be 1st place 😉
everyone knows his wife killed him but if they arrested her they would be called sexist. rip Kurt cobain
They didn’t include I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston which spent 14 weeks at #1
@@TheFirstGoomba not overrated, just overplayed
Me too!
im soooo glad that both Green Day and Nirvana are in this list
Of course Nirvana would be there
Nirvana alone shaped the 90s of course they would be on the list
Green day should've been replaced with Soundgarden
🔥CHUMBAWAMBA TUBTHUMPING🔥
YEAH MAN
YAS
YAINT NEVER GUNNA BRING ME DOWN
I'm still listening to it!
What ever happened to that band? They got knocked down and couldn't get back up again!
Fun fact according to MTV, smells like teen spirit is the most iconic song of all time, creep is number 23
Smells like teen spirit is the top 4 best song of all time
Ok Computer by Radiohead was rank by critics as the best album of all time
According to critics, these are the top albums of the 90s:
1. Ok Computer - oasis
2. Nevermind - oasis
3. (What's the story) Morning Glory - oasis
Mariah just relies on her sold copies not on critics
Coolio - Gangsters paradise.....but you include Beck? Red hot chili peppers, ace of base, biggie, 2pac....
Loser belongs on the list.
Loser is a blessing for me. Story of my life
I came here because of Green Day's album on the thumbnail.
There's no way they are overrated, a lot of people just like their music.
***** In the scheme of things, the word "overrated" is overrated. Bands gain their popularity because of their talent. Even the terrible pop singers of today have their pre-teen followings because they have at least some talent. However, Green Day rightfully deserves all of their fans.
***** I can agree with you there. Nowadays, Green Day is better live than the actual albums they put out.
same
***** I don't think they are overrated i think they are awesome.
No Soundgarden. No Pearl Jam. No Alice In Chains. No excuse.
+Bob Schneider I agree with Soundgarden. "Black Hole Sun" was a big song back when it first debuted and still is today.
haha, no excuse. AIC pun
+Raymond Smart None that I know! 😉
Or Megadeth. :/
Symphony of Destruction definitely should've been included.
Soundgarden ang RATM were missing
"Right Now," by one of the biggest 80's hair metal bands, defined the 90's...
...really?
Ya talkin van halen or metallica
Van halen, metallica belongs in the list
@@urm.yaikoo No way on both. Rock was dying in the early 90's.
What!?!?!? I would say dying!!! A lot of metal bands had great albums in the early 90s!!!
Its 2019 and this is the first time I've even heard the Van Halen song. I presume it was big in the US but it certainly wasn't in the UK.
Same, Netherlands over here. Plus kind of hard to call it era defining as it was more the last breath of hair metal.
I live in the US and I never heard that song before till now. I have heard quite a few of Van Halen's songs, but not that one.
Van Halen? 90s was definitely not anything Van Halen 😳
@@erikak8665 Well, apparently that song and he also had that song called Humans Being that was in Twister.
@@sportsygirl8 They've had a bunch of well-known songs, and neither of those are it.
I guess this depends on what side of the Atlantic you were on at the time...
Indeed. I hadn't heard of quite a few of these, while I remember other groups and sounds being on the radio continuously. A quick check on Wikipedia of #1 songs per month in Europe in the 90's came up with a lot more songs I remember hearing. For example, 1991: Brian Adams, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You". #1 from July to November. I'd heard of Nirvana, but never heard them on the radio.
In Britain wasn't Wonderwall like freaking huge?? Wasn't Oasis in general?
Nirvana have never been on the commercial radios in Europe. They were only popular on MTV
+BEYOND AWESOME FILMS They were in the UK. A little known fact is that the rest of Europe is full of Europeans and they're more interested in what's known as 'Alpine grunge'. It's all that they've ever really listened to.
Unless you were IN the Atlantic, under a rock and had haddock ears...you knew most, if not ALL of these.
Under the Bridge? Alive? Killing in the Name? Juicy? Everlong? Not even honorable mentions for any of these?
Sir Psycho Sexy I like your channel picture
@Christopher Bingham Juicy is a hip hop song. LMAO. And whats wrong with Mariah. She was the biggest artist of the 1990s next to Nirvana.
@Christopher Bingham Just a popstar? No she was larger than life. "Just a popstar" is a term which fits well for someone like Selena Gomez. And I get you are being bioused with Rock. Nothing wrong with liking pop. Or any genre. Unless it's trash or modern trendy garbage. Not just like Trap in 2019. But like ringtone rap in 2006. Or Nu-metal in 2000. Or Bro-country like the 10s. Etc. And pop is great. Michael Jackson, George Michael, Whitney Houston, Bruno Mars yeah.
cause 90s has too many great music to mention lol
Thank you.
I remember Nirvana because I was on my senior year in High School and on my way to serve in the ARMY. My staff Sargent loves Nirvana and the offspring and introduced me to this great music.
So many great songs left out but that just shows that the 90’s has the best music ever
Lucky enough live through that decade
Weezer? Red Hot Chili Peppers? The Smashing Pumpkins?
Exactly
Weezer is shit
True
Zero.
wrong @adrian
It's not that Nirvana are overrated, is you who think and believe only because you know ''Smells Like Teen Spirit''.
You do not know a fucking Nirvana.
Listen to the disc ''Bleach'' which is one of the best in rock history.
Respect for Nirvana. The most influential rock band of the 90s.
R.I.P Kurt Cobain, one of the greatest rock legends, my hero.
Calm down, damn. And they are overrated. I love them, but even I can agree to that
Nevermind is better and so is in utero
DN Lex Nirvana are definitely overrated. They're great, but aside from good song writing skills, the music isn't that good. Aside from Dave Grohl, and even there, his drumming was fairly basic and boring, Nirvana weren't great musicians. Kurt had a vision and could put together songs that were catchy and sometimes had some kind of deep meaning, but Nirvana was garbage live and Kurt was a total loser and a drug addict. I'm a pretty big Nirvana fan. I own Bleach, Nevermind, In Utero, and even have the single CD for Lithium, but I have no respect for Nirvana as people or skilled musicians. They could write a sweet song though. It's like AC/DC. They're probably the best known band on the planet and they can write catchy rock and roll songs, but none of them were fantastic musicians. They are one of my favourite bands but they're also one of the most overrated bands of history. No need to be pissy about it. Influence doesn't make for quality.
+iHatePop *cough Agus Young *cough
iHatePop well said man
I think "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam was more iconic than some of these picks. Maybe it's just me.
Not just you
Agreed
Agree
There had to be a token grunge song, and Teen Spirit is it.
Yeah
Why are Smashing Pumpkins so underappreciated?
So true
You can't find diamonds everywhere .
Because people are stupid.
Because not a lot of people like them anymore
Because Billy Corgan is fucking unlikable
it's weird, I was born into the 90's (I'm 17) but all the other decade defining song videos gave me more nostalgia. Probably because my mom was the one who usually chose the music.
*virtual high five*
Yeah, im 16 and all 80s but whats weird is that all my mom liked to listen to was 70s
if you'r a 90's kid then your nostalgic music is one decade earlier it's always been like that
fairly sure the honourable mentions list was more "decade defining" than the actual list :(
Agreed.
Seconded.
word
cud not agree more
Same with the 80's video
The 90s are chalk filled with number 1 hits from every genre.
17. I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy
16. Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
15. November Rain - Guns N Roses
14. Big Poppa - Biggie Smalls
13. Regulate - Warren G
12. Song 2 - Blur
11. Basket Case - Green Day
10. Creep - Radio Head
9. Waterfalls - TLC
8. What Is Love - Haddaway
7. Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
6. California Love - 2Pac and Dr. Dre
5. Green Day - Basket Case
4. Zombie - The Cranberries
3. Californication - RHCP
2. Winds Of Changes - The Scorpions
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
*Many great 90's song that I could mention but none of them are in any order.*
Really? Basket Case only #10? And where is Gangsta's Paradise?! That song IS the 90s. Only good thing about this list is that #1 is Nirvana
LRZN One Sweet Day was bigger than all those songs just like My Heart Will Go On and I Will Always Love You so...
Gangstas Paradise could have replaced Van Halen. I Will Always Love You definitely should have.
Also no smashing pumpkins or cypress hill.
LRZN and no Thunderstruck
LRZN I agree
So what happened to rock after this decade? We really need it back, kids these days even get scared when they hear rather soft electric guitars - how shall they discover harder stuff then. I don't hate hip hop and electronic music, but someone's gotta bring back rock in any form.
+bad hair .day Personally, I think it was the failure of college radio to play anything but shitty post-grunge after the death of Kurt Cobain. If the White Stripes and the Strokes got more airtime I think that rock would be a lot more popular today.
Well but it is a global phenomenon
"kids these days get scared when they hear rather soft electric guitars"
Wtf kind of kids do you know?
Also, ever think maybe people just have different preferences? Rock doesn't "need" to come back, you just want it back.
bad hair .day College radio stations are the trend-setters though. That's where a lot of new artists get their start unless the record labels use payola to get their stuff on the radio a la Britney Spears, Lana Del Ray, and N*SYNC. (Yes, those are all manufactured artists. That is the point.) Not to mention that we haven't had a new, big, bombastic, over-the-top rock group for 20 odd years.
+Jeff Dees lmao wut
Zombie-cranberries
Take that
U2
these were among the big big bands of the 90s
I’d say U2 was more big in the 80s
@@batmangummies5393 Achtung Baby was one kind of reinvention and leading tour was amazing.
The Bad Wolves version of Zombie is better
Hey, that drummer looks like the guy from Foo Fighters...
that's because it is, Dave Grohl was in Nirvana when Kurt Cobain died.
Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl was indeed Nirvana's drummer😀
You got it!
Love that two people replied like you were seriously surprised. I feel like it’s not common knowledge to some people 😂😂
😂
R/wooosh
Nah Britney Spears influenced the 2000's more than she influenced the 90's she didn't make it till the end of the 90's
But BOMT is from the 90s not from the 2000s...
Not true
britney spears influenced a nightmare
An intelligent comment on youtube? THE FUCK ALTERNATE DIMENSION DID I WAKE UP IN?!??
This is songs not artists
Radiohead - Creep? Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun? Sinead'O'Connor Nothing Compares to you? Korn? Rage against the Machine?
Faith No More ?
Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve?
WM doesn’t hv a f’n clue in their senseless little brains.
They play it safe. Period.
Soundgarden were nothing but wannabe Nirvana
Callum hemmings
Errrm no
Superunknown > nevermind imo
Bad motor finger > bleach and in utero imo
@Christopher Bingham She's the one who made it popular. That song was huge in 1990.
10:52 "A further example of female dominance"
Only two women on the entire list with one of them being a collaboration...
Fr bro they trippin
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is timeless! It's one of my favorite songs in life.
You just knew Teen Spirit would be no 1
Had to be for the 90's
For sure.
Could it be anything else?
The one song Cobain hated...
bohemianwriter1 he actually hated more of his songs than just smells like teen spirit
No i didnt
number 10 should have been number 1
Hell no!
SalDOWN hell yes
john dankowski
No fucking way, that's all.
Basket Case should have been #7. Smells Like Teen Spirit is good at No.1, but Losing My Religion should have gotten the number two spot followed by Under The Bridge by RHCP. Then (idk) Creep by Radiohead at forth...yeah.... then like Alive or Jeremy by Pearl Jam rounding out the top five.
CALM THE FUCK DOWN! I'M NOT DONE!
Okay, then Alice In Chains' Would? at #6, followed by Green Day, Basket Case. At number 8 I'd have put Bulls On Parade by Rage Against The Machine, definitely.
With Bullet With Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins at the #9 spot and Where Is My Mind by Pixies at the tenth position.
Now you can bitch....
I completely agree, but only if Number 10 was Smells Like Teen Spirit and Number 1 was Green Day's because Green Day is a garbage band
As a 90s kid, I remember more songs from the honorable mentions than in the main list.
I was born 91 and omg what a time to have grown up. So much nostalgia
No wonder why your year is heavily overrated. Enter Sandman, Losing My Religion, Smells like teen spirit.
Missing
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Aerosmith - I don't want to miss a thing
Michael Jackson - Black or White
Biggie - Mo Money Mo Problems
Eminem - My Name Is
Great list man. Biggie could have had Juicy or Big Papa instead of Mo Money Mo Problems as well. All great songs. And Eminem could have either My Name is which was overall more popular, or Guilty Conscience which was an amazing song as well. The singles on The Chronic and 2001(released in 99) by Dr. Dre should have had a spot on the list too as hip-hop really blew up in the 90s to a much wider audience than it had in the 80s.
I was thinking that My Name Is should haveat least been an honorable mention! lol
Actually you forgot some boy band songs.. Nsync or backstreet as well as an MJ and EMINEM STAN
Nick C
Stan is from 2000
Nick C I'm pretty sure Stan came out in 2000.
Start voting for the hard rock & heavy metal centric lists NOW:
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Could You do a a Top 10 Decade Defining Albums?
could you do top 10 Nu metal bands!!! pls.........
Could you do a rap version of this?
man, the 90s sucked.
vote cemetery gates for the 90s metal list!
This list should’ve been top 50. The 90’s has so many iconic & memorable songs.
Unbreak my heart, I will always love you, No scrubs, Doo wop that thing, Don’t wanna miss a thing, end of the road, Ironic, Vision of love,
Philip Moore can’t leave out IRIS
I was born in the year 2000 and I must say this and the 70s were my 2 favourite decades of music. 2000s still had my favourite album and I don’t think it’s hard to guess what it is.
Sorry I'm two years late but imma guess Hybrid Theory
I only clicked this video because the thumbnail was green day
same
Me three
+DarcMurph same, glad about #1 though.
Same
same
Metallica, heaviest of metal? Come on mojo don't be ridiculous
Lol indeed. Good? Yes. Heaviest? Well, no.
Carlos Irizarry your mom is the heaviest of metal
Micheal Gosselin rekt
Lord of Potatoes No Tungsten is. Its the densest.
I agree. I love Metallica but past AJFA they suck.
I'm almost 50 years old so I have had the pleasure of a living through several stages of musical evolution. What always amazes me is the feeling I remember having when an "edgy" song hit the radio now some music makes them look like nursery rhymes by comparison. In 93 snoop dropped his first hit I literally got carded at Virgin records just to purchase the cd like it was porn. My how the world has changed. Great list but so many songs left out
At least 5 of the honorable mentions were more decade defining than a couple of your choices.
This was the last decade I really still listened to the radio and popular music, and the decade of my childhood. Right about when Hit Me baby One More Time came out, I was developing my own music taste. And listening to all this now, some of it is insanely catchy, and some of it is actually quite good (Waterfalls, for example).
so happy smells like teen spirit was number 1. I was waiting for Nirvana. surprised creep didn't make the list at all.
Really anything off of OK Computer as well would have done it too. Paranoid Android was being praised as the Bohemian Rhapsody of the 90s when it released.
+Nick Korner I agree OK Computer was definitely one the best albums of the 90s (if not all time) hands down, but I think the video was more or less just the popular songs that most people think of when they think of the 90s although that's different for everyone.
Peyton Olson By Radiohead or Stone a Temple Pilots? Because they are both very good
T Kalle radiohead
Peyton Olson I knew nirvana would be involved
How does Alanis Morisette not even get an honorable mention.
I agree. Her anger and singing about irony like that is definitely a VERY 90's style attitude from Generation X. Yes, her songs do define the 90's. Remember, the list is NOT about your favorite songs from the era per se or the 1's that sold the most. It's about the 1's that best define the 90s. Many of the songs on this list could be from literally any musical era of pop from what they represent.
Honestly an outrage
I grew up in the 90s, and she had a couple songs I liked over the years. I only listened to Jagged Little Pill in its entirety recently.
Holy shit she was pissed.
Very true.
Alanis Morrisette disqualified herself from this conversation when she decided to sing a song called “Ironic” and the only thing ironic about the song is there isn’t one bit of irony in it.
Já ganhou meu like nas duas primeiras músicas. Greeeat!
10. Basket case - Green day
9. Wonderwall - Oasis
8. Right Now - Van Hallan
7. I'll Be Missing You - Puff daddy
6. California Love - 2pac
5. Baby One More Time - Brittany Spears
4. Enter Sandman - Metallica
3. Loser - Beck
2. One Sweet Day - Meriah Carey
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit -Nirvana
Honourable Mentions:
Waterfalls
Killing me softly
My heart will go on
I want it that way
Ice Ice Baby
under the bridge? or californication?
Most definitely under the bridge
+Bieber Fever californication came out in 2000 so it wouldn't be on this list.
Yeah under the bridge should have been on the list
+SilverVVolf RHCP isnt pop
Someone has obviously never heard a rhcp song.
I KNEW SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT WOULD BE #1 AHHH IM LIVING FOR IT
Oh how I miss the 90s. XM Lithium, thank you for keeping it alive
Dookie was the shit (see what I did there..) loved Green Day
Way too many great songs from the 90s to try and make a top 10 list
all the songs by green day are the same in the 90's. same guitar rifts and same drumming style
Th3 Zm0nst3r and just as good as always
+Th3 Zm0nst3r you must be one of those people who like bands for only their talent more than the impact the songs have on you
The.Green.Day.Idiot too sweet r u watching wrestling because ur profile is bullet club
Nirvana definitely deserves number one for this
I agreeee.
+Shammo Hamid lol no
+Neon Roses considering teen spirit changed the course of rock n roll id say you are spot on brother man
+Neon Roses totally
+Cesus Jhrist Well that's where you'd be wrong. Everyone knows that song, and it defines the 90s better than anything else can. It's not even close to being my favorite Nirvana song, but that's just the way it is.
Rip: Eddie Van Halen January 26, 1955 - October 6, 2020
An outstanding list 📃, nice one
Almost everything on the honorable mentions list was more iconic for the 90ies than everything you have put on the main list. Also, everyone knew watchmojo would put Nirvana on #1.
i was kidda expecting waterfall on the list but an HM is fine too if you ask me
The dookie album on the thumbnail really makes me wants to watch it,i was expecting "basket case"by green day,and........ It was just number 10-_-
ikr but atleast it was top 10
Name Less lol
Stinger 1nRockZone should have been higher for sure
Sean Griffin tbh to me basket case shouldnt have been on the list, because Green Day really became big in the 2000s. That was their most popular time. sure they were big but Under The Bridge was more 90's defining, especially because green day's punk sound was more 00's sounding rathr than 90s. RHCP's alt rock sound was more 90s.
Matthew Moreno Maybe for you but I remember listening in the 90's . Green Day was definitely popular then. I was a teen then. So how could I forget?
I clicked because the thumbnail looks so awesome.
90s,the golden era of hip hop
i had NEVER heard that mariah song until today...
Same here. Probably their way of squeezing both Mariah and Boyz 2 Men onto the list
i know right... what about black or white by michael jackson??
It was named song of the decade by Billboard.. it was a HUGE song.. I guess you had to be there..
***** Nice profile picture
***** lol I don't know who would bash Phoenix.
oh GOD that britney spears music video was filmed in my high school......
Venice High School
I'm so sorry for you.
Can't believe "my heart will go on was an honorable mention!
WTF?
@@GemstoneDragonPrincess24 hmm... ok
It didn't come out until late 90s 🤷
overrated
The Sign was robbed
Speaking of My Heart Will Go On, if you guys want to hear alternative versions of it, check out André Rieu's version. It is a classical music version though.
Really wish oasis was still around
Also rip Kurt kobane
cobain
It's Cobain. stupid
Watchmojo sure loves Nirvana.
As +Renzo lgao said "When it comes to 90s music, Alternative rock, Grunge, or punk rock, Nirvana will always be number 1"
And full metal alchemist
Nirvana is number 1 on any list.
Goo2Plex Don't forget the first Resident Evil movie!
Ryan Beck Top 10 Most overrated bands in history.
fuck I miss the 90s what a great time
I don't miss living in the 90s, but I do miss the music!
if we could put the culture of the 90's with the tech of today I would be quite happy
+Gr3nadgr3gory it pretty much is. pop music is made for middle schoolers. no-one i know listens to modern pop.
I can’t believe I’ve never heard 8. Almost every song on this list I still listen to today. Iconic songs full of nostalgia. Missed that one. Not a fan of 7. The rest are great. 5 was impossible to miss if you lived in America in the 90s. It drove me crazy at first because it was everywhere. No escaping it. Then at some point I realized I liked it lol. There are plenty of other great 90s songs, but still, this list is good. Even the honorable mentions are great.
The last great decade of music. Just think about how these songs are not only good songs, but popular songs too. Mind blow.
Let me guess...Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is #1
Are you a wizard?
Yea, when they started this music of the decades there was no way they weren't going to do Nirvana.. Canadians love that shit apparently..
***** I'm in training at the moment but I'll most likely be one by early next year.
***** no it was obvious
Bryan Nerby lol every chance they, I swear they put Nirvana #1
I see Dookie, I click.
Hitchin A' Ride I see anything Green Day related, I click.
Same
You have been like my fwein.
Same here.
Simple as that
Right Now by Van Halen is such an inspiring song ..Definitely needs to be higher on this list tbh
The best song on this list and should be #1 on this list
@@sassysunflowergirl1037 Tbh I don't think any of my friends here in Europe even know this song. I've never heard it on the radio or TV and certainly not during parties or home listening back in the 90's. From pure music perspective it doesn't sound anything special in comparison to other 90's hits.
Nostalgia's got me feeling like a lost ghost endlessly searching for belonging, when everyone dead and gone...😓
I FReaKed OUt wHEn I HEarD GREen DaY
Why? God damn I bet you shit yourself when they were on the Simpsons movie.
+Kevin Luper incase you didn't know people like them. that doesn't mean you do. but they are allowed to like them... I saw another comment where you said "fake punks" we sent trying to be "punks" we are simply ourselves. we are allowed to like green day. if u don't like them that's fine but you don't have to comment on every comment about them. no body did anything to you.
+karley stinnett I love green day but I don't go apeshit over them and I know they're not punk.
Kevin Luper alright.. I just found it rude that you were calling out people for being "fake punks"
+karley stinnett to me it's like someone calling 1D metal.
My top ten list is
1. November rain - guns n roses
2. Thunderstruck - ac dc
3. Under the bridge - red hot chili peppers
4. When I come around - green day
5. Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton
6. Learning to fly - foo fighters
7. Smells like teen spirit - nirvana
8. Right now - Van Halen
9. Even flow - pearl jam
10. Killing in the name of - rage against machine
Great list
Wrong
solid list
+Jacob McCarthy for white suburbanites only perhaps... you dont even acknowledge the rise of hip hop to the mainstream with this half assed list
Hip-hop didn't REALLY rise to the mainstream until the naughties. The next list in the series shows that.
These songs were my childhood and ahhhh I get chills whenever I hear some of them ....
I never got the HATE that ILL BE MISSING YOU gets. People call it corny, worst song ever but I’ve loved it since day one..
Smells Like Teen Spirit better be number one
Ikr
It's WatchMojo, do you expect anything else?
Enter Sandman...
green day only number 10? in my opinion they should have been aleast 5, but I mean, thats coming from a hardcore fan
Same.
I figured they would be further up
+caitlin walters same I really disappointed.if I was doing this list green day would be at the top
Honey Draws yea i was really pissed off about that like what the hell
Honey Draws ya I wish
This is still the only time I have ever heard the Van Halen song, and it still sounds like a throwaway 80s song.
good selection.