The quintessential 90s pop song?

[Martin Takamine]

Lenny Kravitz - What Goes Around Comes Around

 

[Killingbeans]

Let me channel some Emperor and ask you all to "let the hate flow through you"

Yeeeesss gooood!

 

[Count Arthur]

 

[Count Arthur]

I don't know where he gets his ideas, oh, wait a minute:

 

[Puddingbuks]

 

[Killingbeans]

 

[SKBubba]

 

[Scott Lanterman]

I disagree a little bit - only in that - I think Smells Like Teen Spirit has a very, very strong case for being the definitive 90s pop song.

I can roll with Smells Like Teen Spirit as the potential gravitational center point of a generation. Check the fantastic Rick Beato and his "What Makes This Song Great" series. Amazing review of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

 

[Scott Lanterman]

But what about Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers for 90's pop hit? Smells Like Teen Spirit has a melancholy despair that has no escape, it just keeps cutting all connections with everyone as Kurt calls himself contagious and tells us to never mind. I guess I did not feel that depressed in the 90's and I listened to other stuff more.

 

[August West]

Then this thread will help!

In seriousness, I got very re-interested in "modern" music (mostly of the kind that would eventually becalled AOR or Americana) ca. 1994. I also got re-interested in hifi in a big way in the same general timeframe, catalyzed by the acquisition of a pair of 1977 Klipsch Cornwalls a McIntosh C-28 preamp and MC-2100 poweramp. Oh, and a Sansui TU-717 tuner. Went to a lot of effort to housebreak the Cornwalls (mostly for naught). Still have the Macs because, gritty-sounding as they are, they say "McIntosh" on the front, so they have some value. I can sell them before I have to offer up a kidney if the goin' gets tough.
The TU-717 is actually a decent-enough tuner (and an attractive one, to boot).

What makes you think I would want to? I've had 30 years to listen to anything modern and I haven't yet. I got too many GD and JG shows I want to listen to first.

 

[Puddingbuks]

 

[Multicore]

In a cynical "threadnapping" attempt, it's like the 80s, but 10 more!

 

[Martin]

 

[Martin]

 

[Martin]

 

[Robin L]

Quintessential Beck:

 

[Martin]

 

[Scott Lanterman]

Ultimate woke song? White kids got angry post the LAPD beat down of Rodney king in '92. LA contains multitudes and Tupac had his hits and I remember listening to Ice T.

TuPac Dear Mama

Pre 90's

 

[Rednaxela]

I've never heard a 90's pop song, not even one. Seriously.

Do it here do it now. You know you want it.

 

[Rednaxela]