Damn you VH-1. I cannot, CANNOT resist the lure of those top 100 lists WITH BONUS COMEDIC COMMENTARY!
I’m ashamed to admit that I watched an unspeakable (4, shhh) hours of the Maxim 100 list of best songs from the 90′s. I somehow missed the first hour, but luckily caught up with some of my old favorites.
Jamiroquai! I’d forgotton all about Virtual Insanity!
Dee-lite! Groove is in the Heart!
Bel Biv Devoe! Poison!
Fiona Apple! Criminal!
Red Hot Chili Peppers! Under the Bridge! (Y and her kids do a fantastic rendition here!)
Gerardo! Rico Suave! Okay, not that one so much.
Oooh, and my all time favorite song of the 90′s (well at least ONE of them), One Week! Barenaked Ladies! As a little fun Jennifer trivia that I suspect you did not know, I can sing along to that song. Sure I don’t know ALL the words, but I know A LOT of them. Put that little gem of knowledge in your pocket and save it for later!
~Watch the X-files with no lights on, blah, blah, blah, blah, I hope the smoking man’s in this one. Like Harrison Ford I’m getting frantic, next thing I’m tantric, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah guaranteed to satisfy~
Those 90′s songs reminded me of a time LONG, LONG, LONG ago. Weighing barely over 100 pounds [insert EXAGGERATED eye roll HERE]. My blue 1987 Chevy Nova with bad paint that smelled like a dirty ashtray inside. My introduction to email and that new-fandangled thing called the Internet. The decade of my belly-button ring that never actually stopped oozing (TMI?) and caused me to buy shirts that showed off my belly [more eye rolling!]. The five and half years I spent working as a hostess at Ruby Tuesday. Drinking Natural Light and thinking it was pretty good. **wipes away a tear**
What was your favorite song of the 90′s and what does it remind you of? You can go HERE to check out Vh-1′s list.
Don’t be ashamed, Jennifer! Embrace your inner geekness. Like Harrison Ford I’m feeling frantic, like Sting I’m tantric. Oh, you have done it now. I’m going to be singing this for a week now. ONE WEEK. Har, har. (and I love that spell check doesn’t recognize “tantric”)
Let’s see. Jewel “Who Will Save Your Soul”. I was in the Music Production program at a music college and had to do this song as a sound-a-like. I didn’t like how the vocals were going so I trashed them and sang myself. Oh, I still cringe at the thought of my entire class listening to this and knowing it was me singing. Horrible.
I must say though, Duncan Sheik “Barely Breathing”. Yum. Love that song. This is a family site so I won’t share but I do love that song.
Mama DB’s last blog post..Cabin fever.
OMG…flashbacks!
36. C+C Music Factory “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”
My friend Crystal, her cousin, and I driving down to Santa Barbara, 1991 to send off a group of our friends to college. Yikes, we drank Cuervo and lime, did tequila poppers in the hotel room. Good times.
Thanks for the memories!
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Isn’t it “like Snickers guaranteed to satisfy” ? That’s what I always thought.
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Ah, you’re bringing back memories, even for a late 80′s baby! My friend and I made it our summer project one year to listen to “One Week” over and over again, and to learn the lyrics. I still can sing them, at the drop of a hat
My favorite verse:
Hold it now and watch the hoodwink, as I make you stop, think, you’ll think you’re looking at Aquaman
I summon fish to the dish, although I like the Chalet Swiss
I like the sushi ’cause it’s never touched a frying pan
Hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes
Big like LeAnn Rimes
Because I’m all about value
Bert Kaempfert’s got the mad hits, you try to match wits, you try to hold me but I bust through, gonna make a break and take a fake, I’d like a stinkin achin shake I like vanilla, it’s the finest of the flavors, gotta see the show, cause then you’ll know the vertigo is gonna grow cause it’s so dangerous
you’ll have to sign a waiver…
Good times. I just came across Stunt the other day while I was cleaning and popped it in. Funny you should title your latest blog after a BNL song
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Oh, I love those shows too. If someone says, “Hey, want to watch one?” I’m like “meh,” but if I’m channel flipping and one is on, I will watch it until the station shuts off.
Swistle’s last blog post..There’s a Brownie Recipe at the End
Narrowing down the music is kind of tough. I noticed Edwin McKain’s “I’ll Be wasn’t on there. The 90′s were not my best decade. I did like Hootie back then.
I looked at your pictures. You were a hottie! And you still aren’t too bad!
~Jef
Edge’s last blog post..I’ve been a sexist lately … pictures of college girls and all …
Oh that is a great song. Now I’m humming it!
wright’s last blog post..Haiku Friday – Lounging
this is why I’m glad I don’t have cable…wait, I’m bitter as all get out that I don’t have cable.
ellinghouse’s last blog post..tiny is as tiny does
LMAO! It took well over a year for my navel ring to heal. I love those countdowns though the people are so funny.
Christy’s last blog post..I love my house
I always sing “we’re dans la maison” for that X-Files line. Scully and Mulder are in da HOUSE! In French, apparently. And Snickers ARE guaranteed to satisfy.
My faves were Counting Crowes and Sarah McLachlan from that list. How very vanilla.
all things BD’s last blog post..Why, I Never! Except That One Time…
I LOVE all of them. Reminds me of university, late nights, late mornings, ahhhh…..good times.
Teri’s last blog post..Knitting on the Go
Coming up with my favorite song kind of makes my brain hurt, but DUDE, that list! That list is all sorts of AWESOME.
whoorl’s last blog post..Nightline Segment
And I’m here to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It’s not fair to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know
I spent the 90′s angry and married…..twice. I seem to remember singing, no…yelling this song in my car frequently!! Oh and that BITCH song was a favorite too.
Connie’s last blog post..Anger Management!
I can’t stop singing Barenaked Ladies now!
Somehow I missed that show yesterday, but the beauty of VH1 is that they tend to replay things over and OVER again, so I will totally keep my eyes open for that to be on again!
I couldn’t pick a favorite from that list, because every time I looked at the next song I thought “no THAT is my favorite!”.
Clearly decision making is NOT my forte…
Maggie’s last blog post..Best Shot Monday – There’s A Yellow Rose…
I’m slightly embarrassed to say that VH1 and MTV are HUGE here in Israel and we watch those cheesy countdowns all the time (sadly with our cable we get 15 channels in English and the rest in Hebrew or Russian)…
OK, huge Barenaked Ladies Fan… If I had 1,000,000 is one of my favorite songs… great college memories. Can’t believe that I’ll admit that I liked that Montell Jordan song – “This is How We Do It”, or MC Hammer, “Can’t Touch This”… I love a song with some beat to it.
Jill’s last blog post..Anyone Want To Switch Places?
Okay, I have to kill you now for getting Groove is in the Heart in my head.
andi’s last blog post..Ah, retirement
That Bare Naked Ladies song is from the 90′s? Good gack! It’s still one of my favorites.
So many 90′s songs on the the Ipod and what I listen to when I’m hoofing.
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Montel Jordan! I loved that song…it reminds me of many a drunken night at the Pi Kappa Alpha house.
Oh the ’90′s… Back when I was young(er!), single and had money to spend on things like cd’s and movies… I loved the music from then – Nirvana, Barenaked Ladies, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, and so many others from that list that I don’t have the time or space to name here.
Deb – Mom of 3 Girls’s last blog post..Overheard…
From that list? I can’t decide between:
“Baby One More Time”- Britney Spears
“Baby Got Back”-Sir Mix A Lot
“Poison”- Bel Biv Devoe
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”- Nirvana
*hangs head in shame*
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“Wonderwall” by Oasis and “The Sign” by Ace of Base.
I grew up in the 90′s, and those songs made a big impression on my childhood. I’m pretty sure I could still sing both of them now…
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Good golly… I was in college in the early 90′s. I remember Groove is in the heart (ayayyyyayyyyayyyy). The Robin Hood theme =s first dance at our reception. Ahhhh, good times.
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I was just listening to “Virtual Insanity” yesterday and realizing how genius it was and how “Ok GO” had the same idea but with a bunch of treadmills.
Now I’m going to run on the treadmill to both songs and pretend that I’m in a music video. Everyone who has to watch me do this will blame YOU.
Mocha’s last blog post..Can I Share Some News?
Sooooo with you. I’m all about whatever Hal Sparks has to say
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Hmmm… I got married in 1991 – so to be honest, I can’t even REMEMBER any particularly good music cuz I was all adult and stuff.
I loved the hair bands, though – was that the 90′s?
Dawn @ Coming to a Nursery Near You’s last blog post..My Thanks
Oh man, the 100 best of the 90′s and I love the 90′s was like one really bad acid trip for me, and I remember almost all the songs. I was in highschool and college during the 90′s.
Pardon me, but I believe it’s “like Sting, I’m tantric” because of course, as we all know, Sting and his wife practice tantric sex, where they go at it like rabits for up to 24 hours.
Yes, I’m full of useless trivia. And Rico Suave! Love that one!
Sarah @ Ordinary Days’s last blog post..Every Mom Should Have One
Pardon me, but I believe it’s “like Sting, I’m tantric” because of course, as we all know, Sting and his wife practice tantric sex, where they go at it like rabbits for up to 24 hours.
Yes, I’m full of useless trivia. And Rico Suave! Love that one!
Sarah @ Ordinary Days’s last blog post..Every Mom Should Have One
omigod, i feel so OLD.
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As I read this, we’re watching a BNL concert we Tivo’d this weekend. Love them!
I wouldn’t say it was a favorite song, but remember the song Rump Shaker? Definitely reminds me of the 90s!
Shelly’s last blog post..Creepy
I loved “Chicka Cherry Cola”. I remember the first time I heard it- I was in my friend’s older brother’s car. He was hot. I wanted to remember that moment forever, and apparently, I do!
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It is SOOO hard to pick just one but I must say I was really excited to go to my first concert- C & C Music Factory opening for Gerardo. My most vivid memory of the concert was singing Push It in the parking lot on top of the car while waiting for the traffic to die down.
Okay, I thought of a favorite ARTIST- but not song. That would have to be Mistah Ladies Love Cool James.
My husband has a thing about those shows, too. Watches them all the time.
Christina’s last blog post..Fourth night’s the charm
DUDE! That’s so much a favorite song of mine that I have it as a ringtone. LOVE THAT SONG. And, I trump! I can sing it with only missing a few words.
~
My favorite song from that list: I CAN’T DECIDE!
Because…. I love the 90′s!!!!
Secret Agent Mama’s last blog post..Project 365 (276/365)
I clicked the link to the top 100 list and immediately said “pshaw YEAH!”
Madness TOP SONG of the 90s is
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Of course its #1!!
WHY is it Madness favorite song (of all time) …
Because of it’s insanity. Seriously.
Madness’s last blog post..Need and to be Needed
I love those shows (shhhhh).
It was 90s throwback weekend over the holiday. We had some great times busting out into random dances for all that great music and singing along!
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oh, jennifer, you make me laugh: first, the link to the pictures, esp the hair. my mom compiled all 12 years of my school 8x10s a few years back, and it’s still fodder for ridicule around here. my song: rem’s everybody hurts. listened to it over and over again when – oh yes, tragedy upon tragedies – my high school band director announced he was leaving us. i’m NOT kidding. doesn’t this make you want to hang out with me?
Sus’s last blog post..She’s More An Indoors Kind of Girl, Really
I am torn between “Smells like Teen Spirit”
and “Barely Breathing”. Ahhh the 90′s.
Marti’s last blog post..Bean says…
Thank ye gods I didn’t turn on VH1 in time for that or I would have accomplished NOTHING this weekend. Oh wait, I didn’t accomplish anything. So, what the hell did I do?
Groove is in the heart, baby!
Burgh Baby’s last blog post..Takin’ a Walk
Poisons! Talk Dirty to Me was the first song I went to on Guitar Hero. It’s my guilty pleasure song.
Rosie’s last blog post..The little twister that didn’t
When I was in junior high we “Vogued” everywhere. At the pool, at the mall, at dances, and in the kitchen… Oh gawd.
Now my son sings Sinead O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” whenever we eat at a restaurant. He sang it at the wedding reception we went to in Merrillville, IN this weekend. “I eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant, but nothing can take away these blues”
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“Watchin’ X-files without the lights on, we’re dans la maison, I hope the smoking man’s in this one… I’m getting frantic, like Sting I’m tantric, like Snickers guaranteed to satisfy…”
The only part I can sing (although I know what the words are supposed to be is…
gotta get a set of better clubs, you know the kind with tiny nubs, just so my irons aren’t always flyin’ off the back swing.
What?
DeuceMom’s last blog post..I have no euphemism
Oh mah goodness! Those shows are the kings of time sucks. So glad I’m not the only one out there.
Also glad I didn’t have the opportunity to turn it on, or I would have been sucked right in, too.
I was ALL about Alanis, Green Day and Joan Osborne back in the day.
Though, so many of those pop-py songs make me belt it out and start to shake my groove thing at the drop of a hat. *sniff* Oh, those were some good days.
Love me some BNL’s.
However, I work out to Groove is In The Heart. I can run a couple tenths of a mile faster to that one.
KEEP BELIEVING
Angie’s last blog post..The post where Angie takes a stand and loses half her readers (and gets a big Heck Yeah! from the other half)
Funny memories on here…nice to know I’m not the only one that loves this stuff.
Rumpshaker – I just remember the video with that girl playing the saxaphone on the beach. Duh-nah-nah-nah-naaaaaaaah.
I think the rap songs bring back the most memories. What about OPP? (senior year in high school) “The “O” is for other, “P” is for people scratchin’ temple, the last “P” well that’s not that simple”
I can remember when I was younger and my dad was all fired up about “oldies but goodies” stations when they became a big fad. Are we turning into our parents???
They talked about OPP on the VH-1 show and giggled about the last “P”! I remember my boyfriend had a kickin’ stereo system in his Ford Ranger and we totally grooved to OPP and probably annoyed everyone at every stoplight!
And yes, we are totally turning into our parents.
I personally enjoy the “I love the 80′s” series – LOL! My kids are amazed and amused by some of the stuff they learn from “the olden days”.
My fav 90′s song: Vanila Ice, Ice Ice Baby! My girlfriends and I memorized the routine to that song and thought we were the sh*t when we danced it! hahaha!
SherE1′s last blog post..So I think I can dance
oh man I’m late but “one week” is my ringtone on my phone! man i love that song LOL
Love Barenaked Ladies. I saw them in concert right after “The Old Apartment” was released.
“One Week” is an awesome song, and I can sing most of it, too. My favorite part is that they mention Sailor Moon – I used to watch Sailor Moon all the time. It was like some kind of validation, even if they were watching it because of, “the BOOM anime babes, that make me think the wrong thing.”
Christina’s last blog post..One
I could never pick a favorite song. Not then, not now. But OMG you just killed me with Bel Biv Devoe! I loved them! And Stevie B. And Boyz II Men. LOL!
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