Everyone who lived through one of music’s greatest ever decades will get a kick out of this …everyone apart from Dolores O’Riordan that is.
Different individuals will have their own preferences when it comes to the greatest decade for music, but due mostly to the age profile of JOE Towers and the prevalence of 90s kids around the office, it would have to go down as our favourite. Sure *shameless plug alert* doesn’t our own Eoghan Doherty present a radio show dedicated to music of the ‘90s on Today FM every Friday night?
Comedians Al Newstead and Anna O’Bryan are obviously in agreement as, during an appearance at Triple J’s Good Az Friday comedy show at the Melbourne Town Hall at the weekend, they managed to work their way through 60 of them in just six minutes.
Before you take a look at the list of every song below, have a look and listen at the clip above and see how many you can name without help and if you’re a Cranberries fan, try not to get too offended by the pretty un-subtle dig at Limerick’s finest around the 2:20 mark.
Nirvana – Smells Like Teens Spirit
Pearl Jam – Even Flow
Divinyls – Touch Myself
Chumbawumba – Tubthumping
Len – Steal My Sunshine
Presidents Of The USA – Peaches
Ace of Bass – I Saw The Sign
Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Donna Lewis – I Love You Always Forever
Reef – Place Your Hands
Third Eye Blind – Semi Charmed Life
Sugar Ray – Every Morning
Toni Childs – Many Rivers To Cross
Filter – Take Your Picture
Alanis Morissette – Ironic
Offspring – Self Esteem
Joan Osbourne – One of Us
MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
TLC – No Scrubs
Gabrielle – Dreams
Bare Naked Ladies – One Week
Sophie B Hawkins – Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Jebediah – Harpoon
Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
Savage Garden – Truly, Madly, Deeply
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
Texas – Say What You Want
New Radicals – You Get What You Give
Everclear – Santa Monica
Hole – Celebrity Skin
Blur – Song 2
Britney Spears – … Baby One More Time
Spice Girls – Wannabe
Vanilla Ice – Ice, Ice Baby
Cranberries – Dreams
The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
Prodigy – Breathe
Scatman John – Scatman
Real McCoy – Another Night
Snap! – Rhythm Is A Dancer
Culture Beat – Mr Vain
Black Box – Ride On Time
Rozalla – Everybody’s Free
Aqua – Barbie Girl
La Bouche – Be My Lover
Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch – Good Vibration
Dee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
Mark Morrison – Return Of The Mack
Ce Peniston – Finally
Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam
Salt N Pepa – Push It
Hanson – Mmmbop
Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name
Coolio – Gansters Paradise
Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give It Away
U2 – One Love
Kriss Kross – Jump
OMC – How Bizarre
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