), I did some thinking and came to a (admittedly rather lame) epiphany: For years, I'd always sort of forced myself to refer to "The 90s" as a separate, by-gone decade. They always seemed too recent and immediately relevant to talk about in the same sense as "The 60s" or "The 80s". Yet upon thinking on it, I realized that that's no longer the case; it's been nine years since 199- prefixed the current year, the culture and politics have changed so they are no longer recognizable, and in fact we are only a couple years away from starting the '10s. The 90s are long gone.This sparked some curiosity on my part - if the 90s can be considered culturally discrete from contemporary trends, how does it differ? What do we look back on the 90s and see? One of the most immediately identifiable and iconic cultural symbols of any decade has always been the music, so let's look at that. What were the hits and the true 'classics' of the 90s, musically? I'm not talking about the hordes of crap that were manufactured and mass produced, or obscure underground music that happens to be good, but stuff that at least had some mainstream appeal and we can listen to and say, "Oh, that's the 90s."
So, let's list some. Any genre, as long as it's reasonably mainstream (i.e., no instrumental blackened symphonic death metal, please). Let's try to keep musical tastes and preferences out of the equation, especially as most of us (hopefully) remember the 90s pretty clearly. Just a compiled list of 90s Tunes. Here's a few to start:
Haddaway - What is Love? (1993 - Euro Dance)
Scatman John - Scatman (1994 - Euro Dance)
Rob Zombie - Dragula (1998 - Heavy Metal)
Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue (1999 - Euro Dance)
