Those 90s hits

Nice song.  I never heard it actually.  On the East Coast, all I ever really heard from them was "Nearly Lost You."  

Here's another one of my favorites from the 90's:

Constantine wrote:Nice song.  I never heard it actually.  On the East Coast, all I ever really heard from them was "Nearly Lost You."  

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Yeah, "Nearly Lost You" was pretty much their only hit outside of Seattle.  Having it on that "Singles" movie soundtrack gave them a lot of exposure that they just weren't able to capitalize on.

Oh man I had totally forgotten about Sponge, great song.

Listening to all this 90's stuff has reminded me of some other stuff I used to hear on the radio (some of it too often)

Here's some little known harder-edged alt rock:

While all this was happening bands like Blind Guardian, Helloween, Rage and Running Wild were putting out some great stuff. I like some of this, Goo Goo Dolls and Collective Stuff are good but there was a lot of downtuned, angst filled crap.

There were actually some really incredible metal albums released in the 90's that flew under the radar by the likes of Conception, Vanden Plas, Mind Odyssey, Centaur, Holy Solider, King's X, Wicked Maraya, etc.   But while the 90's had a lot of crap, there were also a lot of really good songs if you can take them for what they are (i.e. not metal, alt-metal, grunge, pop, etc.).

I agree.

I liked some of the early Goo Goo Dolls stuff like Superstar Car Wash and A Boy Named Good, but unfortunately "Name" and "Iris" sent them into a fast spin toward ballad-heavy pop (and not even power ballads at that).

sentient 6 wrote:Wow, too many to mention...but ill start with....

Love both those songs, though Closing Time has a memory associated with the ex so i dont play that song, but Hey Jealousy  Love that song!!!!!

Id also throw in Soul Asylum

One of my favorite songs ever is Gin Blossoms "Found Out About You."  
Love those vocal harmonies.  "Hey Jealousy" and "Follow You Down" are also very good songs.

Here's another really cool song from a lesser known band called Gruntruck (Seattle).   
The song actually starts at the 1:12 mark.  I did not want to post a video with just the album cover (if you look at it you'll see what I mean).   Otherwise, great song:

Cool, I didn't know that anyone outside of the Seattle area even knew who Gruntruck was.  Strangely enough they just released an old-new album back in 2017 (it was actually an older album that was never released in the 90's).

I think radio and the charts in Germany were a little different from the US radio/charts - many of the above mentioned songs I do not know.

I've never been a huge radio listener though - I'd rather stick with my CDs. Still there were several songs on the charts and in the radio in the 90s that I liked. And I even bought a few CDs.
Some of the songs still bring up nostalgic feelings and memories (e.g. school, military service, apprenticeship).
















Although rap normally wasn't my cup of tea, there were some rap or hip hop songs that I pretty much liked:





and in the early 90s: MC Hammer - Can't touch this


Then there are several 90s rock songs like...

Green Day - Basket Case
The Offspring - Self Esteem
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
Pearl Jam - Alive
Nickelback - How you remind me

and:




In the military service and especially in the apprenticeship I was "forced" to listen to radio a lot more. So there are songs that remind me of that time, by bands that I wouldn't have listened to otherwise like...

Spice Girls - Wannabe
Britney Spears - ...Baby, one more time

Most of those songs you just posted where hits here in the U.S. as well.
I have to confess I don't remember hearing that Robert Miles, Fools Garden or Fettes Brot songs on U.S. radio at all.

Cool you listed Vangelis, I enjoy some of their stuff.

I've always liked that Robert Miles song.  Never heard Fools Garden, they sound like a poor man's Al Stewart.

I got the Power - Snap
My Sister- Juliana Hatfield Three

Those songs take me back...

I actually thought about this last year, because there's a local band jam which started in the 90s, where local musicians form cover bands with other musicians they haven't played with before (this is not as important as it used to be). But anyway, the 20th anniversary was in 2018, so they wanted only 90s bands. My 90s were all about the groove, and the most important band to fill my need for groove was Jamiroquai. So I put together a Jamiroquai project for said Band Jam. It was awesome, and the restaurant where the Band Jam was organised asked us to come back for another gig later the same year, so I was really pleased with the result!