Since NWP is going back to '98 for Chrono Crossing, and it's also the year I started visiting CD Warehouse, and my birthday is a week from now (somehow relevant I guess), here's this list of singles I remember from that year or hearing later, whether I liked them or not (based on Wikipedia's probably-not-complete list):
3 AM by Matchbox Twenty
Ava Adore Smashing Pumpkins
Baby One More Time Britney Spears
Believe Cher
Celebrity Skin Hole (later)
Changes Tupac (later)
Chocolate Salty Balls Chef
Closing Time Semisonic
Come with Me Puff Daddy and Jimmy Page (Gojira! ... I actually kinda hated both this and the Green Day song on the '98 Godzilla soundtrack)
Doo Wop by Lauryn Hill (later)
The Dope Show Marilyn Manson
Dragula Rob Zombie
Backstreet's Back Backstreet Boys (I ONLY remember the chorus/intro; literally nothing else)
Faith Limp Bizkit
Flagpole Sitta Harvey Danger
Fly Away Lenny Kravitz
Gettin Jiggy With It Will Smith
Got the Life Korn
Ghetto Superstar by People I don't Know and ODB
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Green Day
Hard Knock Life Jay Z (only heard the chorus at time, would only hear rap part later)
Intergalactic Beastie Boys
Iris Goo Goo Dolls
Jumper Third Eye Blind
Just the Two Of Us Will Smith
Miami Will Smith
My Heart Will Go On Celine Dion (heard cause of Titanic)
My Hero Foo Fighters
Never There Cake
One Week Barenaked Ladies
Push It Garbage
The Rockafella Skank Fatboy Slim
Ruff Ryders DMX (thought this was 2000s, I swear)
Save Tonight Eagle Eye Cherry
Sex and Candy Marcy Playground
Slide Goo Goo Dolls
Sweetest Thing U2
The Unforgiven II Metallica (later)
This Kiss Faith Hill
Turn the Page Metallica
The Way Fastball
Weird Hanson (I barely remember it but I know I owned a couple of their albums, so ...)
Whiskey in the Jar Metallica
Songs from Mulan and Prince of Egypt
Bold songs = top 5 contenders
(later) = didn't hear them until later (out of top 5 contention automatically)
Albums I bought this year (the first I ever did) - 3 Car Garage, Hanson; Version 2.0 Garbage; I had MmBop, but I'm not sure when I bought it ...
Oh god, not 1998! Kill me now!
Geez, man. I know the pop in the late 90s was extra bubble gum, but who hurt you?
honestly, dude? ha ha. You know what I was doing in the late nineties, early 2000's? I worked for a company called Signatures Network, which made merchandise for pop stars and rock stars like Britney spears. Britney Spears dolls and T-shirts? That was ground zero. I was so deep in the pop landscape, and I didn't realize until later how fucking insane it was. The best part was getting cool BEatles paraphernalia, like Yellow Submarine stuff. The bad parts were dealing with Yoko Ono, Sharon Osborne, and Britney's people, who couldn't deign to sign a contract for anything, but made promises out their asses.
Seriously though, other than to proliferation of boy bands, I prefer that era to the current one. But if you want to know why I hate pop, it's because I once helped it grow. :p
and I didn't mean to be harsh with my first comment, was trying to be more playful but the internet didn't convey that. :)
I forgot to add an lol at the end of my comment to convey the same. It happens.
That all makes sense though.
To my credit, the only boy band I was ever into played instruments. haha
That Chef Aid album was really funny. I still think of that song "Simultaneous" and laugh.
Had to look that up. I only remember that song from the show. lol
Oh so many songs on currently on my phone and on my iPod. I think I don't have maybe three of the songs on this list. This was Chris roaming around SDSU, living in the dorms and having full advantage of cable internet. There's a cool version of Save Tonight done by Mindi Abair the saxophonist. Hole's album wasn't bad, Rockafella Skank reminds me of the movie She's All That, I used to listen to This Kiss a lot, Ruff Ryders Anthem was the song and I think my gateway into DMX, Third Eye Blind was on a roll in the late 90s, and Hard Knock Life. I must have been the only person who didn't know they sampled Annie.
I don't think I knew what Annie was at the time, just that it was the chorus of that song. I didn't know who Jay Z was or any of the verses either. I just heard that chorus a lot. lol
I miss the 90s music, even the weak stuff was memorable.
What do you think of as the weak stuff? For me, some of the early 90s stuff in pop was pretty meh.
If I ignore the ballads (I have noting good to say about the ballads), there was a lot more diversity in terms of genre, and it all felt like novelty acts but they knew what they where.
The decade as a whole I like to call "the dark ages" but also a sort of renaissance for music,
I remember 90s pop as "harmless". Nostagia goggles I guess 