'90s Best Songs/Song Writers
Going reverse chronological so it shows which years were the strongest. Multiple songs allowed per album/artist. No instrumentals as regarding them as more 'tracks' than songs and there was too much to pick from anyway. No extreme metal, no hip hop, not really any electronic - standard songs, you get the idea. |
| 1 |  | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
I See a Darkness
'I See a Darkness'
1999 (Song of the Year) |
| 2 |  | Smog
Knock Knock
'River Guard'
1999 |
| 3 |  | The Flaming Lips
The Soft Bulletin
'Feeling Yourself Disintegrate'
1999 |
| 4 |  | Sunhouse
Crazy on the Weekend
'Hard Sun'
1998 (Song of the Year) |
| 5 |  | Mercury Rev
Deserter's Songs
'Holes'
1998 |
| 6 | | Mercury Rev
Deserter's Songs
'Endlessly'
1998 |
| 7 |  | Silver Jews
American Water
'Smith & Jones Forever'
1998 |
| 8 |  | Elliott Smith
XO
'Pitseleh'
1998 |
| 9 |  | Cat Power
Moon Pix
'No Sense'
1998 |
| 10 |  | Massive Attack
Mezzanine
'Inertia Creeps'
1998 |
| 11 |  | Radiohead
OK Computer
'Let Down'
1997 (Song of the Year) |
| 12 | | Radiohead
OK Computer
'Paranoid Android'
1997 |
| 13 | | Radiohead
OK Computer
'Exit Music (for a film)'
1997 |
| 14 | | Radiohead
OK Computer
'No Surprises'
1997 |
| 15 |  | Elliott Smith
Either/Or
'Between the Bars'
1997 |
| 16 | | Elliott Smith
Either/Or
'Angeles'
1997 |
| 17 |  | Tindersticks
Curtains
'Another Night In'
1997 |
| 18 |  | Smog
Red Apple Falls
'To Be of Use'
1997 |
| 19 |  | The Bathers
Kelvingrove Baby
'Kelvingrove Baby'
1997 |
| 20 |  | Michael Head & The Strands
The Magical World of the Strands
'Something Like You'
1997 |
| 21 |  | Lambchop
How I Quit Smoking
'Theone'
1996 (Song of the Year) |
| 22 |  | Radiohead
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
'Talk Show Host'
1996 |
| 23 |  | Modest Mouse
This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
'Dramamine'
1996 |
| 24 |  | Smog
Kicking a Couple Around
'I Break Horses'
1996 |
| 25 |  | The Posies
Amazing disgrace
'Precious Moments'
1996 |
| 26 |  | Silver Jews
The Natural Bridge
'Black & Brown Shoes'
1996 |
| 27 |  | Girls Against Boys
House of GVSB
'Super-Fire'
1996 |
| 28 |  | The Apartments
A Life Full of Farewells
'Not Every Clown Can Be in the Circus'
1995 (Song of the Year) |
| 29 |  | Tindersticks
Tindersticks II
'She's Gone'
1995 |
| 30 | | Tindersticks
Tindersticks II
'Travelling Light'
1995 |
| 31 |  | Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith
'Needle in the Hay'
1995 |
| 32 |  | Palace Music
Viva Last Blues
'New Partner'
1995 |
| 33 |  | Palace Music
Lost Blues and Other Songs
'Gulf Shores'
1995 |
| 34 |  | Radiohead
The Bends
'Fake Plastic Trees'
1995 |
| 35 | | Radiohead
The Bends
'Street Spirit (fade out)'
1995 |
| 36 |  | Pavement
Wowee Zowee
'Grounded'
1995 |
| 37 |  | Alice in Chains
Jar of Flies
'Nutshell'
1994 (Song of the Year) |
| 38 | | Alice in Chains
Jar of Flies
'Rotten Apple'
1994 |
| 39 |  | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
'Yes'
1994 |
| 40 |  | Portishead
Dummy
'Roads'
1994 |
| 41 |  | Jeff Buckley
Grace
'Grace'
1994 |
| 42 | | Jeff Buckley
Grace
'Hallelujah'
1994 |
| 43 |  | Stone Temple Pilots
Purple
'Big Empty'
1994 |
| 44 |  | Low
I Could Live in Hope
'Down'
1994 |
| 45 | | Low
I Could Live in Hope
'Drag'
1994 |
| 46 |  | Pearl Jam
Vitalogy
'Corduroy'
1994 |
| 47 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
'March of the Pigs'
1994 |
| 48 | | Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
'Ruiner'
1994 |
| 49 |  | Lambchop
I Hope You're Sitting Down
'Soaky in the Pooper'
1994 |
| 50 |  | Soundgarden
Superunknown
'Head Down'
1994 |
| 51 |  | Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
'Range Life'
1994 |
| 52 | | Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
'Gold Soundz'
1994 |
| 53 |  | Nirvana
In Utero
'Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle'
1993 (Song of the Year) |
| 54 | | Nirvana
In Utero
'Heart-Shaped Box'
1993 |
| 55 |  | Grant Lee Buffalo
Fuzzy
'Fuzzy'
1993 |
| 56 |  | The Smashing Pumpkins
Earphoria
'Hummer'
1993 |
| 57 | | The Smashing Pumpkins
Earphoria
'Mayonaise'
1993 |
| 58 |  | Tindersticks
Tindersticks
'Blood'
1993 |
| 59 | | Tindersticks
Tindersticks
'Marbles'
1993 |
| 60 |  | Fugazi
In on the Kill Taker
'Smallpox Champion'
1993 |
| 61 |  | The The
Dusk
'Slow Emotion Replay'
1993 |
| 62 | | The The
Dusk
'Love is Stronger Than Death'
1993 |
| 63 |  | Red House Painters
Red House Painters
'Katy Song'
1993 |
| 64 |  | Depeche Mode
Songs of Faith and Devotion
'In Your Room'
1993 |
| 65 |  | R.E.M.
Automatic for the People
'Find the River'
1992 (Song of the Year) |
| 66 |  | Ministry
Psalm 69
'Just One Fix'
1992 |
| 67 | | Ministry
Psalm 69
'N.W.O'
1992 |
| 68 |  | Alice in Chains
Dirt
'Would?'
1992 |
| 69 |  | Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine
'Killing in the Name'
1992 |
| 70 |  | Manic Street Preachers
Generation Terrorists
'Motorcycle Emptiness'
1992 |
| 71 |  | Faith No More
Angel Dust
'Everything's Ruined'
1992 |
| 72 |  | Neil Young
Harvest Moon
'Harvest Moon'
1992 |
| 73 |  | New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Body Exit Mind
'Stockholm'
1992 |
| 74 |  | Pavement
Slanted and Enchanted
'In the Mouth a Desert'
1992 |
| 75 | | Pavement
Slanted and Enchanted
'Here'
1992 |
| 76 |  | Slint
Spiderland
'Good Morning, Captain'
1991 (Song off the Year) |
| 77 | | Slint
Spiderland
'Don, Aman'
1991 |
| 78 |  | Pearl Jam
Ten
'Black'
1991 |
| 79 |  | Pixies
Trompe Le Monde
'Planet of Sound'
1991 |
| 80 |  | Nirvana
Nevermind
'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
1991 |
| 81 | | Nirvana
Nevermind
'Breed'
1991 |
| 82 | | Nirvana
Nevermind
'Lounge Act'
1991 |
| 83 |  | Talk Talk
Laughing Stock
'Ascension Day'
1991 |
| 84 | | Talk Talk
Laughing Stock
'After the Flood'
1991 |
| 85 | | Talk Talk
Laughing Stock
'New Grass'
1991 |
| 86 |  | My Bloody Valentine
Loveless
'Sometimes'
1991 |
| 87 |  | Massive Attack
Blue Lines
'Unfinished Sympathy'
1991 |
| 88 |  | Mercury Rev
Yerself Is Steam
'Frittering'
1991 |
| 89 | | Mercury Rev
Yerself Is Steam
'Chasing a Bee'
1991 |
| 90 |  | The Fatima Mansions
The Only Solution: Another Revolution
'Blues For Ceausescu'
1990 (Song of the Year) |
| 91 |  | Jane's Addiction
Ritual De Lo Habitual
'Three Days'
1990 |
| 92 | | Jane's Addiction
Ritual De Lo Habitual
'Then She Did'
1990 |
| 93 |  | Doc Corbin Dart
Patricia
'Fear of Abandonment'
1990 |
| 94 |  | Ride
Nowhere
'Vapour Trail'
1990 |
| 95 |  | Fugazi
Repeater
'Repeater'
1990 |
| 96 | | Fugazi
Repeater
'Blueprint'
1990 |
| 97 |  | Peter Jefferies
The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World
'On an Unknown Beach'
1990 |
| 98 |  | Prefab Sprout
Jordan: The Comeback
'Wild Horses'
1990 |
| 99 |  | The Bathers
Sweet Deceit
'Get Out of Life'
1990 |
| 100 | | The Bathers
Sweet Deceit
'Desire Regained'
1990 |
| 101 |  | Silverchair
Frogstomp
Songwriters of the 90s (tallied from above):
1st / Radiohead (7)
= 2nd / Pavement, Tindersticks, Nirvana (5)
= 5th / Mercury Rev, Elliott Smith (4)
= 7th / Alice in Chains, The Bathers, Bill Callahan, Will Oldham, Talk Talk, Fugazi (3) |
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