TOP 20 ONE HIT WONDERS OF THE '90s

In this episode we countdown the Top 20 One Hit Wonders of the '90s!
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[@Prossdog]

Man, what a walk down nostalgia lane! Anybody else miss guitar music on mainstream radio?

[@egj1975]

And the lack of autotune... man music today is just terrible

[@Galactis1]

god yes. music on the radio period. they don't play anything anymore.

[@montarctica]

I literally just asked my fiancée this today. What the hell happened to guitars on the radio.

[@kresnocondroobsgyn8668]

4 non blondes in top 3 for me..

[@bigslydoc]

Music today on the radio is awful. These songs are soooo much better.

[@syberspud]

What an optimistic decade the 90s was. End of the Cold War. Economic prosperity. No smart phone. No social media. It shines through in the music.

[@Marcus-id5ur]

We were in a recession for much of the 90s.

[@empirate100]

The Berlin wall fell. Biggest thing for us in Germany. Things were really looking up until about 2001.

[@empirate100]

@@Kup1208 9/11 affected all the western world...

[@burkezillar]

@@Marcus-id5ur but what an optimistic recession it was. Really shines through in the music.

[@johnspykerman6036]

@@Marcus-id5ur uhh, like 8 months in 90-91, rest of the decade was pretty good for economic growth.

[@ridethelightning7979]

0:07 Unbelievable (EMF) 0:35 Bitch (Meredith Brooks) 1:06 Tubthumping (Chumbawamba) 1:36 Stay (I Missed You) (Lisa Loeb) 2:18 In The Meantime (Spacehog) 2:59 Possum Kingdom (Toadies) 3:49 Steal My Sunshine (Len) 4:21 Groove is in the Heart (Deee-Lite) 4:47 Flagpole Sitta (Harvey Danger) 5:30 Inside Out (Eve 6) 6:11 Save Tonight (Eagle Eye Cherry) 6:46 You Get What You Give (New Radicals) 7:26 What’s Up? (4 Non Blondes) 8:06 There She Goes (The La’s) 8:41 Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice) 9:18 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Deep Blue Something) 9:56 She’s So High (Tal Bachman) 10:53 Closing Time (Semisonic) 11:34 Kiss Me (Sixpence None The Richer) 12:18 Torn (Natalie Imbruglia)

[@rafaelborrego36]

Actuality There She goes is also played by Sixpence None….

[@ridethelightning7979]

It’s not, it’s played by the La’s

[@nanday100]

​@@rafaelborrego36you're right, but I think Sixpence None the Richer just covered it.

[@championthewonderhorse9733]

Great list, but it's got to be You Get What You Give by the New Radicals which still sounds amazing to this day, with The La's joint top!

[@frostwill]

Silverchair's "Tomorrow" from the album Frogstomp is a strong contender for this list

[@Me_Grimlock_King]

Every single one of them is a gem. the 90s were something special.

[@cidlopez]

One of the things I like about Rick’s videos is he jumps right in to the topic. No talking, no buildup. In the Meantime is an excellent song. The bass line is 🔥

[@portsideguitar1981]

Yeah!

[@_Solaris]

I actually came here for this song and thought it would be mentioned. Great tune.

[@BarmyFP3]

Fair point. It's really annoying when you need to go through 5 minutes of admin/self-promotion before you get to the content.

[@audibletapehiss3764]

I was at a truckstop outside of St. Louis back in 1996, and this band had set up their instruments in the parking lot next to their bus. My friends and I walked over and asked who they were. I was the only one who'd ever heard of Spacehog! They invited me to play drums and we played a Police song ( I think it was Can't Stand Losing?). Of course, I went home and bought their record after that, which was great.

[@tuirnb]

I've heard that cocaine is a hell of a drug.

[@grahampowelljr1]

The best song missing is probably “No Rain” by Blind Melon, a really great song. As this list shows the 99s weren’t just grunge, there was a lot of diversity of stuff that fit under the label of rock music.

[@OSheaShenanigans]

It would not be on a one hit wonder list. Blind Melon had at least two hits

[@mattnieri1202]

Absolutely. That was one of the best one hit wonders of the 90's. I still have it on rotation.

[@crawfordjason]

RIP Shannon Hoon. Their cover of “Three is a magic number” is fantastic.

[@bblvrable]

@@OSheaShenanigans No Rain was the only one that made it to #1. Galaxie (arguably a better song in my opinion, but not as iconic of a music video, which used to mean something) peaked at #8 on the US Alt chart and #25 on the US Main chart.

[@aaronleverton4221]

@@OSheaShenanigans Depends upon where you are, at home Natalie Imbruglia had more than one top-ten hit and more than five top-forty hits. Blind Melon only had one hit in said country.

[@StrangeAttractor]

I never ceased to be amazed by Rick's ability to nod his head, do a little air guitar, point at the camera, nod his head a bit more, say 'amazing', tell a little anecdote about where he was in the year the song was released, and then intensely nod his head a bit more. Slick, Rick. Slick.

[@juanromero-fi2cf]

Maybe Bitter Sweet Symphony from the verve should be in the list?

[@jloutz]

That's a great song and video but I think The Verve had other songs that charted very high. In the UK at least.

[@CaptainCassidy]

The Verve have so many great hits, maybe not well known in the US, but definitely in UK and europe

[@BlueZirnitra]

The Verve were so big Richard Ashcroft had a solo career. BSS was just the one that went worldwide.

[@theclayishone]

I swore that was going to be #1 when I started watching. Can’t believe it didn’t make the list. Definitely their only US hit.

[@gabrielegagliardi3956]

It's incredible how 90s songs sound so fresh compared to the ones in the top 10 today.

[@maricate]

more melody, more soul, more joy, real music... miss those mtv days 😐

[@MegaBpop]

Music today is questionable. Blows my mind how some of todays artist are making millions in music bc it based on it’s video’s dance moves, or ex bf break up, it digitally enhanced. I feel today’s music is successful based on how much $$$ was spent on their marketing verses the talent behind the singer & musicians.

[@scottdunbar8228]

Thats called nostalgia

[@haleyrichardson8818]

@@scottdunbar8228 It may be that, but it is also far better quality music.

[@razslice9037]

@@haleyrichardson8818 thats probably not actually true. There is far more artists flooding the market now so the lows are very low and there is tons of mediocrity but good music is still as good as it was in the 90's. Also you have to realise that literally every generation tends to find the next generations music awful. Just a fact of life you like what you are used to and what you grew up with and stuff you arent used to tends to sound bad. Not to mention that the 90s was full of awful music just like every other decade of music. You remember the good ones and forget the bad ones.

[@Kilnopa]

I’ve always liked Mazzy Star’s “Fade into you”….one hit wonder and great tune

[@janiceparnell8707]

Love that song. Hope Sandoval’s voice is haunting.

[@gtf5392]

Amazing song. I also like Look On Down From the Bridge.

[@patmooney1407]

“Into Dust” always gives me chills

[@thomaskrutulis2289]

All Hope’s songs are dope and I used to play so that tonight I might see every night at Kansas U in 94… epic

[@jamesm3828]

That entire Spacehog album is freaking awesome. Also I would say a lot of these bands like Eve 6, Semisonic, and Sixpence are more like 2 or 3 hit wonders.

[@warrenphillips69]

I can still hear that Space phone ringing.

[@thiagoi3619]

My favorite from Eve6 is Promise

[@jefflongsine4912]

Spacehog one of my favs

[@jasonfournier]

I was thinking the same thing. I re-visit every few years.

[@AndrzejJeczen]

At least half of these songs deserve blasting the volume all the way up when I hear them in the radio. Thank you for a beautiful walk down the memory lane, brother.

[@SheilaKaneDecoy]

Can I “like” this video 1000x? Born in ‘80, graduated HS in ‘98. This is the soundtrack of my adolescence.

[@Merknilash]

82 in 2000 You were the hot senior when I was a freshman

[@fakereality96]

@@Merknilash 1983. Yeah, she was the hot senior.

[@greenderp]

born in 85 here, and all these songs are such bangers, lmao, kids will never understand how much more they tried in the 90s. i mean we used to get toys in our cereal FFS

[@rasicule]

"The Way" by Fastball was all over the radio back in the 90's. Definitely a solid one hit wonder.

[@garymaidman625]

Definitely not a one hit wonder. Fastball had a few hits. Out of My Head was another big one, which was a top 20 hit, then there's Fire Escape from the same album and You're an Ocean from their next album.

[@runthenumbers9698]

@gary Ditto I would say the same thing about "All for you" by Sister Hazel. It's far and away Sister Hazel's biggest hit, and would be considered a 1 hit wonder... if they didn't have the smaller hits... mainly "Change your mind". Just so happens, Sister Hazel and Fastball are my 2 favorite bands.

[@enigma0876]

They also have another song that quite popular, out of my head.

[@garymaidman625]

@@enigma0876 read the replies, it's exactly what I said.

[@enigma0876]

@@garymaidman625 it reached top 20 on billboard's top 100, I don't think they are a one hit wonder.

[@Ric12String]

Agree about "Voices Carry." The vocal and the production were always spectacular.

[@22ezio]

The best thing about Closing Time to me is the fact that the lyrics are about having a child, not about a bar closing. Simply Genius 😢

[@bulletproofblouse]

I was NOT ready for Spacehog getting a mention. Pure magic.

[@RobCartwright]

They had a bunch of good music, just never seemed to "make it."

[@quiddity131]

I was pleasantly surprised to see them pop up here. Absolutely would put that ong on my own ranking.

[@joannemoyer5525]

Another of my favorites no one else seems to know

[@davidwhite9817]

Great album too.

[@llongone2]

Someone once said that "Groove is in the Heart" is the moment 80s music became 90s music. Pretty accurate.

[@tubelious]

one of the best songs, and music videos, of all time.

[@because_the_internet]

Totally agree. For me, it's the verse from Q-Tip that does it. An early sign that Hip Hop is going to be a influence on pop music going forward.

[@alukuhito]

I'd say the moment the Stone Roses first album came out.

[@cjc2]

I agree. I remember the song was on mtv and the radio in the fall of 1990. The early 90s had so much great music from pop, rock, and hip hop.

[@strangeuniverse1199]

Such a silly video but a good catchy song

[@hugospiegel]

Man, the 90's one hit wonders were so much better than the 00's. Even the cover of their albuns were overall more creative.

[@lukethompson3672]

“In the meantime” is so good

[@MusicNixonSwe]

Great list! A very 90s song for me is “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” by The Crash Test Dummies from Canada It was huge here in Sweden and Europe in 1994. It was a #1 in Scandinavia, Germany, Belgium. Australia also. It went #4 in the US too, according to Wikipedia. Their albums had lots of fantastic songs, but I can’t remember they had more hits.

[@Lew2000]

The reason that song always comes to mind for me is because of the Weird AL version

[@ImperialLightandMagic]

We had a local covers band called “Dumb Crash Testes”

[@Inequities]

loved CTD! don't think mmm⁴ was big enough for top 20 tho

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

They had a reasonably successful follow-up with God Shuffled His Feet and Keep A Lid On Things got airplay and rotation on MTV.

[@thebillryan]

Which reminds me of Mmm bop by the Hansons. I think. Was that the 90s? And where they a one hit wonder?My brain is addled.

[@kunzesaur]

"Sunny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin. "No Rain" by Blind Melon. "Freshmen" by The Verve Pipe. "Tomorrow" by Silverchair. "What Is Love" by Haddaway. "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla. "Sex and Candy" by Marcy Playground. "All I Want" by Toad the Wet Sprocket.

[@lalomillar6335]

Bitter Sweet Symphony and Lemmon tree

[@peaner083]

Yeah far out....I was 12 when Silverchair came out and my god it was and still is Amazing. Me being Australian it had a huge impact.

[@liamshorter292]

Silverchair isn’t a one hit wonder, neither is blind melon.

[@kunzesaur]

@@liamshorter292 fwiw we are talking American hits (not sure if you are too). No Rain is the only BM single to crack the Hot 100, as well as their only #1 single on the rock and alt charts. They had 2 other singles show up briefly on the rock charts but this was obviously residual success from No Rain. "Tomorrow" by Silverchair reached #28 on the billboard Hot 100 chart and charted for 18 weeks, roughly doubling their next closest song (only 3 songs ever charted for Silverchair).

[@John-tr5hn]

TtWS had plenty of hit songs.

[@linorestrepolobo3620]

Great list, I didn’t know a couple of these but for the most part it took me back. What a time to be alive

[@aaronb485]

They all bring me right back to my 20's

[@pasteeater100]

I graduated from HS in 1994 and college in 1998, and hearing this list gave me such PTSD over adolescent insecurities and lost loves that I give it an A+ in accuracy! Well done, sir!

[@pequalsa]

Wait, that sounds about like my 1990s 😆. Even spent a few weeks in a Behavioral Health place. You were one year ahead of me.

[@ninetiesguy2322]

Same here Jason. I could swear Rick was going to include Crash Test Dummies!

[@eatonjohnrobert]

@@pequalsa so true. Great lost. But I thought for sure there would be something from the band Live.

[@tz7813]

I was fighting in the Bosnian war. Coolest time ever, with banging tunes!💪👍

[@OSheaShenanigans]

Nailed it. Graduated in 1992. Great list

[@bupobm]

Great list! Really brings back some memories! One track missing is “Sex and Candy” by Marcy Playground. They released two albums in the 90s (Marcy Playground and Shapeshifter) which are both AMAZING! If you haven’t heard them and only know the band for their hit please give them a spin - as can happen sometimes their hit is not one of my favorite songs of theirs. WIKIPEDIA:: Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, a record bested four years later by Nickelback's "How You Remind Me". Barrett of Paste ranked it fifteenth on Paste's list of "25 Awesome One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s" while Consequence of Sound ranked it thirty-fourth on its list of "The 100 Best One-Hit Wonder Songs." Marcy Playground emerged in the late 1990s. Influences include David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Wham! and the Beatles. The influences are quite clear on Marcy Playground's self-titled album

[@Elite244]

You insult Rick by suggesting he missed it. And the rest of us reading comments. OG-Tier no talent A$$ clowns, sir. You should delete this. They managed to create corporate rock and smear lonely people as weird, self-absorbed incels and fed it to a brain dead audience of needle movers and unit shifters... athough he included Natalie Imbruglia, another no-talent a$$ clown who did the same to forlorn emo girls with insecure attachment disorder.

[@vryusvin3905]

"Hangin' 'round downtown by myself, and I had so much time to sit and think about myself And then there she was, like double cherry pie, yeah, there she was- like disco superfly" God I love that song, as much as Flagpole Sitta.

[@straight494]

Couldn’t agree more. The albums are PHENOMENAL! And no one knows about them

[@hunterwright4388]

YES! Replace Eve6 with this Marcy

[@dhrandy]

Hated Sex and Candy, lol. They still play it all the time on my local modern rock station.

[@melovemusic69]

When I listened to the radio. Wow how time flies. 90's was my 20's.

[@andrewmiller4573]

I'm STILL in love with Lisa Loeb. Still!

[@ellaser93]

I'm extremely surprised that nobody here seems to remember "Cannonball" by The Breeders. A huge hit by a talented band!

[@karenmarshall2045]

Great tune!

[@adambecherer3804]

Completely agree - great song!

[@nkogliaz]

Kim Deal still performs and is from my hometown of Kettering Ohio, I've ran into her once or twice at Omega Records in Dayton, unfortunately outside of Cannonball, the album 'Last Splash' didn't really do too much else in the way of blowing up The Breeders, MTV deeming Cannonball a 'Buzz Bin' video also definitely helped boost their audience and popularity at the time, honorary shout out to Sonic Youth / The Pixies / The Melvins also!

[@becw9972]

LOVE that song!!

[@mccririck01]

Thing about the Breeders is they have loads of great songs. I guess Cannonball was their only "hit" but still...

[@kurtdewittphoto]

"In the meantime" and "Possum Kingdom" are my favs and I like that they were back-to-back on this list.

[@PaintGuy]

Me too. And they’re the only songs on the list I actually care to hear again lol.

[@chadsstillalive]

Both great songs, and coincidentally neither is a one hit wonder.

[@benhinton6795]

Read this and hoped it was going to be Helmet!

[@kurtdewittphoto]

@@chadsstillalive What other hit(s) did Spacehog have? Toadies have a good amount of plays on some of their other tracks, but not spacehog..

[@uprebel5150]

Great song that’s been stuck in my head for the last few days.

[@michaeldoherty5415]

Torn is definitely THE song I think of when I think 90’s one hit wonders. Great list man. And if anybody hasn’t heard that entire Toadies album, Rubberneck, the whole album is fantastic.

[@danw331]

I could cry listening to this because the '90s truly was the last good times. If there was a button I could press that deleted social media forever I would

[@SozoKratos]

Great list - was kinda expecting Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground to show up - kind of a quintessential 90s one hit wonder for me.

[@hogfanbk]

Me too.

[@benjaminlaygoiii2171]

They got Saint Joe on The School Bus and Sherry Fraser - not as big as Sex And Candy but both were moderate hits in the Billboard charts

[@theculling497]

​@@benjaminlaygoiii2171 well Eve 6 is on this list and Heres to the Night was a legit hit after Inside Out.

[@posysdogovych2065]

@@benjaminlaygoiii2171 Saint Joe on The School Bus peaked at 31 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, but never made it onto the Billboard Hot 100, which is the true measurement of a whether a song was a hit or not. As a college freshman who watched MTV constantly at the time, not once did I see the video air on the channel.

[@jeremynaves2220]

Ditto on Marcy Playground. Also expected the Verve and Bittersweet Symphony.

[@StephSinalco]

"No Rain" by Blind Melon, "Butterfly" by Crazy Town, "Mmm mmm mmm mmm" by Crash test dummies, "Mmmbop" by The Hanson, "74-75" by The Connels... so many one hit wonders of my youth :)

[@vovindequasahi]

Wow yeah great list of songs there!! "74-75"... that song is so haunting...

[@jalrebass]

That Crash Test Dummies album "God Shuffled His Feet" is a tremendous album.

[@mauriciomontardo4411]

Agreed about "No Rain", but the others are not one-hit wonders. Crazy Town had a few others, Crash test dummies had several and Hanson pretty much half their album as singles and were all hits. I have no idea what the Connels are though

[@kentmartin9289]

@@mauriciomontardo4411 I was going to say Blind Melon wasn't a one hit wonder. "Change" is my favourite of theirs, but probably wasn't that big. I thought "Galaxie" was a decently big hit, but maybe that was just in Canada. I was going to say Crash Test Dummies weren't a one hit wonder here in Canada. "Superman's Song" was probably their biggest hit here, but they had others as well. "Peter Pumpkinhead" and there is another one that I can't think of the title now that were both big.

[@StephSinalco]

@@mauriciomontardo4411 That might be linked to where you live in the world, I'd say. I'm in western Europe and I can say for sure that neither Crazy Town nor Crash test produced *anything* successful around here except those two tracks. I recall the Hanson releasing singles after Mmmbop and while I don't remember any, I'll agree with you on this one, not really one hit wonder. If you're 40 like me, I'm pretty sure you know the song 74-75 by the Connels (you just don't know you know it :D)

[@vkaryolemos]

Great list. Miss the days of rock n roll hits. I was young in the nineties. But most of these jams were a big part of my life. Ednaswsap's original version of torn is a personal favorite of mine, even though Natalie did a good job covering it.

[@orenji196]

I was 4 years old when Steal My Sunshine came out & one of my earliest memories is hearing it on the radio in the car during summer. To this day it’s still one of the songs that immediately takes me back to my childhood in the 90s.

[@mattharrison4238]

The Proclaimers “500 Miles” was a true 1 hit wonder from 1993, such a fun infectious tune!

[@carlmarks8170]

@nessy It was a hit in just about EVERY country around the world in 1988. For some reason, the Americans picked up on it 5 years later.

[@nickbrough8335]

They had quite a few hits in the UK

[@thesvenssons]

I could have sworn “There she goes” was also by Sixpence None The Richer, making them a two-hit wonder. Might be Mandela effect.

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

Great song but came out in 1987. Also The Proclaimers had other hits, "Letter From America", "Sunshine On Leith" and "I'm On My Way".

[@daniel385]

@@thesvenssons They covered it and it was a hit for them, as least I think so.

[@trinaq]

"In the Meantime" is one of the most underrated 90's songs, I wish that it was more well known.

[@brett2015]

Agreed

[@a_dubs_]

And dude sang and played that bass line. I always give mad props to lead singing bass players.

[@Paulnap]

Amazing song. Bowiesque AF

[@theditto69]

Royston Langdon, the writer, made a killing in royalties and married liv Tyler. I want to write and underrated song!

[@melian9999]

Great album, that song has the best bassline

[@JenniferWaite63]

Love all these songs! Great list! You've got a new subscriber!

[@qlikbox]

Well this one bubbled up on my list today, so I just wanted to add: Stiltskin Inside and Two Princes, Spin Doctors! Awesome video, it really brought back the memories.

[@weiyoungong8207]

Notice how most of these songs were HAPPY and POSITIVE, very unlike the recent times . Very much reflecting the mood of the era

[@robertglass3944]

Oh, the 90's weren't all strawberries and cream. Have you never heard of grunge, or alt rock? The 90's was littered with the stuff. Hell, it's mostly what it's known for. Even The Cranberries has some really dark tunes. Let me guess, you weren't around in the 90's, were you..?

[@kash9854]

I looove the 90’s, those are my formative years, but I remember them a little differently. Not to say you’re wrong, I don’t think you are, it’s just the tiny of “glasses” we all wear. When I think of the 90’s, I think of angst. So much alternative and grunge music was “look how deep we are with all our brooding and hidden meanings in our lyrics. Many movies were weird and dark and experimental. To your point, there’s also the happy poppy side. Pop music was really having a moment, a lot of fun comedies and rom coms that were legitimately good without being to self serious. The 90’s were fun in many ways. I suspect every decade is just as layered.

[@roverfavela]

"YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE" from The New Radicals it's one of my favorite songs ever, it's just very uplifting ❤

[@TheRealMrLofasz]

Great song. I always thought they were Better Than Ezra.

[@ieroen]

I love how the song is all positive and then at the end he suddenly comes out of leftfield with a super agressive diss at Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson 😂

[@taintedlife2618]

@@ieroen if by Super Agressive you mean Super soft…

[@ieroen]

@@taintedlife2618 "Come around and we'll kick your ass in" ... Oh yes, no sign of aggression there!

[@averagejoe7338]

@@TheRealMrLofasz Better than Ezra did Good which could have been on the list as well.

[@bille77]

You Get What You Give is the greatest one-hit-wonder song ever. ❤❤❤

[@shellie.alamode]

Is Eve 6 quite a one hit wonder? "Here's to the Night" still gets airplay today. They def deserved more hits than they got tho. The entire album that Inside Out was on was great. The New Radicals album was great from start to finish too. I think both Eve 6 and New Radicals had some more unusual and innovative music, which is why I loved them, but also I think, why they didn't do quite as well maintaining commercial mainstream fame.

[@thisislazer128]

Excellent list! I was surprised to not see Duncan Sheik’s “Barely Breathing” on it. You couldn’t escape that song for most of ‘96 and ‘97. He even got a Grammy nomination for it.

[@MrPhilm00r]

I came here to say the same thing. I couldn't get enough of that song. Still can't. I can still remember cruising around in my beat up Chevy Cavalier with a few of my buddies while that song played on the radio. Such good times.

[@thisislazer128]

@@MrPhilm00r indeed! This is one of those songs that never gets old. 🙌

[@mike04574]

Who?

[@robertmurphy2794]

I had forgotten about this song despite having it in my iTunes. Great song as well and I will now go listen to it! lol

[@nstovl]

I couldn't remember that song so I just listened to it... I remember the song, but I never noticed how fucking terrible the vocals are before.

[@jean-philippelachance8578]

Two of my favorites "Your Woman" by White Town and "A Girl Like You" by Edwyn Collins!!!

[@blakemaxfield4267]

Your woman rules

[@jakehay6101]

i never comment but was thinking of White Town's "Your Woman" immediately

[@Gregorydeon]

Not only "A Girl like You" but the whole Empire Records soundtrack is full of great one hit wonders. "Until I hear from you" by Toad the Wet Sprocket could be added to the list as well!

[@dianaengland1907]

Love "your woman"

[@DavidTWarner]

One song that I think missed this list was “freak of the week” by the marvelous 3! Such a great song, fantastic hook, amazing production. The album it came from (“Hey”) was loaded with power-pop gems also

[@resherman19]

This was one of my favorite songs of that era. Made me a lifelong fan of Butch Walker and I still enjoy his catalog and song collaborations to this day! Wish Marvelous 3 still toured. I’ve seen Butch multiple times but never had the pleasure of a Marvelous 3 show. I wouldn’t call them a one hit wonder though because I enjoyed everything they put out! They are good in my book! Check out the stuff Butch produced as well. Gold!

[@DavidTWarner]

@@resherman19 I couldn’t agree more! I have been a huge marvelous three fans since I first heard them in 1998, but like you, I never was able to see them live. Even when they just had their set of reunion shows, I wasn’t able to make it to any one of them. I’m also a very big Butch Walker fan, I like all of his solo stuff and love every band that he has produced. His latest stuff for “the gaslight anthem” is really great, definitely check it out!

[@DavidTWarner]

@@resherman19 I absolutely love everything that Butch has done since the marvelous three, I love his solo albums, and all of the artists that he has worked with. I still think Rick Beato interviewing Butch would be fantastic, I hope it happens one day!

[@gustavolanata1019]

Wonderful very enjoyable. Good to hear those songs again. Thank you.

[@TheSergirock]

Two Princes by Spin Doctors definitely deserves a spot, the song is killer from start to finish!

[@fizzyshellfish5439]

They had more than one big hit, though.

[@34SideWinder]

I thought it might be #1. Spin Doctors suffered from a bad name. Sounds like a DJ outfit but they were a smoking rock band!

[@rynelson85]

Another phenomenal album!

[@michaelboggus9993]

Remember they also had Little Miss Can't Be Wrong which was top 20

[@misterschubert3242]

@@michaelboggus9993 and Jimmy Olsen's Blues...

[@jasonremy1627]

"You get what you give" is my singular favorite song of the 1990s. I'm a core Gen-x member, so spent my entire teens in the 1990s, and it's one of my favorite songs of all time. So good.

[@andrewraymond2161]

All of Gregg Alexander’s songs are awesome. He also wrote for others. He did “The Game of Love” which Michelle Branch and Santana recorded.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

It is an incredible song. One of the last great pop/ rock songs in my view. I remember thinking most nineties music was very poor but that stood out as a track that could have easily stood with the best of the eighties.

[@torofsthun1533]

I really liked a lot of those songs, which brought me to thinking why were all of these just one hit wonders? Good songs reminding me of good times.

[@grrlpurpleable]

The Cardigans - Lovefool was pretty huge in the UK for a while. I'd include that on this list :)

[@rose_eros]

The songs listed in this video: 20. EMF - Unbelievable 19. Meredith Brooks - Bitch 18. Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 17. Lisa Loeb - Stay 16. Spacehog - In the Meantime 15. Toadies - Possum Kingdom 14. Len - Steal My Sunshine 13. Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart 12. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta 11. Eve 6 - Inside Out 10. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight 9. New Radicals - You Get What You Give 8. 4 Non Blondes - What's Up? 7. The LA'S - There She Goes 6. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby 5. Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's 4. Tal Bachman - She' So High 3. Semisonic - Closing Time 2. Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me 1. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

[@jeremycraft2445]

I know and love them all except #13.. I don't recall that one AT ALL!

[@shannonblanchard8195]

Classics

[@shannonblanchard8195]

Natali imbroglio is not a one hit wonder!!!!

[@shannonblanchard8195]

@@jeremycraft2445oh you need to!!!!

[@zoebedford3318]

I still listen to half of those songs regularly 😊

[@ryanmorrison3699]

One of my favorite one hit wonders of the 1990s was Dishwalla’s “Counting Blue Cars.” Such a beautiful song and I think it deserves an honorable mention. Great list!

[@ruipacheco2939]

Awesome song!!

[@patschamps]

Dishwalla had another really good song (not much radio airplay), called “give”.

[@Tamaraxchad]

Came here to say that !! Love dishwalla !

[@Mzihcs]

great call, and the only song I really felt was missing on the list.

[@ejayjohnjugalbot8041]

Diswalla is so huge here in the Philippines.. angels or devils every little thing is always being covered. Love diswalla

[@moguelon]

Grandes recuerdo de los 90s, muchas gracias por revivirlos

[@JessinSC]

Two songs I thought were going to be on your list: Cannonball by The Breeders and Lovefool by The Cardigans. Also maybe I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers. Great list in any event. Lots of good memories associated with these.

[@willa4you]

"The Way" by Fastball I think should totally have been on this list. Great chorus, great melody, great solo.

[@gozips86]

Fastball's "Out of My Head" hit #20 on the Hot 100.

[@Buff99ca]

Fastball had a few hits

[@dper1112]

That album had two hit singles, right, so you can't reasonably put it here.

[@AyeCarumba221]

But was The Way Fastballs only hit, since this is a compilation of one hit wonders? Certainly The Way is a consummate 90s tune otherwise.

[@katinphilly1312]

High school flashbacks on all of these

[@baileyjones5744]

One of my favourite one hit wonders from the 90's was "No Rain" by Blind Melon. It's an awesome song. But great list

[@farmpunk_dan]

Blind Melon is severely underrated as a band.

[@joshuagarcia9746]

All time favorite band. The most incredibly overlooked band of all time

[@Kritter4life]

That whole album is amazing.

[@echoheadband]

Yeah! No Rain is excellent. To me it could be top 5 on here. Blind Melon was great. Definitely think they would have transcended one-hit wonder status had Shannon Hoon not passed away.

[@chriscoote2690]

Not a one hit wonder…they had a few hits…

[@tonytripp1]

Rick - You are the man. Love the list and love your analysis of the music. I have never met anyone who listens and loves music like you do. And I have never met anyone who's ear matches my own so closely. Great stuff, keep it up!

[@PCAZCANUCK]

Great list 👌. I also had to look up some Nixons, Dishwalla and Vertical Horizon and Got you where I want you by the Flys… great video.

[@pgmcdermott]

Amazing list. What a decade! Here are some honorable mentions off of the top of my head ...Dishwalla " Counting Blue Cars"... Primitive Radio Gods "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth..." Seven Mary Three "Cumbersome" ... Skee-Lo "I Wish"

[@Snarkapotamus]

I still have a Dishwalla CD somewhere...loved them!

[@dhrandy]

Lucky was a hit by 7M3, so technically more than one hit.

[@itsragtime]

Throw Cardigans Lovefool in there as well

[@Modernjazz1]

Skee-Lo sampled Spinnin' from Bernard Wright's first album.

[@pgmcdermott]

@@Modernjazz1 Nice, I did not know that. Just checked that song out !

[@soundspy]

Great picks! Some songs I would add to this list: The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony Des’Ree - You Gotta Be Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You Spin Doctors - Two Princes Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal

[@XtopherMartin]

Arrested Development had Tennessee too. Pretty big in and of itself.

[@TobinPT]

What? Des'ree had another top hit "Life" and The Verve had several hits (their album was awesome). I dont agree with you

[@calnfl5747]

The Verve are nowhere near a one hit wonder

[@SMacCuUladh]

@@calnfl5747 Lucky man

[@SMacCuUladh]

@@TobinPT Des'ree also had Kissing You, feature on the Romero and Juliet soundtrack, the baz lurman film with Leo DiCaprio and CLaire Danes

[@2301CE]

Wow- I remember working my late night job after school, alone in the kitchen with all these songs. Man, all my old idiosyncrasies coming back to this old Dad.

[@tarafrme]

Rick, thank you so much for reminding us such a great hits ❤

[@saskskier]

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods is DEFINITELY a one hit wonder and probably my favourite song of all time. The production and arrangement is beautiful and haunting and the BB King sample is perfect.

[@craigrelyea9146]

Agreed! Spot on

[@Alan_Duval]

Such a good song, and fantastic use of unusual samples.

[@wobblebomb]

Amazing song

[@diddyly434]

Totodoodoo doo doo

[@nicolassilva1729]

YES!!!

[@Jtowers84]

When I think about the 90s, the first song that always comes to my mind is Two Princes by Spin Doctors.

[@MrJacksunny]

^^^ this!

[@laurenceroberttampushalpin183]

I love their rendition of have you ever seen the rain

[@Dreyno]

They had “Little Miss Can’t Do Wrong” which got a lot of airplay as well.

[@andyhobbs1381]

Refrigerator Car is an EPIC tune. Weird time, weird lyrics, dark, hard guitar parts…

[@screwyootube1]

The entire Pocketful of Kryptonite album was fantastic! A ‘10’ all the way through! I sure thought a great career would follow that one, but they struggled to find something great after that, and never really made it. It certainly didn’t help that they had huge detractors in people that HATED them & HATED “jam” music. One of my favorite new bands of the 90s, I always said, more than anyone else, there were 5 bands that, for me, SAVED the 90s from total bleakness. In no particular order, the Spin Doctors, Live, Collective Soul, Indigo Girls & Kenny Wayne Shepherd (with close runner-up the Black Crowes)!

[@benmonroe_the_1]

In the Meantime is underrated. Great add! 2:29

[@christophermathewson256]

Awesome list as always Rick! Appreciate you.

[@cb9600]

Fastball "The Way" is a great song and was based on an article the bassist read about Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple with Alzheimer's who drove to a festival, but didn't return.

[@ismaelsantana8250]

Duuuuude I love that song .

[@sethweese]

I was just thinking the same thing just now !

[@gozips86]

Fastball's "Out of My Head" hit #20 on the Hot 100.

[@songeet3325]

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth by Primitive Radio Gods should be included in the list of honorable mentions. I also like Talvin Singh's Jaan.

[@BPC1980]

Closing Time produced my class motto: “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

[@markds2]

Some amazing songs in there and great memories besides! Hats off to you, sir. That will be all.

[@RedwoodGeorge]

As a survivor of the 90's, I'd have to say that Deee-Lite's "Groove is in the Heart" should be #1 for sheer audaciousness, infectiousness, and ubiquity

[@doublestrokeroll]

It's a pretty genius song. Really really clever arrangement.

[@gotham61]

Right when that was on the charts I took a flight from NYC to London and Deee-Lite were sitting in the row behind me. They looked just like they did in their videos.

[@H3avyHaul3r]

Again another song that indicated to me that the 80s musically were now in the past…

[@edlawn5481]

Bootsy!

[@williamgordon4610]

The best

[@charleypatterson9956]

It's a great day when Rick geeks out to 90s songs with us. 🎧🎵😜

[@marin7013]

Agree

[@dougrobinson8602]

It's a great day when Rick geeks out. Period!

[@retrogameslover2023]

Watching Rick bopping to these songs really puts a smile to my face. Nostalgic music decade. Love the 80s too!! 😊

[@johnfjones8961]

I absolutely love Flagpole Sitta! Deer Tick did a great cover of it for the "AV Club round room" but I can't seem to find it anymore

[@StewNWT]

Semisonic Closing time is the anthem of my high school years. One of my favourite songs ever.

[@analogblues]

This video made me realize how much better popular hits were back in the 90s. Real bands. Real singers. No autotune. Great picks, Rick! Would you consider doing a Volume 2 of the 90s?

[@MsTriangle]

Still a downgrades after the 70s and 80s

[@queenstixxzz]

@@MsTriangle that's a frame of mind of course but I I feel like 90's is missed so much and adored so much is because it was the last time music felt "real" now everything feels over produced, fake, and just for the sake of it...if it makes you feel anything at all.

[@pocok5000]

and imagine that people said the same thing in the 90s about the 60s

[@benmackie6322]

@@pocok5000 Every generation claims their generation had the best _____ (Fill in the blank), its called nostalgia and some people get drunk off of it.

[@pocok5000]

@@benmackie6322 i personally think the 70s were the peak of western culture and i was born in 88.

[@diedertspijkerboer]

So many iconic songs. Wonderful to hear them again.

[@curiousthecat]

‘Flagpole Sitta’-"…only stupid people are breeding". I repeat this lyric pretty much daily. 😹

[@jamma10]

I get such a nostalgic punch to the gut hearing songs from the 90's, even songs I didn't particularly like at the time. Nearly every single song on this list evokes a vivid memory from my teenage years, be it a place, specific friends, ex-girlfriends, exam stress, parties etc. Fuc, I miss those days.

[@tricky92x]

Early 20s for me, but the same kind of emotion.

[@brianoconnor7796]

@@tricky92x agreed same

[@thesoundboardstudio]

same here

[@laurielynne2006]

Same! So many memories

[@simonnovak3574]

"Torn" is a song written by Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, and Phil Thornalley. It was first recorded in 1993 in Danish (renamed "Brændt", Danish for "Burned") by Danish singer Lis Sørensen, then in 1994 by Cutler and Preven's American rock band Ednaswap, and in 1996 by American-Norwegian singer Trine Rein. Natalie Imbruglia covered the song in 1997.

[@ClockworkSatan]

Aaah, Deee-lite! I had this album and loved them so much back then.

[@shellie.alamode]

Toadies are my fave band of all time and they are still making great music and touring today. They may be a one-hit-wonder in terms of national fame but they are amazing (and in Texas they get more attention and respect)

[@sabrinamiller4405]

I think The Freshman by The Verve Pipe should be on this list. That song was huge for the band in the 90's, and it was their only big hit. The Verve Pipe is from around my area. They are still playing today.

[@J2daPonch]

Came here to say that. It was a top three in my opinion. Granted I'm from their home state, but that song is better than almost all of these

[@janiceparnell8707]

Bitter Sweet Symphony was a big hit of theirs as well.

[@dennisrounds1996]

Photograph was also released as a single and in My opinion a better song

[@utesch713]

​@janiceparnell8707 that's by a different band...

[@janiceparnell8707]

@@utesch713 Hey there - just double-checked this. Bitter Sweet Symphony was on The Verve’s third album called, “Urban Hymns,” in 1997. There was a controversy between The Verve and The Rolling Stones regarding this song - they were licensed to use a five note segment from a Stones song, but according to the Stones, used more than that. Was it recorded by another singer/group as well?

[@wile.e.coyote7666]

Sleeping Satellite from Tasmin Archer was a huge and underrated hitin EU in the 90's too. Timeless song.

[@edsanville]

Love that one. It instantly takes me back to 1993.

[@holydissolution85]

I was looking for this..

[@hookeyda]

You bring back memories listening to the top 1 hit wonders 70 , 80,90 and 2000 good job

[@axlefoley6330]

Ow! You hit me right in the nostalgia! All of these are quintessential 90s. There was only one on here I hadn’t heard before.

[@ferleiva7080]

I just love so much "Ready to go" by Republica. Didn't think that much of the song at the time. Re-discovered it some ten years later and it's always in my list since then. So dancey, catchy and yet with rock spirit. The "pre-chorus" (Rick's lingo) is sooo cool... Those four chords put together in that way! And leading to a killer chorus. Deserving of a "What makes this song great" episode if you ask me.

[@magnificalux]

Ready To Go was a great example of 90's one-hits! But don't think they were well-known in the US, but more of a European hit, which is why Rick didn't mention them. Speaking of European bands, Sneaker Pimps also had a one-hit wonder called "6 Underground."

[@patrickbell5086]

Great tune!!

[@deadstar44]

Republica was kind of the english Garbage but didn't get the same exposure and imploded too early.

[@hungariantutor]

Perfect song and production.

[@technoforever888]

Also, thought of Elastica Connection, which I love.

[@jsj0822]

Along with EMF's Unbelievable, I always relate that with Jesus Jones' Right Here Right Now. Both songs were hits right at the same time and always seem to be played back to back on the radio.

[@B3Band]

Same. Those were also the two songs that got me as a 7 year old to switch from VH1 to MTV.

[@elbob17]

Can't even read "EMF's Unbelievable" without going "OH!" in my head.

[@davidadams2395]

_Sex on Wheels_ was often played in the same blocks-at least on Seattle alternative radio.

[@cliffbarber6058]

Didn't Tom Jones cover it?

[@geoffstrickler]

Right Here, Right Now is great, and there are at least 2 other great song on that album, that weren't "hits"

[@jamieg9371]

Great list Rick! I won't nitpick you to death but I will say that Lisa Loeb had a top 20 hit with Do You Sleep. Meredith Brooks is definitely a one-hit wonder but she did release another single that is my favorite from her called What Would Happen. Awesome song, but never reached "hit" status. One other song I would put in there. When you said on Tubthumping that you would change the lyrics up for your kids, it reminded me of this song. Marcy Playground's Sex and Candy. It's a great song. My friends had small children when that song was popular and they would change the lyrics to "sacks of candy" when they would sing along in front of the kids.

[@DARTHLT9807]

Awesome list. Soundtrack to every American Pie movie.

[@ceoa]

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Closing Time, and Kiss Me are such beautiful stories.

[@c.e.3194]

Kiss Me…..amazingly soft voice.

[@user-hi8np4nm2v]

MMMBOP by Hanson should be on this list.

[@soothingmoments2139]

Out of the top 10 songs.. Never heard of closing time.. And I don't think it sounds that good too.. And 4 non blonde is below it??? Come on..

[@bingobongo1615]

I absolutely loathe breakfast at tiffany‘s… What is the beauty of the story? Can you enlighten me?

[@ceoa]

@@bingobongo1615 What?? First, the music is good, the story is self explanatory. It's a message of hope for the singer, to a person that's just not feeling it. And I said, "What about breakfast at Tiffany's?" She said, "I think I remember the film And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it." And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got." Come on, You've got to smile after that. Cute story

[@anthmegaton]

A Girl Like You by Edwyn Collins What a monster One Hit Wonder!

[@the_katman2181]

Great song.

[@MorbidCrow666]

You saying that has for some reason made me remember You're Gorgeous by Babybird

[@KeikilaniKai86]

Being mid-80s made and 90s raised was the BEST!!! We had the BEST music in all genres, best shows, games, movies… EVERYTHING!! A lot of the songs on this list weren’t something I listened to (I’m more of an R&B/hip hop/rap fan) but my brothers listened to this type of music so I still know them all and they all bring back A TON of memories! Plus, the amount of movies and tv shows most of these songs were in and are still being put in is astronomical lmao! 😂😂😂

[@user-op1qn5my2h]

I've never felt guilt about not subscribing to channels I enjoy, but Mr. Beato, you win! This is my first subscription because I've so enjoyed everything you've done. Save tonight still creates chills, and You Get What You Give does too.

[@eda4318]

He does an amazing job with these lists. Most KZbin videos with "one hit wonders" seem to always be disappointing. Mr. Beato plays songs that make me go, wow, yeah, I forgot about that song. That song was cool. Very hard to get that reaction from me. But he has done it with the lists he puts together. Someone had a great idea. He should have a Spotify channel with his lists.

[@ModerateObserver]

03:58 Steal My Sunshine - what a fantastic tune. One of those that, within a couple of bars, transports you straight back to that era.

[@seanspring8991]

Transports me to look up the song and listen to what it was sampled from, "More More More" by Andrea True

[@ModerateObserver]

@@seanspring8991 Didn't know it was a sample. Interesting!

[@davidcarbee8720]

Funny, when he started explaining the song I knew exactly what it was going to be. Fun good time song.

[@Iosaiv]

Could come on the radio now and be a hit I feel.

[@ModerateObserver]

@@Iosaiv 💯

[@mopacs]

As a native Austinite I have to nominate Fastball's "The Way" as well. Such a classic and a melody that get stuck in your head.

[@mbenoit77]

Much agreed! 👍 I'm glad someone else mentioned Fastball's "The Way"

[@laceyjaye1262]

Great song! Sad origin though

[@DanCrowleyNYC]

I was waiting for that too, until I remembered their second hit, Out Of My Head - which I probably love even more than The Way!

[@ericleyton4153]

Definitely better than any song on this list in my opinion. Fastball wasn't a one-hit wonder though they also had out of my head and that other one I can't place right now.

[@ericleyton4153]

@@DanCrowleyNYC as a side note I play both songs live and nobody remembers out of my head but the way is one of my most popular covers.

[@Handskemager]

Had forgotten about “Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger, TY! :)

[@zzzph7128]

Nice list Rick! I'm pretty sure I'm gonna put Cannonball by The Breeders, One of Us by Joan Osborne, and Spaceman by Babylon Zoo are on my top 20 one hit wonders of the 90's.