TOP 20 ONE HIT WONDERS OF THE '90s

[@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

[@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

[@StephenHunts]

Me too. 90's were AWESOME. I was born in '78 and the 90's were my preteen and teenage years. LOVE IT

[@StephenHunts]

​@greenderp and music REQUIRED TALENT in the 90's

[@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...

[@jimsanders4412]

It’s funny how you can hear a song from back in the day, be it the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, or ‘90s, and it immediately conjures up lots of memories of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing!! Those songs are truly timeless.😉👍😄

[@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"

[@JarretBunney81]

@@GregorydeonTil I Hear From You is the Gin Blossoms

[@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.

[@kresnocondro]

4 non blondes in top 3 for me..

[@bigslydoc]

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

[@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.

[@niklausmorin]

Arguably Jesus Jones and Dishwalla had subsequent minor hits, but my gawd "Counting Blue Cars" and "Right Here, Right Now" are SO THE 90s!

[@jasonkeibler8146]

Where is the flys

[@popoff7808]

Jesus Jones had TWO top five singles in the US to say nothing of the UK. A one hit wonder for me, mean ONE hit period. Not one more well known hit. Like Los Del Rio had one hit or Lou Bega.

[@Blaylock2]

@@jasonkeibler8146they got you where they want you !! 🤣

[@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.

[@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

[@SoldierSide77]

Fantastic song, it's criminal it was left off.

[@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.

[@AC-sr3pb]

Steal my sunshine is king. Impossible not to instantly feel like summer when that comes on. Love it.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@AlternateGM]

As an 82 baby, late 90’s is when I discovered my passion for music!

[@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 😊

[@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.

[@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.

[@Floyd78]

A few one-hit wonders that could make the list Two Princes - Spin Doctors Runaway Train - Soul Asylum No Rain - Blind Melon (they were great and had a lot of good songs, but most people only know the bee girl song) Sister - The Nixons Lump - Presidents of the USA Your choice between Mr Jones and Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows Shine - Collective Soul

[@TheChrisSwallow]

Spin Doctors had Little Miss Can't Be Wrong, and Lump isn't even the Presidents biggest hit. Same with Collective Soul and Counting Crows. Like if you're giving us a choice between two songs for an artists, then they're not a one hit wonder. Lol

[@Floyd78]

@TheChrisSwallow Two Princes has literally 10 times more streams than Little Miss (120 million x 12 millions), man. I'll concede that Peaches is more popular than Lump. For Counting Crows, I put in Accidentally because a lot of people might know them from Shrek, but Mr Jones is by far their most popular song, just like Shine is Collective Soul's biggest hit.

[@Strublet-e7k]

Lump definitely. PUSA were so underated

[@nerakzeuqzalev]

GOO GOO DOLLS “Iris” !

[@jmpascoe]

You might wanna look up the definition of one-hit wonder, brother.

[@Ben_Crido]

Honorable mention to Crash Test Dummies for Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm. Such vocals and a fantastic sounding song overall. The 90’s were so great for so many excellent bands and songs.

[@bmark7951]

No

[@soeinhenk]

@@bmark7951 Oh yes...;o)

[@timofthomas]

The 90s had a wide mix of serious, heavy and fun songs, we are missing that spread today... Right Said Fred anyone?

[@ericburns1575]

@@timofthomas I guess they were too sexy for this list

[@OMGWTFLOLSMH]

The had a couple of other minor hits, so, not one-hit wonders.

[@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.

[@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…

[@Aaron_Scissorhands]

What about Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now or Bittersweet Symphony, Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch lol

[@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?

[@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

[@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 💯

[@willbloodworth5248]

Exclusions that are hard to forgive: "Fade Into You" - Mazzy Star "If You Could Only See" - Tonic "The Way" - Fastball "Counting Blue Cars" - Dishwalla "No Rain" - Blind Melon "Your Woman" - White Town "Crush" - Jennifer Paige "Sex and Candy" - Marcy Playground "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" - Crash Test Dummies "Walking in Memphis" - Marc Cohn "Barely Breathing" - Duncan Sheik "I'll Be" - Edwin McCain "Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve and the HIGHLY underrated "Here Come the Hotstepper" - Ini Kamoze ❤

[@PrussianBlu3]

No. Not Edwin McCain

[@AndreaJones-eh3sd]

Hard disagree with The Verve being from the UK

[@samtheviking]

This could be most of a Part 2 episode

[@nicholasnarayanan5080]

the verve are not a one hit wonder

[@willbloodworth5248]

@@nicholasnarayanan5080 they are in the US.

[@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.

[@eldee9242]

Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" Hope Sandoval's vocals absolutely get me every time I hear it. in HS, even my metal head buddies loved that song.

[@SecretShiva]

OMG, Yes. So incredibly beautiful.

[@jmmiraflor]

Not a one hit wonder though. Mazzy Star's Into Dust is also a hit.

[@missano3856]

I was a metalhead and I loved that song.

[@paulthompson2374]

hyper legit and influential band

[@wb2463]

Great song, but no one in their right mind would call Mazzy Star a one hit wonder - hugely influential band!

[@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

[@jayz6008]

In the 90s I was a small child and I heard the top 5 songs on this list everywhere . I didn’t know who sang them , I didn’t know the song titles but I heard them on tv , in random stores, on the radio while in a car . At the time it was just background music , I liked them but it wasn’t particularly anything special to me . As I got older those songs became a lot more special to me , whenever I hear them I remember my youth , I see my elementary school play ground ,I remember a time when my siblings and I were always together , I remember the beautiful 90’s … things weren’t perfect then but it was a beautiful time and it saddens me that I’ll never be young again .

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@angelod.t4830]

The 90s is the best time to grow up in, to be a teenager particularly.

[@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?

[@endermwatts]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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"

[@davidadams2395]

@@geoffstrickler That whole album was almost as good as their debut, but *Doubt* had one other top 10 U.S. hit, _Real, Real, Real._

[@joeriwerbrouck4104]

Fantastic list! I've lived in the US since '09 (from Belgium), but I can tell you that the absolute #1 One Hit Wonder of the '90s in (pretty much) all of Europe, was Laura Pausini - La solitudine (Italy). If you've never heard it before, please treat yourself to the song!

[@PhilKnall]

Odd, I grew up in Austria (born in 81) and I don't think I've ever heard this... Beautiful song.

[@reezlaw]

It would be interesting to see Rick analyse a Laura Pausini song, I'm not gonna lie, but this one was so incredibly basic lmao

[@kitchentable_rc]

“One of us” by Joan Osborne and “If you could only see” by Tonic are honorable mentions 👍🏻

[@kurtdahle]

joan osbourne for sure

[@airslug1]

@@monkeysuncle2816 you are SO RIGHT! I love that album and used to listen to it when I worked in a book store--still listen to it but when I had it on in the store I really started paying attention to it and realized how incredible it is!

[@paintedlady_81]

That Tonic song was my favorite of the 90s.

[@chrisallen3427]

Tonic wasn't really a one hit wonder. "You Wanted More" was pretty popular, too.

[@kelliemcguire2592]

@@monkeysuncle2816 Agreed. Relish is a solid album.

[@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.

[@brett2015]

Man it’s a shame some of these bands are considered “One Hit Wonders” cuz they had some jams. Toadies, Semisonic and Space Hog had some great tracks. “Tyler” by Toadies is one of my fav all time 90s songs

[@markmarotta3577]

Yeah that opening riff on Tyler is one of my all time favorites

[@foxholiday4308]

I come from the water !! Toadies were my go to band in highschool

[@PeterShonka]

Great list, but I would have included Jude Cole’s song “Start the Car.”

[@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.

[@stanbalo]

Natalie gave it life

[@jasecola]

In the Meantime is such a great song. All these years later and it still puts a smile on my face whenever I listen to it.

[@OSheaShenanigans]

Great jukebox song.

[@robbieking7050]

Such a ripping bass line

[@danmorgan7775]

Agreed. Best song on the list for me. Although I do confess to having danced and time or two to Groove is in the Heart (though it's always stuck me as more of an 80's song).

[@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

[@FeelinUccceeeyyy]

Totodoodoo doo doo

[@nicolassilva1729]

YES!!!

[@WhereTheBASShasNoName]

Tubthumping... That song makes me so happy. Nostalgic moment for me is going back to when I was 21 or 22 in college at Texas State University back in 2011 just walking around campus listening to that song, feeling good

[@SirRoberttheGreat]

Was waiting for ‘Fade Into You’ by Mazzy Star but I guess it’s hard to narrow it down to just 20 songs. Man, the 90’s had some great music compared to today.

[@lauran.9427]

Fade Into You...was OUTSTANDING!! Should have made the list forsure

[@MuckWx]

That's one of the best songs ever recorded. Hauntingly beautiful.

[@phl2lax]

Was feeling the same for The Sundays, but it's tough because they had other hits in the UK and their only hit in the US was a cover, so I can see them not on his list but they're both on mine

[@lauran.9427]

@@phl2lax ....I concur!! I love the Sundays!!

[@MisterMojoJojojo]

In the right circumstances, Fade Into You often brings a tear to the eye

[@rescuediver7187]

Two notable mentions: “Banditos” by The Refreshments “Brimful of Asha” by Cornershop

[@christopherherrick703]

YES!

[@zunaidparker]

Brimful of Asha is freaking fantastic!

[@tomreisz5324]

I got the pistols, so I'll keep the pesos, and that seems fair.

[@ZachCanPlay]

Great list! Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla and Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground were killer.

[@beholder2012]

Hello, Ricky! Two things to consider: - the songs at 4:30 and 8:50 don't count, since they were FROM THE 80s. Remember: we count decades from 1 to 10 and not from 0 to 9, therefore 80s period was from 1981 till 1990 (including), and not from 1980 to 1989. So these two are still from the 80s actually. - what about „Narcotic” by the German „Liquido” group? You don't like its characteristic, recognizable riff? O_o

[@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)

[@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.

[@SaintTanna69]

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.

[@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!!

[@Doogs5150]

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

[@tango1niner-766]

7 mary 3- Cumbersome The screaming trees- nearly lost you The toadies and eveclear both had more than 1 hit.. at least I heard a few songs from each of them played on K-rock often enough. Love your channels Rick 👍🤘

[@Ineddiblehulk]

Flagpole Sitta is just one of my all time favourite songs - just hits the same every time. Love it. Such an impassioned, confused, empowered vocal.

[@xmaoi]

Mark and Jeremy agree

[@ChrisAnderson42]

Yeah, I love Flagpole Sitta, also another song from Harvey Danger that's just as good, Private Helicopter.

[@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

[@StewNWT]

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

[@glenniverson5523]

2/3 of this band came from Trip Shakespeare, a Minneapolis band that had the local hit "Toolmaster of Brainerd"

[@lrmoro]

Fun fact, it was a song not about closing time at the pub, but closing time at the womb (eg time to be born - "this room won't be open till your brothers or your sisters come). So if it was the song of high-school in the 1990s, it can also be the song of parenthood in 2020s

[@bodystomp5302]

I used to bartend at a hot little dive bar, late 90s. We played this song to close the bar fairly often.

[@cristijan3844]

There were so many good songs in those 90s. I remember Dionne Farris' "I know" hit me with that great funky uplifing hook.

[@matthewstone5310]

I thought for sure Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy" would be on here. There's still enough '90's one hit wonders that Rick could make a second video of them right now. I was a teen all through most of the '90's, so I'm pretty much familiar with all these songs and more. Rick could also do a video of obscure one hit wonders of the '90's. Like "Web in Front" by Archers of Loaf. Or "Package Thief" by Superchunk.

[@bobfrapples1208]

Web In Front is one of my favorite songs ever.

[@rowku7759]

100% Was amazed Sex and Candy wasn't on here. One of my favorite songs of the 90s

[@jeremysmetana8583]

They were handing copies of the single out for free when they opened for Toad The Wet Sprocket, so everybody I knew had a copy in their car. I suppose it has its charms the first ninety million times, but then it starts to grate.

[@demongeminix]

They're not a one-hit wonder

[@HarmonyProcyonLotor]

I think they'd be a kinda questionable inclusion if only because Saint Joe On The School Bus did fairly well as a single even if it was nowhere near as big as Sex and Candy. It did still hit #8 on the modern rock charts. Granted, by those criteria, calling Chumbawamba a one-hit wonder is also questionable since Amnesia actually made the top 40 after Tubthumping, and Semisonic had charting singles with Singing In My Sleep and Secret Smile and Sixpence None The Richer did really well with a cover of There She Goes by The La's, which made this list too.

[@arg888]

The list you made goes straight to any Gen X'ers heart. Love every single one of these.

And even some older millenials ✋️🥲

[@onanthebarbarian9883]

@ Gen Jones too

[@FlavioCastro81]

As a first year millenial ('81) I know all these songs...

[@aztro187]

I aint no name...

[@homeaccount5943]

Wrong. I'm Gen X. Most of that music was chick music garbage.

[@JamesWilson01]

Spaceman by Babylon Zoo and Inside by Stiltskin were great songs - and the only songs I know by those bands!

[@cranboogie]

Animal Army by Babylon Zoo is fire 🌀🌀🌀🔥🔥🔥

[@alpinion323]

Both from Levi's commercials!

[@holifeet]

I was gonna say Spaceman but I couldn't recall the band name. It was the song from a Levi's ad with a very hot Russian model. 20ish year old me defo remembers that.

[@JamesWilson01]

@@alpinion323 Yeah, Levi's knew how to pick good songs but not good bands it seems!

[@eugenekibets2983]

Third Eye Blind - Semi-charmed life Babylon Zoo - Spaceman White Town - Your Woman Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

[@krsch146]

Great List, Rick! There was also this song "The Way" by Fastball, which could qualify, plus someone below already mentioned "One of Us" by Joan Osborne. Both great tunes. Waiting for more lists like these, or any other videos. Keep up the good work! Greets from Poland. :)

[@philspear73]

The Way is great but these are one hit wonders, they had more

[@Leafsdude]

I mentioned "The Way" in my own comment. I think "Fire Escape" and "You're An Ocean" could both be categorized as hits, too, even if they never quite matched up. I'm surprised at myself that "One Of Us" wasn't one of my first thoughts, or at least didn't pop into my head when Meredith Brooks popped up (they peaked on the chart literally one year apart).

[@dmleibo]

One of Us is a great song. I saw her open for The Who and she was amazing.

[@madmanatw]

The Way was a great song! Fastball had one other hit, though: Out of My Head, which for a period of time I felt like it was impossible to be in the car for more than 10 minutes without hearing.

[@ricardorodriguez5549]

@@madmanatw great guitar solo on that track!

[@boromirjonah5774]

sixpence actually did a great cover of "there she goes" Lead singer Leigh Nash is just breathtakingly beautiful. Also I love the slide guitar at the end of "Torn"

[@wpmsd]

If you like Leigh Nash, check out the Delerium song Innocente, where she sings the lead vocal. It's excellent

[@davidconrades7524]

I was going to say the same thing about them doing "There She Goes." Her voice on the cover of it is fantastic. I couldn't remember if it was on the same album as "Kiss me"

[@ashemgold]

yaa loved the slide

[@K1200R]

I saw them live when I was in college around 2003. Almost nobody was there for it, so it felt like they played for me. Also got the whole bands autograph on a CD case. Back when CD cases were a thing haha

[@EnochOfficial]

Two hit wonder

[@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

[@rocknrollteacherpy]

same here

[@laurielynne2006]

Same! So many memories

[@Surge92]

A couple of those songs, like "Kiss Me" and "Torn", bring back very fond memories of when I first started dating my ex. The '80s will forever rule in my book, but the '90s also had their share of memorable tracks.

[@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.

[@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.

[@MrAnarchocapitalist]

@@robertglass3944 My impression at the time was that grunge was bigger on the west coast. On the east coast it got some play in the first half of the nineties, but faded into the background and the happier, more upbeat songs took center stage in the second half.

[@markusbrownicus01]

Notable exceptions: One Headlight - Wallflowers Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve Freshmen - The Vervepipe I’ll Be - Edwin McCain Song 2 - Blur Mambo No 5 - Lou Bega Cantaloop - US3 Informer - Snow Blue - Eiffel 65 Who Let the Dogs Out? - Baha Men Baby Got Back - Sir Mix a Lot Macarena - Del Rio

[@boscotheman82]

Wallflowers had many hits

[@farmpunk_dan]

Something about the songwriting and recording style of the 90s is just so much more satisfying to my ear than the stuff that came after. There’s an edge - diversity of rhythm and attention to melody and hooks that I feel lacking in the music of the 2000s

[@analogblues]

Totally agree! 2000's and beyond (sadly.)

[@sarizonana]

@@analogbluesthe 2000s is still pretty good, the music started to get really bad in mid 2010s by now I barley know a song

[@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.

[@hondony1]

Agreed, this one popped up in my head about 2 min before I saw your comment. Great song

[@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.

[@barbaz]

Agreed, but now that I'm thinking, maybe they weren't that popular because the frontman looked similar as Scott Weiland? (at least on the meantime video)

[@HarryFullerCT]

Man, this list brings back memories of the first alternative rock stations hitting my area. My honorable mentions: 3 Strange Days - School of Fish, Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? - Paula Cole, Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones

[@MelissaNiederkorn]

Omgosh a School of Fish shout out! Yes!

[@HarryFullerCT]

@Synthetic Maniac I know but her greatness should not be overlooked for having one more hit. :)

[@stanbalo]

Paula Cole has another hit..i dont want to wait

[@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 !

[@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.

[@CorduroyPaco]

Len had two albums before their big hit with Steal My Sunshine ("Superstar" and "Get Your Legs Broke") and my friends and I loved them on the indie rock scene at the time! Such great albums!

[@ceoa]

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

[@c.e.3194]

Kiss Me…..amazingly soft voice.

[@CeejaaySnow]

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

[@samuelrodriguez8941]

Rick, check out “Barely Breathing,” by Duncan Sheik. It should be in the top 10. Great arrangement and chorus hook.

[@chrischoiniere1406]

Barely Breathing is what I was waiting for too! It's one of the first songs that comes to mind when I think 90's one hit wonders!

[@RFXLR]

Great song!

[@portgree]

Absolutely!

[@AwijoshSun]

Was waiting for this song to show up on the list

[@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)!

[@graceintheplace13]

Oh my god. This is the soundtrack of my childhood. I feel incredibly lucky to have heard and loved these songs at such a young age. Thank you for taking me back. ❤

[@BurnseysRT]

I cannot disagree with this list of songs. Love them all mostly. As a 40+ year old I can place myself back in a teenage memory to every single one of these songs.

[@ElijahRock92]

There's just something about 90's Top 40 that so recognizable. It must be the unique period of analog and digital coexisting, the blend of synths and drum programming with live guitar and percussion, the rawness and edginess of the vocals, all the different genres using elements of one another yet sounding distinct, etc. There's just this warmth (I can't explain it any other way) that you don't really hear after the 90s. I just can't shake it, even 30 years later.

[@nfal445]

it's almost as if pop music died after the 90s.

[@qwerwerterytrtyutyuiyuiouiop]

economic context was also completely different in every thinkable way man

[@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..

[@Targon999]

Just heard that yesterday, such a beautiful song ;)

[@archonblaze]

Thx for reminding us of this song. It rarely gets radio play these days which is very unfortunate. It did not chart well in the US so that’s probably why Rick overlooked it for this list.

[@robsanz9746]

I read on the stream of that song someone wrote-"This song should be placed on the 'NO COVER' List", no Truer words were ever written. That woman sings it Perfectly. 💚

[@samwise413]

I just watched your one hit from 70's, 80's and now this. Brought back so many memories thank you

[@HistoryFromAScot]

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

[@alexonkow]

Two of my favorites being a kid in the 90s: OMC - How Bizarre Cornershop - Brimful of Asha

[@joeweaver9913]

Love that omc song and for a whole summer every radio station did too

[@alittlebitoflight]

'OMC' stood for Otara Millionaires Club. Otara is a very tough and rough suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It would be like saying, "Skid Row Country Club".

[@CharlieRootsMusic]

Gotta add super bon bon by soul coughing to this list myself

[@ronepting5030]

Brimful of Asha🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@yyxy.oncesaid]

R u a kiwi bro🇳🇿

[@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.

[@Steve-wp6qk]

I have that EMF "album" on cassette. Still pop it in every now and again. Very fun all the way thru!

[@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

[@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.

[@douglasiles2024]

There are so many others I can think of. Verve Pipe's "Freshman", The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony", "Fade Into You", by Mazzy Star, and "Cantaloop" by Us3, which incorporates some great trumpet work along with flowing lyrics and a nice beat.

[@rootyp]

I agree exactly with all the songs you just listed. Cheers!!

[@TheBake1986]

The Verve one-hit wonders? Are you insane!

[@pyenapple]

Verve are not one hit wonders. Nor Mazzy Star.

[@vcv6560]

That trumpet work is a sample from Herbie Hancock, mid 70s piece Cantaloupe Island. Still a great song I would add What is Love by Haddaway

[@reillywalker195]

The Verve had "Lucky Man" as a North American hit in 1998. That disqualifies them from this list. They also had hits back home in the United Kingdom in 1995 and 2007.

[@sonniej1948]

Sinéad O’Connor- Nothing compares to you Tag Team- Whomp there it is Right Said Fred - I’m too sexy 69 boys- Tootsie Roll Sir Mix-A-Lot- Baby got back House of Pain - Jump around Los Del Rios- The Macarena And that’s all I can remember from the 90s. 🎉

[@mattyf4i]

Extremely surprised The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony is not on here. Thought it would be top 5.

[@jessewatkins5059]

Technically it’s a cover

[@StevenBurnettZA]

Not a cover, just a sample. I think the rolling stones apologised in the end for being dicks about it

[@kimchibutter6922]

The verve were not one hit wonders

[@michaelkirkpatrick7483]

Yeah me too... maybe it's because Lucky Man had some chart success as well.

[@pjmburg]

Yeah when he said “but they lost the lawsuit” I assumed the verge was coming up

[@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!

[@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

[@Sunnijimelliott]

Zididada - Please Ya Lisa Probably the most underrated song of the 90s. Such a banger

[@alanwalton3322]

All of these take me right back. Couple others that come to mind are 'Laid' by James, 'Pepper' by Butthole Surfers, and 'Love Fool' by The Cardigans

[@warrenbutterfield4208]

Dead reckoning on these Alan. Good ones !!!!

[@andrewchapman4267]

James have been popular for decades but perhaps never quite cracked the US except for that one song then? Was Sit Down never a hit? That's easily their best known in the UK.

[@pyenapple]

James wasn’t a one hit wonder at all, nor Cardigans. Butthole Surfers are one of the most influential alt groups of all time, they only did a “pop” album as a perverse money grabbin joke

[@BarnabyWild13]

You’re not going to get Rick to say Butthole Surfers on camera.

[@JL-1123]

Wow, I haven't heard "Pepper" in probably 20 years, but apparently I still remember the lyrics in full...

[@kevintucker7606]

Great list, but I think Duncan Sheik's Barely Breathing could deserve a spot. Great lyrics, and a killer chorus. Brings back alot of memories from college 😊

[@its_just_berk]

great call!!! beautiful song.

[@aaronpermen5430]

Came here to say this! I was really hoping to see that song on the list. One of my favorites from that era.

[@codex-not-found]

Duncan sheik is so good 🥹 all those early albums are filled with absolute magic

[@loosilu]

I saw them open for Shawn Colvin at Hampton Beach, NH!

[@AlerieHightower]

I love that song so much. It was popular at a time when I was in love with someone who was unavailable, so it hit hard.