Top Hundred Songs Of The 90s -

– “The song every outsider needed. Radiohead hated it. So did we, at first. Then we realized: that was the point.”

I was twelve when the 90s ended. Old enough to remember the last gasps of grunge on MTV, young enough that my strongest musical memory was the Digimon theme song. Rick, on the other hand, had been seventeen in 1990. He’d lived it: flannel from Goodwill, Doc Martens held together with safety pins, a mixtape collection that required its own shelving unit. top hundred songs of the 90s

The binder contained The Ultimate Top Hundred Songs of the 1990s , as determined by him and his three best friends—Maya, Jerome, and “Crazy” Craig—during a marathon argument on New Year’s Eve 1999. They’d stayed up all night, fueled by Surge and cheap vodka, listening to a five-disc changer and yelling about whether “Smells Like Teen Spirit” deserved the top spot (yes) or if it was overexposed (Craig’s losing argument). – “The song every outsider needed

– “Best music video of the decade. Best opening riff. Best song to speed through a tunnel to.” Then we realized: that was the point

He laughed—a real, rusty laugh. “We tried in 2009. Got to song #92. Craig suggested ‘Hey Ya!’ and we all just… stopped. It wasn’t the same. The binder got put away.”