Posted on 03/22/2018 1:52:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan
How can I tell I'm getting old? My go-to music choices don't even come close to popular music currently topping the charts. When I drive my son to preschool, I proudly blast the classic rock station -- which now plays music from the 1990s. If listening to the likes of Pearl Jam and U2 makes me an old fogey? I can deal with that.
Perhaps this is something my parents would have argued a few decades ago, but I firmly believe that there is a good amount of music from the '90s that was so solid it will never be outdated. And I can't say that for much of what I hear on popular radio stations today.
If not for anything but a bit of nostalgia, let's take a look at the top songs from the '90s that still hold their own, shall we?
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Dr. Hook, Jungle to the Zoo.
“McNamara, not Morrison”
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McNamara played the triangle for the Doors - little known fact.
Santana (w/ Rob Thomas) - Smooth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc
No Doubt - Don’t Speak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLseYM-IXC4
Yes. Yes.
Hang On Sloopy, the McCoys - 70’s version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0xJpi9rK8
I only like and listen to often by choice Under the Bridge. Love that song about heroin and LA and the dark choices Anthony used to (not buying the tense tho) make.
I stopped paying attention to pop music in 1989. Thats the year Rush first aired on KFI.
RHCP suffered a fair amount of overplay and so there aren’t too many of their better-known songs that I care to hear anymore, but there are some great ones that didn’t get played to death. For instance, “Wet Sand.” Try that one.
True. Not remembering Wet Sand but will give it a listen. Even overplayed, what I love about them is the aura they give off. A non singing major lead singer. It works. Weird.
“Keith Richards gave us the cokin’, coconut-conkin’ incident.”
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He didn’t see the “No snorting in the trees” sign.
“Watch Out For Falling Stones”
Two great songs featuring the late Kelly Groucutt.
I absolutely love this one, "One Summer Dream". I thought this song would have been perfect for Jeff's fellow Traveling Willbury, Roy Orbison, to cover.
One Summer Dream
And, since the geezerplex (lol) has taken over this thread on 90’s music with all the 70’s reminiscing, here's something from 1973 that's really awesome but I'll bet you've never heard it before, well, not this version at least.
Rap and hip hop are not music.
“Just a Girl” by No Doubt. I’ve been in love with Gwen Stefani ever since. It plays regularly on Pop Rocks Channel 17 Sirius/XM.
Jim Morrison’s dad also gave us Jim Morrison, can’t blame that on McNamara
You put the lime in the coconut
Lauren you should check out the '80s, even better.
Yeah love that one too.
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