Notice the criteria for BI is the song has to embody the 90's and the artists have to had not outdone their 90's fame.
My favorite in the list is Sublime - What I got
And I would probably have to add (Everclear - Everything to Everyone)[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1vQJFF2TKQ]
Ice Ice Baby and U Can't Touch This were both released in 1990 and set the stage for what was to follow in the sense that, hip hop was about to get "gangster" as the anti-MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. Much like hair bands spawned grunge as their antithesis, those two helped spawn gangsta. As a kid I was ready for grunge. It hit while I was 15 years old and full of angst. Now, looking back I actually love a bunch of those hair bands music. Bands like Van Halen were all about "fun". Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes I miss good ole rock and roll about partying and girls and not how misunderstood you are.
My favorite on the list is Cake. I used that song in the #tngpodcast about running and it fit perfectly IMO.
Funny how "cake" keeps coming up, eh, tng?
haha good call, it has been a topic of late. Lets see if anything else pops up.
It took two people to write this terrible, terrible article. -- The most '90s song of the '90s, if I understand correctly what that means, was always going to be Smells Like Teen Spirit; I don't even like Nirvana much and I still acknowledge that. Personally, I'd stick Black on there.
I was really responding to only a portion of your response: So, I was coming at it sideways with a little bit of an ageist dig, with no malice behind it. I've seen a lot of comments in various forums along the lines of, "I don't get why Nirvana is so great, they sound like all the other alternative bands." I suspect that if many of the people posting comments like that had been alive and aware at the time, they would realize that that's only partly true. Yes, Nirvana does sound a lot like other bands that were their contemporaries, whether it's because they were influenced by those bands or they were the influence, but it's clear that many bands after Nirvana were strongly influenced by them. Also, while Nirvana was huge, they're really more representative of the first half of the decade, before the more polished, radio friendly and pop friendly alternative bands, including that whole ska punk thing out of California, the UK alternative stuff and all the stuff on college radio, started to enter the broader public's awareness. At least, that's how it seemed to me.I don't even like Nirvana much and I still acknowledge that.