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my picks 4 the minute:

Losing My Religion - REM

Too Funky - George Michael

Vision of Love / Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey

Too Many Walls - Cathy Dennis

I Don't Want to - Toni Braxton

Dreams - Gabrielle

Don't Let Go / Too Gone, Too Long - En Vogue

Too Much of A Good Thing - Kylie

Weak - SWV

Milk - Garbage

Creep - TLC

Hold On - Wilson Phillips

Truly Madly Deeply / 2 The Moon & Back - Savage Garden

Don't Wanna Fight No More - Tina Turner

Say You Will Be There / Stop - Spice Girls

As - George Michael & Mary J Blige

I Have Nothing - Whitney

Somebody's Crying - Chris Isaac

..2 be continued
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Mariah Carey dominated the 90's scene hands down.

Babyface dominated the 90's scene as far as producing's concern, although I'm not fond of his work, he sure was BALLING back then

Rembrandts - "I`ll be there for you"

Eternal ft. BeBe Winans - "I wanna be the only one"

Michael Jackson - "Black & white" & "You are not alone"

Janet Jackson - "Together again" & "That`s the way love goes"

Sinead O`Connor - "Nothing compares to you"

Oasis - "Wonderwall"

Sixpence non the richer - "Kiss me"

Hanson - "Mmmbop" (Crap, but still 90s...)

All saints - "Never ever"

Whitney Houston - "I will always love you" & "My love is your love"

Spice girls - "Wannabe"

Annie Lennox - "Walking on broken glass" & "Why"

M people - "Moving on up"

Toni Braxton - "Unbreak my heart"

Cher - "The shoop shoop song" & "BELIEVE"

I would certainly say:

Smells Like Teen Spirit-Nirvana(regardless of whether some people care for this song or not, it probably had the most impact of any song from the '90s)

Many of the songs by 2pac(even though he is not a particular favorite of mine, theres no denying the impact he had on hip-hop during the decade and beyond)

All of the teen pop acts of the late '90s(Britney,Backstreet Boys,Nsync',98 degrees,Christina). Yes I know that they can hardly be considerd 'gems' as far as the actual songs go, but their sheer dominance during this time period did sum up a part of this decade whether positive or negative.

I would also include from the late '90s the big latin explosion that took place with the songs from such stars as Ricky Martin,Jennifer Lopez,Enrique Iglesias and many others from both in the U.S. and abroad with 'Livin La Vida Loca' probably summing up the whole late '90s latin craze the best.
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I think of the ninties as a great decade for both dance music and alt rock, although it was also the end of those two genres as well.

There were the gods like Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, the Cure, and Soundgraden of course but I also have fond memories of tracks by Frank Black solo, the Lemonheads, Hole, the Breeders, Juliana Hatfield, and others. It's too bad that Sirius doesn't have a channel just deovted to ninties alt rock...I guess XM does, though.

Also, in dance music, Madonna ruled with "Vogue" the single and "Erotica" as a full album, even if she did flake off and get all AC in the middle ninties after the brilliant R&B album "Bedtime Stories". She definately made electronic music pop into the mainstream with "ROL". But even acts like Black Box and Cathy Dennis, to name only two dance acts with names and more than one hit made dance pop great.

Not a bad decade for real R&B divas with SWV, Mary J,, TLC, Babyface (as producer/writer more than performer) and Janet releasing her most R&B-esque albums in that decade, with "janet." and "The Velvet Rope".

It took a few years but the ninties have defined themseleves...I'd hate to think what we will look back on fondly in this decade.
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K D Lang - Constant Craving

The Cranberries - Linger

Lisa Loeb - Stay

The '90s were defined variously from its early,mid and late years. The early '90s were defianetly the time when the so called 'grunge' and 'alternative' music scene really came into mainstream culture, which pretty much continued through the mid '90s before running out of steam, at least from the mainstream point of view. Then in the mid through the late '90s you had the whole 'post-punk' and 'teen pop' scene flooding pop culture along with the 'rock-rap' genre. Hip-hop was probably the only genre which was able to hold on to its listening audience all the way throughout the decade, gaining more and more popularity as the decade wore on.