The 90s threw up some diabolical music, besides all the bands that jumped on the grunge bandwagon, we had to put up with pap rappers like Vanilla Ice and Snow. But can you think of 10 songs that really annoyed the fxxk out of you then and even now. I can, here they are.

10. Breakfast at Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something 1996?
God this was annoying, a one hit wonder and played to death on AOR and MOR stations, it wasn't even very good as middle of the road adult contemporary crap.

9. Where have all the cowboys gone - Paula Cole 1996/97?
Ridiculous Alanis Morrisette wannabe, with ridiculous lyrics (I'm gonna get you ready in my 57 chevy), and lyrics that put womens lib back in the 50s, "I'll get the coffee, you go have a beer"

8. Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin 1996?
Another horrendous Morrisette rip off with a silly song about Sunny coming home, did big business in the midst of Morrisette mania.

7. Touch me, Tease Me - Case 1995/96
Had the lyrics, "You're the only one for me in my 94 Wrangler Jeep", need I say more. R Kelly and a lot of inferior Da Brat/Jermaine Dupri type stop start rap with that annoying ping pong beat came out of this.

6. Two Times - Ann Lee 1999
This song is memorable for its stop start beat, and the fact like 13 whole different words feature in the lyrics, including a line that sounds like "Me and Tea Leone we the only ones". However this is probably not the correct lyrics.

5. The One and Only - Chesney Hawkes 1991
Generic pop crap carried on by an English guy who thought he was a huge star on his first and only hit. Apparently his family was the whole fan club.

4. Macarena - Los Del Mar 1996
The original was bad enough, but this was a low grade remake by the apparent creators of this song was insuffrable

3. Mambo No 5 - Lou Bega 1998/99
Face it people it wasn't that great, this was truly tacky then and now.

2. Who am I, where am I? - Jesus Jones 1991
Just to prove I am not only bashing the late 90s, the early 90s stunk too, the first hit Right here, right now was bad enough, but the za zen zahaha part of this song was justifiable torture.

1. Pump it, pump it nice and hard - Icy Blu 1991
Totally dreadful made for label pop rap made by an unknown girl who was trying to outdo Vanilla Ice in the cheesiness stakes, she had the one hit, which made Carmen Electra and Tony M look like MC Lyte and Ice Cube. Can anyone remember this


So can you guys think of some 90s hits worse than Spunilla Ice. I did.
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[Snip - luv4u]

I recently made a list of my 100 least favorite songs ever. The 90s had about half.

I love "Touch Me, Tease Me" and I really like "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

Moonbeam said:

Can we see it, where is it, was Icy Blu on it

Huggiebear said:

Man, that was a great tune! wtf...

I'd like to add

11. Saturday Night (Wighfield)
Catchy but silly as hell... di-di da-da-dá

12.Boom Boom Boom Boom (Vengaboys)
My ears & mind were raped like 100 times during the summer of 1998
Songs like this killed any trace of respectability for the late-90s Eurodance...


13.Always (Bon Jovi)
Or the sad document of how a good 80s rock band sold their souls to pop ballads with truly cheesy lyrics...on top of that, the video was the most annoying of the early 90s...

14.Spice Up Your Life (Spice Girls)
They tried too hard...the song WAS silly & the latin melody completely forced; a second rate single that killed their career...for good...

Huggiebear said:

Huge hit for a reason: good song.

Huggiebear said:

Far from an Alanis wannabe. She had another hit song with "I Don't Wanna Know", which put a lot of money in her pocket by being the theme to Dawson's Creek.

Huggiebear said:

Far from another Alanis wannabe ( ). "Sunny Came Home" was Song of the Year, and Record of the Year. Perk up your ears.

No one wants to be Alanis, or like her. It's juvenile when someone tries to attack a singer and resort to some school yard rant about "they're just jealous" or "they're a wannabe". They sounded NOTHING like Alanis anyway. Alanis has unique of a voice as Macy Gray. How Paula Cole or Shawn Colvin was trying to "be" like Alanis is beyond me.

And do your homework. Alanis was done w/ her tour and record by December 1996, and off to India to get away from it all. "Sunny Came Home" wasn't released until June 1997. (I worked in a major record store chain when those 1997 songs hit, and Alanis was nowhere around. No one was buying her stuff.) Shawn Colvin is a folk/pop singer, not a rock singer like Alanis was becoming. Totally different vocal and music styles, and genres.

"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" was released March 1997, and was recorded in 1995, the same year "You Oughta Know" was released, which means neither knew who the other was when they wrote their songs, giving your "wannabe" accusation no merit.

JoeTyler said:

Agreed. It was way over-produced. Too much, too soon. I too believe that song killed it for them. Plus it was in that fucking Pepsi commercial. They should have released "Stop" or any other track as a lead single.

Huggiebear said:

Well that line was packed with frustration and disappointment, so it wasn't settin' back nuthin'.

That's still a good song, to me.

Huggiebear said:

Funny thing is I know some high school kids who partied to this song like a "throwback" joint

JoeTyler said:

"Sunny Came Home" is one of the best songs of the 90s.

Hudson said:

I didn't get into it very much, but objectively I can agree.

ernestsewell said:

MEOW!!!!!, Number 8, was around in 1996, as I had a friend who mentioned her, Cole, Brooks and others all as tacky Alanis rip offs in a letter dated August 1996, so Colvin must have had another song out in 1996. I was only 19/20 in 1996 and was listening to a lot of the music including working as a DJ for campus radio, playing soul classics on an evening slot. Number 10 is a matter of opinion I think as well, it was not a great song unless you like Michael Boltonish/The Heights/Maroon 5 type white AOR music. I think it sucked and so do a lot of other people. [Snip - luv4u]
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I love Breakfast at Tiffany's

Huggiebear said:

Huggiebear said:

Don't turn into a bitch because someone challenges you. I'm on topic. You went off by going off.

I've yet to hear Michael Bolton sound like Maroon 5 or vice versa. If Maroon 5 sounds like anyone on their last album, it was PRINCE, Linn-1 included. I sometimes wonder what you're listening to or how you're listening to it.

Hanson -'MMMBop' - WTF? I still don't know what half of those lyrics are talking about and I still don't get the 'greatness' that was Hanson.

Eiffel 65 - 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' - Seriously, WTF?

Paula Abdul - 'Will You Marry Me?' - But she got to host 'American Idol'? What were Tiffany and Deborah Gibson busy? This is what too much money and spare time will do to a person.

CRASH TEST DUMMIES - 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' - Uh, yeah. And there I was studying hard to get into vet school when I could have just wrote down some assinine shit and sold it to some record company and probably made a mint. What the hell was I thinking?

Hudson said:

Agreed.

"Macarena" was real ridiculous though. And I used to love that Case song. Mainly because of the "PSK" sample and Mary J on it lol
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I'll take Icy Blue-bad over Macarena-bad any day!

TonyVanDam said:

Honestly who really liked that song?

That was one of the most ridiculous songs of any era.

estelle81 said:

"Will You Marry Me?" makes "Dancing Queen" sound like "Straight Out of Compton."

I agree. "Will You Marry Me" sucked. Paula's career in the '80s had a lot with finding a good producer. "Forever Your Girl" was her best album. Whatever she released after that fell behind though "Spellbound" had a few good songs on it. But that song was horrid.

Huggiebear said:

Those lyrics are not even in the song. "Wrangler Jeep"? Are you sure you were listening to the right song back in '96?

mrjun18 said:

Yeah it was "feel me and caress me". I don't remember "Wrangler Jeep" being in the lyrics at all.

Hudson said:

Timmy84 said:

Maybe he's thinking about the R. Kelly song 'You Remind Me Of Something'. That was some ridiculous lyrics right there too but it's R. Kelly so it's to be a little expected. The beat was hot though.

estelle81 said:

True.

estelle81 said:

He never said "Wrangler Jeep" in that song.