Specific 90s music recommendations
March 16, 2018 7:31 PM Subscribe
I’m looking to add to a playlist that I use for a specific task. The most effective songs on this list so far are Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name, Filter’s Hey Man Nice Shot, God Lives Underwater’s All Wrong, and Nine Inch Nail’s Head Like a Hole. What else should I add? Snowflakes within.
So the music that works tends to have a good angry beat and some angsty/angry lyrics. I also have some more anthemic 70s rock on the list, but I’m looking for more of the 90s stuff.
What’s important though, and makes this harder to crowdsource, is that I have to know the music. It doesn’t have to be my favorite song - none of the above are - but it has to have had radio play in the 90s, enough that I’m familiar with it.
Music that doesn’t work so far is anything with a great driving beat but is also funky/groovy/dance. I thought that Operation Ivy would make the cut but I think it’s too fun.
What should I be looking for? It should make me feel like a 16-year old badass.
So the music that works tends to have a good angry beat and some angsty/angry lyrics. I also have some more anthemic 70s rock on the list, but I’m looking for more of the 90s stuff.
What’s important though, and makes this harder to crowdsource, is that I have to know the music. It doesn’t have to be my favorite song - none of the above are - but it has to have had radio play in the 90s, enough that I’m familiar with it.
Music that doesn’t work so far is anything with a great driving beat but is also funky/groovy/dance. I thought that Operation Ivy would make the cut but I think it’s too fun.
What should I be looking for? It should make me feel like a 16-year old badass.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
posted by ActionPopulated at 7:43 PM on March 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
posted by ActionPopulated at 7:43 PM on March 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Anything off 'nothing's shocking'
posted by j_curiouser at 7:58 PM on March 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by j_curiouser at 7:58 PM on March 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
* Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
* Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
* Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
* Violet - Hole
* Fight the Power - Public Enemy
* Enter Sandman - Metallica
* Smallpox Champion - Fugazi (maybe you don't know this one? But it's FUGAZI.)
* Jeremy - Pearl Jam
* Would - Alice in Chains
It was an angsty music decade.
posted by cnc at 8:03 PM on March 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
* Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
* Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins
* Violet - Hole
* Fight the Power - Public Enemy
* Enter Sandman - Metallica
* Smallpox Champion - Fugazi (maybe you don't know this one? But it's FUGAZI.)
* Jeremy - Pearl Jam
* Would - Alice in Chains
It was an angsty music decade.
posted by cnc at 8:03 PM on March 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
Dunno if this got airplay where you are. Got heaps on several of the radio stations I like.
Bring Me The Head Of - Magic Dirt
posted by flabdablet at 8:08 PM on March 16, 2018
Bring Me The Head Of - Magic Dirt
posted by flabdablet at 8:08 PM on March 16, 2018
Bad Religion? E.g., “Recipe for Hate?”
Maybe Hole, “Olympia” (or yeah, on preview, “Violet” might be slightly more angry and less fun)
I don’t think of Minor Threat as exactly being 90s or getting radio play, but if you wanted to try Operation Ivy, you might try a song like “Minor Threat” all the same
I assume you’ve listened to all the rest of NIN (“Broken?”) and Rage Against the Machine.
posted by salvia at 8:12 PM on March 16, 2018
Maybe Hole, “Olympia” (or yeah, on preview, “Violet” might be slightly more angry and less fun)
I don’t think of Minor Threat as exactly being 90s or getting radio play, but if you wanted to try Operation Ivy, you might try a song like “Minor Threat” all the same
I assume you’ve listened to all the rest of NIN (“Broken?”) and Rage Against the Machine.
posted by salvia at 8:12 PM on March 16, 2018
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (Aggro Mix)
The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:35 PM on March 16, 2018
The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:35 PM on March 16, 2018
Helmet's Unsung for sure.
Sepultura Refuse/Resist
Butthole Surfers Who Was In My Room Last Night?
posted by Ufez Jones at 8:44 PM on March 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
Sepultura Refuse/Resist
Butthole Surfers Who Was In My Room Last Night?
posted by Ufez Jones at 8:44 PM on March 16, 2018 [4 favorites]
I had to refresh my memory with some Spotify searches, but man... thanks mostly to the high school music tastes of my brother and a guy I worked with in a restaurant kitchen, all of this still lives in the corners of my brain:
• Nirvana, “Stay Away”
• Pearl Jam, “Blood”
• Stone Temple Pilots, “Naked Sunday”
• Soundgarden, “Jesus Christ Pose”
• Metallica, “Sad But True”
• Tool, “Stinkfist”
• Alice in Chains, “Man in the Box”
• Smashing Pumpkins, “Zero”
• Hole, “Violet”
• NIN, “The Perfect Drug”
• Bush, “Machinehead”
• The Chemical Brothers, “Setting Sun”
• The Prodigy, “Firestarter”
• Deftones, “My Own Summer (Shove It)”
• Rammstein, “Du Hast”
• Incubus, “Pardon Me”
• Korn, “Blind”
• Marilyn Manson, “The Beautiful People”
• Powerman 5000, “When Worlds Collide”
• Rob Zombie, “Dragula”
• Static X, “Push It”
• System of a Down, “Toxicity”
• KMFDM, “A Drug Against War”
posted by D.Billy at 9:06 PM on March 16, 2018 [6 favorites]
• Nirvana, “Stay Away”
• Pearl Jam, “Blood”
• Stone Temple Pilots, “Naked Sunday”
• Soundgarden, “Jesus Christ Pose”
• Metallica, “Sad But True”
• Tool, “Stinkfist”
• Alice in Chains, “Man in the Box”
• Smashing Pumpkins, “Zero”
• Hole, “Violet”
• NIN, “The Perfect Drug”
• Bush, “Machinehead”
• The Chemical Brothers, “Setting Sun”
• The Prodigy, “Firestarter”
• Deftones, “My Own Summer (Shove It)”
• Rammstein, “Du Hast”
• Incubus, “Pardon Me”
• Korn, “Blind”
• Marilyn Manson, “The Beautiful People”
• Powerman 5000, “When Worlds Collide”
• Rob Zombie, “Dragula”
• Static X, “Push It”
• System of a Down, “Toxicity”
• KMFDM, “A Drug Against War”
posted by D.Billy at 9:06 PM on March 16, 2018 [6 favorites]
NIN - Mr. Self Destruct and The Ruiner
posted by Autumnheart at 9:15 PM on March 16, 2018
posted by Autumnheart at 9:15 PM on March 16, 2018
The Crow Soundtrack
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box
Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls
Tea Party - Temptation
Elastica - Connection
Korn - Freak on a Leash
Cake - The Distance
Breeders - Cannonball
White Zombie - More Human Than Human
Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
Monster Magnet - Space Lord
Helmet - Unsung
Cranberries - Zombie
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks
Tool - Forty Six and Two
Faith No More - Epic
Stabbing Westward - Nothing
1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
KMFDM - Godlike
posted by A hidden well at 9:22 PM on March 16, 2018 [2 favorites]
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box
Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls
Tea Party - Temptation
Elastica - Connection
Korn - Freak on a Leash
Cake - The Distance
Breeders - Cannonball
White Zombie - More Human Than Human
Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
Whale - Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe
Monster Magnet - Space Lord
Helmet - Unsung
Cranberries - Zombie
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks
Tool - Forty Six and Two
Faith No More - Epic
Stabbing Westward - Nothing
1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
KMFDM - Godlike
posted by A hidden well at 9:22 PM on March 16, 2018 [2 favorites]
(I should have added above - I was in highschool in the early 90s and university in the mid-90s. My music taste leaned towards heavy and dark, but I didn't really have access to music except what was played on the radio - aka grunge - and mix-tapes from friends for goth/industrial. Your listed examples are still part of my 90s playlists)
posted by A hidden well at 9:25 PM on March 16, 2018
posted by A hidden well at 9:25 PM on March 16, 2018
Sugar, Helpless
PJ Harvey, Meet Ze Monsta
posted by the return of the thin white sock at 9:26 PM on March 16, 2018
PJ Harvey, Meet Ze Monsta
posted by the return of the thin white sock at 9:26 PM on March 16, 2018
Fun thread! Songs from my nostalgic 90s Spotify playlists that haven’t already been mentioned (but may fail the radio play stipulation):
Burn by The Cure
Mr. 44 by The Electric Hellfire Club
Suicide Jag by Chemlab
Motorskill by 16Volt
posted by liet at 9:30 PM on March 16, 2018
Burn by The Cure
Mr. 44 by The Electric Hellfire Club
Suicide Jag by Chemlab
Motorskill by 16Volt
posted by liet at 9:30 PM on March 16, 2018
Pantera - Walk
Ministry - Thieves
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
posted by mannequito at 9:37 PM on March 16, 2018
Ministry - Thieves
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
posted by mannequito at 9:37 PM on March 16, 2018
Not sure which of these you will know, but hopefully something will stick.
"The Sky is a Poisonous Garden Tonight" - Concrete Blonde
"Engel" & "Du Hast" - Rammstein
"The Swing" & "Local God" - Everclear
"Everything Zen" - Bush
"Vow" - Garbage
"Zero" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Fire in the Head" & "Inanna" & "Transmission" - The Tea Party
"Army of Me" - Bjork
"Straight" & "Shutterbug" - Veruca Salt
"Brick Shithouse" & "Every You Every Me" - Placebo
posted by Athanassiel at 9:39 PM on March 16, 2018 [2 favorites]
"The Sky is a Poisonous Garden Tonight" - Concrete Blonde
"Engel" & "Du Hast" - Rammstein
"The Swing" & "Local God" - Everclear
"Everything Zen" - Bush
"Vow" - Garbage
"Zero" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Fire in the Head" & "Inanna" & "Transmission" - The Tea Party
"Army of Me" - Bjork
"Straight" & "Shutterbug" - Veruca Salt
"Brick Shithouse" & "Every You Every Me" - Placebo
posted by Athanassiel at 9:39 PM on March 16, 2018 [2 favorites]
Oh yeah, and lots of NIN. Also not recommended yet, "Somewhat Damaged", "The Wretched", "No You Don't", "StarFuckers Inc".
posted by Athanassiel at 9:42 PM on March 16, 2018
posted by Athanassiel at 9:42 PM on March 16, 2018
I thought of another one! Save Yourself by Stabbing Westward (I definitely remember this song from the radio or MTV).
posted by liet at 9:43 PM on March 16, 2018
posted by liet at 9:43 PM on March 16, 2018
Butterfly Wings - Machines of Loving Grace
Push It - Garbage
posted by O9scar at 10:25 PM on March 16, 2018
Push It - Garbage
posted by O9scar at 10:25 PM on March 16, 2018
I have a similar playlist on Spotify Radio. It has come up with stuff like
Girls Against Boys Bassstation / Bullet Proof Cupid
Prodigy Firestarter
L7 - Pretend that we're dead
Eve 6 Inside Out
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
7Mary3 - Cumbersome
Silverchair
Tool
Stereophonics - Devil
Jesus and Mary Chain
Fluke - Atom Bomb
Elastica - Stutter
Bush - Machinehead
Violent Femmes
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Seether
posted by fshgrl at 10:26 PM on March 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Girls Against Boys Bassstation / Bullet Proof Cupid
Prodigy Firestarter
L7 - Pretend that we're dead
Eve 6 Inside Out
Toadies - Possum Kingdom
7Mary3 - Cumbersome
Silverchair
Tool
Stereophonics - Devil
Jesus and Mary Chain
Fluke - Atom Bomb
Elastica - Stutter
Bush - Machinehead
Violent Femmes
Meat Puppets - Backwater
Seether
posted by fshgrl at 10:26 PM on March 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Skunk Anansie “Weak” (and the rest for the first 2 albums)
posted by boffin police at 10:42 PM on March 16, 2018
posted by boffin police at 10:42 PM on March 16, 2018
A few more:
Blur, Song 2
Veruca Salt, Seether
Foo Fighters, Everlong and Monkey Wrench
Soul Asylum, Somebody to Shove
Alice in Chains, Would?
Silverchair, Tomorrow
Collective Soul, Shine
Nada Surf, Popular
posted by the return of the thin white sock at 10:49 PM on March 16, 2018
Blur, Song 2
Veruca Salt, Seether
Foo Fighters, Everlong and Monkey Wrench
Soul Asylum, Somebody to Shove
Alice in Chains, Would?
Silverchair, Tomorrow
Collective Soul, Shine
Nada Surf, Popular
posted by the return of the thin white sock at 10:49 PM on March 16, 2018
Garbage - Only Happy When it Rains
Drowning Pool - Bodies
posted by Weeping_angel at 10:53 PM on March 16, 2018
Drowning Pool - Bodies
posted by Weeping_angel at 10:53 PM on March 16, 2018
Ooh! Thought of another one. This is fun!
The Prodigy - Breathe
posted by Weeping_angel at 11:01 PM on March 16, 2018
The Prodigy - Breathe
posted by Weeping_angel at 11:01 PM on March 16, 2018
"Guilty"-- Gravity Kills
Hideaway soundtrack
Mortal Kombat soundtrack and More Kombat
posted by Boxenmacher at 11:17 PM on March 16, 2018
Hideaway soundtrack
Mortal Kombat soundtrack and More Kombat
posted by Boxenmacher at 11:17 PM on March 16, 2018
Okay, I swear I’ll wait til I’m sure I’m done to hit post this time...
Linkin Park - In the End
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Godsmack - Voodoo
Disturbed - Down With the Sickness
posted by Weeping_angel at 11:29 PM on March 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Linkin Park - In the End
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Godsmack - Voodoo
Disturbed - Down With the Sickness
posted by Weeping_angel at 11:29 PM on March 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Soak, "Shutter Gut" and "Me Compassionate"
(This thread is like being in high school and college all over again. In a good way.)
posted by wintersweet at 11:46 PM on March 16, 2018
(This thread is like being in high school and college all over again. In a good way.)
posted by wintersweet at 11:46 PM on March 16, 2018
Snog - Shop
Ministry - TV Song (ideally “TV II” which backed Jesus Built...)
Lab 4 - Dingaling (or Contact London)
posted by pompomtom at 3:32 AM on March 17, 2018
Ministry - TV Song (ideally “TV II” which backed Jesus Built...)
Lab 4 - Dingaling (or Contact London)
posted by pompomtom at 3:32 AM on March 17, 2018
I think it may have been early 2000 but Linkin Park "One Step Closer". Or almost anything from their first 2 albums.
posted by pianissimo at 6:10 AM on March 17, 2018
posted by pianissimo at 6:10 AM on March 17, 2018
To the excellent suggestions so far I'll add:
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Unwound - Negated
Hoover - Distant
Drive Like Jehu - Golden Brown
Drive Like Jehu - Caress
posted by saladin at 6:17 AM on March 17, 2018
Alice in Chains - Them Bones
Unwound - Negated
Hoover - Distant
Drive Like Jehu - Golden Brown
Drive Like Jehu - Caress
posted by saladin at 6:17 AM on March 17, 2018
Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM...
What you really want is the Wax Trax! catalog. All this 90s industrial? It's here.
Black Box Vol 1 is a good start.
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, Meat Beat Manifesto, Front Line Assembly, FRONT 242 how can we be missing this...
And, of course, 1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut (featuring Trent Reznor... maybe...).
(I also didn't see NIN's March of the Pigs on the list)
posted by JoeZydeco at 6:41 AM on March 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
What you really want is the Wax Trax! catalog. All this 90s industrial? It's here.
Black Box Vol 1 is a good start.
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Revolting Cocks, Meat Beat Manifesto, Front Line Assembly, FRONT 242 how can we be missing this...
And, of course, 1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut (featuring Trent Reznor... maybe...).
(I also didn't see NIN's March of the Pigs on the list)
posted by JoeZydeco at 6:41 AM on March 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
I may repeat, basically due to the fact that I don't feel like reading all of the other answers, but
Did It For the Nookie and Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit
Dead Bodies Everywhere by Korn
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (aka despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage) by Smashing Pumpkins
Down With the Sickness by Disturbed
I Hate Everything About You by Ugly Kid Joe
Pretty much anything by Rob Zombie or Prodigy
posted by the webmistress at 7:43 AM on March 17, 2018
Did It For the Nookie and Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit
Dead Bodies Everywhere by Korn
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (aka despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage) by Smashing Pumpkins
Down With the Sickness by Disturbed
I Hate Everything About You by Ugly Kid Joe
Pretty much anything by Rob Zombie or Prodigy
posted by the webmistress at 7:43 AM on March 17, 2018
Woke up today realizing I forgot to add:
Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
posted by A hidden well at 12:33 PM on March 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
posted by A hidden well at 12:33 PM on March 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Several people have mentioned Metallica, but I don't think anyone's mentioned Master of Puppets.
posted by MexicanYenta at 7:25 PM on March 17, 2018
posted by MexicanYenta at 7:25 PM on March 17, 2018
The entirety on Earth 2. EDIT: Almost forgot Melvins - Bullhead.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 7:29 AM on March 18, 2018
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 7:29 AM on March 18, 2018
Ministry - Stigmata ( especially the live version.)
Nirvana - In Bloom.
Jane's Addiction - Ted, Just Admit It.
posted by Jacob G at 11:49 AM on March 18, 2018
Nirvana - In Bloom.
Jane's Addiction - Ted, Just Admit It.
posted by Jacob G at 11:49 AM on March 18, 2018
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White Zombie is a bit of a latecomer but may fit in?
Skinny Puppy sure gives me flashbacks to being a sullen nineties twentysomething.
posted by egypturnash at 7:35 PM on March 16, 2018 [3 favorites]