Soundtrack of my '98

On 03/17/2017 at 12:38 AM by Super Step

Since NWP is going back to '98 for Chrono Crossing, and it's also the year I started visiting CD Warehouse, and my birthday is a week from now (somehow relevant I guess), here's this list of singles I remember from that year or hearing later, whether I liked them or not (based on Wikipedia's probably-not-complete list):

3 AM by Matchbox Twenty

Ava Adore Smashing Pumpkins

Baby One More Time Britney Spears

Believe Cher

Celebrity Skin Hole (later)

Changes Tupac (later)

Chocolate Salty Balls Chef

Closing Time Semisonic

Come with Me Puff Daddy and Jimmy Page (Gojira! ... I actually kinda hated both this and the Green Day song on the '98 Godzilla soundtrack)

Doo Wop by Lauryn Hill (later)

The Dope Show Marilyn Manson

Dragula Rob Zombie

Backstreet's Back Backstreet Boys (I ONLY remember the chorus/intro; literally nothing else)

Faith Limp Bizkit

Flagpole Sitta Harvey Danger

Fly Away Lenny Kravitz

Gettin Jiggy With It Will Smith

Got the Life Korn

Ghetto Superstar by People I don't Know and ODB

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Green Day

Hard Knock Life Jay Z (only heard the chorus at time, would only hear rap part later)

Intergalactic Beastie Boys

Iris Goo Goo Dolls

Jumper Third Eye Blind

Just the Two Of Us Will Smith

Miami Will Smith

My Heart Will Go On Celine Dion (heard cause of Titanic)

My Hero Foo Fighters

Never There Cake

One Week Barenaked Ladies

Push It Garbage

The Rockafella Skank Fatboy Slim

Ruff Ryders DMX (thought this was 2000s, I swear)

Save Tonight Eagle Eye Cherry

Sex and Candy Marcy Playground

Slide Goo Goo Dolls

Sweetest Thing U2

The Unforgiven II Metallica (later)

This Kiss Faith Hill

Turn the Page Metallica

The Way Fastball

Weird Hanson (I barely remember it but I know I owned a couple of their albums, so ...)

Whiskey in the Jar Metallica

Songs from Mulan and Prince of Egypt

Bold songs = top 5 contenders

(later) = didn't hear them until later (out of top 5 contention automatically)

Albums I bought this year (the first I ever did) - 3 Car Garage, Hanson; Version 2.0 Garbage; I had MmBop, but I'm not sure when I bought it ...

Matt Snee Staff Writer

03/17/2017 at 11:58 AM

Oh god, not 1998! Kill me now!

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/17/2017 at 12:43 PM

Geez, man. I know the pop in the late 90s was extra bubble gum, but who hurt you?

03/17/2017 at 03:31 PM

honestly, dude? ha ha. You know what I was doing in the late nineties, early 2000's? I worked for a company called Signatures Network, which made merchandise for pop stars and rock stars like Britney spears. Britney Spears dolls and T-shirts? That was ground zero. I was so deep in the pop landscape, and I didn't realize until later how fucking insane it was. The best part was getting cool BEatles paraphernalia, like Yellow Submarine stuff. The bad parts were dealing with Yoko Ono, Sharon Osborne, and Britney's people, who couldn't deign to sign a contract for anything, but made promises out their asses.

Seriously though, other than to proliferation of boy bands, I prefer that era to the current one. But if you want to know why I hate pop, it's because I once helped it grow. :p

03/17/2017 at 04:10 PM

and I didn't mean to be harsh with my first comment, was trying to be more playful but the internet didn't convey that. :)

03/17/2017 at 08:27 PM

I forgot to add an lol at the end of my comment to convey the same. It happens.

That all makes sense though.

To my credit, the only boy band I was ever into played instruments. haha

KnightDriver

03/17/2017 at 09:47 PM

That Chef Aid album was really funny. I still think of that song "Simultaneous" and laugh.

03/17/2017 at 10:53 PM

Had to look that up. I only remember that song from the show. lol

goaztecs

03/22/2017 at 11:18 AM

Oh so many songs on currently on my phone and on my iPod. I think I don't have maybe three of the songs on this list. This was Chris roaming around SDSU, living in the dorms and having full advantage of cable internet. There's a cool version of Save Tonight done by Mindi Abair the saxophonist. Hole's album wasn't bad, Rockafella Skank reminds me of the movie She's All That, I used to listen to This Kiss a lot, Ruff Ryders Anthem was the song and I think my gateway into DMX, Third Eye Blind was on a roll in the late 90s, and Hard Knock Life. I must have been the only person who didn't know they sampled Annie.

03/22/2017 at 02:26 PM

I don't think I knew what Annie was at the time, just that it was the chorus of that song. I didn't know who Jay Z was or any of the verses either. I just heard that chorus a lot. lol

V4Viewtiful

04/03/2017 at 08:24 PM

I miss the 90s music, even the weak stuff was memorable.

04/03/2017 at 09:02 PM

What do you think of as the weak stuff? For me, some of the early 90s stuff in pop was pretty meh.

04/04/2017 at 08:44 PM

If I ignore the ballads (I have noting good to say about the ballads), there was a lot more diversity in terms of genre, and it all felt like novelty acts but they knew what they where.

The decade as a whole I like to call "the dark ages" but also a sort of renaissance for music,

I remember 90s pop as "harmless". Nostagia goggles I guess

PixlBit