Weekend Warm-Up No. 13: We Love The ’90s

–Words and list by Kevin Madert

Perhaps no decade in the last half-century is as nostalgized and obsessed over than the 1990s. Sure, we still enjoy many things from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, but the ’90s possess some inexplicable, unquantifiable hold over us. Nowhere is this more evident than in the decade’s contributions to the world of music. For me, that made constructing this playlist a hell of a task, so I made an executive decision. Rather than pick ten upbeat tunes to encapsulate my relationship with the entire decade, I picked the first ten tracks of what in my mind is a much larger list – one you’ll see more of if you continue tuning in for our Warm-Ups.

Kicking it off with Smash Mouth (probably not the song you’re thinking of!) we take a jolly ten-stop jaunt through the final ten years of the millennium. Chances are by the time you’re bobbing your head Butabi-style to the final tune you’ll have no clue what year it is – and if your love of the decade is as fervent as many often espouse, that’ll be just fine.

Tracklist:

Smash Mouth – Come On, Come On
Better Than Ezra – Good
Counting Crows – Rain King
Weezer – Holiday
Spacehog – In The Meantime
Collective Soul – Shine
Matchbox Twenty – Real World
Del Amitri – Roll To Me
Goldfinger – Superman
Haddaway – What Is Love