Co-produced by Meat Loaf collaborator Jim Steinman, and featuring a relatively rare lead vocal from Howard Donald, it's a bombastic yet poignant pop anthem featuring uncommonly self-aware lyrics. And who doesn’t wanna get loaded and have a good time? Like Roberta Flack’s heartbreaking original in the ’70s, ‘Killing Me Softly’ sat at Number One in the UK charts for five weeks. An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs. Nirvana weren’t the only ’90s act to thumb their noses at the mainstream after releasing a breakthrough album. Her new-found pop smarts allowed Le Tigre to smuggle radical ideas into the mainstream, and their outspoken stance was a massive influence on noughties rock icons like Beth Ditto and Karen O, giving ‘Deceptacon’ a surprisingly enduring afterlife for a band with lyrics like ‘Your disco dick is sucking my heart out of my mind.’Beating off stiff competition from half a dozen superb Thom Yorke’s merry men started the ’90s as a crunchy, Americanised alt rock band called On A Friday. Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor. ‘Juicy’ works because Biggy balances his history of Bed-Stuy poverty so precisely against the braggadocious trappings of fame and fortune (including a Super Nintendo and a Sega Genesis – a reference that now sounds as quaint as the Sugarhill Gang’s ‘hotel, motel, Holiday Inn’). The classic existential Britpop banger, ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ is an indispensable ’90s tune for three reasons. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon!Dust off that Discman: from Britpop to hip hop and R&B to riot grrrl, we’ve picked the 50 best songs of the 1990sAs Charli XCX and Troye Sivan scale the charts with a song that sings the praises of 1999, it looks as though '90s nostalgia is here to stay. More Oh, and let's not forget 'Connection' always sounded great soundtracking Dom Joly's turn-of-the-millennium comedy show 'Trigger Happy TV'. All over the TV, all over the radio, all over the school yard. More Anger, despondency, pain and chaos ripped through a million bedrooms as we listened to Cobain wail, scream and howl lyrics that were as confusing as they were powerful: ‘A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido… hey.’ What the fuck?There’s one more thing that makes ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ the song of the decade, and that’s Samuel Bayer’s now iconic video.

‘Pony’ is a lesson in the art of the euphemism. One of several chart-bothering singles from their epic double album ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’, ‘1979’ is a beautiful, bittersweet slice of teenage Americana (all sweet rides, 7/11s and gentle ennui), perfectly matched in mood and tone by its cracking Amyl nitrite – or ‘poppers’ to the layman – wasn’t actually the drug of choice for Brett Anderson’s glammed-up Britpop troupe. For detailed information on how Billboard compiled the charts, see the Wikipedia article "Disclaimer: Much of the information available is external to our website. Who cares? Dust off that Discman: from Britpop to hip hop and R&B to riot grrrl, we’ve picked 50 of the very best '90s songs. ‘Sure Shot’ is impossible to resist: a funky flute loop, a killer break, the Beasties’ trademark trick of shouting the last word of every line TOGETHER and – let’s not forget – some stone cold hip hop chops too. Okay, so they’re a bit cack these days – and slaphead dictator-in-chief Billy Corgan’s mewling vibrato has always been an acquired taste – but for a time there in the mid-’90s the Pumpkins could do no wrong.

Get us in your inbox All rights reserved. Taken from her debut album ‘Down To Earth’, the banging extended mix of ‘It’s a Shame’ pairs a melody from ’70s soul outfit The (Detroit) Spinners with the guitar riff from Sister Sledge’s ‘He’s the Greatest Dancer’. But while you probably don't want to revisit dial-up internet or MiniDisc players anytime soon, the music from the era remain energising and exciting. A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment. Classement des meilleures ventes de singles et titres en France du 11 mai 1990 au 17 mai 1990. - a cover. Were The Prodigy ‘proper’ dance music? It’s all there in the title track, a primal howl of electrified blues-rock that’s equal parts lovesick wail and feminist stomp. Not in the slightest. Equipped with extra feelgood sax, this empowered tune briefly gave Monie a lead role in the conscious pro-women hip hop movement alongside Queen Latifah. I mean, who doesn’t wanna be free to do what we wanna do. Like the Seattle superstars on ‘In Utero’, Dorset’s very own Polly Jean Harvey turned to punk rock recording engineer Steve Albini (known for his raw, unvarnished sound) for her second album ‘Rid of Me’. Cunning bastard. The biggest single from Kim Deal’s post-Pixies rockers, ‘Cannonball’ is a bona fide indie anthem complete with seesaw verses, etch-a-sketch guitars and headbanging chorus. His 1995 album ‘Timeless’ is a landmark in the evolution of electronic music, taking jungle from the dancefloor to the coffee table without compromise – and the vocal-led ‘Inner City Life’ was its clear stand out track. This one-hit wonder from one-man-band White Town (aka Jyoti Mishra) topped the UK charts in 1997, bewitching listeners with little more than some squelching pop beats and a dusty old trumpet sample from a 1930s Al Bowlly song. Déjà vu! The crossover song that gave the titans the keys to the stadium. Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

It was big, not-at-all clever and loads of fun. We already have this email. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! TOP 50 Musiques des Années 80 Musiques les + écoutées > Accueil HM80 TOP 50 Musiques des Années 80. Surely that’s got to count as an achievement. John McClane attempts to avert disaster as rogue military operatives seize control of Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.