I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" was originally released in 1988, but upon its inclusion in the "Benny and Joon" movie soundtrack, the energetic pop-rock tune became a '90s hit and is now a classic. Add to that, who would have thought itsvocalist would be the lead singer for post-grunge band Matchbox 20? Back during lockdown with everyone missing live music, Tim realised we all had the opportunity to take part in one great big listening party.

And the style traveled across the globe, too: Though Radiohead were by no means a grunge band, songs like “Creep” helped popularize the genre in the UK. With it, Springsteen creates an atmosphere of darkness and loneliness that still manages to maintain a sense of dignity. Lump" straddles the line between punk and bubblegum pop, and the result is one of the most insanely catchy songs of the decade. Blige – Real Love New Edition – If It Isn’t Love Seal – Kiss From a Rose TLC – Waterfalls TLC – No Scrubs Toni Braxton – Un-Break My Heart Tony! Jamaican-born Orville Burrell had a huge hit with "Boombastic," one of the first dancehall—a sub-genre of reggae—songs to break through to the American pop charts.It plays music from the 1990s, such as those from Blur, Oasis, Nirvana, Primal Scream, The Chemical Brothers, Radiohead, Portishead, Guns N' Roses and The Stone Roses among others.

Prior to 1995, Coolio was mostly known for lighter, more humorous hip-hop, which provided an alternative to West Coast gangsta rap. The Berlin Wall, the prime symbol of the Cold War, fell in November 1989, and Germany was reunited in 1990 after 45 years of separation.Heart 90s is a national digital radio station that broadcasts nationally on Digital One DAB from studios at Leicester Square in London. This band, led by Bob Dylan's son Jakob, spent over a year on the pop singles chart with this quiet masterpiece. Seal's perfectly balanced, acrobatic, romantic vocals make this otherwise simply pleasant song a work of art. African music continued to become a power player in the worldwide ecosystem in the 1990s, with superstars like Ali Farka Toure working with legendary American polymath Ry Cooder. On their second album, "The Score," the Fugees showed that hip-hop could be about much more than gangsters.

Jones" introduced music fans to the singer's amazing ability to tell a story within the context of a song. The year 1992 marked the beginning of the genocide in Bosnia and devastating riots in Los Angeles after the verdict in the Rodney King trial, in which three Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of King. The record's theme—a long night of lovemaking with a hitchhiker—was initially controversial, but at its core it's a fun fantasy straight out of a romance novel. Jakob Dylan's vocals have an alluring world-weariness that at times are a dead ringer for Tom Petty's voice.

The list of artists who dropped all-time albums during the 90s is pretty staggering, and it wasn’t limited to a particular coast, either. This was one of the most joy-filled hits of 1990, an atmosphere further enhanced by the accompanying video. The euro made its debut as the European currency in 1999, the world was worried about the Y2K bugas the millennium turned, and Panama got the Panama Canalback. Remixed in countless ways over the years, there has never been a more powerful expression of emotional and sexual longing in pop music than that at the core of "Missing. If country music in the 1980s was adrift, not quite sure of what it was supposed to be, it emerged full force in the following decade as a behemoth, signaling to industry insiders everywhere that the genre was once again on the rise.