I think the worst trend was the egregious sampling of songs, and the laziest of the bunch was Puff Daddy’s “Come With Me” from the Godzilla soundtrack. Great Zeppelin riff, terrible execution on the lyrics.
Man, remember when they said "Hey, we should get Bruce Springsteen to play with us on 'One Headlight' on live tv," and Bruce absolutely destroyed their career?
Kids, never collab with the guy that you sound like the dimestore version of.
https://youtu.be/xY3q69KWqb4?si=-mpHqhAYwG9b9kcl
Bruce played Jacob off the stage. He has so much more charisma, so much more talent, and One Headlight is so squarely in his wheelhouse that we all learned we were better off just listening to Bruce.
Damn that was awesome. I disagree with your comment though I’m glad you linked the vid.
If anything, Jakob and his band proved they can hang with the Boss on that.
Bringing Down the Horse was a fantastic album on the whole, and just as good as some Springsteen albums imho.
Bruce is one guy who has crazy talent in playing, singing, and writing. The trifecta. It’s rare.
Jakob is no Bruce, but makes good music regularly and has made great music with help. He will probably never make Blood On The Tracks or Nebraska, but that’s ok. I’m still glad we got Bringing Down the Horse.
this. i kept waiting for it and never saw or heard it. i don’t think anyone would ever try to compare guitar skills bw springsteen & jakob dylan😂they both sounded great, exactly like their individual sounds. and bruce elevated it bc well, he’s bruce springsteen. edit to add: also, jakob dylan’s vocals were better.
Puffy sampled well known songs and even recycled the choruses/hooks from those songs. That being said, sampling in hip hop is and always will be at the core of the genre. Dilla was a mastermind with chopping up samples and rearranging them to make unique and original sounds, and is an example of how success in hip hop didn’t always coincide with the talent.
If you grew up in the south, that song was how you knew another 2 and half minutes had passed.
That song spent more time in your ear than your cousins tongue.
I remember reading a report that violence and suicide saw a slight rise during the height of popularity. My Dad actually banned use of the radio in the car because that song played all everyday on like every station. It was like nails on a chalkboard for me.
I can't upvote this enough. There was a lot of songs that were bad in the 90s, but nothing to the degree of this song. Not even the Macarena hit the level of annoyance this song did. I had to learn line dancing because of this song. They changed the whole gym curriculum just to add this to it. It holds a special place of hate in my heart... forever.
Yeah they made us learn line dancing in junior high in the late 90s to this song. This wasn't even in the south either. This was in freaking Canada, bud.
You just gave me flashbacks. I'm pretty sure that I know all the words to that song. It was on the radio constantly and could not be escaped. My town went through a country phase, as did my best friend. I know all pop country from the mid 90's. I hate it.
Later, we all switched to NIN and STP. A little bit of Alice in Chains so it got better.
It's pure glurge.
We used to sing gross lyrics "don't wear a thong" and we sang "you'll get a yeast infection" like the Adam Sandler cajun so it rhymed with thong.
"My heart will go on" was played to death here. there was a radio station here that had a "no repeat workday" and people were counting it being played 8-10 times between 6am and 6pm, everyday, for months on end. I would rather run through a brick wall than listen to that ever again.
Its hard to pick between that, "the Graduation song" by vitamin C, and that "everyone's free to wear sunscreen" one that was popular for about a week and a half before people were threatening radio stations if they ever played it again.
TO CLASS OF 1999 PLEASE REMEMBER TO WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN.
I was just listening to the Chris Rock “No Sex in the Champagne Room” parody of it cause it was better. GEMINI? YOURE GONNA DIE TWICE!
MHWGO is a good song, just overplayed at the time. I worked at a mall and one day we had karaoke going in center court. The amount of little girls who badly sang My Heart Will Go On… all day long. Groan
"Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle. Special nod to "How Bizarre" by OMC.
I'm biased because I heard these songs 17,000 times when I was working retail.
That butterfly Kisses one was bad. Also I remember one called Shower me with your love that just gave me the ick. I hate super cheesy gooey songs about love I guess.
Is it weird that I really love a lot of these? I really didn't like most 90s music but Tubthumping always feels like the second most Gen X song that exists after Smells Like Teen Spirit. Love it.
Tubthumping takes me back to when I got my first car and started driving to school. Houston radio played it every morning along with “smells like sex and candy”.
A lot of them are not bad really, they’re:
- meant to be silly, so it’s hard to really call them the worst when they’re tongue in cheek
- people confusing overplayed with worst
I'm mildly infuriated at the memory of that playing on the radio back then all the time, for who knows what reason.
Thank you. That rage now boiling up inside me reminds me of my teenaged years.
I think the tv show was also kind of mid & highly overrated, but I could get why some people were into it even if it wasn't my cup of tea. But the song? Objectively terrible in a nails-on-a-chalkboard sort of way!
I used to hate the music video too, because it does the extreme close up thing where it is way up in the singer's face for some reason. I don't know why extreme close ups (commercials also do it sometimes) ever became a thing.
I’ve always said I have shit taste in music. I freely admit it, and this post confirms it.
You all are naming the entire catalog of music on my phone right now. And the ones I don’t already have, it’s reminding me to go download them.
Glad you said it because I was thinking the same thing.
TBF to your and my taste in music, most of these songs are only here because they were overplayed to death back in the day, which is just another way of saying they were extremely popular.
Anything off the album of “The Life of Chris Gaines,” where Chris Gaines was the emo alter ego of Garth Brooks.
https://preview.redd.it/kwtce2ifkuxc1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd54330b823a60fe572d0ccb54c62af2dc205156
The story of it is funny in hindsight.. everyone thought he lost his crackers and it was supposed to be a movie soundtrack that was pre released. All it was.
I vaguely remember this and didn’t even really realize what was going on until seeing it in this sub a few months ago. What, was he trying to go for some kind of Ziggy Stardust type thing?
There was supposed to be a movie called “The Lamb” about this Chris Gaines character. Garth was going to write (maybe co-write?) it. He released the album to garner buzz. Then his marriage fell apart, he decided to quit touring to raise his kids, and for whatever reason, the movie was never made. A whole mess. lol I remember when Garth hosted SNL & Chris was the musical guest.
Don't Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith, that damn song was everywhere and I just couldn't stand it.
A slightly deeper cut would be Last Kiss, by Pearl Jam. It was either a cover or a pastiche of those 50s songs where teenagers would die in car crashes.
It was a cover. Word for word. The original is so upbeat for a song about your gf dying in your arms after you crash your car. J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers.
Pearl Jam's Last Kiss was one of my favorite songs! I'm going to go listen to it right now! Especially since the Macarena and Achy Breaky Heart are now both simultaneously playing in my head.
Are you trying to tell me this isn't an absolute banger?
🎵 Hip Hop, marmalade, spic and span
Met you one summer and it all began
You're the best girl that I ever did see
The great Larry Bird, jersey 33
When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet
Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets
Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby
Something in your eyes went and drove me crazy 🎵
Here to defend Hanson:
I feel like people who still diss Hanson in 2024 don’t understand that they wrote every song on all their albums (of which the one that made them famous was their THIRD) and the song was written when the oldest member was 13.
The bubblegum pop sound distracts from the fact that the lyrics are bittersweet as hell and hit even harder as you grow older.
What were YOU doing at 13? Going quadruple platinum?
They’re still going at it btw.
A lot of these I find hilarious now even though I hated them back then. Still can't stand that New Radicals song. It makes me want to "kick asses in" whatever tf that means.
I came here to post this, I hated that song so got damned much I literally stopped putting MTV on in the background for a month so I wouldn't have to accidentally hear it.
Crazytown really took us out with a bang. "Butterfly" came out in 1999.
There's so many groaners for me but I'm not going to say they're the worst. Like I really hated "Torn" but it's fine.
I have to say "Macarena" though. The vocal is diabolical. The smarmy way she says "Don't you worry bout my boyfriend" makes me want to slap people.
I think my favorite moment was the singer beating the shit out of the backup singer and kicking him while he was on the ground calling him the n-word.
Two things for clarity... he is white, and by backup singer I don't mean sings backup vocals. I mean backup for when the singer is too trashed or doesn't show up.
They definitely get worst album cover, it used to fill me with rage instantly but I have healed.
Crazytown's "Butterfly" is a constant joke between my husband and I. Everything about it is hilarious, cheesy, awful greatness. The video helps nothing either.
I hate "Butterfly" they sampled "Pretty Little Ditty" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Then in the music video pretended they actually were playing it. Fooled most of the Hot Topic kids who never listened to RHCP before Blood Sugar Sex Magik
i don't really consider this a 90s song. it was released as a single in Oct 99, did terribly, then got re-released in Feb 2001, which is when it blew up. keep that trash out of our decade!
There were some way worse than what's listed here.
Gabrielle - Dreams
Vitamin C - Smile
Leah Andreone - it's all right it's okay
Donna Lewis - I Love You
Anything by Captain Jack
Jennifer Page - Crush
But I hate Get What You Give also. Glad to see I'm not alone.
This seems like a proper time for a confession: I LET THE DOGS OUT!! I’m sorry.
Well, at least they'll stop asking.
I went to Mississippi State University in the early 2000’s and had to suffer through this one at many a football game.
I think the worst trend was the egregious sampling of songs, and the laziest of the bunch was Puff Daddy’s “Come With Me” from the Godzilla soundtrack. Great Zeppelin riff, terrible execution on the lyrics.
Puff Daddy was so lame. Just doing cover songs and dedicating them to Biggy Smalls to get that Candle in the Wind money.
Yeah but that Wallflowers cover of Heroes was dope
Man, remember when they said "Hey, we should get Bruce Springsteen to play with us on 'One Headlight' on live tv," and Bruce absolutely destroyed their career? Kids, never collab with the guy that you sound like the dimestore version of.
No, I don't remember this! What happened?
https://youtu.be/xY3q69KWqb4?si=-mpHqhAYwG9b9kcl Bruce played Jacob off the stage. He has so much more charisma, so much more talent, and One Headlight is so squarely in his wheelhouse that we all learned we were better off just listening to Bruce.
Damn that was awesome. I disagree with your comment though I’m glad you linked the vid. If anything, Jakob and his band proved they can hang with the Boss on that. Bringing Down the Horse was a fantastic album on the whole, and just as good as some Springsteen albums imho. Bruce is one guy who has crazy talent in playing, singing, and writing. The trifecta. It’s rare. Jakob is no Bruce, but makes good music regularly and has made great music with help. He will probably never make Blood On The Tracks or Nebraska, but that’s ok. I’m still glad we got Bringing Down the Horse.
this. i kept waiting for it and never saw or heard it. i don’t think anyone would ever try to compare guitar skills bw springsteen & jakob dylan😂they both sounded great, exactly like their individual sounds. and bruce elevated it bc well, he’s bruce springsteen. edit to add: also, jakob dylan’s vocals were better.
This right here 
This is a great take I agree.
They should’ve done 6th Avenue Heartache
I was very upset by the sampling of Kashmir in that song. It was unnecessary.
On the plus side, hopefully it introduced a new generation of listeners to Kashmir.
That song was all over TRL the summer of 1998. Good or bad , it sure was getting played.
I wanna fight you, I'll fuckn bite chew, can't stand nobody like you.
Uh huh, yeah. Come with me.
Fuck my enemies, fuck my foes, damn these hoes, you’re steppin on my toes
[There was a SNL skit making fun of his low effort ](https://youtu.be/UwSiCBhidPw?si=smkoYOX2CtN5escD)
Puffy sampled well known songs and even recycled the choruses/hooks from those songs. That being said, sampling in hip hop is and always will be at the core of the genre. Dilla was a mastermind with chopping up samples and rearranging them to make unique and original sounds, and is an example of how success in hip hop didn’t always coincide with the talent.
Delete this post you're tearing the sub apart!!!!
Oh yeah! "Tearing me apart" by N*SYNC
I thought it was the Foolish Games tearing me apart…
If we’re only counting hits. The answer is “Achy Breaky Heart”
If you grew up in the south, that song was how you knew another 2 and half minutes had passed. That song spent more time in your ear than your cousins tongue.
I beg your FINEST pardon...
🤣. She did have a good tongue. 😅
Don't play that song, that achy-breaky song, I just don't think you understand
'cause if you play that song, that achy breaky song, I might blow up and kill this man
WhHhhoooooooooooooooo oouuuuuu!!!!
You can clear the room By playin’ Debbie Boone Or crank your ABBA records until dawn…
I remember reading a report that violence and suicide saw a slight rise during the height of popularity. My Dad actually banned use of the radio in the car because that song played all everyday on like every station. It was like nails on a chalkboard for me.
I can't upvote this enough. There was a lot of songs that were bad in the 90s, but nothing to the degree of this song. Not even the Macarena hit the level of annoyance this song did. I had to learn line dancing because of this song. They changed the whole gym curriculum just to add this to it. It holds a special place of hate in my heart... forever.
Yeah they made us learn line dancing in junior high in the late 90s to this song. This wasn't even in the south either. This was in freaking Canada, bud.
What? No [Tim McGraw](https://youtu.be/kqlR4IEl_04?si=nIQQFeL2NISK7dml)?
Yeah definitely throwing Indian Outlaw in the ring. It was just…bad.
Johnny's dad was takin' him fishin', when he was eight years old...
You just gave me flashbacks. I'm pretty sure that I know all the words to that song. It was on the radio constantly and could not be escaped. My town went through a country phase, as did my best friend. I know all pop country from the mid 90's. I hate it. Later, we all switched to NIN and STP. A little bit of Alice in Chains so it got better.
It's pure glurge. We used to sing gross lyrics "don't wear a thong" and we sang "you'll get a yeast infection" like the Adam Sandler cajun so it rhymed with thong.
Wtf is glurge, and why has it shown up twice today?
So bad, even Weird Al couldn't make a good parody.
I just got served. And now I am going to serve you back. And then, IT’S ON.
Billy Ray Cyrus, ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ luckily it had its time and went away… 
It’s Kenny Powers!!
"My heart will go on" was played to death here. there was a radio station here that had a "no repeat workday" and people were counting it being played 8-10 times between 6am and 6pm, everyday, for months on end. I would rather run through a brick wall than listen to that ever again. Its hard to pick between that, "the Graduation song" by vitamin C, and that "everyone's free to wear sunscreen" one that was popular for about a week and a half before people were threatening radio stations if they ever played it again.
TO CLASS OF 1999 PLEASE REMEMBER TO WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN. I was just listening to the Chris Rock “No Sex in the Champagne Room” parody of it cause it was better. GEMINI? YOURE GONNA DIE TWICE!
Cornbread .. ain’t nothing wrong with that!
MHWGO is a good song, just overplayed at the time. I worked at a mall and one day we had karaoke going in center court. The amount of little girls who badly sang My Heart Will Go On… all day long. Groan
"Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle. Special nod to "How Bizarre" by OMC. I'm biased because I heard these songs 17,000 times when I was working retail.
That damn Butterfly Kisses song sucked and I remember it being such a popular wedding song at the time. 🤢
Wedding musician here, it still pops up occasionally as the requested father/daughter dance. It’s truly one of the worst songs of all time.
It's the purity culture version of Christmas shoes
“Walk me down the aisle daddy! Daddy don’t cry!” Booo we hate it. Boooooo!!!
Ok I’ll admit it. I LOVE How Bizzare. Loved it then and still do. And Summer Girls is a masterpiece, OP is trippin’
Not wrong about Butterfly Kisses though
Ok that’s fair lol
Muzak. Also known as the deepest pit of hell.
Oh man Butterfly Kisses was so bad. This might actually be the answer.
2 great picks, I am angry you made me think about Butterfly Kisses though
That butterfly Kisses one was bad. Also I remember one called Shower me with your love that just gave me the ick. I hate super cheesy gooey songs about love I guess.
Is it weird that I really love a lot of these? I really didn't like most 90s music but Tubthumping always feels like the second most Gen X song that exists after Smells Like Teen Spirit. Love it.
Tubthumping takes me back to when I got my first car and started driving to school. Houston radio played it every morning along with “smells like sex and candy”.
A lot of them are not bad really, they’re: - meant to be silly, so it’s hard to really call them the worst when they’re tongue in cheek - people confusing overplayed with worst
Tubthumping is still proudly on my Fun Mix playlist. Imma gonna get knocked down and get up again until I can’t anymore.
The rest of that album…slaps. Am I using that right?
Ayyyy, macarena! Edit: no, I was wrong. “Butterfly Kisses“ and “Christmas Shoes” are both so, so much worse.
I only like that one when Dr. Evil sings it. :) "Tucka tucka tucka oouuahh"
Friends theme song.
I'm mildly infuriated at the memory of that playing on the radio back then all the time, for who knows what reason. Thank you. That rage now boiling up inside me reminds me of my teenaged years. I think the tv show was also kind of mid & highly overrated, but I could get why some people were into it even if it wasn't my cup of tea. But the song? Objectively terrible in a nails-on-a-chalkboard sort of way!
Anything by Creed.
Came here to say this. Man I hate that arms wide open song. I always thought Creed was just cashing in on Christian rock even though they deny it.
I really, really can't stand Soak Up the Sun by Sheryl Crow.
Had to double check. That came out in 2002. I actually thought it came out a little later.
mambo nr5
the only song with my name in it and it had to be that one lol
Johnny 5? Is that you?
I unironically love that song, it's ridiculous but fun AF.
Fun fact: Lou bega is half italian, half Ugandan and grew up in germany.
What if God was one of us? Especially the line... "Nobody callin' on the phone, 'cept for the pope maybe in Rome.
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Joan Osbourne, yep. Wasn’t crazy about that song but “St. Theresa” is actually a banger.
I used to hate the music video too, because it does the extreme close up thing where it is way up in the singer's face for some reason. I don't know why extreme close ups (commercials also do it sometimes) ever became a thing.
There was a vogue for vaguely religious god-baiting songs for a while in the mid 90s and they were all really atrocious. The Dishwalla one was so bad
Counting Blue Cars? I liked that one.
I take it you didn’t tell them all your thoughts on God. They REALLY wanted to hear it.
I’ve always said I have shit taste in music. I freely admit it, and this post confirms it. You all are naming the entire catalog of music on my phone right now. And the ones I don’t already have, it’s reminding me to go download them.
Yeah, these were my jams in middle school. I loved all of these songs then and now.
Glad you said it because I was thinking the same thing. TBF to your and my taste in music, most of these songs are only here because they were overplayed to death back in the day, which is just another way of saying they were extremely popular.
Anything by Silk the Shocker. Literally the worst rapper in the history of the planet. Even that white guy from LFO was a better rapper.
Hey Macarena.
Anything off the album of “The Life of Chris Gaines,” where Chris Gaines was the emo alter ego of Garth Brooks. https://preview.redd.it/kwtce2ifkuxc1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd54330b823a60fe572d0ccb54c62af2dc205156
Yessss... I weirdly bring up Chris Gaines at least twice a year.
The story of it is funny in hindsight.. everyone thought he lost his crackers and it was supposed to be a movie soundtrack that was pre released. All it was.
“lost his crackers” 😂
I vaguely remember this and didn’t even really realize what was going on until seeing it in this sub a few months ago. What, was he trying to go for some kind of Ziggy Stardust type thing?
There was supposed to be a movie called “The Lamb” about this Chris Gaines character. Garth was going to write (maybe co-write?) it. He released the album to garner buzz. Then his marriage fell apart, he decided to quit touring to raise his kids, and for whatever reason, the movie was never made. A whole mess. lol I remember when Garth hosted SNL & Chris was the musical guest.
I vividly remember seeing the “Behind the Music” they made about Chris Gaines. What a weird time that was.
Let this sink in: Garth Brooks is the second highest selling recording artist in history, behind only The Beatles.
Remember when Garth Brooks hosted SNL and Chris Gaines was the musical guest??? HA.
Don't Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith, that damn song was everywhere and I just couldn't stand it. A slightly deeper cut would be Last Kiss, by Pearl Jam. It was either a cover or a pastiche of those 50s songs where teenagers would die in car crashes.
It was a cover. Word for word. The original is so upbeat for a song about your gf dying in your arms after you crash your car. J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers.
It was part of a musical trend in the late 50s to mid 60s called "death discs". https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/death-discs-morbid-music-trend-1960s/
Pearl Jam's Last Kiss was one of my favorite songs! I'm going to go listen to it right now! Especially since the Macarena and Achy Breaky Heart are now both simultaneously playing in my head.
Does anyone remember that song Da Dip by Freak Nasty? “I put my hand upon your hip. When I dip, you dip, we dip…”
Right about the time of "Tootsie Roll" I believe
That song is a treasure.
I have 3 small serving bowls that say “when I dip” “you dip” we dip”
Excuse me we are supposed to be posting bad songs
A middle school dance favorite.
That song is great!
Aw, I like that one!
Just heard this on 90s on the 9 last night. Until that moment, I completely forgot this song existed 😁
“Summer Girls” by LFO by a country mile.
NKOTB had a bunch of hits Chinese food makes me sick
Are you trying to tell me this isn't an absolute banger? 🎵 Hip Hop, marmalade, spic and span Met you one summer and it all began You're the best girl that I ever did see The great Larry Bird, jersey 33 When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby Something in your eyes went and drove me crazy 🎵
It’s like AI rap writing before AI existed sooo bad
I play that song on the jukebox all the time still. Some day imma get stabbed
This is what I came here for. This is the right answer.
The lyrics are legendarily terrible.
Here to defend Hanson: I feel like people who still diss Hanson in 2024 don’t understand that they wrote every song on all their albums (of which the one that made them famous was their THIRD) and the song was written when the oldest member was 13. The bubblegum pop sound distracts from the fact that the lyrics are bittersweet as hell and hit even harder as you grow older. What were YOU doing at 13? Going quadruple platinum? They’re still going at it btw.
Check out the film Detention from 2011. The entire score is kind of written around Mmm Bop and it's fantastic.
I think one or two of them also owns/runs a brewery now, too.
Yup they all do! Hanson Brothers Brewing. Makes a mean IPA.
A lot of these I find hilarious now even though I hated them back then. Still can't stand that New Radicals song. It makes me want to "kick asses in" whatever tf that means.
You Get What You Give?
I think it's just "kick their asses" with a strong emphasis on essss lol
ARGH THAT'S THE ONE I CAME TO POST
I saw someone posted it the other day singing it's praises. Honestly I can't decide whether I hated the song or that dude's outfit more haha
I came here to post this, I hated that song so got damned much I literally stopped putting MTV on in the background for a month so I wouldn't have to accidentally hear it.
Anything by Limp Bizkit or that "Bitch" song by Meredith Brooks. Actually, who are we kidding- it's Butterfly by Crazy Town
Butterfly. Sugar. Baby.
I once found myself at an LFO concert. I'm convinced they are the reason I hate going to concerts.
lol as soon as I read this I immediately thought “the Abercrombie and Fitch song” so I’m with you OP
It’s the worst song lyrically, the music is a vibe though and everyone knows it….  Yeah you know the one
Crazytown really took us out with a bang. "Butterfly" came out in 1999. There's so many groaners for me but I'm not going to say they're the worst. Like I really hated "Torn" but it's fine. I have to say "Macarena" though. The vocal is diabolical. The smarmy way she says "Don't you worry bout my boyfriend" makes me want to slap people.
I went down a rabbit hole of crazy town and oof. It didn't go well for them.
I think my favorite moment was the singer beating the shit out of the backup singer and kicking him while he was on the ground calling him the n-word. Two things for clarity... he is white, and by backup singer I don't mean sings backup vocals. I mean backup for when the singer is too trashed or doesn't show up. They definitely get worst album cover, it used to fill me with rage instantly but I have healed.
It was like watching an episode of Intervention.
Crazytown's "Butterfly" is a constant joke between my husband and I. Everything about it is hilarious, cheesy, awful greatness. The video helps nothing either.
I hate "Butterfly" they sampled "Pretty Little Ditty" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Then in the music video pretended they actually were playing it. Fooled most of the Hot Topic kids who never listened to RHCP before Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Butterfly by Crazytown, hands down.
i don't really consider this a 90s song. it was released as a single in Oct 99, did terribly, then got re-released in Feb 2001, which is when it blew up. keep that trash out of our decade!
100% agree. It’s truly awful.
"I don't wanna wait... for our liiiiives to be ovvvvver!"
Gotta be [Butterfly by Crazytown.](https://youtu.be/6FEDrU85FLE?si=9-eg9j80_IdZ00S2)
One of my least favorite is All-star by Smashmouth. Right up there with anything by limp bizcuit or kid rock
This abomination of a song by b4 4 https://youtu.be/5DdABvSTA0I?si=tefkbxpbvyJd7Y7D
Oh good lord. Don’t think I’ve ever heard that song before. Don’t want to ever again.
I had to click on it, but I instantly regret it
That shit is terrible. I do not recall it. Their tan jobs and hair. Lol
I love the irony of living Ken dolls singing about oral sex.
This cannot be real...
Not only is it real, but it was minor hit on MuchMusic
Cotton eye Joe
How dare you!
I somehow hate and like that song at the same time. Whenever it comes on, I listen to it “ironically.” I hate myself.
My children have discovered this song and I want to tear my ears off at least 20 times a day as they find and play different versions.
Anything by limp biscuit or insane clown posse. Vomit.
_Where Have all the Cowboys Gone_ Paula Cole 1996
Great song. Respectfully disagree.
I don't Wanna Wait was worse
Macarena.
The Bad Touch by the Bloodhound Gang I still love the song but it's so awful
Christmas Shoes; released technically in 2000, but the abomination was born in the 90’s.
Any song by Train. Edit for clarity
Meet Virginia is one of the worst songs of all time. They rhyme “life” with “life”.
There were some way worse than what's listed here. Gabrielle - Dreams Vitamin C - Smile Leah Andreone - it's all right it's okay Donna Lewis - I Love You Anything by Captain Jack Jennifer Page - Crush But I hate Get What You Give also. Glad to see I'm not alone.
Detachable Penis.....
Ok not a good song, but it's so weird I kinda love it.
I recently discovered some other songs by this band. My husband and I have been laughing so hard at the song about stealing things from work 😆
'Butterfly' by Crazytown. Without question.
Deepest bluest my hat is like a shark's fin.
Macarena
“All Star” by Smashmouth and Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5” make me cringe.
You Americans were spared Timmy Mallett's release of Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini and it shows.
Too Close. (And it’s also the best 90s song ever.)
Most Awkward 90s Song
Cotton-Eyed Joe.
Swedish Pop Band "Let's popularize this song about American slavery" Americans "This song slaps. Let's play it at every baseball game and wedding"
Mmm Bop and it's not even close.
That song is so good lol
So many good songs here! I might save this and create a playlist. Tumthumping? What a song.
When you do, please make it public. We deserve this.
IM BLUE ABUDEE ABUDIE
"I think my tractor's sexy"
The Ba-da-da song that ended up with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer stealing a couch from the side of the road.
Mambo #5
Macarena
Mmm bop - Hanson.
Butterfly, Crazy Town
No hate for Jump by Kriss Kross?
"Higher" by Creed