90s request
Posted by Aranka on Sunday 7 October 2007
It’s 90s request week on the radio station I usually listen to.
Back in the 90s I was quite sceptical about most of the music. I guess because I only knew what was happening from the mid-90s on. I used to hear my brothers music when I was little, but I didn’t really understand it yet (but I still listen to that music nowadays..).
No, the last two years in elementary school (1994-1996) were quite horrible music-wise. This music called ‘gabber‘ (and also house I guess, but excuse me if I’m not using the correct terms) was extremely popular here and I never quite understood it. Half the class was walking around in either Australian (“Aussi”) or Cavello training suits and, ‘of course’, wearing Nike Air Max sneakers.
Those last two years it also became a regular thing to celebrate your birthday with the whole class in a sort of party centre in our neighbourhood, to have a ‘disco’, 11 year olds style. There you had the people who could ‘dance’ to the gabber music, and the people who couldn’t (or didn’t want to, in my case 
). It also was the time were we first discovered slow dancing..
This wasn’t really my point, if there is one at all. I guess that I got to ‘discover’ more 90s music when I was a teen. There definitely some songs and artists I’d rather not be reminded of, but I’m afraid it already feels a bit nostalgic when I hear them now.
So when I went to the 3FM site today to vote for the ’90s request top 100′ (just a note: they’re playing “Wannabe” from the Spice Girls now, I’ll admit that it makes me smile *ahem*) and saw all these songs I could choose from, I had a lot of ‘aaww’ and ‘ooh I absolutely loved that song’ moments.
I could only pick 10 songs, which was way harder than I thought. I mostly picked songs I still listen to now, because I want them to end up in the top 100. With quite a few songs I was tempted to add them, yet I didn’t. So for now I’m just attached to the radio to drift away in memories when the songs come on that I didn’t add to my top 10.
Ian said
Soooo
Where’s the list?
Ian said
90’s was a great era for rock/alternative music. Green Day, Nirvana, STP, Alice in Chains, on and on and on
oysterblues said
I agree with Ian on this one.
What were your top ten, by the way?
I was only 3 in 1990, so I didn’t really listen to much of the music. And I only listened to Buddy Holly and the Beach boys well into my preteens. Then I slowly made it into the 60s, lol. But when I was 13 or so I really got into 90s, and I still love the rock/alternative to this day. Incubus <3
LightContrast said
I’d love to see the list as well. I love songs from the 90s. In fact, today I had Smash mouth’s “All star” stuck in my head for part of the day. I believe that was from the 90s.
arunmochleibh said
I feel so old when I hear the occasional song on the radio dating from the 90s… I remember all the lyrics and sing along (a guilty pleasure), and then realise the song’s at least a decade old. Scary.
Rob said
You can even sing along to tunes that emerged before you were born. I do it all the time. Guess how young that makes you feel! (and arunmochleibh, you’re a sight younger than I am)
arunmochleibh said
Well, that’s true, that one can sing along to songs from before you were born… But when I sing along to songs from my childhood, I basically feel like I haven’t aged at all.. and then the realisation hits me, heheh.