Friday 19 October 2012

Best Songs of the Nineties


Having been inspired to put together our favourite albums of the 90s following a chance meeting with Martin Carr at this year's Green Man Festival, the Velvet Owl have gone one step further and chosen their favourite songs from that decade too. I'm sure there are a few in here that will have you raging into the night and questioning our taste, but I'm sure you will get over it. 

1. Babies - Pulp



2. Straight to You - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds


3. Dry the Rain - The Beta Band

4. Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack



5. Live Forever - Oasis 

6. Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
7. Undone (The Sweater Song) – Weezer
8. Cut Your Hair – Pavement
9. Give Me Daughters – Jonathan Fire Eater
10. Kowalski– Primal Scream
11. Waitin’ For Superman – The Flaming Lips
12. Wishing I Was Skinny – The Boo Radleys
13.  Loser -Beck
14. Something 4 the Weekend – Super Furry Animals
15. Sabotage –The Beastie Boys
16. Come Together (album version) - Primal Scream
17. If I Can't Change Your Mind - Sugar
18. You Got The Love – The Source
19. Natalie’s Party – Shack
20. Alcoholiday - Teenage Fanclub
21. Someday I Will Treat You Good – Sparklehorse
22. All Apologies - Nirvana
23. Trigger Cut - Pavement
24. Blue Flowers – Dr Octagon
25. Olympian – Gene
26. Lazarus - The Boo Radleys
27. Cannonball - The Breeders
28. Common People - Pulp
29. Bill Is Dead - The Fall
30. The Asphalt World - Suede
31. Born Slippy - Underworld
32. Fanfare – Eric Matthews
33. Tonight we fly – Divine Comedy
34. Ice Hockey Hair - Super Furry Animals
35. For Tomorrow - Blur
36. Race For The Prize – The Flaming Lips
37. Ladies and Gentlemen We’re Floating in Space (Elvis version) – Spiritualized
38.  Dress - PJ Harvey
39. Fuzzy – Grant Lee Buffalo
40. Groove is in the Heart - Dee-Lite
41. Silver Machines – Cardinal
42. Birdy– 22 Pisterpikko
43. Lover You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
44. Regret - New Order
45. Why Don’t You Take Me – One Dove
46. Loaded - Primal Scream
47. The Concept - Teenage Fanclub
48. Waltz No.2 – Elliot Smith
49. Gepetto – Belly
50. Cigarettes Will Kill You – Ben Lee
51. Golden Skin – Silver Sun
52. End Credits - Laptop
53. Tomorrow – James
54. Friends of P – The Rentals
55. Inside story – Chris Knox
56. Another Day, Another Riot – The Toasted Heretic
57. Wise Up – Aimee Mann
58. Papua New Guinea – Future Sound of London
59. You Were meant For Me – Jewel
60. Superstar – Superstar
61. I Think I'm In Love - Spiritualized
62. Standing At The Doorstep Of Love - The Rockingbirds
63. Digital Black Epilogue - Urge Overkill
64. Don’t I Hold You – Wheat
65. Da Funk - Daft Punk
66. Higher State of Conciousness - Josh Winx
67. I See a Darkness Bonnie Prince Billy
68.  No Diggity - Blackstreet
69. The Man Don’t Give a Fuck - Super Furry Animals
70. Summer Babe - Pavement                                                                            
                                                                








3 comments:

  1. A Silver Sun track is ten places higher than I Think I'm In Love? I'm gonna put my foot through the computer screen Velvet Owl. And send you the bill.

    Chris

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  2. Dear reader. The top 5 were selected due to the number of votes they received from the Owl members. Numbers 6-70 were chosen at random. To be honest, there's probably 100 songs better than that Silver Sun song and indeed a great number of songs on the list (Aimee Mann?). However, these are the songs that our contributors felt were the best of that decade and that is that.

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  3. Pleased to see Fanfare by Eric Matthews hot on the tail of Born Slippy as the 32nd best song of the 1990s... and above Ice Hockey Hair to boot...

    Ah, these lists are impossible things- I don't even like the Fall song in this list, let alone 60% of the top 5. Although there is a few towards the end of the list I have no idea about and may give an impartial listen to tomorrow.

    Incidentally I had the pleasure of briefly owning the first Silver Sun album and it made the Warm Jets debut seem like Sgt Pepper.

    PEACE

    @sb

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