Semi Charmed life - Third Eye Blind ( number 1 for two whole years, 97 and 98  :o  )
Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
Say you'll be there - Spice Girls
I want you - Savage Garden
The Freshman - VervePipe
Do you know what it takes - Robyn
All for you-  Sister Hazel
Coco Jumboo - Mr President
One more time-  Real McCoy
Naked Eye - Lucious Jackson
Where do you go - No Mercy
2 become 1 - Spice Girls
Foolish Games - Jewel
MMMBop - Hanson


   

Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Guiding Star - Cast
Scooby Snacks - Fun Loving Criminal


Rosie Gaines's 'Closer than close' is one boring song I would love to forget from 1997.

busta rhymes-put your hands where my eyes could see
missy elliott-da rain(supa dupa fly)
prodigy-breathe
matchbox20-push
mary j blige-everything
aaliyah-one in a million
dru hill-were not makin love no more
tupac-i wonder if heaven got a ghetto
blur-song 2
notorious b.i.g-hypnotize

1997 (favorites)

Song 2 - Blur
Hopeless (Like A Penny With A Hole In It) - Dionne Farris
Adia - Sarah McLachlan
Return Of The Mack - Mark Morrison
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
Ready to Go - Republica
Do You Know (What It Takes) - Robyn
Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect) - Robyn
Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Say You'll Be There - Spice Girls
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Everlong - Foo Fighters

I think we agree on a couple of them.

:D

Depeche Mode

Barrel Of A Gun
Home
It's No Good

Radiohead

Paranoid Android
No Surprises
Karma Police


Erm... That will do.

Barrel Of A Gun and Its No Good-Depeche Mode
Freshman-The Verve Pipe
Bitter Sweet Sypmphony-The Verve Pipe
6 Underground-The Sneaker Pimps
Trip Like I Do-Filter featuring the Crystal Method
Return Of The Mack-Mark Morisson
Brick-Ben Folds Five
Last Cup of Sorrow-Faith No More
Elegantly Wasted-INXS
Hello, Hello-Talk Show(Stone Temple Pilots minus lead singer Scott Weiland project.)
Ohh Ah Just A Little Bit-Gina G
Hero-Foo Fighters
Lakini's Juice and Turn My Head-Live

Was "Tatva" by Kula Shaker 96 or 97?

???

Uhh hello....  fleetwood mac - silver springs    I think was the best song of that year

Yeah. Karma Police by Radiohead is such a good song.

I don't think anyone mentioned:
"How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes (Trisha Yearwood also recorded it that year, but I dont know her version)
"Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai
"Where Have All The Cowboys Gone" and "I Don't Want To Wait" by Paula Cole

1997 (favorites)

Song 2 - Blur
Hopeless (Like A Penny With A Hole In It) - Dionne Farris
Adia - Sarah McLachlan
Return Of The Mack - Mark Morrison
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
Ready to Go - Republica
Do You Know (What It Takes) - Robyn
Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect) - Robyn
Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
Say You'll Be There - Spice Girls
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Everlong - Foo Fighters

I think we agree on a couple of them.

:D



Excuse me, but I think "You Get What You Give" was from late 1998/early 1999. And I know "Kiss Me" was also from 1999; it was a top 10 hit. Also, I thought Dionne Farris only had one hit ("I Know", from 1995), but was "Hopeless (Like A Penny With A Hole In It)" popular in other countries or something?

"Kiss Me" was a 1999 song from a 1997 CD. So, you're correct. The only date that matters is the date of a song's release. I gave a date I first heard it, not the date it was released.

My mistake, "You Get What You Give" was on a late 1998 CD so it propably wasn't heard until 1999. I associate that song with an event, but it wasn't a one time event -- wrong one!

"Hopeless" was on the radio, but not on stations that would play say Foo Fighters. It's from the 1997 movie "Love Jones".

It's sometimes difficult to come up with the correct year for a song. Which date do you go with if a song is released in December but doesn't really catch on until the next year? And what about songs that are heard in say NY or LA (or Europe) first and then everywhere else three months later or a even a year or more later? ( ??? )

Thanks, ...
:D

"Kiss Me" was a 1999 song from a 1997 CD. So, you're correct. The only date that matters is the date of a song's release. I gave a date I first heard it, not the date it was released.

My mistake, "You Get What You Give" was on a late 1998 CD so it propably wasn't heard until 1999. I associate that song with an event, but it wasn't a one time event -- wrong one!

"Hopeless" was on the radio, but not on stations that would play say Foo Fighters. It's from the 1997 movie "Love Jones".

It's sometimes difficult to come up with the correct year for a song. Which date do you go with if a song is released in December but doesn't really catch on until the next year? And what about songs that are heard in say NY or LA (or Europe) first and then everywhere else three months later or a even a year or more later? ( ??? )

Thanks, ...
:D


No prob.  ;)
I always go by the year in which the song debuts on the radio and/or hits the charts. Lots of times a song will be released as a single in December of a certain year but not become a hit until January or February. But still, I first heard "Kiss Me" in early 1999 (probably because that's when it first got radio airplay and hence hit the charts), but I didn't know that it was recorded two years earlier. Thanks for letting me know.

Ok, just found this accidentally when searching for something else..........but....


Uhh hello....   fleetwood mac - silver springs    I think was the best song of that year

So true!!

How about the song by Meredith Brooks whose title we can't mention? That was her only hit, if I'm not mistaken.

Whatever happened to Luscious Jackson anyway?

"Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai

I was just listening to this song and got all nostalgic about 1997  :\'(

Keep in mind I used this video to refresh my memory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeDq6XPQC4Y&feature=related
I'm only listing the ones I remember, note I was 3 years old in 1997.

Men in Black - Will Smith(his whole big willie style ablum actually, because my dad had the album and we loved it)
Say you'll be there - Spice girls
If it makes you happy -Sheryl Crow
Block lockin beats -the chemical brothers
Fly - sugar ray
I'll be missing you - Puff daddy/Faith evans
I believe I can fly - R kelly
Semi Charmed Life(kinda remember it)
Walkin on the sun - Smashmouth
Unbreak my heart - Toni Braxton

Songs that I remember.

Aaliyah-One In A Million
Missy-The Rain
Dru Hill-Never Make A Promise
Usher-You Make Me Wanna
Spice Girls-Spice Up Your Life
Mase-Feel So Good
Backstreet Boys-Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
Will Smith-Men in Black
2pac-I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto
Scarface & 2pac-Smile
Jon B.-They Don't Know
Jon B. & 2pac-Are You Still Down
Boyz To Men-A Song For Mama
Bone Thugs N Harmony & 2pac-Thug Luv
Busta Rhymes-Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
Timberland, Magoo, Missy, & Aaliyah-Up Jumps Da Boogie
Aaliyah-4 Page Letter
Toni Braxton-Un-Break My Heart
Janet Jackson & Q-Tip-Got 'til Its Gone
BlackStreet-Don't Leave Me
P.Diddy, Faith Evans, & 112-I'll Be Missing You
SWV & Missy-Can We

If I remember more I will post more.

Here are some I remember from '97

To the moon and back - Savage Garden
I say a little prayer(Radio version) - Diana King
Colour of Love - Amber
One more time - Real McCoy
Talk to me - Wild Orchid

I remember "Barbie Girl", Mmbop, and and "Bitch" from Meredith Brooks.

Sash - Equador <---- my first cd single at age 11.

Good lord, I remember this year vividly. I was 16, and heard a lot of the songs already mentioned in the break room at work. (McDonald's)

The ones I remember most, probably because the radio stations overplayed them are:

OMC - How Bizzare
The Verve Pipe - Freshmen
Savage Garden - I just want you
Savage Garden - Truly, madly, deeply
That song with standing outside of a phone booth... (can't remember the name of it).

Great year.

Two of the biggest hits in the Netherlands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1aZq3axgg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIDnMD1MLmQ

Maybe you don't understand it, because of the Dutch language, but get a laugh when watching the videos...  ;D

Btw, those were parodies on our biggest subculture back then, 'gabber'.

Songs I remember:

P Diddy (then known as Puff Daddy, now well he changed his name as many times as Prince, lol) - All About the Benjamins, Been Around the World, Got to Keep on Moving
Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There, What You Really Want, 2 Become 1 (I actually liked that song)
Hansen - Mmm-bop
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Will Smith - Men In Black
Mariah Carey - Honey
Sugar Ray - Fly
Sublime - The Wrong Way
Bone - Ready For War and If I Could Teach the World
Smashmouth - Walking on the Sun
Chumba Wumba - Tub-thumping
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
Janet Jackson - Velvet Rope
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Didn't care for the song or movie, but they were popular)

I'm going have to start buying some of these songs from iTunes now. Brings back a lot of memories. I can't believe 1997 is almost 15 years ago.

frozen - madonna (i'm not sure if thats 1998 or 97... i remember that very much when i was 3)
turn back time - aqua ( i like it)
unbreak my heart - toni braxton (its technically 1994 i guess but i remember it hearing that songback then in 1997)
kiss me - sixpence none the richer

thats as much as i can remember :p i was too young

BIZUMP (a 1997-ish thing to say, lol) now that I have created my 1997 playlist since I'm starting to feel more nostalgic about that year. I can't believe its 16 years ago now. That was the year I graduated high school, and this close friend of the family's son who was 2 years old at the time is graduating this year.

frozen - madonna (i'm not sure if thats 1998 or 97... i remember that very much when i was 3)

In the US it was a hit in 1998, as was the title track from that same album ("Ray Of Light"), but they were likely recorded in 97.

One of my favourite songs of 1997 was one of the few instances where I enjoy a cover of an 80s song more than the 80s song itself.  This was on the radio all the time and I still love it to this day ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmqDEz6TRk

One of my favourite songs of 1997 was one of the few instances where I enjoy a cover of an 80s song more than the 80s song itself.  This was on the radio all the time and I still love it to this day ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmqDEz6TRk


I prefer Matthew Wilder's original from 1983.

Here are some billboard top 25 hits of that year.  Without boring you with the details I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first heard "The Freshmen." 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acr7IhlqWck Sorry if the link doesn't work well.

Hip-Hop/R&B

. Diddy (Puff Daddy at the time) - All About The Benjamins, Mo Money Mo Problems, Missing You
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Look Into My Eyes, Notorious Thugs, If I Could Teach The World
Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack
112 - Cupid
Rome - I Belong To You
Wu Tang Clan - Triumph
Missy Elliott - The Reign, Sock It To Me
Wyclef Jean - Stayin' Alive, Gone Til November
Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
Master P - Bout It Bout It, How Ya Do That
Aaliyah - One In A Million
SWV - Can We
Mary J.  Blige - I Can Love You, Love Is All We Need
En Vogue - Don't Let Go
R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly
Heavy D - Big Daddy
B Rock & The Biz - My Baby Daddy (so ghetto.....lol)
Do Or Die - Po Pimp
Twista - Emotions
Camp Lo - Luchini
Tela - Sho Nuff
OutKast - Elevators, ATLiens
Jay-Z - Who You Wit
Mase - Feel So Good
Something For The People - My Love Is The Shhhh

Pop Hits
Sugar Ray - Fly
Sister Hazel - All For You
Savage Garden - I Want You
Spice Girls - Wannabe, Say You'll Be There
Hanson - Mmm Bop (despised this song at the time.....but it's not bad compared to what has come out since then)
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Shawn Colvin - Sonny Came Home
Paula Cole - I Don't Want To Wait
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Tonic - If I Could Only See

Hanson - Mmm Bop (despised this song at the time.....but it's not bad compared to what has come out since then)


Hanson had another hit in 1997 called "Where's the love".

Hip-Hop/R&B

Diddy (Puff Daddy at the time) - All About The Benjamins, Mo Money Mo Problems, Missing You
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Look Into My Eyes, Notorious Thugs, If I Could Teach The World
Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack
112 - Cupid
Rome - I Belong To You
Wu Tang Clan - Triumph
Missy Elliott - The Reign, Sock It To Me
Wyclef Jean - Stayin' Alive, Gone Til November
Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
Master P - Bout It Bout It, How Ya Do That
Aaliyah - One In A Million
SWV - Can We
Mary J.  Blige - I Can Love You, Love Is All We Need
En Vogue - Don't Let Go
R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly
Heavy D - Big Daddy
B Rock & The Biz - My Baby Daddy (so ghetto.....lol)
Do Or Die - Po Pimp
Twista - Emotions
Camp Lo - Luchini
Tela - Sho Nuff
OutKast - Elevators, ATLiens
Jay-Z - Who You Wit
Mase - Feel So Good
Something For The People - My Love Is The Shhhh

Pop Hits
Sugar Ray - Fly
Sister Hazel - All For You
Savage Garden - I Want You
Spice Girls - Wannabe, Say You'll Be There
Hanson - Mmm Bop (despised this song at the time.....but it's not bad compared to what has come out since then)
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Shawn Colvin - Sonny Came Home
Paula Cole - I Don't Want To Wait
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Tonic - If I Could Only See


I'd also add Puff Daddy's "Been Around the World" and SWV's "Rain". Other additions:

"For You I Will" - Monica
"You Make Me Wanna" - Usher
"Men in Black" - Will Smith
"Honey" - Mariah Carey
"Got 'Til It's Gone" and "Together Again" - Janet Jackson
"Fly Like an Eagle" - Seal
"Semi-Charmed Life" - Third Eye Blind
"Quit Playing Games With My Heart" "Backstreet's Back" and "As Long As You Love Me" - Backstreet Boys
"How Do I Live" - LeAnn Rimes
"How Bizarre" - OMC
"Barely Breathing" - Duncan Sheik
"Criminal" - Fiona Apple
"It's Your Love" - Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

Sugar Ray - Fly
Green Day - Good Riddance
Notorious B.I.G - Hypnotize
Notorious B.I.G - Mo Money, Mo Problems
Wu Tang Clan - Reunited
Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life
Blink-182 - Dammit
The Offspring - Gone Away
The Prodigy - Firestarter
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Blur - Song 2
No Doubt - Dont Speak
The Offspring - All I Want
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin Beats
Daft Punk - Around The World
Daft Punk - Da Funk

"Barely Breathing" - Duncan Sheik




This song still gets played on our radio stations. Not many songs from the '90s do and it's just not right. There were soo many great songs!

This song still gets played on our radio stations. Not many songs from the '90s do and it's just not right. There were soo many great songs!

There certainly were!! I really liked that song when it came out. And I still hear it today, although not as often as others. If I had my own station I would have such a wide variety of songs to play that you could never hear the same song twice in one 24-hour period... and not the same old handful of songs every day.

There certainly were!! I really liked that song when it came out. And I still hear it today, although not as often as others. If I had my own station I would have such a wide variety of songs to play that you could never hear the same song twice in one 24-hour period... and not the same old handful of songs every day.


Makes me wonder why the radio djs(anywhere) haven't thought about doing that. Or maybe they have and they just aren't allowed to.

Makes me wonder why the radio djs(anywhere) haven't thought about doing that.

I often wonder about that too. Just think of the memories those songs would bring back!



Or maybe they have and they just aren't allowed to.

And that'd be a shame!

Revised content: now that I remember my childhood and researched the songs!! and actually remember 1997!

Together Again - Janet Jackson 
Because You Love Me - Celine Dion
For you I Will - Monica
Unbreak My Heart - Toni Braxton
I Believe I Can Fly - R Kelly
How Do I Live - Leann Rimes
I Want You - Savage Garden
2 Become 1 - Spice Girls (childhood ruined =.=')
I Finally Found Someone - Barbra Streissand and Bryan Adams
Secret Garden - Bruce Springsteen
Barbie Girl - Aqua
It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion

This is an impressive amount of content, remembered by a 3 year old in 1997!!!

"Semi-Charmed Life" - Third Eye Blind



This song was on the charts for a very long time. In 1997, and 1998!

This song was on the charts for a very long time. In 1997, and 1998!

I remember it very well! It was a big hit during that time. Their follow-up single, "How's It Going To Be", also received a decent amount of radio airplay in late 1997/early 1998.

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
I like this live version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZXLLEeUXKA&list=FL1ag1F-E_UUH8MfKhjIKZZQ

Matchbox Twenty's first two singles, "Push" and "3 AM", were big hits that year as well (the album they come from, Yourself Or Someone Like You, generated two more hits the following year).

Backstreet Boys Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
98 Degrees: Because of You
NSync: I Want You Back
Savage Garden: Truly, Madly, Deeply
Spice Girls: Spice Up Your Life
Aqua: Barbie Girl

"Good Riddance/Time Of Your Life" by Green Day was popular in the latter part of that year, and was all over the radio into early 1998.

I often wonder about that too. Just think of the memories those songs would bring back!

And that'd be a shame!

Iheartradio.com; 100.5 GenX radio(Louisville,ky station) from my town or just stream it from their own site.

I was thinking about Justin Timberlake and my memories of him when I was a kid and he was in NSYNC, and one of the few things I remember is his hair(I remember when "It's gonna be me" came out in 2000 and thinking about how he hasd short hair and now an afro, stuff like this, or how JC Chasez was going to be the man, instead it was Justin)

and I remember one video, I was thinking about a memory of either NSYNC or Backstreet boys in a music video as a kid playing basketball, so I looked up to refresh this memory and it was NSYNC(as I remember Justin Timberlake, so I don't know why I should be asking whether it was the Backstreet Boys), "Here we Go" From 1997, that's probably my first memories of NSYNC,

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tsyz_n-sync-here-we-go_music#.UdslBPm1FfQ

Note I was born in 1994 and my first memories are from 1996, best/basic memories started in 1997 and my spectacle was 1998 and 1999, 2000 was good but not as good.

I was thinking about Justin Timberlake and my memories of him when I was a kid and he was in NSYNC, and one of the few things I remember is his hair(I remember when "It's gonna be me" came out in 2000 and thinking about how he hasd short hair and now an afro, stuff like this, or how JC Chasez was going to be the man, instead it was Justin)

and I remember one video, I was thinking about a memory of either NSYNC or Backstreet boys in a music video as a kid playing basketball, so I looked up to refresh this memory and it was NSYNC(as I remember Justin Timberlake, so I don't know why I should be asking whether it was the Backstreet Boys), "Here we Go" From 1997, that's probably my first memories of NSYNC,

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tsyz_n-sync-here-we-go_music#.UdslBPm1FfQ

Note I was born in 1994 and my first memories are from 1996, best/basic memories started in 1997 and my spectacle was 1998 and 1999, 2000 was good but not as good.

Do you remember the N*Sync and BSB concerts on the Disney Channel? :P

Bloody 'Candle In The Wind 1997'... >:(

Okay, tragic though the circumstances may have been, but there was no need for this pointless re-write!

Veruca Salt, a favorite band of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVSKydUxKk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHtVvq4I_S0

Do you remember the N*Sync and BSB concerts on the Disney Channel? :P


Yes! Holy crap, to think it's been nearly 15 or so years now. Hell, remember when Disney Channel used to show concerts in general?

Yes! Holy crap, to think it's been nearly 15 or so years now. Hell, remember when Disney Channel used to show concerts in general?

Yes and now they play a bunch of crap  :(

Yes and now they play a bunch of crap  :(


I know. :( Miss those days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpgQsvMYo88

God, this brings back good memories.

Good lord, I remember this year vividly. I was 16, and heard a lot of the songs already mentioned in the break room at work. (McDonald's)

The ones I remember most, probably because the radio stations overplayed them are:

OMC - How Bizzare
The Verve Pipe - Freshmen
Savage Garden - I just want you
Savage Garden - Truly, madly, deeply
That song with standing outside of a phone booth... (can't remember the name of it).

Great year.

I also like the song TMD. I currently have that song on my tablet and listen to it pretty often.

How about the song by Meredith Brooks whose title we can't mention? That was her only hit, if I'm not mistaken.


She followed it up with What Would Happen.