Sweet Dreams - La Bouche
One of us - Joan Osborne
Ironic - Alanis Morissette
Just a girl-  No Doubt
Love Fool-  Cardigans
Follow you down - Gin Blossoms
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Wonderwall - Oasis
This is your night -  Amber
Closer to free-  Bodeans
Fast Love - George Michael

Crash into Me- Dave Matthews Band
These Are The Days- Natalie Merchant (might've been '95....)
Be My Lover- La Bouche
Precious Little- Eleanor McEvoy
6th Avenue Heartache- The Wallflowers
What is Love- Haddaway

alanis morisette-head over feet
311-down
keith sweat-twisted
aaliyah-if your girl only knew
nada surf-popular
d'angelo-lady
maxwell-ascension
busta rhymes-woo ha!
toni braxton-unbreak my heart
bone thugs-tha crossroads

1996

Sittin' up in My Room - Brandy
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla 
Flood - Jars of Clay

Was 1996, a good year for you?
???

Bush - Glycerine
Green Day - GeekStink Breath

...Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hellfire :o

I admit, I was also into Disney films as a teen :-[  I think most're better than people give them credit for

Crash into Me- Dave Matthews Band
These Are The Days- Natalie Merchant (might've been '95....)

What is Love- Haddaway

1. "Crash Into Me" was 1997.
2. "These Are The Days" was like, 1992, and Natalie was still with Ten Thousand Maniacs at the time. She did, however, release her debut solo album, Tigerlily, in 1995 and had hits with "Carnival", "Wonder", and "Jealousy". (The aforementioned two songs were hits in 1996.)
3. "What Is Love" was 1993.

Anyway, a few I remember from '96 are "Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Money in My Hand" by Primitive Radio Gods, "1979" by the Smashing Pumpkins, "Macarena" by Los Del Rio, "Because YOu Loved Me" by Celine Dion, "Give Me One Reason" by Tracy Chapman... the list goes on...

Songs from 96:

Love Rollercoaster-Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Trippin On A Hole In A paper Heart, Lady Picture Show, and Big Bang Baby-Stone Temple Pilots
Smile-Pearl Jam
Desprately Wanting-Better Than Ezra
I Will Always Love You Forever-Donna Lewis
Insensitive-Jann Arden(Good Track)
Sweet Dreams-La Bouche
Chu Chu Train-Quad City DJ's
Abuse Me-Silverchair
Please Don't Go-No Mercy

Ok, I'm not good with years, but isn't this when  Spice Girls' "Wanna Be" came out, or was that 97?

Ok, I'm not good with years, but isn't this when  Spice Girls' "Wanna Be" came out, or was that 97?

In the U.S. it came out in '97.

Came out the week of July 14th 1996 over in Britain, and topped the charts on the 20th.

Blue Boy - Remember Me
Orbital - The Box
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Smoke City - Underwater Love
Underworld - Born Slippy
Underworld - Pearl's Girl
Propellerheads - Take California
Meat Beat Manifesto - She's Unreal
Prodigy - Firestarter
Lamb - Cotton Wool
Kruder & Dorfmeister - High Noon
Rocker's HiFi - Going Under
Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie
808 State - Bond
Tricky - Christiansands
Apollo 440 - Krupa
Fatboy Slim - The Weekends Starts Here
Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
Olive - You're Not Alone

and several more... ;-)

Crash into Me- Dave Matthews Band
These Are The Days- Natalie Merchant (might've been '95....)

What is Love- Haddaway

1. "Crash Into Me" was 1997.

well the album its on came out in 1996 so maybe they heard it b4 97.

well the album it's on came out in 1996 so maybe they heard it b4 97.

You may be right, but it was a hit in 97. Only people who had a copy of the album heard it before '97. And I'm not one of those people.

GARBAGE-STUPID GIRL
GARBAGE-ONLY HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS
GARBAGE-QUEER

HAHAHA

Garbage is #1

And 1995-1999 were great years for them :)


I can't wait for their new album

Ah yes....1996, the year I became a young man in a world so innocent....lmao!!! ;D

The top 20 tracks of that beautiful year, for me, goes like this:

1. Busta Rhymes -- Woo Hah (Got You All In Check)

2. Dune -- Hard Core Vibes

3. Tribe Called Quest -- 1nce Again

4. Planet Soul -- Set U Free

5. Tupac Shakur -- Bring The Pain *from All Eyes On Me*

6. Ginuwine -- The Bachelor

7. Ghost Town DJs -- My Boo

8. The Fugees -- Ready or Not

9. Cake -- Going The Distance

10. Beck -- Where It's At

11. Eminem (before he was overrated) -- 313

12. Mariah Carey (before she started to suck) -- Always Be My Baby

13. Lil Kim -- Hardcore

14. Underworld -- Born Slippy *featured in Train Spotting*

15. Towa Tei -- Dubnova

16. Tracy Bonham -- The Real

17. Prostars -- Wakeup *from Trancemission from Raveland*

18. Daft Punk -- Homework

19. Armand Van Helden -- Funk Phenomena

20. LL Cool J -- Hey Lover

Some of these tracks you may have never heard of before.  I listened to a lot of weird stuff in '96.
It's cool though, I love variety, eh? 8)

Blue Boy - Remember Me
Orbital - The Box
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Smoke City - Underwater Love
Underworld - Born Slippy
Underworld - Pearl's Girl
Propellerheads - Take California
Meat Beat Manifesto - She's Unreal
Prodigy - Firestarter
Lamb - Cotton Wool
Kruder & Dorfmeister - High Noon
Rocker's HiFi - Going Under
Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie
808 State - Bond
Tricky - Christiansands
Apollo 440 - Krupa
Fatboy Slim - The Weekends Starts Here
Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
Olive - You're Not Alone

and several more... ;-)


DAMN man....you're my kind of people.....I smell a fellow electronica/techie fan! 8)

No Mercy - "Where Do You Go"
Martha Wash & Joceyln Brown - "Keep On Jumpin'"
Devoné - "Energy"
Full Intention - "America"
Tori Amos - "Professional Widow"
Crush - "Jellyhead"
Angelina - "Release Me" & "I Don't Need Your Love"
Love Tribe - "Stand Up"
Funky Green Dogs - "Fired Up!"
Robi-Rob's Clubworld - "Shake That Body"
Sarah Washington - "Everything" & "Heaven"

:o :othe Macarena--the Olympic gymnasts were even doing it1Cheers!

Macarena


This is one I keep trying to forget from 1996.  :P  ;) ;D :D

Wow! Take me back to my high school days! Some of those songs I haven't heard in AGES!

Thes songs bring back some dark and strange memories of a life I can't believe I was living at the time. 

not a huge year in music for me but here are some of my faves..

Nobody Knows, Tony Rich Project
Give Me One Reason, Tracy Chapman
You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
C'mon N' Ride It (The Train), Quad City Dj's
Missing, Everything But The Girl
Ironic, Alanis Morissette
Insensitive, Jann Arden
Who Will Save Your Soul, Jewel
Breakfast At Tiffany's, Deep Blue Something
1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New), Coolio
No Diggity, BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
Fastlove, George Michael
If It Makes You Happy, Sheryl Crow
I Want To Come Over, Melissa Etheridge
That Girl, Maxi Priest Featuring Shaggy

Wow! Take me back to my high school days! Some of those songs I haven't heard in AGES!

Me too. I was in high school in '96 as well. :)

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
I'm afraid that one was from 1997. Was it recorded in 1996? If so, was its album released then, too? It was still a hit in '97, at least here in the U.S.

"December" - Collective Soul
"Follow You Down" - Gin Blossoms
"Breakfast At Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something
"Hand in my Pocket" - Alanis Morissette
"Name" - Goo Goo Dolls

I may be a little off in years. But I'm close enough.

not a huge year in music for me but here are some of my faves..

Nobody Knows, Tony Rich Project
Give Me One Reason, Tracy Chapman
You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
C'mon N' Ride It (The Train), Quad City Dj's
Missing, Everything But The Girl
Ironic, Alanis Morissette
Insensitive, Jann Arden
Who Will Save Your Soul, Jewel
Breakfast At Tiffany's, Deep Blue Something
1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New), Coolio
No Diggity, BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
Fastlove, George Michael
If It Makes You Happy, Sheryl Crow
I Want To Come Over, Melissa Etheridge
That Girl, Maxi Priest Featuring Shaggy


I remember all of those too

Brakfast at Tiffanies by deep bloo sumthing.  grayt song :)

I thought this was the last great year for mainstream music. So many good songs. '96 had a bunch of good songs, now you're lucky to find 3 songs a year, that are at least "decent".

1996 was the second best year in music I remember nobody knows by Tony Rich,I know by dieon*sp farris,breakfast at tiffany's*sp one of us by Joan osborn

1996 had a few good songs ...

Children - Robert Miles
Australia - Manic Street Preachers
Stay With Me Tonight - The Human League
Lifted - Lighthouse Family
Oh, What A Night - Clock
Insomnia - Faithless
Ooh Aah ... Just A Little Bit - Gina G
There's Nothing I Won't Do - JX
One and One - Robert Miles featuring Maria Nayler
Tattva - Kula Shaker
Forever Love - Gary Barlow
Krupa - Apollo 440
Trash - Suede
Rotterdam - Beautiful South

- "Stupid Girl" by Garbage
- "Spiderwebs" and "Just a Girl" by No Doubt
- "Where It's At" by Beck
- "Going the Distance" by Cake
- "Pepper" by Butthole Surfers
- (This song by Everclear, I don't know the title of that one, but the lyrics start off "I'm still living with your ghost; still dreaming of the West Coast")
- "You're Making Me High" by Toni Braxton