You know, I think I've officially decided upon my absolute favourite year for music, certainly for individual songs, at least. Posting this thread, I just couldn't shut myself up.

1. Carnival / Natalie Merchant
2. Pretenders to the Throne / The Beautiful South
3. The Universal / Blur
4. Wanna Be with U / Jinny
5. Sorted for E'z & Wiz / Pulp
6. Key to My Life / Boyzone
7. Big River / Jimmy Nail
8. Disco 2000 / Pulp
9. Light of My Life / Louise
10. She / Green Day
11. One of Us / Joan Osborne
12. Hand in My Pocket / Alanis Morissette
13. Father & Son / Boyzone
14. Country House / Blur
15. Ants Marching / Dave Matthews Band
16. I Need You / Deuce
17. As I Lay Me Down / Sophie B. Hawkins
18. Common People / Pulp
19. Fake Plastic Trees / Radiohead
20. I'm Alive / Cut 'N' Move
21. Glycerine / Bush
22. Thunder / East 17
23. Alright / Supergrass
24. Be My Lover / La Bouche
25. Pure Massacre / Silverchair
26. Colors of the Wind / Vanessa Williams
27. Over My Shoulder / Mike + The Mechanics
28. Back for Good / Take That
29. Name / Goo Goo Dolls
30. Just the One / Levellers
31. Fairground / Simply Red
32. Wonderful / Adam Ant
33. I Could Fall in Love / Selena
34. J.A.R. / Green Day
35. What Would You Say / Dave Matthews Band
36. Time Bomb / Rancid
37. Tomorrow / Silverchair
38. My Friends / Red Hot Chili Peppers
39. Say It Ain't So / Weezer
40. Send Me On My Way / Rusted Root
41. Solitude / Edwin McCain
42. Comedown / Bush
43. Not So Manic Now / Dubstar
44. Let It Rain / East 17
45. Any Man of Mine / Shania Twain
46. Lifted / Lighthouse Family
47. Wonderwall / Oasis
48. Grind / Alice in Chains
49. Lightning Crashes / Live
50. Running Around Town / Billie Ray Martin
51. Do You Sleep? / Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
52. I Am Blessed / Eternal
53. Me and You / Alexia
54. You Oughta Know / Alanis Morissette
55. Set You Free / N-Trance
56. Hold My Body Tight / East 17
57. Dreaming of You / Selena
58. Is There Anybody Out There? / Nicki French
59. Ruby Soho / Rancid
60. Waterfalls / TLC
61. Better Man / Pearl Jam
62. Santa Monica / Everclear
63. Mysterious Girl / Peter Andre
64. High on You / Kim Wilde
65. Just a Girl / No Doubt
66. Have Fun Go Mad / Blair
67. Tell Me the Way / Cappella
68. He's on the Phone / Saint Etienne
69. Ain't Nobody / Diana King
70. Happy Just to Be with You / Michelle Gayle
71. Bullet with Butterfly Wings / The Smashing Pumpkins
72. Everybody / Clock
73. If I Wanted To / Melissa Etheridge
74. Run-Around / Blues Traveller
75. Freak Like Me / Adina Howard
76. Anywhere Is / Enya
77. Scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop) / Scatman John
78. 3 Is Family / Dana Dawson
79. Sugar Hill / AZ
80. Queer / Garbage
81. I Believe / Blessid Union of Souls
82. Where the Wild Roses Grow / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds feat. Kylie Minogue
83. I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth) / Meat Loaf
84. Breakfast at Tiffany's / Deep Blue Something
85. California Love / 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman
86. Looking In / Mariah Carey
87. Brokenhearted / Brandy
88. Close to You / Fun Factory
89. Diggin' on You / TLC
90. Until the End of Time / Foreigner
91. Player's Anthem / Junior M.A.F.I.A.
92. Big Max / E-Rotic
93. Someone to Love / Jon B. feat. Babyface
94. This Is How We Do It / Montell Jordan
95. Good Intentions / Toad the Wet Sprocket
96. Shook Ones, Pt. II / Mobb Deep
97. Missing / Everything But the Girl
98. Let Me Be the One / Blessid Union of Souls
99. Stepping Stone / PJ & Duncan
100. Dear Mama / 2Pac
101. I Live My Life for You / FireHouse
102. Try Me Out / Corona
103. Mouth / Merril Bainbridge
104. Sex on the Phone / E-Rotic
105. Suddenly / Sean Maguire
106. Sentimental / Deborah Cox
107. Come and Get Your Love / Real McCoy
108. Water Runs Dry / Boyz II Men
109. A Girl Like You / Edwyn Collins
110. U Krazy Katz / PJ & Duncan
111. This Ain't a Love Song / Bon Jovi
112. River of Deceit / Mad Season
113. Kiss from a Rose / Seal (technically, this is actually from 1994, as it was a minor hit that year in the UK, but it's so synonymous with 1995 that I'm just including it here instead)
114. Gangsta's Paradise / Coolio feat. L.V.
115. Anything / 3T
116. Plowed / Sponge
117. I Wanna B with U / Fun Factory
118. Heaven for Everyone / Queen
119. Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? / Bryan Adams
120. Think of You / Whigfield
121. All Over You / Live
122. Something for the Pain / Bon Jovi
123. I Luv U Baby / Original
124. Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Dayz) / Monica
125. Somebody's Crying / Chris Isaak
126. Hook / Blues Traveler
127. The World I Know / Collective Soul
128. Sittin' Up in My Room / Brandy
129. Do What's Good for Me / 2 Unlimited
130. Back in the UK / Scooter
131. Your Loving Arms / Billie Ray Martin
132. In the House of Stone and Light / Martin Page
133. Roll with It / Oasis
134. Magic Carpet Ride / Mighty Dub Katz
135. Strong Enough / Sheryl Crow
136. Automatic Lover (Call for Love) / Real McCoy
137. My Love Is For Real / Paula Abdul
138. Baby Boy / Me & My
139. Don't Want to Forgive Me Now / Wet Wet Wet
140. I Wonder Why / Sonic Dream
141. Wrap Me Up / Alex Party
142. Can't Cry Anymore / Sheryl Crow
143. Beautiful Life / Ace of Base
144. Alright / Cast
145. Nobody Knows / The Tony Rich Project
146. Everybody Say, Everybody Do / Let Loose
147. Dreamer / Livin' Joy
148. Stuck on U / PJ & Duncan
149. Fantasy / Mariah Carey
150. Tell Me When / The Human League
151. Love City Groove / Love City Groove
152. Candy Rain / Soul for Real
153. Before You Walk Out of My Life / Monica
154. I Know / Dionne Farris
155. Remember Me This Way / Jordan Hill
156. Molly (Sixteen Candles) / Sponge
157. Baby Baby / Corona
158. Misery / Soul Asylum
159. Dub-I-Dub / Me & My
160. Warped / Red Hot Chili Peppers
161. Geek Stink Breath / Green Day
162. All I Really Want / Alanis Morissette
163. Never Forget / Take That
164. We've Got It Goin' On / Backstreet Boys
165. Don't Stop Wiggle Wiggle / The Outhere Brothers
166. December / Collective Soul
167. Freek'n You / Jodeci
168. You Used to Love Me / Faith Evans
169. Long Ago / Mariah Carey
170. Wonder / Natalie Merchant
171. Wishes Of Happiness And Prosperity (Yeha-Noha) / Sacred Spirit
172. Shy Guy / Diana King
173. Mis-Shapes / Pulp
174. Lion Eddie / Me & My
175. Rock and Roll Is Dead / Lenny Kravitz
176. Feel Me Flow / Naughty By Nature
177. This Is a Call / Foo Fighters
178. Melt Away / Mariah Carey
179. Shoot Me With Your Love / D:Ream
180. Boombastic / Shaggy
181. Big Time / Whigfield
182. Til I Hear It from You / Gin Blossoms
183. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me / U2
184. Sick & Tired / The Cardigans
185. I Wish / Skee-Lo
186. Only Wanna Be With You / Hootie & The Blowfish
187. So Good / Boyzone
188. Lucky (Warchild) / Radiohead
189. Freedom / Michelle Gayle
190. Power of a Woman / Eternal
191. Human Nature / Madonna
192. Underneath the Stars / Mariah Carey
193. 86 / Green Day
194. Breakin' Away / Kim Wilde
195. Lucky Love / Ace of Base
196. Goldeneye / Tina Turner
197. You Are Not Alone / Michael Jackson
198. Brown Sugar / D'Angelo
199. Freedom / Shiva
200. Roll to Me / Del Amitri

Wow, you weren't kidding about making up for "only" having 100 songs on the 1994 poll!  :o

1 Björk - Army of Me
2 The Bucketheads - The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)
3 Enya - Anywhere Is
4 Peter Murphy - I'll Fall With Your Knife
5 The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
6 Pulp - Common People
7 The Smashing Pumpkins - Love
8 The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
9 Björk - Isobel
10 New Order - Let's Go (Nothing for Me)
11 Faithless - Insomnia
12 KMFDM - Juke-Joint Jezebel
13 The Cardigans - Carnival
14 Planet Soul - Set U Free
15 White Zombie - More Human Than Human
16 Garbage - Dog New Tricks
17 Garbage - As Heaven is Wide
18 The Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.
19 The Smashing Pumpkins -  (An Ode to No One)
20 Bjork - enjoy
21 Bjork - I miss you
22 2Pac - California Love
23 Daft Punk - Da Funk
24 Method Man - Release Yo' Delf
25 Saint Etienne - He's on the Phone
26 Portishead - Glory Box
27 Pulp - Disco 2000
28 The Smashing Pumpkins - Bodies
29 The Smashing Pumpkins - Where Boys Fear to Tread
30 Bjork - hyper-ballad
31 Bjork - possibly maybe
32 Bjork - its oh so quiet
33 The Smashing Pumpkins - Cupid de Locke
34 The Smashing Pumpkins - We Only Come Out at Night
35 Garbage - Stupid Girl
36 Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
37 Madonna - Human Nature
38 The Smashing Pumpkins - Muzzle
39 The Smashing Pumpkins - Tales of a Scorched Earth
40 Bjork - the modern things
41 The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
42 The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

Wow, you weren't kidding about making up for "only" having 100 songs on the 1994 poll!  :o

To be fair, I was sort of just having fun when I decided to compile a top 200, and I wouldn't say for certain 1995 is superior to 1983, 1984, and 1985, but it's definitely my favourite 90s year for music, even better than 1994. There was just such a variety of different songs that all worked in their own way that year.

I guess it's a bit ironic, from my own perspective, that such a huge chunk of your list is comprised only of Garbage, Bjork, and Smashing Pumpkins songs. I take it you're just a big fan of Garbage's debut, Post, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness?

I Got 5 on It / Looniz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC9cgvtkRs

You know, I think I've officially decided upon my absolute favourite year for music, certainly for individual songs, at least. Posting this thread, I just couldn't shut myself up.


To be honest, i'm actually a bit surprised that you didn't list this song at all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkhl-CgETg

This would have to be one of my favourite songs of 1995.

To be honest, i'm actually a bit surprised that you didn't list this song at all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkhl-CgETg

This would have to be one of my favourite songs of 1995.


It was actually released as a single in 1996, even though the album came out in October 1995. I agree it's a pretty cool song. Unlike most obscure British alternative bands from the mid-90s, Spacehog were in fact able to score a hit with this track, not only doing excellently on the rock airplay charts, but also landing within the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Oh god, I forgot about "Call It Love" by Deuce. That would be roughly #23 on my list.

It was actually released as a single in 1996, even though the album came out in October 1995. I agree it's a pretty cool song. Unlike most obscure British alternative bands from the mid-90s, Spacehog were in fact able to score a hit with this track, not only doing excellently on the rock airplay charts, but also landing within the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.


I wasn't aware of that, to be honest. It's surprising that "In the Meantime" performed so well in the US, especially given how most British alternative bands at the time never achieved the same amount of success.

To be fair, I was sort of just having fun when I decided to compile a top 200, and I wouldn't say for certain 1995 is superior to 1983, 1984, and 1985, but it's definitely my favourite 90s year for music, even better than 1994. There was just such a variety of different songs that all worked in their own way that year.

I guess it's a bit ironic, from my own perspective, that such a huge chunk of your list is comprised only of Garbage, Bjork, and Smashing Pumpkins songs. I take it you're just a big fan of Garbage's debut, Post, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness?


I'm a big Bjork fan in general, and also a big fan of Mellon Collie and Garbage's debut album.

1. Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
2. Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
3. Bone Thugs n Harmony - 1st of the Month
4. 2Pac - Dear Mama
5. D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
6. Brandy - Sittin Up in My Room
7. Adina Howard - Freak Like Me
8. Oasis - Wonderwall
9. No Doubt - Just a Girl
10. Whitney Houston- Exhale

I can't believe I haven't made a "Top 10 Songs of 1995" list yet! 1995 is one of my favourite years for music.

1. "In the Meantime" - Spacehog
2. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" - The Smashing Pumpkins
3. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something
4. "The World I Know" - Collective Soul
5. "Some Might Say" - Oasis
6. "Head over Feet" - Alanis Morissette
7. "Hang Around" - Tumbleweed
8. "I'll Stick Around" - Foo Fighters
9. "Yeah O Yeah" - Spiderbait
10. "Israel's Son" - Silverchair

1. Alanis Morissette - Head Over Feet
2. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
3. Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
4. Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It
5. Seal - Kiss From a Rose
6. Daft Punk - Da Funk
7. Enya - Anywhere Is
8. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
9. La Bouche - Be My Lover
10. Real McCoy - Another Night