Bought this for my gym iPod - works a treat because the songs roll into one another with no silent breaks.

It’s a beautiful, bittersweet slice of teenage Americana (all sweet rides, 7/11s and gentle ennui), perfectly matched in mood and tone by its cracking video. Two years later, a singer-rapper from Portsmouth, Virginia, made it clear that the southeast also had something to say, and it was this: ‘Beep beep/Who got the keys to the jeep? It’s all there in the title track, a primal howl of electrified blues-rock that’s equal parts lovesick wail and feminist stomp.Dance Anthems: Pure 90s Presented by Nikkie Hawkins-Riozzi takes you on a musical journey back to songs that you will all know and love! A-Ha Airhead Alison Moyet All-4-One Aswad Aztec Camera Babybird Babylon Zoo Banderas Barbara Tucker Barenaked Ladies Betty Boo Beverley Knight Bob Marley Versus Funkstar Deluxe Brandy Catatonia Cher Cicero Cleopatra Coldcut Color Me Badd D-Influence Damage Denim Des'ree Dinosaur Jr. Released in 1997, the Las Vegas duo's single 'Get Busy Child' on the west coast imprint City of Angles solidified their signature breakbeat style with memorable vocal samples from DJ Pierre’s 'Summertime (Is Get Busy Time)' and Eric B. Because for a short period Noel Gallagher’s smash-’n’-grab raid on the ’60s pop canon yielded magnificent results.

Pure Energy GO features high quality fitness music that is All Rights Included, also referred to as ‘Licence Free’ or ‘Royalty Free’. The mix of chunky breakbeats, sludgy electronics and wide-eyed carnage was the perfect rhythmical remedy to those who fancied a dab of dance music (and those who wanted to find out what the hell rave culture might have been about), but just couldn’t get to grips with the eight-minute Chicago house workouts of the time. We asked '90s ravers from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York to tell us their favorite underground anthems.Given the crowded field, we’ve been ultra-selective in compiling this all-bangers, no-clangers playlist and limited it to one song per artist. In the late '90s, while the UK was enjoying the genius of acts such as The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy, the US was beginning to throw its full weight behind the rave pioneers that are The Crystal Method. Lena Dunham’s Girls, Pussy Riot, Rookie magazine, Taylor Swift’s feminism: the seeds of all these things were sown by early-’90s activist punk bands like Bratmobile, Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill. there are only a couple of duffers on it as there are with any compilation album but overall an excellent collection of music that sent me back to the days when I first started going clubbing. Released on his Orlando, Florida-based imprint Zone Records, DJ Icey's prolific breakbeat sound came into its own with his 12" ' Low Down Good Girl / All Beautiful'.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. On the cover of this 1995 remix 12" of Sarah McLachlan's 'Possession' by the diverse Tampa-based electronic outfit Rabbit in the Moon, the group used a quote from Mixmag Update which reads "Truly inspired. The biggest single from Kim Deal’s post-Pixies rockers, ‘Cannonball’ is a bona fide indie anthem complete with seesaw verses, etch-a-sketch guitars and headbanging chorus. In England, Oasis and the rest of the Britpop lot left nearly as big a mark as Nirvana and the other Seattleites. Anthems 90s chronicles the beginnings of rave music in the early part of the decade through to the high energy mainstream dance explosion of the late 90s.No matter, though, because Imbruglia’s version remains ingratiating 20 years later: the melodramatic lyrics are karaoke gold, and its cheesy slide guitar solo still hits the spot.

The opening ‘Bo knows this’ might be pure ’90s, but everything else here is lightyears ahead of the game. No decade is a musical monolith, but seeing the best songs of the ‘90s listed all in one place, the era seems especially scattered.They ended the decade recording the ultra-moody, minimal, esoteric electronic tracks that would end up on Kid A. Semi-Charmed Life’ is their biggest, most enduring hit, a song whose ear-worm bubblegum licks sugarcoat the fact that it’s a lurid tale of druggy malaise. It’s almost hard to believe, but years before DP started jamming with Pharrell and soundtracking catwalk shows they produced a whole album of blissful, banging house in ‘Homework’, the jewel in the crown of which was "Da Funk. Inspired by a crop of bands who allegedly preferred staring at their guitar effects pedals to interacting with the audience, "shoegaze" was never a great term for the hazy, noisy, deafeningly loud sound pegged out in the late ’80s by My Bloody Valentine. Painfully earnest and impossibly dorky, Weezer would spend the decades following its debut album chasing hits and losing its shoegazey identity in the process.