To start off Radio X and give a taste of some of the different kinds of music that we’ll be playing (the music of generation X, released from 1980-99), here are the top hits of the ’90s according to VH1.
- Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, from their 1991 album Bleach – GRUNGE
- One by U2, from their 1991 album Achtung Baby! – SOFT/CLASSIC ROCK
- I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys, from their 1999 album Millennium – BOY BAND POP
- I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston, a 1992 single – SOUL POP
- Vogue by Madonna, from her 1990 album I’m Breathless – POP
- Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-A-Lot, from his 1992 album Mack Daddy – HIP HOP
- …Baby One More Time by Britney Spears, a 1999 single featured on the 2000 album Oops!… I Did It Again – BUBBLEGUM POP
- Waterfalls by TLC, from their 1994 album CrazySexyCool – R&B
- Losing My Religion by R.E.M., from their 1991 album Out of Time – ALT ROCK
- Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor, from her 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got – INDIE POP
- Jeremy by Pearl Jam, from their 1991 album Ten – GRUNGE
- You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette, from her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill – POST-GRUNGE, POP
- Vision of Love by Mariah Carey, from her 1990 eponymous album Mariah Carey – CONTEMPORARY R&B
- Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, from their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik – FUNK ROCK