Can You Name These 90s Songs With Just a Sample of Lyrics?
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The ’90s had music that we just can’t recreate now: boy bands galore, early Green Day, the flowering of the emo movement, and some fantastic divas like Christina and Britney. Even writing this list makes me nostalgic.
It’s been a surprisingly long time since the ’90s though, and some of us maShow More
The ’90s had music that we just can’t recreate now: boy bands galore, early Green Day, the flowering of the emo movement, and some fantastic divas like Christina and Britney. Even writing this list makes me nostalgic.
It’s been a surprisingly long time since the ’90s though, and some of us may have forgotten the music that defined our generation. If you’re a real ’90s kid you should be able to name all of these songs without a problem.
We’ve picked twelve of the most iconic ’90s songs and chosen lyrics that should key you in to which tune it is. Now it’s your job to identify the ’90s song to prove your ’90s kid cred. If you think you can, then venture further! Now’s the time to pull up that perfect vintage playlist and fall deep into your ’90s nostalgia to see just how well you remember the perfect music decade.
Which (basically universally beloved) song starts "today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you"?
- Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
- Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden
- One by U2
- Wonderwall by Oasis
Which song contains the list "A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido"?
- End of the World As We Know It by R.E.M.
- Good Riddance by Green Day
- Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
- If I Had a Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies
Which song tells the listener "you gotta rub me the right way"?
- Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera
- U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer
- The Humpty Dance by Digital Underground
- Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground
Which classic song contains the lyrics "Someone keeps sayin' I'm insane to complain about a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt"
- Loser by Beck
- Freak on a Leash by Korn
- Mind Playing Tricks on Me by Geto Boys
- Bitch by Liz Phair
If you don't know this lyric, you're kicked out of the 90s kid club. "She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead."
- All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow
- Buddy Holly by Weezer
- All Star by Smash Mouth
- One Week by Barenaked Ladies
You should only need four words to identify this song: "Oh my god Becky."
- Baby Got Back by Sir Mixalot
- Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It by Will Smith
- Never Said by Liz Phair
- This Is How We Do It by Montell Jordan
You'd probably know this song if you heard it, but it'll be harder to identify with just these lyrics: "Keep planting to find out which one grows, it's a secret no one knows"
- Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind
- Mmmbop by Hanson
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something
- 3 a.m. by Matchbox Twenty
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This song contains the lyric "once more you open the door and you're here in my heart."
- Groove is in the Heart by Deee-Lite
- My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion
- Nothing Compares to You by Sinead O’Connor
- You’re Still the One by Shania Twain
- I’ll Be by Edwin McCain
Who is here to remind you of the mess you left when you went away?
- Alanis Morissette in You Oughta Know
- Whitney Houston in I Will Always Love You
- Jewel in Who Will Save Your Soul
- Sophie B. Hawkins in Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Which song shares that "I'm a model, you know what I mean and I do my little turn on the catwalk"
- Nuthin But a G Thang by Dr. Dre
- Rico Suave by Gerardo
- Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
- I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred
We have to finish it up with a boy band. Which song contains the lyrics "you are my fire, the one desire"?
- Larger Than Life by N’SYNC
- I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys
- All or Nothing by O-Town
- I’ll Make Love to You by Boyz To Men
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