Featuring the best '90s music videos, TV shows, '90s celebrities and more!
The Dave Matthews Band has been recording great music ever since 1994 when they released their debut album ‘Under The Table and Dreaming’. Their debut single, ‘What Would You Say’ is still a fan favorite in concerts, and it was the first of many top 20 hits on the Alt Rock charts when it peaked at #11.
In 1995, Oasis released their second studio album titled (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, and the fourth single Wonderwall was their breakthrough hit in the United States when it became their first top 40 hit on the Hot 100 chart when it peaked at number eight in 1995. It also topped the Alternative Airplay charts, and in 2020, it became the first song from the ’90s to reach one billion streams on Spotify.
Enjoy this look back at the music video for Wonderwall as well as one of the best live versions we’ve ever heard from 2001!
Titanic was one of the biggest movies of the 90’s, and the theme song, Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’, is one of the biggest songs of all time. It reached number one in every country it charted in. With an estimated 18 million copies sold, it became the second best-selling single by a female artist in history, and the eighth overall.
The late Meatloaf scored the biggest hit of his career in 1993 when I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) with Lorraine Crosby hit number one in 28 countries including the Hot 100 charts in the US. It also charted at #40 on the Hot 100 Decade-end charts for the 90’s.
The music video features Meatloaf as the beast and actress Dana Patrick as the beauty. After the video aired, Patrick received several offers for record deals from executives who assumed she was actually singing in the video. In fact, she was just lip-syncing Lorraine Crosby’s lines in the song.
Enjoy this look back at Meatloaf’s music video for I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) from 1993! RIP sir…
Weezer’s music video for ‘Buddy Holly’, their second single from their debut album ‘Weezer (The Blue Album)’ was filmed at Charlie Chaplin Studios in Hollywood on the set of Arnold’s Diner from the TV show Happy Days. The music video scored four awards at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Alternative Video, Breakthrough Video, Best Direction and Best Editing.
Michael Jackson’s music video for ‘Black or White’ was the first of nine short films from his 1991 ‘Dangerous’ album. The song was a number one hit on almost every chart in the world. The music video below premiered on MTV, BET, VH1, and Fox as well as the BBC’s Top of the Pops in the UK on November 14, 1991. At the time, it gave MTV, BET, VH1, and Fox their highest ratings ever. The video featured cameos from actors Macaulay Culkin, George Wendt, Tess Harper, Glen Chin, Khrystyne Haje, Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter and model Tyra Banks.
In 1992, the Spin Doctors released their debut album Pocket Full of Kryptonite, and it produced two of the most popular songs of the early ’90s with Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong and Two Princes. The two songs peaked at numbers 17 and seven respectively on the Hot 100 chart, and Two Princes peaked at number one on the US Pop chart in 1993 as well as number two on the Mainstream Rock chart.
Enjoy this look back at the Spin Doctors’ music video for Two Princes as well as their music video for Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong!
In 1998, two of Aerosmith’s songs were included on the soundtrack to the movie Armageddon. The first Aerosmith single released from the album was I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing, and the second single was What Kind of Love Are You On. Both songs peaked at number four on the US Rock chart, but I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing became Aerosmith’s first and only number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and numerous charts around the world.
Enjoy this look back at the music video for I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing as well as an awesome video compiled from the movie Armageddon set to I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing!
There will never be another Chris Farley, and the ‘Van Down By The River’ skit from Saturday Night Live is by far our favorite SNL skit of all time. The skit first appeared on SNL on May 8, 1993.
Enjoy this look back at Chris Farley as motivational speaker Matt Foley and his ‘Van Down by the River’ speech!
“Waiting for Tonight” is considered by many publications like Entertainment Weekly and the Chicago Tribune, to be the best song of Jennifer Lopez’s career. The music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance video. The song peaked at #8 on the Hot 100 charts in 1999 and hit number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs charts!
blink-182’s ‘All The Small Things’ was the last number one song on the Alternative Rock charts in the 90’s when it topped the charts on December 25, 1999 and spent eight weeks at number one.
The music video parodies boy bands like Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees and N’SYNC as well as Britney Spears’ ‘Sometimes’ video and Christina Aguilera’s ‘Genie In A Bottle’ video. Ironically, due to the success of the song, the band actually became the pop stars they were making fun of.
