Use code FINN50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at bit.ly/3HfitU6 Thanks Factor for Sponsoring!

Sir Mix A Lot's contribution to rap was so significant that he was knighted by the Queen. Not many other rappers can say that. He doesn't get enough respect

Fun fact about Lisa Loeb, nowadays she makes children’s music! Lullabies, nursery rhymes, all that stuff. Apparently she’s pretty successful in that genre as well. Good for her

The entire Blind Melon debut album is fantastic and underrated!

Cruel intentions. That ending was probably one of the greatest movie endings of all time. Bittersweet symphony is one of the greatest songs of all time in my opinion.

Linda Perry from 4NonBlondes is a legit legend. She has been a very influential producer and songwriter for decades up until today.

As a Britt, The Verve certainly weren't a one hit wonder over here. Urban Hymes is one of the best selling and influential album of the 90s and Richard Ashcroft is still going strong. Now, if you want a one hit wonder then Babylon Zoo _ Spaceman is the one for you.

Blind Melon had so many good songs from that era before Hoon died. I got really into them back in 2008 and love a lot of their music.

The original Macarena was a big hit in Spain when it came out but it was these two old flamenco dudes who had been around since forever and even your parents would find it old-fashioned because it absolutely was. There are no words for how bizarre it was years later when it suddenly became a massive international hit with a remix that was significantly more awful than the original, it felt like reality had broken down

0:55 I can just about imagine Finn coming to his wife: "honey, please film me walking into a kitchen like the normal middle-class husband I always wanted to be opening a fridge filled with enough groceries to cook for a middle-class suburban family for 2 weeks."

Great video… don’t forget Chumbawamba-Tubthumper, OMC-How Bizarre, Dog’s Eye View-Everything Falls Apart, Elastica-Connection, Belly-Feed the Tree, Black Lab-Wash it Away, Mighty Joe Plum-15 Stories, Fiona Apple-Criminal, Marcy Playground-Sex and Candy. So many more, I loved being in my teens and twenties in the 90s.

The Verve were huge in the UK, they even headlined Glastonbury, so for us in the UK we we don't see them as a one-hit wonder.

The backstory of "Macarena" is even more insane than that. Todd in the Shadows has an amazing video that summarizes everything.

“Aerodynamically designed to steal your girl.” Absolute facts about EMF🔥

The Verve's only big hit in America. Over here in the UK, they were huge with the album "Urban Hymns" containing 4 top 10 singles and selling millions of copies.

The 2000s had the Ketchup song, which also had a certain dance style. If a song has a certain dance, it´s certain that the artist will remain a one-hit-wonder.

That "Bittersweet Symphony" situation was a cursed paradox. Rolling Stones sued them, then they sued Jason Derulo for "Riding Solo"

As a young man in the mid to late 90s sowing my oats around the world in the Navy, I can promise you that the Macarena was played at least once a night in every club for about four years. You knew it, you danced to it even if you laughed about it. It's really hard to explain how big that was if you weren't out in the dance club scene then, beyond it became a big song for kids and soccer moms and shit.

4 Non Blondes, Blind Melon and especially The Breeders brought me instantly back to my college GF... So much nostalgia packed in one video!

BRING BACK 90'S SNARE TONES. I want a goddamn piccolo snare with so much reverb in the mix that it doesn't end until the next snare hit, goddammit.

Blind Melon had some incredible albums, the song "The Pusher" from their final album is great.

I used to play a 90's Alt Rock playlist in my coffeeshop in Philly and every song you reviewed (besides the Macarena) was on it! I think the customers all hated it but I didn't care.

I remember being in second grade class, and my teacher played The Macarena song and made us dance. The year was 1996.

“Skin” by Blind Melon is fantastic. About Ed Gein. But the straight forward seeming lyrics become layered in a really great way. Good stuff…

I was one of the weird 90s teenager that loved both Blind Melon and Sepultura at the same time and didn't really think there was anything weird about it.

Great video! Laughed so much, what a time to be alive.

Blind Melon was brilliant. Such a shame about Shannon Hoon, really talented. That first album actually had some great guitar work and catchy hooks.

The Lisa Loeb song is the sort of thing I would be listening to on my own, but instantly turn off if a friend turned up at my house unannounced!

Great video! Been busy with little man so have missed the twitch streams. Still waiting for the prmba onesie lol

Speaking of those days, my then gf/later wife got me into Lisa Loeb. The first two albums are fantastic. Seriously, Firecracker is a really fantastic album. Also Ben Folds/Five, which became one of my favorite non metal/punk acts.

Id say the cha cha slide is the 2000's version of the macarena, as like the macarena in the 90's it was played at every single big party and everyone would do the dance. The Cupid Shuffle later in the decade a close second that was also very common and pervasive, Crank that had its moments but was arguably bigger as an online dance or something to do at a small hangout. I rarely saw the Crank that dance done at big parties even during the height of that songs popularity, it fits in more with modern tik tok dances which blow up online, but are rarely done at party's unless there's a bunch of influencers there.

LOVE all the songs! Thank you for the video.

Over the summer of ‘96, I briefly worked for a pony ride/petting zoo and at either 2nd or 3rd gig with them, it was a giant corporate picnic with a DJ…The Macarena was played AT LEAST 20 times throughout the day. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Love the Lisa Loeb shoutout. A band that reminds me of them from the 90s is Letters to Cleo who also made some major bops

I also love that Lisa Loeb sang on New Found Glory's cover of Stay.

Stay is a classic… I love Lisa’s voice. The Macarena still plays at parties at the end of the night lol No Rain is still one of my favorite songs to sing when it comes on. Playing all my tracks from back then that I love. ❤ good times and good music for me

Aw man, I loved EMF when I was 10. I had Shubert Dip on tape and listened to it constantly. I think that whole UK baggy thing needs to get big, again, and explode on tiktok. EMF and Jesus Jones can do a tour together, and everyone there will look like early '90s Jeff Ament or Linda Perry.

EMF was the Linkin Park of the early 90s. If you were 11 you felt instantly badass just by listening to them.

I was secretly watching this in work and the EMF part broke my cover when I burst out laughing - thanks Finn 😂

i unironically love what’s up. the studio song is okay, but it’s a great alternative to the usual picks like good riddance and wonderwall when asked to pull out an acoustic guitar. everyone sings along and it’s a great time

The whole Last Splash album by The Breeders is amazing!

Cannonball is amazing. My mom introduced it to me a couple years ago...I'm 23. I'd say it definitely holds up.

Loved this video. I remember all these songs well.

Every day, aside from Saturday (and some Sundays) when you don't work, I always go through my notifs when I wake up (I need shit to listen to as I go through my morning routine), and I swipe away the dumb shit and save the interesting sounding stuff to my watch later list, and every single time I get a new upload from either of your channels (except for interviews if I'm being honest), I don't really get down with them unless it's with someone I know/a band I know and like, yada yada yada, I always save your videos last so that it's the first video I see in the playlist; you're prime poopin' playin' playa, and that's the highest honor and most important video of the day Finn me boy 🤙🏻

That was UNBELIEVABLE! lol

Hell yeah brother, love to see the Lisa Loeb love 🤘🔥 Unironically though that song is amazing.

Considering that we’re basically the same age (I was born in ‘77), I can’t get enough of these types of videos! Please keep ‘em coming, sir!

great videos bro

Finn, I am also mad that blind melon is not sepultura.

The Breeders had a second hit on the same album of The Last Splash, called Saints…with the chorus “Summer is ready!…when you are!”

The '90s really were the decade of one hit wonders! You could make quite a few sequel videos with how many there were. Here are my thoughts on each of these: "Baby Got Back" - If you're gonna do a one hit wonder, this is how it's done. An iconic song that most people have probably heard at least once. "Macarena" - I kind of like this song more than I should. As a kid, I had a screensaver with this song on it and I used to drive my mom insane letting it play on the computer. I also learned the dance in gym class, because of course I did. "Stay (I Missed You)" - I didn't like this song at first, but it's really grown on me. There's something about the aesthetic of mid-late '90s acoustic rock songs like this one that makes me intensely nostalgic. "No Rain" - I really like this song! It makes me want to drive down an empty desert highway with the top down. My little brother hates it with a passion, though... "Bitter Sweet Symphony" - When people ask me what my favorite song is, I tell them it's this one. I love it and it never gets old for me. "Cannonball" - I heard this song in a grocery store a couple of weeks ago and it was amazing. Everything about it is cool, from the sexy vocals to the badass production. "What's Up?" - I heard this song in the car last Friday and it was not very amazing. I said the last song sounded badass, but this one just sounds like ass. Those vocals, just why? "Unbelievable" - Another iconic and catchy hit from the early '90s. I just wish I didn't think of all the commercials it's been in every time I heard it...

Argh damn it, I missed this on Twitch. Must've been my staff meeting night. 90s music is my favoriiiiiiite! I can't believe you hated No Rain at the time but I'm happy for you that you've grown to accept how wonderful it is.

I hated No Rain at first... But when you listen to the Soup album from a few years later... It's a masterpiece. Shannon Hoon was way out there but so talented. After Soup, they would have put out a decisive record, putting them on the map for good. I'm sure of it. But then there's drugs...

My favorite one hit wonder from the 90s is “you get what you give” by new radicals

So much nostalgia in that video... I never knew what half these people looked like, and it makes perfect sense. I hope all these clothing styles make a comeback.

Great list of one hit wonders.

The best part of McArena is really the dance that can still be fun doing it at a wedding or so with like 100 people.

I love how when cannonball was on, someone said "You can tell Nevermind happened for sure." What's funny about that is that Kim Deal was in the Pixies whose sound was a major influence on Nirvana's sound.

Hahaha. That EMF video…when I was a kid, my older cousin was in the hardcore band Mouthpiece…I hadn’t been to a show or heard their 7” or LP at the time, having only seen photos of them and the bands that inspired then…when I saw this video, I thought that’s what they’d sound like and what their shows were like. 😂

EMF´s Unbelieveble is a great song. I read somewhere that there´s an album called "The very best of EMF". I wonder if this is a 7" with only an A side.

Lisa Loeb and Ethan Hawke lived in apartment buildings in NYC that were directly across the way from each other. That's how they met. My cousin Kristina lived in Lisa's apartment building too and considered both of them "theater acquaintances".

"your purple prose just gives you away" that line definitely still holds up.

Finns videos are my favorite to watch when I eat

They had Drugs Dont Work, it was a big hit too, at least in Europe.

Was expecting to see The Verve Pipe's "The Freshmen". I can't not think of it whenever The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is mentioned.

I was waiting for the Spin Doctors to show up so that I could throw my phone against the wall with purpose...

Soundgarden Superunknown was my 1st cassette. I'll never forget!

I used to live in Washington years ago and would often pop in to the local Guitar Center near south center mall. I heard on multiple occasions while chatting with employees that Sir Mix-a-lot came in quite often and was a super cool guy. I never ran into him, but cool that he was down to earth like that.

"We were too busy being Alternative." 😅 True

The Turnstile comment about the EMF video, omg I cried laughing

I can't help but think of the He-Man cover whenever someone brings up What's Up by 4 Non Blondes

A Breeders and Veruca Salt tour would be awesome.

When I watch you 90's one hit wonder videos I get ads for home improvement and wall mounted ovens. They know me too well.

I discovered EMF in the late 2000's because Thousand Foot Krutch had a cover of it on their first album lol

Bittersweet Symphony was a hit not just because the violin but the lyrics are iconic. I'd say the lyrics under a different song would still have been a hit for them.

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony, was also used in the film Cruel Intentions which was a huge in the 90s starring Sarah Micheller Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Whitherspoon.

'Unbelievable' was the theme song for the AFL in Australia in the 90s; and it was hype!

Verve was one of the best bands in the 90s. They have a classic shoegaze album (A Storm in Heaven), a classic alternative album (A Northern Soul) and a classic Britpop album (Urban Hymns).

Finn NEVER mentions OMC How Bizzare one hit wonders videos. That was one of the quintessential 90s one hit wonders. :/

I think the Stay video and Lisa Loeb got me my girls with glasses thing when I was a teenager almost 30 years ago

Can confirm that the macarena was used to make children exercise. I can remember learning the whole dance to the song in the gym along with the dances to the electric slide and thriller.

They had me do that with Thriller in 4th or 5th can't remember. Very well choreographed.

Cannonball is 1993! I remember loving it first time I heard it. Last Splash is an enjoyable album

Great video! I died laughing because everything you said was spot on. I hated 90's music then, and still do! 😂

I remember hating most of these when I was growing up; but I don't know if it's because these hook have been implanted in my brain, now that I'm older, it makes so much more sense now. The Breeders are amazing; Kim is a legend. How about Utah Saints, Something Good for next time; the accompanying video is outstanding.

i need to start catching ur lives, im always wanting to make comments during the vids and its just not the same haha

Throwdown covering Baby Got Back was awesome

I am having the best time watching this. Ah, memories!!

I never thought Finn would cover Baggy/Grebo music

My high school band "Fuerza" covered EMF nu-metal style back in 2000!!! 🤘

Robin S - show me love is a fuckin’ 90s banger

Growing up in Dallas (where Lisa Loeb is from), I feel I heard that song way more than other markets.

I saw EMF play in January this year. They still dress like this and still fucking rule.

I thought you said that every 90s video had "the fish I shot in the forest," and boy was I extremely confused for a moment!

Knowing how much you love Thousand Foot Krutch, they did a rapcore cover of "Unbelievable". You'd best check it out!

this video made me laugh thanks Finn. I too loved Cannonball and the Deal sisters, Lisa Loeb as a kid but never rated that Verve song that everyone seems to like

Not only do I remember all of these songs from when they were new, I was in a cover band that did most of these songs.

If you've ever watched Falling Down with Michael Douglas, there's a scene where there's a record store with an inflatable baby got back balloon in the background it's so out of place and I love it.

Listen to Posse On Broadway with the Godzilla scream sample from Sir Mix-A-Lot, still a jam to this day. And he gave inspiration for the name Becky to all them Beckys w/ the good hair.

Blind Melon is hands down one of the best 90s bands, No Rain is a great song but far from their best song. RIP Shannon Hoon ❤