Do not deny any of these no matter how lame the bands may be to you........

Anniversary - Til We Earned A Holiday

Apples In Stereo - Questions and Answers

Ash - Angel Interceptor

Beulah - Silver Lining

Books - Take Time : the sounds of Africans are always happy like in Lion King

Braid - This Charming Man

Dismemberment Plan - Ellen and Ben

Eels - Last Stop This Town

Flogging Molly - Salty Dog

Girls are Short - Perfect Sound Always : it makes me teary cuz it's so happy

Hippos - Please

Joan Of Arc - Olivia Lost : such an ownage riff

Lagwagon - Sleep

Less Than Jake - Automatic

Mad Caddies - Mary Melody

Motion City Soundtrack - Modern Chemistry

NOFX - Please Play this song on the radio

Sleater Kinney - Oh! : the chorus gives me the biggest joygasm with the great combo of synths and girl screams

Sleater Kinney - Get Up : my favorite dance rock song...beats all those others bands that live off the genre

Olivia Tremor Control - Love Athena

Pavement - Carrot Rope

Pedro The Lion - Big Trucks

Poole - Superamerica : Yeah it's the song that used to come with windows media player, but its good stuff

Promise Ring - Happy Hour

Sebadoh - Skull

Sharks Keep Moving - Open Bay

Smashing Pumpkins - Today

Smoking Popes - Pure Imagination

Sonic Youth - Karen Revisited

Spoon - Car Radio

Stars - Elevator Love Letter

Sunny Day Real Estate - Rain Song : Lots of people think its one of the gay SDRE songs, but to me its sounds like Spring and is beautiful

Superdrag - True Believer

Switchfoot - You Already Take Me There

That Dog - Hawthorne : Petra Haden is a goddess

That Dog - Never Say Never : Another girl + synth song

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in your Soul

Vandals - My Girlfriend's Dead



That's my impartial list, what is yours?

" Imagination" by Brian Wilson.

Chang, I'm embarrassed...I've never heard a single one of the songs you've listed.

algernon, we certainly have shared tastes. "Your Imagination" is a flawless light pop song, in my estimation.

I really liked the following 90s pop tunes:

"Walking On The Sun" by Smashmouth
"Until I Hear It From You" by Gin Blossoms
"Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones
"Breakfast At Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something
"Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer
"Two Princes" by Spin Doctors
"Linger" by the Cranberries
"The Great Beyond" by R.E.M.
"Lovefool" by the Cardigans
"Ugly Girl" by Fleming and John

how can one talk perfect 90s pop and not include blur? (charmless man / country house / etc.)

Michael Jackson- Black or White

" Ants Marching"by Dave matthews

Pardon me for cleaning up your typing, pal ...

Anyway, "Ants Marching" was fantastic (especially the live version that got a good deal of airplay with the entire audience singing "People in every direction, no words exchanged, no time to exchange..."). I also really liked "What Would You Say" by DMB. It was always fun to hear that on the radio.

Another wonderful song that got some airplay in the 90s on a station I enjoyed listening to was Phish's live performance of "Bouncing Around The Room" (from the CD set "A Live One").

Hmm. how about some Phantom Planet or Maroon 5?

Silver Lining is a great song, by a fantastic band nobody has heard of. I highly recommend Beulah to those who like pop music (ala Beach Boys, Beatles, etc...).

"Wannabe" Spice Girls
"Say You'll Be There" Spice Girls
"Mo Money Mo Problems" Mase, Puff Daddy, Notorious BIG
"MMMBop" Hanson
"I Want It That Way" Backstreet Boys

Today's pop can't hold a candle to this stuff!