All rights reserved. Anger, despondency, pain and chaos ripped through a million bedrooms as we listened to Cobain wail, scream and howl lyrics that were as confusing as they were powerful: ‘A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido… hey.’ What the fuck?There’s one more thing that makes ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ the song of the decade, and that’s Samuel Bayer’s now iconic video. Stevie B. Without the riot grrrl movement, our culture would look very different. Equipped with extra feelgood sax, this empowered tune briefly gave Monie a lead role in the conscious pro-women hip hop movement alongside Queen Latifah. Because You Loved Me (From "Up Close & Personal") Montell Jordan Feat. I Believe In You And Me (From "The Preacher's Wife") Not our words, but those of springy haired, eternally angry singer Zach De La Rocha, whose repeated rebellious chant in this anti-establishment rock-rap anthem started a million moshpits in the early ’90s.

Love the mag? Even if its key lyric, 'hit me baby one more time', doesn't completely make sense. Whack on 'Fantasy' next time your bus is stuck in a traffic jam and for a second, you might just think you're cruising down a California highway with the top down. Like the Seattle superstars on ‘In Utero’, Dorset’s very own Polly Jean Harvey turned to punk rock recording engineer Steve Albini (known for his raw, unvarnished sound) for her second album ‘Rid of Me’. Were The Prodigy ‘proper’ dance music? Because for a short period Noel Gallagher’s smash-’n’-grab raid on the ’60s pop canon yielded magnificent results. To wit, these are the best '90s R&B songs. Every element is flawlessly placed, from soaring strings to Shara Nelson’s effortlessly powerful vocals to the wistful percussive bells that introduce the track – still capable of sending shivers down a few spines. Déjà vu! All the cool kids will tell you that they were into Nirvana back in ’89 when they released ‘Bleach’ on Sub Pop. 73% of African Americans said they did not have emergency funds to cover three months of expenses. Even if you can’t stand house music – or dance music in general – you’d need a bitterly cynical soul and legs of stone to resist tapping your feet all the way through this uplifting number from US DJ and producer AVH. ‘Awoooo-a! We already have this email.

SL2 was founded by DJs Slipmatt and Lime – hence the 'SL' and there were two of them. However, since these sites are not under our control, we cannot attest to the accuracy of information provided by them. Sure, the moshpits were mostly full of privileged teens, but it took little away from the song’s message (‘Fuck you, establishment’, in case that wasn’t clear) and nothing away from the wonderfully raucous riffing. Shaun Ryder’s E-powered hoodlums turned an obscure ’70s funk track by John Kongos into a rave-rock hit, and a whole generation grew up with the phrase ‘you’re twistin’ my melon, man’ as a result. Just FYI, though: she's singing 'And I feeeel!' Before You Walk Out Of My Life/Like This And Like That His 1995 album ‘Timeless’ is a landmark in the evolution of electronic music, taking jungle from the dancefloor to the coffee table without compromise – and the vocal-led ‘Inner City Life’ was its clear stand out track. All the cool kids are lying.


‘Juicy’ works because Biggy balances his history of Bed-Stuy poverty so precisely against the braggadocious trappings of fame and fortune (including a Super Nintendo and a Sega Genesis – a reference that now sounds as quaint as the Sugarhill Gang’s ‘hotel, motel, Holiday Inn’).

And wouldn’t it be brilliant if – in some small, tangential way – the economic fate of the Eurozone had been influenced two decades later by some lanky singer from Yorkshire? (Who’s Al Bowlly? It’s all there in the title track, a primal howl of electrified blues-rock that’s equal parts lovesick wail and feminist stomp. Try another? on the hook, not 'Anna Friel!'.