Popular Songs Of 1994, Vol. 2

Yesterday's intro should suffice for this entry (Vol. 2 of 3) in this miniseries. In case you missed that one, here it is...

Okay, so maybe my recent "1984" collection of popular songs 

represented the music of my generation (I was born in '78). 

But this set of songs represents the music of my teenage years 

– the first time in my life that I actually chose what I wanted 

to listen to, and could (occasionally) afford to buy it for 

myself. I didn't own copies of all the songs gathered in 

this miniseries of posts – but I did listen to them all, mostly 

on MTV (back when they actually played music videos!) 

and on the radio. If you're close to my age, you probably 

remember many of these well, and probably some 

of them quite fondly. Take a trip back with me 

to the music of 20 years ago. Here we go...  ~  JH

22)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  "Interstate Love Song"

23)  Sonic Youth  ~  "Bull In The Heather"

24)  Spin Doctors  ~  "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast"

25)  Hole  ~  "Violet"

26)  Arrested Development  ~  "Ease My Mind"

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27)  Milla  ~  "Gentleman Who Fell"

28)  Heavy D & The Boyz  ~  "Nuttin' But Love"

29)  Lisa Loeb  ~  "Stay (I Missed You)"

30)  Jon Secada  ~  "If You Go"

31)  Tori Amos  ~  "Pretty Good Year"

32)  Toad The Wet Sprocket  ~  "Fall Down"

33)  TLC  ~  "Waterfalls"

34)  Beastie Boys  ~  "Sabotage"

35)  Madonna  ~  "Bedtime Story"

36)  Seal  ~  "Prayer For The Dying"

37)  The Cranberries  ~  "Zombie"

38)  Weezer  ~  "Buddy Holly"

39)  Sheryl Crow  ~  "All I Wanna Do"

40)  Live  ~  "Selling The Drama"

41)  Rollins Band  ~  "Liar"

42)  Nas  ~  "The World Is Yours"

43)  Ace Of Base  ~  "The Sign"

44)  The Offspring  ~  "Gotta Get Away"

Popular Songs Of 1994, Vol. 1

Okay, so maybe my recent "1984" collection of popular songs represented the music of my generation (I was born in '78). But this set of songs – of which there will be 3 volumes, by the way – represents the music of my teenage years – the first time in my life that I actually chose what I wanted to listen to, and could (occasionally) afford to buy it for myself. I didn't own copies of all the songs gathered in this miniseries of posts – but I did listen to them all, mostly on MTV (back when they actually played music videos!) and on the radio. If you're close to my age, you probably remember many of these well, and probably some of them quite fondly. Take a trip back with me to the music of 20 years ago. Here we go...  ~  JH

1)  Sophie B. Hawkins  ~  "As I Lay Me Down"

2)  Blues Traveler  ~  "Hook"

3)  Veruca Salt  ~  "Seether"

4)  Nirvana  ~  "About A Girl"

5)  Amy Grant  ~  "Lucky One"

6)  Boyz II Men  ~  "On Bended Knee"

7)  Anita Baker  ~  "Body And Soul"

8)  Dinosaur Jr.  ~  "Feel The Pain"

9)  Portishead  ~  "Sour Times"

10)  Rusted Root  ~  "Send Me On My Way"

11)  Edie Brickell  ~  "Good Times"

12)  Toadies  ~  "Possum Kingdom"

13)  Jann Arden  ~  "Insensitive"

14)  Jeff Buckley  ~  "Last Goodbye"

15)  Brandy  ~  "Best Friend"

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16)  Elton John  ~  "Circle Of Life"

17)  John Mellencamp ft. Me'Shell Ndegeocello  ~  "Wild Night"

18)  Hootie & The Blowfish  ~  "Let Her Cry"

19)  Aaliyah ft. R. Kelly  ~  "Back & Forth"

20)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "Ants Marching"

21)  The Pretenders  ~  "I'll Stand By You"

Songs About Rain

These are songs about rain. They are good songs. You might like them. You might not. Who knows?  ~  JH

1)  Bruno Mars  ~  "It Will Rain"

2)  Adele  ~  "Set Fire To The Rain"  

3)  Pitbull ft. Marc Anthony  ~  "Rain Over Me"

4)  Mariah Carey  ~  "Through The Rain"

5)  Tay Zonday  ~  "Chocolate Rain"

6)  Billie Myers  ~  "Kiss The Rain"

7)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  "The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie"

8)  James Taylor  ~  "Fire And Rain"

9)  Trisha Yearwood  ~  "Georgia Rain"

10)  Creedence Clearwater Revival  ~  "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?"

11)  MIKA  ~  "Rain"

12)  Madonna  ~  "Rain"  (Not the same as the song above)

13)  Milli Vanilli  ~  "Blame It On The Rain"

14)  The Temptations  ~  "I Wish It Would Rain"

15)  Enya  ~  "Trains And Winter Rains"

16)  Luke Bryan  ~  "Rain Is A Good Thing"

17)  Creed  ~  "Rain"

18)  Ashanti  ~  "Rain On Me"

19)  Bruce Hornsby & The Range  ~  "Mandolin Rain"

20)  Tony Bennett & Alejandro Sanz  ~  "Yesterday I Heard The Rain"

BONUS TRACK:  Natasha Bedingfield  ~  "Unwritten"  (While it doesn't have "Rain" in the title, rain is mentioned all throughout this one – and it's a great song, so…yeah.)