Well, I have a decent playlist. It’s hard to believe just how much good (or otherwise recognizable) music came out of the 90s. This was the collaborative effort of Becky; Becky’s brother, Charles and his wife, Kimberly; Jenny, Sarah, and I, as well as a few suggestions from Lisa. You guys are invited, by the way. A whole lot more music is out there, but this is already 6.8 hours, and I don’t want the party to last all night. I have a feeling it will go long, though. So I guess I’d better get my rest.
| Song | Artist |
| Everybody Plays the Fool | Aaron Neville |
| The Sign | Ace of Base |
| I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing | Aerosmith |
| Ironic | Alanis Morissette |
| Baby, Baby | Amy Grant |
| No More I Love You’s | Annie Lennox |
| Mr. Wendal | Arrested Development |
| Loser | Beck |
| Brick | Ben Folds Five |
| Good | Better Than Ezra |
| Achy Breaky Heart | Billy Ray Cyrus |
| No Diggity | Blackstreet |
| No Rain | Blind Melon |
| Song 2 | Blur |
| MotownPhilly | Boyz II Men |
| Everything I Do (I Do It for You) | Bryan Adams |
| Machinehead | Bush |
| Glycerine | Bush |
| Gonna Make You Sweat | C+C Music Factory |
| Lovefool | The Cardigans |
| Come On Over | Christina Aguilera |
| Tub Thumping | Chumbawamba |
| Joey | Concrete Blond |
| Round Here | Counting Crows |
| Mr. Jones | Counting Crows |
| Linger | The Cranberries |
| Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm | Crash Test Dummies |
| Higher | Creed |
| Satellite | Dave Matthews Band |
| Ants Marching | Dave Matthews Band |
| Ordinary World | Duran Duran |
| Return to Innocence | Enigma |
| Tears in Heaven | Eric Clapton |
| Epic | Faith No More |
| The Way | Fastball |
| Everlong | Foo Fighters |
| Learn to Fly | Foo Fighters |
| Special | Garbage |
| Hey Jealousy | Gin Blossoms |
| When I Come Around | Green Day |
| Good Riddance | Green Day |
| What Is Love | Haddaway |
| MMMBop | Hanson |
| All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You | Heart |
| Steal My Sunshine | Len |
| Only Wanna Be With You | Hootie & The Blowfish |
| Galileo | Indigo Girls |
| Who Will Save Your Soul | Jewel |
| Foolish Games | Jewel |
| Stay | Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories |
| Macarena | Los Del Rio |
| Vogue | Madonna |
| Walking in Memphis | Marc Cohn |
| One Sweet Day | Mariah Carey |
| U Can’t Touch This | MC Hammer |
| I’d Do Anything for Love … | Meat Loaf |
| To Be with You | Mr. Big |
| Torn | Natalie Imbruglia |
| Smells Like Teen Spirit | Nirvana |
| Come As You Are | Nirvana |
| Spiderwebs | No Doubt |
| Just A Girl | No Doubt |
| Don’t Speak | No Doubt |
| Wonderwall | Oasis |
| Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? | Paula Cole |
| Better Man | Pearl Jam |
| Daughter | Pearl Jam |
| Peaches | The Presidents of the USA |
| I’ll Stand By You | Pretenders |
| I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) | The Proclaimers |
| Silent Lucidity | Queensryche |
| Creep | Radiohead |
| I’m Too Sexy | Right Said Fred |
| Angels | Robbie Williams |
| Truly Madly Deeply | Savage Garden |
| When I’m with You | Sheriff |
| Strong Enough | Sheryl Crow |
| All I Wanna Do | Sheryl Crow |
| Nothing Compares 2 U | Sinead O’Connor |
| Tonight, Tonight | Smashing Pumpkins |
| 1979 | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Today | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Black Hole Sun | Soundgarden |
| Fields of Gold | Sting |
| Plush | Stone Temple Pilots |
| Tom’s Diner | Suzanne Vega |
| Whoomp! (There It Is) | Tag Team |
| Waterfalls | TLC |
| Cornflake Girl | Tori Amos |
| Fast Car | Tracy Chapman |
| Mysterious Ways | U2 |
| One | U2+B67 |
| Bittersweet Symphony | The Verve |
| One Headlight | The Wallflowers |
| The World Has Turned | Weezer |
| Your Woman | White Town |
| These Are Days | 10,000 Maniacs |
| What’s Up? | 4 Non Blondes |
We couldn’t really think of 90s food, so we’re doing hummus and veggies and chips and salsa, and cookies and brownies and kettle corn. And Lisa totally called the faux-jito, or maybe she remembered the cocktail shaker I gave Becky for Christmas. In fact, Becky mixed one up this past Sunday for Sarah and me. It was delicious, and it was the first time Sarah’s had soda in a couple of years. Way to fall off the wagon, girl. So we have margarita mix and grenadine and limes and mint and simple syrup. We have coke and ginger ale and other carbonated drinks. About thirty people are coming according to the invitation, but you can always count on at least half the noncommittals to show up. So maybe 40-50.
It’s going to be fun. It’s going to end up being a singalong. And I’m totally doing the Running Man and Roger Rabbit.
You can come; you don’t even have to RSVP. There’s still time, get your hiney over here and do the Cabbage Patch.
