Top Ten Songs From The 90s
// June 7th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Lists
…That I Thought Described My Life Because I Was An Emotional Wannabe Emo Teenager
When I was a teenager, I’d hear a song and thing it was describing my life, so I’d listen to it 300 times and sob. Nowadays, they call that being emo. I don’t do that anymore and have no desire to do it, but I miss the allure. Here’s the top 10 songs that I thought were about my life in the 90’s. /wrists
10. I Grieve by Peter Gabriel -
I grieve for you… you leeeeeave me. This guy broke up with me. He was my first real love. I was 13 or 14… “So hard to move, still loving what’s gone….” I thought it was my life. In retrospect, I realize that a 23 year old dude had no business talking to me when I was that age. I listened to this song 800 times because I was in love with a fucking pedophile. Rofl… gotta love being a teenager.
9. One – U2 – Oh Bono! How many angst filled teens did you leave forlorn and wanted to cut their wrists after they broke up with their lil boyfriend/girlfriend and listened to it on repeat?
8. There’s a Light In Your Eyes – Blessid Union of Souls – I cried through this pathetic ball of sap fest at least a hundred
times through my teenage years. There’s about 10 other Blessid Union of Souls songs that have just about the same damn description from me. They’re all from that self titled album. That CD was always in my Sony Walkman CD player. Blah… “Jelly” I think was a name of another one that I boo-hooed to. 
I think it was that dude’s voice, really soft and sappy, combined with the ridiculously corny and simplistic piano and dripping oozing lyrics. Any teen girl would ball her eyes in self-pity and envious of that magical “in love” relationship when they listen to this pile.
7.
Santa Monica – Everclear – I fucking loved and still love Everclear so don’t make fun of them. I went through not one, not two, but THREE original copies of the Sparkle and Fade album in my teen years. This is the song that turned me on to them and it was the absolute epitome of my teen angst I think. I had this thing about running away… I thought it would solve all my problems and I’d find my “true love” and all that shit. Like I said, still fucking ADORE Everclear AND the Sparkle and Fade album, but this song got my most play in high school.
6. Berlin – Take My Breath Away – And what teen girl didn’t believe fucking for the first time would be JUST like Tom Cruise in Top Gun when Berlin is playing. /repeat x100 on this song. I was totally convinced this was what sex would be like all the time.
5. Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor – Oh Jesus… I know… bad, right? I cried to this one a few times. I don’t even have this one associated with a boyfriend in my head, it was all for like wanting a boyfriend or some stupid shit.
4. Motorcycle Driveby – Third Eye Blind – I don’t know if a lot people know this or not, it wasn’t that popular. Super 
slow and simple and cheesy and dreamy. I LOVED Third Eye Blind all through my teen years but this song was like my epitome of repeat. My aunt had originally bought me the 3EB CD and that thing got wore the fuck out as well. This particular song is rather raw and angry in its cheesiness.
3. Runaway Train – Soul Asylum – Again, with the runaway thing for me. I actually had the lyrics for this one framed 
and hanging on my wall. Sad and pathetic. I know. Still not a terrible song, but cheesy none the less and I totally cried to it.
2. Unchained Melody – Righteous Brothers – NOT a 90’s song but I listened to it on repeat in the 90’s so it makes the list. Like.. a lot. And cried.
1. Return To Innocence – Enigma – I didn’t and still don’t know what the fuck they’re really saying in this song but the soft, sexy voice, slow tempo, dramatic crescendos, and cheesy occassional words you can understand makes this, yes, my MOST PLAYED song of my emo teenage years!!!! Grats to you, Enigma. Who the fuck are you again?
