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NINTIES NOISE: PLAYLIST

I’ve created playlists based on genre, theme, mood—even season—but I’ve never made one truly grounded in a single decade. That changes now.

“Nineties Noise” is a tribute to the raw, rebellious, and unforgettable sounds of the 1990s. Rooted in rock but branching into grunge, punk, alt-rock, pop-rock, and everything in between, this playlist captures the era’s electric spirit and evolving soundscape—one distortion pedal at a time.

Whether you lived it, missed it, or stumbled into it years later through scratched CDs or late-night YouTube rabbit holes, Nineties Noise taps into that rare blend of angst, energy, and aching honesty that defined a generation—and still hits just as hard today.

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  1. Hard To Handle – The Black Crowes
  2. Higher – Creed
  3. Slide – Goo Goo Dolls
  4. Semi-Charmed Life – Third Eye Blind
  5. Holiday – Green Day
  6. Parallel Universe – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  7. Otherside – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  8. Hard to Concentrate – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  9. Snow (Hey Oh) – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  10. 1985 – Bowling For Soup
  11. Push – Matchbox Twenty
  12. Creep – Radiohead
  13. Drive – Incubus
  14. Loser – Beck
  15. Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
  16. What’s Up? – 4 Non Blondes
  17. Shine – Collective Soul
  18. Cherub Rock – The Smashing Pumpkins
  19. Today – The Smashing Pumpkins
  20. Mayonaise – The Smashing Pumpkins
  21. Sabotage – Beastie Boys
  22. Come As You Are – Nirvana
  23. Wonderwall – Oasis
  24. Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine
  25. The Kids Aren’t Alright – The Offspring
  26. Celebrity Skin – Hole
  27. Everlong – Foo Fighters
  28. All The Small Things – blink-182
  29. Zombie – The Cranberries
  30. When I Come Around – Green Day
  31. Heart-Shaped Box – Nirvana
  32. Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
  33. Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots
  34. Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
  35. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
  36. Song 2 – Blur
  37. Learn to Fly – Foo Fighters
  38. What’s My Age Again? – blink-182
  39. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day
  40. Plush – Stone Temple Pilots
  41. Two Princes – Spin Doctors
  42. Bullet With Butterfly Wings – The Smashing Pumpkins
  43. No Rain – Blind Melon
  44. Alive – Pearl Jam
  45. Self Esteem – The Offspring
  46. My Hero – Foo Fighters
  47. Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
  48. Come Out and Play – The Offspring
  49. Even Flow – Pearl Jam
  50. Don’t Speak – No Doubt
  51. Say It Ain’t So – Weezer
  52. Supersonic – Oasis
  53. What I Got – Sublime
  54. Man in the Box – Alice In Chains
  55. Santa Monica – Everclear
  56. Machinehead – Bush
  57. Bulls On Parade – Rage Against The Machine
  58. Santeria – Sublime
  59. Lump – The Presidents Of The United States Of America
  60. High and Dry – Radiohead
  61. Just A Girl – No Doubt
  62. Karma Police – Radiohead
  63. Would? – Alice In Chains
  64. Tomorrow – Silverchair
  65. Ironic – Alanis Morissette
  66. Hunger Strike – Temple Of The Dog
  67. Everything About You – Ugly Kid Joe
  68. Cumbersome – Seven Mary Three
  69. Fly – Sugar Ray
  70. All Star – Smash Mouth
  71. The Impression That I Get – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  72. Flagpole Sitta – Harvey Danger
  73. Freak – Silverchair
  74. My Own Worst Enemy – Lit
  75. If Only – Queens of the Stone Age
  76. Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction
  77. Alright – Supergrass
  78. Champagne Supernova – Oasis
  79. Holiday – Weezer
  80. Creep – Stone Temple Pilots
  81. Rooster – Alice In Chains
  82. Glycerine – Bush
  83. Lightning Crashes – Live
  84. Iris – The Goo Goo Dolls
  85. Good – Better Than Ezra
  86. 1979 – The Smashing Pumpkins

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