60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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124 Episodes

  1. “Closing Time”—Semisonic

    Published: 3/13/2024
  2. “Friends in Low Places”—Garth Brooks

    Published: 3/6/2024
  3. “Give Me One Reason”—Tracy Chapman

    Published: 2/28/2024
  4. The Songs We Didn’t Do (Everyone Yells At Rob)

    Published: 2/21/2024
  5. “Hard Knock Life”—JAY-Z

    Published: 2/14/2024
  6. “Black or White”—Michael Jackson

    Published: 2/7/2024
  7. “Iris”—Goo Goo Dolls

    Published: 1/31/2024
  8. “Freedom! ’90”—George Michael

    Published: 1/24/2024
  9. "Believe"—Cher

    Published: 1/17/2024
  10. “Are You Gonna Go My Way”—Lenny Kravitz

    Published: 1/10/2024
  11. “What’s Up”—4 Non Blondes

    Published: 12/14/2023
  12. “Santeria”—Sublime

    Published: 12/6/2023
  13. ‘60 Songs’ x ‘Bandsplain’ Live at the Teragram

    Published: 11/29/2023
  14. “I’ll Be Missing You”—Puff Daddy and the Family

    Published: 11/15/2023
  15. “Glory Box”—Portishead

    Published: 11/8/2023
  16. “Lovefool”—The Cardigans

    Published: 10/25/2023
  17. “My Name Is”—Eminem

    Published: 10/18/2023
  18. “Black Hole Sun”—Soundgarden

    Published: 10/11/2023
  19. “One”—U2

    Published: 8/16/2023
  20. “Merchandise”—Fugazi

    Published: 8/9/2023

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The 1990s were a turning point in music: with the increasingly connected world enabling an unprecedented coalescence of various styles and genres, the decade featured the rapid evolution of sonic artistry — and subsequently shaped the soundscape of eras that followed. Listen along as The Ringer’s preeminent music critic Rob Harvilla curates and explores 60 iconic songs from the ‘90s that define the decade.