I graduated in 1996. So the 90s are my formative decade in many things–also music.
In my mind the 90s had great music.
But then…
Almost 10 years ago, the girls and I decided it was a good idea to go to a 90s themed party at the local concert place. A friend who was over last night remembered and said “OMG and I was driving and couldn’t even drink, it was soooo bad.” Me? I couldn’t drink enough to make it better. They played all the most awful eurodance/boy-girl-group songs you might not care to remember and the worst of it was, we were much older than most everyone else there (even 10 years ago) and the kids knew all the lyrics and sang along… the guys singing along to Britney was … an experience I don’t care to remember, but sadly, I do.
So with that in mind and the kids in our circle being old enough to make their own playlists that they want to run at parties if nothing else is “on”… I spent quite a bit of time this week collecting all my favorite songs from back then and a few extras that you just have to have on such a list.
I took care to omit all the songs that get on my nerves after 10 seconds of recognition (well mostly I kept a few weirdos).
And then I stumbled across the stupidest of stupid things: My favorite song from back then is Insomnia from Faithless. THERE IS NO GOOD VERSION OF IT ON TIDAL. 
The big monster mix has no vocals, the radio edit is too short and all other versions just modify the song too much. How can this happen? I have the original 10 minute single edit I loved so much as MP3. Punishment for using music streaming I guess. I went with the monster mix and the radio edit therefore…
Despite that horrible shortcoming, the list is now on repeat at the house.
(list here)