The group that performs "Jump" is spelled "Kriss Kross." Just thought you'd wanna know so other people don't smash their computers after not getting them.
Jeez. If you don't know the answers fine. Don't blame it on the length of the quiz. You've done plenty of other quizzes as long or longer, and enjoyed them.
Sorry, dad. I tried again and went until the time ran out. I got Gloria Estefan and somehow remembered the name of the guy who did the cover of the song from Aladdin (Peabo Bryson), but missed Whitney Houston and got my boy bands mixed up so typed in Backstreet Boys instead of New Kids on the Block. oh well.
This takes me back to the days of riding the bus home from school, listening to Baby One More Time, Genie in a Bottle, and Truly Madly Deeply on the radio, and wanting to fling myself out the emergency exit to end the pain.
Billboard charts are weird that way. A lot of pop stuff that nobody remembers 2 years after it comes out hits #1, and a lot of classic stuff that endures for decades either never charts at all, or doesn't reach the top.
There was a lot of good music coming out in the 90s but almost none of it is here. Nine Inch Nails. Nirvana. A Perfect Circle. Pearl Jam. Soundgarden. Bush. Metallica. Massive Attack. Weird Al.
I guess this is when I started hating "pop" music.
Eh, what kalbahamut said is right. There was a lot of great music from the 90s, but looking at a list of top 40 chart toppers is not the way to find the best stuff. Probably true for most decades.
The early 90's in particular was a weird time for pop. New Wave was falling out of the mainstream and Michael Jackson was cooling off, but it's like pop culture didn't quite know what to replace them with for a couple years there. Maybe that's why so many big hits from like 1991-1995 were one-hit wonders.
75. Not bad. I couldn't remember the artist for the Macarena and it was the popular song when I was in high school. Kept thinking Los Lobos. I typed Kelly. Thinking R. Kelly might be the answer and it wasn't for the one I was thinking of but it was for another one and it didn't count it.
Surprised the Backstreet Boys didn't crack this list once. I feel like every song they released was inescapable for at least a month after it came out.
Something I admire about the '90s is how diverse the music was. You had grunge, Britpop, indie rock, the last remnants of new wave, electronic, R&B, hip hop, metal... I know not all of those genres are reflected on this quiz, but still--I feel like it's fair to say all those were mainstream, and there was something for everyone. I dont hate modern mainstream pop, but it definitely feels much more generic and monolithic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kross
But I'll accept Kriss Kross now.
Also - Tommy Page?! As in, the cheesy dude who came to Stephanie's birthday party on "Full House"? Was he a real performer? Oh lord.
Isn't that the show with the Rob Lowe lookalike and Saget?
I guess this is when I started hating "pop" music.
QM could we accept BNL for Barenaked Ladies?
No intolerable whiny voiced Oasis.