I love the 90's.....rock.

Turns out being stuck in horrendous Miami traffic is a great place to collect some thoughts and really let your mind wander. Yesterday I was listening to a pretty solid 90's rock play list I came up with, and I immediately tried to rank two things: best songs of the genre/era (genera?) and best one hit wonders, which for me includes bands that I otherwise despise.

One Hit Wonders:
5. Marcy Playground- Sex and Candy
Needs no explanation as far as I'm concerned.
4. Cherry Poppin Daddies- Zoot Suit Riot
Remember the brief swing come back?
3. Everclear- Santa Monica
When this song came out I thought I was really going to like Everclear. Then they ripped off this riff in a half dozen other songs they put out, and basically sucked in general. I feel better if I pretend that nothing else they did exists.
2. Harvey Danger- Flagpole Sitta
It was in possibly the greatest teen movie of my generation, American Pie. Why they left it off the official soundtrack I'll never know. With the addition of Harvey Danger, among others left off, it might have rivaled the greatest movie soundtrack of my generation: Can't Hardly Wait.
1. The Toadies- Possum Kingdom
I know they had other music too, but nothing was even close to this good or even this popular. It's just a great song and a great example of rock of the decade.

Honorable mentions to Freshman by Verve Pipe, The Way by Fastball, and Fly by Sugar Ray (which might have been on the list, but they had one other huge hit and another smaller hit or two. Just no one remembers them.).

The Real List:
I can't and won't justify why I picked these. It was kind of a bitch to come up with just five. The list kept changing, and, in the end, I really couldn't settle on five anyway.
5. City of Angels- The Distillers
4. My Own Summer (Shove It)- The Deftones
3. Creep- Radiohead
2. Yellow Ledbetter- Pearl Jam
1. Lithium- Nirvana
This was the hardest to pick, and the result came from the heretofore unprecedented list within a list:
5. Serve the Servants
4. Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge
3. Molly's Lips
2. Heart Shaped Box
1. Lithium