Watching “Small Wonder” dubbed in Hindi, playing Sega till our fingers bled and listening to quality music without auto-tuning on our Walkmans — those were the good old days of the 90s. They literally birthed everything cool, from television and films to music, toys and electronics. Okay maybe not the last part — floppy disks, come on!
Here are all those forgotten songs that should totally make it on your guilty pleasure playlist.
Farangi hits
Musically, the 90s led to the formation of many movements and cliques. Take for instance, the memorable grunge genre, the white rapper movement, the annoyingly addictive bands, the quintessential cool ones and of course, angry hot girls who made terribly good music.
Angry hot girls
Fiona Apple — “Criminal”
Garbage — “Only Happy When It Rains”
Alanis Morrisette — “You Oughta Know”
White rappers
Vanilla Ice — “Ice Ice Baby”
Marky Mark and The Funk Bunch — “Good Vibrations”
Annoyingly addictive
MC Hammer — “Can’t Touch This”
4 Non Blondes — “What’s Up”
Snap — “Power”
Ace of base — “All That She Wants”
Blind Melon — “No Rain”
The quintessential cool
Duran Duran — “Come Undone”
Green Day — “When I come around”
Pardesi power
Who would believe that there was once a time when India produced songs that weren’t made or featured in big, Bollywood productions? A time when Hindi pop music was actually voiced by the real singers and not lip-synced by Shahrukh Khan on TV?
That’s the 90s for you — it even made India almost, half, maybe a bit cool. Okay, not exactly cool, but they did give us some really wacky lyrics and fun tunes.
Girl power
Shweta Shetty — “Johnny Joker” and “Deewane To Deewane Hain”
Alisha Chinai — “Made in India”
Suneeta Rao — “Paree Hoon Main”
Bhangra bliss
Bally Sagoo — “Aaja Nachle” and “Mera Laung Gawacha”
Daler Mehendi — “Tunak Tunak Tun” and “Dardi Rab Ra”
Published in The Express Tribune, March 6th, 2012.
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