New Rhino boxset: "Whatever: The '90s Pop Culture Box"

"In the Meantime," Spacehog
"Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check," Busta Rhymes featuring Rampage The Last Boy Scout
"Who Will Save Your Soul," Jewel
"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand," Primitive Radio Gods
"Cybele's Reverie," Stereolab
"Capri Pants," Bikini Kill
"What I Got," Sublime

Your fever dreams are your own to enjoy.

Will anyone really, honestly want this? I get the feeling that most copies will be X-mas gifts for other people.

Ahhh, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssss. But why this song over "Push Th' Lil Daisies"?

This makes more sense as Itunes starter pack or something.

"U Can't Touch This," M.C. Hammer
"Nothing Compares 2 U," Sinead O'Connor
"Groove Is in the Heart," Deee-Lite
"Right Here, Right Now," Jesus Jones
"Unbelievable," EMF
"O.P.P.," Naughty By Nature
"It's So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday," Boyz II Men
"I'm Too Sexy," Right Said Fred (R*S*F*)
"Only Shallow," My Bloody Valentine
"It's a Shame About Ray," the Lemonheads
"Baby Got Back," Sir Mix-A-Lot
"They Want EFX," DAS EFX
"S***list," L7
"Under the Bridge," Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Jump Around," House Of Pain
"Rump Shaker," Wreckx-N-Effect
"Informer," Snow
"Connected," Stereo MC's
"Ordinary World," Duran Duran
"Start Choppin," Dinosaur Jr
"Gepetto," Belly
"Freedom of '76," Ween
"Cut Your Hair," Pavement
"MMM MMM MMM MMM," Crash Test Dummies
"Far Behind," Candlebox
"You Gotta Be," Des'ree
"She Don't Use Jelly," the Flaming Lips
"21st Century (Digital Boy)," Bad Religion
"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?," R.E.M.
"Buddy Holly," Weezer
"Wonderwall," Oasis
"Birthday Cake," Cibo Matto
"Cybele's Reverie," Stereolab
"Capri Pants," Bikini Kill
"What I Got," Sublime
"Virtual Insanity," Jamiroquai
"LoveFool," the Cardigans
"MMMBop," Hanson
"Brick," Ben Folds Five
"6 Underground," Sneaker Pimps
"Kiss Me," Sixpence None The Richer
"Steal My Sunshine," LEN

Why should there be? Techno simply wasn't big at all in the U.S. (except for the Prodigy, who I bet Rhino wanted but couldnt get the rights).

Maybe if each CD was a particular style (rap/indie/pop/etc) it might be more interesting, but the track lists given makes listening to a disc for more than five songs in a row seem intolerable.

I'm still hoping this is a very late April Fools joke.

I don't even want the possiblity of, say a houseguest browsing through this collection and playing that "mmmmm mmmm mmmMmM" song. Or "What's Up?" suddenly coming onto the speakers because I forgot to take the time to program it out.

I'm sure that I can find "U Can't Touch This" online somewhere.

OTM. But what's the other record? Something with more rap, R&B, and recent dance hits, probably?

I actually like this a lot. The title is so broad, anyway. I don't own an iPod, so this would be a way to shore up stuff I'd never buy...

Now that's a collection I'd actually like to see - songs about '90s pop culture.

Also, those of you who suggest this would be better as an iTunes starter kit or the like don't realize that the main appeal of this box and most of Rhino's similar projects is the packaging. iTunes ain't sending out bags of coffee beans and colorful books with their downloads.

Plus, if I had this in my iPod, I'd probably break the skip function.

You know how on TV they use squares to hide their faces
Well if you squint your eyes you can recognise the rapists
The murderers and scumbags with notches on their bumbags
For every sad and lonely life theyÕve ruined with a Stanley knife

Dead on arrival...the 90s revival

Survival of the fittest, the fattest and the richest
God save her travesty and call the next Jehovah's witness
A child of the sixties born in the nineties
A Siamese triplet from the test tube of a mad scientist

Born dead on arrival for the 90s revival

And yea though I walk through the alley in the shadow of death
I shall fear no evil, because I AM evil

So bring me some aspirin, some rope and some Valium
Turn on the gas rings and call the Samaritans
And sit back and take in the gospel and bible
Of the lip smacking, jaw breaking, rip roaring 90s revival

(No Carter USM? Travesty!)

I think you're missing the point. I don't think anyone believes the comp has bad tracks.

Just speaking for myself, I'm just arguing that the entire whole of the box set, the sequencing, etc. just makes for a very bad collection.

It depends on ultimately how much this costs, really. I mean, I'll buy a double-CD comp, knowing that I'll only like no more than a third, is it's cheap enough.. like no more than 8 or 9 bucks.

If this is priced accordingly and *cheaply*, then, yeah, people will likely buy this just to get a bunch of good songs they noted while perusing the tracklisting and skip the rest. ("Hey, it was only $24.99 or something")

But if this gets a standard box set pricing (define that as anything costing more than "a RIDICULOUSLY great deal"), who cares if this box set has a lot of good songs? Who wants to spend that much money and get to sift through a bunch of "crappy" songs with it? How many people buying this for the MC Hammer type stuff are going to care about Marc Cohn.. or the Verve Pipe.. or Mudhoney... or Weezer? Vice versa all the permutations.

Non-ILXor non-OCD types may give more a shit about "flow" or whatever, but it's not as if mainstream consumers don't have some standard for it either.

(This isn't all directed at you, Matthew, save the first sentence.)

Which is probably for the best, since that'll probably keep me from stupidly buying it.

-- donut debonair (do...), June 7th, 2005.

actually, donut, the Left of the Dial set was the *better* of their '80s sets. the bad one was called Like, Oh My God: '80s Pop Culture or somesuch.

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truthfully, though, Left of the Dial's got *some* great stuff.

Oh, and what's Jane Siberry doing on here?

I own (or 'own' in the case of downloaded stuff) too much of the good stuff to think about buying it, but for the average listener it has enough fond memories, curveballs (great great great Velocity Girl track on an album that probably sold almost nothing) to provide variety and group singalongs/memories for road trips and sitting around with friends.

notable missing track: K's Choice, "Not An Addict"

Haha yeah, I do think that this box would be less missunderstood if it had come along in a "Have A Nice Day"/"Just Can't Get Enough" format. And there'd be less outrage over a box set that's quite clearly trying to do a kitschy overview of the decade's most dated one hit wonders type stuff not featuring The Notorious B.I.G. (like James Brown appeared on "Have A Nice Day"! Well, he did on "Have A Nice Decade".)

If anything, this isn't enough of the case.

OTM if you mean, too soon- let the wounds heal before you go poking them

Isn't the Spacehog singer married to Liv Tyler?

MP3s available.

CD 1: Bang the Bass, Turn Up the Treble

01. Vanilla Ice – “Ice, Ice Baby” (Year: 1990, Peak Chart Position: #1)
02. Black Box – “Everybody Everybody (1990, #8 Pop, #1 Dance)
03. Lisa Stansfield – “All Around the World” (1990, #3 Pop, #1 Dance)
04. The Sundays – “Here’s Where the Story Ends” (1990, #1 Modern Rock)
05. DNA feat. Suzanne Vega – “Tom’s Diner (Remix)” (1990, #5 Pop, #5 Dance)
06. Digital Underground – “The Humpty Dance” (1990, #11 Pop, #1 Rap)
07. Jane Child – “Don’t Wanna Fall in Love” (1990, #2 Pop)
08. Urban Dance Squad – “Deeper Shade of Soul” (1990, #21 Pop)
09. Soho – “Hippychick” (1990, #14 Pop, #1 Dance)
10. Bell Biv DeVoe – “Poison” (1990, #3 Pop, #1 R&B)
11. Mellow Man Ace – “Mentirosa” (1990, #14 Pop)
12. Deee-Lite – “Groove is in the Heart” (1990, #4 Pop, #1 Dance)
13. Snap – “The Power” (1990, #2 Pop, #1 Dance)
14. Michael Penn – “No Myth” (1990, #14 Pop, #4 Modern Rock)
15. Material Issue – “Valerie Loves Me” (1991, #3 Modern Rock)
16. Amy Grant – “Baby, Baby” (1991, #1)
17. La Tour – “People are Still Having Sex” (1991, #35 Pop, #1 Dance)
18. Jesus Jones – “Right Here, Right Now” (1991, #2 Pop, #1 Modern Rock)
19. Nice & Smooth – “Sometimes I Rhyme Slow” (1992, #44 Pop, #1 Rap)

CD 2: C'mon C'mon, Feel It Feel It

01. Color Me Badd – “I Wanna Sex You Up” (1991, #2 Pop, #1 R&B)
02. EMF – “Unbelievable” (1991, #1)
03. Enigma – “Sadness, Pt. 1” (1991, #5 Pop, #1 Dance)
04. Naughty By Nature – “O.P.P.” (1991, #6 Pop, #1 Rap)
05. Shanice – “I Love Your Smile” (1991, #2 Pop, #1 R&B)
06. Queensryche – “Silent Lucidity” (1991, #9 Pop, #1 Modern Rock)
07. The KLF – “3 A.M. Eternal” (1991, #5 Pop, #1 Dance)
08. Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch – “Good Vibrations” (1991, #1)
09. PM Dawn – “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss” (1991, #1)
10. En Vogue – “Free Your Mind” (1992, #8 Pop)
11. Screaming Trees – “Nearly Lost You” (1992, #5 Rock)
12. Wreckx-n-Effect – “Rump Shaker” (1992, #2 Pop, #1 Rap)
13. Jade – “Don’t Walk Away” (1992, #4 Pop, #2 R&B)
14. Tom Cochrane – “Life as a Highway” (1992, #6 Pop)
15. Paperboy – “Ditty” (1992, #10 Pop)
16. Black Sheep – “The Choice is Yours” (1992, #57 Pop, #1 Rap)
17. LA Style – “James Brown is Dead” (1992, #59 Pop, #4 Dance)
18. Temple of the Dog – “Hunger Strike” (1992, #4 Mainstream Rock)

CD 3: Yo DJ Pump This Party

01. Mr. Big – “To Be With You” (1992, #1)
02. Soup Dragons – “Divine Thing” (1992, #35 Pop, #3 Modern Rock)
03. K.W.S. – “Please Don’t Go” (1992, #6 Pop)
04. Arrested Development – “People Everyday” (1992, #8 Pop, #1 Rap)
05. Sophie B. Hawkins – “Damn! I Wish I Was Your Lover” (1992, #5 Pop)
06. The Breeders – “Cannonball” (1993, #44 Pop, #2 Modern Rock)
07. Positive K – “I Got a Man” (1993, #14 Pop, #1 Rap)
08. Silk – “Freak Me” (1993, #1)
09. Inner Circle – “Bad Boys” (1993, #8 Pop)
10. Jordy – “Dur Dur d’Etre Bebe!” (1993, #58 Pop, #11 Latin Pop)
11. The Proclaimers – “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” (1993, #3 Pop)
12. Toad the Wet Sprocket – “Walk on the Ocean” (1993, #18 Pop, #10 Top 40)
13. K7 – “Come Baby Come” (1993, #19 Pop, #5 Dance)
14. Robin S. – “Show Me Love” (1993, #5 Pop, #1 Dance)
15. Digable Planets – “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” (1993, #15 Pop, #1 Dance)
16. Gin Blossoms – “Hey Jealousy” (1993, #25 Pop, #4 Modern Rock)
17. Ice Cube – “It Was a Good Day” (1993, #15 Pop, #1 Rap)
18. 4 Non-Blondes – “What’s Up?” (1993, #14 Pop)
19. Bizarre Inc. – “I’m Gonna Get You” (1993, #47 Pop, #1 Dance)

CD 4: Rhythm is Life and Life is Rhythm

01. The Offspring – “Come Out and Play (Keep ‘em Separated)” (1994, #1 Modern Rock)
02. Lucas – “Lucas with the Lid Off” (1994, #29 Pop, #22 Modern Rock)
03. 20 Fingers feat. Gilette – “Short Dick Man” (1994, #14 Pop, #3 Dance)
04. Candlebox – “Far Behind” (1994, #18 Pop, #4 Mainstream Rock)
05. Craig Mack – “Flava in Ya Ear” (1994, #9 Pop, #1 Rap)
06. Sagat – “Funk Dat” (1994, #63 Pop, #3 Dance)
07. Rappin’ 4-Tay feat. The Spinners – “I’ll Be Around” (1994, #39 Pop, #6 Rap)
08. Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories – “Stay (I Missed You)” (1994, #1)
09. Ahmad – “Back in the Day” (Remix) (1994, #26 Pop, #3 Rap)
10. Crystal Waters – “100% Pure Love” (1994, #11 Pop, #1 Dance)
11. James – “Laid” (1994, #64 Pop, #3 Rock)
12. Gabrielle – “Dreams” (1994, #26 Pop, #1 Dance)
13. Doop – “Doop” (1994, #2 Dance)
14. Warren G. feat. Nate Dogg – “Regulate” (1994, #2 Pop, #1 Rap)
15. Stone Temple Pilots – “Interstate Love Song” (1994, #1 Mainstream Rock)
16. Edwyn Collins – “A Girl Like You” (1995, #32 Pop, #7 Modern Rock)
17. Everything But the Girl – “Missing (Club Remix)” (1995, #2 Pop, #1 Dance)
18. The Rentals – “Friends of P.” (1995, #82 Pop, #7 Modern Rock)
19. Take That – “Back for Good” (1995, #7 Pop, #1 Top 40)
20. Deep Blue Something – “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1995, #5 Pop, #1 Top 40)

CD 5: On the Rooftop, Shout It Out

01. Skee-Lo – “I Wish” (1995, #13 Pop, #8 Rap)
02. Del Amitri – “Roll to Me” (1995, #10 Pop, #1 Top 40)
03. Dionne Farris – “I Know” (1995, #4 Pop, #1 Top 40)
04. Soul Asylum – “Misery” (1995, #20 Pop, #1 Modern Rock)
05. The Folk Implosion – “Natural One” (1995, #29 Pop, #4 Modern Rock)
06. Adina Howard – “Freak Like Me” (1995, #2 Pop)
07. Better Than Ezra – “Good” (1995, #30 Pop, #1 Modern Rock)
08. Republica – “Ready to Go” (1996, #56 Pop, #7 Modern Rock)
09. Blackstreet feat. Dr. Dre & Queen Pen – “No Diggity” (1996, #1)
10. The Cardigans – “Lovefool” (1996, #1 Top 40)
11. Bush – “Glycerine” (1996, #28 Pop, #4 Modern Rock)
12. Spacehog – “In the Meantime” (1996, #32 Pop, #1 Modern Rock)
13. Garbage – “Stupid Girl” (1996, #24 Pop, #2 Modern Rock)
14. Robert Miles – “Children” (1996, #21 Pop, #1 Dance)
15. Primitive Radio Gods – “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hands” (1996, #1 Modern Rock)
16. Gina G. – “Oooh Ahh…Just a Little Bit” (1996, #12 Pop, #5 Top 40)
17. Nada Surf – “Popular” (1996, #11 Modern Rock)
18. Jars of Clay – “Flood” (1996, #37 Pop, #12 Modern Rock)
19. Bone Thugs n Harmony – “Tha Crossroads” (1996, #1)
20. Donna Lewis – “I Love You Always Forever” (1996, #2 Pop, #1 Top 40)

CD 6: East Coast Feel Me, West Coast Feel Me

01. Blink-182 – “Dammit” (1997, #11 Modern Rock)
02. Blur – “Song 2” (1997, #6 Modern Rock)
03. OMC – “How Bizarre” (1997, #1 Top 40)
04. Mark Morrison – “Return of the Mack” (1997, #2 Pop, #1 Top 40)
05. Freaknasty – “Da Dip” (1997, #15 Pop, #4 Rap)
06. Sneaker Pimps – “6 Underground” (1997, #45 Pop, #7 Modern Rock)
07. Various Artists – “ESPN Jock Jams Megamix” (1997, #31 Pop)
08. Reel Big Fish – “Sell Out” (1997, #10 Modern Rock)
09. Sugar Ray feat. Supercat – “Fly” (1997, #1 Modern Rock, #1 Top 40)
10. The Verve Pipe – “The Freshmen” (1997, #5 Pop, #1 Modern Rock)
11. Puff Daddy feat. The LOX, Lil’ Kim & the Notorious B.I.G. – “It’s All About the Benjamins” (1997, #1 Rap)
12. Third Eye Blind – “Semi-Charmed Life” (1997, #4 Pop, #1 Modern Rock)
13. Jimmy Ray – “Are You Jimmy Ray?” (1998, #13 Pop, #10 Top 40)
14. K.P. & Envyi – “Swing My Way” (1998, #6 Pop, #5 R&B)
15. Natalie Imbruglia – “Torn” (1998, #42 Pop, #1 Top 40)
16. Aaliyah feat. Timbaland – “Are You That Somebody?” (1998, #21 Pop, #1 R&B)
17. DMX – “How It’s Going Down” (1998, #70 Pop, #19 R&B)
18. The Crystal Method – “Busy Child” (1998, #34 Dance)
19. Rammstein – “Du Hast” (1998, AMG says this didn’t chart but that could not 20. All Saints – “Never Ever” (1998, #4 Pop, #3 Top 40)

CD 7: Get in the Pit and Try to Love Someone

01. Marcy Playground – “Sex and Candy” (1998, #8 Pop, #1 Modern Rock)
02. Tatyana Ali feat. Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz – “Daydreaming” (1998, #6 Pop, #2 Top 40)
03. Master P. feat. Silkk the Shocker, Mia X., Mystikal & Fiend – “Make ‘em Say Uggh” (#16 Pop, #11 Rap)
04. Shania Twain – “You’re Still the One” (1998, #2 Pop, #1 Adult Contemporary)
05. Barenaked Ladies – “One Week” (1998, #1)
06. Next – “Too Close” (1998, #1)
07. Filter – “Take a Picture” (1999, #12 Pop, #1 Dance)
08. Marc Anthony – “I Need To Know” (1999, #3 Pop)
09. Jordan Knight – “Give It To You” (1999, #10 Pop)
10. Ol’ Dirty Bastard feat. Kelis – “Got Your Money” (1999, #26 Pop, #6 Rap)
11. Sixpence None the Richer – “Kiss Me” (1999, #2 Pop, #1 Top 40)
12. The New Radicals – “You Get What You Give” (1999, #36 Pop, #8 Modern Rock)
13. Kid Rock – “Bawitdaba” (1999, #10 Modern Rock)
14. Len – “Steal My Sunshine” (1999, #9 Pop, #2 Top 40)
15. The Vengaboys – “We Like to Party” (1999, #26 Pop, #3 Dance)
16. Lou Bega – “Mambo No. 5” (1999, #3 Pop, #1 Top 40)
17. Mandy Moore – “Candy” (1999, #41 Pop, #27 Top 40)
18. LFO – “Summer Girls” (1999, #28 Top 40)
19. Baz Luhrmann – “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” (1999, #45 Pop, #10 Top 40)

You just made my day.

1. Michael Penn - "No Myth"
2. Tom Cochrane - "Life is a Highway"
3. 4 Non-Blondes - "What's Up?"
4. Candlebox - "Far Behind"
5. Soul Asylum - "Misery"
6. The Verve Pipe - "The Freshmen"
7. Marcy Playground - "One Week"

You just made my day.

Awesome, that song always needs more love.

haha, I wasn't sure whether to guess Marcy Playground or Barenaked Ladies for #7, so I guess I accidentally kinda hedged my bets.

If only Jay-Z was willing to come out of retirement to do the rap...

MY LIFE STORY (performing their smash hit single "King of Kissingdom")

I might possibly post my 16-CD box (or 2-disc mp3 mix) of 1995-1998 someday. Not today though.

Best bit is perhaps how they manage to find room for Lindy Layton but not Beats International.

1. Michael Penn - "No Myth"

MENTALIST! THIS TRACK IS GENIUZ!

Why on earth would that be unlistenable.

Aside from that...probably not. But if it really doesn't work and there's no other way around it, I will.