re: Post awesome late 90's-early 2000's pop songs

Stephen Thomas Erlewine has a great review of a complitaion that includes both All Star and Steal My Sunshine

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First off, there's Smash Mouth's "All Star," which may have been whored out to every commercial and movie between 1999 and 2001, but it's undeniably a well-crafted guilty pleasure, one that soars beyond its era. Then, there's LEN's "Steal My Sunshine," as perfect as songs get. This sun-kissed, sun-bleached blend of hip-hop, pop, disco, post-Beastie Boys cleverness, and California culture is a priceless, timeless confection that instantly calls up sweltering, shimmering beaches the second the looped keyboard plays. It's a monumentally great single, showing up everything else on this record on how good effervescent pop can be -- "Steal My Sunshine" shows that mainstream pop can truly be transcendent.

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Stereo MC s - Connected

OMC - How Bizarre

Citizen King - Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)

Snow - Informer

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

I remember getting ready for school in like 7th grade and having MTV on in my room and this song coming on and being just totally blown away by how crazy the video was and how catchy the beat was. Then I went to school and told everybody about it and nobody knew the frick I was talking about (i dunno, it was like rap with animated zombie monkeys...) . :csb: i know, but it was just one of those really distinct memories from my youth.

To this day it's still one of my favorite songs ever

Crazy Town - Butterfly

It is cheesy as frick, but I like it

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Crazy Town - Butterfly

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Orange County

pretty sure I know every word to this song

Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy

Funny story about this one. This fat kid in my third grade class brought it in for show and tell and played it at a boombox. This was at a Nazi Catholic elementary school and he got suspended

Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand

Butthole Surfers - Pepper