Description:
The play list for Virgin’s five-disc 101 90’s Hits compilation speaks volumes about the chasm between the era’s industry-driven Top 40 radio and the massive alternative rock/Brit-popnu-metal scene that mirrored it. In this case it’s the former that’s represented, which means that bubbly English and American dance pop from the Spice Girls (both together and solo), Britney Spears, Robbie Williams and Backstreet Boys rules the roost. That’s not to say that the underground was completely ignored, as cracks in the pavement from Blur (“Girls and Boys”), Supergrass (“Alright”), Lightning Seeds (“Life of Riley”) and the Waterboys (“Whole of the Moon”) provide a little light at the end of the runway, but it’s hard to imagine that this scatterbrained anthology was compiled by an actual person.

Tracklist:

CD1:
01. Millennium – Robbie Williams
02. Baby One More Time – Britney Spears
03. Stop – Spice Girls
04. Keep On Movin’ – Five
05. Tragedy – Steps
06. Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) – Backstreet Boys
07. Genie In A Bottle – Christina Aguilera
08. Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden
09. Flying Without Wings – Westlife
10. Freak Me – Another Level
11. What I Am – Emma Bunton, Tin Tin Out
12. Northern Star – Melanie C
13. Drinking In L.A. – Bran Van 3000
14. The Ballad of Tom Jones – Cerys From Catatonia, Space
15. Praise You – Fatboy Slim
16. Livin’ La Vida Loca – Ricky Martin
17. Mi Chico Latino – Geri Halliwell
18. C’est La Vie – B*Witched
19. Naked – Louise
20. Because We Want To – Billie
21. More Than A Woman – 911

CD2:
01. Torn – Natalie Imbruglia
02. Fastlove – George Michael
03. Virtual Insanity – Jamiroquai
04. I Wanna Be The Only One – Eternal, BeBe Winans
05. Wannabe – Spice Girls
06. Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
07. Ready To Go – Republica
08. It’s Like That – Jason Nevins, Run DMC
09. Tequila – Terrorvision
10. Alright – Supergrass
11. Girls And Boys – Blur
12. You And Me Song – The Wannadies
13. Spaceman – Babylon Zoo
14. Your Woman – White Town
15. You’re Gorgeous – Babybird
16. The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get – Morrissey
17. Se A Vida E (That’s The Way Life Is) – Pet Shop Boys
18. Insomnia – Faithless
19. You’re Not Alone – Olive
20. Protection – Massive Attack, Tracey Thorn

CD3:
01. Missing – Everything But The Girl
02. Ordinary World – Duran Duran
03. Things Can Only Get Better – D:Ream
04. Fairground – Simply Red
05. Relight My Fire – Take That, Lulu
06. Moving On Up – M People
07. (I Can’t Help) Falling In Love With You – UB40
08. Boombastic – Shaggy
09. Two Princes – The Spin Doctors
10. Inside – Stiltskin
11. Rubberband Girl – Kate Bush
12. Over My Shoulder – Mike And The Mechanics
13. Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
14. You Gotta Be – Des’Ree
15. Mr Wendal – Arrested Development
16. Down That Road – Shara Nelson
17. Goldeneye – Tina Turner
18. Brown Sugar – D’Angelo
19. Un-Break My Heart – Toni Braxton

CD4:
01. Take A Chance On Me – Erasure
02. Rhythm Is A Dancer – Snap!
03. Show Me Love – Robin S
04. Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) – Rozalla
05. Ebeneezer Goode – The Shamen
06. Cotton Eye Joe – Rednex
07. I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
08. The One And Only – Chesney Hawkes
09. Trouble – Shampoo
10. Sailing On The Seven Seas – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
11. The Life of Riley – The Lightning Seeds
12. The Whole of The Moon – The Waterboys
13. Sleeping Satellite – Tasmin Archer
14. Hazard – Richard Marx
15. The Big Ones Get Away – Buffy Sainte-Marie
16. Just Another Day – Jon Secada
17. Thinking About Your Love – Kenny Thomas
18. Would I Lie To You ? – Charles And Eddie
19. You Got The Love – The Source, Candi Staton
20. Can I Kick It ? – A Tribe Called Quest
21. It Keeps Rainin’ (Tears From My Eyes) – Bitty McLean

CD5:
01. Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor
02. It Must Have Been Love – Roxette
03. The King of Wishful Thinking – Go West
04. Hold On – Wilson Phillips
05. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – UB40, Robert Palmer
06. I’ve Been Thinking About You – Londonbeat
07. The Power – Snap!
08. Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
09. Got To Have Your Love – Mantronix, Wondress
10. Get A Life – Soul II Soul
11. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) – C & C Music Factory
12. U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer
13. Better The Devil You Know – Kylie Minogue
14. Happenin’ All Over Again – Lonnie Gordon
15. Don’t Worry – Kim Appleby
16. (We Want) The Same Thing – Belinda Carlisle
17. Unbelievable – EMF
18. King of The Road – The Proclaimers
19. Sunshine On A Rainy Day – Zoe
20. All Together Now – The Farm