"Fireflies" by Owl City
One guy, one laptop, one unfinished basement in Owatonna, Minnesota — and somehow the #1 song in America. "You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies..." You know the rest. You will always know the rest.
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The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats' 1982 anthem — born when singer Ivan Doroschuk got thrown out of a club for pogo dancing — conquered the 1983 charts with one of the strangest videos of the MTV era. So why is it in a 90s database? Because Bio-Dome (1996) re-seeded it into a generation of cable kids who half-remember it as their own era's song, by a band half of them still misname "Men In Hats."
Savage Garden — "I Want You"
"Chic-a-cherry cola"—the tongue-twister hook that introduced Savage Garden. Darren Hayes' impossibly fast verse delivery over jittery synth-pop became impossible not to remember.