One of my people on Facebook asked for songs from the 90s that were “alternative.” Luckily, I have amassed a great amount of mainstream alternative/modern rock music from that decade of my childhood.
Obviously this is not an all-knowing, all-inclusive list. But it touches on some major hits, some obscure one-hit wonders, some just plain obscure, some Britpop, songs from soundtracks, and songs like that.
The title of the mixtape comes from Clueless. RIP Brittany Murphy.
The hardest part was getting all those album covers onto the mixtape cover! My eyes went cross-eyed, swear to God! 
| Song Name | Artist | Year | |
| 1 |
Adam's Song
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 2 |
Aliens Exist
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 3 |
All Apologies
|
Nirvana
|
1993 |
| 4 |
All I Really Want
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 5 |
All the Small Things
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 6 |
Anthem
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 7 |
Ava Adore
|
Smashing Pumpkins
|
1998 |
| 8 |
Barely Breathing
|
Duncan Sheik
|
1996 |
| 9 |
Be With You
|
Mr. Big
|
1991 |
| 10 |
Bittersweet Symphony
|
The Verve
|
1997 |
| 11 |
Black Hole Sun
|
Soundgarden
|
1994 |
| 12 |
Blue Monday
|
Orgy
|
1998 |
| 13 |
Breakfast at Tiffany's
|
Deep Blue Something
|
1996 |
| 14 |
Brick
|
Ben Folds Five
|
1997 |
| 15 |
Buddy Holly
|
Weezer
|
1994 |
| 16 |
Californication
|
Red Hot Chili Peppers
|
1999 |
| 17 |
Closing Time
|
Semisonic
|
1998 |
| 18 |
Come as You Are
|
Nirvana
|
1991 |
| 19 |
Creep (Edit)
|
Radiohead
|
1992 |
| 20 |
D'you Know What I Mean?
|
Oasis
|
1997 |
| 21 |
Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
|
Sophie B. Hawkins
|
1992 |
| 22 |
Daydream
|
Smashing Pumpkins
|
1991 |
| 23 |
Don't Leave Me
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 24 |
Drive
|
Incubus
|
1999 |
| 25 |
Dumpweed
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 26 |
Dysentery Gary
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 27 |
Epic
|
Faith No More
|
1990 |
| 28 |
Everybody Hurts
|
R.E.M.
|
1992 |
| 29 |
Everything You Want
|
Vertical Horizon
|
1999 |
| 30 |
Fake Plastic Trees
|
Radiohead
|
1995 |
| 31 |
Feelin' Love
|
Paula Cole
|
1996 |
| 32 |
Flagpole Sitta
|
Harvey Danger
|
1997 |
| 33 |
Fly (featuring Super Cat)
|
Sugar Ray
|
1997 |
| 34 |
Forgiven
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 35 |
Freak on a Leash
|
Korn
|
1999 |
| 36 |
A Girl Like You
|
Edwyn Collins
|
1995 |
| 37 |
Give Me One Reason
|
Tracy Chapman
|
1996 |
| 38 |
Going Away to College
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 39 |
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
|
Green Day
|
1994 |
| 40 |
Hand in My Pocket
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 41 |
Head Over Feet
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 42 |
How Bizarre
|
OMC
|
1996 |
| 43 |
How Do You Talk to an Angel
|
The Heights
|
1992 |
| 44 |
I'll Be
|
Edwin McCain
|
1997 |
| 45 |
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
|
The Proclaimers
|
1993 |
| 46 |
I Alone
|
Live
|
1994 |
| 47 |
I Do
|
Lisa Loeb
|
1997 |
| 48 |
I Don't Want to Wait
|
Paula Cole
|
1996 |
| 49 |
I Love You, Always Forever
|
Donna Lewis
|
1996 |
| 50 |
I Think I'm Paranoid
|
Garbage
|
1998 |
| 51 |
I Touch Myself
|
Divinyls
|
1991 |
| 52 |
If You Could Only See
|
Tonic
|
1996 |
| 53 |
In Bloom
|
Nirvana
|
1991 |
| 54 |
Iris
|
Goo Goo Dolls
|
1998 |
| 55 |
Ironic
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 56 |
Jeremy
|
Pearl Jam
|
1992 |
| 57 |
Just (You Do It to Yourself)
|
Radiohead
|
1995 |
| 58 |
Karma Police
|
Radiohead
|
1997 |
| 59 |
Learn to Fly
|
Foo Fighters
|
1999 |
| 60 |
Linger
|
The Cranberries
|
1993 |
| 61 |
A Long December
|
Counting Crows
|
1997 |
| 62 |
Long View
|
Green Day
|
1994 |
| 63 |
Loser
|
Beck
|
1994 |
| 64 |
Losing My Religion
|
R.E.M.
|
1991 |
| 65 |
Lovefool
|
The Cardigans
|
1996 |
| 66 |
Man in the Box
|
Alice in Chains
|
1991 |
| 67 |
Mary Jane
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 68 |
Mayonaise
|
Smashing Pumpkins
|
1993 |
| 69 |
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
|
Crash Test Dummies
|
1993 |
| 70 |
Mouth
|
Merril Bainbridge
|
1995 |
| 71 |
Mr. Jones
|
Counting Crows
|
1993 |
| 72 |
Mutt
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 73 |
No Rain
|
Blind Melon
|
1992 |
| 74 |
Not the Doctor
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 75 |
Nothing Compares 2 U
|
Sinéad O'Connor
|
1990 |
| 76 |
One Week
|
Barenaked Ladies
|
1998 |
| 77 |
Paranoid Android
|
Radiohead
|
1997 |
| 78 |
The Party Song
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 79 |
Perfect
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 80 |
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
|
The Offspring
|
1998 |
| 81 |
Push It
|
Garbage
|
1998 |
| 82 |
Radio Silence
|
Harvey Danger
|
1997 |
| 83 |
Right Through You
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 84 |
Roll to Me
|
Del Amitri
|
1996 |
| 85 |
Run-Around
|
Blues Traveler
|
1994 |
| 86 |
Save It for Later
|
Harvey Danger
|
1999 |
| 87 |
Say What You Want
|
Texas
|
1997 |
| 88 |
Sex and Candy
|
Marcy Playground
|
1997 |
| 89 |
Sexx Laws
|
Beck
|
1999 |
| 90 |
Shine
|
Collective Soul
|
1993 |
| 91 |
Smack My Bitch Up
|
The Prodigy
|
1997 |
| 92 |
Smells Like Teen Spirit
|
Nirvana
|
1991 |
| 93 |
Smoke Two Joints
|
Sublime
|
1992 |
| 94 |
Smooth (featuring Rob Thomas)
|
Santana
|
1999 |
| 95 |
Song for the Dumped
|
Ben Folds Five
|
1997 |
| 96 |
Special
|
Garbage
|
1998 |
| 97 |
Stay (I Missed You)
|
Lisa Loeb
|
1994 |
| 98 |
Stitches
|
Orgy
|
1998 |
| 99 |
Stupid Girl
|
Garbage
|
1995 |
| 100 |
Summer Babe
|
Pavement
|
1992 |
| 101 |
Sunny Came Home
|
Shawn Colvin
|
1997 |
| 102 |
Thank You
|
Dido
|
1999 |
| 103 |
There's No Other Way
|
Blur
|
1991 |
| 104 |
This is Hardcore
|
Pulp
|
1998 |
| 105 |
Today
|
Smashing Pumpkins
|
1993 |
| 106 |
Tom's Diner (DNA Remix)
|
Suzanne Vega
|
1998 |
| 107 |
Tonight, Tonight
|
Smashing Pumpkins
|
1995 |
| 108 |
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
|
Garbage
|
1998 |
| 109 |
Two Princes
|
Spin Doctors
|
1993 |
| 110 |
Unbelievable
|
EMF
|
1991 |
| 111 |
Under the Bridge
|
Red Hot Chili Peppers
|
1991 |
| 112 |
Virtual Insanity
|
Jamiroquai
|
1997 |
| 113 |
Wake Up
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 114 |
Walking on Broken Glass
|
Annie Lennox
|
1992 |
| 115 |
Wendy Clear
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 116 |
What's My Age Again?
|
blink-182
|
1999 |
| 117 |
What's Up
|
4 Non Blondes
|
1992 |
| 118 |
What I Got
|
Sublime
|
1996 |
| 119 |
What I Got (Reprise)
|
Sublime
|
1996 |
| 120 |
When I Come Around
|
Green Day
|
1994 |
| 121 |
When I Grow Up
|
Garbage
|
1998 |
| 122 |
Who Will Save Your Soul
|
Jewel
|
1996 |
| 123 |
Wonderwall
|
Oasis
|
1995 |
| 124 |
Wrong Way
|
Sublime
|
1996 |
| 125 |
You're a God
|
Vertical Horizon
|
1999 |
| 126 |
You Get What You Give
|
New Radicals
|
1998 |
| 127 |
You Learn
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 128 |
You Oughta Know
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 129 |
You Oughta Know (Alternate)
|
Alanis Morissette
|
1995 |
| 130 |
You Were Meant for Me
|
Jewel
|
1996 |
| 131 |
Your Woman
|
White Town
|
1997 |
| 132 |
1979
|
Smashing Pumpkins
|
1995 |
| 133 |
3 AM
|
Matchbox 20
|
1997 |
| 134 |
40 Oz to Freedom
|
Sublime
|
1992 |
| 135 |
6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)
|
Sneaker Pimps
|
1996 |
Get the songs individually at Mediafire here.
Note: The only songs not available in the Mediafire folder are “Your Woman” by White Town, “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinead O’Connor, “Blue Monday” by Orgy, “I’ll Be” by Edwin McCain, and “Barely Breathing” by Duncan Sheik. I bought those on iTunes and therefore they are protected AAC files. 
at 11:27 pm on December 22nd, 2009
THIS is my kind of list.
at 12:08 am on December 23rd, 2009
What’s wrong with my other mixtapes? *cries in the corner*
JK, JK. There were some pretty iconic songs from the 90s. Just listening to these while I was making it was sending me back.
I kept wanting to add pop songs though. Me and my happy pop music.