Every song on Sheryl Crow's 1993 debut album Tuesday Night Music Club is fantastic, including Strong Enough. If All I Wanna Do is Crow's major commercial success, Strong Enough is her sleeper hit, as new generations of artists like Haim add the tender ballad to their rotation of covers.
Just when you thought the '90s couldn't possibly deliver another song about disaffected youths and the woes of a jilted generation, the Verve released Bitter Sweet Symphony in 1997. Is it just me or is Tryna make ends meet, tryna find somebody, then you die the perfect slogan for Gen X?
Killing in the Name is the quintessential Rage Against the Machine track. Everything they excel at is evident in their debut single: Tom Morello's precise guitar playing, Zack de la Rocha's pissed-off poetry, and the band's signature hip-hop-meets-metal sound. The song's strong stance against police brutality and systemic racism made it a target for censorship in Tipper Gore's America. Looking back, Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me, motherfucker! seems like a completely reasonable reaction to the LAPD's treatment of Rodney King.
Hole's 1994 album, Live Through This, is a primal scream that detailed the final months of Love's marriage to Kurt Cobain, who died one week before Live Through This was released. But the album's ferocious opening track, Violet, has nothing to do with Cobain. Instead, it's a giant middle finger to Billy Corgan.
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