🍀Pack it up, pack it in: the Irish rappers are here, and they’ve got more rhymes than the Bible’s got Psalms. It’s one of the all time bangers: Jump Around by House of Pain. Plus: A Brooklyn rap crew bring the Diggity, while Seattle makes big butts cool.

👹👦So What’cha Want? The Beastie Boys! The crew check their heads, pick up their instruments, and jump back into the public eye with this all-time banger. Plus: two Gen-X heroes revive a 70s classic and Sophie B Hawkins sings a heartfelt track that inspires my beer-loving metalhead drummer homey.

🎸Southern cooked jam rock joyousness! I’m not sure what this song is about (maybe drugs?),  but the very sound of it makes me happy every time. Throw on your tight velour pants and sing it 8 times: it’s Remedy by the Black Crowes Plus: an 80s band rocks on while a couple of big 90s groups make their debut.

🔥🎵Musical Hot Take!   TLC? The Supremes? Destiny’s Child? The Spice Girls? Nope. The greatest girl group song of all time is My Lovin’ (Never Gonna Get It) by En Vogue!   Plus: I sorta, kinda, not really nail Chip Fu’s verse from True Fu Schnick

🎤Is Scenario the greatest posse track in hip hop history? A soon to be legendary hip hop group introduce the world to a new friend and record the posse cut against which all others would be judged. Plus: Why did I wear my clothes backwards to a high school dance?

👑A global superstar enlists the help of a superproducer to update his sound and a supermodel to spice up his video. Plus: a six year old power ballad re-enters the charts. Best power ballad ever? Stream episode 23 of 99 Songs Ricca Loves from the 90s today: In the Closet by @MichaelJackson

👑🔊If the kings of stadium house start rolling with a queen of country music, where are they going? Mu Mu Land, of course! Don’t try to figure out this joyous 90s banger by KLF and Tammy Wynette, just go with it.   Stream episode 22: Justified and Ancient

🔊How did a department store paging announcement make its way into a Monkees song and eventually a hip hop classic by Del the Funky Homosapien? Plus: Brooks and Dunn provide us a nickname for a bar in Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia.

⚠️⚠️⚠️Alert! Episode 20 features more than a couple 🍆🍆🍆 It’s the song ‘Yes’ by Black Sheep from the classic album ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

🎸🎤🕗2 explosive genres + 2 groups in the height of their power = 1 killer track. Turn it up, it's 'Bring the Noise' by PublicEnemy & Anthrax Plus: C & CMusicFactory present a parade of scenarios, each more ponderous than the last.

🪝💸👶The baby and the fish hook are here! Put on your plaid shirt, you have now entered an ‘alternative’ universe. Nirvana obliterates hair metal and kickstarts the 90s.

🔫🌹🌧️⏳Is life a journey or a destination? November Rain is both. The last 2:07 of this GnR classic is all time epic, but the time spent getting there drove teenage me to insanity. Plus! R.E.M. doesn’t want me to listen to their happy song, but, unfortunately for them, I do what I want!

🌶️Dance like nobody’s watching!   Red Hot Chili Peppers found their perfect balance of funk, rock, and rap with 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. When singer Anthony Kiedis was gifted a jacket from his girlfriend’s closet, he had the idea for this timeless hook.   Plus! Donnie Wahlberg’s baby brother makes it big!

🎸✝️This is how you build a freaking song! Examining the chugging, screeching, squealing awesomeness that is ‘Jesus Christ Pose’ by Soundgarden. Chris Cornell cannot be touched! Plus: which song did my brother and I play so many times that it became synonymous with the very concept of repetition?  

🌿Two distinct rappers and a 🔥producer make Cypress Hill one of my favourite hip hop groups of all time! There are so many great songs on their debut album, it’s hard to pick just one. But that’s what I did: Real Estate!   Plus: summer of 91 seemed to be a great time in my life for vibey hip hoppish/R&B music. Was I already mellowing out at 14?

🎭🎸Sad But True… I’m you. Metallica’s Black Album is one of the greatest of all time. My fave track is this song about human nature and the mask we all wear. It also features, of course, some bad ass guitar.  Plus: What you talking about, Gerardo?  

🚗🔔Motown + Philly = Got it going on! Other Boyz II Men jams became more popular, but Motownphilly was my personal favourite. Plus: What was the best (and worst) song to slow dance to in early 90s junior high? 🤔

🍆🍑Have you noticed that people are still having sex? In episode 11 I recap the modern history of bumping uglies while remembering a forgotten classic 90s jam: People Are Still Having Sex by LaTour!

🎸🕺🏼Rock guitars! Dance beats! Rapping! Do you find this wonderous one-hit by EMF to be Unbelievable? Or do you simply find it unbelievable that I find it unbelievable?

🌎☮️ For a fleeting moment people considered the possibility that they were 'watching the world wake up from history’. This song by British group Jesus Jones serves as a document from that period. It’s not a bad tune either. Right Here Right Now is the topic on episode 9. Listen now!

🥊Don’t call it a comeback! What would you do if your grandma told you to get out there and kick somebody’s butt? Ladies Love Cool James responded by making what is perhaps the greatest album in his catalogue. This 90s rap song proves that LL Cool J was just getting started. Mama Said Knock You Out is the topic on episode 8. Listen now!

🌩️🎸Aaahaaahaaaaaahahahaaaaaha! Get Thunderstruck with AC/DC’s kick-ass 90s metal song. In this episode we pay tribute to one of the finest songs by one of rock and roll’s most unrelenting bands. Listen now!

🎵Freedom: You’ve got to give for what you take. George Michael’s Freedom 90 is so danceable you just might overlook the song’s great lyrics. Check out episode 6 on this supreme 90s dance song. Listen now.

💖How do you say Deee-Groovy? Is there a funner song in existence than Groove is in the Heart by Dee Lite? Celebrate this masterpiece of a 90s dance song by listening to episode 5 now. Listen now.

🛑🔨🕒Stop! Hammer time! This 90s rap song had the whole world doing the bump in the summer of 1990. Break out your parachute pants and check out episode 4: You Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer. Listen now.