What’s a good playlist to start your day? Sweet, calm classical? Hardcore metal? Hyped up dubstep? Or is it crazy, obnoxious, and slightly overplayed 90s rock? If that last one hit you right away, plug in your headphones and ready your ears. Here are the best songs of the 90s! Nobody likes you when you’re 23, but you’ll love these 23 songs.

Non Blondes – What’s Up?
A song to sit down and relax to, slow dance to, or drive aimlessly to. Never lose hope, just keep trying. It may sound like all hope is lost, but you just have to look on the bright side of things.

Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
This is true crazy. It’s in the soundtrack of Fight Club – the wildest movie. No cry for help, just acceptance of how crazy life is, how crazy we are. It fills the soul with a sense of acceptance and welcoming of our minds. We don’t know where it is, but we don’t mind.

Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly
The haunting vocals of Dave Grohl, perfectly telling the twisted tale of life. It’s short, but sweet. Listen to relax, or rock out. It’s perfect either way.

The Cranberries – Zombie
Starting off slow and sweet, and suddenly there’s a shock of a loud guitar, bursting out, and fading into the sweet voice of Dolores O’Riordan. Zombie is about insanity and intense emotion.

Cake – The Distance
With their signature speak-singing, Cake has an interesting sound. Not quite talking, not quite signing. The man in the song won’t give up, won’t stop racing. The girl, lost and in need, won’t ever get him away.

Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
Soundgarden can go from angry, metal-sounding shouting to a haunting, depressed call. Black Hole Sun has both sounds. Chris Cornell has a rough and angry voice that pulls you in, and doesn’t let you go.

Jane’s Addiction – Classic Girl
To be quite honest, the only thing that’s possible to make out from this is that the girl is classic, and the guy is obsessed with her. The music video is really weird, but also pretty cool.

i can’t put the band name so i’m doing this long title – Pepper
Yes, this is an actual band, and the music is actually amazing. Another weird song, but this one makes sense. It’s relatable and doesn’t sugar coat what its saying. You don’t know how other people see you, and people lie to you, so you may never know.

Pearl Jam – Alive
A common theme in most songs – love you can’t have, losing someone, or life in general. This song mostly has instrumental, but they get their message across. You can feel the emotions, and almost see the scene playing out.

Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
As always, Stone Temple Pilots gives us an amazingly soft but equally harsh song about emotions. Plush tells a story of someone lost, hunted. If you don’t listen to words, it just sounds like pure angst, but it’s really a story of loss.

Beastie Boys – Fight for Your Right
You want teen angst? The Beastie Boys give us all the angry, rebellious feelings we could ask for. Shouting “partay!” repeatedly, and hating on school, Fight for Your Right is dripping with angst.

Presidents of the United States – Peaches
Peaches – the weird song created by freaks from the 90s, for freaks of the future. What is it about? It’s the perfect shower song, something you would never sing in front of anyone but your dog (and maybe not even him).

Sublime – Badfish
Sublime never fails to make songs that everyone loves to hate. Badfish isn’t an exception. It’s a good song to play at a party, but it doesn’t have much substance. If you want something mindless, add this to your party playlist.

Radiohead – Creep
A song of longing, love, and connections. A brooding call of not belonging, and being unable to talk to that one person you lust for, who is perfect in your eyes. Every time it comes on, everyone in the room knows what it is – Creep.

Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot
Sleepy, slow and relaxing. It’s the perfect anthem of a quiet rebellion. It smoothly transitions into fast guitar and perfectly timed singing.

Lit – My Own Worst Enemy
Nobody knows the band, but if you hear the first few lines of this song, you know what it is. It’s the song of late nights living it up, wishing you hadn’t said that one thing to that one person at that one place.

Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
This song is a bit different from most of the songs on here. It has more of a weird, indie vibe. He sings about romance and loving someone, but it isn’t gross and obsessive. It’s slow and sweet, perfect for driving with your girl.

Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes
Lift your spirits up high, and get ready for a night out. News has come in, and you need to shout it out, so everybody can hear you. It’s a call out for you to accept everything and let yourself go.

Eve 6 – Open Road Song
You’re lonely, single, and you love everything. You’re speeding along, with your friend Lonesome. You’re never bored, you never feel bad. Everything’s perfect.

Beck – Loser
Confusing, weird, and catchy. You don’t so much listen to the words as ride along to the tune of it. Sit back and let the weirdness carry you on.

Nirvana – Heart Shaped Box
The signature gravely wail of Kurt Cobain belts out the harsh, blaming tune of grunge. The sweet sound of the guitar, smoothly combining shouts, screams, and drums. He’s crying for help, complaining about how much he’s hurting. The person hurt him and is ruining him, and he can’t do anything about it.

Green Day – Welcome to Paradise
This song is about leaving the comfortable nest that is your parents’ home. You wanted to leave at first, but now you want the security back, Crying out to your mother, but not getting an answer. This song is about independence of spirit and body.

Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again?
Immaturity to the max. He and his girlfriend break up, and then what does he do? He pulls a prank on the girl’s mom, of course.