Whatever: The '90s Pop & Culture Box

Whatever: The '90s Pop & Culture Box is a seven-disc, 130-track box set of popular music hits of the 1990s. Released by Rhino Records in 2005, the box set was based on the success of Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box, and Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally), Rhino's box sets covering the 1970s and 1980s respectively.

Whatever: The '90s Pop & Culture Box
Compilation album by
Various Artists
Released2005
Recorded1989-1999
GenreRock, pop
LabelRhino Records

Whatever includes an 86-page booklet of cultural comment, a timeline for the decade, and liner notes for the tracks included in the set. Many of the 1990s musical styles — rock, pop, rap, alternative— are represented. The collection was packaged with coffee beans and was included in Pitchfork Media's 2010 list of "five absurd CD packages".[1]

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "U Can't Touch This" - MC Hammer
  2. "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinéad O'Connor
  3. "No Myth" - Michael Penn
  4. "Ladies First" - Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love
  5. "Ball and Chain" - Social Distortion
  6. "Birdhouse in Your Soul" - They Might Be Giants
  7. "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" - Mother Love Bone
  8. "Here's Where the Story Ends" - The Sundays
  9. "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" - C+C Music Factory
  10. "Groove Is in the Heart" - Deee-Lite
  11. "Right Here, Right Now" - Jesus Jones
  12. "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" - Ice-T
  13. "I Touch Myself" - Divinyls
  14. "Unbelievable" - EMF
  15. "Hard to Handle" - The Black Crowes
  16. "O.P.P." - Naughty by Nature
  17. "Walking in Memphis" - Marc Cohn
  18. "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" - Boyz II Men

Disc 2
  1. "Silent Lucidity" - Queensrÿche
  2. "Into the Drink" - Mudhoney
  3. "Girlfriend" - Matthew Sweet
  4. "I'm Too Sexy" - Right Said Fred
  5. "Calling All Angels" - Jane Siberry with k.d. lang
  6. "Only Shallow" - My Bloody Valentine
  7. "It's a Shame About Ray" - The Lemonheads
  8. "Baby Got Back" - Sir Mix-a-Lot
  9. "They Want EFX" - Das EFX
  10. "Jump" - Kris Kross
  11. "Walk" - Pantera
  12. "N.W.O." - Ministry
  13. "Shitlist" - L7
  14. "Absynthe" - The Gits
  15. "Coattail Rider" - Supersuckers
  16. "Runaway Train" - Soul Asylum
  17. "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" - Spin Doctors
  18. "Dizz Knee Land" - dada
  19. "Nearly Lost You" - Screaming Trees

Disc 3
  1. "Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  2. "Unsung" - Helmet
  3. "Jump Around" - House of Pain
  4. "Free Your Mind" - En Vogue
  5. "Rump Shaker" - Wreckx-n-Effect
  6. "Informer" - Snow
  7. "Connected" - Stereo MCs
  8. "Detachable Penis" - King Missile
  9. "Freak Me" - Silk
  10. "Ordinary World" - Duran Duran
  11. "If I Can't Change Your Mind" - Sugar
  12. "Three Little Pigs" - Green Jellÿ
  13. "Start Choppin" - Dinosaur Jr.
  14. "The Devil's Chasing Me" - The Reverend Horton Heat
  15. "Gone to the Moon" - Fastbacks
  16. "My Name Is Mud" - Primus
  17. "What's Up?" - 4 Non Blondes

Disc 4
  1. "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie
  2. "Whoomp! (There It Is)" - Tag Team
  3. "Broken Hearted Savior" - Big Head Todd and the Monsters
  4. "Trust Me" - Guru (with N'Dea Davenport)
  5. "Gepetto" - Belly
  6. "Eye to Eye" - The Muffs
  7. "Gentlemen" - The Afghan Whigs
  8. "Leafy Incline" - Tad
  9. "Dream All Day" - The Posies
  10. "Hey Jealousy" - Gin Blossoms
  11. "My Sister" - The Juliana Hatfield Three
  12. "Whatta Man" - Salt-N-Pepa (with En Vogue)
  13. "Back & Forth" - Aaliyah
  14. "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" - Meshell Ndegeocello
  15. "Freedom of '76" - Ween
  16. "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement
  17. "God" - Tori Amos
  18. "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" - Crash Test Dummies
  19. "Possession" - Sarah McLachlan

Disc 5
  1. "Shine" - Collective Soul
  2. "Far Behind" - Candlebox
  3. "You Gotta Be" - Des'ree
  4. "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" - Urge Overkill
  5. "She Don't Use Jelly" - The Flaming Lips
  6. "M.I.A." - 7 Year Bitch
  7. "21st Century (Digital Boy)" - Bad Religion
  8. "Sugar Free Jazz" - Soul Coughing
  9. "Mockingbirds" - Grant Lee Buffalo
  10. "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" - R.E.M.
  11. "Revolve" - Melvins
  12. "Buddy Holly" - Weezer
  13. "Here & Now" - Letters to Cleo
  14. "Good" - Better Than Ezra
  15. "Run-Around" - Blues Traveler
  16. "I'll Be There for You (Theme from Friends)" - The Rembrandts
  17. "Tomorrow" - Silverchair
  18. "Not a Pretty Girl" - Ani DiFranco
  19. "Carnival" - Natalie Merchant

Disc 6
  1. "Wonderwall" - Oasis
  2. "Birthday Cake" - Cibo Matto
  3. "Cumbersome" - Seven Mary Three
  4. "One of Us" - Joan Osborne
  5. "Caught by the Fuzz" - Supergrass
  6. "Sweet '69" - Babes in Toyland
  7. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something
  8. "Photograph" - The Verve Pipe
  9. "In the Meantime" - Spacehog
  10. "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" (featuring Rampage the Last Boy Scout) - Busta Rhymes
  11. "Who Will Save Your Soul" - Jewel
  12. "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" - Primitive Radio Gods
  13. "Cybele's Reverie" - Stereolab
  14. "Capri Pants" - Bikini Kill
  15. "What I Got" - Sublime
  16. "Kung Fu" - Ash
  17. "Virtual Insanity" - Jamiroquai
  18. "Naked Eye" - Luscious Jackson
  19. "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" - Wilco

Disc 7
  1. "Itzsoweezee (HOT)" - De La Soul
  2. "Lovefool" - The Cardigans
  3. "Radiation Vibe" - Fountains of Wayne
  4. "The Impression That I Get" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  5. "Turn It On" - Sleater-Kinney
  6. "Bitch" - Meredith Brooks
  7. "MMMBop" - Hanson
  8. "Brian Wilson (Live)" - Barenaked Ladies
  9. "Brick" - Ben Folds Five
  10. "Sex and Candy" - Marcy Playground
  11. "Walkin' on the Sun" - Smash Mouth
  12. "Tubthumping" - Chumbawamba
  13. "6 Underground" - Sneaker Pimps
  14. "Lullaby" - Shawn Mullins
  15. "Slide" - Goo Goo Dolls
  16. "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None the Richer
  17. "Steal My Sunshine" - Len
  18. "What It's Like" - Everlast
  19. "Natural Blues" - Moby

References
  1. "Archived copy". pitchfork.com. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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