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 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".
Track listing
Disc 1 "U Can't Touch This" – MC Hammer "Nothing Compares 2 U" – Sinéad O'Connor "No Myth" – Michael Penn "Ladies First" – Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love "Ball and Chain" – Social Distortion "Birdhouse in Your Soul" – They Might Be Giants "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" – Mother Love Bone "Here's Where the Story Ends" – The Sundays "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" – C+C Music Factory "Groove Is in the Heart" – Deee-Lite "Right Here, Right Now" – Jesus Jones "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" – Ice-T "I Touch Myself" – Divinyls "Unbelievable" – EMF "Hard to Handle" – The Black Crowes "O.P.P." – Naughty by Nature "Walking in Memphis" – Marc Cohn "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" – Boyz II Men
Disc 2 "Silent Lucidity" – Queensrÿche "Into the Drink" – Mudhoney "Girlfriend" – Matthew Sweet "I'm Too Sexy" – Right Said Fred "Calling All Angels" – Jane Siberry with k.d. lang "Only Shallow" – My Bloody Valentine "It's a Shame About Ray" – The Lemonheads "Baby Got Back" – Sir Mix-a-Lot "They Want EFX" – Das EFX "Jump" – Kris Kross "Walk" – Pantera "N.W.O." – Ministry "Shitlist" – L7 "Absynthe" – The Gits "Coattail Rider" – Supersuckers "Runaway Train" – Soul Asylum "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" – Spin Doctors "Dizz Knee Land" – dada "Nearly Lost You" – Screaming Trees
Disc 3 "Under the Bridge" – Red Hot Chili Peppers "Unsung" – Helmet "Jump Around" – House of Pain "Free Your Mind" – En Vogue "Rump Shaker" – Wreckx-n-Effect "Informer" – Snow "Connected" – Stereo MCs "Detachable Penis" – King Missile "Freak Me" – Silk "Ordinary World" – Duran Duran "If I Can't Change Your Mind" – Sugar "Three Little Pigs" – Green Jellÿ "Start Choppin" – Dinosaur Jr. "The Devil's Chasing Me" – The Reverend Horton Heat "Gone to the Moon" – Fastbacks "My Name Is Mud" – Primus "What's Up?" – 4 Non Blondes
Disc 4 "Thunder Kiss '65" – White Zombie "Whoomp! (There It Is)" – Tag Team "Broken Hearted Savior" – Big Head Todd and the Monsters "Trust Me" – Guru (with N'Dea Davenport) "Gepetto" – Belly "Eye to Eye" – The Muffs "Gentlemen" – The Afghan Whigs "Leafy Incline" – Tad "Dream All Day" – The Posies "Hey Jealousy" – Gin Blossoms "My Sister" – The Juliana Hatfield Three "Whatta Man" – Salt-N-Pepa (with En Vogue) "Back & Forth" – Aaliyah "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" – Meshell Ndegeocello "Freedom of '76" – Ween "Cut Your Hair" – Pavement "God" – Tori Amos "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" – Crash Test Dummies "Possession" – Sarah McLachlan
Disc 5 "Shine" – Collective Soul "Far Behind" – Candlebox "You Gotta Be" – Des'ree "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" – Urge Overkill "She Don't Use Jelly" – The Flaming Lips "M.I.A." – 7 Year Bitch "21st Century (Digital Boy)" – Bad Religion "Sugar Free Jazz" – Soul Coughing "Mockingbirds" – Grant Lee Buffalo "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" – R.E.M. "Revolve" – Melvins "Buddy Holly" – Weezer "Here & Now" – Letters to Cleo "Good" – Better Than Ezra "Run-Around" – Blues Traveler "I'll Be There for You (Theme from Friends)" – The Rembrandts "Tomorrow" – Silverchair "Not a Pretty Girl" – Ani DiFranco "Carnival" – Natalie Merchant
Disc 6 "Wonderwall" – Oasis "Birthday Cake" – Cibo Matto "Cumbersome" – Seven Mary Three "One of Us" – Joan Osborne "Caught by the Fuzz" – Supergrass "Sweet '69" – Babes in Toyland "Breakfast at Tiffany's" – Deep Blue Something "Photograph" – The Verve Pipe "In the Meantime" – Spacehog "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" (featuring Rampage the Last Boy Scout) – Busta Rhymes "Who Will Save Your Soul" – Jewel "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" – Primitive Radio Gods "Cybele's Reverie" – Stereolab "Capri Pants" – Bikini Kill "What I Got" – Sublime "Kung Fu" – Ash "Virtual Insanity" – Jamiroquai "Naked Eye" – Luscious Jackson "Outtasite (Outta Mind)" – Wilco
Disc 7 "Itzsoweezee (HOT)" – De La Soul "Lovefool" – The Cardigans "Radiation Vibe" – Fountains of Wayne "The Impression That I Get" – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Turn It On" – Sleater-Kinney "Bitch" – Meredith Brooks "MMMBop" – Hanson "Brian Wilson (Live)" – Barenaked Ladies "Brick" – Ben Folds Five "Sex and Candy" – Marcy Playground "Walkin' on the Sun" – Smash Mouth "Tubthumping" – Chumbawamba "6 Underground" – Sneaker Pimps "Lullaby" – Shawn Mullins "Slide" – Goo Goo Dolls "Kiss Me" – Sixpence None the Richer "Steal My Sunshine" – Len "What It's Like" – Everlast "Natural Blues" – Moby
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