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
Released	2005
Recorded	1989-1999
Genre	Rock, pop
Label	Rhino 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20170827090009/https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7856-a-feature-about-nothing-the-1990s-in-lists/?page=5