Watching VH1

This past week, VH1 counted down the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s. The number one song on the countdown was unsurprisingly Nirvana with “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. You can catch the video below.

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Have you been watching VH1’s latest countdown show? If not you are definitely missing out! VH1 is counting down the greatest songs of the 1990’s and there is some great music and fun videos to see on the countdown. This week’s sneak peek music is a compilation of the best of the countdown. I, personally, love 90s music since the 90s spanned my most formative years from Jr. High to high school and even college. The trip down memory lane has had me dancing and singing along to all of those great 90s hits.

Below, you’ll find links to just about anything you could want from songs of the 90s. Just about every genre is covered including hip hop, alternative rock, and my favorite, boy bands and bubblegum pop. We’ve also got one hit wonders, songs that reached number one on the charts, and even artists who were featured at Lollapalooza and the Lilith Fair concerts.

So sit back and reminisce all about the 1990s.

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One-hit wonders are part of the decade’s 100 greatest tunes! Check out some of the best right here.

100 Greatest Songs of the ’90s: #1 Songs
Check out these videos for songs that made it to the top spot on the charts.

100 Greatest Songs of the 90s: Alternative
Watch videos from he best of Grunge, Indie and Alt-Rock that ruled the decade.

100 Greatest Songs of the ’90s: Lollapalooza
Thanks to Perry Farrell, Lolla ruled our summer concerts 91-97. Watch videos.

100 Greatest Songs of the ’90s: Boy Bands and Bubblegum Pop
Dance along to your favorite videos from Britney to the Spice Girls and Nsync to the Backstreet Boys.

100 Greatest Songs of the ’90s: Hip Hop
Check out the best Hip-Hop videos the ’90s had to offer.

100 Greatest Songs of the 90s: Ladies of the Lilith Fair
Sarah McLachlan’s festival featured the best female artists of the ’90s.Watch videos now!

Are you ready to get your pulses racing and look at beautiful women for 60 minutes? Well, VH1 has got you covered. Maxim Magazine, in conjunction with VH1, presents “Maxim’s Hot 100″ which will air several times this week on VH1. Beauties such as Lost’s Evangeline Lilly, Rebecca Romijn (pictured), Rachel Bilson, and Christina Aguilera all made the list once again, as well as some new up and coming hotties.

With exclusive interviews and cool behind-the-scenes footage, you’ll get a chance to see these celebrity superwomen let their hair down and hear what it’s like to be among the most scorchingly hot females on the planet. The ladies will share some very personal and often hilarious information in our series of freewheeling interviews and on-location adventures.

Who topped the list? Find out when the show airs the following times this week:

Tuesday, May 22: 11:00 AM, 9:00 PM, 11:30 PM
Wednesday, May 23: 4:00 PM
Thursday, May 24: 1:30 AM
Friday, May 25: 10:00 PM
Saturday, May 26: 2:00 PM

For more show times and information, check out the VH1 Website.

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I ran across an article from Newsday by Diane Wertz claiming there are too many countdowns on television nowadays. Obviously, VH1 is a pioneer of this type of programming and relies on it heavily to fill in its programming schedule. Here is a part of Ms. Wertz’s thoughts on the subject (read the whole article by clicking here):

Countdown shows are the curse of cable today, lining up our shared experiences in handy numerical fashion and trivializing them all to the point of repugnance. The 20 best, the 50 worst, the 100 sexiest, the 101 most embarrassing. It isn’t just E! and VH1 anymore, those peppy repositories of pop-culture ephemera. They started the craze for counting down hits/duds, weddings/breakups and assorted faux pas, bridging the illustrating clips with faux-funny comments from irrelevant snarksters like furry comedy writer Bruce Vilanch and dread satirist Mo Rocca. Now everybody’s in the act. BET. CMT. MTV. Fox Sports and Golf Channel. Even Food Network and HGTV.

I, personally, love countdown shows and have seen almost all of them that have aired (although I admit I’ve missed some of the newer ones due to actually having to work–go figure!) and most of them more than once. Lately it does seem they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas, but until every single pop culture reference has been indexed and given an arbitrary number in a countdown, I’m more than happy with the shows and will debate with my friends what rankings were spot on and which were totally insane.

So, my friends, debate with me! Leave some comments about your feelings on the countdown shows and what shows you think should be made.

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