It Was A Good Day
1993 · From The Predator
DJ Pooh looped the Isley Brothers' Footsteps in the Dark, and Ice Cube spent four minutes on an uneventful day.
★ 7.9
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Showing 51 songs from 1993
Gin & JuiceSnoop Dogg
Gin & Juice
1993 · From Doggystyle
Dr. Dre produced it, George McCrae supplied the sample, and Snoop's unhurried drawl became the West Coast blueprint.
★ 7.8
Protect Ya Neck
1993 · From Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Eight MCs, a beat RZA scrapped and rebuilt, and a 12-inch the group pressed themselves before any label would.
★ 7.7
Heart-Shaped Box
1993 · From In Utero
Albini recorded it at Pachyderm in a Minnesota winter, and Scott Litt later remixed it to lift Cobain's vocal.
★ 7.6
Who Am I (What's My Name)
1993 · From Doggystyle
Dre stacked Atomic Dog over Parliament and Funkadelic, and Snoop's debut single walked straight into the top ten.
★ 7.6
Keep Ya Head Up
1993
A Zapp groove under the Five Stairsteps hook, dedicated to Latasha Harlins, and rap's warmest tribute to Black women.
★ 7.4
All Apologies
1993 · From MTV Unplugged in New York
Lori Goldston's cello beside Cobain at the November 1993 Unplugged taping, months before his death, apology turned farewell.
★ 7.3
Insane in the Brain
1993 · From Black Sunday
A diss aimed at Chubb Rock, by B-Real's account, over a squealing hook DJ Muggs still won't explain.
★ 7.2
93 'Til InfinitySouls of Mischief
93 'Til Infinity
1993 · From 93 'til Infinity
A-Plus flipped Billy Cobham's Heather into a beat he made in high school, and Oakland never sounded calmer.
★ 7.1
Award Tour
1993 · From Midnight Marauders
Q-Tip flipped a Weldon Irvine bassline, Trugoy took the hook, and the chorus name-checks cities from New York to Tokyo.
★ 7.0
Passin' Me By
1993 · From Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
J-Swift looped Quincy Jones and Weather Report while four Pharcyde MCs traded verses about being turned down.
★ 7.0
Sound Of Da Police
1993
The siren is KRS-One's own voice, over Showbiz's loop of a Grand Funk Railroad cover cut at D&D.
★ 6.9
Mary Jane's Last Dance
1993 · From Greatest Hits
Originally called Indiana Girl, until Petty decided he couldn't sing that line; Stan Lynch's last sessions with the Heartbreakers.
★ 6.7
Linger
1993
Stephen Street produced it, the Duke Quartet supplied the strings, and O'Riordan wrote the melody at her audition.
★ 6.5
Mr. Jones
1993
T-Bone Burnett replaced the band's own drummer with session man Denny Fongheiser, and Duritz got the fame he wished for.
★ 6.2
Dreams (The Cranberries)
1993
A debut single written about her first love, with Stephen Street producing and Mike Mahoney's voice climbing wordlessly out the top.
★ 6.1
Ordinary World
1993 · From Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)
Three days to finish the music in Cuccurullo's home studio, and an elegy for a dead friend became their comeback.
★ 6.1
Check Yo Self
1993 · From The Predator
Predator-era Cube with Das EFX in tow; the remix rode the Message beat to number one R&B.
★ 6.0
Shoop
1993
Built on a Sweet Inspirations sample, with Salt and Pepa flipping the gaze and riding it to number four.
★ 5.9
Murder Was the Case
1993 · From Doggystyle
A Faustian bargain told in the first person, later expanded into an eighteen-minute film Dre co-directed with Fab Five Freddy.
★ 5.8
I Get Around
1993
Shock G's beat was meant for Digital Underground, and by his account Shakur wrote Shock's verse for him.
★ 5.8
All I Wanna DoSheryl Crow
All I Wanna Do
1993
Crow found Wyn Cooper's poem 'Fun' in a Pasadena used bookstore and sang it into a Grammy.
★ 5.8
El MatadorLos Fabulosos Cadillacs
El Matador
1993
Cianciarulo set a hunted revolutionary over candombe and murga, and the 1994 VMAs gave it Viewer's Choice.
★ 5.6
Any Time, Any PlaceJanet Jackson
Any Time, Any Place
1993
Fingersnaps, a saxophone and rolling thunder from Jam and Lewis, with Jackson singing desire at a whisper.
★ 5.5
She Don't Use Jelly
1993 · From Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
A decade underground, then Beavis and Butt-Head featured the video and the Lips had their only American hit.
★ 5.4
Whatta ManSalt-N-Pepa
Whatta Man
Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue
1993
Linda Lyndell's 1968 Volt single became the hook, with En Vogue singing it and Salt-n-Pepa praising a good man.
★ 5.3
Rape Me
1993 · From In Utero
Written on acoustic guitar in 1991, recorded by Albini at Pachyderm, and stocked by Walmart under a changed title.
★ 5.2
Hip Hop HoorayNaughty by Nature
Hip Hop Hooray
1993
KayGee looped James Brown and Peter Gabriel, and Spike Lee filled the Brooklyn video with Tupac and Queen Latifah.
★ 5.1
Lodi Dodi
1993 · From Doggystyle
Dre put music under Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's a cappella original, and Snoop made the story his.
★ 5.0
Fields of Gold
1993
Barley fields outside Sting's Wiltshire house, Kathryn Tickell's Northumbrian smallpipes, and a promise meant to last a lifetime.
★ 4.9
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
1993 · From Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell
Twelve minutes on the album, and the guide vocal Lorraine Crosby sang under a pseudonym is the one you hear.
★ 4.9
Dreamlover
1993
Eight weeks at number one on a loop from the Emotions' Blind Alley, with Carey sounding weightless above it.
★ 4.9
Chattahoochee
1993
Keith Stegall produced it, Jim McBride supplied the title line, and Jackson water-skied through the video in red cowboy boots.
★ 4.8
Come UndoneDuran Duran
Come Undone
1993 · From Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)
One drum loop, a phone call that brought Nick Rhodes over, and Tessa Niles unleashing the diva on the chorus.
★ 4.7
Shine
1993
A basement demo meant only for publishers, until an Atlanta college station put it into rotation and Atlantic came calling.
★ 4.6
Where I'm From
1993
Two Melvin Van Peebles samples anchor it, and the trio spends the whole track naming exactly what shaped them.
★ 4.5
Hero
1993
Written for Gloria Estefan until Mottola heard the demo; Carey thought it schmaltzy and took it to number one.
★ 4.5
Runaway Train
1993
Pirner wrote it during a breakdown, and Tony Kaye's video named missing children, region by region, until some came home.
★ 4.5
Possession
1993
McLachlan wrote it in the voice of her own obsessive letter writers, and Marchand makes it sound tender.
★ 4.3
When Can I See You
1993
Babyface stripped back to acoustic guitar, won his first performing Grammy, and landed his highest solo placing at number four.
★ 4.2