These hit songs from the 1990s are like little, three-minute long time machines, instantly transporting you back to pre-Y2K.

If you were a kid in the 1990s, I bet at least one of these four songs influenced the music taste you have today.

The dominant new musical trend of the early 1990s was also one of the most improbable. Emerging from the noisy, DIY rock scene of the perpetually overshadowed Seattle, grunge became the voice of a ...