Controversial opinion: Pop music was better in the 90s than the 80s. And it was the last time pop music was good.

And there was actually rock on the pop charts. A lot of it.

These songs were actually all mostly hits, some of them big hits. Even though some are hard rock. Even Canadian kid-show pop queens were recording hard rock hits. That hasn't happened on the charts since... well, since the 90s.

You've got to trust your instincts/and let go of regrets/you've got to bet on yourself now, star/'cause that's your best bet

This one's hard because the lyrics either say the song's name or drop some blasphemy. So the best I can do is: Waaaah-waah-waah-waaaaah-wah-wah...!

I want you to know/I'm hap-py for you/I want nothing but/the best for your both (Spoiler: She doesn't mean it.)

More of a novelty, but memorable: This bed's on fire with passion and love/the neighbors complain of the noises above/but she only [sings] when she's on top That's the radio edit of the lyric.

I woke the same as any other day/Except a voice was in my head/It said seize the day, pull the trigger, drop the blade/And watch the rolling heads

And I don't like a thing about your mother/And I, I hate your daddy's guts too/And I don't like a thing about your sister, no, no/'Cause I, I, I think sex is overrated too

The comfort of a knowledge of a rise above the sky above could/
never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the here and now.

(screaming)I can't stand it, I know you planned it/I'ma set it straight, this Watergate/I can't stand rocking when I'm in here/'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear

Somebody once told me/the world is gonna roll me/I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed/She was looking kinda dumb/with her finger and her thumb/in the shape of an "L" on her forehead

"I had visions/I was in them/I was looking into the mirror/to see a little bit clearer/The rottenness and evil in me."

The next lyrics give it a way a bit:

Fingertips have memories
Mine can't forget the curves of your body
And when I feel a bit naughty
I run it up the flagpole and see
Who salutes, but no one ever does

Run and tell all of the angels, this could take all night/Think I need a devil to help me get things right/Hook me up a new revolution, 'cause this one is a lie/We sat around laughin' and watched the last one die

I was frying on the bench slide in the park across the street/L-A-T-E-R that week/My sticky paws were into making straws out of big fat slurpy treats/An incredible eight-foot heap

In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey/Butane in my veins, and I'm out to cut the junkie/With the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables/Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose/Kill the headlights and put it in neutral/Stock car flaming with the loser in the cruise control A little later: Soyyyyy... un peredor...

I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now/Suppose I abused you, just passing it on/Go!/F*ck!

And I feel, so much depends on the weather/So is it raining in your bedroom?/And I see, that these are the eyes of disarray/Would you even care?

Hey, look around today/Everything don't need to be the same/Feel, I'm feelin, lonely people/People just like me who go it alone/I guess I'm gonna go it alone

Dead I am the pool, spreading from the fool/Weak and want you need, nowhere as you bleed/Dead I am the rat, feast upon the cat/Tender is the fur, dying as you burn. The updated video is much better than the original.

Cheese smells so good/On a burnt piece of lamb/Fag of the year/Who could beat up your man

Please tell me why/My car is in the front yard, and I'm/Sleeping with my clothes on/I came in through the window last night/And you're gone, gone

Hello, Speak up, Is there somebody there?/These hang-ups are getting me down/In a world frozen over with over-exposure/let's talk it over, let's go out and paint the town

Color me any color/Speak to me in tongues and share/Tell me how you'd love to hate me/Tell me how you'd love to care/[Bridge]Well I just want/To shake us up/Well I just want/I just want to/To shake us up

We love the all, the all of you/Where lands are green, and skies are blue/When all in all, we're just like you/We love the all of you

I got my head checked/By a jumbo jet/It wasn't easy/But nothing is, no/Chorus When I feel heavy metal/(Woo-hoo) And I'm pins and I'm needles/(Woo-hoo) Well, I lie and I'm easy/All of the time, but I'm never sure why I need you/Pleased to meet you

It's all about the he-says she-says bullshit/You better let shit slip, or you'll be leavin' with a fat lip By the way, gotta warn you, the girl who flips up her top is underage. I looked it up a long time ago. Not sure how that made the cut on MTV. Also please enjoy this mash-up/parody.

And that parody rolls right into this one: What's with these homies dissin' my girl?/Why do they gotta front?/What did we ever do to these guys/That made them so violent?
[Pre-Chorus] Woo-hoo, but you know I'm yours/Woo-hoo, and I know you're mine/Woo-hoo, and that's for all of time

A lot of videos in the 90s were on that retro tip: Sell the kids for food/Weather changes moods/Spring is here again/Reproductive glands

There's no going back to that/I'm so numb, can't even react/Didn't say it's not okay/But we aren't feeling the same way/I ain't telling you a secret/I ain't telling you goodbye

Mama tells me I shouldn't bother/That I ought just stick to another man/A man that surely deserves me/But I think you do/So I cry and I pray and I beg

Someone said
Give peace a chance/(and that's all that we're saying)/While we're sitting on the fence/(Pretending)Our hearts are in the right place/But your faces shows a trace of
Hypocrisy/Don't tread on me/Now you can see

Wake up, kids, we got the dreamers' disease/Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees/So polite, we're busy still saying please/Frienemies, who, when you're down, ain't your friend/Every night we smash a Mercedes-Benz/First we run, and then we laugh till we cry

You think that we connect/That the chemistry's correct/Your words walk right through my ears/Presuming I like what I hear

Chickity China, the Chinese chicken/You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'/Watching X-Files with no lights on/We're dans la maison/I hope the Smoking Man's in this one/Like Harrison Ford, I'm getting frantic/Like Sting, I'm tantric/Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy/Like Kurosawa, I make mad films, 'kay, I don't make films/But if I did they'd have a Samurai

This one might be a little obscure, but it's kinda great in a deeply stupid way: Now I know your heart, I know your mind/You don't even know you're being unkind/So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways/Just use me up and then you walk away/Boy, you can't play me that way

I'm the cream of the crop, I rise to the top/
I never eat a pig 'cause a pig is a cop/
Or better yet a Terminator, like Arnold Schwarzenegger/
Tryin' to play me out like as if my name was Sega

Went down the highway/Broke the limit, we hit the town/Went through to Texas/Yeah, Texas, and we had some fun/

On to some more conventional cafe stuff:

So are the tigers included in the rent, or...?

Triple play: Switzerland, horse, pretty girl. Lot of leg in the second video.

More amazing vids of Switzerland.

Iceland accompanied by a guy doing The Crow cosplay.

More Iceland. Wow.

Arguing with a goat. In your heart, you know the goat is right.

A cat is caught cheating.

Some amazing elephant videos, not all of them cute -- elephants can be scary, too.

In the third clip, a guy stands firm against a charging elephant, causing the elephant to stop his charge.

The fifth clip shows a mama elephant protecting her baby from a charging lion.