The Tam Diaries: Video Edition

A few years ago, I completed what I consider to be the definitive compilation of classic pop music songs post-Nirvana and pre-Britney Spears; my middle school years, the raw material that eventually formed my musical tastes. It is called The Tam Diaries. The compilation spans 15 CD-sized playlists and totals 240 songs. The first album contains the 16 tracks that I judge to be the most essential, most defining pop tunes of the later-mid-90s era. Here they are, without commentary.

1. Everclear, Santa Monica
2. Beck, Where It's At
Beck |MTV Music
3. No Doubt, Just A Girl
No Doubt |MTV Music
4. The Presidents of the United States of America, Peaches
5. Oasis, Champagne Supernova
Oasis |MTV Music
6. Green Day, Brain Stew/Jaded
Green Day |MTV Music
7. Puff Daddy & Foo Fighters, It's All About the Benjamins
Diddy |MTV Music
8. La Bouche, Be My Lover
La Bouche |MTV Music
9. LL Cool J, Doin' It
10. Puff Daddy, I'll Be Missing You
Diddy |MTV Music
11. Tony Rich Project, Nobody Knows
Tony Rich |MTV Music
12. The Smashing Pumpkins, 1979
13. Alanis Morrisette, Ironic
Alanis Morissette |MTV Music
14. Bush, Glycerine
15. Sublime, What I Got
16. Blues Traveler, Hook