* = dance music; about 120 bpm & upwards
** = funk/soul/hiphop/jazz/reggae/world/ska/or combinations
no stars = something else
# = guilty pleasures

My top 53 of favorite songs of the year 1993 (out of 75 listed here):

Note: Arrested Developments’s Mama is always on stage/Mr. Wendal and Rage Against The Machine – Killing in the name are missing here. All became a hit in 1993, but were originally released in 1992. Click that year to find them, and a couple of such tracks more. Mama is always on stage could have been nr 1 in the list below.

1. Cappella – You got 2 know (note: the version in this YouTube file, it’s not the album version and also not the version in the video.) *
2. Leila K – Open sesame (note: try also the ‘Long version’, sounds like the radio version but is – like the title says – extremely long) *
3. Jamiroquai – When you gonna learn **
4. René Et Gaston – Vallee de l’armes *
5. Jamiroquai – Too young to die **
6. Dr Alban – Sing halleluja */#
7. Cajmere ft. Dajae – Brighter days (Masters At Work Remix) *
8. A Tribe Called Quest – Award tour **
9. TC 1993 – Harmony (The F.P.I. Funky Mix) *
10. Culture Beat – Mr vain *
11. Naughty By Nature – Hip hop hooray **
12. Janet Jackson – That’s the way love goes **
13. Zhané – Hey mr DJ **
14. Moby – Move *
15. Urban Species – The Experience **
16. Guru ft. N’Dea Davenport – Trust me **
17. Les Negresses Vertes – Face a la mer (Massive Attack Remix) **
18. Guru ft. MC Solaar – Le bien le mal **
19. The Breeders – Cannonball
20. Capricorn – 20 hz *
21. Culture Beat – Anything *
22. A Tribe Called Quest – Electic relaxation **
23. Harddrive (Or: Masters At Work) – Maurice’s vibe *
24. Terence Trent D’Arby ft. Des’ree – Delicate
25. Sagat – Funk dat *
26. Ace Of Base – All that she wants #
27. Stakka Bo – Here we go **
28. Ace Of Base – Wheel of fortune #
29. Quazar – Breakaway (Trance Mix) *
30. Salt ‘N Pepa ft. En Vogue – Whatta man **
31. The Goodman – Give it up *
32. Guru ft. Ronny Jordan And J.C. Lee- No time to play **
33. Fundamental – Dancin’ on a higher ground *
34. Serious Rope ft. Sharon Dee Clarke – Happiness *
35. Guru ft. Brandford Marsalis – Transit ride **
36. The Martian – Star dancer *
37. Blind Melon – No rain
38. Carpe Diem – Snakecharmer *
39. The Prodigy – Wind it up (the radio version aka ‘Rewound Edit’, not the album version)
40. Any Question? – Living on a fantasy *
41. #1 – Do you know what I mean (note: the unknown version in this YouTube file) *
42. Shara Nelson – One goodbye in ten **
43. X-Press 2 – Muzik x-press *
44. Culture Beat – Adelante */#
45. Culture Beat – Got to get it (Radio Mix) *
46. Stakka Bo – Down the drain **
47. Cypress Hill – Insane the brain **
48. Living Colour – Leave it alone
49. Green Velvet – The stalker *
50. Boobytrax – Don’t go *
51. Shara Nelson – Down that road **
52. Marmion – Schoneberg *
53. Latin Boom – Cafe con leche (12 Inch Vocal Mix) *

My other favorites, the ‘subtop’ part (above is the potential ‘all time top 500′ stuff):

• Carl Craig – My machines *
• Culture Beat – Got to get it (Club Mix) *
• Dajae – You got me up */#
• Duran Duran – Ordinairy world
• Exposure – Party claps *
• Honey C – Stop the disease *
• Kerri Chandler – Track 1 *
• Lee Scratch Perry – Money **
• Lenny Kravitz – Are you gonna go my way
• Lords of the Underground – Funky child **
• Onyx – Slam **
• The Radios – She goes nana
• Slam – Positive education *
• Sound Factory – Good time (Pure Mix) *
• Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Mary Jane’s last dance
• Tom Waits & Gavin Bryers – Jesus’ blood never failed me yet
• 2 Unlimited – Faces (the album version, nót the radio version) *
• 2 Unlimited – Faces (Automatic Breakbeat Remix) *
• 2 Unlimited – Tribal dance */#
• Us3 – Tukka yoot’s riddim **
• Vapourspace – Gravitational arch of 10 *

Extra (from previous site & personal archives): pics from the year 1993

This part of the 90s pages at this site is under construction. Note: the articles are in the Dutch language.

• Fashion in 1993
• Home decoration trends from that era
• Ace Of Base, the sisters Berggren (Malin and Jenny)
• Aladdin, the making of the Dutch voice-overs (Laura Vlasblom and Bart Bosch)
• Anita Doth (2 Unlimited)
  
• Annette Barlo, a Dutch actress
• Beavis And Butthead, from the MTV cartoon
  
• Bjork
• Dance music on MTV (warning: bad scan quality)
• Def Dames Dope, a Belgian girl group
• East 17
• The Goodmen (warning: bad scan quality)
  
• ‘De It’, a Famous Dutch club (two scans, first one is from 2003, written in retrospective)
• Jaydee (warning: bad scan quality)
• Jeroen Van Inkel, a famous Dutch radio dj (at Veronica, back then – warning: bad scan quality)
• Katherine Kelly Lang, from The Bold And The Beautiful
  
• Leila K, from ‘Open sesame’
• Lenny Kravitz
  
• Leontine Ruijters, a Dutch tv host/actress/etcetera (back then an assistent in game show ‘The Wheel Of Fortune’)
• Marijne Van Der Vlugt, MTV vj
  
• Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey
• Pamela Anderson, just arrived in Baywatch
• Poppoll, eight pages long, from Dutch teen mag ‘Hitkrant’. Who was hot and who was hot in 1993?
  
• The Prodigy, after the success of Out of space
• Quazar, a Dutch dance act
  
• Radio 538, Holland’s biggest radio station (warning: bad scan quality)
• Take That, about the early days of this group
• 2 Unlimited
  
• Urban Cookie Collective, from ‘The key, the secret’
  
• Valensia, a Dutch singer, known from the hit ‘Gaia’
• Vanessa Warwick, MTV-vj (Headbanger’s Ball)
  
• Wessel Van Diepen, a famous Dutch radio dj (warning: bad scan quality)
• Whitney Houston, just had success with ‘The Bodyguard’