Turn It Up in the Back! Dido’s angelic, sweeping, sweet-but-heartbreaking chorus makes this one a karaoke classic. What’s That on the Radio? The weepy, impossibly high-stakes signature song from British singer-songwriter Dido, off her 2003 album Life For Rent, in which she acknowledges that her relationship is falling apart - but professes her undying commitment to it anyway. Hit the Brakes! In modern times, with everyone taking a picture, the mid-air nudity elegantly detailed in the song’s lyrics would unquestionably have spread across the internet before the plane’s wheels touched the ground.
Turn It Up in the Back! The angsty, generation-spanning screed “Hey dad, what do you think about your son now?” resonated with enough people in the front and backseat to reach its No.
What’s That on the Radio? Former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Richard Patrick baring his flaws (and more) on a sonically refreshing, albeit controversial, nostalgia trip. 1 artist and a Spotify playlist of all 50 songs at the bottom of the article. Seat belts on, everybody? OK: Let’s take a drive through the best that the Minivan Rock era had to offer - with an interview of our No.
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Just as time has lent a fonder perspective to countless Yacht Rock classics that were considered critical poison in their time (and punchline fodder for many years after), we feel like our Minivan Rock top 50 is full of jams deserving of similar reappraisal. We think that’s part of the fun, and we hope that while you’re debating why Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” wasn’t included while P!nk’s “Just Like a Pill” was, that you take time to revisit both songs (and dozens others here), now decades removed from their endless radio replay. Still, we’re confident you’ll disagree with some of our picks here, just as no two of our list’s contributors defined Minivan Rock quite the same way. And finally, with a few exceptions, we mostly shied away from expansive songs that felt like they belonged more to the bigger pop universe - like “Smooth,” “One Week” and “You Get What You Give” - though other, smaller-scaled singles by Santana, Barenaked Ladies and New Radicals all appear below. We also tried not to include songs that didn’t quite rock enough: Sarah McLachlan, Jack Johnson and Norah Jones all had hits that rubbed elbows with these on FM playlists, but they still don’t really fit here. First, we tried not to include anything that already has an obvious pre-existing genre or subgenre to call home: songs that could better be described as pop-punk, emo, country, R&B or teen-pop.
Minivan Rock Parent Jon Zellner on Programming Top 40, Hot AC Stations in the Late '90sīefore we get started on our top 50, though, a quick note about some songs we didn’t count. Beyond that, we looked for a good deal of overlap with the previously mentioned sonic signifiers, but sometimes determining a song’s eligibility was as simple as asking: “Does this song sound like it would soundtrack a turn-of-the-century minivan commercial?” Ultimately, the only hard line we drew was that songs for this list had to be released as singles between the years of 1997 - when the final strains of Gen-X grunge had dissolved into something inherently top 40-friendlier - and 2004, after which alt-rock had a radio comeback and Grey’s Anatomy-type piano balladry turned pop-rock into something more dolorous and epic. How did we define Minivan Rock? Well, that answer is much more complicated: involving countless microscopically drawn lines of demarcation, and weeks upon weeks of debate about the eligibility of specific artists (and weeks more about specific songs by those specific artists). ( BuzzFeed wrote about a similar idea in 2017.) And when the local top 40 or adult top 40 channel was blasting through the car radio, these were the songs most likely to be fun for the whole family. While those Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross hits were ostensibly best enjoyed by the affluent while cruising in their personal vanity vessels on the high seas, by the late ’90s the vehicular status symbol for the suburban had become the minivan. Why Minivan Rock? Well, think of it as the Y2K-straddling equivalent to the smooth soft rock that was similarly ubiquitous on radio playlists of the mid-1970s to early ’80s - what’s since come to be known as Yacht Rock.
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