In the late 90s/early 2000s, MTV’s “Total Request Live” defined what was popular in music and briefly transformed NYC’s Time Square into the capital of teen culture. So which three music videos best captured what the Carson Daly hosted countdown show was all about?

Find out our choices in this episode of Epic Footnote Productions’ “If You Have to Pick 3 … ,” a podcast where Matt Gamba and Zach Shaw have to pick their top three choices on any given topic (bands, albums, songs, genres, whatever!). After they each share their personal favorites, they then have to come to an agreement on a final top 3.