Forgotten late-'80s/early-'90s pop singles

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Natural Selection - Do Anything

A top ten nineties song for me: a #2 hit I don't even hear on urban radio anymore.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link

cosign!!!!

I totally forgot about this. Such a great jam.

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link

I had such a crush on the singer, he looked like a taller Alex Desert from the Heights, lol

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link

woah Alex Desert from Hepcat was on The Heights

some dude, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link

Breathe - "How Can I Fall" (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1YALTps1_A

LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link

Danny Wilson - "Mary's Prayer" (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqgC3W9GUI&ob=av2e

LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link

Howard Jones - "Everlasting Love" (1989) (His last Top 10 hit I think?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypTzwQrQgE

LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link

Army Of Lovers - "Crucified" (1991). Nobody I know remembers this, but it's amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdooYar_A6g&feature=related

LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYErxSsGO-8

Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link

nobody else but me.

one of my fave albums.

this was one of the singles :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5oYh4leLA

mark e, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link

another single :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRRo9rBygY

lots of cooler than thou remixers involved - 808 state, j cauty, paul oakenfold etc

mark e, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzKuEefxjaA

MarkoP, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link

Tevin Campbell's new-jack swing remake of "Strawberry Letter 23":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwgprId0mQk

Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link

four months pass...

Brent Bourgeois - "Dare To Fall In Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icagGXXN2R0

I don't know how I managed to completely forget this song's existence and yet still recall every note and word upon hearing it.

Old Lunch, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

hears "This House" (Tracie Spencer) and Sybil's "Don't Make Me Over" on the adult R&B station this weekend.

the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 October 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link

was (not was) Shake Your Head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nCJgsc_Bdk

Jesus Loves You / Generations Of Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBBuU1duj5g

piscesx, Monday, 21 October 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link

Rythm Syndicate - "P.A.S.S.I.O.N."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW1pPhaqgZ0

naus, Monday, 21 October 2013 05:31 (ten years ago) link

The Wee Papa Girl Rappers - "Heat It Up". I used to own the 45 for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB5IJ_WnAO4

LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 21 October 2013 05:52 (ten years ago) link

The Pursuit Of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now". I had the 7" for this too. It went to #6 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSDF8VvU13M

LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 21 October 2013 06:04 (ten years ago) link

There was a real video for this, but I've never seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqOSQvvj1ug

PaulTMA, Monday, 21 October 2013 10:41 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

Guys. Seriously. Whistle - 'Right Next To Me':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ88JCM9eT4

Those Jorts Are Upsetting (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 August 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link

Spotify playlist of all these songs, plz.

Mr. Snrub, Monday, 10 August 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link

Last year I picked up an entire episode of Rick Dee's Weekly Top 40 from May of 1990 at a Record Fair. Had quite a bit of songs that I had never heard before, like this one:

Perfect Gentlemen - Ooh La La
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAddModv-Kg

MarkoP, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 08:03 (eight years ago) link

This is '86/87 so stretching it a little perhaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EydUM5g2Ms8

MaresNest, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 09:23 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzmJuXAgD8

Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satelitte

brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 05:02 (eight years ago) link

this thread!

insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 06:32 (eight years ago) link

I will just keep on proselytizing about the A'me Lorain album until people hear the good word:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU_XAgDlnE

Do you have or use horses? (Old Lunch), Thursday, 20 August 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link


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