Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1994

Iiiiii did not know that either. Jesus.

i dj on a pirate unlicensed community radio station in dc that cuts in on the new hfs' signal 97.5 (which isn't strong in the first place coming from baltimore so i don't feel bad)

I didn't even know there was a new hfs.

I keep reading "HFS" as "FFS," which is hilarious. To me.

ah marc that must be your station i occasionally hear when i'm near d.c. but accidentally go through my baltimore radio presets! when do you dj?

i do mostly spanish hip-hop fridays 5-7 then uk/"future" bass stuff fridays 9-11

i listened to the new hfs for a bit when it first came back a few years ago and it just sounded like dc101

also the final song on the old hfs being buckley's last goodbye *tear*

i am occasionally pleasantly surprised by stuff the new hfs plays, but yeah obv it's not the same

The last song on WHFS was "After Hours" by the Velvet Underground. The station at 99.1 that switched to Spanish-Language had been garbage for at least the previous decade.

yeah yeahzzzz

(although i really appreciated the switch to el zol it was about damn time we got a spanish fm station)

anybody own that Soul Asylum record? A '95 example of ship's list of commercial failures.

oops wrong thread

Would have picked "About a Girl" or possibly "Kenneth" at the time. Not completely sure now. Had no idea that Morrissey song made #1 on any US chart!

"Tomorrow" did too in '92.

plus five other songs that charted in the top 3

didn't chart on US rock radio again for a decade after "More," though, really just disappeared

Morrissey's mid nineties profile was so bewildering. He'd been going from peak to peak, then a year later the (British) hits were middling, even after the Bros Gallagher couldn't stop yakking about him and the Smiths.

like I had no idea Morrissey was getting US hits before "The More You Ignore Me" (and had no idea that went #1)

college radio hits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey_discography

oh my bad

Rumor has it he styles his pubes in a mullet.

Speaking of 1994 OMG you guys look what I saw in my local alt-weekly today can't wait so excited

http://s02.imageupper.com/1/5/L1337861850348606_1.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/319842_3720375324667_1134308060_3466100_808101273_n.jpg

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/319842_3720375324667_1134308060_3466100_808101273_n.jpg

oh ffs nevermind

also on my playlist of mediocre modern rock!

haha i had rotting pinata. "plowed" RULES

like I had no idea Morrissey was getting US hits before "The More You Ignore Me" (and had no idea that went #1)

― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

college radio hits

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not just college radio #1s, mainstream modern rock radio #1s!

I was distinguishing between college/modern rock and Hot 100 hits.

but college and modern rock charts are as different from each other (in terms of listenership #s) as modern rock is from the hot 100!

i'm curious what it took to get a #1 in the pre-nirvana years of the modern rock chart because holy fuck robyn hitchcock got one

like at some point alt-radio got to a point where lou reed could no longer dominate it

I'd have to check old CMJ playlists but I heard those pre-Nirvana singles ("Balloon Man," "Madonna of the Wasps," "So You Think You're in Love") all the time on college radio, enough to say that there was overlap between it and the modern rock chart.

like at some point alt-radio got to a point where lou reed old men could no longer dominate it

yeah i'm sure there was a lot more overlap/ambiguity between the 2 formats before the explosion circa 1992

I doubt that even if Peter Gabriel had recorded more albums instead of growing a Fu Manchu he'd have scored another couple of modern rock #1's.

Plowed is an awesome song. fuiud. Molly was also pretty great.

looking over the charts, 1994 is like the last year where there's a chart-topper that wasn't a hit-hit

until the "rhcp, foo or gtfo" era i mean

gtfo was rhcp, weren't it?

The only way I make sense of the pre-91 modern rock charts is by imagining that they were all made up by one randomly chosen English TA.

English TA's are dim creatures but they wouldn't own Ian McCulloch solo records.

posting so that I remember the day I found out that the Counting Crows actually called one of their songs "Einstein on the Beach"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MPv-kMF0MGo/TYf1CSowDBI/AAAAAAAAADM/i5whBN-G7M8/s1600/albert-einstein-1945.jpg

they took it from a philip glass opera. the song was pretty good

i'll have you know the full title of the song is "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)"

Albert's always sincere, he's a sensitive type
His intentions are clear, he wanna be well-liked
If everything is nothing, then are we anything?
Is it better to be better than to be anything?
And Albert's vision is blooming uncontrolled
All his wings are slowly sinking
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
All the king's men reappear
For an eggman, on and off the wall
Who'll never be together again
Einstein's down on the beach staring into the sand
Cause everything he believes in is shattered
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay
We all get burned asone more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
for an eggman, on and off the wall
Who'll never be together again
Albert's waiting in the sun
On a field American
For the cause of some inflated form of hit and run
One more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
for an eggman, fallin' off the wall
Will never be together again
Albert's fallen on the sun
Cracked his head wide open
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
for an eggman, falling, falling
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
for an eggman, fallin' off the wall
Will never be together again
No never be together again
No no never never never again, uh huh
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway

Definitely the Counting Crows' best straight pop (read: non-mawkish) song.

why not write a song called "Einstein (Wearing Mandles)"?