POLL: US Top 40 Singles For The Week Ending April 30, 1994

"I'll Remember" >>>>> anything on Ray of Light

It's as good a song as any of its Patrick Leonard co-compositions but w/out his gewgaws.

his = William Orbit's

Is there a Spotify playlist for this?

I didn't have time to make one yesterday, but anyone who wants to attempt it can do.

Random thoughts...Lol someone had a top 40 hit with a reggae cover of Peter Frampton...wait it gets worse, that General Public song is reggae-fied cover of the Staple Singers song...you know your Top 40 years is in trouble when Michael Bolton isn't even the worst song that year...the white guy in the All-4-One video looks like Edward Snowden...Gin And Juice is going to win this, but 2nd best hip-hop has some real contenders with Ice Cube, Outkast, and Masta Ace.

Loser/Gin And Juice should dominate this, so throwing my vote away on Stan Lynch's last top 40 appearance.

it would be fun to do these for bottom 40 lists too

I wish I had access to those. I've been using this site.

I found a treasure trove of weekly top 100 .txt files a while back but only up through the mid-'90s or so, IIRC.

Richard Marx's last top ten.

that Bonnie Raitt tune isn't bad either

Scribble drabble scrabble on the microphone I babble

I feel like the people discounting the "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" should hear the vastly superior album version

It's much, much better than everything on Diamonds and Pearls which I pretty much hate aside from "Gett Off"

it would be fun to do these for bottom 40 lists too

― maura, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:46 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bubbling Under Hot 100 imo

shoutout to Rottin Razkals and Nuttin' Nyce

"Money Don't Matter 2 Night" is much better MOR Prince than "TMBGITW," but I actually kinda like both of them.

jf the hot 100 is now available in full on billboard's site for every single week all the way back to its first publication date in 1958! :)

for example this is the 'bottom 40' for the week represented by this poll: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1994-04-30

60 Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)
61 Danzig - Mother
62 M.C. Hammer - It s All Good
63 Rod Stewart - Having A Party
64 Xscape - Understanding
65 Celine Dion - Misled
66 Dawn Penn - You Don t Love Me (No, No, No)
67 Xscape - Love On My Mind
68 Queen Latifah - Just Another Day
69 John Michael Montgomery - I Swear
70 A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation (Relax Yourself Girl)
71 Sheryl Crow - Leaving Las Vegas
72 Simple E - Play My Funk (From "Sugar Hill")
73 Mint Condition - U Send Me Swingin
74 H-Town/Al B. Sure! - Part Time Lover/I m Still In Love With You
75 Gabrielle - I Wish
76 Cracker - Low
77 Gang Starr - Mass Appeal
78 Billy Joel - Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
79 Shaquille O Neal - I m Outstanding
80 Erasure - Always
81 I To I - The Right Time (From "Four Weddings And A Funeral")
82 K7 - Zunga Zeng
83 Color Me Badd - Choose
84 Expose - In Walked Love
85 Candlebox - You
86 2 In A Room - El Trago (The Drink)
87 James - Laid
88 Patra - Worker Man
89 FRENTE! - Bizarre Love Triangle
90 After 7 - Gonna Love You Right (From "Sugar Hill")
91 NAS - It Ain t Hard To Tell
92 Tori Amos - God
93 Jocelyn Enriquez - I ve Been Thinking About You
94 Neal McCoy - No Doubt About It
95 Little Texas - My Love
96 Ovis - Regular Thang
97 The Knack - My Sharona (From "Reality Bites")
98 SWV - Always On My Mind
99 Guns N Roses - Since I Don t Have You
100 Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin

Oh, I didn't know they'd opened that info up w/o a subscription. Nice!!

so much R&B

bonus - here is the bubbling under hot 100 for that week (not available on the billboard site sadly but i found it in their google books archive):

1 Doug E. Fresh - Freaks/I-ight (Alright)
2 Sweet Sable - Old Times' Sake
3 Taylor Dayne - I'll Wait
4 The Breeders - Divine Hammer
5 Teddy Pendergrass - Believe in Love
6 Robin S. - I Want to Thank You
7 Sarah McLachlan - Possession
8 Zapp & Roger - Computer Love
9 Sounds of Blackness - I Believe
10 Lisette Melendez - Will You Ever Save Me
11 Live - Selling the Drama
12 South Central Cartel - Gang Stories
13 Bee Gees - For Whom the Bell Tolls
14 George Strait - Love Bug
15 M People - Moving on Up
16 Faith Hill - Piece of My Heart
17 Angela Winbush - Treat U Rite
18 Heart - The Woman in Me
19 Aretha Franklin - Willing to Forgive
20 Intro - Ribbon in the Sky
21 Terminator X and the Godfathers of Threatt - It All Comes Down to the Money
22 For Real - You Don't Wanna Miss
23 Tony! Toni! Tone! - Leavin'
24 Mega Banton - Sound Boy Killing
25 Phil Collins - We Wait and We Wonder

xp yeah they only opened it up recently, like within the past few months

Yeah, that bottom 40 is WAY better.

i remember these polls that matos used to do: Billboard Hot 100 New Entries, December 2003

he polled new hot 100 entries for every month from jan 2000 to dec 2003, it was p fun

Wow, I totally missed all that.

Voted "Whatta Man," but big love to "I'll Remember" and "Gin & Juice." Of the many terrible covers, I'll take the 10,000 Maniacs one, even though Natalie Merchant could drain the sexiness out of a sex swamp. I had happily forgotten that Richard Marx and Michael Bolton were still charting into the mid-'90s. I respect the Bruce song more than I love it, "Bump n Grind" suffers from knowing too much about R. Kelly.

I think in my mind I had fused the Big Mountain version of "Baby I Love Your Way" with the Will to Power version, to the extent that I remembered them as the same song.

lol I didn't even notice it was the Big Mountain version. I just glanced and thought it was Will to Power and briefly thought "wasn't that from earlier than 1994?"

Hint: Will To Power is way, way better.

I'm surprised by all of the positive mentions of "I'll Remember" because, personally, I'll remember "I'll Remember" as the second blandest hit Madonna had had at that point (after the drippy "This Used To Be My Playground").

lol 1994...I'll Remember is on a soundtrack with Mudhoney's Run Shithead Run.

"Playground" does nothing for me, but I love the melodic turns in "I'll Remember" (basically, I love most Patrick Leonard-Madonna compositions).

that'll be the With Honors soundtrack, also home to Kristen Hersh's "Your Ghost"

The keyboard bedrock of I'll Remember is absolutely lovely.

I saw With Honors at least a couple times, but never really looked at the soundtrack. It's absurd and great at the same time.

I love that the bassline starts below the root on each repetition. I love those backwards strings in the bridge. I love the patient undulations of the synths. It's perfect balladry.

How many fucking versions of Baby I Love Your Way can there be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_I_Love_Your_Way

3, apparently?

Had to have been a UB40 version in there somewhere. Had to have been.

Lol Alfred I was talking about the song, my bad

Really stoked about the love for I'll Remember after its somewhat lackluster performance on the Madonna poll; it was def top 5 on my ballot though. Def in the running for me, tho Snoop Dogg, Crash Test Dummies, "Dunkie Butt" and "All that She Wants" are also huge for me. And I dont remember Player's Ball making top 40

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"Bubbling Under: The Breeders - Divine Hammer" - that could be the name of my memoir

Haha

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Didn't vote Because of Love cause I was sure somebody else would, ilm has failed me

Loser, huh?

"Loser" is complete and utter garbage and you are in denial if you think otherwise.

this is like Skeletor fatally wounding He-Man