Billboard's Number One Modern Rock Songs - 1992

Miccio's describing a Pet Shop Boys song that Andy Partridge never wrote.

FNM without hesitation

midlife crisis, no question

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Things I like: Both U2's, Soul Asylum, 10,000 Maniacs, Morrissey, the Cure's "Friday" and REM.

things i like: Both U2's, Soul Asylum, the Cure's "
High", 10,000 Maniacs, Morrissey, the Cure's "Friday" and REM (might like the soul asylum song, just don't know if i've heard it)

"weirdo" is the only thing here that i distinctly do not like, but i will usually rep for charlatans in general (or at least 2 or 3 of their albums)

voted for "drive"

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Every song got a vote!

Alternative Nation lives!

I know we're about to wrap these countdowns up, but just wanted to say how glad I am that "Midlife Crisis" won this poll. Listened to it five minutes ago and it still rocks 20 years later.

can I add: the top ten finalists are the most consistently varied and excellent of the decade? I look at the list and go, wow.

Yeah... The Charlatans song is pretty badass too. And that's my favorite Maniacs song.

Man, as much as I loved Drive and Somebody to Shove, I totally wouldve had to vote for "Good Stuff"--I wonder if Spotify has that album

yeah, but title track and "Revolution Earth" are not available :(

good stuff is weirdly one of the very few b52's album they have. even better though they do not have the actual track 'good stuff'.

every time you speak
a pearl falls in my cup
i turn away, the pearl melts
before I drink it up

oh yeah

Good Stuff was one of the first dozen or so CDs i ever bought. i didn't even own another B-52s album for years and years afterwards.

Good Stuff was for years easily found in used cd shops.

but i bought it new!

wish they'd pursued this direction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DaGzeOim5Q

I constantly played Cosmic Thing, Good Stuff, and Bouncing off the Satellites p much on constant rotation throughout my junior high years; Bouncing less, because the tape I had of it had weirdly horrific sound quality that made everything sound wobbly

"Ain't It A Shame" is sooo good.

so is "Dreamland"; good call, Alfred!

Rocklobster!

posted solely because I love this pic. Seriously entertaining the idea of signing up to do a B-52's ballot poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Xc4MXjYvc