you're really going for that early '89 period!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
I quite dig Martika's hi-NRG take on "I Feel The Earth Move."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, well I was specifically looking through a 1989 iTunes playlist. I will expand outwards from there. But it's one of my favorite pop music years, so it'll be gettin' some heavy representin' from me.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
Glenn Medeiros ft. Bobby Brown, "She Ain't Worth It"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2BW9IKyc0A
Dino, "Romeo"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJGAX6vqewo
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Also, for some dude's and anyone else's sake if they can't see my YooToobz, so far I've posted:
Fine Young Cannibals - "Don't Look Back"Bardeux - "I Love The Bass"Martika - "More Than You Know"Kon Kan - "I Beg Your Pardon"
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't heard "Romeo" in years.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q7eBblVnp0
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
I can only think of totally barfy ones, like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5InWPjtL8
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Father MC, "I'll Do 4 U" (ft. an uncredited Mary J. Blige)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPreKgxHYXA
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
Jane Wiedlin - "Rush Hour"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ZHP4HbA2M
Michel'le - "Nicety"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6m1Vz7I0BA
Soho - "Hippychick"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaTgQBKRbE
Exposé - "When I Looked At Him"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903wSlC4qTY
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
"Rush Hour" is dope! i bought that Wiedlin album on vinyl once but haven't listened in years
― some dude, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
kon kan and soho not forgotten!
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
weidlin singles, yes, mostly forgotten...
This thread was (partially) prompted by finding a recorded-from-the-radio mixtape I made in 7th grade (1989, natch) and spiraling out of control in trying to track down all of the stuff I listened to back then. Such as this one (from that tape):
Radiorama - "Daddy, Daddy"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i0A7BXDVCY
I get the impression this one never got much stateside play outside of Florida, but maybe I'm wrong?
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
"Rush Hour" is so awesome.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
OOH YOU SEND MEEEE
Full tracklisting of that awesome mix, btw:
Side 1Paula Abdul - "Cold Hearted"Milli Vanilli - "Girl, I'm Gonna Miss You"Prince - "Batdance"Radiorama - "Daddy, Daddy"Surface - "Shower Me With Your Love"Prince - "Scandalous"Kevin Paige - "Don't Shut Me Out"
Side 2Yaz - "Situation '88"Indigo Girls - "Closer To Fine"Rick Astley - "Ain't Too Proud To Beg"The Cure - "Love Song"Stevie B - "In My Eyes"Jody Watley - "Friends"Soul II Soul - "Keep On Movin'"
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
Kevin Paige's "Don't Shut Me Out" is one of the great Scritti Politti clones.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
Tara Kemp - "Piece Of My Heart"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvpfk_fZAM
Sybil - "Don't Make Me Over"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYLlLq-9bbA
The Boys - "Dial My Heart"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBPpa8RROIo
(I love how many of these YouTube videos seem to have been ripped from Night Tracks.)
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Kenny Loggins - "Nobody's Fool"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GfY092aBQ
Big Pig - "Breakaway"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCcnazy88U
Miami Sound Machine - "Falling In Love (Uh Oh)"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epVXWOBUJck
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
now you're posting young Alfred's American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens listening.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
"Falling in Love" is late '85 or '86 though.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
According to my data, it was still charting in '87. A stretch, but still fair game!
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOyGOjM8xbc
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Betty Boo - "Doin' The Do"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM_9As_2VAg
Giant Steps - "(The World Don't Need) Another Lover"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxwWA10jHA
Inner City - "Good Life"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=998P6HEzCdI
Jets - "I Do You"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMGsgA2_d4g
Chunky A - "Owww"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Exv8_tbTY
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
when people bring boxes of tapes to my store, these are the cassingles in the box. the height of cassingle-mania.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
the Sybil cover was the first top 40 hit unavailable on 7-inch.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Absolutley. I have a "Good Life" cassingle, but I'm not giving it up.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 7 May 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I guess rap isn't really what this thread is asking for, but I want to put this here for some reason. I remember this primarily as its chorus hook, anyway. It's certainly very 1990.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3aRrokORjY
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 7 May 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
is "Good Life" forgotten? that would be outrageus!
― gospodin simmel, Monday, 7 May 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
^this
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Monday, 7 May 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
good life isn't forgotten. even big pig are remembered by some.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
and have people really forgotten that sybil song? man, i remember when that was on the radio all the time in philly. great single.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
good if not forgotten
londonbeat "ive been thinking about you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq6tW6792ss&ob=av2n
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Monday, 7 May 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
The idea here is less about singles forgotten by you guys (as if the ILM hivemind would ever let a song fall through the cracks of history) and more about singles that had a brief moment of popularity but never really became latter-day radio staples or overused in commercials/movies or whatever. I'm way familiar with a lot of this stuff, but only because I've made the effort to remain familiar with it.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
dunno if '94 counts as early '90s but:
single gun theory - "fall"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvoEJqo5yjg
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Monday, 7 May 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
Maxi Priest, "Close to You"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSR3YgUcyU4
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Monday, 7 May 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Terrence Trent D'Arby lite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4KQnM5ogtw
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Monday, 7 May 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Forgotten is right - - - I was born in 1981, started listening to the radio around '94, '95, and don't recognize anything that's been posted to the thread yet. Are all of these indeed lost treasure? Should I listen?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 May 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
Jaymc's posts itt are speaking to me.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 7 May 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
I would post that song "no myth," maybe, but everyone remembers that.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 7 May 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
he had a couple of other pretty good singles from that album iirc?
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
"this and that" was ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4yZf8rujrs
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
When Leonard Pitts was still a music critic his mission was to proselytize on behalf of the misunderstood genius of Grayson Hugh.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
Cathy Dennis, "Touch Me (All Night Long)":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ddhTH7Rjc
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Tracie Spencer, "This House"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaFmiIyPcg&ob=av2n
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
seduction - (you're my one and only) true love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IBJlUWDy9c
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
Jon Secada, "Just Another Day"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSqPbZnVjXQ
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
love that song
lisa stansfield "been around the world"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf9q0DN0dGw
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
rozalla "everybody's free"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI42hQHfbi8
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
The Freakytrigger crew commented ably on the goodness of "The Sign."
The rest is kinda crap.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
I prefer the darker "All That She Wants" to "The Sign," tbh.
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
! Wow. All That She Wants is top of my list of their worst.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
sorry -- I meant "All That She Wants"
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
I thought for the longest time that "All That She Wants" was a song about trying to get pregnant.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
I thought it was!
I didn't post it yet and I'm kinda youtubed out, but I hope no-one's forgotten When I See You Smile by Bad English. I think it's still one of those ballads that always ends up on a compilation every few years...I am not ashamed to say that I love love love it.If only because Jon Waite had that not-so-hot-dude with hot-sounding-singing-voice thing going on.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
I adore a couple of John Waite solo hits but Bad English is an excrescence. A relative bought me the tape of that first album in late '89. The only I can stand is the (forgotten!) second hit "Price of Love."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Here's a mix I'm working on...
Sandii & The Sunsetzhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj4J4lP3Ffs&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL021420E865D4F4BF
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqmFspZqr34
Polarishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnqeeBdGhh4
Man or Astro-Man?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSxPdZoJAcI
― heavymeddle, Monday, 7 May 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Good stuff on this thread so far. Firefox users: Flashblock addon is very useful for Youtube-heavy threads like this.
― fit and working again, Monday, 7 May 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
Is this considered forgotten or just not very well known in North America?Vanessa Paradis - Be my babyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmsx_bbuIC8
― MarkoP, Monday, 7 May 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
cf 90's Crushes - god I had totally forgotten about that song!!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
cosign!!!!
I totally forgot about this. Such a great jam.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:10 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
woah Alex Desert from Hepcat was on The Heights
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
Breathe - "How Can I Fall" (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1YALTps1_A
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:40 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYErxSsGO-8
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVXR-5jWvFU&feature=related
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pxSUdfRASs&feature=related
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:45 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzKuEefxjaA
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:15 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
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
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
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 (nine years ago) link
Spotify playlist of all these songs, plz.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 10 August 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4yOa3tBrB8
― Those Jorts Are Upsetting (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 August 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU_Azsue_mQ
― Those Jorts Are Upsetting (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 August 2015 19:29 (nine 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 Lahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAddModv-Kg
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 08:03 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzmJuXAgD8
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satelitte
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
this thread!
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 06:32 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB6FAQbVJbw
― Do you have or use horses? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox85dGD79K0
― Do you have or use horses? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 17:44 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link