what is the best song from 1990???

Honourable mentions:

Mantronix ft. Wondress: Got To Have Your Love
JT & The Big Family: Moments In Soul
Orbital: Chime
Primal Scream: Loaded
FAB: Thunderbirds Are Go!*
Family Stand: Ghetto Heaven
House Of Love: Shine On
Don Pablo's Animals: Venus*
Chad Jackson: Hear The Drummer Get Wicked
Adamski: NRG

*I was 9 yrs old, okay?

1990 was unheralded because it was the last year that you could pinpoint tracks that fell between classic 80s electro and 90s rave/club music - Killer and Got To Have Your Love are good examples tracks that fall between that category.

Also, loved this at the time, and still like it--probably my favorite PTV acid house song, in this particular mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uh8my4a1Bc

I would place 1990 #2 behind 1972 as all time years

btw Wicked Game was on the 1991 year-end chart

"It Must Have Been Love" is a terrific pop ballad.

Agreed. I think I appreciate it more now than I did in 1990.

that year:

Meat Beat Manifesto released 99%
TKK released Confessions of a Knife
Nitzer Ebb released Showtime
KMFDM released Naive
Skinny Puppy released Too Dark Park
Renegade Soundwave released In Dub
Severed Heads released "Big Car" (remix)

"Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" >>> "It Must Have Been Love"

would cite "Dangerous" for a Roxette hit from 1990.

oh hell no, "Dangerous" is terribad

(also apparently 1989)

xpost: Wicked Game peaked chartwise in 1990. (UK ahead of US again?)

Cheeseball good songs from 1990:

Deeelite, "Groove Is in the Heart"
They Might Be Giants, "Istanbul" and "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
Suzanne Vega & DNA Remix, "Tom's Diner"

Suzanne Vega & DNA Remix, "Tom's Diner"

Maybe the most 1990 song possible.

oh hell no, "Dangerous" is terribad

GET OUTTA MY WAY GET OUTTA MY LIFE

It peaked at #2 in early '90 though.

Roxette's gr. hits collection Don't Bore Us...Get To The Chorus is about one half brilliant.

PUMP up the jam
PUMP up the jam
PUMP up the jam
pump it pump it pump it

89

oh hell no, "Dangerous" is terribad

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:46 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DAN I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE ANYMORE

<3 that song

Totally forgot... the Sundays, "Here's Where the Story Ends"

A little souvenir of a terrible year.

(Had "It Must Have Been Love" stuck in my head off and on today at work, so I'm kind of annoyed with it again, though I still think it's "objectively" good.)

some pseudo hits from 1990 i still have fond memories for:

M.C. Sar & the Real Mc Coy - It's on You
Propaganda - Heaven Give Me Words
The Beloved - I Love You more
Inspiral Carpets - Biggest Mountain
Atahualpa - Ultimo Imperio
Guru Josh - Infinity
The Grid - Floatation
Enigma - Sadeness Part I
Concrete Blonde - Joey
Kid Frost - La Raza

Oh fuck, Joey was 1990? That's my 1990 jam right there, then.

Kid Frost - La Raza

my favorite racist song

Mazzy Star - halah

The Beloved - 'Hello' is a very 1990 song.

I also enjoyed...

Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children - Queen Latifah & De La Soul
Imperfect List - Big Hard Excellent Fish
Generations Of Love - Jesus Loves You
Raise (39 Steps To Heaven) - Bocca Juniors
Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning - Cowboy Junkies
Discover Me - Alisha Warren
Get Yourself Together - Young Disciples
Jazz Thing - Gang Starr
Roam - The B52's
And I Loved You - Satoshi Tomiie ft Arnold Jarvis
Can't Stop Loving You - Richard Rogers
Independent Woman - Roxanne Shante
Reach Up To Mars - Earth People
Right Here Right Now - Western Block
The Masterplan - Diana Brown & Barrie K Sharpe
Helping Hand - Arthur Miles
Make It Mine - The Shamen
Solid Gold - Ashley & Jackson
I Don't Even Know If I Should Call You Baby - Soul Family Sensation
Sweat - Jay Williams
Psyko Funk - Boo-yaa T.R.I.B.E.
Heaven Knows - Lalah Hathaway

Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children - Queen Latifah & De La Soul

Forgot about this - everything about it, the title, the video with its lurid superimposed colour scheme, the whole steez is early '90s encapsulated.

"Groove Is In The Heart" VS "Kinky Afro"

wait a second, did "Pro-Gen" come out this year too????????

Some great choices but this was my favourite back in the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHI01U4LwPA&hd=1

xpost -- I think?

Yup, according to this, both "Pro-Gen" and En-Tact came out in 1990.

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

jesus christ, no wonder I loved music so much then, it was all amazing

A Kim Deal two-fer of covers:

Pixies, "Head On"
Breeders, "Happiness is a Warm Gun"

oh whoops... the Pixies version was '91. Still a good song, though.

also love the noisy EP that Pavement put out that year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV6LPx1ezYs

This still haunts me

Garth Brooks- Friends in Low Places
Dinosaur Jr.- The Wagon
The Church- Metropolis
The Orb- Little Fluffy Clouds
Gangstarr- Just to Get a Rep
Social Distortion- Ball & Chain
Alannah Myles- Black Velvet
Mudhoney- You Make Me Die
Beat Happening- Red Head Walking
Replacements- Merry Go Round

The Cure - Harold and Joe

I am as corny indie as they come and so it's remarkable to me that "Groove Is In The Heart" and "Everybody Everybody" stand so far above the rest for me, competing only with "Here's Where The Story Ends."

But yeah, this thread is an unrelenting wave of "Wait, THAT TOO?"

I'll mention "You Are Loved" by Blue Aeroplanes, which I really, really like, but which probably wouldn't crack my top 10 of songs mentioned here.

Swagger was a good record!

i'm workinnnnnnnnnnnn
but i'm not workin 4 u

:) Slack Motherfucker came out in 1990? Huh. I would have probably guessed a couple years later if asked. Such a great song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_1990_(U.S.)

I think I spent more time listening to the radio in 1990 than in any other year. I love all these tracks, might have to make a CD-R or Youtube playlist or something.

there are some better songs but i never heard kyper's "tic-tac-toe" until very recently so i just want to give it a shout out

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_one_modern_rock_hits_of_1990

Oooh... forgot "Metropolis" by the Church, but I think someone mentioned that above. Great track.

thank providence for this thread -- i am scanning photos from a 1990 yearbook, and this is just the soundtrack i need to figure out which pictures are the best.

Metropolis is one of my very favorites. That's why I piped up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVJ7KQPoNMM