The Beloved - 'Hello' is a very 1990 song.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 26 July 2012 08:16 (eleven years ago) link
I also enjoyed...
Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children - Queen Latifah & De La SoulImperfect List - Big Hard Excellent FishGenerations Of Love - Jesus Loves YouRaise (39 Steps To Heaven) - Bocca JuniorsSun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning - Cowboy JunkiesDiscover Me - Alisha WarrenGet Yourself Together - Young DisciplesJazz Thing - Gang StarrRoam - The B52'sAnd I Loved You - Satoshi Tomiie ft Arnold JarvisCan't Stop Loving You - Richard RogersIndependent Woman - Roxanne ShanteReach Up To Mars - Earth PeopleRight Here Right Now - Western BlockThe Masterplan - Diana Brown & Barrie K SharpeHelping Hand - Arthur MilesMake It Mine - The ShamenSolid Gold - Ashley & JacksonI Don't Even Know If I Should Call You Baby - Soul Family SensationSweat - Jay WilliamsPsyko Funk - Boo-yaa T.R.I.B.E.Heaven Knows - Lalah Hathaway
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 26 July 2012 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 26 July 2012 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
"Groove Is In The Heart" VS "Kinky Afro"
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 26 July 2012 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
wait a second, did "Pro-Gen" come out this year too????????
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
Some great choices but this was my favourite back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHI01U4LwPA&hd=1
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
xpost -- I think?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yup, according to this, both "Pro-Gen" and En-Tact came out in 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shamen_discography
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
jesus christ, no wonder I loved music so much then, it was all amazing
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
A Kim Deal two-fer of covers:
Pixies, "Head On"Breeders, "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
oh whoops... the Pixies version was '91. Still a good song, though.
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
also love the noisy EP that Pavement put out that year.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV6LPx1ezYs
This still haunts me
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
Garth Brooks- Friends in Low PlacesDinosaur Jr.- The WagonThe Church- MetropolisThe Orb- Little Fluffy CloudsGangstarr- Just to Get a RepSocial Distortion- Ball & ChainAlannah Myles- Black VelvetMudhoney- You Make Me DieBeat Happening- Red Head WalkingReplacements- Merry Go Round
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
The Cure - Harold and Joe
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 27 July 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 27 July 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
Swagger was a good record!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 July 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
i'm workinnnnnnnnnnnnbut i'm not workin 4 u
― Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Friday, 27 July 2012 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
:) Slack Motherfucker came out in 1990? Huh. I would have probably guessed a couple years later if asked. Such a great song.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 27 July 2012 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_1990_(U.S.)
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 July 2012 11:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 27 July 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Friday, 27 July 2012 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― LimbsKing, Friday, 27 July 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 27 July 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
Metropolis is one of my very favorites. That's why I piped up.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 27 July 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVJ7KQPoNMM
― phuturephase, Friday, 27 July 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
urban dance squad's "deeper shade of soul" kinda ruled my 1990
― bb, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
I love this year so hard.. I wish I could count nirvana "In Bloom" for this.. it was on a sub pop VHS that came out in 1990..
if that doesn't count I'll have to go with "poison."
― billstevejim, Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
considering that amerikkka's most wanted came out this year, there's no question to me about the best 10 or so songs
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 28 July 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
"jealousy" by pet shop boys another one i loved at the time. i mean i still love just don't hear it like i heard it then. i had to check to make sure it was 1990 and it was one of those cases where the album came out in 1990 but the single (which was different than the album version) came out in 1991. i think i've got that straight. come to think of it, "so hard" and "being boring" would be on any 1990 list i made.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 July 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
billboard top 100 r&b songs is fun to look at. so is the top albums list. a pre-grunge world. a simpler time...
http://www.billboard.com/#/charts-year-end/hot-r-b-hip-hop-songs?year=1990
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 July 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
A few more contenders:That Petrol Emotion, "Hey Venus"Extreme, "More Than Words"Jeff Lynne, "Every Little Thing"Living Colour, "Love Rears its Ugly Head"Queensryche, "Silent Lucidity"Babes in Toyland, "He's My Thing"Seal, "Crazy"Salt-n-Pepa, "Expression"Carlene Carter, "I Fell In Love"Alice in Chains, "Man in the Box"
― Citizen, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
90% of my mixes for friends include Blake Babies "Girl In A Box" and Babes In Toyland "Pain In My Heart" ... both from 1990
― billstevejim, Monday, 30 July 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
still?
"out there" was my favorite blake babies song
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 30 July 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite is probably Disappearer by Sonic Youth
― seapluspluspunk (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 30 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'll second Paul Simon- Obvious Child
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
xp, yeah still haha
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
Man, 1990 hot 100 a mix of some of the best songs ever and some of the worst songs ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
but a lot of the bad ones are funny at least
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
Silver lining!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
As Ned mentioned earlier, My Bloody Valentine's "Soon" is the best song ever recorded, and so it's definitely the best thing to come out in 1990.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
after Janet Jackson's "Escapade."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
my additional nominations
ride - vapour trailfugazi - merchandisegalaxie 500 - summertimereplacements - nobodysuperchunk - slack motherfucker
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 August 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work It Out, Welcome To The Terrordome
― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 August 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Sisters of Mercy, "More"? Kinda goofy but catchy
― LimbsKing, Friday, 3 August 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
I wish there was a radio format that only played pop music from 1989 to 1991.. i have a spotify playlist for this but radio is more unpredictable.
― billstevejim, Friday, 3 August 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
as long as Calloway's "I Wanna Be Rich" isn't on that list.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
here check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1990
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
90 "This One's for the Children" New Kids on the Block
what the hell song is this
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
would you like me to hum it for you
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link