US #1s of 1992

jump jump jump jump!

"Jump" edging "Last." Leafing through my Billboard Top 40 book, I see a few other Top Fives that I liked as much as the chart-toppers: "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover," "If You Asked Me To," "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "My Loving (Never Gonna Get It)."

Baby Got Back just ahead of Jump - the only two songs i could really sit through now on this list, and only because they make me smile.

in primary school i tortured people with long and repeated off key renditions of End of the Road

"Jump" is fucking dope! That beat is unstoppable and there are so many great little vocal moments where once you know them you can't wait for them to come around so you can sing along. Does this count as G-Funk, with that weird squiggly thing under the chorus?

"Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover," >>>> most of the number 1 list

Yes.

Wow, blockbuster year for R&B power ballads and hip-hop novelty songs. My mind is kind of blown that all those songs actually came out in the same year, the year of my bar mitzvah, no less.

"This Used to Be My Playground" has me wondering: what was the first music video to feature clips of the movie it was cross-promoting?

― abanana, Sunday, October 26, 2008 9:24 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

I Will Always Love You also did that.

I know it was waaaaay before those two, because the Ghostbusters theme song video did that.

Haha, it would be really weird if Ray Parker Jr. did a totally non-movie-based video for that.

am i seriously the only person voting for Right Said Fred?

Sir Mix-a-Lot has no competition whatsoever.

am i seriously the only person voting for Right Said Fred?

I like the RSF song still. I used to only like the beat sans elmer fudd, but the whole thing has grown on me since.

Does this count as G-Funk, with that weird squiggly thing under the chorus?

Ohio Players "The Worm" was the sample. Dre used it first in Dopeman back in 1987, kinda making the sample a semi-standard, but you know, Jump was more in the vein of Naughty By Nature overall...

Yeah, G-Funk did grow out of Dre's use of the Worm though (maybe building from Appetite For Destruction from EFIL4ZAGGIN in 1991, shortly before he was commisioned to contribute to the Deep Cover sdtk in 1992).

Too Sexy was fine but it ain't no Jump for real.

Lol @ Mr. Big trying to be Extreme. And sort of succeeding I guess, considering they had a #1.

"Just to be the next to be with you" is kind of a gross lyric, when you think about it.

Sheela na gig - P.J. Harvey
Summer babe - Pavement

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System otm

bunch of shit

"I'm Too Sexy"

i LOVE i'll be there

her voice on it, it's the perfect example of how mariah used her falsetto early on. not just a manifestation of her age.

i used to love that mtv unplugged.

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

great results!

Well knock me down with a feather.

it was a great year. can't remember what i voted for in the end but it could've been any of at least 5 of those and i'd be happy. 'this used to be my playground' is one of my favourite madonna ballads, i loved her "white sade" phase.

also i remember having an argument w/this girl in primary school about the spelling of kris kross, which i won by bringing in a copy of smash hits the next day. unfortch, rev, you got it wrong too :(

I noticed that after I posted and didn't care enough to correct myself because I mistakenly assumed no one would be pedantic enough to bring it up.

But this is ILX, and so I digress.

I mistakenly assumed no one would be pedantic enough to bring it up.

shit should be an option in prefernces

prefernces

damn, i haven't had that much to drink tonight...

i loooved 'save the best for last' at the time. 10-year-old me would have picked the ballads, which all sound pretty good in my head atm. somehow i never really heard 'jump' or any of that hippity hop. i don't remember the heights at all.

I think it was on after 90210.

yeah, good results--top two def rock! (tho i can't remember a damn thing about the Vanessa Williams single).

x-post - i pretty much wasn't allowed to watch pop tv but that didn't keep me from tuning in to kasey kasem! i'm pretty sure i made a tape w/ mr. big, vanessa, boyz ii men, madonna, whitney at some point. maybe with m.j. remeber the time and that bryan adams song from the robin hood movie whatever that was, the song was 'all for love'. i was out on the roof of a bad-ass plywood fort with my cousin listening to the radio when i put my finger on 'all for love' and now it's all of 'america' by john fahey as the thing that will save all of us. 'all for love' sounds ok now, but i remember a guitar solo that lasted forever. no solo in that song now.

cool reverb though. and all for love.

Comparing these to the 1981 poll makes one wonder at which point exactly American top 40 radio started to suck. Clearly it was at some point between 1981 and 1992.

I'd study the 1985 list closely.

Yeah, I think it was around then.

I, personally, blame hair-metal. I used to love everything on the radio until Poison showed up (although in fairness, had it not been for the hair-metal explosion, I wouldn't have been driven towards discovering The Cure, New Order, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Ministry or My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult).

The top tens of 1992!

Are we sure the switch to Soundscan was a game changer? This list sounds very similar to last year’s.

Fewer #1s. You'll see the true effects next year -- the number of top tens steeply drops.

The #1s, and I love Vanessa Williams + Kriss Kross.

^ That links to "The malignancy of George W. Bush" - should we read that first?

#DubyaBushInterzone

lol

here.

This list might as well be called "The malignancy of George H.W. Bush."

Read my lips: I like big butts

It's telling that a good seven or eight of Alfred's picks teeter on the brink between one-hit wonder and outright novelty song. More, if you include high-concept one-offs like "How Do You Talk to an Angel."

Did Boyz II Men release nothing but ballads after "Motown Philly"?

bunch of shit

"I'm Too Sexy"

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 14:09

:)