what is the best song from 1990???

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

urban dance squad's "deeper shade of soul" kinda ruled my 1990

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."

considering that amerikkka's most wanted came out this year, there's no question to me about the best 10 or so songs

"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.

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

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"

90% of my mixes for friends include Blake Babies "Girl In A Box" and Babes In Toyland "Pain In My Heart" ... both from 1990

still?

"out there" was my favorite blake babies song

my favorite is probably Disappearer by Sonic Youth

I'll second Paul Simon- Obvious Child

xp, yeah still haha

Man, 1990 hot 100 a mix of some of the best songs ever and some of the worst songs ever.

but a lot of the bad ones are funny at least

Silver lining!

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.

after Janet Jackson's "Escapade."

my additional nominations

ride - vapour trail
fugazi - merchandise
galaxie 500 - summertime
replacements - nobody
superchunk - slack motherfucker

Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work It Out, Welcome To The Terrordome

Sisters of Mercy, "More"? Kinda goofy but catchy

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.

as long as Calloway's "I Wanna Be Rich" isn't on that list.

here check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1990