what is the best song from 1990???

I always figured "So Close" by Hall & Oates was a higher charting song but it's not in that hot 100 list.

it hit #11 (their last top 40 hit) and my local radio station played it a lot into 1991.

(the version I prefer beefed up up by Jon Bon Jovi, of course)

Happy Mondays "Step On"
Mother Love Bone "Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns"
Guns N Roses "Civil War" (i forget why this is technically 1990)
LL Cool J "Around The way Girl" (this was on the radio a lot more in '91 but album version is '90)
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Show Me Your Soul" (pretty woman soundtrack)
Don Henley "The Heart Of The Matter" (guilty pleasure)
Technotronic "Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)"

the don henley song has a mike campbell co-write credit like "the boys of summer" so no big deal

not a bad song but I prefer "The Last Worthless Evening"

man "Step On" and "Loose Fit" briefly changed my life, loved those songs so much

did Tyler Collins' "Girls Night Out" change your life too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiF6l-LCLm8

did Tyler Collins' "Girls Night Out" change your life too?

I had never heard "Girls Night Out" before this very moment

did it change your life?

well, I'm now listening to the entirety of College Dropout for the first time in years so... maybe?

Nirvana / Sliver/Dive - SP073. Released: September 1, 1990

"Holy Wars" and "Seasons In The Abyss" are pretty outstanding.

Pixies "Velouria"
Teenage fanclub "Everything Flows"
Dino Jr "The Wagon"

also "Blowin It"/"I Live For That Look"

But I might personally have to go with "Dust Cake Boy" from Babes in Toyland Spanking Machine.

Blur "She's So High" !!

Whitney Houston "I'm Your Baby Tonight"

Londonbeat "I've Been Thinking About You" would be my favorite guilty pleasure from this year (didn't chart in US until 1991 though)

Officially released in fall of 1990 although didn't hit it big til next year... "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains. The rest of the album isn't great but "Dirt" and "Jar of Flies" are.

yeah sometimes I put "Man In A Box" after "Girl In A Box" on 1990 related mix things

too bad "Living in a Box" wasn't 1990

'Roam' by The B-52s. Still sounds very fresh to my ears now.

...and "Deadbeat Club"

Probably "Little Fluffy Clouds" or "Humpty Dance".

Welcome To The Terrordome

the single came out summer '89

Oh man 'I've been thinking about you' is so rad!

xp Really? Weird, I remember it coming out in early '90. Richard Roeper (of Ebert & Roeper "fame") wrote a column in the Chicago Sun-Times where he excoriated PE for (I shit you not) their "bad grammar" on that song.

you're right--i was thinking about "fight the Power"

The top tens of 1990, ranked.

For once, I agree almost completely. On the money.

Then I saw that BBD Poison is listed as meh, and realized that this is a list from some alternate universe that is almost exactly like ours except for 1 detail.

Leaden sexism. Didn't even need it then, not when his New Edition bros released comparable hits and BBD wrote and produced Another Bad Creation and the first Boyz II Men album.

watching the video for Nothing Compares to U again I am embarrassed but also really moved

Groove Is in the Heart and Vogue also still seem really great in retrospect

"in retrospect"

lol, I also liked them at the time! :)

just thinking about it as history

can you take me
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH ENUFFFF

so “Kool Thing”, “Welcome to the Terrordome”, and “911 Is a Joke” were not part of the Billboard top singles that year

settle for "Knockin' Boots"

lol

"Kool Thing" is one of my favorite songs of all time, don't care about billboard, would have to vote for it as best song of 1990

not only was I unsurprisingly annoying in this thread but I never once mentioned "Mama Said Knock You Out."