I totally remember the Erasure song, cos my bro bought the cassingle, as he did with every song like that during taht summer.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
the Erasure song was a A Big Deal in my circles at the time because nauseating British synth pop duos, to use Neil Tennant's phrase, weren't charting in America in 1994.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
I admit some of my affection for "Stay" stems from the fact that my college radio deejay name was Shakespeare's Sister.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
also remember that Immature song but I hated it and still do.
Amy Grant song reminds me of being depressed in 5th grade over a school assignment I failed and was hiding from my parents. love the song though.
"Release Me" reminds me of getting bullied at summer camp. still love it anyway.
Surface "The First Time" is cheesy but I love it.
Tommy Page just reminds me of teh episode of Full House he was on.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
I had an unspoken crush on Tommy Page and was pleasantly surprised to learn he was gay. Then he killed himself :/
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
anyway, I'm listening to Shakespeare's Sister Hormonally Yours and holy shit it's a pleasant surprise. Alan Moulder co-produced!
Jeremy Jordan - The Right Kind Of Love
... oh that Jeremy Jordan!
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
whoa xxpost to Alfred
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
that Jeremy Jordan looked like a young porn star too
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Oh man, there's even a third one? Bet you can't tell the, ahem, non-singer here:
https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/jeremy-jordan-singer/pictures/large/images-of-jeremy-jordan-singer.jpg
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
What "Right Kind of Love" Jeremy Jordan looks like at 38:
https://i2.wp.com/npcdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/palpatine.jpg?fit=780%2C405&ssl=1
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 July 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
wild that "If" is on the list. the Kaytranada remix of it has been about as reliable and frequently played club record as I've heard in the past decade. I just assumed it was durably popular in general, especially with the surge of attention Janet has gotten in the past few years.
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Friday, 24 July 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
i'll be shocked if the Scharpling & Wurster "Gas Station Dogs" isn't inspired by that Meat Loaf track
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 24 July 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
the only thing that jumps out at me in the lists is how much i really despise the entire least-lost list except maybe freedom 90. i exempt queen because fuck, it was never lost, nor was it not-lost, ever.
― retail rage is for suckers (Hunt3r), Friday, 24 July 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
the Haddaway was great until SNL ruined it
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 July 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
"Free Fallin'", "Livin' on the Edge", "Hey Jealousy" classics in their way.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Friday, 24 July 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
well Hey Jealousy at least
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 July 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
I'm surprised to see "Freedom! '90" listed among songs that had weak chart performance in their day(?) According to ye olde wikipeadia, the single
was a major success on the US Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 8 and selling over 500,000 copies to earn a Gold certification from the RIAA. It remained in the Billboard top 40 for 12 weeks in late 1990 and early 1991.
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
people angry that it wasn't the same as Wham's "Freedom"?
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
"Deeper and Deeper" is easily one of Madonna's best
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
dear god that Glenn Medeiros is DIRE
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
I kinda love that this odd little segue/obscurity...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sbpnz-nNVU
resulted in this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_Y740aReI
but also this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYLCA282Rfo
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Friday, July 24, 2020
I heard it at Whole Foods on Wednesday!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 July 2020 09:39 (three years ago) link
I'm surprised to see "Freedom! '90" listed among songs that had weak chart performance in their day(?)
i think they just mean that statistically, "freedom! '90" is played on radio these days way more than typical for a song that peaked at #8 etc.
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 10:20 (three years ago) link
"Freedom '90" has never gone away. During normal times it was a karaoke favorite.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 July 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
for others, that is, which was a pleasure for me.
I don't feel like I heard it at all between the 90s & GM's death.
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Saturday, 25 July 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
heard it at karaoke on occasion, maybe occasionally on muzak somewhere.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 July 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
Two songs called 'Stay' here and I reckon there would be another in late 90s list.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, July 23, 2020 6:01 AM (three days ago)
are you referring to lisa loeb's "stay"? tho i personally often mistake it for a late(r) '90s hit, it was actually a hit in '94 and would have been eligible for this list -- i hear it reasonably often, so am not surprised to see it absent
i enjoy the one by shakespear's sister and would welcome radio playing it more, not that it's likely to
erasure "always" being on this list... yer tellin me that inclusion on robot unicorn attack wasn't enough to secure all-time hit status? :(
― dyl, Sunday, 26 July 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
The Hammer, Vanilla Ice, and Marky Mark tracks all rely way too heavily on their samples to get by. (I also remember all of them from elementary school.) And I mean they rely more heavily on their samples than other obvious samples in other popular songs. Like, the title is the same as the original song. But I also used to get annoyed by the Puff Daddy track that sampled the entire musical backing (and melodic hook) of "Every Breath You Take" by the Police.
I voted for the Meat Loaf song that I didn't even know was released as a single.
― King SunnO))) Adé (Tom Violence), Sunday, 26 July 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
are you referring to lisa loeb's "stay"? tho i personally often mistake it for a late(r) '90s hitDo you mistake it for Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn”? Because I do.
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Sunday, 26 July 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
i never directly confuse them but the similarity is prob why i tend to get the general timeframe wrong
― dyl, Sunday, 26 July 2020 20:41 (three years ago) link
― King SunnO))) Adé (Tom Violence), Sunday, July 26, 2020 4:34 PM bookmarkflaglink
yeah when I was 11, while I was a fan of Hammer's "delivery", the beat was more my thing and I obviously didn't know who Rick James was at the time.
"Have You Seen Her?" much the same. one time when I was a kid the Chi-Lites song came on the radio and I said "wow dad how do u know Hammer lyrics" until I heard no rapping moments later.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Sunday, 26 July 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Shakespeare's Sister's "Stay" was played like hell that summer, then vanished, and it's still the only post-Eurythmics thing by Dave Stewart I like.― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 23, 2020 6:54 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 23, 2020 6:54 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
anyway, I'm listening to Shakespeare's Sister Hormonally Yours and holy shit it's a pleasant surprise. Alan Moulder co-produced!― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 23, 2020 7:11 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, July 23, 2020 7:11 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
At the age of 12 (1992) I was completely obsessed by this album, I listened to the cassette twice a night for I think about a year, it's almost certainly the album I have heard the most in my life, and yes, it still seems to basically bear up. I could not believe that Goodbye Cruel World and I Don't Care weren't big hits too.
I know Dave Stewart had a co-writing credit on 'Stay' but suspect that he didn't really have that much of a hand in it.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 26 July 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 30 July 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Over the past week I listened to every song on this list. Man there were a lot of boring power ballads on the charts in the early ‘90s. I’m voting for “Deeper and Deeper”, since “Justified and Ancient” didn’t make the top 50.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 30 July 2020 08:47 (three years ago) link
SO many great tunes on this, but the real answer is:
34. Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
Hmm. As opposed to that other wacky poll, there are only 15 of these I know by title. I'll have to go through and see how many I still don't know after I listen to them.
There's a tight through line between Dave Stewart, Alan Moulder and the Curve principals. For that matter, looks like Stewart was married to Siobhan Fahey from Shakespeare's Sister, so whoot, there that is, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
"If" is the best one here imo
― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 31 July 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
pleasing grouping of Madonna and George Michael tracks
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 31 July 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
I like “Deeper and Deeper” but “Daddy couldn’t be all wrong / And my mama made me learn this song” is a really cringey lyric, especially for a chorus.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 31 July 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
A bridge tho, right?
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 31 July 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
thank you to the ppl who voted for "looking through patient eyes" which would have been my second choice behind "justify my love"
― dyl, Friday, 31 July 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
I figure the bridge would be “Someone said that romance was dead...” (x-post)
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 31 July 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link