top 50 "lost" US hits of the early '90s

i never directly confuse them but the similarity is prob why i tend to get the general timeframe wrong

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, 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.

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

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

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.

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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.

SO many great tunes on this, but the real answer is:

34. Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat

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.

"If" is the best one here imo

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pleasing grouping of Madonna and George Michael tracks

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.

A bridge tho, right?

thank you to the ppl who voted for "looking through patient eyes" which would have been my second choice behind "justify my love"

I figure the bridge would be “Someone said that romance was dead...” (x-post)