what is the best song from 1990???

i always think my favorite song from 1990 is "vision of love" but then i remember "groove is in the heart" and "nothing compares 2 u". damn. too hard to choose. its possible that VOL is my fave song of 1990 and NC2U is the BEST song of 1990 and GIITH is the funnest song played on the radio in 1990. or maybe ever. its possible for fave and best to be different. i mean NC2U is like a monolith of greatness. its perfection. VOL just hits me in the right way every single time i hear it. i just listened to it five times in a row in my store really really loud and it never gets old for me. don't know why! i don't even really care about the rest of mariah's debut album. there are some boring songs on that album.

all three of those songs are juggernauts

"groove is in the heart" cuz it made every girl in my junior high school wear pucci pants for the next year.

The time
Was 6 o'clock
On this Swatch watch
No time to chill
Got a date
Can't be late
Hey

See also: "All Around The World", "The Power", "Don't Wanna Fall In Love", et al. Monumental pop year.

"Rhythm Nation", "Cruising For Bruising", "Turtle Power".

"Buffalo Stance"? "Bust A Move"? "Good Life"? Something by Warrant or Will To Power?

Never cared for Deee-Lite myself.

Maybe my favorite song (def top ten) is from '90: "Here's Where The Story Ends".

Thunderstruck
Freedom 90

why do i remember buffalo stance being earlier than 1990? chuck's three are good though. even if he's crazy for not loving groove is in the heart.

Because it was released in 1988

Actually, all three of the songs I listed were 1989! ("Buffalo Stance" charted 4-'89 in the States; album came out a month later.) I was looking at the wrong Pazz & Jop year, oops.

1990 is harder! I kind of hate that P&J list, now that I look at it. Would probably go with "The Power" (which Old Lunch already mentioned above -- I like both versions a lot.)

"love will never do (without you)" -- it's fresh on the brain since i just watched the video at a herb ritts retrospective.

"groove is in the heart" was brilliant but what about "it must have been love"

Others:

Soho - Hippychick
Madonna - Keep It Together & Vogue
Public Enemy - 911 is a Joke
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
Michael Penn - No Myth

and every Janet Jackson single.

man 1990 was a monster year

also not mentioned yet:

Bel Biv Devoe - "Poison"
Depeche Mode - "Enjoy The Silence"
Digital Underground - "The Humpty Dance"
Jane's Addiction - "Stop!"
They Might Be Giants - "Birdhouse In Your Soul"

oh shit forgot maxi priest, "close to you"

sometimes that song still comes from out of nowhere and sticks in my brain

Ralph Tresvant - Sensitiviy
Johnny Gill - Rub You The Right Way

Annnnnd...

My Bloody Valentine, "Soon"

So yes, monster year.

The House of Love's "I Don't Know Why I Love You" was apparently a single in 1989, but it was included on their 1990 album (where I heard it). I'm still all over that song even now. I DO know why I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vsLcNJdF9k

don't forget "Sweetness and Light" and "De-Luxe" by Lush (although I don't think "De-Luxe" made a true impact until '91)

Reading, Writing and Arithmetic came out in 1990, so all those songs.

^^^

Would vote for "The Emperor's New Clothes" possibly even over NC2U.

Cradle of Love anyone??

And Tic Tac Toe vs Mentirosa would make a natural poll (although Mentirosa would crush it I hope)

Pumping on Steel > Cradle of Love

(that's probably just imho, though)

"tic tac toe" >>>>>>>>>>>> "mentirosa"

1. "Any Other Way," Posies
2. "Getting Away with It," Electronic
3. "The Emperor's New Clothes," Sinead O'Connor
4. "Charles," Scrawl
5. "Over and Over," Neil Young & Crazy Horse
6. "Bonita Applebum," Tribe Called Quest
7. "Nothing Has Been Proved," Strings of Love
8. "Slack Motherfucker," Superchunk
9. "Ah, And We Do It Like This," Onyx
10. "Twenty-Five More," Love Positions
11. "Netherlands," Chris Twinning
12. "Missing You," Ammonites

"Any Other Way" might be my favorite song released in 1990 too, actually

mote - sonic youth
velouria - pixies
queen elvis - robyn hitchcock
song #1 - fugazi
falling - angelo badalamenti & julee cruise

^ buncha indie-type shit, but was a good year for that

Great year. Mine would be Being Boring, Enjoy the Silence or Only Love Can Break Your Heart. 1990 Spotify playlist here:

http://spoti.fi/M8jkrr

More 1990 goodness:

rhythm of life - oleta adams
wicked game - chris isaak
so special - blaze
since day one - teena marie
i'll be good to you - quincy jones / ray charles / chaka khan
glad you're in my life - shabazz
what about this love - mr. fingers
hold on - en vogue
wash your face in my sink - dream warriors
don't be a fool - loose ends
falling - julee cruise

Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (DNA mix)
Black Box - Everybody Everybody
M.C. Hammer - U Can't Touch This
Teenage Fanclub - God Knows It's True
L.L. Cool J. - Mama Said Knock You Out
Bell Biv Devoe - Poison
Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Pet Shop Boys - So Hard

cappella - helyom halib

Daniel Johnston- Some Things Last a Long Time
Paris- The Devil Made Me Do It
Paul Simon- Obvious Child
LL- Mama Said Knock You Out
BDP- Love's Gonna Getcha
Eno & Cale- Lay My Love
Teenage Fanclub- Everything Flows

Lloyd Cole - Baby It's Tonight
Pebbles - Giving You The Benefit
Betty Boo - Doin' the Doo
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum

com on people...

Heavenly Pop Hit- The Chills

and that one

9. "Ah, And We Do It Like This," Onyx

Ok, Clemenza wins.

Unless the answer is "Ice Ice Baby."

pal joey - party time

this definitely makes my top ten for that year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OkoQv9Onoc

Helyom Halib was early 89.

billboard year-end hot 100 chart:

1 . Hold On, Wilson Phillips [Amazon MP3]
2. It Must Have Been Love, Roxette [Amazon MP3]
3. Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor [Amazon MP3]
4. Poison, Bell Biv Devoe [Amazon MP3]
5. Vogue, Madonna [Amazon MP3]
6. Vision of Love, Mariah Carey [Amazon MP3]
7. Another Day In Paradise, Phil Collins [Amazon MP3]
8. Hold On, En Vogue [Amazon MP3]
9. Cradle of Love, Billy Idol [Amazon MP3]
10. Blaze of Glory, Jon Bon Jovi [Amazon MP3]
11. Do Me!, Bell Biv Devoe [Amazon MP3]
12. How Am I Supposed to Live Without You, Michael Bolton [Amazon MP3]
13. Pump Up the Jam, Technotronic [Amazon MP3]
14. Opposites Attract, Paula Abdul [Amazon MP3]
15. Escapade, Janet Jackson [Amazon MP3]
16. All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You, Heart [Amazon MP3]
17. Close to You, Maxi Priest [Amazon MP3]
18. Black Velvet, Alannah Myles [Amazon MP3]
19. Release Me, Wilson Phillips [Amazon MP3]
20. Don't Know Much, Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville [Amazon MP3]
21. All Around the World, Lisa Stansfield
22. I Wanna Be Rich, Calloway
23. Rub You the Right Way, Johnny Gill
24. She Ain't Worth It, Glenn Medeiros Featuring Bobby Brown
25. If Wishes Came True, Sweet Sensation
26. The Power, Snap
27. (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection, Nelson
28. Love Will Lead You Back, Taylor Dayne
29. Don't Wanna Fall In Love, Jane Child
30. Two to Make It Right, Seduction
31. Sending All My Love, Linear
32. Unskinny Bop, Poison
33. Step By Step, New Kids On The Block
34. Dangerous, Roxette
35. We Didn't Start the Fire, Billy Joel
36. I Don't Have the Heart, James Ingram
37. Downtown Train, Rod Stewart
38. Rhythm Nation, Janet Jackson
39. I'll Be Your Everything, Tommy Page
40. Roam, The B-52's
41. Everything, Jody Watley
42. Back to Life, Soul II Soul
43. Here and Now, Luther Vandross
44. Alright, Janet Jackson
45. Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice
46. Blame It On The Rain, Milli Vanilli
47. Have You Seen Her, M.C. Hammer
48. With Every Beat of My Heart, Taylor Dayne
49. Come Back to Me, Janet Jackson
50. No More Lies, Michel'le
51. Praying for Time, George Michael
52. How Can We Be Lovers, Michael Bolton
53. Do You Remember, Phil Collins
54. Ready or Not, After 7
55. U Can't Touch This, M.C. Hammer
56. I Wish It Would Rain Down, Phil Collins
57. Just Between You and Me, Lou Gramm
58. Something Happened On the Way to Heaven, Phil Collins
59. Black Cat, Janet Jackson
60. Can't Stop, After 7
61. Janie's Got a Gun, Aerosmith
62. The Humpty Dance, Digital Underground
63. I'll Be Your Shelter, Taylor Dayne
64. Free Fallin', Tom Petty
65. Giving You the Benefit, Pebbles
66. Enjoy the Silence, Depeche Mode
67. Love In Vain, Tesla
68. Price of Love, Bad English
69. Girls Nite Out, Tyler Collins
70. The King of Wishful Thinking, Go West
71. What Kind of Man Would I Be?, Chicago
72. I Remember You, Skid Row
73. Get Up! (Before the Night Is Over), Technotroic
74. Here We Are, Gloria Estefan
75. Epic, Faith No More
76. Love Takes Time, Mariah Carey
77. Just Like Jesse James, Cher
78. Love Shack, The B-52's
79. All Or Nothing, Milli Vanilli
80. Romeo, Dino
81. Everybody Everybody, Black Box
82. I Go to Extremes, Billy Joel
83. Whip Appeal, Babyface
84. Oh Girl, Paul Young
85. C'mon and Get My Love, D-Mob With Cathy Dennis
85. (It's Just) The Way That You Love Me, Paula Abdul
87. We Can't Go Wrong, Cover Girls
88. When I'm Back On My Feet Again, Michael Bolton
89. Make You Sweat, Keith Sweat
90. This One's for the Children, New Kids On The Block
91. What It Takes, Aerosmith
92. Forever, Kiss
93. Jerk Out, The Time
94. Just a Friend, Biz Markie
95. Whole Wide World, A'me Lorain
96. Without You, Motley Crue
97. Swing the Mood, Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers
98. Thieves In the Temple, Prince
99. Mentirosa, Mellow Man Ace
100. Tic-Tac-Toe, Kyper

"hold on" really did kinda rule that year. it was everywhere. i felt like i heard it once a day.

er wilson phillips hold on. though en vogue ruled my world.

I guess "Groove Is in the Heart" hit in '91 ?

not here: top five in the fall

The Adventures of Stevie V would make my top twenty fer sure

it peaked on the charts in 1990 but late enough in the year that it was only on the year-end Hot 100 for '91

I'd never heard the Onyx song till xhuxk posted it on Facebook sometime last year, so he gets credit for that one; knowing only their later hit, I was majorly surprised by how lyrical it is. Vagaries of the calender: add "Roam" to my list--the album's '89, but yes, '90 for the single--also Loose Ends' "Don't Be a Fool," which I had on a '91 year-end (must have appeared very late in '90).

"Don't Be A Fool" charted in the UK during August/September 1990.

"Enjoy the Silence." Just listened to it this morning, actually.

Possibly: Black Box - Everybody Everybody. In my world, that song was everywhere and yet somehow a little obscure and under the radar at the same time. I didn't actually here it that often, but then I would catch a glimpse of it unexpectedly.

The best song from 1990 was Dub Be Good To Me. A special year in my heart. I got a radio for Christmas '89 and it was the first step into appreciating music. I got Now 17 with my pocket money and by mid-year was keeping an insanely keen eye on the pop charts. A wholly overlooked year for pop.

I was gonna say 3AM Eternal, but that was '91 now I check.

Eric B & Rakim - Let the Rhythm Hit Em is another one of my favorite's from 1990, and might have been my favorite at the time, but I liked some much that year that it's hard to say.

i was pretty deep into that album at the time.

youtube comment on a Technotronic track:

if we still danced like that in every video like we did in the 90s the obesity problem in america would be solved

A couple of my favorite 1990 songs that I didn't hear until much later:

Grupo Niche - Cielo de Tambores
Willie Rosario - Anuncio Clasificado (Damelo)

Honourable mentions:

Mantronix ft. Wondress: Got To Have Your Love
JT & The Big Family: Moments In Soul
Orbital: Chime
Primal Scream: Loaded
FAB: Thunderbirds Are Go!*
Family Stand: Ghetto Heaven
House Of Love: Shine On
Don Pablo's Animals: Venus*
Chad Jackson: Hear The Drummer Get Wicked
Adamski: NRG

*I was 9 yrs old, okay?

1990 was unheralded because it was the last year that you could pinpoint tracks that fell between classic 80s electro and 90s rave/club music - Killer and Got To Have Your Love are good examples tracks that fall between that category.

Also, loved this at the time, and still like it--probably my favorite PTV acid house song, in this particular mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uh8my4a1Bc

I would place 1990 #2 behind 1972 as all time years

btw Wicked Game was on the 1991 year-end chart

"It Must Have Been Love" is a terrific pop ballad.

Agreed. I think I appreciate it more now than I did in 1990.

that year:

Meat Beat Manifesto released 99%
TKK released Confessions of a Knife
Nitzer Ebb released Showtime
KMFDM released Naive
Skinny Puppy released Too Dark Park
Renegade Soundwave released In Dub
Severed Heads released "Big Car" (remix)

"Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)" >>> "It Must Have Been Love"

would cite "Dangerous" for a Roxette hit from 1990.

oh hell no, "Dangerous" is terribad

(also apparently 1989)

xpost: Wicked Game peaked chartwise in 1990. (UK ahead of US again?)

Cheeseball good songs from 1990:

Deeelite, "Groove Is in the Heart"
They Might Be Giants, "Istanbul" and "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
Suzanne Vega & DNA Remix, "Tom's Diner"

Suzanne Vega & DNA Remix, "Tom's Diner"

Maybe the most 1990 song possible.

oh hell no, "Dangerous" is terribad

GET OUTTA MY WAY GET OUTTA MY LIFE

It peaked at #2 in early '90 though.

Roxette's gr. hits collection Don't Bore Us...Get To The Chorus is about one half brilliant.

PUMP up the jam
PUMP up the jam
PUMP up the jam
pump it pump it pump it

89

oh hell no, "Dangerous" is terribad

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<3 that song

Totally forgot... the Sundays, "Here's Where the Story Ends"

A little souvenir of a terrible year.

(Had "It Must Have Been Love" stuck in my head off and on today at work, so I'm kind of annoyed with it again, though I still think it's "objectively" good.)

some pseudo hits from 1990 i still have fond memories for:

M.C. Sar & the Real Mc Coy - It's on You
Propaganda - Heaven Give Me Words
The Beloved - I Love You more
Inspiral Carpets - Biggest Mountain
Atahualpa - Ultimo Imperio
Guru Josh - Infinity
The Grid - Floatation
Enigma - Sadeness Part I
Concrete Blonde - Joey
Kid Frost - La Raza

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

90 "This One's for the Children" New Kids on the Block

what the hell song is this

would you like me to hum it for you

it's on their christmas album. unavoidable if you were 10 in 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FRI5Eatbas

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

oh what fresh hell is this

are we at the point when we can just post songs that haven't been mentioned yet, even if they're not the best song of 1990?

I have the "Suicide Blonde" cassingle.

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."