Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1990 poll

hello ILM, i'm finally back. i had my first adult health scare (nothing major) so it took me off the grid for a bit and then i just took an extended break. just regret that i missed the World Series thread this year but the right team won. anyways, it's great to be back and of course i had to continue this series.

Can't choose between Soon and Only Love Can Break Your Heart.

Glad to hear you be okay, Bee OK.

Lots of good/great stuff here, but this is absolutely positively the Sundays.

justify my love

It's not that often that I vote for the Pixies in a poll but they take this one, just over Depeche Mode and MBV.

This is absolutely positively impossible.

"Groove is in the Heart"
"Loaded"
"Birdhouse"
Sundays

all all-time for me. And I outright love "This is How It Feels" and will surely never get a chance to vote for it again -- but how can I, against this competition?

Lots of contenders, especially on the dance side of things.

"Crazy"
"Groove is in the Heart"
"Freedom '90"
"The Humpty Dance"
and more.

Good to hear you're OK

Energy Flash

Choosing between Birdhouse in Your Soul and Here's Where the Story Ends... grrhh.

Great and good:

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Madonna - Vogue
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome
EMF - Unbelievable
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
George Michael - Freedom '90
The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
Soda Stereo - De música ligera
New Order - World in Motion
Seal - Crazy
Moby - Go
Nirvana - Sliver
Ride - Vapour Trail

yea, thanks everyone!

Top 10:

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Madonna - Vogue
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
George Michael - Freedom '90
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
Madonna - Justify My Love
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Public Enemy - 911 Is a Joke

Probably voting "Vogue" since it got shut out of the Mads poll top 5.

I would really like to vote for The Humpty Dance or Momma Said Knock You Out, but I'm pretty sure Welcome to the Terrordome is the best song ever.

but I'm pretty sure Welcome to the Terrordome is the best song ever.

otm. it's getting my vote. I still don't know what the main sound is...like a fire truck's horn or something? This song never fails to blow me away.

And welcome back, Bee OK! I hope you will continue to be ok!

Soon.

Great year, I love the early 90s. Was going to go for Enjoy the Silence till I scrolled down and saw Killer.

Spotify playlist (minus Sinead and Primal Scream)

Either 1990 was not a very good year or the stuff I liked from that period was not acclaimed. Voted Saint Etienne.

'Enjoy The Silence'

Obviously.

Oh, thanks for the link cryptosicko.

I wanted to listen before voting and now i will but think I will agree with Old Lunch

I can see why not Snead (the whole Prince thing) but why not Primal Screamer on Spotify?they are on Sony

Stupid auto correct

I have to vote Birdhouse based on total length of time it's looped through my head

Orb, Saint etienne, can I kick it, seal, energy flash... This is hard

Oh and enjoy the silence. Change hard to impossible

Ecstasy... ecstasy BOW BOW BOW BOW BB BOW BOW BOW

Birdhouse = an all time earworm for me

I have to vote Birdhouse based on total length of time it's looped through my head

Exact reason I voted for Deee-Lite

Voted for Ladies Love Cool James because it's that song is one of the greatest things ever.

it's that it's is that is its

Voting "Step On" to give it some love, the correct answer is probably "Groove Is in the Heart."

You're twistin' my melon man, you know you talk so hip man. You're twistin' my melon man. ... " haha, love that son5

My roughly ordered top 10:

Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
Madonna - Vogue
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
Madonna - Justify My Love
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
Public Enemy - 911 Is a Joke
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?

Yeah, sorry, "Groove is in the Heart," "Freedom 90," " Enjoy the Silence," "Crazy" and the vast majority of the Britpop here do nothing for me.

Eh? Which songs here are Britpop!?

surprised you prefer "Being Boring" to "Enjoy the Silence" and "Groove is in the Heart."

I think he meant in a general sense

Bonita (bonita)

Yeah, was referring to the era's Primal Scream/Happy Mondays/Charlatans wave.

Have rarely cared for Depeche Mode in general. As for "Groove"--eh, just heard it too many times I guess (though I could say the same about "Vogue" yet I still dig it, so idk).

In general Deee-Lite don't do a lot for me, but "Groove" is immortal, et al.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/The_gout_james_gillray.jpg

it, the monster that it is, woke me up in the middle of the night. took ibuprofen and was able to go back to sleep. went to work the next day but only could walk on the outside of my foot. everyone at work was trying to get me to go to Urgent Care but i refused. next day it seemed to get better but that night my foot started to swell. it was not in my toe, like most first time gout attacks happen, but was in the middle inside of my foot. anyways by that night i was having issues walking where i thought i needed to do something but slept on it. when i tried to get up, because my foot was level with my body from sleeping i could not put it down to the ground. anyways had to borrow a wheelchair as i could not walk. went to the ER for about 8 hours and found out i had gout. i never what to go through that pain again, it is very much like the picture above "the Gout" as it felt like a demon was sucking on my foot. so i'm changing my lifestyle and hope to never go through that pain again.

some of that got cut off...

i shared that something happened to me so i decided to share my experience here in this thread.

lol "rich man's disease."

i didn't know that picture was in the other thread as i posted in this one first. then decided to see if there was a thread on it.

For perspective, here were Billboard's Top 100 singles for that year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1990

sorry for derailing this thread. i am enjoying listening to cryptosiko Spotify of the Top 40.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Loving this Spotify list, thanks cryptosicko!

I assumed the UK hits on here would be songs I'd heard but didn't know the names of. But no -- both Happy Mondays and the Orb 100% unfamiliar to me.

went with original choice and picked "Here's Where the Story Ends."

Um.... one of these I guess?

1 109 Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
2 266 Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart
4 415 Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
5 573 Happy Mondays - Step On
6 648 My Bloody Valentine - Soon
7 695 The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
8 721 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
9 722 Madonna - Vogue
10 817 Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
11 862 Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
12 1000 Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
13 1051 Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
15 1190 LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
16 1308 Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
17 1333 They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
18 1372 Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome
19 1376 EMF - Unbelievable
20 1419 A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
21 1434 George Michael - Freedom '90
22 1492 Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
23 1576 A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
24 1632 Madonna - Justify My Love
25 1685 Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
27 1830 Public Enemy - 911 Is a Joke
28 1865 Pixies - Velouria
29 2092 The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
32 2431 Adamski - Killer
33 2463 Seal - Crazy
34 2609 Moby - Go
35 2678 Nirvana - Sliver
36 2780 Ride - Vapour Trail
38 2905 Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
39 2926 Gang Starr - Jazz Thing
40 2969 The Farm - Groovy Train

1990 was a pretty fantastic year but only a fraction of my most favorite 1990 songs are in this list.

DJP's list OTM

so many great songs here and the only song I actively dislike on the list is "This Is How It Feels"

(I actually don't know this one Soda Stereo - De música ligera so I'm going to check it out but I like the name, so it's automatically better than the Inspiral Carpets)

came to vote for Vogue, stayed for hot demon toe sucking

I got it down to 5
8 721 The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
13 1051 Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
17 1333 They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
25 1685 Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
32 2431 Adamski - Killer

and now it's time to vote for one pretty much randomly. Hope none of these get 0

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Haha, no one voted for 'World in Motion.'

My singles:

1. Madonna – Vogue
2. The B-52’s – Roam
3. Black Box – Everybody Everybody
4. Adventures of Stevie V – Dirty Cash (Money Talks)
5. Soho – Hippychick
6. Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence
7. En Vogue – Hold On
8. Electronic – Getting Away With It
9. Lisa Stansfield – This is the Right Time
10. Roxette – Dangerous
11. Johnny Gil – Rub You the Right Way
12. Caron Wheeler – Livin’ in the Light
13. The Cure – Never Enough
14. A Tribe Called Quest – I Left My Wallet in El Segundo
15. Tony! Toni! Toné! – Feels Good
16. George Michael – Freedom ’90
17. Michael Penn – No Myth
18. Janet Jackson – Escapade
19. Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up
20. Ralph Tresvant – Sensitivity
21. Deee-Lite – Groove is the Heart/What is Love
22. New Order – World in Motion
23. Psychedelic Furs – House
24. Sinead O’Connor – The Emperor’s New Clothes
25. Prince – Thieves in the Temple

"Everybody Everybody," jesus, 1990 was fucking unstoppable

Black Box has been unfairly saddled with the taint of Jock Jam-dom. That whole album is solid.

You say that as if it's a bad thing.