definitely not the best records of 1990 (for the most part)

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i think i was starting to get kinda bored and jaded or something around then.
and in fact, after 1990's list (which is below, and which appeared first on a sheet of notepaper which has not touched human hands for nearly a decade and a half until now), there are no more lists to be excavated from my closet:

ALBUMS (the top three of which ARE indeed awesome, i promise)
1. will to power - journey home
2. kix - blow my fuse
3. company b - gotta dance
4. electric angels - electric angels
5. a'me lorain and the family affair - starring in...standing in a monkey sea
6. teena marie - ivory
7. pajama party - up all night
8. extreme - pornograffiti (which, as i recall, totally sucks)
9. kmfdm - naive
10. shonen knife - shonen knift
11. love/hate - blackout in the red room
12. information society (*hack*, i think? somethiing like that?)
13. redd kross
14. martina st. clair
15. gipsy kings - mosaique
16. inner city (carryover from '89)
17. the fall
18. boredoms - soul discharge (ha! take that noize bored! i used to own a few 7-inches by them too back then, but i didn't think they were quite so goofy)
19. pet shop boys - behavior
20. carl stalling project
21. lil louis - from the mind of lil louis
22. roxanne shante
23. too much joy
24. gilberto gil
25. ministry - a mind is a terrible thing to taste
26. jorge ben
27. liz torres - queen of house (or whatever it was called)
28. coldcut (carryover from '89)
29. precious metal
30. *towering dub inferno* (i assume this is a compilation, anyway)
31. *salt n tabasco* (???)
32. *house music all night long*
33. baby ford - ooh! the world of baby ford (or whatever)
34. william burroughs

SINGLES
1. guns n roses - civil war
2. madonna - keep it together
3. slaughter - up all night
4. andree maranda - doctor's orders
5. mitsou - bye bye mon cowboy
6. les rita mitsouko - tongue dance/perfect eyes
7. dimples d - sucker djs (jeanie remix)
8. young and restless - 'b' girls
9. tommy conwell and young rumblers - i'm seventeen
10. luke featuring the 2 live crew - banned in the u.s.a.
11. precious metal - mr. big stuff
12. ??? - c'mon and get my love
13. ??? - what time is love/technolate mix
14. gloria estefan - oye mi canto
15. jane's addiction - been caught stealing
16. azalia snail - another slave labor day
17. ??? - goddess of love/dubbess of love
18. skid row - i remember you
19. ??? - when we used to play
20. faster pussycat - house of pain
21. ??? - tell me when the fever ended
22. warrant - cherry pie
23. dana lynne (i have no idea who this could be)
24. ??? - i believe
25. ll cool j - around the way girl
26. sweet sensation (i think) - love child
27. ??? - another sleepless night
28. lisa stansfield - all around the world
29. technotronic - pump up the jam
30. ??? - watcha gonna do with my lovin'
31. inxs - suicide blonde
32. ???- tell me when the fever ended
33. ??? - heartbeat
34. willie and gil (i think they were called) - time
35. ??? - la vie continue
36. bardeux (i think) - shangri-la
37. ??? - last time in paris
38. kix - cold blood
39. ??? - if you truly love me

EPs (some overlap)
1. *italo boot mix, vol. 15*
2. the young gods - lounge route remix september song
3. ministry - in case you didn't feel like showing up live
4. boredoms - soul discharge
5. azaiia snail - another slave labor day/baby brother/savoirfarian frog call

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

google helped a little:

12. ??? - c'mon and get my love = Cathy Dennis
13. ??? - what time is love/technolate mix = KLF (should be "technogate mix")
19. ??? - when we used to play = Blake Baxter
21. ??? - tell me when the fever ended = Electribe 101
32. ???- tell me when the fever ended (oops, not sure how this showed up twice!)
37. ??? - last time in paris = Queensryche

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

and also oops, i forgot to type the #40 (or really #39 i guess) single:

40. Onyx (maybe or maybe not the ones who hit with "Slam" a few years later) - Ah! And We Do It Like This (one of the most country-ish rap songs of all time!)

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

5. a'me lorain and the family affair - starring in...standing in a monkey se

ooooh, is that the album with "time you take"? one of my all-time favorite prince wannabe tracks. what happened to her?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

wasn't Kix's Blow My Fuse from 1988?

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

FCC: she's right here.
Apparently showed up on a DJ Muggs album in 2003.
Fan page here.
Gimme a buzz if you get a chance, I'm about to move to do somethin'.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

>wasn't Kix's Blow My Fuse from 1988? <

er...yeah. but like i said, i was fishing (and following pazz and jop rules about literal release dates not being binding) (plus, when i finally heard it, i liked it a LOT. and still do.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

thanks, tofu! if you don't hear from me tomorrow -- i'm forgetful sometimes -- call me.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

??? - watcha gonna do with my lovin'

This is by Inner City.

21. lil louis - from the mind of lil louis

This came out in 1989 in both the US and UK.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

again (for the umpteenth time) literal release dates are not relevant (and nor should they be, since some records, esp. ones released after thanksgiving {though that does not apply to kix obviously} take a while to sink in.

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Again, a bad vintage. The late 80s/early 90s were far from the best time for good music.

A few good ones though:
http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_16130

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it must have been horrible for you around that time, what with all the great dance singles.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

No, there were a few admirably melodic songs around in 1990, for instance "Black Velvet" by Alanna Miles and the poginant "Winds Of Change" by the Scorpions.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

"What Time Is Love" would be the KLF.
"Tell Me When The Fever Ended" is Electribe 101.

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

I think 'Heartbeat' is Movement 98 (aka Paul Oakenfold) ft Carol Thompson.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

"C'mon And Get My Love" was actually D-Mob featuring Cathy Dennis (her first appearance on record, as I recall). Jools Holland contributed a long piano solo to one of the remixes.

"Another Sleepless Night" was by Mike "Hitman" Wilson featuring Shawn Christopher. That was a good one, that was.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Oops, how did I miss that first post?

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

21. ??? - tell me when the fever ended

This was Electribe 101 and its GREAT!!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

>I think 'Heartbeat' is Movement 98 (aka Paul Oakenfold) ft Carol Thompson.<

Wow...maybe. But that artist name doesn't sound remotely familiar, so I kinda think it was something else. Did anybody cover Taana Gardner or Vivien Vee that year? (Oh wait...I think I know!! Didn't Big Black put out a 7-inch cover of Wire's "Heartbeat"? Unless I'm imagining things, I bet that's what this one is.

>"Another Sleepless Night" was by Mike "Hitman" Wilson featuring Shawn Christopher. That was a good one, that was. <

Yeah, that may well be possible. Though I'm not posiitively sure, still.

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised you were digging the Pet Shop Boys this late in the game.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, this is the latest I got with them, Alfred, so don' t be *too* surprised. (Oh wait, I did like "Go West" a couple years later, I guess.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

some more stupid album omissions:

mariah carey - mariah carey
yvonne chaka chaka - thank your mr. d.j.
east beat - the best of east beat
east beat - east beat 3
maldita vecindad y los hijos del 5 patio - maldita vecindad y los hijos del 5 patio
madonna - the immaculate collection
warrant - cherry pie
xuxa - xuxa
(various) - electric salsa

(and the liz torres album is called *the queen is in the house*, it turns out)

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

LL Cool J's not on your album list? or Lisa Stansfield?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Um, actually I just decided that "Heartbeat" is Seduction covering Taana Gardner (which would make more sense than Big Black, who had already been broken up for a while. Though I still think they covered the Wire song once.)

And good point on Cool J. At the time, I definitely had trouble getting through **Mama Said Knock You Out,* and I still don't love the title track as much as lots of people I know do. But the album should have made the list on the basis of "Around the Way Girl" and (the even better) "Boomin' System" regardless.

Don' t know if ever heard the Lisa Stansfield album; she was kinda too reverent for my tastes, beyond the single mentioned above. But if you really like her (or Sophie B Hawkins for that matter) (maybe even Macy Gray) (or smooth jazz!) you owe it to yourself to hear the new album my country singer Lari White, *Green Eyed Soul* on Skinny Whitegirl Records (honest!)

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

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