1990 Billboard Modern Rock Number Ones

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"Blues from a Gun" - The Jesus and Mary Chain
"House" - The Psychedelic Furs
"Cuts You Up" - Peter Murphy
"Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinéad O'Connor
"Blue Sky Mine" - Midnight Oil
"Metropolis" - The Church
"Enjoy the Silence" - Depeche Mode
"The Emperor's New Clothes" - Sinéad O'Connor
"Forgotten Years" - Midnight Oil
"Policy of Truth" - Depeche Mode
"Way Down Now" - World Party
"Joey" - Concrete Blonde
"Jealous" - Gene Loves Jezebel
"I'll Be Your Chauffeur" - David J
"Stop!" - Jane's Addiction
"Every Beat of the Heart" - The Railway Children
"Suicide Blonde" - INXS
"Never Enough" - The Cure
"Merry Go Round" - The Replacements
"Been Caught Stealing" - Jane's Addiction
"More" - Sisters Of Mercy

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Surprise: "Merry Go Round" was a huge college hit.	9
Year end winner: "Cuts You Up"	2
Songs and artists I've never heard: The Railway Children, David J (Love & Rockets guy?)	2

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

Woops -- The poll options and text should have been reversed. Help!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

Gene Loves Jezebel had a number 1 !?!?!?!?

― Scowly D (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

#1 modern rock. But still: on 96 Rock in Atlanta in 1990, they played that song on heavy repeat in between "Like The Way I Do" by Melissa Etheridge and "Jealous Again" by the Black Crowes. The 96 Rock billboards were all like "we kick ass, AC/DC 24/7". They didn't consider themselves a modern rock station---lots of Zep, Heart, Allmans.

― it's a great breakup balllad sung by Bill Champlin (Euler), Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

Would have voted for "Enjoy The Silence", had I been allowed to ;)

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 20 September 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

Surprise: "Merry Go Round" was a huge college hit. ftw

― DavidM, Saturday, 20 September 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

Re-do the poll, Alfred. I don't think it can be fixed at this point.

― Perry-Como-Zombie-Memorial-Radio-Now! (Ioannis), Saturday, 20 September 2008 17:35 (seventeen years ago)

Would have voted for "Enjoy The Silence", had I been allowed to ;)
^^^

― jaymc, Sunday, 21 September 2008 06:06 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

― System, Friday, 26 September 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

To post a poll, you must be clean, with mistakes that you do mean

― nabisco, Friday, 26 September 2008 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

(It's also worth nothing that if you can eat your dinner in a fancy restaurant, and there'll be food on the table tonight.)

― nabisco, Friday, 26 September 2008 23:10 (seventeen years ago)

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