Billboard Hot 100 Top Ten 10/26/91

Jesus Jones went top ten with "Real Real Real"? Weird.

The only song I don't recognize at all is "Do Anything." I don't even recognize the band!

Average RADIO ON scores:

1. Mariah Carey - Emotions - 5.06
2. Natural Selection - Do Anything - 6.00
3. Karyn White - Romantic - 4.50
4. Extreme - Hole Hearted - 4.36
5. Bryan Adams - Can't Stop This Thing We Started
6. Prince and the NPG - Cream
7. Jesus Jones - Real Real Real
8. Bonnie Raitt- Something To Talk About -- 3.58
9. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations - 5.79
10. Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.

Doesn't look like the others ever got graded, and yeah, I had no idea Jesus Jones had a followup to "Right Here Right Now" that also went Top 10. (It got to #4!)

Anyway, "O.P.P." is a very easy vote (over Mariah), though I should probably go back and listen to Natural Selection and that Bryan Adams song (a catchy rocker not a draggy ballad iirc) sometime.

wait ppl really didn't know that "Real Real Real" was also a big hit??????

wait ppl really didn't know that "Real Real Real" was also a big hit??????

I remember it being a follow-up single, I just hadn't realized it had gone top ten.

xp Well, catchy quasi/pop rocker anyway. I think. (And not as catchy as what Adams was doing several years before.)

Also think Raitt got shafted with that Radio On score; it's not that a bad song, is it? (Though I apparently gave it a 1.5 myself, same grade I gave Mariah and Marky Mark. Was generous with Karyn White, who got a 3.0. I was a tough scorer in those days!)

Oh, and I gave "Hole Hearted" a 4.0 then and didn't grade the Natural Selection song, which it's possible I've never even heard.

i don't remember the jesus jones song at all. watched some of it on youtube. it's horrible. not as horrible as having to hear right here right now on the radio for decades, but horrible.

i'm down with o.p.p.

(my fave karyn white and mariah songs were earlier)

i did like cream a bunch, but not as much as o.p.p.

Yeah, Karyn White's "Superwoman" from a couple years before was awesome, a 9 or even 10 in my book. Just heard it on the radio again last week and it totally holds up.

Is "Cream" the Prince one with sort of "96 Tears" keyboards? (Not gonna look it up right now, maybe later.)

"Cream" is the T. Rex one.

"Cream" is the really boring Prince comeback song with no real drive or energy that everyone and their mother seems to love for no real good reason.

vaguely remember this. catchy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZOyRC5WcI

"Real Real Real" >>>> "Right Here Right Now"

"Romantic" (which hit #1!) is B+ level Jam-Lewis, but I don't mind it. Agree that "Superwoman" and "Secret Rendezvous" are the great Karyn White singles.

I've argued elsewhere that "Do Anything" is a better Prince rip than Prince himself was doing in '91.

"Something To Talk About" is a terrific performance of an OK song. Raitt sings and plays the hell out of it.

very tony toni tone. the natural selection song.

that's true!

"Cream" is the really boring Prince comeback song with no real drive or energy that everyone and their mother seems to love for no real good reason.

it's the kind of song that sounds amazing when you're singing it to yourself in your head but when you actually listen to it, it's a bit flat

^^^^ a much fairer description of the song, if I'm being honest with myself

i like the production/sound of "emotions", but i never liked it as much as best of my love. by the emotions.

Also: Nikki Harris of Madonna fame guests on "Do Anything"

I'd rank them:

Do Anything
O.P.P.
Cream
Romantic
Something To Talk About
Good Vibrations
Emotions
Real Real Real
Hole Hearted
Can't Stop This Thing We Started

I give "Romantic" an A- and my easy vote.

"Something to talk about" makes me think of "Step brothers" and "The ten."

my top 5 would be 1. O.P.P. 2. Emotions 3. Good Vibrations 4. Hole Hearted 5. Something To Talk About. i'm ok with Cream but like Diamonds & Pearls way more. but this is very very close to around the first time i got MTV and started paying active attention to current popular music, so it's all kind of vivid and interesting for me to think about.

I can't really say anything is awful on this list. "Can't Stop..." is the last Adams rocker with any enthusiasm, and I remember liking the acoustic flourishes in "Hole Hearted" a lot (I haven't heard it since that winter though).

I'm a tad freaked out that I've never heard that Jesus Jones. I was there on 10/26/91 and...#4? Really?? Terrible, terrible song too. But it works as a great pair with "Emotions." (Jesus: "Give me a sign that you feel some emotion." Mariah: "You got me feeling Emotions higher than the heavens above!!") Howz THAT for a sign, beeyatch?!?!?

So I'm voting for Mariah's damning Jesus Jones answer song. (Hated it at the time but now it just sounds so shameless and OTT.)

Totally random thought: The Chimes: "Heaven" sounds MUCH better than I remembered.

hahaha I never actually knew the name/artist behind "Do Anything" but yes, I remember this song very well

Never heard of them, never heard of the song - apparently only got to #69 in the UK.

Sh-boogie bop.

OPP

"Something to Talk About" is a song my mom cites as an ideal songwriters should aspire to, meaning it has a chorus with a little sound bite that can be endlessly used in a variety of TV and radio commercials. She's always asking why people don't actively try to write songs like that, or "Things that Make You Go 'Mmmm,'" for another example.

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I can live with the top three.

People seem to forget when they whine & bitch that music "used to be better" that even 1991, one of the greatest years for music possibly ever, the Billboard tops still sucked total balls.

People seem to forget that even in 1010 they still "create strawmen."

2010 even

how did 'emotions' come in 2nd, that song is so bad

People seem to forget when they whine & bitch that music "used to be better" that even 1991, one of the greatest years for music possibly ever, the Billboard tops still sucked total balls.

Yes, there was a ton of shit, but the 20-30 standout singles throughout 1990-1991 make a big difference.