zamboni
Footballguy
Thought so - dude's got a much better voice than JBJ.
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101 Best Songs of 1990 - #1 George Michael - Freedom '90 (2 Viewers)
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zamboni
Footballguy
Just listened again to that last note of "I'll Never Let You Go". Cleared out my ear wax.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Fly High Michele is one of the better last gasp efforts of the 80s sound.
I'm a relatively big fan of INXS. Never cared much for Suicide Blonde.
Blaze of Glory is a thousand times more preferable to hearing Wanted Dead Or Alive at this point.
Both Fly To The Angels and Never Let You Go are awesome songs
I'm a relatively big fan of INXS. Never cared much for Suicide Blonde.
Blaze of Glory is a thousand times more preferable to hearing Wanted Dead Or Alive at this point.
Both Fly To The Angels and Never Let You Go are awesome songs
FatMax
Member
I liked the song, but not enough to buy the album. So I bought the cassette single. I remember thinking the B-side was a great tune ... much better than Fly to the Angels. That said, I was 14-15 so ....
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Desperately. Sorry, no video on this one
scorchy
Footballguy
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Desperately. Sorry, no video on this one
scorchy
Footballguy
#92 - Go West - The King of Wishful Thinking
I remember first hearing English duo Go West when they had a minor hit on pop radio with We Close Our Eyes back in 1985 (I kept getting them confused with American duo Sly Fox, who had a hit at the same time Let's Go All the Way.) Both of those bands seemed to disappear immediately - at least to my Casey Kasem-obsessed ears - until the Pretty Woman soundtrack put Go West back on the map for a short bit. Really good pop song, though I still prefer Sly Fox.
I remember first hearing English duo Go West when they had a minor hit on pop radio with We Close Our Eyes back in 1985 (I kept getting them confused with American duo Sly Fox, who had a hit at the same time Let's Go All the Way.) Both of those bands seemed to disappear immediately - at least to my Casey Kasem-obsessed ears - until the Pretty Woman soundtrack put Go West back on the map for a short bit. Really good pop song, though I still prefer Sly Fox.
massraider
Footballguy
I just think I am GD lucky to have been alive when Velcro, cassingles, and cannabis vape pens were all invented.
I liked the song, but not enough to buy the album. So I bought the cassette single. I remember thinking the B-side was a great tune ... much better than Fly to the Angels. That said, I was 14-15 so ....
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Desperately. Sorry, no video on this one
Best Cassingle B-Sides is a thread I can get behind
Eephus
Footballguy
#4 with a bullet on my daughter's British Isles Top 31
zamboni
Footballguy
This might have slipped into the next decade, but man does that song/video scream 1980s.
ETA: also weird that the guitarist's last name is Drummie
massraider
Footballguy
Yeah, I woulda lost that bet.
Guilty pleasure song, but I cannot hear it without thinking of Pretty Woman.
FatMax
Member
Love that. I think mainly because I was smitten with Roxette's singer, Marie Fredriksson. "It must have been love, but it's ooooover now." It's OK Marie. Let this teenage boy make things better for you.
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scorchy
Footballguy
I remembered someone picked it recently and went back to check. It felt a little odd to be tagging ditkaburgers out of the blue though so I passed on that one.
scorchy
Footballguy
Agreed, but compared to We Close Our Eyes, it almost sounds modern.
rockaction
Footballguy
Slaughter.
Oh wow. Last I remember Slaughter, they were involved in smashing a cassette against the ground repeatedly with a hockey stick. Not to their music in the background. But their cassette.
Up all night
Sleep all day
Oh wow. Last I remember Slaughter, they were involved in smashing a cassette against the ground repeatedly with a hockey stick. Not to their music in the background. But their cassette.
Up all night
Sleep all day
rockaction
Footballguy
After posting my little story, I was afraid to read these comments, but now I feel justified.
*Phew*
rockaction
Footballguy
1990 was an interesting developmental year for me, apparently. Certainly one could say I was honing my critical skills for adulthood. It was a whole lotta fun, that I remember.
An unforeseen future nestled somewhere in time. . .
1990. Since there's no thrash in the countdown, I'll say that we all went to the Suicidal Tendencies/Testament show at the end of 1990 and had a blast. Pantera opened. This is decades before the tragedy and the subsequent sad nods towards the previously unspoken and horrible elements of their crowds would emerge. What a glorious metal band they were at their peak. What a tragic reflection of the white underclass they were at their nadir.
But those more recent memories give way -- for a moment and nothing more than that -- to how sick of a show all around that was.
An unforeseen future nestled somewhere in time. . .
1990. Since there's no thrash in the countdown, I'll say that we all went to the Suicidal Tendencies/Testament show at the end of 1990 and had a blast. Pantera opened. This is decades before the tragedy and the subsequent sad nods towards the previously unspoken and horrible elements of their crowds would emerge. What a glorious metal band they were at their peak. What a tragic reflection of the white underclass they were at their nadir.
But those more recent memories give way -- for a moment and nothing more than that -- to how sick of a show all around that was.
scorchy
Footballguy
There's one. Just one. I liked earlier skate-rat suicidal tendencies but never appreciated when they went metal.
I saw your mommy and your mommy's dead.
rockaction
Footballguy
I will try not to ruin the one, then.
Suicidal was interesting in both iterations, IMO. Like most things metal/punk, they were a little sharper and funnier lyrically when they were punk, a little more proficient with music when they were metal. Then Cyco Miko took himself too seriously and they got really -- really just sort of. . .well. . .dumb.
But their 1990 output figured heavily in my listening for that year. It was the beginning of their decline, where their sort of social satirization got a little more overt and on the nose rather than being cleverly or grossly worded. My Suicidal t-shirts are all over our yearbook for some reason. Probably because I was always wearing them or something. Boy, was I thin then.
And that's all. Let you guys get back to the countdown.
DocHolliday
Footballguy
There were a few guys that could sing legit. Saw Kingdom Come live and the vocals were on the money
DocHolliday
Footballguy
Desperately is my favorite tune from that album. This old metal head still listens to that album a few times a year. Not ashamed even if I should be.
I liked the song, but not enough to buy the album. So I bought the cassette single. I remember thinking the B-side was a great tune ... much better than Fly to the Angels. That said, I was 14-15 so ....
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present Desperately. Sorry, no video on this one
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Big fan of King of Wishful Thinking
scorchy
Footballguy
#91 Anything Box - Living in Oblivion
Ahh, the late 80s, when two synthpop loving teens from North Jersey could put out a demo that sounded like vintage Erasure, score a major label deal, and release a debut record the next year whose lead single was beloved by a bunch of mopey teens at an under-21 nightclub in Ocean City, MD. I still adore this one.
Ahh, the late 80s, when two synthpop loving teens from North Jersey could put out a demo that sounded like vintage Erasure, score a major label deal, and release a debut record the next year whose lead single was beloved by a bunch of mopey teens at an under-21 nightclub in Ocean City, MD. I still adore this one.
scorchy
Footballguy
#90 The Cure - Never Enough
I feel like Never Enough is one of the forgotten big hits by the Cure. It reached #1 on the Modern Rock charts but it’s not a mainstay on their setlists and I never hear fans clamoring to hear Never Enough or counting it among their favorites. I think maybe it’s because it was the lone original track on 1990’s remix album Mixed Up - a record that a lot of us bought but very few played more than a couple of times.
ETA: The video is super bizarre (including strange beavis-like sounds) and I don't remember it at all.
I feel like Never Enough is one of the forgotten big hits by the Cure. It reached #1 on the Modern Rock charts but it’s not a mainstay on their setlists and I never hear fans clamoring to hear Never Enough or counting it among their favorites. I think maybe it’s because it was the lone original track on 1990’s remix album Mixed Up - a record that a lot of us bought but very few played more than a couple of times.
ETA: The video is super bizarre (including strange beavis-like sounds) and I don't remember it at all.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
perhaps their filthiest/grimiest tune ... nah, scratch that, it IS their filthiest/grimiest ... think Smiffy were vibing to some of the industrial cats, etc, on his down time ... it's also swampy and sweaty, and were a yuuge fave in the clubs 'round here (when i were sober enuff to recall)
loved when they stepped out like this ... they were a bunch more versatile than folk give 'em credit for.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Guilty pleasure here.
scorchy
Footballguy
#89 The Lemonheads - Different Drum
This has almost become schtick now, but I had no idea that Different Drum was a cover when I first fell for it. Hell, I probably didn't even figure it out until the I got SiriusXM a decade later and heard Linda Ronstadt's voice belting it out when flipping channels. I'm sure the rest of the music nerds here knew Different Drum was written by the dude from the Monkees, first appeared on their variety show in 1967, became a top-20 hit for the Stone Poneys a year later, and then got covered by what looks like a dozen other artists in the ensuing years.
This was my first dip into the Lemonheads and I immediately fell for Evan Dando's voice and power pop hooks. I guess he's kind-of dreamy too.
This has almost become schtick now, but I had no idea that Different Drum was a cover when I first fell for it. Hell, I probably didn't even figure it out until the I got SiriusXM a decade later and heard Linda Ronstadt's voice belting it out when flipping channels. I'm sure the rest of the music nerds here knew Different Drum was written by the dude from the Monkees, first appeared on their variety show in 1967, became a top-20 hit for the Stone Poneys a year later, and then got covered by what looks like a dozen other artists in the ensuing years.
This was my first dip into the Lemonheads and I immediately fell for Evan Dando's voice and power pop hooks. I guess he's kind-of dreamy too.
scorchy
Footballguy
Couldn't agree more with this, gb. Then again, I never love-loved grunge and Lemonheads are the exact kind of thing I was turning to at the time.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Dr_Zaius
Footballguy
It's funny, because Ice Ice Baby is probably the prototypical example of a song that was briefly super popular, but everyone retroactively disowns it. Not questioning the memories of anyone in this thread, but I did chuckle internally a few years back when my older sister declared that she always hated this song, because I have a memory of her and her friends loudly rapping along with it on the way to school burned into my brain.
Made sure to verify they weren't '90, but the two Spin Doctors hits come to mind for me as songs that I can't believe I used to like.
plinko
Footballguy
I agree, I liked that album at the time but it has not aged well is an understatement. Same with their buddies Blues Traveler IMO…
El Floppo
Footballguy
Bill grahams son was a college classmate, and managed blues traveler while we were in college (and after). I may have seen both those bands more than any other band while they were still smaller. Fun live jam bands for white folk, bt especially. But yeah... Haven't aged super well.
rockaction
Footballguy
If I was smashing Slaughter tapes with a hockey stick, imagine how I felt when all the kids walked into school one day wearing their Vanilla Ice shirts from the show he'd put on in good old HTFD, CT.
I had a field day that day, and the memory specifically goes, "Oh yeah, you listen to bands called The Ramones. They're a bunch of losers."
Oh, okay. They were wearing Hammer pants unironically.
Stop. Collaborate. Listen.
scorchy
Footballguy
#88 - Aerosmith - What it Takes
Aerosmith is one of those bands that's hard to ignore in a 1990 retrospective even if it means including another ear-pleasing but by-the-numbers power ballad. I know the band likes to claim that kicking drugs was the primary factor in their late 80s commercial revival, but I have to think that bringing on pop savants like Desmond Child, Jim Vallance, and others as co-writers probably had more to do with it. What it Takes was the third single released from 1989's multi-platinum Pump, hitting #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and squeaking into the Top 10 on the Hot 100 in spring 1990.
Aerosmith is one of those bands that's hard to ignore in a 1990 retrospective even if it means including another ear-pleasing but by-the-numbers power ballad. I know the band likes to claim that kicking drugs was the primary factor in their late 80s commercial revival, but I have to think that bringing on pop savants like Desmond Child, Jim Vallance, and others as co-writers probably had more to do with it. What it Takes was the third single released from 1989's multi-platinum Pump, hitting #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and squeaking into the Top 10 on the Hot 100 in spring 1990.
scorchy
Footballguy
In my case, I think I was more likely to pretend to hate some of the cheesy stuff as a teenager. Then again, I was cultivating the alt-vibe thing, so admitting to liking cheesy R&B ballads, teen pop, or (god-forbid) Poison may have put me on the outs (never Vanilla Ice though, I swear). Now I freely embrace my love of Debbie Gibson. Hell, my little used alias is Peabo Bryson.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Probably my favorite Aerosmith song.
scorchy
Footballguy
No thumper rule here, Andy, so feel free to chime in after every forthcoming entry you don't like: "That song sucks - how can this be higher than What it Takes?" That is, until Trip comes back and fulfills that usual role.
Northern Voice
Footballguy
There are only 5-10 Aerosmith songs I don't hate and this is one of them.
Dr_Zaius
Footballguy
Same sister had a Look What the Cat Dragged In poster in her room. She at least admits to that one though
Northern Voice
Footballguy
I saw a cruise ship Aerosmith cover band a few months ago. I don't think I need to elaborate any farther. Whatever you're picturing, it was worse.
FatMax
Member
Aerosmith were the kings of mainstream-friendly, pop-ish rock for almost two decades, starting with Permanent Vacation. Pump cemented that. Top to bottom, even today I think it's a really good album. I wouldn't categorize myself as a big Aerosmith fan, but I do respect that they recognized their niche, and then dominated it like no others. And like Scorchy said, that has a lot to do with bringing in great writers and producers.
mine too. Really like the lyrics and his delivery.
The words perfectly sum up the feeling my son has had for the last freaking 8 months. Poor guy
Tell me what it takes to let you go
Tell me how the pain's supposed to go
Tell me how it is that you can sleep in the night
Without thinking you lost everything that was
Good in your life to the toss of the dice?
Tell me what it takes to let you go
and
Girl, before I met you
I was F-I-N-E, fine
But your love made me a prisoner
Yeah my heart's been doing time
You spent me up like money
Then you hung me out to dry
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
As far as '80s and '90s Aerosmith power ballads go, this one is ... not the worst.
rockaction
Footballguy
I loved Poison. In eighth grade. Look What The Cat Dragged In is a glam classic. They really played it to the hilt with that first album. Were they cynical? Probably. Awful? Maybe. But young rock was a fan and continued to be through tenth grade or so. My music friends back then were really cool and forgave my glam tendencies. But I never saw too much wrong with Poison. They were Sunset Strip/L.A. all the way.
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rockaction
Footballguy
The movie Adventureland has the greatest time capsule Poison moment ever. It’s the beginning to the “I Want Action” video where there is a black background with pink lips going “Ooh let me tell you what I want.”
Anyway by 1990 Poison was not the type of music I liked, and my attitude towards them hardened a bit, but I never could totally hate them.
Anyway by 1990 Poison was not the type of music I liked, and my attitude towards them hardened a bit, but I never could totally hate them.
scorchy
Footballguy
Adventureland has one of the best soundtracks ever (once you include songs in the movie but not on the official CD). Not just Poison, but the comical use of Rock Me Amadeus, JaMC, Husker Du. The hottest was definitely Lisa P dancing to Let the Music Play by Shannon then Point of No Return by Expose, and the Mary Jane Girls were in there somewhere too,
Also, I love a few Poison songs (Fallen Angel ftw) and there'll be one coming up that I think is way better than people give it credit for being. But most others - I can't. Was watching the new Dio doc the other day and a bunch of metal dudes were ripping on Unskinny Bop - that one may be the worst.
rockaction
Footballguy
Yeah, not to be in lockstep here, but that was just never me, either. I hated that song. I didn't like that album almost at all. Much like Faster Pussycat, they were much better during their initial burst when different people were helping them write their songs (or they were -- ahem -- writing their songs differently).
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