Greatest Billboard Top 40(-ish) (Song That Is Reminiscent Of A) Ballad (1990 edition)

She was starting to bellow. I prefer "Can't Stay Away From You" and "Falling in Love (Uh Oh)."

Luther Vandross is a god and "Here and Now" still appalls me.

Janet Jackson - Come Back to Me
Jody Watley - Everything
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U
Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
Madonna - Oh Father
Babyface - Whip Appeal

man my radio station played Michael Damian's "Was It Nothing At All" as much as "Rock On," after which they flushed it down the memory toilet.

Oops meant to vote for "Whip Appeal" or "Vision of Love"

What's your radio station, Alfred? I have no idea what its range is/was, but I was a WAPE devotee until my family moved away from FL in the summer of '90, so it's entirely possible that that was the last time I heard that oft-played Michael Damian song (or any number of its contemporaries) on the radio. The pop stations in Indiana couldn't hold a candle to what I was listening to in Jacksonville.

I voted for Janet, but here are the rest of the correct answers to this poll:

Sinead O'Connor - 'Nothing Compares 2U'
Concrete Blonde - 'Joey'
Madonna - 'Oh Father'
Lou Gramm - 'Just Between You And Me'
Tesla - 'Love Song'
Regina Belle - 'Make It Like It Was'
Taylor Dayne - 'Love Will Lead You Back'
After 7 - 'Ready Or Not'
Gloria Estefan - 'Here We Are'
Brent Bourgeois - 'Dare To Fall In Love'
Faster Pussycat - 'House Of Pain'
Mariah Carey - 'Vision Of Love'
Maxi Priest - 'Close To You'
Nikki - 'Notice Me'
Whistle - 'Always And Forever'

Voted Lisa Stansfield, because ultimately that's the most correct answer to this poll.

I left Lisa Stansfield off of my finalist list because apparently it's not a ballad or whatever people were complaining about upthread. It would've definitely been a contender otherwise.

figured Sinead would have plenty of votes, so I went with the one Henley song I genuinely love.

What's your radio station, Alfred?

at the time Y-100 or Power 96.