I love the shit out of Roxette, and this might be my favorite song of theirs. Impossible to say (would be totally down for a Roxette poll btw)
― I want to thank my psychiatrist (billy), Thursday, 24 June 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
total garbage, wouldn't want to have to listen to any of this tbh
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 June 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
this is worse than the 1985 poll damn
― ultra nate dogg (history mayne), Thursday, 24 June 2010 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty sure this was the year I decided to stop listening to radio and/or following the weekly top 40.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 June 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
That was '94 for me, but it was for only a year. And then I gave up again sometime in the '00s, but this time only because I'm now old and haggard.
― rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 June 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
*blech*
― proof-texting my way into state legislature (will), Thursday, 24 June 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
The Mariah song is still dope. I have always hated the rest except, weirdly, for that Wilson Phillips song.
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Thursday, 24 June 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Roxette. Just for the unexpected chord progression in the chorus just before the end.
― ithappens, Thursday, 24 June 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man, I loved "She Ain't Worth It." This was right about the EXACT time I started paying attention to radio/pop music. Lots of memories.
― jaymc, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
It's like those fake songs they used to use in TGIF sitcoms.
Awesome.
― jaymc, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Similar song from summer of '90:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBWKg1e7vR0
― jaymc, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
ha! I had wiped that guy from my memory.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I gave Bon Jovi a knee-jerk vote before I noticed the Wilson Phillips song
― Sundar, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just sitting here thinking "what's missing from this list?" Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison," because it was absolutely inescapable that summer. But apparently it only peaked at #3 on the Hot 100. The heck?! I think that's the song that epitomizes 1990 for me.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Jam-Lewis experienced a new peak that summer, what with Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, etc.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 June 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
As for Dino -- his shrewd handlers marketed him as "freestyle," so all his singles got tons of local airplay.
His biggest hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKwbSTaGsd0
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 June 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I swear I didn't know this: Tom gets to Glenn Medeiros' other hit.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 June 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh, didn't realize Dino had another top 10 hit. Probably because it was just *before* "Romeo."
This is a great resource for seeing what was on the chart at any given time. It's not Billboard, it's ARC Weekly (which is airplay-only and tends toward mainstream top 40), but you still get a good feel for the time period.
― jaymc, Thursday, 24 June 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
(Click on any of the dates to see the top 40 for that week.)
― jaymc, Thursday, 24 June 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow -- I know at least thirty-two of the songs on the July 21 list. This was the peak of my top 40 listening.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 June 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Where the fuck is Poison-Bel Biv DevoeReady or Not-After 7Can;t Stop-After 7All I Do is think of you-Troop
― The Startrekman, Friday, 25 June 2010 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"vision of love" and "it must have been love" are both AMAZING ("vision of love" is better)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 25 June 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
WTF? I've never heard those Glen Medeiros and Sweet Sensation songs either - and I'm a 1990 expert...
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:04 (thirteen years ago) link
What is freestyle?
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Iq8JmmfxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksHsh4r8tJA
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember Glenn Medeiros but dont think its that song.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
It's crazy how true this is for me too. Not July 21st. Apparently I hit my peak while "Escapade" was #1 a couple months prior.
― rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
(xx-post) Wow. I don't think I've heard either of those songs since I was about six, and I certainly didn't know that kind of music had a name. I would've just lumped it in with 80s pop. Interesting. So they called it "freestyle" even though it had nothing to do with freestyle rapping?
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 1 July 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Its longer name is Latin Freestyle, though the "latin" part got largely dropped by the time people like Information Society moved in on the sound.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 July 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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― is this the end of zombie Shakespeare? (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 1 July 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
To quote Gloria Estefan, here we are.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 April 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link