Kind of an interesting perusal. I like GnR, but I’m surprised they are doing that well. And where did all the hits from the Cranberries song come from? (I was working off this link to compile that list.)
“Rush Rush” is also one of Paula Abdul’s strongest songs. Mariah Carey should get love because she will be a constant feature for the 10 polls till about 2000. Just letting you all know.
Wow, I had great memories of the early 90s (first girlfriend and all that) but romance must have made me deaf to whatever was on the radio. Otherwise, I’d have had mixed feelings about that era.
I thought I was not going to be able to pick a good song here, let alone the “best” one until I saw EMF’s Unbelievable. It was the first song that convinced me that a cool guitar riff could successfully be paired with dance beats and sampling. It’s held up well actually.
Extreme’s More Than Words would have been my first choice without Unbelievable but only because the competition is incredibly weak. It’s a nice ballad but that’s it.
Londonbeat’s I’ve Been Thinking About You is the last song on the list that I can tolerate. It’s a fun, little song.
The rest is a huge bag of meh. P.M. Dawn’s Set Adrift on Memory Bliss deserves a special mention because, while True was snore-inducing, this was an anesthetic.
Based on what I’ve seen over the years, it’s the million and one local bands with girl lead singers watching the video over and over again so they could learn the song for their shows.
For a solo artist yes, with 18 #1 singles. The Beatles have the most with 20. Mariah Carey does hold the record for most consecutive years of #1 singles, having at least one #1 single every year from 1990-2000. This broke the record by the Beatles who had at least one #1 single from 1964-1970.
The EMF song features Andrew Dice Clay who in the not so background says “What F*&$ was that”? It is done in a way that that no realized so it was never censored for radio.
Zac from EMF died very young. He was known for being able to capture fruit items with his foreskin.
This is his obituary from the Daily Telegraph (serious newspaper, particularly when it comes to death notices), which mentions the aforesaid superpower.
Too many. We know the record store managers were on some substances, but they were for the prior twenty years as well and they were not always all over the place like this. This is a huge mess of pieces a lot of which left me like “Huh, what?” “Who?” and “It made #1??”. That said, I’m joining in with the majority and going with Unbelievable.
