# Best of the Rest of the Top 40: 1991 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 8, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542 "2015-03-08T17:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542/21 "2015-03-09T23:17:21Z")
I went with Lenny Kravitz over REM. Losing my Religion was good…but Lenny was better. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542/22 "2015-03-09T23:21:13Z")
Motownphilly was probably in my top 4 of this list. Can’t believe it doesn’t have a single vote. That song kicked off Boyz II Men mania of the 90s. Man, they were huge. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542/23 "2015-03-09T23:29:16Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many zeroes this late into a voting period. And I don’t recall such a run away. REM 41 votes to 12 votes for second place. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542/24 "2015-03-09T23:42:30Z")
In the end I gave my vote to Rod Stewart. I have never seen a year in which a majority of songs have received no votes at all. That is saying something. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542/25 "2015-03-10T01:31:43Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > And I don’t recall such a run away. REM 41 votes to 12 votes for second place. There have been a few in the #1 polls, especially in later years when fewer songs reached #1 each year. In 2002, Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” beat the second-place song 75 to 10. The following year, Outkast’s “Hey Ya” won 100 to 9. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542/26 "2015-03-10T05:59:36Z")
The only track on this list that fails to make me want to shake babies is R.E.M… and I happen to really like that song. here it is in a [major key](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6KmiIq2-m8) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542/27 "2015-03-11T17:29:21Z")
Well, that was easy. Just one song on this list that I love, “High Enough”. And I’m the only one who voted for it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542/28 "2015-03-11T17:35:10Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > The only track on this list that fails to make me want to shake babies is R.E.M… > > and I happen to really like that song. > > here it is in a [major key](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6KmiIq2-m8) Jaunty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1991/714542.md?page=1)