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Post by 80sat40fan on Nov 14, 2015 18:26:37 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic was the #37 song on the 11/22/97 Modern Rock Tracks chart. Radiohead was most famous for their 1993 hit, "Creep". Their second release from the album "OK Computer" was this hit. To me, while the first two minutes and 33 seconds of the song is great, the song from 2:34 on goes to a whole new level... I lose myself in this song every time Thom Yorke sings, "For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself." Here is Radiohead with "Karma Police":
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Post by 80sat40fan on Nov 21, 2015 14:00:04 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic was on the 11/30/96 Modern Rock Tracks chart at #35. This song would just miss Radio & Records' Top 40 by peaking at #45... 16 months later on their 4/3/98 chart! This song was Fiona Apple's first release from the album "Tidal" which produced the hit "Criminal" (#21 BB/#17 R&R) and the song "Sleep To Dream" which helped her to win a 1997 MTV Music Video Award. Here is Fiona Apple with "Shadowboxer":
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Post by 80sat40fan on Nov 28, 2015 19:52:27 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic was from C & C Music Factory. In 1991, they hit #1 with "Gonna Make You Sweat", #3 with "Here We Go", and #4 with "Things That Make You Go Hmmmmmm..." Their fourth hit was remixed for radio airplay and was peaking on the 12/7/91 Hot 100 at #50. I wonder if Soundscan reporting hadn't started on the 11/30/91 Hot 100 if C & C Music Factory would have cracked AT40 with this hit. It's one of those things that makes you go hmmmmmm... . Here is the remixed version which was played on pop stations... and if 2:22-2:37 doesn't scream 1991 dance music, I don't know what does : Here is the radio-edit version of the original song which was featured in the 1992 movie Sister Act:
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Nov 28, 2015 20:29:44 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic was from C & C Music Factory. In 1991, they hit #1 with "Gonna Make You Sweat", #3 with "Here We Go", and #4 with "Things That Make You Go Hmmmmmm..." Their fourth hit was remixed for radio airplay and was peaking on the 12/7/91 Hot 100 at #50. I wonder if Soundscan reporting hadn't started on the 11/30/91 Hot 100 if C & C Music Factory would have cracked AT40 with this hit. It's one of those things that makes you go hmmmmmm... . The song did make AT40 for 1 week. AT40 was on its second week of using the "Top 40 Radio Monitor" chart, when the song spent 1 week at #40 on 7 December 1991.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Nov 28, 2015 21:13:34 GMT -5
"The song did make AT40 for 1 week. AT40 was on its second week of using the "Top 40 Radio Monitor" chart, when the song spent 1 week at #40 on 7 December 1991. I stand corrected regarding the song hitting AT40 but the song never did hit Billboard's Top 40 of their Hot 100, peaking at #50. In addition, the song never charted on Radio & Records' Top 50. I appreciate that you pointed this out to me but this also reminds me why I stopped listening to AT40 around this time... AT40 wouldn't feature Billboard's Top 40 on the show. I converted full-time to Casey's Top 40 right after this switch.
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Nov 28, 2015 22:13:24 GMT -5
"The song did make AT40 for 1 week. AT40 was on its second week of using the "Top 40 Radio Monitor" chart, when the song spent 1 week at #40 on 7 December 1991. I stand corrected regarding the song hitting AT40 but the song never did hit Billboard's Top 40 of their Hot 100, peaking at #50. In addition, the song never charted on Radio & Records' Top 50. I appreciate that you pointed this out to me but this also reminds me why I stopped listening to AT40 around this time... AT40 wouldn't feature Billboard's Top 40 on the show. I converted full-time to Casey's Top 40 right after this switch. I am not a fan of AT40's chart from Nov 30, '91 to Dec '92, but not because it wasn't the Hot 100 top 40. It just didn't represent the music I listened to as well as Radio & Records' chart that CT40 used.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Dec 4, 2015 20:01:30 GMT -5
I have two picks for Lost 90s Classics this week... one regular pick and one in memory of Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland who just passed away.
On the 12/12/98 Hot 100 chart, Courtney Love and her group, Hole, were sitting at #90 with this hit which peaked at #85. It hit #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The next time a modern rock track sung by a female would hit #1 would not take place until the Spring of 2003 when Evanescence hit the top with "Bring Me To Life". Here is Hole with "Celebrity Skin":
In memory of Scott Weiland, here's his first chart hit as a solo artist. It was featured on the Great Expectations Soundtrack and on his debut album, 12 Bar Blues. It only hit #39 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1998 but it deserved a better fate. Playing accordion on this song is Sheryl Crow! Here is Scott Weiland with "Lady Your Roof Brings Me Down:
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Post by 80sat40fan on Dec 11, 2015 16:29:58 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic features four incredible musicians... Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison and Bob Dylan. Together, they were the Traveling Wilburys. The supergroup also included Roy Orbison before his passing in late 1988. Their first album charted in 1988 but two songs released from the album failed to hit the Top 40. Their second album, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3", was spending its 3rd week at #11 on the Billboard Hot Album chart on 12/15/90. The album yielded these album cuts: "She's My Baby", "Wilbury Twist" and this hit called "Inside Out":
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Post by 80sat40fan on Dec 18, 2015 21:04:45 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic comes from a singer who burst onto the rock scene in 1995. On Radio & Records, Alanis Morissette hit the Top 10 with five tunes from her debut CD, "Jagged Little Pill": "You Oughta Know", "Hand In My Pocket", "Ironic", "You Learn" and "Head Over Feet". A sixth tune from that CD was at #15 on the 12/23/95 Top Modern Rock Tracks Chart after peaking the previous week at #14. Here is Alanis Morissette with "All I Really Want":
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Post by 80sat40fan on Dec 26, 2015 7:40:11 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic comes from a band from Hollywood called The Flys. This song was in the Top 10 on the 1/2/99 Top Modern Rock Tracks chart. While the song never hit Billboard's Hot 100, the song cracked Radio & Records Top 50... by spending one week at #50. This song was featured in the Disturbing Behavior soundtrack which starred James Marsden and Katie Holmes. Here are The Flys with "Got You Where I Want You":
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 1, 2016 20:21:54 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic comes from a group which hails from Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Ocean Blue achieved some success on the Modern Rock Tracks chart including four Top 10 songs between 1989 and 1993. Their third Top 10 was at #3 on the 1/4/92 and 1/11/92 Modern Rock Tracks charts. Their music has been described as "dream pop". Here is "Ballerina Out Of Control" by The Ocean Blue:
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 8, 2016 14:00:21 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic comes from Nick Heyward, the lead singer of Haircut One Hundred, famous for their 1982 AT40 hit, "Love Plus One". Nick released a number of solo albums in the 80s, 90s and 00s, and this release comes from his album "From Monday To Sunday". It was peaking at #4 on the 1/15/94 Modern Rock Tracks chart. Not many modern rock hits feature a cello, a trumpet and a mandolin but this one does. If you don't mind pretending to eat lunch with an older Nick Heyward here, here's a better audio version of "Kite": If you want to see the original MTV video of "Kite" with Ok audio quality, it is featured on Artist Direct here: www.artistdirect.com/video/nick-heyward-kite/29622
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 15, 2016 19:52:24 GMT -5
My pick for This Week's Lost 90s Classic comes from the group Cake. For as much success as Cake has had on Billboard's rock charts, I'm amazed they haven't had a Top 40 hit. "Never There" from 1999 came close at #44 on Radio & Records' Top 50 but no Top 40 success. This hit by Cake was spending its 13th consecutive week in the Top 10 of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks Chart for the week ending 1/25/97. Here is Cake with "The Distance":
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 16, 2016 18:22:23 GMT -5
Here are two special bonus picks for This Week's Lost 90s Classic to honor David Bowie. While he had his biggest chart success in the 70s and 80s, he had some chart success in the 90s though not on Billboard's Top 40.
From 1993, here is "Jump They Say" which was a Top 10 hit on the Modern Rock and Dance charts:
From 1997, here is the eerily titled, "Dead Man Walking" from his 1997 album, Earthling:
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 23, 2016 6:23:50 GMT -5
What do you get when you mix part pop, part rap, part alternative and part contemporary Christian music? You get dc Talk, the group featured in my Lost 90s Classic for this week. dc Talk hit the charts in late '96 with "Just Between You & Me" (#29 on the Hot 100, #12 on Radio & Records). The group had the #1 album on the Contemporary Christian chart on 1/27/96 with "Jesus Freak", an album which hit #16 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums charts. Here is the lead single from this album which received some airplay on both the Top 40 and modern rock stations in St. Louis where I lived back in 1996... here is "Jesus Freak" by dc Talk:
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