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Post by jlthorpe on May 19, 2021 19:43:43 GMT -5
At #64 on the Hot 100 this week in 1998, after peaking at #59 earlier in May, it's a sequel to this band's #35 hit from 1992, "The Unforgiven". Here's "The Unforgiven II" by Metallica.
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Post by jlthorpe on May 23, 2021 16:31:51 GMT -5
At #85 on the Hot 100 this week in 1991, it's a song I remember getting a bit of airplay in the New York City area at the time, either on WQHT (Hot 97) or WHTZ (Z100), but it only ever reached #73. Here's Daisy Dee with "Crazy".
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Post by dth1971 on May 23, 2021 18:22:51 GMT -5
At #85 on the Hot 100 this week in 1991, it's a song I remember getting a bit of airplay in the New York City area at the time, either on WQHT (Hot 97) or WHTZ (Z100), but it only ever reached #73. Here's Daisy Dee with "Crazy". I also remember "Crazy" by Daisy Dee played on WYTZ 94.7 FM and WBBM B-96 FM in Chicago at the 1991 time.
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Post by jlthorpe on May 26, 2021 18:19:00 GMT -5
At #75 on the Hot 100 this week in 1990, on its way down from its peak of #71 the previous week, it's the fourth single released from this band's album "Disintegration". Here's The Cure with "Pictures of You".
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Post by jlthorpe on May 30, 2021 14:44:34 GMT -5
Today's lost classic from 1994 managed to spend 18 weeks on the Hot 100 despite only peaking at #78. At #88 on the Hot 100 this week that year, here's Candlebox with "You".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 2, 2021 17:28:47 GMT -5
Debuting on the Hot 100 at #93 this week in 1992, it's a song that would go on to peak at #57 for this hip-hop trio from New York, and would later get referenced by Barenaked Ladies in their hit "One Week" (skip ahead to 3:45 in the video below for the reference). Featuring members of the hip-hop group Leaders of the New School, including a young Busta Rhymes, here's A Tribe Called Quest with "Scenario".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 6, 2021 15:26:52 GMT -5
There seemed to be a bit of jazz-influenced hip-hop on the charts in 1993, the year I'm picking for today's song. Us3's "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" was the big Top 10 hit from around this time, but there were other songs as well. One of them was at #54 on the Hot 100 this week that year, a week away from its peak of #52. Here's The Pharcyde with "Passin' Me By".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 9, 2021 9:13:25 GMT -5
At #66 on the Hot 100 this week in 1997, down from its peak of #46 the previous week, it's a song from the film "Lost Highway" by an artist who would go on to win two Oscars for their film work, winning Best Original Score for "The Social Network" and "Soul". Here's Trent Reznor performing with Nine Inch Nails on "The Perfect Drug".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 13, 2021 14:48:17 GMT -5
Debuting at #5 on this week's Hot 100 in 1995 and breaking a 25-year old Billboard record for highest debut on that chart (previously held by the Beatles' "Let It Be" in 1970, which debuted at #6) was "Scream" by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. It was released as a double A-side single with this song, which charted along with "Scream" for its entire chart run but never achieved its own peak position; it came from Michael's album "HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I" as well as the film "Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home". Here's Michael Jackson solo with "Childhood".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 16, 2021 19:57:02 GMT -5
Here's a song that I remember hearing back when it came out and there was something about it I did not like, even though I liked previous songs by this artist. I can't find the right word to describe what I thought of it (pretentious, maybe?), but this week in 1998 it was at #8 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart, having previously peaked at #4. It also reached #50 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. Here's Dave Matthews Band with "Don't Drink the Water".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 20, 2021 7:58:05 GMT -5
Today's song was released as a single this week in 1999, and was a parody of Don McLean's "American Pie" made to spoof the release of the film "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace". Here's "Weird Al" Yankovic with "The Saga Begins".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 23, 2021 8:16:48 GMT -5
Recently, I posted Candlebox's "You" and mentioned it spent 18 weeks on the Hot 100 and only peaked at #78. Here's a song that spent 20 weeks on the Hot 100 and would peak lower, at #86. At #89 on this week's Hot 100 in 1996, and from the film "Seven", here's "Guilty" by Gravity Kills.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 27, 2021 17:43:53 GMT -5
From 1993, it's a song by a white hip-hop group who ironically named themselves Young Black Teenagers. At #80 on the Hot 100 this week that year, it previously peaked at #55 and was this group's only chart hit. Here's "Tap the Bottle".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 30, 2021 10:16:48 GMT -5
At #69 on the Hot 100 this week in 1994, it's the last solo Hot 100 entry so far for Stevie Nicks. Her song would peak at #57 two weeks later. Here's "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 4, 2021 16:00:37 GMT -5
Today's song isn't much of a lost classic as it probably still gets regular rock airplay, although it was never a pop chart hit. On this week's Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in 1991, it was at its peak position of #18 and was the first of many rock hits by this band. Here's "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains.
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