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Post by jlthorpe on May 24, 2023 20:03:58 GMT -5
Climbing to #31 in its third week on the Modern Rock chart for the week ending May 23, 1998, "Saint Joe on the School Bus" by Marcy Playground eventually reached #8 and stayed on the chart for 21 weeks. And in honor of Tina Turner's passing, here are links to three of her songs posted in this thread over the years: " Why Must We Wait Until Tonight" (the video at this link is unavailable, and I am unable to edit the post, so here is a replacement video link: youtu.be/xQJJaOhM2WU ) " Missing You" " GoldenEye"
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Post by jlthorpe on May 28, 2023 11:23:45 GMT -5
On Wednesday, I posted "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Fat" in the 80s thread. Today, from the album Bad Hair Day, here's "Gump" (a parody of "Lump" by The Presidents of the United States of America, about the film Forrest Gump). This week in 1996, "Gump" climbed to #103 on the Bubbling Under chart, and reached #102 the following week.
As a bonus, from the same album, here's "Weird Al"'s parody of TLC's "Waterfalls" about crank callers, "Phony Calls".
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Post by jlthorpe on May 31, 2023 18:43:33 GMT -5
Achieving similar peak positions in both Billboard and Radio and Records, "Blood on the Dance Floor" by Michael Jackson reached #42 on the former's Hot 100 chart and #41 on the latter's pop chart. For the week ending May 31, 1997, "Blood" was down from #48 to #57 in Billboard.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 4, 2023 11:20:12 GMT -5
Despite their enduring popularity, Wu-Tang Clan's highest charting single only reached #60 on the Hot 100. For the week ending June 4, 1994, "C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)" dropped from #81 to #86 in its 13th of 16 weeks on the chart. The song samples "As Long As I've Got You" by soul group The Charmels.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 7, 2023 19:34:22 GMT -5
On Sunday I posted a song from Wu-Tang Clan, and today I post one from arguably its most famous member. This week in 1995, while the follow-up single "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" (posted here last year) was at #100 in its fourth week, "Brooklyn Zoo" by Ol' Dirty Bastard was spending its 16th and last week on the Hot 100 at #97, having peaked at #54 in March. WARNING: Lyrics NSFW!
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 11, 2023 13:36:51 GMT -5
Here's a song that was a former #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart; this week in 1990, it was down from #3 to #7. From England, here's The Sundays with "Here's Where the Story Ends".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 14, 2023 19:49:42 GMT -5
From The 2 Live Crew, here comes Luke (AKA Luther Campbell) with "I Wanna Rock". Peaking at #73, it was down from #89 to #99 on the June 13, 1992 Hot 100. Needless to say, NSFW!
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 18, 2023 11:12:04 GMT -5
From the soundtrack to the original Super Mario Bros. movie in 1993, "Almost Unreal" by Roxette debuted on the June 19 Hot 100 at #94, which ended up being its peak.
As a bonus, here's another song from the film - a cover of Roxy Music's #30 hit from 1975 "Love Is the Drug", performed by Divinyls.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 21, 2023 19:05:27 GMT -5
On the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for June 20, 1998, Metallica was spending their second week at the #6 peak for a track from their album Reload - "Fuel".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 25, 2023 14:01:43 GMT -5
Dropping from the #1 position (where it stayed for two weeks) down to #2 on the Album Rock Tracks chart this week in 1991 was the first single released from Van Halen's album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - "Poundcake".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jun 28, 2023 19:51:58 GMT -5
Debuting and peaking at #42 on the Billboard 200 album chart this week in 1999 was Schizophonic by then-former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell. From that album was a song that was "bubbling under" the Hot Dance Music - Club Play chart at #55 that same week (based on the info at Billboard's website), eventually entering the chart two weeks later and reaching #12 - "Look at Me".
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 2, 2023 11:10:24 GMT -5
Here are two Pink Floyd songs from their 1994 album The Division Bell.
The first one comes from the Hot 100 for July 2 of that year, where "Take It Back" was at its peak position of #73.
The second is from the Album Rock Tracks chart that same week. While the above song was at #4 on the chart (which was also its peak there), "Keep Talking" was down to #21 after having spent a six week stay at #1.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 5, 2023 19:06:08 GMT -5
Detroit rock band Sponge debuted at #75 on the July 6, 1996 Hot 100 Airplay chart with "Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)", and reached #64 during a four week stay.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 9, 2023 10:34:52 GMT -5
From Sweden, here's the funk/metal band Electric Boys with "All Lips N' Hips". It debuted on the Hot 100 this week in 1990 at #92, and peaked at #76.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 12, 2023 19:56:25 GMT -5
It reached its peak of #45 on the July 12, 1997 Hot 100. Sampling "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees, here's "We Trying to Stay Alive" by Wyclef Jean featuring Refugee Allstars.
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