DRC Madness #42

[Wolf]

These are all the 90s #1 songs listed on wiki Billboard Hot 100.

1990		Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Jan 20, 1990	Michael Bolton	How Am I Supposed To Live Without You	3
Feb 10, 1990	Paula Abdul & The Wild Pair	Opposites Attract	3
Mar 03, 1990	Janet Jackson	Escapade	3
Mar 24, 1990	Alannah Myles	Black Velvet	2
Apr 07, 1990	Taylor Dayne	Love Will Lead You Back	1
Apr 14, 1990	Tommy Page	I'll Be Your Everything	1
Apr 21, 1990	Sinéad O'Connor	Nothing Compares 2 U	4
May 19, 1990	Madonna	Vogue	3
Jun 09, 1990	Wilson Phillips	Hold On	1
Jun 16, 1990	Roxette	It Must Have Been Love	2
Jun 30, 1990	New Kids On The Block	Step By Step	3
Jul 21, 1990	Glenn Medeiros w/Bobby Brown	She Ain't Worth It	2
Aug 04, 1990	Mariah Carey	Vision of Love	4
Sep 01, 1990	Sweet Sensation	If Wishes Came True	1
Sep 08, 1990	Jon Bon Jovi	Blaze of Glory	1
Sep 15, 1990	Wilson Phillips	Release Me	2
Sep 29, 1990	Nelson	(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection	1
Oct 06, 1990	Maxi Priest	Close To You	1
Oct 13, 1990	George Michael	Praying for Time	1
Oct 20, 1990	James Ingram	I Don't Have The Heart	1
Oct 27, 1990	Janet Jackson	Black Cat	1
Nov 03, 1990	Vanilla Ice	Ice Ice Baby	1
Nov 10, 1990	Mariah Carey	Love Takes Time	3
Dec 01, 1990	Whitney Houston	I'm Your Baby Tonight	1
Dec 08, 1990	Stevie B	Because I Love You (The Postman Song)	4
1991	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Jan 05, 1991	Madonna	Justify My Love	2
Jan 19, 1991	Janet Jackson	Love Will Never Do (Without You)	1
Jan 26, 1991	Surface	The First Time	2
Feb 09, 1991	C+C Music Factory w/Freedom Williams	Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)	2
Feb 23, 1991	Whitney Houston	All The Man That I Need	2
Mar 09, 1991	Mariah Carey	Someday	2
Mar 23, 1991	Timmy T	One More Try	1
Mar 30, 1991	Gloria Estefan	Coming Out of The Dark	2
Apr 13, 1991	Londonbeat	I've Been Thinking About You	1
Apr 20, 1991	Wilson Phillips	You're In Love	1
Apr 27, 1991	Amy Grant	Baby Baby	2
May 11, 1991	Roxette	Joyride	1
May 18, 1991	Hi-Five	I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)	1
May 25, 1991	Mariah Carey	I Don't Wanna Cry	2
Jun 08, 1991	Extreme	More Than Words	1
Jun 15, 1991	Paula Abdul	Rush Rush	5
Jul 20, 1991	EMF	Unbelievable	1
Jul 27, 1991	Bryan Adams	(Everything I Do) I Do It for You	7
Sep 14, 1991	Paula Abdul	The Promise of A New Day	1
Sep 21, 1991	Color Me Badd	I Adore Mi Amor	2
Oct 05, 1991	Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch w/Loleatta Holloway	Good Vibrations	1
Oct 12, 1991	Mariah Carey	Emotions	3
Nov 02, 1991	Karyn White	Romantic	1
Nov 09, 1991	Prince & The New Power Generation	Cream	2
Nov 23, 1991	Michael Bolton	When A Man Loves A Woman	1
Nov 30, 1991	P.M. Dawn	Set Adrift On Memory Bliss	1
Dec 07, 1991	Michael Jackson	Black or White	7
1992	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Jan 25, 1992	Color Me Badd	All 4 Love	1
Feb 01, 1992	George Michael & Elton John	Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me	1
Feb 08, 1992	Right Said Fred	I'm Too Sexy	3
Feb 29, 1992	Mr. Big	To Be With You	3
Mar 21, 1992	Vanessa Williams	Save The Best For Last	5
Apr 25, 1992	Kris Kross	Jump	8
Jun 20, 1992	Mariah Carey	I'll Be There	2
Jul 04, 1992	Sir Mix-A-Lot	Baby Got Back	5
Aug 08, 1992	Madonna	This Used To Be My Playground	1
Aug 15, 1992	Boyz II Men	End of the Road	13
Nov 14, 1992	The Heights	How Do You Talk To An Angel	2
Nov 28, 1992	Whitney Houston	I Will Always Love You	14
1993	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Mar 06, 1993	Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle	A Whole New World	1
Mar 13, 1993	Snow	Informer	7
May 01, 1993	Silk	Freak Me	2
May 15, 1993	Janet Jackson	That's The Way Love Goes	8
Jul 10, 1993	SWV	Weak	2
Jul 24, 1993	UB40	(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You	7
Sep 11, 1993	Mariah Carey	Dreamlover	8
Nov 06, 1993	Meat Loaf	I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)	5
Dec 11, 1993	Janet Jackson	Again	2
Dec 25, 1993	Mariah Carey	Hero	4
1994	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Jan 22, 1994	Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting	All For Love	3
Feb 12, 1994	Céline Dion	The Power Of Love	4
Mar 12, 1994	Ace of Base	The Sign	6
Apr 09, 1994	R. Kelly	Bump n' Grind	4
May 21, 1994	All-4-One	I Swear	11
Aug 06, 1994	Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories	Stay (I Missed You)	3
Aug 27, 1994	Boyz II Men	I'll Make Love To You	14
Dec 03, 1994	Boyz II Men	On Bended Knee	6
Dec 17, 1994	Ini Kamoze	Here Comes The Hotstepper	2
1995	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Jan 28, 1995	TLC	Creep	4
Feb 25, 1995	Madonna	Take A Bow	7
Apr 15, 1995	Montell Jordan	This Is How We Do It	7
Jun 03, 1995	Bryan Adams	Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman	5
Jul 08, 1995	TLC	Waterfalls	7
Aug 26, 1995	Seal	Kiss From A Rose	1
Sep 02, 1995	Michael Jackson	You Are Not Alone	1
Sep 09, 1995	Coolio w/L.V.	Gangsta's Paradise	3
Sep 30, 1995	Mariah Carey	Fantasy	8
Nov 25, 1995	Whitney Houston	Exhale (Shoop Shoop)	1
Dec 02, 1995	Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men	One Sweet Day	16

 

[Wolf]

1996	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Mar 23, 1996	Céline Dion	Because You Loved Me	6
May 04, 1996	Mariah Carey	Always Be My Baby	2
May 18, 1996	Bone Thugs-N-Harmony	Tha Crossroads	8
Jul 13, 1996	2Pac w/K-Ci & JoJo / Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman	How Do U Want It / California Love	2
Jul 27, 1996	Toni Braxton	You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow	1
Aug 03, 1996	Los Del Rio	Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)	14
Nov 09, 1996	Blackstreet w/Dr. Dre	No Diggity	4
Dec 07, 1996	Toni Braxton	Un-Break My Heart	11
1997	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Feb 22, 1997	Spice Girls	Wannabe	4
Mar 22, 1997	Puff Daddy w/Mase	Can't Nobody Hold Me Down	6
May 03, 1997	The Notorious B.I.G.	Hypnotize	3
May 24, 1997	Hanson	MMMBop	3
Jun 14, 1997	Puff Daddy & Faith Evans w/112	I'll Be Missing You	11
Aug 30, 1997	The Notorious B.I.G. w/Puff Daddy & Mase	Mo Money Mo Problems	2
Sep 13, 1997	Mariah Carey	Honey	3
Oct 04, 1997	Boyz II Men	4 Seasons of Loneliness	1
Oct 11, 1997	Elton John	Candle in the Wind '97 / Something About the Way You Look Tonight	14
1998	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Jan 17, 1998	Savage Garden	Truly Madly Deeply	2
Jan 31, 1998	Janet Jackson	Together Again	2
Feb 14, 1998	Usher	Nice & Slow	2
Feb 28, 1998	Céline Dion	My Heart Will Go On	2
Mar 14, 1998	Will Smith	Gettin' Jiggy Wit It	3
Apr 04, 1998	K-Ci & JoJo	All My Life	3
Apr 25, 1998	Next	Too Close	5
May 23, 1998	Mariah Carey	My All	1
Jun 06, 1998	Brandy & Monica	The Boy Is Mine	13
Sep 05, 1998	Aerosmith	I Don't Want to Miss a Thing	4
Oct 03, 1998	Monica	The First Night	5
Oct 17, 1998	Barenaked Ladies	One Week	1
Nov 14, 1998	Lauryn Hill	Doo Wop (That Thing)	2
Nov 28, 1998	Divine	Lately	1
Dec 05, 1998	R. Kelly & Céline Dion	I'm Your Angel	6
1999	Artists	Song Titles	Weeks @ #1
Jan 16, 1999	Brandy	Have You Ever	2
Jan 30, 1999	Britney Spears	…Baby One More Time	2
Feb 13, 1999	Monica	Angel of Mine	4
Mar 13, 1999	Cher	Believe	4
Apr 10, 1999	TLC	No Scrubs	4
May 08, 1999	Ricky Martin	Livin' La Vida Loca	5
Jun 12, 1999	Jennifer Lopez	If You Had My Love	5
Jul 17, 1999	Destiny's Child	Bills, Bills, Bills	1
Jul 24, 1999	Will Smith w/Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee	Wild Wild West	1
Jul 31, 1999	Christina Aguilera	Genie In A Bottle	5
Sep 04, 1999	Enrique Iglesias	Bailamos	2
Sep 18, 1999	TLC	Unpretty	3
Oct 09, 1999	Mariah Carey w/Jay-Z	Heartbreaker	2
Oct 23, 1999	Santana w/ Rob Thomas	Smooth	12

 

[Wolf]

Best #1 Song of the ’90s
not too many good #1s as mentioned.

Best #1 Song of the ’90s
What IRBS meant to say: there were tons of #1 songs!

Smells Like Teen Spirit – who knew "teen spirit" has an odor? – was released as a single on September 10 1991. It peaked at #6 on the January 11 1992 Hot 100. It went to number one on the alternative rock chart (November 23 1991), reached #7 on the mainstream rock chart (February 1 1992) and got to #7 on the British singles chart (November 30 1991).

After looking and posting. I may have to agree with IRBS not too many good #1s as mentioned.

We didn't bend the rules for the 70s and 80s #1 hits. Maybe we should for the 90s and possibly go back to revisit and challenge the 70s and 80s #1 hit songs?

Below are some great songs that didn't make #1 Billboard Hot 100 list.

Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under The Bridge" (1991)
Oasis - "Wonderwall" (1995)
Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life" (1997)
Backstreet Boys - "I Want It That Way" (1999)
TLC - "Waterfalls" (1994)

 

[Channel98]

Believe was number one on the Hot 100 for four weeks in March-April 1999, It was #3 on the adult contemporary chart for four weeks. It couldn't get above Savage Garden's Truly Madly Deeply and Céline Dion's My Heart Will Go On.

Seven of my favorite 1990s songs peaked at #2:

Right Here Right Now – Jesus Jones (July 27 1991)
Every Heartbeat – Amy Grant (August 17 1991)
Tears In Heaven – Eric Clapton (March 28 1992)
All That She Wants – Ace Of Base (November 6 1993)
All I Wanna Do – Sheryl Crow (October 8 1994)
Lovefool – Cardigans (March 1 1997)
You Were Meant For Me – Jewel (April 19 1997)

 

[scotchandcigar]

After looking and posting. I may have to agree with IRBS not too many good #1s as mentioned.

We didn't bend the rules for the 70s and 80s #1 hits. Maybe we should for the 90s and possibly go back to revisit and challenge the 70s and 80s #1 hit songs?

Below are some great songs that didn't make #1 Billboard Hot 100 list.

Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under tTe Bridge" (1991)
Oasis - "Wonderwall" (1995)
Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life" (1997)
Cher - "Believe" (1998)
Backstreet Boys - "I Want It That Way" (1999)
TLC - "Waterfalls" (1994)

Yeah, it's a shitty list of songs, which is why I didn't vote for it. The 90's is when things like the internet, iPods, and a divergent choice of radio stations made the Billboard pop chart superfluous. If you liked rock/folk/grunge/alternative/adult contemporary/indie music, you didn't need to listen to top 40 radio. There's like 3 songs on that list that I'd give a "meh" to.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Starting with 1990, here are examples of awesome albums and songs that are not on that horrible list.

Albums released in 1990:
Depeche Mode - Violator (Personal Jesus)
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker ( Jealous Again, Hard to Handle, Twice As Hard, She Talks to Angels)
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (Been Caught Stealing, Stop!, Classic Girl)
INXS - X (Suicide Blonde)
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining (Blue Sky Mine, Forgotten Years)
The Sundays - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic (Here's Where the Story Ends)

Albums released in 1991:
Pearl Jam - Ten (Alive, Even Flow, Jeremy, Black)
Nirvana - Nevermind (Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come as You Are, Lithium, In Bloom, Breed)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Give It Away, Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Breaking the Girl)
Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the Draw (Something to Talk About, I Can't Make You Love Me, Not the Only One)
U2 - Achtung Baby (The Fly, Mysterious Ways, One, Even Better Than the Real Thing, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Until the End of the World)
Sarah McLachlan - Solace (Into the Fire, Drawn to the Rhythm)
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (Divine Intervention, Girlfriend, I've Been Waiting)
Sting - The Soul Cages (All This Time, Mad About You)
R.E.M. - Out of Time (Losing My Religion, Shiny Happy People, Radio Song)
Metallica - "Black Album" (Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters)
Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open (Learning to Fly, Into the Great Wide Open)
Guns 'n Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II (November Rain, Live and Let Die, Knockin' on Heaven's Door)

I think you get the idea.

 

[Channel98]

The top ten albums on this day in 1991 (week ending June 1):

05 - 01 Out Of Time – R.E.M.
01 - 02 Time Love & Tenderness – Michael Bolton
03 - 03 Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey
02 - 04 New Jack City sound track
NEW05 Spellbound – Paula Abdul
04 - 06 No Fences – Garth Brooks
06 - 07 Gonna Make You Sweat – C&C Music Factory
08 - 08 Coolin' At The Playground Ya Know! – New Edition
11 - 09 Shake Your Money Maker – Black Crowes
09 - 10 Wilson Phillips – Wilson Phillips

 

[scotchandcigar]

The top ten albums on this day in 1991 (week ending June 1):

05 - 01 Out Of Time – R.E.M.
01 - 02 Time Love & Tenderness – Michael Bolton
03 - 03 Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey
02 - 04 New Jack City sound track
NEW05 Spellbound – Paula Abdul
04 - 06 No Fences – Garth Brooks
06 - 07 Gonna Make You Sweat – C&C Music Factory
08 - 08 Coolin' At The Playground Ya Know! – New Edition
11 - 09 Shake Your Money Maker – Black Crowes
09 - 10 Wilson Phillips – Wilson Phillips

A few good ones, a few bad ones. None of the good ones had #1 singles on the stupid pop chart.

 

[Channel98]

In three weeks the number one album would be EFIL4ZAGGIN – read it backwards – by N.W.A.

My one-word review: "Yuck!"

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

3 good albums from 1991:

05 - 01 Out Of Time – R.E.M.
04 - 06 No Fences – Garth Brooks
11 - 09 Shake Your Money Maker – Black Crowes

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Starting with 1990, here are examples of awesome albums and songs that are not on that horrible list.

Albums released in 1990:
Depeche Mode - Violator (Personal Jesus)
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker ( Jealous Again, Hard to Handle, Twice As Hard, She Talks to Angels)
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (Been Caught Stealing, Stop!, Classic Girl)
INXS - X (Suicide Blonde)
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining (Blue Sky Mine, Forgotten Years)
The Sundays - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic (Here's Where the Story Ends)

Albums released in 1991:
Pearl Jam - Ten (Alive, Even Flow, Jeremy, Black)
Nirvana - Nevermind (Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come as You Are, Lithium, In Bloom, Breed)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Give It Away, Under the Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Breaking the Girl)
Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the Draw (Something to Talk About, I Can't Make You Love Me, Not the Only One)
U2 - Achtung Baby (The Fly, Mysterious Ways, One, Even Better Than the Real Thing, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, Until the End of the World)
Sarah McLachlan - Solace (Into the Fire, Drawn to the Rhythm)
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (Divine Intervention, Girlfriend, I've Been Waiting)
Sting - The Soul Cages (All This Time, Mad About You)
R.E.M. - Out of Time (Losing My Religion, Shiny Happy People, Radio Song)
Metallica - "Black Album" (Enter Sandman, Nothing Else Matters)
Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open (Learning to Fly, Into the Great Wide Open)
Guns 'n Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II (November Rain, Live and Let Die, Knockin' on Heaven's Door)

I think you get the idea.

The same can be said of 70s and 80s. When I did my 70s list, I skipped a whole bunch of songs which I consider better than the #1 songs that I would eventually include. The difference is that a greater number of the #1 songs in the 70s were actually good songs.

 

[HecticArt]

A super quick glance looks like about 24 songs that are either good or fun nostalgia picks for me.

This could end up being a Madness Speed round.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

If everybody gave me their top 20 90s songs (any chart position just on a chart in the 1990s) in ranked order, I can come up with a list of about 64. If a bit over we would have vote offs for the lower ranked songs. Once we have 64 songs in a ranked order, we can do a traditional madness of just 2 songs against each other straight tournament with no second chances to do a madness winner. So you would start with unmadness and result in Madness.

 

[scotchandcigar]

The same can be said of 70s and 80s. When I did my 70s list, I skipped a whole bunch of songs which I consider better than the #1 songs that I would eventually include. The difference is that a greater number of the #1 songs in the 70s were actually good songs.

I think it's like everything else in the 70s, versus today. Movies were in the theater. TV shows were on the big 3 networks. Music was on the radio. If you liked it, you bought the album or recorded on cassette.

By the 90s, everything was narrow-cast. That's why they had alternative, because it was the alternative to music for 12 year old girls. From that point on, I never had to subject myself to that crap. I was able to listen to adult music exclusively. That's why the 70s #1s and 90s #1s are not the same.

 

[scotchandcigar]

If everybody gave me their top 20 90s songs (any chart position just on a chart in the 1990s) in ranked order, I can come up with a list of about 64. If a bit over we would have vote offs for the lower ranked songs. Once we have 64 songs in a ranked order, we can do a traditional madness of just 2 songs against each other straight tournament with no second chances to do a madness winner. So you would start with unmadness and result in Madness.

I like this idea.

 

[Channel98]

You want me to make another list? I can do that. My favorite 1990s songs, in order:

1. MMMBop – Hanson
2. The Sign – Ace Of Base
3. Black Or White – Michael Jackson/Bill Bottrell
4. Another Night – Real McCoy
5. All That She Wants – Ace Of Base
6. More Than Words – Extreme
7. You Were Meant For Me – Jewel
8. Real Love – Beatles
9. Hold On – Wilson Phillips
10. Torn – Natalie Imbruglia
11. Kiss Me – Sixpence None The Richer
12. As I Lay Me Down – Sophie B. Hawkins
13. Free As A Bird – Beatles
14. Every Heartbeat – Amy Grant
15. My Maria – Brooks & Dunn
16. Should've Been A Cowboy – Toby Keith
17. Losing My Religion – R.E.M.
18. Run-Around – Blues Traveler
19. All I Wanna Do – Sheryl Crow ("The bar is ars." "Ars"? Really?)
20. Walking In Memphis – Marc Cohn

And here is a list of my favorite rap songs of the 1990s:




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[Wolf]

If everybody gave me their top 20 90s songs (any chart position just on a chart in the 1990s) in ranked order, I can come up with a list of about 64. If a bit over we would have vote offs for the lower ranked songs. Once we have 64 songs in a ranked order, we can do a traditional madness of just 2 songs against each other straight tournament with no second chances to do a madness winner. So you would start with unmadness and result in Madness.

This is probably the first Madness where the list kind of sucks. I know we don’t all agree on most of these songs.

There are usually 10–11 users participating. I like the idea of everyone submitting their top 20 songs. We could easily come up with 100 songs and then whittle the list down to our top 64.

I also wouldn’t mind seeing what our #1 song for each year would be.

 

[scotchandcigar]

You want me to make another list? I can do that. My favorite 1990s songs, in order:

1. MMMBop – Hanson

There are just so many things I'd like to say, and so many questions to ask. But I will refrain.

 

[Channel98]

tI's simple – I like fun uptempo pop songs. I really loved the MMMBop remix that was played on Radio Disney but it was never commercially available. Here is a live acoustic version from 2022. Isaac was 42, Taylor was 39 and Zac was 36.