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I've never heard that Timmy T song before but the clip was enough for me :D A perplexing chart topper.

Great to see the amazing FPI Project song get a mention. I've no idea how it didn't become a big UK hit with all the other dance music successes in 1991, but it seems to have lasted well anyway :disco:
 
Based on that photo (and others, I got the album in a bargain bin because I was collecting #1s :shy:) he could be 16 to 50 years old, it's one of those cases like Sha-la-lie's Sieneke, you just can't tell.
 
Oh I love THINK ABOUT...

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

It really WAS! :disco:

I remember hearing all these songs on mixtapes passed around the kids in the classroom who said they went to illegal raves (I doubt that as we were all THIRTEEN at the time, more like it was the ones with older siblings...) and then to see them weeks later on Top Of The Pops was quite STRANGE but wonderful :disco:
 
That Whitney Star Spangled Banner was unavoidable at the time. Every news channel covered it for weeks and you would have thought she cured cancer or something.

I Touch Myself has always amazed me because it’s not like an innuendo really but it somehow was on the radio constantly. Also the video was on constant rotation on MTV.
 
I have to say as a huge Whitney fan I don’t really get why it was so huge. Maybe it was unexpected and you had to be there at the time.

Also I’m not American :D
 
I have to say as a huge Whitney fan I don’t really get why it was so huge. Maybe it was unexpected and you had to be there at the time.

Also I’m not American :D
Well I think being American helps because God knows “we” LOVE that fucking song :D Also we were in the Gulf War so people were feeling super patriotic and let’s face it, that woman sang it to perfection.
 
Yeah, it was the Gulf War- a few other songs benefited from massive exposure for the same reason. Get Here by Oleta Adams and Mother’s Pride by George Michael were two others I remember.
 
Well I think being American helps because God knows “we” LOVE that fucking song :D Also we were in the Gulf War so people were feeling super patriotic and let’s face it, that woman sang it to perfection.
The Gulf War, indeed. Another couple of songs (and more, I guess) coming soon will be a huge hit because of it, one of them recorded because of the war.
 
My (Iraqi) mother has said on multiple occasions that she remembers a lot of Whitney post-Gulf War. She's a case where the vocals were so phenomenal people would enjoy anything she sang.

And then she started smoking all that crack.
 
Jasmine Guy I had never heard of as a singer, but she's a pretty successful actress according to Wiki - she just had one album released in 1990. There's another song coming a bit later that will probably hit my discoveries section, but in the meantime this track is a decent pop-swing track
I only knew her top 40 hit, coming later this year, it was much later that I discovered that she actually has great songs. She was one of the biggest tv stars back then, shame she didn't have a longer recording career, because the album was good.

I'm not sure what Sheena Easton was thinking with that song... she was coming off a big album in 1989 which was a big comeback of sorts, but this new single from her 1991 album of the same name was not it. I don't have any problem with Sheena moving into R&B, she has the vocal ability to do pretty much any style she wants - but this doesn't land. It doesn't show off her vocal and sounds almost karaoke. America seems to have given her the benefit of the doubt as this reached #19 (#77 UK) but it killed the album, and actually her chart career.

How dare you :shock: What comes naturally is a fantastic song! I don't see much r&b in it, she was more r&b in her Prince era, but yes, she was probably one of those singers like Paula Abdul and Madonna that had the ocassional hit in the r&b chart, and the r&b stations still played some of their more pop songs. (wiki tells me this peaked at #39 in the r&b singles chart, which makes sense).

I Touch Myself has always amazed me because it’s not like an innuendo really but it somehow was on the radio constantly. Also the video was on constant rotation on MTV.
I always thought without the success and heavy rotation on MTV of the video, it wouldn't have been such a radio hit. I mean, we had Let's talk about sex this year, but this is another level o_O O_o o.O O.o Well, unless you're a star, then you can have a #2 hit with a song called I want your sex :shock: I wonder if Divinyls had a longer career in Australia, for me they're a total one hit wonder.
 
I remember being quite shocked by Let’s Talk About Sex when it was out :D I did buy the single though!
 
Sheena’s earlier Prince singles were R&B hits, but The Lover In Me era felt like a real U-turn from the stuff she’d been doing and made her relevant again. It was her last big hurrah in the US, that single being her final top ten, (and #2 to boot). She’d moved to LA/ Babyface for that and the parent album, together with the Prince collaborations, but, for whatever reason, the follow up album didn’t have any of the big name producers on it and it showed. What Comes Naturally isn’t as bad as funky makes out, but it felt after the boundary pushing album before, a bit, well, cheap.
 
I’ve always liked Time Bomb but probably because it sounds like a Kylie track
 
Maybe I need to listen to the track again but it sounded very cheap when I gave it a whirl last week. But I was coming off being really invested in and pleasantly surprised by the singles from the previous one.

Is the What Comes Naturally album any good?
 
Maybe I need to listen to the track again but it sounded very cheap when I gave it a whirl last week. But I was coming off being really invested in and pleasantly surprised by the singles from the previous one.

Is the What Comes Naturally album any good?

Not really. Same problem- cheap copycat producers rather than the real thing. It’s not BAD, it’s just nowhere near the levels of The Lover In Me singles.
 
APRIL 1991

#1s


COMING OUT OF THE DARK –•– Gloria Estefan (2 weeks)
I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU –•– Londonbeat (1 week)
YOU’RE IN LOVE –•– Wilson Phillips (1 week)
BABY BABY –•– Amy Grant (2 weeks into May)

That Londonbeat song was not a song I ever expected to be a US #1. I'd be curious how well known it is today in the US versus other evergreen #1s... most #1s usually still have some nostalgic traction on YouTube and Spotify by boomers and Gen Xers. But this isn't something you ever hear about anymore. Or the group themselves. It's not a bad song though.

Wilson Phillips make it 3 number ones from the same album out of 4 singles, all Top 10. Very impressive.

Musical Marmite "Baby Baby" becomes a huge hit for long-standing Christian pop pin-up Amy Grant. I made an error previously that has since been corrected by my chart correspondent @VoR that Amy had only one pop album before going back to Christian music but apparently the follow up was a pop album too, just nowhere near as popular. So either she was a blip or maybe she was a victim of the change in chart rules at the end of 91 that saw more R&B and country replace the adult pop songs on the charts. I still maintain that "Baby Baby" is amazing though, even though it's the sort of thing I would probably normally hate! I think there was a period in the summer of 91 where I liked virtually everything in the charts.

(Except maybe Right Said Fred.)

"Sadeness Part 1" by Enigma peaks at #5 this month, unable to match the chart topping UK performance but still very impressive for a song that in no way screams "American music".

Tevin Campbell's "Round And Round" misses the Top 10 but becomes a huge crossover hit, hovering around the charts for a good 6 months. Quite normal from the mid 90s onwards, very unusual at this time. It peaked at #12 in its 18th week.



Written by Prince, it features on Prince's Graffiti Bridge album but he is uncredited on the version on Tevin's debut album. The album was a platinum smash in the US, with 6 singles released including a Top 10 hit. He looked destined to join the R&B explosion of the 90s but, aside from a relatively successful follow up album, he never really translated into a household name, and never crossed over in Europe. He did have some moderate success in Australia.

Cathy Dennis's follow up "Touch Me" is a certified smash, climbing into the Top Ten at #8 by the end of the month.

Rick Astley also gets a hit with "Cry For Help" (#7), four years after "Never Gonna Give You Up". This surprised me as I pegged him as one of those short lived success stories. It was from the next album that he fell off a cliff, but this song was also a #7 hit in the UK. I have no memory of it.

In the UK, the club tunes are still coming thick and fast, with peaks from these absolute CLASSICS:





Brothers In Rhythm would obviously go on to produce some amazing albums for other artists in the 90s including Kylie, and when you listen to that song above you can hear how much that sound has come back into fashion with dance producers today.

Discoveries:

OK so we have to talk about this song, one of my favourite discoveries so far:



I do love a dramatic soul vocal, so while this took a couple of listens to grow on me as I had no idea who she was, it's definitely a keeper now. While it sounds very typical late 80s / early 90s power ballad, it reminds me of the ballads from En Vogue's EV3 album in 1997, which had more of a general pop-rock sensibility. Lisa Fischer only released one album, which produced two hits in the US but didn't trouble Europe and might not have even had a release there. This song reached #11 in 1991. Lisa featured on various soundtracks and guest spots on other artists' songs throughout the 90s, but had no follow up album. A shame because that's a GREAT voice. Wiki tells me that this song also won a Grammy in 1992.

Another artist I know nothing about released this in April:



Yes it's a 90s-fied cover of the Emotions song. It didn't do much, but a cover of Rufus & Chaka Khan's "Sweet Thing" peaked at #54 later in the year and the album was a moderate R&B success. Her wiki entry is interesting - B Angie B is better known as being Mike Tyson's former girlfriend, and was a backing singer for MC Hammer. She had a follow up album in 1995 that flopped, but apparently it is considered an early neo-soul release and, speculatively, an influence for Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. It's not on Spotify, but I might have to track that album down...

Over in the UK, 2 soft rock songs that I would have ignored at the time that I am really enjoying in my old age!...




Both Scottish bands, very similar sound, released the same month. The latter flopped, but "Let There Be Love" reached #6 and the album is GREAT. I love Simple Minds.

Also a minor hit was this track by American R&B singer Marva Hicks, who also only graced us with one album:



This is the radio remix from the more subdued album original (which is on Spotify). I prefer this more upbeat version, which sounds a lot like where R&B was now headed in the early 90s as this sort of rhythm and sound was everywhere by the mid 90s.

Notable new entries (US):

April 6

50 — I DON’T WANNA CRY –•– Mariah Carey
73 — LOSING MY RELIGION –•– REM
80 — BITTER TEARS –•– INXS
83 — WORD OF MOUTH –•– Mike & The Mechanics
84 — (IF THERE WAS) ANY OTHER WAY –•– Celine Dion
87 — STRIKE IT UP –•– Black Box
88 — I WANNA SEX YOU UP –•– Color Me Badd
92 — PEOPE ARE STILL HAVING SEX –•– Latour

April 13

63 — MIRACLE –•– Whitney Houston
74 — MAMA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT –•– LL Cool J
86 — WHATEVER YOU WANT –•– Tony! Toni! Tone!
87 — UNBELIEVABLE –•– E.M.F.
93 — BACKYARD –•– Pebbles ft Salt n Pepa
94 — RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW –•– Jesus Jones
98 — HOW CAN I EASE THE PAIN –•– Lisa Fischer

April 20

36 — LOVE IS A WONDERFUL THING –•– Michael Bolton
80 — SEAL OUR FATE –•– Gloria Estefan

April 27

56 — COUPLE DAYS OFF –•– Huey Lewis & The News
63 — POWER OF LOVE/LOVE POWER –•– Luther Vandross
66 — PLAYGROUND –•– Another Bad Creation
78 — NEW JACK HUSTLER (NINO’S THEME) –•– Ice-T
88 — NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN –•– Surface
91 — I DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOUR LOVE –•– B Angie B
93 — GOOD HEART –•– Starship

That's quite a list of new entries this month!

Mariah was definitely on a roll at this point. As mentioned earlier we didn't get this single in the UK, but I LOVE "I Don't Wanna Cry".

This year was probably my first introduction to REM and it was years later before I discovered that they had been going for a decade by this point. This was probably their crossover album, and I didn't care for them at all back then, but I do really like some of their stuff now, and I love "Losing My Religion".

I didn't know that Celine Dion song but I quite like it! It does sound EXACTLY like "Shattered Dreams" by Johnny Hates Jazz though...

Was 1991 some kind of sexual revolution in the US? After Divinyls and Salt n Pepa now we have two overtly SEXUAL songs released in the same week by Color Me Badd and Latour. The former obviously screams 1991 and I have vivid memories of this being out at the time. Latour is a song that I haven't heard probably SINCE 1991!

So EMF and Jesus Jones released those two songs in the same week... again such US anomolies that would both have a cup of coffee with megafame in the early 90s.
 
Lisa Fischer appears in the music documentary ’20 feet from stardom’ which is a great watch if you haven’t seen it yet
 
I adore Lisa Fischer. All of those clips over the year of her doing the Merry Clayton vocal from Gimme Shelter are jaw-droppingly great.
 
But can we also talk about that Celine song sounding like Johnny Hates Jazz :D
 
I still unashamedly love "Baby Baby" by Amy Grant. Although it has to be the UK remix.

Tevin Campbell never did anything over here, but I vaguely remembered him being ridiculously young when he hit the charts. I was right - born in November 1976, so he'd only just turned 14 here :o

Bizarre Inc & Brothers In Rhythm are both two all-timers. Did the BIR version hit before "Always There" by Incognito?

Color Me Badd is such a forgotten UK number 1. I think it's dated badly & I always thought they looked ludicrous.

Latour, I feel like I read in some chart book that it was an answer record to the AIDS panic.
 
That Color Me Badd song was massive here but they didn’t do much after that at all, unlike the US, and can largely be called a one hit wonder here.
 
Bizarre Inc & Brothers In Rhythm are both two all-timers. Did the BIR version hit before "Always There" by Incognito?

I always forget the odd timing of those two songs, but I think “Always There” was produced first and hit the clubs first, but it charted AFTER SAGF.
 
Oh dear, I can't believe that I've missed this throwback thread given that I signed up here primarily to talk about OLD MUSIC! Can you please journey through the 1960s next? :disco:

I won't trawl the entire topic cos I'd be here for days, but on the last 2-3 pages I'll note:

  • I only discovered 'Joey' by Concrete Blonde last year and it ended up my most played song of 2024! IIRC it didn't do anything at all in the UK? Which is a damn fucking shame - it shouldn't have taken 30+ years for such a heartrending lament about the perils of loving an addict to reach my ears. It's a bit too lyrically direct for my liking, at least on paper, but that vocal is coming straight outta the fucking gut and it reverberates so damn much. The way she wails 'Oh, Joey, I'm not angry anymore' that first time? God. :( Why this isn't universally-heralded as a 90s classic I don't know. This also reminds me that I made a mental note to check out more of their work, which I've yet to follow up on...
  • Agreed that 'Unfinished Sympathy' is one of the greatest songs of all time. Nowt more to say.
  • TRIBE!!! <3 Sure, it's probably the gangsta rap giants that most people recall when they think of the wider genre this decade, but in my book Tribe - with their social consciousness and Afrocentrism, their sampling of Black classics and their jazzier musical aesthetic - shaped a more alternative strain of hip hop that's even more essential (and considerably more eloquent). That said, my fave track on the debut is probably the most basic of them all: 'Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on!' :disco: Can't argue with dem BEATS. I hope there'll be cause to reference these guys again in later years? I have no idea what their US chart success is like, but if nothing from The Low End Theory appears then I say burn America to the ground and start again.
  • Speaking of, re: 'The Star Spangled Banner' - I've had older African-American friends articulate this far better, but from what I understand that anthem had been a source of contention in the community for a whole damn century and then along comes this anointed, tracksuited (!), unapologetically Black woman to drag that racist hogwash all the way back to church and regurgitate it as some sort of Heaven-kissed paean to all-inclusive American values (the way in which she protracts 'FREE and 'BRAVE' at the end, my word). Whitney's gift wasn't just her voice, it was her repeated ability to alchemise the inadequate and repackage it for us mere mortals as gleaming empowerment anthems - the results of which may seem redundant to others, but I think for many POC of a certain age (myself included!) she was necessary inspiration. And her doing THAT to the anthem is part of her myth. (Jimi and Marvin put their own stamps of reclamation on it too ofc, and Hendrix's to me seems the greatest reading actually, but neither was conceived to transcend racial barriers to anywhere near Whitney's level.)
  • A quick shout-out to 'Mama Said Knock You Out' by LL Cool J which is a gargantuan jam that would be all-time fave 'walking song' were it not for Ice Cube's 'N*gga Ya Love to Hate' (released around the same time I think, although I assume that one didn't chart LOL). DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK!! :disco:
  • R.E.M. are too incredible a band for me to begrudge them any commercial success, but Out of Time is the absolute nadir of their imperial era (1982-2001) imo and I find it baffling that it's their biggest record. It boasts two of their very best songs ('Losing My Religion' and 'Country Feedback') and unlike much of the fandom I actually adore 'Shiny Happy People' (which I'm guessing will chart later on?), but the rest of the album is a giant step backwards from all that preceded it. I suppose they'd been on the cusp of hitting the mainstream for a while by this point - having steadily built a core of diehards during the IRS years - and 'Losing My Religion' was exactly what was needed to tip them over the edge, but... meh. Anyway, they'd right the ship in magnificent fashion the very next year so I'll let it slide.
I will make an effort to listen to some of the recommendations when I'm not in 'pretend I'm working' mode! Great thread!
 
This has nothing to do with anything but I've just been listening to ROCK-A-LOTT by ARETHA FRANKLIN and I've finally worked out that the LYRICS to TOUCH ME by the 49ers are

TAKE A PAIR AND A SPARE, YEAH

Sorry I just had to post that, I've been WONDERING for THIRTY FIVE YEARS
 
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This has nothing to do with anything but I've just been listening to ROCK-A-LOTT by ARETHA FRANKIN and I've finally worked out that the LYRICS to TOUCH ME by the 49ers are

TAKE A PAIR AND A SPARE, YEAH

Sorry I just had to post that, I've been WONDERING for THIRTY FIVE YEARS
I'd always guessed it was MAKE A PASS & A PEPPER :o
 
Oh dear, I can't believe that I've missed this throwback thread given that I signed up here primarily to talk about OLD MUSIC! Can you please journey through the 1960s next? :disco:

  • TRIBE!!! <3 Sure, it's probably the gangsta rap giants that most people recall when they think of the wider genre this decade, but in my book Tribe - with their social consciousness and Afrocentrism, their sampling of Black classics and their jazzier musical aesthetic - shaped a more alternative strain of hip hop that's even more essential (and considerably more eloquent). That said, my fave track on the debut is probably the most basic of them all: 'Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on!' :disco: Can't argue with dem BEATS. I hope there'll be cause to reference these guys again in later years? I have no idea what their US chart success is like, but if nothing from The Low End Theory appears then I say burn America to the ground and start again.

Oh, you can guarantee you'll be hearing about THE TRIBE again. They're only my favourite hip-hop act of all time, possibly my favourite group ever of any genre and Q-Tip is literally the greatest rap lyricist AND rap producer that ever lived :disco: IMHO. The juice is that they had a very different singles run in the US than in the UK, and the US singles are much more in line with their overall legacy, so I'm looking forward to covering those.
 
MAY 1991

#1s


BABY BABY –•– Amy Grant (2 weeks)
JOYRIDE –•– Roxette (1 week)
I LIKE THE WAY (THE KISSING GAME) –•– Hi-Five (1 week)
I DON’T WANNA CRY –•– Mariah Carey (2 weeks into June)

Amy Grant has enjoyed more coverage on moopy in the last 2 weeks than the rest of the time combined probably. Roxette land themselves another one as they kick off their next album campaign. Joyride the album was another huge smash for them, but the last big album success in the US and their last of 4 number ones.

Hi-Five (who comes up with these names?) are an R&B male vocal group not dissimilar to New Edition but aside from the song title ringing a bell, I don't really have any memory of this.



Wiki tells me it went to #43 in the UK so that figures. Boy bands generally didn't cross over in the UK the way the girl bands did - Color Me Badd had one big single, but the likes of Jodeci, Guy, Silk, Dru Hill and Next had a few hits here and there but that's it. The big exception is probably Boyz II Men, who were nowhere near as big as the US but did have some really big singles. Hi-Five released 3 albums in the 90s with dimishing returns, but this singl and the parent album both went Gold.

Another Mariah single, another #1. The immediacy and speed of her ascent to the top to the ladder in a world of Whitneys and Madonnas is, to this day, very impressive to watch.

Speaking of Mariah, she prevents Cathy Dennis from a US #1, who climbs all the way to #2 in May and stays there for 2 weeks. That's a pretty big deal in the US and she must have been getting a lot of attention and buzz at the time. It does make me wonder though, what she had that Kylie Minogue didn't, because Kylie released a fairly similar album in 1990 and it did nothing in the US. And Kylie's album is a lot better! I do like Cathy Dennis though and it's a strong run of singles that are coming up. Maybe the US just saw Kylie as the Tiffany / Debbie Gibson type of act from her "Locomotion" success and didn't understand the sexbomb transition? Her 1990 sound is really not that much different to Deee-Lite, and that did well.

Rod Stewart of all people had a huge hit in May with "Rhythm Of My Heart", peaking at #5 for 2 weeks. The things you learn. Apparently it went to #3 in the UK as well. I assume he was just not on my radar as a 13 year old.

Over in the UK, let's keep the dance playlist going, with May 1991 being driven by these classics:







And these two BOPS which are sadly not on Spotify but deserve a mention





OK let's talk MINOGUE.

Around the same time Kylie was releasing her 4th single from Rhythm Of Love with "Shocked" (and for me that's four bops out of four and probably her best singles run for me, like ever), Dannii Minogue released what I'm told is her 2nd single "Success", and I believe the UK got a remix version. I distinctly remember this coming out, and whether I was right or wrong, it really stood out as a pop act singing over a MEATY dance beat. I bought the single and I absolutely LOVED it.



I've since gone back and reminded myself of the Love And Kisses singles, and WOW.

09 Love And Kisses (Dancin Danny 7")
10 Success (Bruce Forest 7")
09 Jump To The Beat (LA Master mix)
10 Baby Love (Silky 70s edit)
09 I Don't Wanna Take This Pain (LA 7" edit)

I have no idea if these were the actual single versions and in what country and when they were remixed or anything, but how the fuck did she land such amazing producers this early into her career? Also why is the album NOT on Spotify? I'm having to refer to some "Early Years" compilation which is a bit crap, because based on the above I would probably LOVE this album. She captures all the forward-thinking house and R&B sounds coming from the US, and it sounds even more fresh and on-trend than Rhythm Of Love does.

And more importantly, why has NOBODY from mopsy put me on this stuff before??

Discoveries

Apologies for the complete swerve, but this was a nice discovery for me - a rock ballad from a progressive metal band.



I've heard of Queensryche and the song title sounds familiar, but I'd never actually listened to this properly. It sounds like something from the early 00s, not 1991. A successful albums act, this was by far their biggest hit single, #9 in the US (#18 in the UK).

Fresh from a huge breakthrough hit "I've Been Thinking About You", Londonbeat release a song which flopped in the UK (#52) which is why I didn't know it, but did well in the US (#18).


I really like this! They didn't really do much in the US after this, but they continued to have minor hits in the UK until 1995. I had no idea.

Notable new entries:

May 4

72 — WE WANT THE FUNK –•– Gerardo
94 — GYPSY WOMAN (SHE’S HOMELESS) –•– Crystal Waters

May 11

36 — RUSH RUSH –•– Paula Abdul
86 — A BETTER LOVE –•– Londonbeat
96 — OVER AND OVER –•– Timmy T
98 — PIECE OF MY HEART –•– Tara Kemp

May 18

82 — SEE THE LIGHTS –•– Simple Minds
89 — THIS TIME MAKE IT FUNKY –•– Tracie Spencer
91 — LILY WAS HERE –•– David A. Stewart & Candy Dulfer
94 — TEMPTATION –•– Corina

May 25

78 — NIGHTS LIKE THIS –•– After 7
87 — YOU CAN’T PLAY WITH MY YO-YO –•– Yo-Yo ft Ice Cube
88 — KISSING YOU –•– Keith Washington
90 — WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME/I CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU –•– Pet Shop Boys

Crystal Waters is another act I wouldn't have expected to see American success at the time, but actually around this time there were a lot of American dance acts and because American house music is more closely tied to American R&B than European house is, America probably didn't see the likes of Crystal Waters as that far apart from her R&B contemporaries. "Gypsy Woman" was a huge success, eventually reaching #8 (#2 UK) and went top ten in many other markets. She wasn't even a one-hit wonder even though a lot of people (including myself) probably thought it at the time... but more on that later.

Paula Abdul comes back big with the launch of her 2nd album and interesting that she did it with a ballad. Nevertheless this was huge and went to #1 (#6 UK) and led to another multi-platinum album. Just looking now and she had six US number ones in the space of three years.

I always knew Yo-Yo was considered a pioneer in female hip-hop but I didn't realise this (her signature tune) was released this early. This is even before Queen Latifah and MC Lyte's breakthroughs. Well Latifah did have R&B and Rap hits from 1989, but didn't reach the pop charts until 1993. Personally I'm not a fan of this one and I'm not really familiar with her other work either. She never really did anything in Europe.

Corina is someone I know nothing about but I feel like she might have an audience on here, a mix of dance, R&B and freestyle judging by a quick flick on Spotify of this parent album.
 
I'm so happy to see such a lot of love for "Success" on here :disco: & yes, what a great initial singles run from Dannii. I really do think she'd have had a good chance of these becoming bigger hits if she didn't have the burden of bring Kylie's sister (& the Kylie backlash was unfairly in FULL SWING in 1991).

Londonbeat's 1995 hit was their attempt at Eurovision that year. Along with Deuce they lost out to unknowns Love City Groove.

I remember my Dad truly despised the "la-da-dee" EARWORM from Crystal Waters. Have you ever seen the In Living Color parody? :D

Didn't know "Lily Was Here" charted in the USA. Still love it.

I've never heard of Yoyo but if early old school female rappers are your BAG check out Nikki D. She has a (very) minor UK hit in 1991 with the "Tom's Diner" sampling "Daddy's Little Girl" & the accompanying album I really liked, "Lettin' Off Steam" in particular. She was also the guest rapper on Alyson Williams' :disco: 1989 UK hit "My Love Is So Raw".
 
Shit I forgot to cover Nikki D in my discoveries section as it was also charting this month. Thank you. This is GREAT.

 

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