Top 10.... number 2 singles of the 90s

Source: Rateyourmusic.com

In no particular order:

Scorpions
Wind of Change (12-Oct-1991)

I usually hate any song featuring whistling, but this is my one exception


Smart E's
Sesame's Treet (18-Jul-1992)

Winner of the early 90s rave-kid's TV mash-ups (Trip To Trumpton coming a close second)


Crash Test Dummies
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmmm Mmm (30-Apr-1994)

So fun to sing on karaoke

Let Loose:
Crazy for You (20-Aug-1994)

Wet Wet Wet denied numerous songs the top spot in the summer of '94, this being the best of the bunch. Watch out for a top 10 boyband singles of the 90s list soon, as this is sure to be included.


Kylie Minogue
Confide in Me (10-Sep-1994)

Post-SAW - pre-Spinning Around Kylie was def her best era


Annie Lennox:
No More I Love You's (18-Feb-1995)


Underworld
Born Slippy (13-Jul-1996)



Backstreet Boys:
Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart) (18-Jan-1997)

The band that covered my walls as a 14-year-old

Oasis

Stand By Me (04-Oct-1997)

Their 'Be Here Now' album may have been panned, but this is still one of my favourite Oasis songs


S Club 7
S Club Party (02-Oct-1999)

fashion icons of the 90s #1 - Clueless

There's a 90s bar I'm trying to get my friends to go to for my birthday; even if they don't go along with it too I'm dressing up full-on 90s vintage. My inspiration? Clueless; the most stylish movie of the decade, the most quotable in my DVD collection, that takes me back to sleepovers of my first year of secondary school eating Woolworths pick & mix.


Photos taken from fanpop.com

One thing I don't miss from the 90s... massive mobile phones

My fav Clueless outfit; white wouldn't be quite so forgiving on me though

...Maybe I'll give the hat a miss though

My high school snaps circa 1995 weren't quite so glamorous... remember puffa jackets?

In 1995 Cher shopped in Fendi, Beverly Hills; I shopped in the Bentall Centre, Kingston

If only I had Cher's wardrobe and credit card.... I'll have to make do with some eBay-ed vintage Miss Selfridge

retro chart - this week in 1991

So let's start with 1991. The year I first got interested in music; I recorded Top of the Pops every week, illegally taped the Top 40 countdown off the radio and started buying vinyl singles in my local Woolworths (RIP)

Big in 1991; rave anthems, largely-forgotten house tunes with piano breakdowns, the early beginnings of Britpop, ageing 70s/80s icons final chart hits... and lots of cheesy pop. As a schoolgirl in Surrey at the time, my iPod collection from 1991 mainly consists of the latter, however had I been a decade older I would have turned my nose up at the pop stuff like I do with the current chart fodder I avoid and have been driving around the M25 every weekend looking the secret rave location to dance to Altern 8 and Prodigy with my glowstick and white glove (...I was born too late)


Source: OfficialCharts.com


1
(EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU
BRYAN ADAMS
The songs that could not be escaped!

2
ANY DREAM WILL DO
JASON DONOVAN

3
YOU COULD BE MINE
GUNS N' ROSES

4
NOW THAT WE'VE FOUND LOVE
HEAVY D AND THE BOYZ

Cheesy early 90s rapping at it's best... 'roses are red and violets are blue'

5
CHORUS
ERASURE

One of my favourite Erasure songs. The follow-up Love To Hate You was one of the first records I bought

6
RUSH RUSH
PAULA ABDUL

Way too many plays on my iPod - one of my favourite guilty pleasures

7
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMM...
C & C MUSIC FACTORY FEAT. FREEDOM WILLIAMS

8
THINKING ABOUT YOUR LOVE
KENNY THOMAS

Yet another guilty pleasure of mine I still listen to a lot but make sure I turn the volume down if I'm on public transport

9
ALWAYS THERE
INCOGNITO FEAT. JOCELYN BROWN

10
7 WAYS TO LOVE
COLA BOY

11
DO YOU WANT ME
SALT-N-PEPA

12
ARE YOU MINE?
BROS

13
PANDORA'S BOX
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
Forgotten gem from one of the best bands of the 80s/90s

14
I WANNA SEX YOU UP
COLOR ME BADD
I loved singing along to this at the time even though I was too young to really know what it meant... my parents must have cringed

15
LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING
CHER

16
I LIKE IT
DJH FEAT. STEFY
My brother had this on vinyl, although I can't remember how it went

17
LET THE BEAT HIT 'EM
LISA LISA AND CULT JAM

18
FROM A DISTANCE
BETTE MIDLER

19
UNFORGETTABLE
NATALIE COLE AND NAT 'KING' COLE

20
(HAMMER HAMMER) THEY PUT ME IN THE MIX
MC HAMMER

21
MAMA
KIM APPLEBY
Not as good as G.L.A.D. or Don't Worry

22
I TOUCH MYSELF
DIVINYLS
My fav song to dance to at cheese nights during my clubbing days of the mid 2000's

23
IT AIN'T OVER TIL IT'S OVER
LENNY KRAVITZ

24
THE MOTOWN SONG
ROD STEWART WITH BACKING VOCALS BY THE TEMPTATIONS
Guilty pleasure alert yet again!

25
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THIS
OMAR

26
I AIN'T GONNA CRY
LITTLE ANGELS

27
BRING THE NOISE
ANTHRAX FEAT. CHUCK D

28
JUST ANOTHER DREAM
CATHY DENNIS
Not as good as Too Many Walls

29
NIGHT IN MOTION
CUBIC 22

30
SEXUALITY
BILLY BRAGG

31
REAL LOVE
DRIZA BONE

32
BABY BABY
AMY GRANT
Another one to add to my list of guilty pleasures

33
A BETTER LOVE
LONDONBEAT

34
BITTER TEARS
INXS

35
SHERIFF FATMAN
CARTER - THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE

36
RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW
JESUS JONES

37
THE SOUND OF EDEN
SHADES OF RHYTHM

38
MONSTERS AND ANGELS
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE
Another forgotten gem of the 90s

39
MY NAME IS NOT SUSAN
WHITNEY HOUSTON

40
INFILTRATE 202
ALTERN 8
Altern 8 scared me, maybe it was those mask things they wore

welcome to 1994...

Today I took the leap into the world of nostalgia blogging. After a brief foray into travel blogging and (forever unpublished) novel writing, I found myself in need of a new creative outlet to relieve the boredom of my life as an IT manager in a bland M4 corridor-commuter town.

Over the last couple of months as the UK swelters in a 1995-esque heatwave, I found myself creating 90s summer playlists on my iPod, reminiscent of what I used to listen to on Capital radio (before they began playing the same 10 tracks in a loop) and my Walkman back in the days when music was actually good (...that makes me sound old) Last weekend, my brother told me he had an 'urge to listen to songs from 1994' on a recent road trip with friends, which inspired me to create him a list of songs from said year for his next trip. I found myself getting embarrassingly excited and exclaiming 'I haven't heard that in years!' as I scrolled through the chart archives from 19 years ago to compile the list. So I thought to myself, I need to do this more.... and share it with other sad people like me who are still musically twenty years behind. Maybe throw in some movies, fashion and fads too.

So here it is my first entry! I might post twice and get bored, I might still be doing this in 10 years when the noughties is retro again, let's see...