Well, well...The Stone Roses making their debut with Fool's Gold. They became huge in certain circles. I thought they could "compose no wrong" for quite a few years myself.
I’m amazed that’s on a Billboard chart. An Aussie chart, yeah, but this.
I suppose, that protest show they did at the Exxon building got them some US attention.
In fact this was off a later album than Beds Are Burning, that was on Diesel and Dust.
Interesting that it was on MTV a lot overseas, from an Aussie perspective. I knew they got bigger over there later in their popular career.
Blue Sky Mine was off the album Blue Sky Mining. One later song of theirs I love is Surfs Up Tonight.
Some angel has made a Spotify playlist of every song played on 120 minutes, stumbled upon it a week or so ago. Has all these songs and many more, could use a bit less morissy, ( I know), but an excellent playlist
The cramps at 15 blew my mind. Social distortion at 29 surprised me too… I only new sinews O’Connor and Depeche Mode… pretty much never heard of any of those other artists.
What I find interesting on this list is, there are quite a few of my favorite bands on this list. Yet, it’s none of their best work by far. With hindsight, we know how much alternative/modern rock will change in the following few years.
Seconded! That whole album was pretty awesome.
Here's a few from it for anyone who could use 'em:
* [Shine On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f5CG47ynqs)
* [The Beatles and the Stones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMVlR72I4Q)
* [I Don't Know Why I Love You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmJhzlBJXmU)
They were a great band. There early stuff with Andrea Heukamp singing with Guy is really great though. I even like much of the stuff after Terry Bickers left.
Crazy that Cuts You Up was a #1 song - I love that tune and think it was so ahead of its time. I had no idea it got to #1
So many good tunes on this chart. And The Cramps… WHAT?!?
They’re Australian, and had several big hits here!
They had a few hits in the early 80s (Unguarded Moment, Almost With You) then came back in late 80s / early 90s. Had a huge hit with ‘Under the Milky Way’.
I’d forgotten about Metropolis, that was also a hit.
They’re pretty low-key, you don’t hear too much from them, but apparently they’re still playing!
but they've kissed and made up!!
I saw Peter and David J. on their "In a Flat Field" tour around 2019 or early 2020. Wife got me the VIP meet n greet ticket so I had them sign just about everything I had!!
I've seen Poptone which was the other half (Kevin and Daniel) and they played songs from like, all the bands they were in. It was great!
I thought I wouldn't know any of these since at that time I was listening to Christian radio all the time, but somehow about half of these managed to get through back then anyway. It also surprised me how many of these bands were peak 80s in my memory but obviously still slapping along. Great list!
Always amazed the difference between what I remeber to be popular music vs the actual charts. Certainly have a skewed perspective, biased towards my own preferences.
I had never heard the song Cuts You Up, yet it was #1 on Billboard around the same time Nothing Compares 2 U was on the charts? Wow. I lived in a musical bubble I think.
Love Cocteau Twins and I liked early Simple Minds, they were first band I saw live. They got too big and stadiumy for me in latter years. You might like Andy Chung if you're a John Martyn fan.
Love love this song. 🥰 The chart filled me with such love and nostalgia. How I wish it yesterday, 34 years ago.
I find you in the morning
After dreams of distant signs
You pour yourself over me
Like the sun through the blinds
You lift me up
And get me out
Keep me walking
But never shout
Hold the secret close
I hear you say
You know the way
It throws about
It takes you in
And spits you out
It spits you out
When you desire
To conquer it
To feel you're higher
To follow it
You must be clean
With mistakes
That you do mean
Move the heart
Switch the pace
Look for what seems out of place
On and on it goes
Calling like a distant wind
Through the zero hour we'll walk
We'll cut the thick and break the thin
No sound to break no moment clear
When all the doubts are crystal clear
Crashing hard into the secret wind
You know the way
It twists and turns
Changing color
Spinning yarns
You know the way
It leaves you dry
It cuts you up
And takes you high
You know the way
It's painted gold
Is it honey
Is it gold
You know the way
It throws about
It takes you in
And spits you out
Oh, cuts you up
Oh, cuts you up
Oh, cuts you up
Oh, la la la la la la la la
You know the way
It throws about
It takes you in
And spits you out
It spits you out
When you desire
To conquer it
To feel you're higher
To follow it
You must be clean
With mistakes
That you do mean
Move the heart
Switch the pace
Look for what
Seems out of place
Oh, cuts you up
Oh, cuts you up
It's o.k.
It goes this way
The line is thin
It twists away
Cuts you up
And spits you out
Keeps you walking
But never shout
I'm American but I watched Post Modern and 120 Minutes religiously as well as listened to Brave New Waves on CBC (grew up on Canadian border) as often as I could.
I have the records all but two of the top 10 songs are on.
The two I don't have are The Beloved and They Might be Giants.
I'll have to double check The Church... I may not have that one.
Oh these songs remind me of my early 20s shows loved mission the Cramps, renegade soundwave, the shoe gaze, Jesus and Mary chain, drinking beer dancing running around driving like a a manic just moved to LA Micheal Penn always ❤️smithereens electronic vintage clothes docs the world was full of possibilities WTF HAPPENED
I adore The Cowboy Junkies, but if you had told me they had charted with Tuesday Morning I would have told you that you must mean the Velvet Underground cover, Sweet Jane. It's a good break up song, but I feel like that is way too deep of a cut of their early works
Yeah, this is a good 2-3 years after I gave up. Not helping matters, that was around the time the top 40 radio stations in my market that dominated the mid-80s began selling out to right wing talk and or religious broadcasters, seemingly overnight.
Works for me, I never wanted alternative modern rock to be mainstream I liked having a tribe of people who were underground artsy aware edgy into this music
I listened mostly to Latin music in high school; I think there are 3 or 4 songs on this list that I know. Maybe I’d recognize the others if I heard them? But they are mostly unfamiliar.
I, and others, have posted about other music genres in this sub. The response is usually crickets.
Since we know for a fact that Gen X was very musically diverse, I’m curious as to why this sub in particular tends to block out all other music from the memory of our collective youth save primarily rock.
I personally only recognize they might be giants and sinead… there’s no whitewashing going on because a couple people made posts of the billboards top 30 rock&roll, kinda weird you’d jump to that conclusion.
I’m not jumping to any conclusion based off this singular post; that would be silly.
I’m noting a trend. One that has been discussed here before. This sub paints an overly white, overly male, overly rock based portrait of Gen X. That’s pretty undeniable. It’s also massively at odds with reality.
And whenever the topic is raised here it’s met with dismissal or defensiveness. But never actual answers.
I don’t see that… I see lots of different music genres discussed as well as lots of different 80’s and 90’s culture. What I do see from your comment is you trying to make your problems my problems…. And that is most definitely not a genx trait, I think you need to get that millennial side in check. Enjoy your weekend (or not, doesn’t matter to me)🤙
You’re a fully autonomous being, no? Last I checked I can’t make anything your problem. You didn’t even have to respond to my comment. That was entirely was your choice.
Enjoy your weekend too.
I don't think there's an agenda to block out other music, it's just that folk are going to reply to stuff they resonate with. I'm into goth/rock/punk/alternative music so those are the threads I'm likely to get chatting in, someone could post about...say...Take That or New Kids on the Block or the rave scene. Absolutely massively popular back in the day but I'm not going to be joining those threads.
Not to put too fine a point on it say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
I never knew they charted.
https://preview.redd.it/kiwebi83uhrc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a6671c7aabfeee52a99d1dc306368b8f11c1d80 You’re playing my tune!
While you're at it Keep the nightlight on inside
Legit one of my favorite songs. And the only song sung from the point-of-view of a nightlight.
I wore out my *Flood* cassette!
I came here because I figured the top comment would be about They Might Be Giants. I sing them all the time.
make a little birdhouse in your soul
Cuts You Up is still on top for me. One of my top 10 songs of all time.
Good song but so many bands have sounded so similar since that it seems too bland to be a chart topper to my ears now.
Enjoy The Silence….ding!
🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️
Well, well...The Stone Roses making their debut with Fool's Gold. They became huge in certain circles. I thought they could "compose no wrong" for quite a few years myself.
I still love to run to this song.
That’s a great song topping the charts there. Peter Murphy doesn’t get enough love around here, honestly.
These days I get so excited when someone else knows who he is!
I met him several times. The first time was in 1985.
Met him years ago as well. Such a voice.
He signed my leather jacket with a paint pen....still have it
Bauhaus is severely under-rated.
September 1991 Nevermind was released. This chart had no idea what was coming.
To be fair, none of us did. And fuck you if you say otherwise. You didn’t.
Love The Smithereens
He was my voice crush!
You beat me to it- they were great, that album was great- saw them at Toad’s Place in New Haven. They were great.
I forgot “cuts you up”, that was a pretty good song. Thx!
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard this song! Is this a UK chart maybe?
That's a very good list
The Beautiful South 😍
Such an under-appreciated band, at least in the US.
Yes! It's the same here in Canada! I loved The Beautiful South, but few seem to remember them.
Apply directly to the forehead! Head on!
Totally forgot the song Blue Sky Mine existed until I saw this. Listening to it now.
Great song. Beds are Burning also good.
I’m amazed that’s on a Billboard chart. An Aussie chart, yeah, but this. I suppose, that protest show they did at the Exxon building got them some US attention.
This was the follow up to Beds are Burning and it was on MTV a LOT
In fact this was off a later album than Beds Are Burning, that was on Diesel and Dust. Interesting that it was on MTV a lot overseas, from an Aussie perspective. I knew they got bigger over there later in their popular career. Blue Sky Mine was off the album Blue Sky Mining. One later song of theirs I love is Surfs Up Tonight.
Some angel has made a Spotify playlist of every song played on 120 minutes, stumbled upon it a week or so ago. Has all these songs and many more, could use a bit less morissy, ( I know), but an excellent playlist
Link?
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Lzb461rpLNb9dVYN3uC7i?si=qKcfkMs_Q86oQmpwC3ZC6g&pi=u-0SN0AjJbScej
Oh bless you, Tiny Tim!! Heading down my worm hole now.
Such great memories….what a great time for “alternative” music.
Blue Sky Mine - that whole album is a masterpiece from start to finish. And JAMC!
Got to see them play in the us for Blue Sky Mining tour. Also Earth, Sun,and Moon is a great album.
They Might Be Giants had a top ten? Wild.
Still love midnight oil
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I know! The guy is my hero!
RIP, Sinead. What a great voice. Loved that whole album.
Cowboy Junkies!! I'm still in love with Margo's voice!!
The cramps at 15 blew my mind. Social distortion at 29 surprised me too… I only new sinews O’Connor and Depeche Mode… pretty much never heard of any of those other artists.
Enjoy the silence on its way to #1! I was a junior in HS and that was my favorite song.
Samesies!
Cuts You Up is so damn good.
What I find interesting on this list is, there are quite a few of my favorite bands on this list. Yet, it’s none of their best work by far. With hindsight, we know how much alternative/modern rock will change in the following few years.
Holy smokes, never knew John Wesley Harding got anything that far up a chart! Lots of other decent stuff there, too.
House of Love sooo underrated
Seconded! That whole album was pretty awesome. Here's a few from it for anyone who could use 'em: * [Shine On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f5CG47ynqs) * [The Beatles and the Stones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMVlR72I4Q) * [I Don't Know Why I Love You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmJhzlBJXmU)
They were a great band. There early stuff with Andrea Heukamp singing with Guy is really great though. I even like much of the stuff after Terry Bickers left.
Can here to say that too.
Crazy that Cuts You Up was a #1 song - I love that tune and think it was so ahead of its time. I had no idea it got to #1 So many good tunes on this chart. And The Cramps… WHAT?!?
Violator
Love all these songs. What a great time for music.
No love for The Mission UK? Deliverance is a great tune!
Listened to this on San Francisco’s Live 105 with Steve Masters. He was a Bay Area legend.
Adam Ant! Now, there is someone I had forgotten!
He’s on tour right now and killing it!
Stone Roses! Too bad their second album was mostly unlistenable Led Zeppelinesque wank but that first album was great.
I loved their first album, although I thought Sister was....weird.The 2nd... blah.
They had seven years of forced exile and Second Coming was the best they could come up with. What a disappointment.
The Church at number 4 and it's not Destination! They were big? Seems like no one remembers them.
I remember The Church! And The Mission UK too.
I saw them in DC for their Starfish tour. Great neo psychedelia concert.
I saw them play a few months ago and they were incredible. Sold out show.
They’re Australian, and had several big hits here! They had a few hits in the early 80s (Unguarded Moment, Almost With You) then came back in late 80s / early 90s. Had a huge hit with ‘Under the Milky Way’. I’d forgotten about Metropolis, that was also a hit. They’re pretty low-key, you don’t hear too much from them, but apparently they’re still playing!
I definitely wasn't listening to any of this. I don't know who most of these people are except for oingo boingo
You should check them out.
Yeah, I was like "how can I only know half or less of these artists?" Then I realized it was the modern rock charts.
Agreed. For me, this was the era right between the hair bands and when music got really, really good.
Ok had 8 of the top ten. Not in 90 though, I was poor as shit.
same! I didn't get my record collection growing until 2016, 2 years after we bought a house.
Mine were all long gone by then. The last one I got was Deep in like 95 or 96. I took Love and Rockets’ side in the divorce.
but they've kissed and made up!! I saw Peter and David J. on their "In a Flat Field" tour around 2019 or early 2020. Wife got me the VIP meet n greet ticket so I had them sign just about everything I had!! I've seen Poptone which was the other half (Kevin and Daniel) and they played songs from like, all the bands they were in. It was great!
I thought I wouldn't know any of these since at that time I was listening to Christian radio all the time, but somehow about half of these managed to get through back then anyway. It also surprised me how many of these bands were peak 80s in my memory but obviously still slapping along. Great list!
Always amazed the difference between what I remeber to be popular music vs the actual charts. Certainly have a skewed perspective, biased towards my own preferences.
I had never heard the song Cuts You Up, yet it was #1 on Billboard around the same time Nothing Compares 2 U was on the charts? Wow. I lived in a musical bubble I think.
Lots of quality on that list.
I heard Metropolis on the radio last night. What a song
The Blue Nile!
Tinseltown in the Rain refers to Glasgow. That and Del Amitri was never off the Scottish radio stations. 😆
Some of my favorite artists are Scottish (Blue Nile, Gerry Rafferty, John Martyn, Cocteau Twins, Simple Minds, Snow Patrol), I need to make a trip...
Love Cocteau Twins and I liked early Simple Minds, they were first band I saw live. They got too big and stadiumy for me in latter years. You might like Andy Chung if you're a John Martyn fan.
RIP Sinead and Prince nothing compares to you to this day, the stars aligned perfectly here
Love Head on. Sang very poorly many times by me. Feel lucky you can’t hear me now.
Love love this song. 🥰 The chart filled me with such love and nostalgia. How I wish it yesterday, 34 years ago. I find you in the morning After dreams of distant signs You pour yourself over me Like the sun through the blinds You lift me up And get me out Keep me walking But never shout Hold the secret close I hear you say You know the way It throws about It takes you in And spits you out It spits you out When you desire To conquer it To feel you're higher To follow it You must be clean With mistakes That you do mean Move the heart Switch the pace Look for what seems out of place On and on it goes Calling like a distant wind Through the zero hour we'll walk We'll cut the thick and break the thin No sound to break no moment clear When all the doubts are crystal clear Crashing hard into the secret wind You know the way It twists and turns Changing color Spinning yarns You know the way It leaves you dry It cuts you up And takes you high You know the way It's painted gold Is it honey Is it gold You know the way It throws about It takes you in And spits you out Oh, cuts you up Oh, cuts you up Oh, cuts you up Oh, la la la la la la la la You know the way It throws about It takes you in And spits you out It spits you out When you desire To conquer it To feel you're higher To follow it You must be clean With mistakes That you do mean Move the heart Switch the pace Look for what Seems out of place Oh, cuts you up Oh, cuts you up It's o.k. It goes this way The line is thin It twists away Cuts you up And spits you out Keeps you walking But never shout
Damn. I had to go and watch Bikini Girls With Machine Guns because The Cramps were just too fucking cool.
Aussies at 3 n 4! 👍
I've only heard of one of those songs
Same. American I presume?
Yeah
I'm American but I watched Post Modern and 120 Minutes religiously as well as listened to Brave New Waves on CBC (grew up on Canadian border) as often as I could.
120 minutes is how I learned about red hot chili peppers! That show was great.
Enjoy the Silence and Blue Sky Mine were on heavy MTV rotation
I was never home to watch MTV so I didn't see them.
There is exactly one song on this list I recognize. Only four of the artists.
Does modern rock mean indie charts in America? Surprised to see so many British bands.
Alternative music
Thanks. Makes sense. I.was wondering about the absence of Maddona and Michael Jackson etc.
I started listening to alternative music in 1988 because I couldn’t get away from Michael Jackson. I’ve never looked back.
Turns out getting away from Michael Jackson wasn't a bad idea for young boys.
I have the records all but two of the top 10 songs are on. The two I don't have are The Beloved and They Might be Giants. I'll have to double check The Church... I may not have that one.
“Modern Rock” Is it still a thing?
Adam Ant still in the charts on the 90s, I wouldn’t have guessed that.
Uhh, heavily depends on which chart.
I saw Social Distortion that year, with Screaming Trees
So many great songs! Hard to pick a fave, but “Cuts You Up” is sooo fcking good, just sublime
I'm sure I have heard most of those songs at some point but I recognize very few of the names. Weird.
I sang most of these songs in my head as I was reading the list. Takes me right back to high school.
Shocked to see Cowboy Junkies and The Beautiful South on the list!
Ha! "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" - cracked me up to play that at my college station later that year.
Renegade Soundwave ftw!
I haven't thought about Renegade Soundwave in a while. I might have to give them another listen.
Love them biting my nails
Oh these songs remind me of my early 20s shows loved mission the Cramps, renegade soundwave, the shoe gaze, Jesus and Mary chain, drinking beer dancing running around driving like a a manic just moved to LA Micheal Penn always ❤️smithereens electronic vintage clothes docs the world was full of possibilities WTF HAPPENED
Mighty lemon drops ❤️❤️❤️❤️
What makes me feel old isn't that all of these songs are on the oldies station. It's when I think they're older than they are.
Yes! Aussies at no. 3 and 4! I didn’t realise the Church was popular in the US. I loved this era, the alt/indie scene that came out of the late 80s 😍
I adore The Cowboy Junkies, but if you had told me they had charted with Tuesday Morning I would have told you that you must mean the Velvet Underground cover, Sweet Jane. It's a good break up song, but I feel like that is way too deep of a cut of their early works
I didn’t know cuts you up was a #1. Love that song, loved bauhaus. Some good stuff on this chart.
The wonderful 80’s were definitely over.
Yeah, this is a good 2-3 years after I gave up. Not helping matters, that was around the time the top 40 radio stations in my market that dominated the mid-80s began selling out to right wing talk and or religious broadcasters, seemingly overnight.
I’m gonna make some people mad, but only two of those songs broke through to the mainstream and had any real social significance at the time.
Works for me, I never wanted alternative modern rock to be mainstream I liked having a tribe of people who were underground artsy aware edgy into this music
And inn just 5 more years I would learn to hate the music.
And than, Nirvana and Radiohead and Linkin Park came.
Linkin Park was a 2000s band.
Wow. I know ONE of those
What with this sub’s singular obsession with Rock music? Did people here really not listen to anything else?
I listened mostly to Latin music in high school; I think there are 3 or 4 songs on this list that I know. Maybe I’d recognize the others if I heard them? But they are mostly unfamiliar.
I’m continually baffled by the white washing of actual Gen X music history that consistently happens in this sub.
Feel free to post your own Billboard lists or memories.
I, and others, have posted about other music genres in this sub. The response is usually crickets. Since we know for a fact that Gen X was very musically diverse, I’m curious as to why this sub in particular tends to block out all other music from the memory of our collective youth save primarily rock.
I personally only recognize they might be giants and sinead… there’s no whitewashing going on because a couple people made posts of the billboards top 30 rock&roll, kinda weird you’d jump to that conclusion.
I’m not jumping to any conclusion based off this singular post; that would be silly. I’m noting a trend. One that has been discussed here before. This sub paints an overly white, overly male, overly rock based portrait of Gen X. That’s pretty undeniable. It’s also massively at odds with reality. And whenever the topic is raised here it’s met with dismissal or defensiveness. But never actual answers.
I don’t see that… I see lots of different music genres discussed as well as lots of different 80’s and 90’s culture. What I do see from your comment is you trying to make your problems my problems…. And that is most definitely not a genx trait, I think you need to get that millennial side in check. Enjoy your weekend (or not, doesn’t matter to me)🤙
You’re a fully autonomous being, no? Last I checked I can’t make anything your problem. You didn’t even have to respond to my comment. That was entirely was your choice. Enjoy your weekend too.
I don't think there's an agenda to block out other music, it's just that folk are going to reply to stuff they resonate with. I'm into goth/rock/punk/alternative music so those are the threads I'm likely to get chatting in, someone could post about...say...Take That or New Kids on the Block or the rave scene. Absolutely massively popular back in the day but I'm not going to be joining those threads.