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Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’90s, Vol. 5

Dave Steed February 6, 2012 12

Section 2: The Top 40

Merril Bainbridge hit #4 with “Mouth”

Former Georgia Satellites singer Dan Baird had one solo hit with “I Love You Period.”

Anita Baker’s only top 40 hit in the decade was 1994’s “Body & Soul.”

David Ball hit the top 40 with “Thinkin’ Problem.”

The Barenaked Ladies hit #1 for “One Week” in 1998.

Basia’s “Cruising For Bruising” hit #29 in 1990, her only hit song of the decade.

The Beatles hit #6 in 1995 with “Free As A Bird” which won a Grammy. They followed that up with “Real Love” which went to #11.

Beck’s “Loser” hit #10 in 1994

Bee Gees hit #28 in 1997 with “Alone”

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  • cmmmbase

    The Gary Barlow tune was a cover of country singer Joe Diffie’s #2 country/#84 pop hit from 1995

  • Anonymous

    First, happy birthday.

    Second, I’d wager that “It’s All Been Done” missed the Top 40 because the only commercial single configuration was a 45 (and even then it was relegated to the flip of “Call and Answer”). Then again, it first charted mere weeks after the Hot 100 was retooled to include airplay-only hits, so who knows. It certainly got a fair share of broadcast. (I saw BNL on the Stunt tour; it was a fun show. And I’m still fond of that album.)

    In related news, wasn’t the charting version of “Brian Wilson” the studio remake released as a single back then? Naturally, it’s been spun on Sound Awake over the years.

    Similarly, Beck’s less-than-Top-40 chart action can be attributed to vinyl-only configurations, 12″ singles in his case. “The New Pollution” has always been my favorite B. Hansen recording far and away.

    I bought that Beatles single by rote but couldn’t tell you the last time it saw the interior of a CD player. And I never replaced my copy of Live at the BBC after it started skipping. I guess I don’t need to be a completist after all. (“Real Love” is my favorite charting single of the 90s, though. The artist responsible for my fave 90s single overall should be popping up on the Bubbling Under page next week.)

    “IOU”, “Holding My Heart” and Beats Intl. will be considered for my first BF90s Club Special (which I could very well make a 2-hour thing). I’m tempted to include “Tarzan Boy” on a technicality. (That’s a tough karaoke selection, by the by. You need a lot of breath for those “oh-whoa-whoa” bits.)

  • Anonymous

    First, happy birthday.

    Second, I’d wager that “It’s All Been Done” missed the Top 40 because the only commercial single configuration was a 45 (and even then it was relegated to the flip of “Call and Answer”). Then again, it first charted mere weeks after the Hot 100 was retooled to include airplay-only hits, so who knows. It certainly got a fair share of broadcast. (I saw BNL on the Stunt tour; it was a fun show. And I’m still fond of that album.)

    In related news, wasn’t the charting version of “Brian Wilson” the studio remake released as a single back then? Naturally, it’s been spun on Sound Awake over the years.

    Similarly, Beck’s less-than-Top-40 chart action can be attributed to vinyl-only configurations, 12″ singles in his case. “The New Pollution” has always been my favorite B. Hansen recording far and away.

    I bought that Beatles single by rote but couldn’t tell you the last time it saw the interior of a CD player. And I never replaced my copy of Live at the BBC after it started skipping. I guess I don’t need to be a completist after all. (“Real Love” is my favorite charting single of the 90s, though. The artist responsible for my fave 90s single overall should be popping up on the Bubbling Under page next week.)

    “IOU”, “Holding My Heart” and Beats Intl. will be considered for my first BF90s Club Special (which I could very well make a 2-hour thing). I’m tempted to include “Tarzan Boy” on a technicality. (That’s a tough karaoke selection, by the by. You need a lot of breath for those “oh-whoa-whoa” bits.)

  • Anonymous

    I was all about Anita Baker in the late 80s/early 90s, so these rankings don’t really surprise me.

    “I Apologize” really holds up well to my ear. But my favorite track out of all these has to be B Angie B, just edging out “Dub Be Good To Me.” 
    The amazing thing here is that “If I Had a $1,000,000″ never charted. I grew up in Syracuse, and that song was EVERYWHERE for a few months. BNL really did well in Upstate NY prior to breaking through nationally, but still.

  • Anonymous

    I was all about Anita Baker in the late 80s/early 90s, so these rankings don’t really surprise me.

    “I Apologize” really holds up well to my ear. But my favorite track out of all these has to be B Angie B, just edging out “Dub Be Good To Me.” 
    The amazing thing here is that “If I Had a $1,000,000″ never charted. I grew up in Syracuse, and that song was EVERYWHERE for a few months. BNL really did well in Upstate NY prior to breaking through nationally, but still.

  • http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_songs-Power-Pop.html Brett Alan

    I will never understand why they chose “Baby It’s You” as the single from Live At The BBC. It wasn’t at all contemporary-sounding, and it wasn’t a song that hadn’t previously been released by the Beatles. Something like “Clarabella” or “Soldier Of Love” would have made a lot more sense.

    Gary Barlow was really the lead singer/frontman of Take That, so the Andrew Ridgely analogy doesn’t apply at all.

    I don’t really remember that Merrill Bainbridge song, but I liked her hit “Mouth”.

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

     I’m curious to see if I’ll remember that when I hit the letter D.

  • cmmmbase

    “If I Had a $1,000,000″ did make #37 on the Adult Top 40 chart in February 2000…that’s about it though.

  • cmmmbase

    “If I Had a $1,000,000″ did make #37 on the Adult Top 40 chart in February 2000…that’s about it though.

  • cmmmbase

    “If I Had a $1,000,000″ did make #37 on the Adult Top 40 chart in February 2000…that’s about it though.

  • http://twitter.com/RobertSanchez36 Robert Sanchez

    “Tarzan Boy” was also featured (at the same time as its appearance in the Ninja Turtles movie) in a commercial for Cool Mint Listerine that ran constantly, and its popularity convinced the record company to rerelease it as a single.

  • http://sonicweapons.net Thierry

    Yeah, I was going to point that out about Barlow – he actually was the George Michael of the group, winning Ivor Novello songwriting awards in the UK and singing lead on most of the hits. At first, most expected him to have a successful solo career after the band’s breakup – and he did (in the UK at least), but that all went out the window when Williams’s “Angels” took off well into his own solo album’s cycle. Take That had a couple of Ridgeley types, but Barlow wasn’t one of them.