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Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’90s, Vol. 15

Dave Steed April 16, 2012 20

Section 4: Bubbling Under

Eric Clapton bubbled under with “Motherless Child” and “Blue Eyes Blue”

The first four singles for Terri Clark all bubbled under. In ’96 and ’97 she had “When Boy Meets Girl,” “If I Were You,” “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” and “Emotional Girl” all hit the chart.

The Click’s “Scandalous” hit #101 in 1996.

Jimmy Cliff bubbled under twice in the decade, first with “(You’re Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher and then with “Hakuna Matata” from the Lion King.

George Clinton bubbled under in 1993 with “Paint the White House Black.”

C-Note hit #104 in 1999 with “Wait Till I Get Home”

Tom Cochrane bubbled under at #101 in 1995 with “I Wish You Well.”

Marc Cohn bubbled under in 1993 with “Walk Through the World.”

Jude Cole bubbled under in 1993 with “Worlds Apart.”

Natalie Cole bubbled under in 1998 with “The Christmas Song.”

Paula Cole bubbled under in 1999 at #112 with “I Believe In Love”

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  • rockymtranger

    If nothing else, this column shows some of the variety going on in the 90s. Having said that, variety isn’t always a good thing.

    Forgot how much I love that Eric Clapton track.

  • Powpowtung

    Hi Dave.

    Love your posts and looking forward to it every monday. I’m from Sweden and listened a lot to Clubland in the 90′s. The reason why Clubland sounds like two different groups to you is because… they are here. The “Set me free” track is not Set me free at all. It’s Ain’t no Doubt with Jimmy Nail. Set me free is really not that different from Hold On…

  • http://www.popdose.com Michael Parr

    “Bad Love” is still one of my favorite Clapton tunes. That riff is downright infectious.

  • http://www.popdose.com Dave Steed

    Thanks for the note about Clubland. Ill remove the track later and see if i have the real version.

  • kingofgrief

    The Clapton album in question is actually titled Journeyman. Take it from someone who’s priced many a used CD copy in his time.

    So the track representing “Set Me Free” isn’t really “Set Me Free”? I’ll call that a happy accident as I like what I’ve heard enough to add it to my 90s club cache.

    I expected a higher showing for “True Companion”, but I guess that made more of a stir on AC. Cohn’s first record was good, but it didn’t take me long to burn out from day-job overexposure. I remember when The Rainy Season arrived on our shelves. And just sat there.

    Good call on the Jude Cole/Squeeze comparison, and I’d add the brothers Finn to that discussion. “House Full of Reasons” might take my best-of prize for the week. “Baby It’s Tonight” was also a fave from the era.

  • David_E

    And is that Tommy Shaw on backing vocals for Cole’s “Start the Car”? Why yes, yes it IS Tommy Shaw on backing vocals for Cole’s “Start the Car.” Thanks for noticing, Jeff!

  • http://www.popdose.com jefito

    You son of a bitch.

  • http://twitter.com/ryan1212 Ryan Brzozowski

    Dave, thanks again for rewinding my life’s soundtrack.  Marc Cohn…I can’t say enough.  To everyone, if you haven’t dug deeper than “Walking In Memphis,” do yourself a favor.  You won’t be disappointed.  Ahhh, “Silver Thunderbird.” Anyone who has spent any time with their dad in the garage and shooting the bull about cars will get it.  What a beautiful song.  Reminds me of a lot of late nights.  

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    I’ve removed the mysterious “set me free” not “set me free” tune – if I can dig up the real version, I’ll post it next week.

    It says Journeyman, am I missing something?

    I can certainly imagine that many “day jobs” featured that record. Record stores, department stores, elevator attendants…etc…

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    Haha. So glad you commented on that – I left that out on purpose to see who would get in the first line about it. You win.

  • Eric S.

    I can’t believe “Worlds Apart” by Jude Cole just bubbled under.  It may be my personal favorite, but it also seemed as ubiquitous as those that charted higher.

    With Cole, Clapton, Marc Cohn and Tom Cochrane this week, I actually got to the end of the post with an overall positive feeling.  I think that’s the first time it’s happened with this series. 

  • kingofgrief

    The Clapton post initially referred to the album as Pretending and listed the song as a title cut. Maybe a phantom editor intervened.

  • http://theisleoffailedpopstars.blogspot.com/ Nasty G

    LOL  I was wondering that too when I read that.  I remember the Clubland tracks being VERY similar, as were most of the songs on their album (which I’ll likely post on my blog one day…)

  • http://theisleoffailedpopstars.blogspot.com/ Nasty G

    I need to start by saying that I live in Ontario and in most places here you’d still lose cred and be laughed out of the room if you like Tom Cochrane, unless you live in some small hick town. ;) We’ve had Canadian content (aka CanCon) forced on us for decades through legislation, and it was especially bad in the 1980s and 1990s, so the apparent “stature” of many Canadian artists isn’t reflective of actual Canadian taste, I assure you. ;)  

    Also, I did a phone interview with Cleopatra and Guy Oseary right before their second album was released and they were very sweet girls who were excited with their new ‘mature’ sound on said album, which effectively ended their career (well, that and Maverick’s horrible marketing).  Their initial sound (which I agree, was pretty unlistenable) was ripping on the Spice Girls, but they went full on R&B for their second album and flopped. 

    And speaking of R&B, you *may* be interested to know that SWV reformed recently and released a new album today, in fact, called ‘I Missed Us’, so Coko *may* see herself on the charts again…

  • Mstgator

    I liked Samantha Cole’s “Happy With You” better when it was released as Brandy’s “Sittin’ Up In My Room” and Karyn White’s “The Way I Feel About You”.  Just sayin’.

  • Mstgator

    However, I don’t like it so much when I reply incorrectly.  My comment is unrelated to Nasty G’s. :D

  • http://theisleoffailedpopstars.blogspot.ca/ Nasty G

    No worries, I liked and agree with your comments.  Samantha Cole was just blah…

  • Elysium

    Here is the video for the Jimmy Nail song, apparantly a number one hit in the UK July 1992, 

  • http://twitter.com/devintait Devin Tait

    I was very surprised to see the photo of Citizen King, with a familiar face front and center. I remember that song “Better Days” from the 90′s. But in the early 2000′s (around 2002-03) in Los Angeles there was the electroclash scene and my friends and I just LOVED the album “Ultra Sex” by Mount Sims and saw him live a few times. It was a shock to finally learn he was the vocalist on “Better Days.” He definitely seemed to distance himself from that as I had never read that anywhere about him during the Mount Sims era.

  • SuperChris

    I was recently in Vancouver for three months and listened to a number of radio stations and it’s amazing the stuff stations play to meet their CanCon quotas. Every hour (and I’m not exaggerating) the stations would play a Bryan Adams tune from “Reckless”; Tom Cochrane; Nickelback; and the same song from Colin James. You would have thought no female artists from Canada ever released a song that was airplay-worthy.