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Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’90s, Vol. 16

Dave Steed April 23, 2012 11

Section 4: Bubbling Under

Collage bubbled under in 1998 with “Love of a Lifetime”

Collective Soul’s final single of the decade – “No More, No Less” bubbled under in 1999.

Despite the massive career, Phil Collins even bubbled under once in the decade with “We Wait and We Wonder” off of Both Sides.

Color Me Badd bubbled under twice with “Let’s Start with Forever” and “Sexual Capacity.”

Coming of Age hit #101 with “Coming Home To Love”

Common bubbled under three times (once as Common Sense) with “Resurrection” “Reminding Me” and “One-Nine-Nine-Nine”

The Comrads hit #102 in 1997 with “Homeboyz”

Rap group Condition Red hit #122 in 1993 with “Don’t Get Caught Slipping”

Confederate Railroad hit #113 with “Trashy Women.”

Conscious Daughters hit #124 in 1996 with “Gamers”

Coolio bubbled under three times with “County Line” “I Remember” and “Mama, I’m in Love”

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  • rockymtranger

    That Collage record was EVERYWHERE in Syracuse and Rochester when it came out. Freestyle was really at its peak, and if you didn’t follow the national charts, you would have thought it was a top 10 record.

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

    I was working at a record store when Collage’s “I’ll Be Loving You” came out and distinctly recall the selling out of the CD and cassette single for what seemed like months on end.

  • kingofgrief

    Looks like “I’ll Be Loving You” is the water-cooler track of the week. When I do my Club Hour for the first half of the 90s entries, this will be a shoe-in. Big on the radio, big in the clubs and I even saw them at a Labor Day festival for our big Top 40 outlet (alongside Lisa Loeb and Anything Box among others). I remember seeing Adam Marano’s soundalike singles (e.g. Chucklebutt, Krazi and Judo’s “All My Life”) years later and wondering at first if it was the same guy.

    I’ll second that Dance Into the Light is a better record than most people think. The title cut might be the weakest of the originals on that album (not that fond of his Dylan cover, either) and the fact that it got the most exposure might have colored the public’s opinion out of the gate.

  • rockymtranger

    Same here. We had to order it from one-stops, and getting the clearance from our Home Office to do that was a pain, but we sold a ton.

  • Mstgator

    Yeah, the Collage song had an unusually long lifespan.  It first charted in 1993 but didn’t become a “mainstream” CHR hit until the following summer (eventually peaking at #27 on Radio & Records’ pop chart).  I remember it spending what seemed like an eternity near the top of Billboard’s recurrent airplay chart around that time and kept hoping it would re-enter the Hot 100.

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

    I don’t think Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool and the Gang was ever referred to as “Kool Papa”. I think you were thinking of Cool Papa Bell, the legendary Negro League baseball player. (It was famously said of him that he was so fast he could turn out the lights and be in bed before the room got dark.)

     

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    Are you saying it’s not plausible that Color Me Badd was founded in the Negro League?

  • aaaaa

    Phil Collins’ cover of True Colors bubbled under circa late 1998/early 1999, besides hitting the airplay chart. He and David Crosby just missed the top 40 with Hero in Spring 1993,as you’ll be getting to in a week or two I suspect.

  • Eric S.

    “Sure, they were good tunes back in the day but Collective Soul songs aged so poorly. I recognized all of the tunes in this post after listening to them again, but I couldn’t have hummed one note of these songs before that point.”

    I felt exactly the same way listening to these again.  I think the problem is that they were “good” only in comparison to everything else on the radio at that time.  I don’t find myself going back to these 90′s records, and listening to the songs again doesn’t help. 

    In my opinion, those rock bands outside the grunge movement never really found their footing during the decade.  As a listener not into grunge, you were somewhat forced into bands like Collective Soul.  

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

     I really liked their debut even though it hasn’t aged gracefully. After that though, it seemed like the production got slicker and trickier with each successive release, and the actual songs behind them got weaker and weaker — except perhaps for “Run.” If it didn’t have that drum-loop straddling the regular drums and just had a nice, natural room sound, it might not be so ’90s identifiable. It’s a good song with a bad production decision.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    The biggest problem with mainstream AOR rock in the ’90s is exemplified by Alice Cooper’s “Just My Heart Talkin’,” a song I never heard before yet could telegraph point-by-point anyway.