Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’90s, Vol. 37

Dave Steed September 24, 2012 12

Section 2: The Top 40

Faith Hill hit #7 with “This Kiss” and hit #2 for five weeks with “Breathe.” She also hit #7 in 1997 with “It’s Your Love” – a duet with Tim McGraw.

The now elusive Lauryn Hill released some of the hottest hip-hop songs of the decade with “Ex-Factor” “Everything Is Everything” and the #1 smash “Doo Wop (That Thing).”

Susanna Hoffs hit #30 in 1991 with “My Side of the Bed”

Dave Hollister hit #39 in 1999 with “My Favorite Girl”

The 49th biggest artist of the decade was Hootie & the Blowfish, thanks to hits like “Hold My Hand” “Let Her Cry” “Only Wanna Be With You” “Time” “Old Man & Me” and “Tucker’s Town”

Bruce Hornsby & the Range hit #18 with “Across the River”

House of Pain hit #3 with “Jump Around”

Whitney Houston is listed as the 5th biggest artist of the decade thanks to the following top 40 hits: “The Star Spangled Banner,” “Miracle” “My Name Is Not Susan” “I’m Every Woman” “I Have Nothing” “Run To You” “Count On Me” “Why Does It Hurt So Bad” I Believe In You And Me” “Step By Step”, “When You Believe” “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay” and “My Love Is Your Love” as well the #2 hit “Heartbreak Hotel” and the #1 hits “I’m Your Baby Tonight” “All the Man That I Need” Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” and of course “I Will Always Love You” which spent 14 weeks at the top spot.

Adina Howard hit #2 with “Freak Like Me”

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  • rockymtranger

    You hit the nail on the head with the Whitney track. I had to get through the intro to recognize it, which is a crime for a Whitney Houston track. Other than that, pretty generic group for me, although I’ve always had a soft spot for “Secret of Life.”

  • Jackson

    I want to hear “Mirage”-era Fleetwood Mac do a version of “Malibu” with Stevie Nicks singing and Lindsey Buckingham giving the song a proper guitar solo somewhere on it.

    To the time machine!

  • http://www.facebook.com/chuck.m.miller Chuck M Miller

    All I Want was originally recorded by the Lightning Seeds and was the follow up single to the top 30 hit “Pure”.

  • Jackson

    Follow-up question: Did this series go from volume 36 to volume 38?

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    36 and 37 were so bad that I just chose to skip them. Seems I got my numbering off a bit – this is 36.

  • Wall Sound

    dude, think u got it wrong again! should be 37 !!! lol

  • Wall Sound

    Adina Howard

    “My Up and Down” 1995, #68 … download link’s dead !

  • Wall Sound

    nope. think this is 37 dude

  • kingofgrief

    I would have saved Adina for the start of next week’s entry (whatever volume it is) so that picture would show up right underneath the “Ass End” header. As(s) it is, she’s at the ass end of the ass end, so it’s still apropos.

    I’ll give Song of the Week honors to the Butch Vig remix of “Shamrocks and Shenanigans”, which conjures hazy memories of boozy weekends. (In between the booty and the alcohol, this might be my most depraved BF comment to date.)

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

    Indeed. The original version is quite good.

    That said, that Susanna Hoffs album with “All I Want” is a FANTASTIC album, one of the best of the decade. Stuff like “King Of Tragedy”, “Beekeeper’s Blues”, “Enormous Wings”–tremendous. For that matter, I’ve only been able to listen to her new album a couple of times (see the Popdose interview she recently did) but it’s very, very good. Also got to see her live several times during that period and those were great shows. BTW, did you see her on the Emmys last night? It was blink-or-you’ll-miss-her, but she was onscreen when her husband won Best Director/TV Movie or Miniseries for Game Change.

    Man, for someone who can go on about how great Susanna Hoffs is, you’d think I’d like pop music. But according to this article, I don’t. I find Bruce Hornsby pretty dull.

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    This one I do know. Can’t get this to work for some reason. I think I ended up corrupting my file somehow. I’ll include it at the top of next week’s post to make up for it.

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    Too much looking at Adina Howard’s ass. It’s 37 now and it’s staying that way.