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Popdose Flashback ’90: Harry Connick Jr., “We Are in Love”
Twenty years ago, Harry Connick shared his recipe for love -- and led a new generation of pop crooners to rediscover some time-tested platinum ingredients
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Cheap Trick, “Busted”
In a very personal Flashback '90, Popdose writer Michael Fortes revisits the lows and highs of Cheap Trick's Busted, song by song
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Public Enemy, “Fear of a Black Planet”
Twenty years after this Public Enemy classic was released, Mike Heyliger reflects on its legacy -- and laments mainstream hip-hop's turn away from social consciousness
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: MC Hammer, “Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em”
Today, Dave Steed is a father, husband, and homeowner -- but in 1990, he was wearing baggy pants and dancing like a fool, and MC Hammer was to blame
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: The Blue Aeroplanes, “Swagger”; The Church, “Gold Afternoon Fix”
In a Flashback '90 twofer, Jack Feerick looks back on two albums connected in more ways than one
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Bad Company, “Holy Water”
Twenty years ago, the reconstituted Bad Company turned Holy Water into platinum. Jeff Giles thinks it might finally be time to forgive
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Toad the Wet Sprocket, “Pale”
Michael Parr looks back the chord struck in his 15-year-old psyche -- 20 years ago! -- by Toad the Wet Sprocket's Pale.Read More »
Popdose Flashback ’90: Julia Fordham, “Porcelain”
If you were watching music videos during the winter of 1990, you probably saw a lot of Taylor Dayne’s bustiers … watched Michael Bolton as he seemed to strain mightily to release something from
Read More »Flashback ’90: The Sundays, “Reading, Writing and Arithmetic”
He might be a little peeved about the band's ongoing hiatus, but Jeff Giles still has enough love for the Sundays to celebrate their debut's 20th birthday
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: The Seventy Sevens, “Sticks and Stones”
Things were not going well for The Seventy Sevens in 1990. They were always considered the bad boys of CCM, willing to take on taboo subjects their brethren wouldn’t dare touch — lust, depression,
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