Back In The Day: The Billboard Modern Rock Charts From 35 Years Ago

TenderLovingKiller® said:
Maybe now I will understand all the Gen X love for Oingo Boingo when put into the proper context.
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Speaking for myself, you'd have to put yourself in the shoes of a socially awkward trombone player in mid 80's era high school who was happy to hear his instrument represented in popular music and spoke to their perceived outsider status.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yup 1994 was the year that pulled me into these charts.

Here is a playlist I made of the charts from 06/11/1994 and it’s pure fire…
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Fun(ny) to see fellow swede Stakka Bo in there! I'll tell you that most swedes would never call Here We Go "alternative" by any means though. That shit was about as irritating as mosquitos that summer on commercial radio here in Sweden. :p
 
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Lee Newman said:
I am not the biggest Lou Reed fan, but I’m fairly certain New York is one of his most highly regarded albums.
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New York is Lou's love letter to NYC. In true Lou fashion, it's focused on the dark, the seedy, the derelict, the corrupt - things I'm sure made the city more interesting and endearing to someone like Lou. Like many other artists I adore (JAMC, Mark Lanegan, Nick Cave etc...) Lou had the ability to build something beautiful out of the darkness.

New York is a Top 3 Lou record for me.
 
I listened to the whole playlist today and recognized a couple more songs that I didn't know by name...

Also a few notes...

Elvis Costello - My wife's name is Veronica and she hates this song. I'm not sure she even likes Elvis Costello to be honest.

Julian Cope - A cover of 5 O'Clock world? I know it was originally a 60's (?) song but just a few years later the original would be used as the theme for the Drew Carey Show.

Throwing Muses - Their mid-to-late 90's song "Bright Yellow Gun" is one of my favorites of that era, but this is a completely different sound. It almost sounds like Alanis Morissette at times.

The Waterboys - Two songs by them? Weren't they a Christian rock band or am I thinking of somebody else?

Bruce Cockburn - the only song I knew by him is "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" because it's an early Barenaked Ladies cover. I didn't realize he was popular outside of Canada.

Lee Newman said:
I am not the biggest Lou Reed fan, but I’m fairly certain New York is one of his most highly regarded albums.
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I guess I'm just trying to imagine anything by Lou Reed being played on a modern rock station that would be playing bands like Nirvana just a couple of years later.
 
Bohnjaggs said:
I listened to the whole playlist today and recognized a couple more songs that I didn't know by name...

Also a few notes...

Elvis Costello - My wife's name is Veronica and she hates this song. I'm not sure she even likes Elvis Costello to be honest.

Julian Cope - A cover of 5 O'Clock world? I know it was originally a 60's (?) song but just a few years later the original would be used as the theme for the Drew Carey Show.

Throwing Muses - Their mid-to-late 90's song "Bright Yellow Gun" is one of my favorites of that era, but this is a completely different sound. It almost sounds like Alanis Morissette at times.

The Waterboys - Two songs by them? Weren't they a Christian rock band or am I thinking of somebody else?

Bruce Cockburn - the only song I knew by him is "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" because it's an early Barenaked Ladies cover. I didn't realize he was popular outside of Canada.



I guess I'm just trying to imagine anything by Lou Reed being played on a modern rock station that would be playing bands like Nirvana just a couple of years later.
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The Waterboys are a folk-rock group from England and Ireland. They are fantastic. The songs mentioned here are off The Fisherman’s Blues album. I think you must be thinking of the Newsboys.

All radio stations were playing Nirvana just a few years later.
 
Bohnjaggs said:
I've never heard this Lou Reed song but it's hard to imagine him at the top of this chart as late as 1989
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Dirty Boulevard made #80 on the 91x top list of 1989

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Top 91 of 1989 - 91X FM

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