In honor of Memorial Day weekend when radio stations take a nostalgic route and play old hits, I will be starting my Best of the '90s series that I've been wanting to do since the summer of 2008, but since I was banned around that time, I never got the chance until now.
I'll be making a survivor of my fifty favorite songs from each year of the '90s and two songs from each year will advance to the finals where ATRL will decide the Best of the '90s from a list of twenty songs.
But that's in the distant future. Let's start with 1990! It was hard narrowing it down to fifty songs since there were so many great songs that year, but I think these fifty songs resonated with me the most.
Aerosmith - "Janie's Got a Gun"
Aerosmith - "What it Takes"
Bell Biv Devoe - "Poison"
Bell Biv Devoe - "Do Me!"
Billy Idol - "Cradle of Love"
Black Box - "Everybody Everybody"
Michael Bolton - "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You"
Mariah Carey - "Love Takes Time"
Mariah Carey - "Vision of Love"
Jane Child - "Don't Wanna Fall in Love"
Phil Collins - "Another Day in Paradise"
Phil Collins - "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven"
Taylor Dayne - "Love Will Lead You Back"
Deee-Lite - "Groove is in the Heart"
En Vogue - "Hold On"
Johnny Gill - "Rub You the Right Way"
Gloria Estefan - "Here We Are"
Heart - "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You"
Whitney Houston - "I'm Your Baby Now"
James Ingram - "I Don't Have the Heart"
Janet Jackson - "Alright"
Janet Jackson - "Black Cat"
Janet Jackson - "Come Back to Me"
Janet Jackson - "Escapade"
Jon Bon Jovi - "Blaze of Glory"
Linear - "Sending All My Love"
Madonna - "Vogue"
Maxi Priest - "Close to You"
MC Hammer - "Pray"
George Michael - "Freedom '90"
George Michael - "Praying for Time"
Glenn Medeiros - "She Ain't Worth It"
Motley Crue - "Without You"
Alannah Myles - "Black Velvet"
Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Tommy Page - "I'll Be Your Everything"
Poison - "Something to Believe in"
Poison - "Unskinny Bop"
Righteous Brothers - "Unchained Melody"
Roxette - "It Must Have Been Love"
Roxette - "Listen to Your Heart"
Lisa Stansfield - "All Around the World"
Seduction - "Two to Make it Right"
Snap - "The Power!"
Stevie B - "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)"
Sweet Sensation - "If Wishes Came True"
Keith Sweat - "Make You Sweat"
Technotronic - "Pump Up the Jam"
Wilson Phillips - "Hold On"
Wilson Phillips - "Release Me"