Best of 1989

Posted October 14, 200816 yr

This one's going to be a bit tricky. Though I was eight years old and loved many songs from that year, many have not aged well. So limiting it down to 10 instead of 12, my pick of the year:

1. Beautiful South - Song For Whoever

Sheer class

2. Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

Love Manchild too, but this just edges ahead for me

3. Electronic - Getting Away With It

This side project still never topped this masterpiece as far as I'm concerned

4. Black Box - Ride On Time

Adore this one!!!!

5. Pet Shop Boys - It's Alright (Album Version)

Not mad on the single edit, but the Trevor Horn produced Introspective version is a glorious nine minutes of perfection!

6. Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall

Some cheese here, but can't help but love it

7. Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon

Quite an interesting dance track

8. Rob Howard & Kim Mazzelle - Wait

Great track

9. Ten City - That's The Way Love Is

Superb house cut

10. Liza Minnelli - Losing My Mind

Great Pet Shop Boys production

October 14, 200816 yr

This one's going to be a bit tricky. Though I was eight years old and loved many songs from that year, many have not aged well. So limiting it down to 10 instead of 12, my pick of the year:

1. Beautiful South - Song For Whoever
Sheer class

3. Electronic - Getting Away With It
This side project still never topped this masterpiece as far as I'm concerned

5. Pet Shop Boys - It's Alright (Album Version)
Not mad on the single edit, but the Trevor Horn produced Introspective version is a glorious nine minutes of perfection!

10. Liza Minnelli - Losing My Mind
Great Pet Shop Boys production

These are the only ones I liked , not my favourite year

October 15, 200816 yr

Interesting year this, Stock/Aitken/Waterman were probably at their peak as they were having hits from Kylie, Jason, Rick, Sonia, and a bunch of others I can't remember. Lots of early house too.

My ten favourites!

Marc Almond & Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart

Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care

Tina Turner - The Best

Kirsty MacColl - Days

Erasure - Drama!

Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's For Real

Stone Roses - Fools Gold

Coldcut feat Lisa Stansfield - People Hold On (love that piano)

Black Box - Ride On Time

808 State - Pacific State

October 15, 200816 yr

i could possibly pick out 12 favs, but in comparison to other years they simply wouldnt figure. imho 89 was one of the worst ever years for chart music.

October 15, 200816 yr

My Top 12 of 1989.

(One track per act, no album only tracks)

1. Madonna - Like A Prayer - Her career best song, taken from my favourite Madonna album and surely her most iconic video.

2. Kate Bush - This Woman's Work - Such a heartbreaking beautiful and feminine song.

3. Neneh Cherry - Manchild - The future Massive Attack influences of producer/husband Cameron McVey are here to see in a song about motherhood.

4. U2 - All I Want Is You - By far the best thing about the very underwhelming Rattle & Hum album.

5. Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seas Of Love - A brilliant Beatles pastiche that The Rutles, ELO & Oasis would have killed to write.

6. Bangles - Eternal Flame - A brilliant torch ballad and the best song Debbie Gibson never wrote. But avoid Atomic Kitten's version at all costs.

7. Stone Roses - Fools Gold - It might now be over familiar but it remains an iconic track.

8. The Sundays - Can't Be Sure - Harriet Wheeler's ethereal vocals ensure this #1 John Peel Festive 50 track of 1989 is 100 times better than anything the significantly less talented The Saturdays will ever come up with.

9. The Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven - "The Bill Haley & The Comets of grunge" © David Bowie (1993) released this seminal track taken from their epic Doolittle album.

10. Shakespears Sister - You're History - What a fantastic debut single. Siobhan & Marcella may have made bigger hit singles but they never bettered their debut IMHO.

11. Beautiful South - Song For Whoever - Paul Heaton's new band debut single, a superb and biting satire at Stock Aitken & Waterman kept at #2 by a Stock Aitken & Waterman song.

12. Electronic - Getting Away With It - What a great way to see out the decade with a supergroup made up of members of New Order, The Smiths & The Pet Shop Boys with a killer song to match.

October 15, 200816 yr

De La Soul - Me Myself and I

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The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored

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The Cure - lullaby

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Nirvana - About A Girl

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Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump

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NINE INCH NAILS - HEAD LIKE A HOLE

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Fugazi - Waiting Room

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October 15, 200816 yr

Off top of me 'ead...

Happy Mondays - WFL

Jesus Jones - Info Freako

S'Express - Hey Music Lover

De La Soul - The Magic Number

Pop Will Eat Itself - Can You Dig It?

The Wonderstuff - Don't Let Me Down, Gently

The KLF - What Time is Love? (First time around!)

October 15, 200816 yr

1989!

I could make a triple CD!!! OK...

01: Madonna "Express Yourself"

I much prefer this to "Like A Prayer", slick production, immaculate vid. Great all-rounder!

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02: Frankie Knuckles "Your Love"

The template for The Source "You Got The Love". The greatest track produced by the lengendary New Yorker.

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03: 808 State "Pacific State"

Spine-tingling mancunian gorgeousness. One of my favorite tracks of all time, infact.

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04: Sterling Void "It's Alright"

Not a chart hit as such, but was made famous as a cover Pet Shop Boys. Sadly, their version was terrible. The original is superior. Check this out...

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04: Ten City "That's The Way Love Is"

Wicked soulful house rarely gets as good as this, topped nicely with Byron Stingily's outstanding vocal.

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05: Mantronix "Got To Have Your Love"

Ice-cool R&B, before the days of ganstas and bitches. Top track!

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06: Martika "I Feel The Earth Move"

I'm partial to semi-atrocious 80s power-pop!

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07: Soul II Soul "Keep On Moving"

Debut for one the finest british soul act for the past 20 odd years.

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08: Shakespears Sister "Your History"

Cool and random track from shortlived transatlantic duo.

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09: Neneh Cherry "Manchild"

So Buffalo Stance maybe the better track, but this is bloody close!

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10: Kylie "Hand On Your Heart"

I defend this as vintage-Kylie! Perfectly great throw-a-way pop track! Jose Gonzalez seemed to think so anyway...

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11: Lil Louis "French Kiss"

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No lyric, no melody... just a few odd minutes of a woman verging on the borderline. Also charted at #2!

And this years guilty pleasure...............

12: Sonia "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You"

Sometimes, just sometimes, a raving homosexual needs to clear his mind with instantly unchallenging bouncy, chunky 80s cheese - and this ticks all the right boxes!

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Edited October 16, 200816 yr by MusicMaster

October 15, 200816 yr

1. Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings

2. Paula Abdul - Straight Up

3. Exposé - What You Don't Know

4. Alice Cooper - Poison

5. Roxette - Listen To Your Heart

6. Madonna - Like a Prayer

7. Martika - Toy Soldiers

8. Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted

9. Mysterious Art - Das Omen

10. Michael Damian - Rock On

11. Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting

12. Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety

13. Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years

14. The Bangles - Eternal Flame

15. Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change a Thing

October 15, 200816 yr

My Top 12 of 1989.

10. Shakespears Sister - You're History - What a fantastic debut single. Siobhan & Marcella may have made bigger hit singles but they never bettered their debut IMHO.

I love this track, too, but wasn't 'Break My Heart (You Really)' the debut SS single?

October 16, 200816 yr

I love this track, too, but wasn't 'Break My Heart (You Really)' the debut SS single?

it didnt chart according to the guiness book :)

October 16, 200816 yr

05: Mantronix "Got To Have Your Love"

that was 1990 m8... :)

but a bloody good track.

October 16, 200816 yr

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10: Kylie "Hand On Your Heart"

I defend this as vintage-Kylie! Perfectly great throw-a-way pop track! Jose Gonzalez seemed to think so anyway...

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Definately my favourite early Kylie single. Forgot to include it in my list!

October 18, 200816 yr

I love this track, too, but wasn't 'Break My Heart (You Really)' the debut SS single?

yeah he knows his stuff tho its listed as a double a-side - "Break My Heart (You Really)" / "Heroine"

this sounds like an Eurythmics cast off...and therefore not a good thing...at all.... :puke2: this may be a better man with a beard moment....

Eric Clapton & Marcy Levy - Hello Old Friend (live 1977)

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Marcy Levy Take Me Down To The Riverside 1975

well i think banananananananrama have probs been mentioned far too much in this place.

October 18, 200816 yr

yeah he knows his stuff tho its listed as a double a-side - "Break My Heart (You Really)" / "Heroine"

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this sounds like an Eurythmics cast off...and therefore not a good thing...at all.... :puke2:

nah - Heroine and Break My Heart were excellent tracks... in fact, I prefer the first Shakespears Sister album that didn't include Marcella Detroit.

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My favourite Shakespears Sister moment was the original non-single version of Dirty Mind.... which should've been the single version....

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October 19, 200816 yr

nah - Heroine and Break My Heart were excellent tracks... in fact, I prefer the first Shakespears Sister album that didn't include Marcella Detroit.

My favourite Shakespears Sister moment was the original non-single version of Dirty Mind....

well if you take away marcella levy but allowed to keep the thought of the non-hatfield northern beardy man...then the best Siobhan Fahey moment is...