Hello everyone. For the FIRST TIME this year, I'm posting a flashback of the top 40 charts from days of yore. Because let's be honest, for most of us, life was better back then than it was now in some respects. Today, we're going back to 1991 when the US was just getting out from their folly in Iraq (Operation Desert Storm), the Pittsburgh Penguins were starting their first Stanley Cup run (more about penguins later), and I had just been three months from relocating to Orlando from Hoke County, North Carolina. I had debated this afternoon whether to watch Netflix and chill, CNBC and panic, Weather Channel and worry, or CNN and bitch. Then I saw a post on Facebook about music from 1983 (as well as a smoking hot picture from you know who) and became inspired, so I rolled my 20-sided die and it came up 12, which translates to 1991. So that's what I'm posting today. For this flashback, I'm using the Radio & Records charts from this week. So, without further ado, here we go. And I'll add some personal thoughts from back then as well as present day along with it.
Some eye candy for y'all. You're welcome.
40. What Comes Naturally by Sheena Easton. I believe this was her last top 40 hit. I think she did some commercials for Bally Total Fitness at the time but that's all I remember.
39. Get Here by Oleta Adams. This song's popularity was undoubtedly due to Desert Storm. One of the lines to this song was "you can get here by Trailways." Trailways was a bus service that ran nationally until Greyhound acquired some of their routes, but they're around albeit regionally. Of note, I feel this song every time I head over to the Crazy Squirrel pub in Port Richey, FL, only to have one of my sisters complain that I go there too much for her liking. 😒
38. Where Does My Heart Beat Now? by Celine Dion
37. How To Dance by Bingoboys f/Princesa
36. Don't Treat Me Bad by Firehouse. Speaking of treating others bad, President Trump went on the rampage this week announcing Wednesday was "Liberation Day" for the United States because he feels that we have been treated unfairly on the world stage as far as the global economy is concerned. So his, answer? Across the board tariffs, which is all he seemingly knows what to do (and he can't even get those right).
35. All True Man by Alexander O'Neal. One such land Trump imposed tariffs on were the Heard & McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territory in the southern Indian Ocean just north of Antarctica, so there are absolutely no goods being imported here from there.
34. Temple Of Love by Harriet. Another territory that had incurred the wrath of Trump is the Falkland Islands, home of about some 3600 mainly British expats off the coast of Argentina also near Antarctica. When asked about how these tariffs are going to affect both them and the Heard & McDonald Islands, the penguins gave this response:
Nope. They aren't happy. Neither are the aforementioned Pittsburgh Penguins, but that's another story.
33. Silent Lucidity by Queensryche. A beautiful song that I haven't heard on Spotify lately. By the way, you ever loved so much that you get a little bit ill when you aren't around them? Something I felt today, and it's something I don't remember ever feeling before...but I digress.
32. Stone Cold Gentleman by Ralph Tresvant. A further note about Trump, in the two days since said tariffs were announced, the DJIA has dropped a staggering 3700 points and is now below 40K for the first time since August. Yikes.
31. Voices That Care by Voices That Care
30. Call It Poison by Escape Club
29. More Than Words by Extreme. Remember when frontman Gary Cherone was tapped to be Sammy Hagar's replacement as the singer of Van Halen in the mid-1990s? Yeah, I'd forgotten about that too until I remembered a radio spoof I heard on WNOR in Norfolk in those days.
28. I'll Be By Your Side by Stevie B. I believe this was the follow-up to "Because I Love You (the Postman Song)." His only other Top Ten hit, and I barely remember it.
27. I Don't Wanna Cry by Mariah Carey. The fourth hit from her Vision of Love album. It debuted this week.
26. Save Some Love by Keedy. Cute, upbeat one hit wonder that somehow after a quick check is now on Spotify. As sportscaster Chris Myers would say, "that deserves a wow!"
25. One More Try by Timmy T. Rare in the early 90s to have a song with a shoestring budget to be a commercial success, but this song did it.
24. I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) by Hi-Five
23. You Don't Have To Go Home Tonight by The Triplets. No, these were actual triplets, not Aikman, Irving, and Emmitt if you're a Dallas Cowboys fan.
22. Iesha by Another Bad Creation. Speaking of going home, or in this case ashore, I'm sure most of you (especially here in Florida) have heard the incident involving a 22-year-old boater and Brock Horner, the captain of Tarpon Coast Fishing Charters in Punta Gorda.
21. Someday by Mariah Carey. Anyway, Thursday morning, Horner and Gage Towles (the 22-year-old) got into a verbal altercation that escalated into Horner hijacking Towles's boat and driving it away. The incident was captured on video and plenty of memes were generated online as a result.
20. More Than Ever by Nelson. A late update courtesy of Facebook, Horner has been arrested for assault and burglary.
19. I Touch Myself by The Divinyls. If you saw the first photo of this blog entry, you would too. 😏
okay, I'm going to go ahead and blow through the rest of these because your man needs to focus and finish. Apparently, I have a sudden case of ADD.
18. Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll) by C&C Music Factory
17. This House by Tracie Spencer
16. Just The Way It Is Baby by The Smithereens
15. Rico Suave by Gerardo
14. Signs by Tesla
13. Rhythm of my Heart by Rod Stewart
12. Round and Round by Tevin Campbell
11. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology Song)/I Want You by Robert Palmer
10. Cry For Help by Rick Astley
9. Touch Me (All Night Long) by Cathy Dennis
8. Sadness Part 1 by Enigma
7. State of the World by Janet Jackson
6. Coming Out Of the Dark by Gloria Estefan
5. Joyride by Roxette
4. Baby Baby by Amy Grant
3. You're In Love 😉 by Wilson Phillips
2. Hold You Tight by Tara Kemp
1. I've Been Thinking About You by Londonbeat.
Sorry if the end of this post seems rushed, but as of right now it's a little past 1:15 AM and I have a potential road trip tomorrow. As always, more to come.
BonyScribe
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