Hello again everyone, except for TEMU Fred Durst and the management at Crazy Squirrel Bar. You may shut me out from patronizing your establishment, but you aren't shutting me down. And with that, it's 7/11 day, which will score you a free small Slurpee at 7-Eleven, if they still have that offer. Hell, with the way things are going in the world, I doubt that even they would be free. Thanks, Trump.
Anyway today, I thought I would publish my second flashback this week, and third this year. Usually, I would have several more flashbacks under my belt this year, but this hasn't been your usual year by any stretch of the imagination. My mental and emotional health have been on a roller coaster to say the least, first sky high, then down in dumps. I'm trying to get back to the way things were in February and March. Kind of like my mental state in the summer of 1994, which is what this flashback is going to cover today. Here are the Top 40 songs according to Radio & Records Magazine of the week of July 11, 1994.
40. All I Want Is You by U2. Not my dream woman's genre of music per se, but a song I would definitely send to her. I think you know who it is...
39. Longview by Green Day. Incredibly, "Basketcase" was not the first top 40 hit from Green Day, this was.
38. It's Over Now by Cause & Effect
37. I Need Your Love by Boston. Kind of random since their heyday was about two decades earlier.
36. Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. As I remember, Z104 in Norfolk, VA was all over this (as was MTV) that summer, too bad within two years, the station would go away from playing rock music that crossed over to pop altogether.
35. Selling The Drama by Live. Much like Green Day, one of their signature songs ("Lightning Crashes") didn't debut first. On a side note, as a younger man at the time and quite possibly naive, I thought that the voiceover dude from WDCG G-105 in Raleigh, which I would listen to on liberty from the Navy Base at the time, was actually the lead singer of Live because they had similar voices. Looking back, I could have done a lot of things differently back then...
34. When Can I See You Again? by Babyface. I liked this song at the time because I had met someone from Puerto Rico that spring while on port call, and this kind of applies now to the woman of my dreams; I haven't seen her since Mother's Day weekend...
33. You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast by The Spin Doctors. Well, maybe I did. I always do that.
32. I'll Be Loving You by Collage. The last gasp of the freestyle dance format, which was wildly popular amongst radio stations in Florida during the early 1990s but quickly fell out of favor. Could it be because it was popular in Florida???
31. Hard Luck Woman by Garth Brooks. Yes, you read that right. Garth Brooks hit the pop radio Top 40 thanks to a cover of a song first released by Kiss.
30. Backwater by The Meat Puppets
29. Fall Down by Toad the Wet Sprocket. Speaking of falling down, I'm feeling a bit down all of a sudden. I have an inkling as to why, but I'd rather not talk about it on here for now...
28. Sleeping In My Car by Roxette. This was the final top 40 hit for the Swedish duo. Reminds me of one of their iconic songs. It must have been love, but it's over now. Rest in peace, Marie Fredrikssen.
27. Misled by Celine Dion. With the exception of "That's The Way It Is" in 2000, I think every other song she released after this was a ballad.
26. The Way She Loves Me by Richard Marx
25. Round Here by Counting Crows. Round here lately, here being social media, I've seen posts about profiles being "stalked." I have a few thoughts on that.
24. I'll Take You There by General Public. One, isn't one the purposes of social media is to put yourself out there? Hell, I WANT my social media pages to be stalked to an extent, as long as I control what I put out there so that everyone can see...
23. Ain't Got Nothing If You Ain't Got Love by Michael Bolton. Two, if you're so paranoid about your social media being "stalked," there's always the "block" button. Just saying.
22. The Sign by Ace of Base. Now that I have that rant out of the way, this song was ubiquitous in 1994. Hell, Ace of Base was ubiquitous. You couldn't get away from them.
21. Return To Innocence by Enigma. I remember that the video was kinda like time going in reverse, with a white horse with a unicorn horn poorly attached to its forehead.
20. Back & Forth by Alliyah
19. Come To My Window by Melissa Etheridge
18. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World by Prince. I wonder who that might be???
17. Prayer For The Dying by Seal
16. Wild Night by John Mellencamp f/Meshell Ndegeocello. This was an amazing song that somehow didn't reach number one. It peaked at #3 on both R/R and Billboard.
15. Until I Fall Away by The Gin Blossoms
14. Baby I Love Your Way by Big Mountain. Loved this one as well.
13. Mr. Jones by Counting Crows. Gonna be big stars...
12. Always by Erasure
11. Shine by Collective Soul. Debut hit for a group that would help define mid-90s rock.
10. Can You Feel The Love Tonight? by Elton John. No, I actually can't. Not since March to be honest.
9. Anytime, Anyplace by Janet Jackson
8. Crazy by Aerosmith. Alicia Silverstone was so hot back in 1994. Why did she throw it all away and support RFK, Jr.???
7. Anytime You Need A Friend by Mariah Carey. It's just a DM away.
6. You Mean The World To Me by Toni Braxton. If only I meant the same to her...
5. If You Go by Jon Secada
4. I'll Remember by Madonna
3. Stay (I Missed You) by Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
2. I Swear by All-4-One. Without going into too much detail, I hated this group because at the time I thought they flat out stole it from John Michael Montgomery. Turns out there were two versions of the same song by two artists release concurrently, one for pop radio and one for country radio. I thought the country one was better.
...and the number one hit this week 31 years ago was...
1. Don't Turn Around by Ace of Base. See, I TOLD you that you couldn't get away from them in 1994.
Well, that puts a wrap on this week's second flashback. Long before there was such a thing as social media, or Jet2 Holidays, or TikTok. I'm going to spend part of Saturday meeting new friends and running other errands before possibly watching wresting tomorrow night. I might have another entry in me for later this weekend, that is if I'm feeling up to it. Until then, take care.
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