As with pretty much all cool things in life, my brother introduced me to King Missile -- Take Stuff From Work, Cheesecake Truck, etc. I had the Happy Hour album, but my favorite was always "I'm Sorry." Every once in a while for no reason "I did it, it was my fault/I farted in the church/I'm sorry I did many, many bad things/And I am so sorry" pops into my head. Fun band.
1. Whitney Houston
2. Mary J. Blige
3. Saigon Kick
4. U2
5. REM
6. Snap
7. N2Deep
8. Toni Braxton
9. Sade
10. Toad the Wet Sprocket (although also really like Madonna and Peter Gabriel)
11. Lo-Key
12. Portrait
13. Duran Duran
14. Prince
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, but went to graduate school in the midwest and for the past 20 years have been very familiar with many of the landmarks that cstolliver reminiscences about.
Yes, I always like to read when people move on from pop music into a decent life afterward. Now I want to know what happened to Cheryl Pollack (I also remember that Marla Hanson TV movie).
Sometimes it is also young girls who are more interested in the cute boy singers. That was me with a lot of this type of music in the late 80s, but then I grew up to really like more types of music. I was too old and into other things to like this song, but I bet there were a lot of 11-13 year old girls who were into it and who later grew to love music more widely.
It was caught up in the record company chart manipulations of the 1990s. I don't think it was released as a single until very late, and charted out of the top 10.
I love "Cover Me." It is one of the few Bruce Springsteen songs I have in my collection. I know I should appreciate his work more, but I've always been take it or leave it on most his music. I appreciate the skill, I won't change the channel, but it does not do a lot for me (I now will apologize for my lack of taste to 99.9 percent of TNOCS).
I loved him in Blackadder! Loved him in Jeeves and Wooster too. I loved him and Stephen Fry in both so much that when I was working at Hollywood Video in the mid-90s I ordered The Best of Fry and Laurie on VHS (they let you order videos at a discount), and I really loved that too. It was kind of weird seeing him in House after all of that.
Thank you for compiling all this. So many great songs!
1. Nirvana
2. Tom Cochrane
3. Guns n Roses
4. Technotronic
5. Toad the Wet Sprocket
6. Shakespears Sister
7. Smyth/Henley
8. Soup Dragons
9. INXS
10. Del Amitri
11. Madonna
12. P.M. Dawn/EnVogue
13. Charles & Eddie
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