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Finally, for January 18 and the next 5 weeks, covering the next 2 pop #1s and into the third, Cypress Hill’s first number on was 1992’s Rap #1, the double A-side “How I Could Just Kill A Man” and “The Phuncky Feel One”. Senen Reyes was born in 1965 in Cuba. He and his brother Ulpiano emigrated to LA in 1971 with their family. Sen God and Mellow Man Ace met Lawerence Muggerud and Louis Freese in 1988. Sen Dog, Mellow Man Ace, DJ Muggs and B-Real formed DVX, but soon Ace left for a solo career and the remaining three renamed themselves Cypress Hill. Their demo got them a contract with Ruffhouse Records and their self-titled debut album came out in September 1991 with this lead single coming out in June 1991. https://youtu.be/Yg-RIOATCbU How I Could Just Kill A Man ended up going Gold and the album double Platinum. It was a #1 Rap record and got all the way to #31 on the Hot 200. Bigger things are ahead for Cypress Hill. Before then though they were on the side stage for the second Lollapalooza in 1992 with DJ Muggs-produced House of Pain.
Next up, The U.M.C.s had a two week number one with “Blue Cheese”, their only #1. Haas G and Kool Kim grew up in Staten Island, NY and released two albums in 1991 and 1994 before disbanding. The first, Fruits of Nature, came out in October 1991 and launched their two biggest singles. https://youtu.be/y2vyfP2Zi2I Haas G went on to produce hits for Lil Kim and Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killa, and Raekwon. Kool Kim changed his stage name to NYOIL and released progressively more and more political rap. Both are still working hard in the industry. Then yet another number one from Chubb Rock with “Just the Two of Us” for two more weeks. https://youtu.be/T4drErSpA-k This is Rock’s 4th #1, and he’s gonna be back too!
Lots of Rap #1 during Michael’s latest reign! First up is two more weeks from Kid ‘N Play with “Ain’t Gonna Hurt Nobody” for two weeks. Kid ‘n Play released their third and final album, Face the Nation, in September 1991. The lead single was “Ain’t Gonna Hurt Nobody”, as well as appearing on the House Party 2 soundtrack. https://youtu.be/64c8pan6nus It was their first, and only, crossover hit, getting to #51 pop. Made of just two samples: James Brown’s “Funky President” and Brick’s “Ain’t Gonna Hurt Nobody”. After the third album and House Part 2, they went on to star in House Party 3, Class Act, and a fourth House Party movie in 2013! They collaborated on almost all the tracks on the House Party 3 soundtrack, but haven’t released any new songs since 1994. Kid (Chris Reid) focused on acting more and more, he’s got 33 acting credits on IMDB. Play (Chris Martin) became born-again and got into Christian Rap. But since 2012 they’ve been working together and touring on the hip hop nostalgia circuit.
Nope, that's the name of the album. The first Ruthless/Priority release was the US CD below https://img.discogs.com/eLPdOIhSTwRP3WKuE3kqzH_NqHI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4699128-1372626163-7292.jpeg.jpg
November 30th had both a single week pop and a single week rap #1. Born Jonathan Davis, Q-Tip converted to Islam and changed his name in the mid 90s to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed. In 1991 he was a 21 year old producer and rapper in A Tribe Called Quest. Rapper Malik Taylor (Phife Dawg), DJ Ali Muhammed, and rapper Jarobi White made up the rest of Tribe. The four of them grew up in the St Albans neighborhood of Queens - next to Jamaica and just north of JFK Airport - and formed A Tribe Called Quest in 1985 while in high school. Their name was given to them by classmates The Jungle Brothers. In 1988, Tribe, Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, former #1 De La Soul, and former #1 Monie Love formed the Native Tongues. A Tribe Called Quest released their first album on Jive in 89, the classic People’s Instinctive Travels and the Path of Rhythm. It didn’t sell great, eventually going gold in the mid 90s, but had two great singles with “I Left my wallet in El Segundo” and “Can I Kick It”. Between that and De La Soul’s Three Feet High and Rising, they set the template for non-commercial/alternative rap in the 90s. Their second album came out in September 1991. The Low End Theory sold better, going Gold in 92 and Platinum in 95. The lead single was “Check The Rhime”. https://youtu.be/1QWEPdgS3As First thing you’ll notice is it sounds nothing like recent #1s. There are no George Clinton samples. There are no James Brown samples! This was Tribe’s only #1 single. They’d release three more albums until frustrations with their contract with Jive caused them to break up in 1998. They reunited in 2005 and toured a bit and eventually released another album in 2016. Unfortunately Phife Dawg died from diabetes in 2016, 9 months before the final Tribe album. A Tribe Called Quest will not be back to #1. Q-Tip on the other hand will be back as a guest rapper and producer.
For November 9th, there’s a new rap #1 that’s not Prince. On October 1, 1991, Public Enemy released their fourth album, Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black. While it eventually went Platinum, it didn’t sell as well as the last two, but it was the biggest crossover album, reaching #4 on the Hot 200. The lead single “Can’t Truss It” came out on September 24, 91, and ended up being their best selling single! It’s the only Public Enemy single to go Gold. https://youtu.be/am9BqZ6eA5c It starts with a sample from Alex Haley, the author of Roots, and layers on Malcom X and Richard Pryor then adds James Brown and very G. Funk sounding samples. All told, there’s a minimum of 15 tracks sampled in there. Public Enemy stayed on top for 3 weeks, covering Prince and Friday’s #1. Monday there will be a new band on top. Public Enemy will return very soon.
A who's who of late 80s R&B! Jam & Lewis, Karyn white, Jody Watley, Shalamar, Stephanie Mills, Babyface and LA Ried, Ray Parker Jr, Bobby Brown! There's more R&B star power in those two paragraphs than have been in all the other columns this month combined, and there have been Mariah songs! This is Karyn's last R&B #1 too, making 4. Mills had 5. Watley had 2, but another 7 Dance. Bobby 4 solo and 5 New Edition #1s. Jam & Lewis and Babyface & LA Ried? Too many to count.
Hate to follow that up, but Tim Dog was only #1 for Mariah’s first week. For her other two weeks and Monday’s time, there was a new artist at #1: Geto Boys with “Mind Playing Tricks on Me”. They began as The Ghetto Boys in 1987 in Houston and released their first two albums in 88 and 89. The first didn’t chart and the second sold pretty well (166 Hot 200/19 Rap), but they rebranded themselves, dropping the h and second t. They released a remix album in 1990 under their new name and their first single. Their third full length album came out in July 1991 preceded a week by the lead off single “Mind Playing Tricks on Me”. https://youtu.be/IJtHdkyo0hc Rolling Stone called it the 5th greatest hip-hop song of all time in 2012, it’s built on a 1974 Isaac Hayes song, “Hung Up on My Baby” from his film Tough Guys. Tough Guys, or Three Tough Guys, was an odd Italian-written and directed Blaxploitation film produced by Dino de Laurentiis. It stayed on top for three weeks and was The Geto Boys’ biggest hit, and their biggest crossover hit, #10 R&B and #23 Pop. Their next five albums have charted higher, but 1991’s We Can’t Be Stopped is the only one that got Platinum. The final album came out in 2005. In 2009 they reunited for future subject Cypress Hill’s festival SmokeOut, but in 2010 one of the founding members, Bushwack Bill, was threatened deportation to Jamaica due to a drug arrest. In May 2019, Bill revealed he had pancreatic cancer and The Geto Boys began planning a farewell tour to fund a pancreatic cancer charity. However, in June 2019 Bill died from the cancer.
For Mariah’s first week, we’ve got the first explicit title at Rap #1 with Tim Dog’s “Fuck Compton” or F-ck Compton as the single’s cover stated. https://youtu.be/AwzeM2J3Emk Tim Blair was born and raised in the Bronx in January 1967 - The Monkeys were #1 - and by the late 80s was dissatisfied with the coverage west coast rap was getting in the media. He thought the popularity of west coast rap was blocking east coast rappers from getting contracts. His lead single was one of the most popular diss tracks. His samples were a little different too. Much different from what was brewing in LA, not a George Clinton sample to be found. But there still was a James Brown sample. The drums were from a 1969 Ike & Tina Turner single. In the great tradition of diss songs, there were responses. Former #1 Compton’s Most wanted had two songs on their 92 album Music to Driveby. Future #1 Dr. Dre’s second single, “Fuck with Dre Day (And Everbody’s Celebratin)” with future #1 artist and frequent Martha Stewart collaborator Snoop Dogg, was both a response and dis track. They diss Eazy-E and respond to Tim Dog and Luke Campbell of 2 Live Crew. Tim never got to #1 again. He released 3 more solo albums, an EP, and two albums with Kool Keith. In 2011 he pleaded guilty to grand larceny for conning a woman out of $32,000 in an online dating scam. Sentenced to probation and had to pay her $19,000 in restitution. The case showed up on Dateline NBC on June 15, 2012. However, on February 14, 2013 it was reported he died of complications of diabetes at 46 years old. You might think that’s an inglorious end to this story of a former #1, but you’d be wrong. No death certificate was filed and his funeral was canceled, and the woman alleged that his “alleged death” was a scheme to get out of paying her and a warrant in Mississippi was issued for Tim! On September 15, 2014 NBC News confirmed that Tim Dog really did die in February 2013 and a death certificate was filed in Dekalb county, GA.
Between LL and Marky, 90/91 was the time for shirtless rappers.
Love Sensation has been sampled at least 229 times, including the florida song Tom has. However, that's only her second most sampled song. Her most sampled song is 1984's Crash Goes Love has been sampled at least 350 times. https://youtu.be/3Y9oSJWKy88 The most popular was a Pitbull single that got to #23 Pop and #4 Rap - 2014's Fireball. But the majority of artists that sample Crash are modern house acts. Oliver Heldens, Dillon Francis, Armand Van Helden, Chainsmokers, Tiesto, deadmau5, and Major Lazer have all sampled Crash. But "Love Sensation". Moby sampled it for 1993's "Move". My favourite probably is Chase & Status' 2008's UK Dance #1 "Take Me Away" https://youtu.be/BpEkT6QYCjY Chase & Status have had six UK Dance #1 singles, four of which were top 10 UK singles, all five of their albums have at least gotten to #2 on the UK Dance album chart (one was #7 overall and two were #2 on the overall UK album chart). They have never charted in the US, unless someone has a good way to search dance charts.
Username synergy ;) On the other hand, try being a middle schooler named Mark in 1991...
For Friday’s #1, Monday’s, and Wednesday’s, there was a single Rap #1. I remember it being huge, but probably cause it was Naughty. Naughty by Nature was formed in 86 in East Orange, NJ. East Orange is next to Newark and where I-280 and the Golden State Parkway cross. They were originally called The New Style and released an album in 1989. Under the mentoring of Queen Latifah they changed their name to Naughty by Nature and will release their self titled album in November 1991. But first, they released a lead off single while Adams was #1. Spin called this one of the greatest rap singles of the 90s. Rolling Stone names it the 80th best rap song of all time, VH1 puts it at 22nd. Of course I’m talking about O.P.P. https://youtu.be/idx3GSL2KWs It should take no time to recognize it’s built off The Jackson 5’s ABC, but it also uses the drums off Melvin Bliss’ “Synthetic Substitution” from 1973. It also was a huge crossover hit, getting to #6 pop. O.P.P. went gold in August just five days after release, Platinum in October during it’s final week at #1, and double Platinum in March 1992. The self titled album went gold in November and Platinum in February 91. Naughty by Nature will be back, but not with the song you are thinking of. Their next big hit was “Hip Hop Hooray”, another big party song in 1993. While that one topped the R&B charts, it only got to #3 Rap and #8 Pop. We’ll have to wait until the end of this virtual decade to see Naughty by Nature again.
I rewatched it shortly after Rickman's death. If the movie were 30min shorter, it would be worth it just to watch his parts.
The last #1 vanished :( After two weeks of Jibri, there’s yet another #1 while Adams is reigning. Compton’s Most Wanted with “Growin’ Up in the Hood”. Compton’s Most Wanted might not be literal, but it’s close. In the mid 80s they were gangsters who wrote raps and recorded demos on the side, fairly similar to the origin story of Ice-T. Their first album was released in 1990 by Freddie Jackson’s label Orpheus Records. It didn’t sell great, but was enough to get them signed with Epic. Their second album, Straight Checkn ‘Em, came out in July 90 with the lead single, “Growin’ Up in the Hood”, coming out three weeks earlier in June - just three months before getting to #1. Before the single though, we need a diversion. One of the most memorable and longest lasting parts of Black cinema is the music. Tom has written about a number of #1s that were off Blaxploitation films. Around 1990, “hood films” were the new Blaxploitation films, but most of these were really good films to boot. On March 8, 1991 New Jack City premiered. It’s soundtrack had a pair of R&B #1s, the second of which, Color me Badd’s “I Wanna Sex You Up” went to #2 Pop and #1 in the UK. Of course, New Jack City is also known for what happened in Westwood, LA when patrons with tickets to the 10pm and 10:15pm, March 8 showings were turned away. Looting and riots followed and the Westwood theatre cancelled all Saturday showings. That also happened to be just 5 days after members of the LAPD beat Rodney King… The second major “hood movie” was John Singleton’s directorial debut, Boyz n the Hood. I would say Singleton was robbed the Oscar for Best Screenplay (Thelma & Louise won), but it’s tough to argue that he should have beat Demme and The Silence of the Lambs. The soundtrack to Boyz n the Hood was released 3 days before the film’s wide premiere in July 1991. It was a #1 R&B album and hit #12 on the Hot 200. The fourth track on the album was “Growin’ Up in the Hood”. https://youtu.be/Jss76SZD-gs Compton’s Most Wanted won’t be back.
Charley is great, but they've got huge songs coming up. Not my favourite though. A #5 hit in late 1992 that samples Max Romero probably is.
If #1 goes the wrong way, Tom's going to ban all of us from Stereogum!
Motownphilly is defiantly a 10. Didn't even top the R&B charts though! Good thing Tom will be writing more later to discuss the line from Maurice Starr to Boyz II Men.
Allen Jibri McPherson has very, very little information out there, but he got a contract with Ear Candy and released a single self titled album and two singles. Neither Ear Candy nor Jibri even have wikipedia pages. Ear Candy was distributed by BMG and seems to have lasted just 1991 with 3 albums from 3 artists. Jibri was by far the most successful. Jibri went on to collaborate with some other artists, none of which made a showing on any charts. Then he spent 1994-97 in prison. As of 2005 he was a supervisor at United Dairy Farmers in Cincinnati and a summer counselor at a community center also in Cincinnati. He seemed to be doing well in the single article I found, but you can guess by now, he won’t be back to #1.
After just two weeks of freshness, Chubb Rock took the #1 place with his second consecutive #1, “The Chubbster”. https://youtu.be/MkG8HXUAZG8 Chubb will be back. Mr. Rock stayed #1 for two weeks, following him was Jibri Wise One with his sole #1, “The House that Dog Built”. https://youtu.be/U88K8Mn99VI Yes, that’s Give Up the Funk(Tear the Roof off the Sucker) and Good Times as backing tracks.
There were five different Rap #1s during the terrors of Bryan Adams! Lining up first was the only #1 hit for Jazzy Jeff, but his and Will Smith’s second Grammy-winner with “Summertime”. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince had already had a big hit and won a Grammy with “Parents Just Don’t Understand”. It was the kind of non-threatening rap that was a huge crossover in 88, reaching #10 Rap and all the way to #12 Pop. The story goes that Will spent all his money in 88 and 89 and underpaid his taxes and the IRS was on to him - a real Nick Cage situation, the IRS assessed a $2.8 million tax debt against Will, took possessions to pay the debt, and garnished future income. He was in a pinch and NBC came knocking. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air got him out of trouble with the IRS. So in a way, we can blame the IRS for Wild Wild West. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s first season ran from September 10, 90 to May 6, 1991 (Amy Grant’s week). “Summertime” came out on May 20, 1991 as the lead single for their 4th album, which came out in July and wasn’t their best selling album - 1988’s He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper which contained “Parents…” charted higher and sold at least three times the units. https://youtu.be/Kr0tTbTbmVA DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince will release their last album in October 1993, 2 months before Will’s first major film role in Six Degrees of Separation. Jazzy Jeff won’t DJ another #1, but you might have heard of that Will Smith guy.
Big ole asterix on the one hit wonder though. PSY was really, really big in SK before Gangnam Style. His first two singles were #1s and by 2012 he had four SK #1s and five other top 10 singles. But nothing charted outside SK - I don't even think any had a physical release outside SK - until 2012. I just discovered that PSY went to Boston University for a BBA but dropped out to go to Berklee College of Music, which he also dropped out of (also in Boston, Berkelee is between Fenway and the BSO's Symphony Hall and has a really cool dorm that a former boss of mine won awards for).
5. It's not great, it's not bad. It's average. 10. my wife's favourite song 10. great
I forgot to finish: some of those movies are really good. Some made a lot of money. Some are Johnny Mnemonic and Chain Reaction...
Objectively, he's pretty high on the list. Point Break, Speed, Johnny Mnemonic, Chain Reaction, The Matrix (s), Man of Tai Chi, 47 Ronin, John Wick (s), Toy Story 4. If you discount Marvel movies, he's up there with Harrison Ford in adjusted grosses.
For Paula’s final week, and all of Monday’s, another first timer has a #1 hit. 3rd Bass got to #1 with “Pop Goes the Weasel”. MC Serch, a Jewish kid from Far Rockaway, Queens, Pete Nice, an English major at Columbia from Long Island who hosted a hip hop show on Columbia student radio, and Richie Rich, a local DJ from Brooklyn, formed 3 The Hard Way in the late 80s and rebranded themselves as 3rd Bass when they got a contract from Def Jam in 1988. Their second album contained the single “Pop Goes the Weasel” https://youtu.be/H8z_nR0cOOU The song takes aim at Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer as posers and disrespectful of the culture of hip hop. Sounds familiar… Being a pair of white kids, they draw on very different samples. This track is built on Peter Gabriel and The Who! Specifically “Sledgehammer” and “Eminence Front”. After this second album, 3rd Bass broke up. Nice and Rich released an album together that didn’t sell well but got decent MTV airtime. They eventually reunited just in time to go to Woodstock 1999. Nice then retired from music and opened a memorabilia store in Cooperstown.
For the week of July 6, Terminator X had his sole solo Rap #1 with “Homey Don’t Play Dat”, his 3rd Rap #1 overall. Homey was the lead single off his debut solo album, Terminator X & The Valley of the Jeep Beets. https://youtu.be/5HHfdKfHu5g As expected from the DJ of Public Enemy, “Homey Don’t Play Dat” is made up of a lot of samples, at least 15, including Damon Wayans out of “In Living Color”, three different James Brown tracks, earlier Public Enemy songs, Bell Biv Devoe, Grandmaster Flash, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow, and Kid-n-Play. Terminator X won’t have another solo #1, but he will release another solo album in 94. And he’ll be back with Public Enemy.
During Paula’s five weeks, we have four Rap #1s! During her first week, Yo-Yo finished her reign at #1. For the second week, the other side of the LL Cool J grudge had his first #1, Kool Moe Dee. Born Mohandas Dewese in Harlem in 1962, Neil Sedaka was #1 that week, Kool Moe Dee was a pioneer. He was a member of Treacherous Three, formed in 1978 - Kool grew up with L.A. Sunshine and met DJ Easy Lee in elementary school, and Easy Lee’s sister knew Spoonie Gee. They released 5 singles in 1980-81 then jumped to Sugarhill as they, as a group, only made $3000 per single. They released a single album in 1984, but 9 singles before rap moved them by in 1985. They were Old School in a world that was rapidly moving into the Run-DMC/LL Cool J Golden Age. Kool went solo and released his first solo album in 1986 that happened to be the first record produced by Teddy Riley. In his second album, he started a beef with LL over LL’s perceived lack of respect for elder MCs. There’s six singles in this feud including Mama Said Knock You Out, but not this #1. Kool then released two more great selling albums. He was also one of the artists featured on KRS-One’s inaugural Rap #1 Stop the Violence project. On his fifth album, Funke, Funke Wisdom, he finally released a #1 single with “Rise ‘N’ Shine” which also features KRS-One and former #1 Chuck D. https://youtu.be/P3ZbxQR4SYA Rise ‘N’ Shine is built off three samples, “Stand” by Sly & the Family Stone (the follow up single to “Everyday People”), “Little Old Money Maker” by The Meters, and Grammy-award winning, R&B #1, Pop #2 hit “Outa-Space” by Billy Preston. Kool Moe Dee will be back. Tom might talk about Kool Moe Dee later this virtual decade with the same song.
There've been a lot of songs I don't remember the last couple weeks, but not this one. I, unfortunately, heard this about 7,000 times the summer of 91
Out of all the club hits since probably the dawn of disco so far, I'd bet this has had the most recent non-ironic plays in clubs. Both the hook and riff have been sampled at least 83 times! From Alicia Keys to Clean Bandit to Pitbull to T.I. to Afrojack to Christina Aguilera to Hot Since 82. Probably helped, on the UK house side, by being the #1 in UK above. 10
For all of this Mariah #1, and Wednesday’s #1, and a week of Friday’s, there was a single Rap #1: “You Can’t Play with My Yo-Yo” by Yo-Yo featuring Ice Cube. Yolanda Whitaker was born in August, 1971 and was a protege of Ice Cube. She showed up on AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, and Ice Cube showed up on five tracks on her debut album, Make Way for the Motherlode. https://youtu.be/89dhI9e_Dcg She samples Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Devotion”, their 1974 single that wasn’t a hit but was their third release before Shining Star, and a nice drum lick from Southside Movement’s “Save The World” that the Beastie Boys had used 2 years earlier on Paul’s Boutique. Those drums are layered on another set from Sly & the Family Stone’s “You Can Make It if You Try” that Ice Cube used the next year. Yo-Yo will return. Ice Cube will return. Before that Yolanda started a pretty good movie career. In October 1991, she appeared in Boyz n the Hood and in 93 she appears in Who’s the Man, Menace II Society, Strapped, Sister Act 2, and as a recurring character in Martin Lawrence’s TV show Martin.
And anyway, I slept in until 1 pm today, so piggybacking it is! For the week of May 18th, another single week Rap #1 to match up with a single week pop #1. This one is surprising to me though, it seemed much bigger and left a MUCH bigger cultural impact than a lot of the other one week chart toppers, but don’t call it a comeback, he’s been here for years. For his fourth single off the album, LL Cool J released the title track to Mama Said Knock You Out. https://youtu.be/vimZj8HW0Kg It was released on February 26, 91 and debuted on the rap chart the first week and stayed there for 18 weeks. It only got to #17 pop and #7 dance, #37 in Australia, #41 in the UK, and #47 in NZ, but was his second Platinum single. His prior release, Rap #1 “Around The Way Girl” was his biggest crossover hit so far (#9 pop, #5 dance) but only went Gold. 1988’s “Going Back to Cali” predates the rap chart but is his earliest Platinum single. Mama Said Knock You Out has a little bit of everything. The title came from his grandma, after LL was taken aback by the reception for his last album by the rap community told him to knock out his critics. It’s also part dis track, part of a long running feud with Kool Moe Dee. The song has quite a few samples, but is built upon the Funky Drummer loop and “Trip to Your Heart” by Sly & the Family Stone. His first Platinum award was a halloween 1995 release that went Gold and Platinum on january 5, 1996. Tom won’t talk about that one, but I will. His second Platinum was another single off that 1995 album that went Platinum in August 96. Going Back to Cali was his third Platinum award, but it didn’t break one million sales until 2017, 26 years after going Gold during next Monday’s #1. Mama Said Knock You Out was his fifth Platinum award. On March 1st, 2021 (!) he got a Platinum award for both Doin’ It and Mama. Doin’ It never got to #1, but it was released between his first two Platinums. Mama, though, went gold this virtual week. LL released a final single off the Mama Said Knock You Out album, but it only hit #7 Rap. His follow up album wasn’t released until 1993. Before that, however, he got his big break in movies in Robin Williams’ 1992 movie Toys. He’s only in the trailer for about 3 seconds, so no links. LL will be back.
I really like track 10 off that album, Fish On. The whole album is great, this is more what I was actually into in 1991 than the dance and trip hop I went to in the last half of the 90s. https://youtu.be/z2unV6W8D1s
Forcing me to vote little Stevie as a worse song...
10. Their biggest hit in the US, but not my favourite. This single probably got them onto the Batman Returns soundtrack, but Tim Burton said he was a longtime Siouxsie fan.
oop, here's that performance on Vimeo, if it works https://vimeo.com/365329266
And to PERFECTLY line it up, April 13, 1991 was REM's first time on SNL. I can't find any clips of them, but one of the host, Catherine O'Hara. Probably the only SNL I remember, and at least to me, really shot REM into stardom.