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Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting 19. Sting - Shape Of My Heart 4. CD4 begins with #1 ‘Never Forget’ from Take That, and Pop brilliance from Cher with ‘The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)’. Think Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood meets Sid and Nancy and you’re nearly there. ‘Stop, Look and Listen’ is another smash hit with spirited intro, an embarrassingly catchy chorus, and driving rhythm, while ‘Another April’ is something altogether different—brooding reflective pop building to an especially tumultuous finish. The huge ‘Don't Go Breaking My Heart’ from Elton John & Kiki Dee and ‘It’s A Heartache’ from Bonnie Tyler lead to 80s favourites from Duran Duran with ‘Rio’, The Human League with ‘Don’t You Want Me’ and Soft Cell’s ‘Tainted Love’. Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song 12. The releases have been celebrated by countless blogs and radio shows, including ‘song of the day’ honors on influential American station KEXP and spins on national radio in the UK and Spain. The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On 16.
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These sets lean heavily on songs that were hits in the UK, which for an American like me, is a wonderful rabbit hole deep dive into genres and subgenres I had little exposure to in the actual 1990s, save for some similar import compilations that I bought in the discount bin at the Virgin Megastore back in the day. Forgotten" series which currently spans the 1960s through the 1990s.
There's a lot of songs on here I did not recognize by name, but totally knew them when they came on. ).
Decades on, I kind of reduced the 1990s down to three genres I loved: grunge, Brit Pop, and KROQ style mainstream alt rock (Foo Fighters, Bush, RH Chili Peppers, etc. And now, all these years later, discovering and rediscovering these lost hits is a pure delight. Well, those are the genres that dominate here. If you simply love pop culture in all of its glorious, triumphant, odd, quirky, puzzling, kitschy, sparkly, maddening, oh yeah, and WTF glory, then you're likely to have a lot of fun with this set, and/or any of the "Now!
Sure New Jack Swing, Lite R&B, the Teen Pop Revival, the 1920's Swing revival, and Eurodance also happened, but I intentionally missed out on those. If you're looking for a definitive time capsule of the decade in music, you're in the wrong place. Must have heard them in movies, TV commercials, or suburban discotheques (the only dance clubs I went to in the early 1990s).
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