80. Flesh For Lulu, Plastic Fantastic Tim Burton directed Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson to unprecedented box office heights in 1989, but the caped crusader isn’t the only associated with The Batcave that can claim significant success in the calendar … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 80 and 79
82. The Black Sorrows, Hold on to Me 1989 was a good time to embrace American roots music and get some airplay on college radio. It lends authenticity, you see, even if–actually, maybe especially if–the band absolutely requires an airplane … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 82 and 81
84. Tom Petty, Full Moon Fever It seems odd to consider Full Moon Fever Tom Petty’s solo debut. His name is front and center on all of those records with the Heartbreakers after all. He’s hardly a guy stepping out … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 84 and 83
86. Love and Rockets, Love and Rockets The band Love and Rockets waited until their fourth full-length outing before going the self-titled route when it came to naming their album, which led to a few DJs up on the commercial … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 86 and 85
88. The Wonder Stuff, Hup Popping out albums at the same rapid tempo as much of the music that fills those releases, the U.K. band The Wonder Stuff unleashed their second effort on American audiences in the fall of 1989. … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 88 and 87
90. Big Audio Dynamite, Megatop Phoenix Mick Jones almost died. Some time after the release of his band Big Audio Dynamite’s third album, Tighten Up, Vol. 88 (its title a play on the old Trojan Records series), Jones picked up … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 90 and 89
In the summer of 1989, I had a goofy idea. It was the end of June, half the year gone. I was in my office at the campus radio station, having just called CMJ to report our weekly Top 35 list of albums receiving the most airplay. I retrieved the file folder that had all the charts from previous weeks and prepared to add this latest sheet to its contents. Instead, I emptied the folder onto my desk and started playing around. When I was a kid, I loved countdown shows, whether on the radio or on television, and I … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, An Introduction
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