Back In The Day: The Billboard Modern Rock Charts From 35 Years Ago

Modern Rock Tracks for Week Ending 3/31/1990
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No. 1 Song
Sinèad O’Connor - “Nothing Compares 2 U”


Tracks that fell out of the top 30
The The - “Jealous Of Youth”
The Smithereens - “Yesterday Girl”
Raindogs - “I’m Not Scared”

New Additions
Nine Inch Nails - “Head Like A Hole”


Midnight Oil - “Forgotten Years”


Toad The Wet Sprocket - “Come Back Down”
 
Modern Rock Tracks for Week Ending 4/7/1990
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No. 1 Song
Sinèad O’Connor - “Nothing Compares 2 U”


Tracks that fell out of the top 30
Electronic - “Getting Away With It”
Nine Inch Nails - “Head Like A Hole”
Midnight Oil - “Forgotten Years”

New Additions
The Lightning Seed - “Pure”


Sinèad O’Connor - “The Emperor’s New Clothes”


Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Show Me Your Soul”


 
Nee Lewman said:
So…. I listened to Toad the Wet Sprocket today. 35 years … I still don’t get it. This Midnight Oil album is also not doing it for me, the album before this one is great… this one sounds like U2 did a musical.
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Midnight Oil is almost comically dour with their lyrics and imagery when compared with their poppy jangly sound.

It’s like REM crossing the melody and poppy-ness of “Shiny Happy People” with the lyrical content of “Losing My Religion” with a music video showing men in hazmat suits stacking bodies in one of those refrigeration trailers during Covid.

I can appreciate the songcraft but it’s not something I really want to think about while jamming out to some tunes.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Midnight Oil is almost comically dour with their lyrics and imagery when compared with their poppy jangly sound.

It’s like REM crossing the melody and poppy-ness of “Shiny Happy People” with the lyrical content of “Losing My Religion” with a music video showing men in hazmat suits stacking bodies in one of those refrigeration trailers during Covid.

I can appreciate the songcraft but it’s not something I really want to think about while jamming out to some tunes.
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While King of the Mountian from this album is a bop and I like BSM, I can't say its particularly uplifting.

But since we mentioned U2, it occurs to me that BSM might be the Aussie Joshua Tree
I know JT is a classic, but it boasts such joy inducing tunes as:
Mothers of the Disappeared - about kidnapped children;
Exit - which Bono has said is "My attempt at writing a story in the mind of a killer,";
Red Hill Mining Town - about a Mining Strike in the 80s; and
Running to Stand Still - about heroin addiction.

But then again - I'm also likely to rock out to Creeping Death by Metallica for fun.

Maybe I need some counseling.
 
Modern Rock Tracks for Week Ending 4/14/1990
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No. 1 Song
The Church - “Metropolis”


Tracks that fell out of the top 30
They Might Be Giants - “Birdhouse In Your Soul”
Renegade Soundwave - “Biting My Nails”
Oingo Boingo - “When The Lights Go Out”

New Additions
The Chills - “Heavenly Pop Hits”


They Might Be Giants - “Twisting”


 
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