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

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Modern Rock Tracks for Week Ending 03/11/1989

No. 01 Song
The Replacements - “I’ll Be You”


Tracks that fell out of the top 30
Nitzer Ebb - “Control I’m Here”
Duran Duran - “All She Wants Is”

New Additions
Guadalcanal Diary - “Always Saturday”

U2 - “God, Pt. 2”

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Now do it in a Casey Kasem voice

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Now do it in a Casey Kasem voice

 

[MadLucas]

That Replacements track is truly fantastic

 

[Bohnjaggs]

That Replacements track is truly fantastic

I didn't know it by name but recognized it right away when I listened last week

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

In that same issue of Billboard, they ran a feature on independent labels. Here’s some cool ads from that feature:

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

In that same issue of Billboard, they ran a feature on independent labels. Here’s some cool ads from that feature:

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LOL!!

You beat me to the punch I had cut out the Sir Mix-A-Lot and NWA ads and was planning on posting em tomorrow!

I had a different third advertisement though…

One of the best Paul Rudd movies of all time.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Modern Rock Tracks for Week Ending 03/18/1989

No. 01 Song
Elvis Costello - “Veronica”


Tracks that fell out of the top 30
Camouflage - “That Smiling Face”
Waterboys - “The Fisherman’s Blues”
U2 - “God, Pt. II”
The Saints - “The Music Goes Round My Heart”
The Dead Milkmen - “Punk Rock Girl”
Christmas - “Stupid Kids”

New Additions
Morrissey - “The Last Of The Famous International Playboys”


R.E.M. - “Turn You Inside Out”


Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - “Madonna of The Wasps”


New Order - “Round & Round”

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

New Additons Continued:
Fire Town - “The Good Life”


The Proclaimers - “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

New Additons Continued:
Fire Town - “The Good Life”


The Proclaimers - “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”

Was unfamiliar with Fire Town but apparently they were Butch Vig’s first band.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Was unfamiliar with Fire Town but apparently they were Butch Vig’s first band.

That’s where I remember their name from

 

[Bohnjaggs]

From one of my wife's least favorite songs ("Veronica") to one of her all-time favorites ("Last Of The Famous International Playboys")

And again, like "Crash" by The Primitives, I had no idea that The Proclaimers originally released this song in the 80's. It later got popular in the 90's because of the Benny & Joon soundtrack.

 

[Wicked Dreamer]

Thanks to Liberty Rock Radio in Grand Theft Auto IV, "Turn You Inside-Out" was the first R.E.M. song I'd ever heard (well, actually second but this was before I knew they did "It's the End of the World")

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

And again, like "Crash" by The Primitives, I had no idea that The Proclaimers originally released this song in the 80's. It later got popular in the 90's because of the Benny & Joon soundtrack.

Yeah, my introduction was the Benny & Joon soundtrack too. Probably the best thing to come from that movie. I was aware it was an older song just judging the parts of the video that didn’t feature the Johnny Depp all seemed dated even if it was only 4 years later.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

That’s where I remember their name from

I wasn’t familiar at all but it makes senses listening too it.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Thanks to Liberty Rock Radio in Grand Theft Auto IV, "Turn You Inside-Out" was the first R.E.M. song I'd ever heard (well, actually second but this was before I knew they did "It's the End of the World")

This comment makes me feel very old and I was only 7 when this chart was originally published.

 

[Nee Lewman]

So I never spent a whole lot of time with Spike, but I had it on cassette back in the day. I was pretty astonished today when I realized there was a Tuba on it.

 

[Nee Lewman]

If nothing else, this thread has taught me that I like XTC. Probably should explore them when I finish exploring Manics some time in 2026, lol.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

I still have my original pressing of English Settlement that I bought in 1983. LOVE that album. Also make sure to check out Dukes of Stratosphear, their Pink Floyd side project.