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Gotta go back to the Like a Prayer video and song which was a point of study in my college's communications and media class, and will probably be studied for a long time to come. Watching today, I think the gist of it all is, if you hate Madonna you'll see a lot of sacrilege, some justified, some (like say a black jesus) is not. If you love Madonna you see an ode to black music and civil rights era martyrs. And the idea that sex is so great it reminds her of prayer... that's an amazingly high praise for prayer in modern secular music.

1989 #30. I'll be going to #35 as a special treat for Mike.

3 Great Abdul songs, but none feature MC Skat Kat. 0/10 to 1989

1989 #31:

For some reason I always associate Mike and the Mechanics with the King/Straub book the Talisman. Is that just me? Did I read it when Mike and the Mechanics was a thing?

1989 #32:

Kyle wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:13 am For some reason I always associate Mike and the Mechanics with the King/Straub book the Talisman. Is that just me? Did I read it when Mike and the Mechanics was a thing?

It must have been the timing. I've never made the association before, but hearing you say it made something click, like an association I had forgotten.

But I'm also very suggestible.

Eternal Flame, now added to the best of '89. So good, always fun to play on guitar or piano. Doesn't rock like the other great Bangles songs, but they were always Beatlesque and we don't punish Beatle ballads, and this one's top notch.

Living Years I liked until my teen years, when I really started to despise it. If someone asked me in the last 25 years what's my least favorite popular song, I'd likely say this. So on that note, let me listen to it for the first time in probably a decade and the first time since I've grown to love almost all music ...

Eh, done well, good message, might be fun to karaoke, I wonder if I was projecting cynical coolness, this is not a cool song, and I wonder if I'd feel differently if my parents weren't alive (let's not find out). Still not a fan of the chorus. Not the worst thing ever, but I'd be fine waiting another decade to hear it again.

1989 #33:

Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:11 am

Kyle wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:13 am For some reason I always associate Mike and the Mechanics with the King/Straub book the Talisman. Is that just me? Did I read it when Mike and the Mechanics was a thing?

It must have been the timing. I've never made the association before, but hearing you say it made something click, like an association I had forgotten.

But I'm also very suggestible.

I remember I was living in Montgomery and you'd come back from your first year of college and lent me the book. Remember? You were broke and needed $100 to buy Christmas presents- so I lent it to you without letting anyone know. That was a great christmas, not because of the presents, but because we were all together again after having been split up for the first time. You know you still owe me that $100, right?

Whatever became of your Mechanics?

1989 #34:

Kyle wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:05 pm

Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:11 am

Kyle wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:13 am For some reason I always associate Mike and the Mechanics with the King/Straub book the Talisman. Is that just me? Did I read it when Mike and the Mechanics was a thing?

It must have been the timing. I've never made the association before, but hearing you say it made something click, like an association I had forgotten.

But I'm also very suggestible.

I remember I was living in Montgomery and you'd come back from your first year of college and lent me the book. Remember? You were broke and needed $100 to buy Christmas presents- so I lent it to you without letting anyone know. That was a great christmas, not because of the presents, but because we were all together again after having been split up for the first time. You know you still owe me that $100, right?

That sounds right. I read The Talisman senior year, because I remember reading it at Baskin Robbins on slow nights. That makes sense. I'll just Venmo you.

Phoebe wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:08 pm Whatever became of your Mechanics?

Technically, I only ever had one mechanic. He did everything and then edited together in post. His name is Chad Fegley. He's still a mechanic in Lincoln.

This one's for Mike, since he mentioned it on the podcast. 1989 #35:

2021 #5:

1990 #1:

Mike wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:13 pm Technically, I only ever had one mechanic.

For many years he was my mechanic too!

1990 #2:

Good morning!

Morning! Two solid hits to start

I would never have guessed that It Must Have Been Love was Roxette.

It’s over now.

1990 #3:

Damn. Forgot how good that song is. One of the best.

1990 #4:

4/4 solid songs, but the last 2 are a cut above.
Poison maybe the apex New Jack Swing that wasn't by Janet.
Sinead's got looking downward down! Like Ilsa in Casablanca...

1990 #5:

Iconic.

1990 you're doing GREAT

1990 #6:

It's definitely a good song. But it does nothing for me.

Clearly we're back to 5-on, 5-off. This time it'll hold. I'm sure of it

1990 #7:

We’re still good. Another bland song.

Like both but agree this is a step down from the first five. I run in internet circles who care about who is and isn't in the Rock Hall, will say that few talk of Phil Collins solo but I think he's deserving for his R&B fuelled 80s, but I think he won't because he's very uncool and his saccharine 90s, which you can hear him transitioning to here.

1990 #8:

And the pattern fails already... there ain't nothing wrong here.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one start to finish. I remember it clearly from my college days, and I feel like it's a song that I just took for granted. I should have appreciated it more. I want to say "banger", but that feels so 80s now.

1990 #9:

Creep Creeep Toot Toot

Mike wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 6:56 am And the pattern fails already... there ain't nothing wrong here.

It's an exception due to it being another "Hold On" song

1990 #10:

It's clear that Pop and R&B are going strong but Rock needs some kind of upheaval.

1990 #11:

Tahlvin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 7:19 am 1990 #9:

More like Cradle of PHONY! Amiright? Y'all? Amiright? You know what I'm saying. This guy over here gets it.

Ahhh I thought 1990 was the year for this classic, but apparently it came out in 1989. Pretty sure 1990 it was being played everywhere though. They had been touring through the late '80s but I can't keep track of when they actually released specific albums that got airplay. The first time I heard this was before it came out and he had this little teenage girl with a shaved head, from my hometown, could not have been more than 5 ft tall, come up on stage and just f****** scream the s*** out of this song with him. Never forget it:

1990 #12:

Yeesh.

1990 #13:

AND WE'RE BACK!! Hugely important track in the history of music (Update: maybe a little overboard with that, but the first major house track on this list, right?). Still slaps.

1990 #14:

There it is!

Hot take: greatest MC Skat Kat song ever.

1990 #15: