This was a scrapped single in 1989 from UK sibling group Five Star. It was thankfully included in a Greatest Hits album that same year.

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  - Double I.D., Communicate, a little obscurity from 1989 and the Belgian "New Beat" subgenre


Ooh, sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out later.

With that, I bring you "Pity for the Self" from Poésie Noire, a darkwave/coldwave band who were also from Belgium.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_owcTxGwU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKGLDpFKkAs&feature=kp

The Doobie Brothers - Tonight I'm Coming Through (The Border)

Moar obscure new beat!

http://i.imgur.com/GGGJ6tg.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jokUYA1T_Xc

  - Dunk, Body Control (Out of Control Mix), 1989

Not only was the track (featuring the obscure "No Sex Until Marriage" sample from even-more-obscure fundamentalist preacher Farrell Griswold who is remembered only for being sampled by the practically-mainstream-by-comparison Front 242), Dunk's Body Control was also made available in the (even more-obscure-than-even-more-obscure) Mini CD Single / Snap-pack format, a 3-inch CD that you couldhad to place into a special adaptor in order to play it in a CD player. 

For those wondering what a CD was, it was an optical recording medium that was recorded from the inside of the disc towards the edge of the disc. (As opposed to an LP, which was a physical recording medium that consisted of a slab of vinyl with grooves that went from the outer edge of the disc towards the center.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I_WavHGBdA

Debbie Gibson- Electric Youth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQa-b1HTgTc&feature=kp

Information Society - Walking Away

Wish I'd found this thread sooner!

Probably one of the last songs to top the charts in '89...

"Another Day In Paradise" by Phil Collins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI

The very last, amigo. I remember my local radio station remixing this with audio clips of then-President George Bush making a speech about helping the homeless, and since I actually followed the charts back then, I know for fact it hit #1 on the Billboard charts on Christmas Eve 1989, and stayed at the top halfway into January.

And now, IMHO, the most romantic song of 1989:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DOSjXuTzT0
Sorry I couldn't get YouTube to play the actual video. >:(

Your Pal,
Doc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7Rdzxt8zQ&feature=kp

Bobby Brown - Rock Wit'cha

Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfNaRnuFbsE
Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change A Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzGy7KAQCnQ
Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm2xdqEjBlI

Kylie's "Enjoy Yourself" was a great album for that period of my life! Good memories of school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceU4ANZKdOM&feature=kp

Michael Jackson: Smooth Criminal

How about some lovin for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with I Won't Back Down

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How about some lovin for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with I Won't Back Down

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With George Harrison on acoustic guitar and backing vocals, Jeff Lynne on bass guitar, backing vocals. An aftershock of the Traveling Wilburys.

Very strange thing that almost topped the chart in Britain - proving what a stranglehold dance music was having!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpApMsd_6wk

Much moaning and groaning in places, which would have meant an immediate BBC 'ban' had it been released a decade earlier...I remember listening to it the first time and thinking the DJ's record player was busted! You'll soon see what I mean...

Very strange thing that almost topped the chart in Britain - proving what a stranglehold dance music was having!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpApMsd_6wk

Much moaning and groaning in places, which would have meant an immediate BBC 'ban' had it been released a decade earlier...I remember listening to it the first time and thinking the DJ's record player was busted! You'll soon see what I mean...


Lil' Louis must have had a fun time putting all those moans and groans in the song.

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Howard, please take a look at the very first post in this topic?

With George Harrison on acoustic guitar and backing vocals, Jeff Lynne on bass guitar, backing vocals. An aftershock of the Traveling Wilburys.


And Ringo Starr on the drums.

And Ringo Starr on the drums.
It was Phil Jones on drums and percussion.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Won't_Back_Down

It was Phil Jones on drums and percussion.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Won't_Back_Down


Oh I see.  Ringo was in the video but Phil Jones did the actual drum work.  :)

With George Harrison on acoustic guitar and backing vocals, Jeff Lynne on bass guitar, backing vocals. An aftershock of the Traveling Wilburys.

An aftershock? The Heartbreakers only made sporadic appearances on Full Moon Fever, and while I'm not sure how involved Bob Dylan was, the collaboration of Tom, George, & Jeff pretty much made the album The Traveling Wilburys's "Volume Two", albeit without replacing Roy(Like that was possible!). Why else would they come back in 1991 with "Volume Three"?

Your Pal,
Doc
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Howard, please take a look at the very first post in this topic?


Sorry about that. My bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmj7gX2yDUI&feature=kp

Richard Marx-Satisfied

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  - Lee Aaron, Hands On, from 1989's Bodyrock, because if you landed here first, your search engine is probably broken, but if you got here through five links of me jumping Aaround the videography tonight, you'll realize we actually do put a lot of thought into this stuff, and we really do know our pop culture this well.

GOODNIGHT METALHEADS!

Lee Aaron, Hands On


I love Lee Aaron.  She was born in the same hospital that I was (many years apart of course).  Hands On is one of my favourites!

I love Lee Aaron.  She was born in the same hospital that I was (many years apart of course).  Hands On is one of my favourites!


See, this is the kind of silliness - crazy coincidences like that - that keeps me coming back here.  It's not just about a song you liked, it's about why you liked it that gives us something to talk about while we scrounge around piles of dusty old MP3s we ripped from still-shiny CDs.  (And is it not weird that I am describing the MP3s as collecting dust even though most of my CDs haven't left their crate in at least a decade?)

"Why Do I Always Get it Wrong?", written by Brian Hodgson and composed by John Beeby, was the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed by the sextet Live Report, led by Ray Caruana. After Eurovision, the song placed at #73 on the UK Singles Chart.

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Paul Carrack - I Live by the Groove

Kirsty MacColl covered The Kinks' 1968 song "Days" on her 1989 album Kite. It was released as a single and reached No. 12 on the UK singles chart, the same position achieved by The Kinks in 1968. It was re-released in 1995, charting much lower, only reaching No. 42 in the UK. It was one of MacColl's most popular singles.

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"Wind Beneath My Wings" written in 1982 by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley and was performed by Bette Midler for the soundtrack of the film Beaches. It became a US number-one single in 1989. It was named Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1990. The song became a worldwide hit; it charted at No. 5 in the UK, No. 4 in New Zealand, and No. 1 in Australia.

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I didn't read all the posts, but that was the year of one of my favorite hair-band songs of all time; 18 and life by Skid Row. They were like a last-gasp of the 80's hair bands as we slid into the 90's....

I didn't read all the posts, but that was the year of one of my favorite hair-band songs of all time; 18 and life by Skid Row. They were like a last-gasp of the 80's hair bands as we slid into the 90's....

Yeah, good song and band. Also near the end of 1989 they had another big hit, "I Remember You."

10,000 Maniacs, "Trouble Me":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TITim3AJYsk

From their album Blind Man's Zoo, this one did well on the Modern Rock charts, but fell short of the Top 40 Pop Singles (peaked at #44 on the Hot100 chart, in fact). Still, it is a nice little 3-minute song with a good message.

Yeah, good song and band. Also near the end of 1989 they had another big hit, "I Remember You."


That's the one I remember hearing at the start of 1990. :)

That's the one I remember hearing at the start of 1990. :)

Yeh, it was one of the "cusp" songs, I think. Along with Tom Petty's "Free Falling" and Phil Collins' "Another Day In Paradise", both of which came out in late 1989 but continued to be hits into early '90.

"Downtown Train" is a song by Tom Waits released on his album Rain Dogs, Rod Stewart recorded a cover version that became a #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after being released as a single in late 1989, and was also a number-one single on the album rock and adult contemporary charts.

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Admittedly, I don't like 80's music in general, however there are a few songs that I like which were released in 1989.

"Epic" - Faith No More.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_k5CSYKhg

"Poison" - Alice Cooper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4j1LtCdww

"Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" is a song written by Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook. Originally recorded by Gene Pitney in 1967, but achieved its greatest success in 1988 when it was covered by Marc Almond. Originally recorded by Almond alone for his 1988 album The Stars We Are, the single version reunited it with its original singer Gene Pitney; their version became a number one single in the UK for four weeks in January 1989.

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"Downtown Train" is a song by Tom Waits released on his album Rain Dogs, Rod Stewart recorded a cover version that became a #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after being released as a single in late 1989, and was also a number-one single on the album rock and adult contemporary charts.


As much as I don't care for his music in general, this song of his was one that I could tolerate. O0

"If Tomorrow Never Comes" is a song recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. Written by Brooks and Kent Blazy, it was released in August 1989 as the second single from his album Garth Brooks and also appears on The Hits, The Limited Series and Double Live. This was his first #1 single on the Billboard Country Singles chart. It is also sometimes referred to as his signature song. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" was named Favorite Country Single in the American Music Awards of 1991. It has subsequently become one of Brooks' most popular songs for other artists to perform. The song has been covered by several artists, including Ronan Keating, who took it to Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in May 2002.

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Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx

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"The Best" is a song written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight, originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler. The song was later covered by Tina Turner, and released as a highly successful single in 1989. It was included on her hit album Foreign Affair. The saxophone solo on Turner's version is played by Edgar Winter.

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I can't remember if this was from 1989 or 1990?

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M.C. Hammer: U Can't Touch This

I can't remember if this was from 1989 or 1990?

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M.C. Hammer: U Can't Touch This


1990.

Some Stock Aitken Waterman-inspired 1989 track by Tina Gabriel - If I Say You Love Me. Maybe it's a stretch, but the chorus almost follows the melody of Kylie's I should be so lucky, no?:
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  - Grandmaster Chicken and DJ Duck, Check out the Chicken

Look, they can't all be hits.  But if you're interested in animated WTF dance music videos from the Netherlands, this one featuring someone doing a Ronald Reagan impression, a Donald Duck impression, a few lines from Bye Bye Blackbird and Oma Paloma Blanca, done to pen-and-ink animation and some very early CGI, and, of course, accompanied by an accordion in the house, well, this is a song about birds, and you're here, aren't you?  (More in the mood for WTFcow than WTFchicken?  We've got that too.)


You failed to mention the heavy sampling of this tune (which we also would like to forget was ever recorded :-\\).


/what a mess.


What a mess indeed! I'd almost forgotten about this song... Can you believe this still got to #15 in our charts?!? :o

Pixies - Debaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVyS9JwtFoQ

1989, the end of the 80s.  I made a playlist that currently has 638 songs (and counting!)

https://i.ibb.co/7Rw3gs2/1989-PLAYLIST.jpg

There is a band from Canada called The Pursuit of Happiness and they reached American audiences with a song called I'm An Adult Now but they had other great songs that never made it out of Canada.  One such single is called Hard to Laugh.  I love this one so much!

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