Pick of the Year: 1990

‘In the early 1990s, I decided to experiment and try some new ways of living’ – Robin S. Sharma

Dad’s ‘Pick of the Year’ tapes were always a firm family favourite where he would make a compilation cassette of his favourite songs form that year. He stopped in 1992 however, when music got a bit too modern for him. It’s something over the years I’ve tried to carry on, and did for a while but, no one listens to CDs anymore and they don’t have the same impact as mp3 playlists. I’ve often thought about restarting it all from 1982 on my blog though just so I have somewhere to put them all for prosperity sake.

The first rule of POTY is DON’T TALK ABOUT PICK OF THE YEAR, sorry, that’s the illegal underground fight club i’m part of.

The first rule of POTY is that you can only pick songs that charted in the top 75 in the UK. The second rule of POTY is that you can only pick enough songs that would fit onto an old C120 cassette (between 30-40 tracks). The final rule, one which I’ve imposed myself, is that you must include that year’s Christmas number 1 (highlighted in green)

1. Go West – King of Wishful Thinking
2. Beautiful South – A Little Time
3. Madonna – Vogue
4. The La’s – There She Goes
5. Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven
6. Heart – All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You
7. Phil Collins – I Wish It Would Rain Down
8. Betty Boo – Doin The Do
9. Partners in Kryme – Turtle Power
10. Phil Collins – Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
11. George Michael – Praying for Time
12. Betty Boo – Where Are You Baby
13. Wilson Phillips – Hold On
14. Steve Miller Band – The Joker
15. Snap – The Power
16. New Order – World in Motion
17. World Party – Put the Message in the Box
18. Roxette – It Must Have Been Love
19. New Kids on the Block – Tonight
20. Phil Collins – Do You Remember
21. Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me
22. Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
23. Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner (DNA Remix)
24. Alannah Myles – Black Velvet
25. Jon Bon Jovi – Miracle
26. Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
27. Adamski – Killer
28.  Del Amitri – Nothing Ever Happens
29. Elton John – Sacrifice
30. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
31. Deee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart
32. Maxi Priest – Close To You 
33. The Farm – Altogether Now
34. Technotronic – Get Up (Before The Night is Over)
35. London Beat – I’ve Been Thinking About You
36. Dave Stewart & Candy Dulfer – Lily Wsa Here
37. MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
38. Cliff Richard – Saviours Day
39. Jon Bon Joci – Blaze of Glory