‘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)
- Go West – King of Wishful Thinking
- Beautiful South – A Little Time
- Madonna – Vogue
- The La’s – There She Goes
- Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven
- Heart – All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You
- Phil Collins – I Wish It Would Rain Down
- Betty Boo – Doin The Do
- Partners in Kryme – Turtle Power
- Phil Collins – Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
- George Michael – Praying for Time
- Betty Boo – Where Are You Baby
- Wilson Phillips – Hold On
- Steve Miller Band – The Joker
- Snap – The Power
- New Order – World in Motion
- World Party – Put the Message in the Box
- Roxette – It Must Have Been Love
- New Kids on the Block – Tonight
- Phil Collins – Do You Remember
- Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me
- Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
- Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner (DNA Remix)
- Alannah Myles – Black Velvet
- Jon Bon Jovi – Miracle
- Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
- Adamski – Killer
- Del Amitri – Nothing Ever Happens
- Elton John – Sacrifice
- Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
- Deee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart
- Maxi Priest – Close To You
- The Farm – Altogether Now
- Technotronic – Get Up (Before The Night is Over)
- London Beat – I’ve Been Thinking About You
- Dave Stewart & Candy Dulfer – Lily Wsa Here
- MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
- Cliff Richard – Saviours Day
- Jon Bon Joci – Blaze of Glory
Great tracks on there! i was 8 years old obsessed with the brownies and trying to spend as much time as possible at the Garden festival (to me it was like disney!) the la’s is my fave though! i’m gonna put that on the request list for my friends 40th 1990 themed party!!