AND SO…It ENDS…Based on Your COMMENTS & VIEWERSHIP-This is the FINAL YR COUNTDOWN!-Professor of Rock
20,978Coming up…What may be the last good year for mainstream music…There were about 10 crappy songs for every great one. But don’t worry, the 11 good ones in today’s countdown could compete with most any year... including one song that one of rock’s greatest lyricists, REM's Michael Stipe, could not figure out. The music was perfect, the melody was there, but he was fighting horrible writer’s block until he walked into the studio and came to him right then... Man on the Moon. Stipe recorded it seconds after in 1 take, and it became a classic. Then there was River of Dreams, the last big hit by Billy Joel, who at the age of 44 swore he was done with music. Sadly, it would turn out to be true. River of Dreams came in a dream and was written in the shower. Then there was the massive 80s band Duran Duran that was written off by everyone in the new decade; in fact, their record label wouldn’t even fully fund their album, but in the middle of grunge, they created Ordinary World, a song so personal it hit the top of the charts and still brings a tear to the eye. Plus Whitney Houston, who had recorded her greatest vocals even though she was sick as a dog, and Blind Melon's No Rain, a deceptively happy-go-lucky sing-along song that had a devastating secret that no one understood till it was too late. It’s all next on POR.
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Today we count down songs from the beginning of the end of great. Mainstream music. It was a year packed with turmoil. The Waco siege, a historic blizzard, and devastating floods all made headlines it was also the first time that the Twin Towers were attacked… Through all the chaos, some of the most unforgettable songs of the Rock Era were born. It was truly a year of inconsistency in the top 40 IN fact when I was preparing for this countdown I was driving and my wife was sitting next to me with a copy of the Joel Whiteburn book that showed every song that hit the top 40 in 1993 and it you’d get one great song and then 10 bad ones and it was hilarious hearing her repeat some of the titles. From Whoomp there it is to but the ones that made today’s countdown are just as great as any other year… So let’s get into it.
The song that kicks off our countdown is a bit misleading. It comes off as a catchy, happy tune, but it’s really a tale of misfortune by a band from Arizona that struggled to break through. At #1,1 it’s “Hey Jealousy” by Gin Blossoms: “Hey Jealousy” was written by ex-GB guitarist Doug Hopkins. He was in a really bad way, emotionally, when he wrote it, and his condition only got worse when the song propelled the band into the national spotlight. Here’s what lead singer Robin Wilson and guitarist Jesse Valenzuela's “Hey Jealousy” ignited a string of hits for Gin Blossoms. It was a #4 Mainstream Rock track and #25 on the Hot 100.
Coming in at #10, one of the final hits for Tears For Fears minus Curt Smith… It’s “Break it Down Again”….no more sleepy dreaming….lyrics by Roland Orzabal and music a collaboration between Roland and Alan Griffiths. ” The track deals with the conflicts inside many of us, such as self-doubt, as in the line “you’re always hiding from the light,” and the pursuit to gain self-confidence, when Roland sings “stand tall like a man,” and shouts out “headstrong like a horse." My favorite lyrical sequence in “Break it Down Again” is during the last chorus; It's in the way you're always hiding from the light. Fast off to heaven just like Moses on a motorbike:”
Like I said, one of the most notable facts about "Break It Down Again” is that Curt Smith wasn’t involved in track. The song was released as the lead single from the album Elemental, and that was the first Tears for Fears record where Curt wasn’t part of the process