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| THE MAJOR'S MASSIVE MEMORIES |
| A VAST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC HIT SONGS REPRESENTING 20 YEARS OF GREAT MEMORIES FOR MAJOR HITWAVES |
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| PK | WKS | PTS | YRS | SONG TITLE & COMMENTS | ARTIST / SITE |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Break It Down Again Every 4 years Tears For Fears (Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith) hits it big in the U.S. In 1985 they scored a trio of back-to-back-to-back smash hits with "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", "Shout", and "Head Over Heels". In 1989 they returned to the top of the charts with "Sowing The Seeds Of Love". In 1993 Tears For Fears became a Roland Orzabal solo project, and he scored one last hit with my favourite of them all - "Break It Down Again". Fast forward 11 years later to present day 2004, and the original duo are back with a fresh new single - "Closest Thing To Heaven". It's from their new CD "Everybody Loves A Happy Ending". | Tears For Fears |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Buddy X This was Neneh Cherry's 3RD biggest hit stateside (following "Buffalo Stance" and Kisses On The Wind"). It hit # 43 in the Spring Of 1993, but it was MASSIVE on 107.1-WA1A in Melbourne Florida. I used to have a friend whose son's nickname was "Buddy". Nowadays my brother has a dog with the name of "Buddy". | Neneh Cherry |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Candy Everybody Wants This is another one of those 'Melbourne Memories' that was MASSIVE while I was living in Melbourne Florida in 1993. It was MASSIVE on 107.1-WA1A. It was one of my favourite songs of the year. It was the last big radio hit that Natalie Merchant did as the lead singer for 10,000 Maniacs. She went solo that Summer, and scored several big hits on her own during the middle-to-late-1990s. | 10,000 Maniacs |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Chains Nowadays His Boy Elroy may be a pop, rock, funk, and reggae band based out of the Washington D.C. area. It may also be a rock cover band based out of central Maine. It may also be a bar band based out of Utah. It may also be a punk rock band based out of Quezon City Philippines. But back in 1993 His Boy Elroy was a psychedelic rock band based out of Seattle Washington. Their style was far from grunge. It was along the lines of EMF, Jesus Jones, and Soup Dragons. "Chains" was a MASSIVE club dance smash in 1993. 107.1-WA1A in Melbourne Florida turned it in to a mainstream pop smash back then. This is one of my favourite songs of all-time ! | His Boy Elroy |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Connected Singer 'Rob B.' (Rob Birch) and Producer 'The Head' (Nick Hallam) are from Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. In October 1992 (January 1993 in the U.S.) they released their breakthrough album "Connected", and this was the breakout smash from that album. It's Brit dance-pop at its finest, and it was the absolute biz on the dancefloor during much of 1993. It fit in just right with the Eurodance revolution of the time. | The Stereo MCs |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Creep Radiohead are five musicians from Oxford England. They've been together for 20 years. This was their breakthrough smash that the U.K.'s most-listened to TOP 40 station - BBC Radio 1 - refused to play because they found it to be too depressing. It was about a guy who couldn't get the girl because he lacked self-confidence. He was a creep. He was a weirdo. He didn't belong there. It was the perfect grunge era song, and its explosive guitar riffs before the chorus symbolized and punctuated the adolescent angst of the time. | Radiohead |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Cryin' Aerosmith has been in existence for nearly my entire life (since 1970), but I didn't care too much for them until after I had turned 21. They've put out some good songs since 1988 such as a few of my favourites "Angel", "Janie's Got A Gun", "What It Takes", "The Other Side", and "Livin' On The Edge". But my all-time favourite Aerosmith song has just got to be "Cryin'" from their 1993 album "Get A Grip". It was the longest-running Aerosmith song ever on the Billboard HOT 100 at 26 weeks. | Aerosmith |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Dazzey Duks Come on baby pick them daisies ... Dis runaway booty-bass smash wuz da absolute biz back in 1993. It was particularly phat in the Melbourne Florida area where 107.1-WA1A played it over and over again. It was the only hit single for Duice (L.A. Sno & Creo-D), as it hit # 12 on the U.S. pop chart and sold over two million copies. It was inspired by the short shorts worn by Daisy Duke on "The Dukes Of Hazzard". | Duice |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Hey Jealousy Gin Blossoms were one of my favourite pop-rock groups of the mid-1990s. I liked all of their songs. "Til I Hear It From You" was the very first # 1 smash here on our chart during our current online run. They followed that up with the # 2 smash "Follow You Down" and the # 11 hit "As Long As It Matters". But my favourite Gin Blossoms song is this first one from the Summer Of 1993. It's the perfect song to drive around my town (with no cops chasing me around). | Gin Blossoms |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 & 1994 | I Can See Clearly Now Jamaican-born singer, songwriter, and actor Jimmy Cliff actually scored his first U.S. pop chart hit late in 1969. 24 years later he scored with his biggest hit - a remake of a # 1 Johnny Nash smash from 1972. It was featured in the 1993 movie "Cool Runnings". | Jimmy Cliff |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | If I Had No Loot This family trio out of Oakland California scored a TOP 10 hit late in 1990 with "Feels Good". They returned bigger and funkier than ever less than 3 years later with this hot hip-hop jam that led their "Sons Of Soul" CD during the Summer Of '93. | Tony Toni Toné |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) It was their 2ND big hit in their native U.K. late in 1988, and it was huge all across Europe and down into Australia and New Zealand into 1989. It even made it onto the U.S. Modern Rock Chart in 1989, but it took another 4 years for it to become a pop smash stateside. Its inclusion in the Spring Of 1993 flick "Benny & Joon" helped propel it into the TOP 3 that Summer. | The Proclaimers |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | I'm Gonna Get You Our chart was on hiatus back in 1993, but my MASSIVE memories of Melbourne (Florida) live on forever. This was a hit for most of the year on 107.1-WA1A. An excerpt of this hit actually appeared on the 'B' side of the cassette single for another MASSIVE memory - "I Like It (Like That)" by The Blackout Allstars. | Bizarre Inc Ft. Angie Brown |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Informer Straight out of nowhere Snow arrived on the scene and blanketed the nation with a raucous reggae and rap remedy for a depressed pop chart. It spent 7 weeks in a row high atop the U.S. pop chart. Snow's real name is Darrin O'Brien, and he was born in Toronto Ontario Canada in 1969. Nowadays he still records and performs his dancehall reggae and pop live in Canada and the U.S. He released a new CD earlier this year - "Two Hands Clapping". | Snow |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | It's My Life Dr. Alban was born Alban Nwapa in Nigeria, but then he moved to Stockholm Sweden where he became a dentist before he moved on to dance music. This Eurodance track hit # 88 on the U.S. pop chart during the hot Summer Of 1993. | Dr. Alban |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 & 1994 | Linger The Cranberries hailed from Limerick Ireland, and they formed in 1990. They were originally known as Cranberry Saw Us. They simplified their name the following year as Dolores O'Riordan became the lead singer. This was their first and only TOP 10 smash stateside. It's from their 1993 CD "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We ?". I wonder if they were referring to the great worldwide success enjoyed by their fellow Irish bands at the time when they named that album ? | The Cranberries |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Love For Love "Show Me Love" was the bigger of her two hits in 1993, but I loved this one more. It was quite MASSIVE in the Tampa Florida area where I was living at the time, and WFLZ-93.3 - 'The Power Pig' at the time - played it about every two hours around the clock for several months back then. | Robin S |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | More And More The long hot Summer Of 1993 abruptly ended during the middle of August when I went back to work in Tampa, but while I was unemployed across the state in Melbourne I had plenty of time to dance. "Captain Hollywood" was Tony Harrison, and he was born in Newark New Jersey, raised in Detroit Michigan, and stationed in Nuremburg Germany while he was in the U.S. Army. His German gig obviously inspired his music career, as he contributed to the Eurodance revolution just as it was getting hot. This was a surprising TOP 20 smash on the U.S. pop chart. | Captain Hollywood Project |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 & 1994 | Mr. Vain The TOP 40 music industry was in a lull in 1993 and 1994, and during that weakness the industry looked elsewhere for new and exciting product. Europe was eager to provide, and Eurodance imported from Germany, The Netherlands, and Belgium successfully filled the void. This breakthrough smash spent 20 weeks on the U.S. pop chart, but its German producer - Torsten Fenslau - never got to enjoy its U.S. success. He died in a car accident the same exact day that it debuted on the American pop chart. | Culture Beat |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | No Rain All I can say is that my life is pretty plain. Ya don't like my point of view. Ya think I'm insane. It's not sane. It's not sane. This U.S. album rock and modern rock # 1 smash was MASSIVE on 'The Power Pig' in Tampa during the latter portion of 1993. Whenever I hear it on the radio I remember driving in bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic on Dale Mabry Blvd. Good times ! | Blind Melon |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Ooh Child From 1988 to 1990 Dino (Esposito) scored a string of pop-dance hits that he wrote and produced himself including "Summergirls" and the U.S. TOP 10 hits "I Like It" and "Romeo". He released his album "The Way I Am" during the Summer Of 1993 which included this funky remake of The 5 Stairsteps' smash from 23 years earlier. It's my favourite of all of the Dino hits ! | Dino |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Runaway Train When you hear certain songs of the past after a period of time they bring back vivid images to your mind of what you were doing and what your life was like when the song was on the radio. This is one of those songs for me from the Summer Of 1993 when I was living in Melbourne Florida. Its video on MTV also contained images - those of missing children here in the U.S. A telephone number appeared at the end of the video, and it was instrumental in reuniting children featured in the video with their loved ones. This won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. | Soul Asylum |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Sweat (A La La La La Long) Inner Circle have been together for nearly 30 years. Their biggest hit - "Bad Boys" - has been a Saturday night staple on FOX-TV since the late-1980s as the theme from "Cops". This was their long-running U.S. TOP 20 hit during the Summer Of 1993. U.S. hit music radio embraced two versions of this hit - the (faster) original version and the (slower) 'Swemix Edit'. | Inner Circle |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | That's What Love Can Do Flashback to the Spring Of 1993. I was unemployed and living in a tiny studio efficiency in the heart of Melbourne Florida. All I had was my new 486-SX desktop computer system, and 107.1-WA1A blaring on the radio day and night. This was one of those memorable tunes from those long days and nights when the legendary MANx CAT BBS was in its infancy. (The MANx eventually evolved into the MASSIVESMASH.COM web site of today.) | Boy Krazy |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | The Crying Game The Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe) have been together for over 21 years now, and back in 1992 they produced several tracks for the soundtrack of "The Crying Game". The title track was an unexpected TOP 15 smash on the American pop charts for Boy George in early-1993. It was his first and only U.S. solo hit (post-Culture Club). The Major became a Civilian when this track took off. He was also unemployed at the time, but there wasn't much crying going on for he would soon get a job in Tampa Florida. | Boy George |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Voice Of Freedom Freedom Williams was the rapper (and bodybuilder) in the first 3 hits (and videos) from C + C Music Factory ("Gonna Make You Sweat", "Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll)", and "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm"). He went solo in 1993, and his debut single sounded amazingly just like his first three with C + C. It was basically a dancehall version of George Michael's "Freedom" that sampled the chorus but with different lyrics. It bombed on the charts, but I liked it a lot ! | Freedom Williams |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 | Wannagirl 19-year-old Jeremy Jordan was a pop star for pretty much the first 7 months of 1993, and then he moved on to Hollywood moviedom. His debut pop smash was actually courtesy of Hollywood, as "The Right Kind Of Love" was featured on the TV soundtrack album for "Beverly Hills, 90210". This was his U.S. TOP 30 follow-up smash that was on the radio during the Summer Of 1993. | Jeremy Jordan |
| -- | -- | -- | 1993 & 1994 | What Is Love It was one of the greatest and most influential techno-pop hits of the '90s. Everyone was dancing to it during much of 1993 & 1994. Party-going brothers Steve & Doug Butabi (played by Will Ferrell & Chris Kattan) used it as an excuse to go out and crash The Big Apple's hottest clubs as they bobbed their heads back-and-forth in unison, picked-up assorted women, and danced like maniacs on various Saturday nights (referencing the recurring "Roxbury" skits on "Saturday Night Live !"). | Haddaway |
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