As the 1990s kicked off, Neil Young and Crazy Horse were still ragingly brilliant; their Ragged Glory album topped the Village Voice’s Pazz and Jop Poll. Sinead O’Connor recorded a relatively unknown Prince composition and found international fame. Public Enemy and Sonic Youth were receiving critical raves in their respective genres and made a successful collaboration on “Kool Thing.” Norman Quentin Cook had left the British pop band The Housemartins and was creating a new style of sampling influenced dance music with Beats International. He would later better be known as Fatboy Slim.
All Around the World, Lisa Stansfield
Birdhouse in Your Soul, They Might Be Giants
Blue Sky Mine, Midnight Oil
The Dance, Garth Brooks
Dub Be Good to Me, Beats International
Epic, Faith No More
Everybody Everybody, Black Box
Farmer John, Neil Young
Groove Is in the Heart, Deee-Lite
Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart, Randy Travis
Heavenly Pop Hit, The Chills
The Humpty Dance, Digital Underground
I’m Free, Soup Dragons
Kool Thing, Sonic Youth
Ladies First, Queen Latifah
Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em, Eric B. & Rakim
Love Letter, Bonnie Raitt
No Myth, Michael Penn
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor
The Obvious Child, Paul Simon
The Power, Snap!
Roam, The B-52s
Slack Motherf**ker, Superchunk
Tom’s Diner, DNA Featuring Suzanne Vega
Thunderstruck, AC/DC
Vogue, Madonna
Welcome to the Terrordome, Public Enemy