Modern Rock 500 Flashback - 1989
With the 19th annual Modern Rock 500 just around the corner this weekend, I thought it would be fun to have a look back at some old 500 countdowns of interest. Today we take a peek at 1989, and while I would love to list the entire thing here, I will just snag a few of the more interesting laps from that year. For the Modern Rock statistician in all of us…
Lap #500 - The Proclaimers - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Lap #250 - INXS - Don’t Change
Lap #100 - Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
Lap #97 - Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
Lap #10 - Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Lap #1 - The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Band with the most songs in the 1989 Modern Rock 500 - The Smiths (13)
Other bands with 10 songs or more….
The Cure (11)
U2 (10)
Elvis Costello (10)
Depeche Mode (10)
Most Top 100 Songs -
The Cure (8)
The Top 10 from 1989
1. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
2. R.E.M. - It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
3. Modern English - I Melt With You
4. New Order - Blue Monday
5. The Cult -She Sells Sanctuary
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
7. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
8. Romeo Void - Never Say Never
9. The Cure - Let’s Go To Bed
10. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
May 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Wow. On that very weekend in question, at age 16, I started working for my current employer. What a strange, yet life altering, year 1989 was for me.
Thanks for picking it to start the week of MR 500 Flashbacks.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
The Proclaimers song was obviously a new entry in the Modern Rock 500 in the 1989 countdown. Did it ever make it back? And how many other new entries made the list that year (this number should theoretically go down slightly every year)?
May 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Well, based on what I have access to, which is not everything, and it is straight up lists, Ill try to field these…
Proclaimers, I dont think they ever made it back in. No idea about # of new entries that year….
May 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Actually the Proclaimers were there in 1996 at #72 (and were at #71 in 1994).