What is your favourite pop or rock band?

[Ralf]

Hi prez,

I know'em all, and they're still composing their features in the face of dust (on my CD rack)

I've noticed this in your genealogical chart as well - the older we get, the less (contemporary or more recent) lyrics we seem to remember But those Chicago lyrics are still there, whether we like it or not!

PS - I think we were born in the same year
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[Prezbucky]

ROFL, exactly

I feel like a lot of people on here are prolly too young to remember much before the mid-90s or so...

So here's to Boyz II Men, probably the top R&B group of the early-mid '90s.

Here were their hits, all coming in that span (about 1991-1995):

- Motownphilly
- It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
- Uhh-Ahh
- End of the Road
- I'll Make Love To You
- On Bended Knee
- Water Runs Dry
- One Sweet Day (w/ Mariah Carey)

That's not a lot of hits, per se... but four of those were among the biggest hits of the 1990s:

End of the Road
I'll Make Love to You
On Bended Knee
One Sweet Day

Check out the songs on YouTube or VH1.com

Here's their Wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyz_ll_Men
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[Prezbucky]

...they had a couple hits after 1995, but nothing approaching their 1991-95ish success.
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[Ralf]

In Ireland and Britain, a similar boyish threat became reality at that time - Boyzone!

There impact was truely terrible, and the charts were shaken by these tunes serenading leagues of teenage girls' hearts:

Singles
* 1994 "Love Me for a Reason" #2 UK
* 1995 "Key to My Life" #3 UK
* 1995 "So Good" #3 UK
* 1995 "Father and Son" #2 UK
* 1996 "Coming Home Now" #4 UK
* 1996 "Words" #1 UK
* 1996 "A Different Beat" #1 UK
* 1997 "Isn't It a Wonder" #2 UK
* 1997 "Picture of You" #2 UK
* 1997 "Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star" #2 UK
* 1998 "All That I Need" #1 UK
* 1998 "No Matter What" #1 UK, #2 AUS, #12 US Adult Contemporary Chart
* 1998 "I Love the Way You Love Me" #2 UK
* 1999 "When the Going Gets Tough" #1 UK
* 1999 "You Needed Me" #1 UK
* 1999 "Everyday I Love You" #3 UK

Abhorrently wonderful!
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[Prezbucky]

Who did the song "Say It All Over Again"?

Westlife or something like that?

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I forgot to mention Smashing Pumpkins -- I just loved the album "Siamese Dream".
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[Prezbucky]

And we cannot forget S Club 7!
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[Ralf]

[Daemon99]

Some of my favourites:

The man who sold the world -- Nirvana
Lake of fire -- Nirvana

Sacrifice -- Elton John

The way you make me feel -- Michael Jackson
Hold me, like the River Jordan -- Michael Jackson

One -- Metallica
Nothing else matters -- Metallica
Memory remains -- Metallica
Enter Sandman -- Metallica
Wherever I may roam -- Metallica

Something stupid like I love you -- Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman
Angels -- Robbie Williams

Janie's got a gun -- Aerosmith

Things have changed -- Bob Dylan

O bla di O bla da -- The Beatles
Love me do -- The Beatles

Frozen -- Madonna
La isla bonita -- Madonna
Ray of light -- Madonna
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[NinaZara]

[NinaZara]

Fool again!?! Gosh, I can't believe I am listening to it again. I've been busy with J-pop all these years. Thanks, Ralf!

[NinaZara]

[Ralf]

[NinaZara]

Ahh boys, sometimes they are just like Mentos, hard on the outside, soft on the inside.

[Prezbucky]

boyz II men weren't quite a boy band though -- I've always thought of them as more of R&B/pop/swing fusion.

NSync, Backstreet Boys and Boyzone they were (are?) not, IMO.

And look who's back -- New Kids On The Block!

We junior high boys hated them in the late '80s, as they stole the hearts of our female cohorts. "I like you, Tom -- we can even hold hands -- but I'm not going to 2nd base with anyone but Joey (McEntire, or however it's spelled)!"

Ralf -- I was born in '76 (March)

Nina, boyz ii men were good singers. And did you see the hip dance moves in the Motownphilly video? I remember dressing like that too.. still can't beat '90s fashion! lol
More '80s greats (getting back to that decade):

Billy Ocean
Billy Idol
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Human League
Thompson Twins
Spandau Ballet
Cheap Trick
Eddie Money
Huey Lewis and the News
Mike and the Mechanics
Genesis
Phil Collins
Bananarama
Berlin
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Sinead O'Connor (not sure if the big one was 89 or 90)
Steve Winwood
Siouxsee and the Banshees
Bobby Brown
Poison
Warrant
Winger
Def Leppard
LA Guns
Whitesnake
The Cult
Europe
The Cure
Skid Row
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
Cher
T'Pau
Journey
Quiet Riot
Twisted Sister
Judas Priest
The Traveling Wilburys (?)
The Honeydrippers
Kenny Loggins
Paula Abdul
Michael McDonald
Motley Crue
AC/DC
Megadeth
Some of those acts were good, others forgettable... but all had hits in the 80s. Some had hits before and/or after the 80s.

Someone mentioned Metallica... for my money, prolly one of the top five rock/metal bands of the last 25 yrs.

But looking at the list... toss in NKOTB, Michael, Janet, Whitney, Madonna, Bon Jovi, etc... total trip down memory lane.
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[Prezbucky]

...and U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Midnight Oil, Faith No More, Terrence Trent D'Arby, Cinderella, Public Enemy, Michael Bolton, Bryan Adams, Roxette and MILLI VANILLI!

The choreography in their Girl You Know It's True video still makes me howl.
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