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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990.
Contents 1 Events 1.1 Unknown 2 Bands formed 3 Bands disbanded 4 Albums released 4.1 January 4.2 February 4.3 March 4.4 April 4.5 May 4.6 June 4.7 July 4.8 August 4.9 September 4.10 October 4.11 November 4.12 December 4.13 Release Date Unknown 5 Biggest hit singles 6 Top hits on record 7 Charts 8 Other significant singles 9 Acclaimed Music 9.1 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 1990 9.2 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs from 1990 10 Published popular music 11 Classical music 12 Opera 13 Musical theater 14 Computer and video game music 15 Awards 15.1 Glenn Gould Prize 16 Music festivals 17 Births 18 Deaths 19 See also 20 References // Events January 21 - MTV's Unplugged premieres on cable television with British band Squeeze February 6 - Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle accident, resulting in several broken bones. Idol had been scheduled to have a major role in Oliver Stone's film The Doors, but due to his injuries, the role was reduced almost to a bit part. February 14 - 50,000 fans watch The Rolling Stones play the first of 10 concerts at Tokyo's Korakuen Dome, the beginning of the Stones' first ever tour of Japan. February 16 - Ike Turner is sentenced to 4 years in prison for possession of cocaine. February 24 - The Byrds (Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and David Crosby) reunite, for the first time in 25 years, to perform at a Los Angeles, California tribute to Roy Orbison. The three are joined unexpectedly on stage by Bob Dylan, who sings "Mr. Tambourine Man" with the band. March 20 - Gloria Estefan's tour bus is involved in an accident. Estefan suffers several broken bones in her back. March 25 - Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee is arrested for allegedly exposing his backside during a performance in Augusta, Georgia April 4 - Gloria Estefan returns to Miami, Florida after undergoing back surgery in March following a tour bus accident. April 6 - Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee suffers a mild concussion after falling off of scaffolding above his elevated drum kit during a performance in New Haven, Connecticut. April 7 - Neil Young, Elton John, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Guns N' Roses and Jackson Browne perform at Farm Aid IV in Indiana. John dedicates "Candle in the Wind" to AIDS patient Ryan White during his performance. White dies later that evening. April 16 - A massive tribute concert is held at Wembley Stadium for recently freed anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, who makes a 45-minute speech at the event. Performers include Anita Baker, Tracy Chapman, Peter Gabriel, The Neville Brothers and Neil Young. The event is broadcast to 61 countries around the world. April 25 - Jimi Hendrix's Fender Stratocaster that he used to perform his famous version of the "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, is auctioned off in London for $295,000 May 18 - The Rolling Stones open their Urban Jungle European tour in Rotterdam, Netherlands. May 27 - The Stone Roses stage a legendary concert at Spike Island, Cheshire May 29 In Canada, Toronto police threaten to arrest Madonna if she performs her simulated masturbation scene during her performance of "Like a Virgin" on her Blond Ambition Tour. Madonna refuses to change her show, and the police decide not to press charges, later denying that they had ever threatened to do so (a claim refuted by footage captured during the filming of Madonna's 1991 documentary Truth or Dare). At the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition 1990 finals, held at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, pianist Nick van Oosterum of the Netherlands takes first place. June 10 - members of rap group 2 Live Crew are arrested and charged with obscenity after a performance in a Hollywood, Florida nightclub.. July 7 - The Three Tenors give their first concert, at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. July 14 - Jean Michel Jarre's concert Paris la Defense attracts 2.5 million spectators. August 5 - Madonna ends her controversial Blond Ambition Tour in Nice, France. August 19 - Beonard Bernstein conducts his final performance at Tanglewood; he suffers a coughing fit in the middle of one piece which almost brings the concert to a premature end. August 24 - A judge rules that heavy metal band Judas Priest is not responsible for the suicide and attempted suicide of two Nevada youths who shot themselves after listening to the band's music. September 11 - After a decade of performing in the Francophone world, Céline Dion makes her formal English-language debut in the United States with the release of her album Unison. October 22 - Pearl Jam, then named "Mookie Blaylock", play their first show as a band at the Off Ramp club in Seattle, Washington. Fall - For the first time, Amy Grant and Gary Chapman hold a night of music at their Franklin, Tennessee Riverstone Farm, for local teenagers. Performers included Rich Mullins, Rick Elias, Charlie Peacock, Wes King and Michael W. Smith. The event becomes known as "The Loft". November 27 - "Vocal" group Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as "Girl You Know It's True." They later have their Grammy award revoked. Unknown Studio Fredman is Built. Madonna's "Justify My Love" music video is banned by MTV. The singer appears on Nightline to defend the video. The poorly received Cop Rock premieres on television, TV's first (and last) musical police drama. Sons of Kyuss change their named to Kyuss, add new members except guitarist Josh Homme. After a hiatus of 7 years, rock group Styx reform to record a new album and tour without long time guitarist Tommy Shaw who was committed to Damn Yankees at the time. Tapes of the original William Walton score for the 1969 film Battle of Britain are rediscovered, having been lost since the score was abandoned in favour of one by Ron Goodwin. Bands formed See Musical groups established in 1990 Bands disbanded See Musical groups disestablished in 1990 Albums released Contents: Top • January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December January Day Album Artist Notes 5 Flood They Might Be Giants - 15 Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic The Sundays UK Porcelain Julia Fordham - 16 The Hit List Joan Jett Covers album Deep Peter Murphy US Desert Wind Ofra Haza - Flood They Might Be Giants US 23 Stick It to Ya Slaughter - 29 Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors Fish - A Bit of What You Fancy The Quireboys UK 30 Hats The Blue Nile US Riverside Luka Bloom - The Sweet Keeper Tanita Tikaram US February Day Album Artist Notes 6 Manners & Physique Adam Ant - 12 Chill Out The KLF - Stay Sick The Cramps - Pale Toad the Wet Sprocket - 13 Shake Your Money Maker The Black Crowes debut Just Say Ozzy Ozzy Osbourne US; Live The Beautiful South The Beautiful South US Chance The Rave-Ups - Sack Full of Silver Thin White Rope - 19 Extricate The Fall - Heading for Tomorrow Gamma Ray - 20 The Language of Life Everything but the Girl - Dark at the End of the Tunnel Oingo Boingo - This Should Move Ya Mantronix US Carved in Sand Mission UK US 22 Submarine Bells The Chills - Gold Afternoon Fix The Church - The Caution Horses Cowboy Junkies - Damn Yankees Damn Yankees - 25 Blue Sky Mining Midnight Oil - 27 Highwayman 2 The Highwaymen - Here in the Real World Alan Jackson - 28 Ah Via Musicom Eric Johnson - ? Frizzle Fry Primus Debut March Day Album Artist Notes 1 Poison Bell Biv DeVoe - 5 Happiness The Beloved US 6 New Funky Nation Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. - Third World Warrior Kris Kristofferson - Birds of Passage Bel Canto US The House of Love The House of Love US 7 Head Like A Hole Nine Inch Nails EP 12 Beg to Differ Prong - Resistance Borghesia - Slave to the Thrill Hurricane - Counterpoint In the Nursery - 13 Spiritual Healing Death - Kid 'n Play's Funhouse Kid 'n Play - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em MC Hammer - Pretty Woman soundtrack Various Artists - 16 Eye Robyn Hitchcock US 19 Violator Depeche Mode - Manic Nirvana Robert Plant - Blacks' Magic Salt-N-Pepa - My Romance Carly Simon Covers album 20 Swagger Blue Aeroplanes US Changesbowie David Bowie Compilation Lloyd Cole Lloyd Cole US Showtime Nitzer Ebb US Extricate The Fall US I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinéad O'Connor - Fear of a Black Planet Public Enemy - 23 Recycler ZZ Top - 26 Sex Packets Digital Underground - Unison Celine Dion Canada Brigade Heart - Still Got the Blues Gary Moore - The Best of Van Morrison Van Morrison UK 27 Livin' Like Hustlers Above the Law - Forever Everlasting Everlast - Social Distortion Social Distortion - 29 Representing the Mambo Little Feat - April Day Album Artist Notes 1 Up in It The Afghan Whigs - 2 Bulkhead Severed Heads - 3 Born to Sing En Vogue - Lloyd Cole Lloyd Cole - Cloudcuckooland Lightning Seeds - Read My Lips Jimmy Somerville - Chemicrazy That Petrol Emotion - 10 Laura Branigan Laura Branigan - Act III Death Angel - Behind the Mask Fleetwood Mac - Days of Open Hand Suzanne Vega - Peace Anything Box - 11 Vanity/Nemesis Celtic Frost - Songs for Drella Lou Reed and John Cale - 16 Hammerheart Bathory - 17 The Good Son Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Johnny Gill Johnny Gill - Live on Broadway Barry Manilow Live People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm A Tribe Called Quest - Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic The Sundays US The Myth of Rock Consolidated - 23 Life Inspiral Carpets - Let Them Eat Bingo Beats International US Slam Big Dipper - Metaphysical Graffiti The Dead Milkmen - 24 Goodbye Jumbo World Party - Ghost Nation Hunters & Collectors - 30 The Internationale Billy Bragg Mini-LP ? Glider My Bloody Valentine EP 39/Smooth Green Day - May Day Album Artist Notes 1 When the Storm Comes Down Flotsam and Jetsam - Charmed Life Billy Idol - The Winding Sheet Mark Lanegan - 2 Son of Albert Andrew Ridgeley - 5 Everybody Knows Sonia - Now That's What I Call Music 17 Various Artists UK; Compilation 8 Shut Up and Dance Paula Abdul Remix album Greatest Hits The Bangles Compilation Young Lions Adrian Belew Tattooed Millionaire Bruce Dickinson - Eclipse Yngwie Malmsteen US Wilson Phillips Wilson Phillips - 11 Screaming Life/Fopp Soundgarden Compilation 14 Circle of One Oleta Adams - DAAS Icon Doug Anthony All Stars - 15 Lock up the Wolves Dio - Reflections of Passion Yanni Compilation Ten Y&T - A Round and a Bout Squeeze US, live 16 AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted Ice Cube - 21 Vol. II: 1990 - A New Decade Soul II Soul - 22 I'm Breathless Madonna - Packed! The Pretenders - 25 Hell to Pay Jeff Healey Canada Mecca Age of Chance US 29 Bloodletting Concrete Blonde - I Want Too Much A House US Meet John Doe John Doe - Katydids Katydids US 31 Scumdogs of the Universe GWAR - All the Stuff (And More!) Volume 1 Ramones Compilation All the Stuff (And More!) Volume 2 Ramones Compilation ? Droolian Julian Cope - Between the Lines Jason Donovan - June Day Album Artist Notes 4 Manscape Wire US 5 Step by Step New Kids on the Block - 10 The Stranglers US 7 Sumerian Cry Tiamat - 11 Live It Up Crosby, Stills & Nash - A Catholic Education Teenage Fanclub - Utd. State 90 808 State - 12 Holy Water Bad Company - Mariah Carey Mariah Carey debut I'll Give All My Love to You Keith Sweat - 1,2,3,4 Propaganda US 14 Amarok Mike Oldfield - 18 Alias Alias - 19 Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em Eric B. & Rakim - A Night on the Town Bruce Hornsby and the Range - Colour The Christians US The Internationale Billy Bragg US This Time Around Green on Red - Home Hothouse Flowers US 21 Compositions Anita Baker - Black Angels Kronos Quartet - 22 New Art Riot Manic Street Preachers EP 25 Deicide Deicide - Livonia His Name Is Alive - Sudden Stop Colin James Canada Reputation Dusty Springfield - 26 Real Men... Wear Black Cameo - Danzig II: Lucifuge Danzig - After The Rain Nelson - Goo Sonic Youth - Kiss of Life Gene Loves Jezebel - 30 Biohazard Biohazard - ? Midnight Stroll Robert Cray - Gold Mother James - July Day Album Artist Notes 1 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours Green Day - 2 Smooth Noodle Maps Devo - Armchair Theatre Jeff Lynne Solo debut 3 Seven Turns The Allman Brothers Band - Lofty's Roach Souffle Harry Connick, Jr. - We Are in Love Harry Connick, Jr. - The Hard Way Steve Earle - Spirits Dancing in the Flesh Santana - Lights...Camera...Revolution! Suicidal Tendencies - 10 Flesh and Blood Poison - Brick by Brick Iggy Pop - Pandemonium The Time - Live and Direct Adamski US Stray Aztec Camera US 13 Naked Thunder Ian Gillan - Banned in the U.S.A. 2 Live Crew - Live'r Than God Thee Hypnotics US 16 Tales from the Twilight World Blind Guardian - 19 Apple Mother Love Bone - Lovegod The Soup Dragons - 24 Un-Led-Ed Dread Zeppelin - Goodnight L.A. Magnum - Take a Look Around Master Ace - Cowboys from Hell Pantera - In the Heart of the Young Winger - 30 Joy Rides for Shut-Ins Cavedogs - ? Passion and Warfare Steve Vai - August Day Album Artist Notes 6 Live at the China Club Dramarama - 7 Blaze of Glory Jon Bon Jovi Young Guns II soundtrack Pornograffiti Extreme - Bellybutton Jellyfish - World Clique Deee-Lite - Enchanted Marc Almond US Head Down Moev US Lovegod Soup Dragons US 13 Bossanova Pixies - 14 Cleopatra Grip The Heart Throbs US Bossanova Pixies US 16 100 Miles and Runnin' N.W.A. EP 17 Eaten Back To Life Cannibal Corpse - 20 Tyr Black Sabbath - Liberty Duran Duran - Graffiti Bridge Prince Soundtrack 21 Facelift Alice in Chains - Persistence of Time Anthrax - FireHouse FireHouse - Ritual de lo Habitual Jane's Addiction - Detonator Ratt - Against the Law Stryper - Short Dog's in the House Too Short - 27 No Fences Garth Brooks - Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J - Blue Sunshine The Glove US Otis Mojo Nixon - 28 Up from the Ashes Don Dokken - The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken REO Speedwagon - Time's Up Living Colour - To The Extreme Vanilla Ice - In a Priest Driven Ambulance Flaming Lips - September Day Album Artist Notes 3 Painkiller Judas Priest - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 George Michael UK 4 The Wild Places Dan Fogelberg - Rumor Has It Reba McEntire - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up Ministry Live Empire Queensrÿche - And the Horse They Rode in On Soul Asylum - 1978-1990 Go-Betweens US Gold Mother James US & Love for All The Lilac Time US 9 Two Fires Jimmy Barnes - 10 Boomania Betty Boo - Under the Red Sky Bob Dylan - 11 Soundtrack from Twin Peaks Angelo Badalamenti Soundtrack Unison Celine Dion US Cherry Pie Warrant - Ragged Glory Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Glider My Bloody Valentine US Dear 23 The Posies - Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys Dave Stewart and The Spiritual Cowboys US 12 Never, Neverland Annihilator - 14 Armed Audio Warfare Meat Beat Manifesto US 16 Exitos de Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan US; Compilation 17 Heaven or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins - Room to Roam The Waterboys - The Wall Live in Berlin Roger Waters UK; Live 18 The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition Derek and the Dominos Remix + unreleased material Heaven or Las Vegas Cocteau Twins US Red Moon The Call - Collected Works Hunters & Collectors US Romantic? The Human League US 19 Cause of Death Obituary - 21 The Razors Edge AC/DC - Nomads Indians Saints Indigo Girls - X INXS - Some People's Lives Bette Midler - Lawn Boy Phish - 24 Rust in Peace Megadeth - Themes - Volume 1: March 79 - April 82 Simple Minds Box Set Souls of Black Testament - Rag and Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers XTC Rarities compilation Experience Mary's Danish 25 Without a Net Grateful Dead Live All Shook Down The Replacements - Have You Seen Me Lately Carly Simon - Themes - Volume 2: August 82 - April 85 Simple Minds Box Set Superchunk Superchunk - Family Style The Vaughan Brothers (Stevie Ray and Jimmie) - An Emotional Fish An Emotional Fish US Wild & Lonely The Associates US Nomads Indians Saints Indigo Girls US X INXS US Come Together Primal Scream US EP Third Eye Redd Kross - October Day Album Artist Notes 1 No Prayer for the Dying Iron Maiden - 2 New Inside Tiffany - Crawdaddy Darling Buds US Jordan: The Comeback Prefab Sprout US Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary Various Artists - Room to Roam Waterboys US 5 This Is Our Music Galaxie 500 - 6 Ven Conmigo Selena 1st Tejano album to go 'Gold'. 8 Enlightenment Van Morrison UK Themes - Volume 3: September 85 - June 87 Simple Minds Box Set Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band Ringo Starr Live 9 Change of Season Hall & Oates - Shooting Straight in the Dark Mary Chapin Carpenter - Chronicles Rush 2-disc compilation Themes - Volume 4: February 89 - May 90 Simple Minds Box Set Seasons in the Abyss Slayer - Edge of the Century Styx - Girls, Girls, Girls Elvis Costello - FUN '90 Mekons - The Greatest Hits, So Far Public Image Ltd. - 15 Nowhere Ride - 16 Hold Me Up Goo Goo Dolls - Brand New Dance Emmylou Harris - Private Times...and the Whole 9! Al B. Sure! - Wrong Way Up Brian Eno and John Cale US Hindu Love Gods Hindu Love Gods - Hack Information Society - Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982–1983 10,000 Maniacs - Smile Ride US 22 Behaviour Pet Shop Boys - The Rhythm of the Saints Paul Simon - 23 Slaves & Masters Deep Purple - Faith Hope Love King's X - Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Box set Mercurochrome Buck Pets - Some Friendly The Charlatans UK US 458489 The Fall US, singles compilation Billy's Live Bait The Gear Daddies - Life (Inspiral Carpets album) Inspiral Carpets US 29 Choke The Beautiful South Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 Traveling Wilburys - 30 Taste of Chocolate Big Daddy Kane - Feeding Frenzy: Jimmy Buffett Live! Jimmy Buffett Live Interiors Roseanne Cash - Lennon John Lennon Box set Red Hot + Blue Various Artists Cole Porter tribute Heart Still Beating Roxy Music Live Too Dark Park Skinny Puppy - If There Was a Way Dwight Yoakam - Behavior Pet Shop Boys US Natural History Talk Talk US 31 Raygun . . . Naked Raygun Naked Raygun - ? Dannii Dannii Minogue Australia, debut November Day Album Artist Notes 1 Kool-Aid Big Audio Dynamite II - 5 Serious Hits... Live! Phil Collins Live Mixed Up The Cure UK; Remix album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches Happy Mondays UK Tripping the Live Fantastic Paul McCartney Live Don't Explain Robert Palmer UK 6 Put Yourself in My Shoes Clint Black - I'm Your Baby Tonight Whitney Houston - Coma of Souls Kreator - Crazy World Scorpions - Stick It Live Slaughter Live EP Refugees of the Heart Steve Winwood - Birdbrain Buffalo Tom - A Brief History of the Twentieth Century Gang of Four - Somewhere Soon The High US Syntonic Kon Kan US Bona Drag Morrissey US Hell's Ditch Pogues US The Dancing Years Shriekback - Cake Trashcan Sinatras US 8 Casino Blue Rodeo - 12 Rhythm of Love Kylie Minogue - 13 Anything Is Possible Debbie Gibson - The Immaculate Collection Madonna Greatest Hits Vision Thing The Sisters of Mercy - Five Man Acoustical Jam Tesla Live Standards The Alarm US Choke The Beautiful South US Blast the Human Flower Danielle Dax US Reverberation Echo and the Bunnymen US Gala Lush US 15 Naïve KMFDM - 20 Heartbreak Station Cinderella - Shaking the Tree Peter Gabriel Greatest Hits Back from Hell Run-D.M.C. - This Is a Collective Consolidated EP 23 Against the Grain Bad Religion - 26 A Social Grace Psychotic Waltz - 27 Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches Happy Mondays US ? Rising Donovan Live December Day Album Artist Notes 1 Now! That's What I Call Music 18 Various Artists UK; Compilation 3 MCMXC a.D. Enigma Debut 4 One for All Brand Nubian - The Simpsons Sing the Blues The Simpsons - Home Alone Soundtrack John Williams - Grains of Sand The Mission UK US 8 Mermaids soundtrack Various Artists US; Soundtrack 9 Rehearsal December 1990 Dark Tranquillity (as Septic Broiler) 10 Live at Hammersmith '84 Jethro Tull Live 11 Dr. Adamski's Musical Pharmacy Adamski US Devo's Greatest Hits Devo - Devo's Greatest Misses Devo - The Raw and the Remix Fine Young Cannibals - 13 Gonna Make You Sweat C+C Music Factory - 29 99% Meat Beat Manifesto - Release Date Unknown Enchanted - Marc Almond Return to Samoa - Angry Samoans The Youth Are Getting Restless (live) - Bad Brains Gling-Gló - Björk The Blues Brothers Band Live in Montreux - The Blues Brothers (live) Brand New Heavies - Brand New Heavies Ichabod and I - The Boo Radleys As I Came of Age - Sarah Brightman Groovy, Laidback and Nasty - Cabaret Voltaire Anam - Clannad Unnatural History - Coil The Myth of Rock - Consolidated Skellington - Julian Cope Nu Thang - dc Talk 1888 - Death in June/Current 93 The Flower That Shattered the Stone - John Denver Christmas, Like a Lullaby - John Denver Gloryline - Dreams So Real Blood Guts & Pussy - The Dwarves Dare to Be Different - Tommy Emmanuel Left Hand Path - Entombed Business as Usual - EPMD The Massacre - The Exploited Chain Reaction - John Farnham Set the Booty Up Right (EP) - Fishbone Repeater - Fugazi This Is Our Music - Galaxie 500 Ghost - Ghost Slappy - Green Day Bang! - Corey Hart Space Bandits - Hawkwind Strap It On - Helmet The House of Love - The House of Love A Spy in the House of Love - The House of Love Iced Earth - Iced Earth (debut) - Released in Europe only. Waiting for Cousteau - Jean Michel Jarre Neighbourhood Threat - Johnny Crash (debut) Hispanic Causing Panic - Kid Frost Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions - Killing Joke I've Got That Old Feeling - Alison Krauss Sons of Kyuss - Kyuss (debut) The Last Temptation of Reid - Lard The La's - The La's From a Scream to a Whisper - Lowlife It's... Madness - Madness Because It's Christmas - Barry Manilow The Apprentice - John Martyn Hell with the Lid Off - MC 900 Ft. Jesus Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today - McCarthy Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 - Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 Rainbow Electronics - Merzbow Pentagram - Mezarkabul Deep - Peter Murphy Hell Is for Wimps - Newsboys Erpland - Ozric Tentacles Merci - Florent Pagny Home For Christmas - Dolly Parton Beyond Belief - Petra Cure for Sanity - Pop Will Eat Itself Bonafide - Maxi Priest Beyond Thee Infinite Beat - Psychic TV Lost Souls - The Raindogs Shadow in Dreams - Dennis Rea Volume 2 - Reagan Youth Motive - Red Box Beers, Steers, and Queers - Revolting Cocks Best of the West Rides Again - Riders in the Sky Horse Opera - Riders in the Sky Love Is Strange - Kenny Rogers Turned On - Rollins Band Here Comes Trouble - Scatterbrain School of Fish - School of Fish (debut) Reflections - The Shadows (final studio album) Live at the Roxy Club - Sham 69 Fist Sized Chunks - Skin Yard World Power - Snap! Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To - Spacemen 3 Affection - Lisa Stansfield (US) 10 - The Stranglers Anonymous Bodies in an Empty Room - Swans Concrete Jungle - Sway & King Tech Souls of Black - Testament Everybody Wants To Shag The Teardrop Explodes - The Teardrop Explodes Past to Present 1977-1990 - Toto Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee No Depression - Uncle Tupelo Nineteen 90 - Regine Velasquez The Wonder - Tom Verlaine Debacle: The First Decade - Violent Femmes GodWeenSatan: The Oneness - Ween Tangled - Jane Wiedlin Up to No Good - Peter Wolf Other Voices - Paul Young Garista (re-release) - zoviet*france: (untitled) - an untitled album by :$OVIET:FRANCE: (re-release) Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection – Various Artists In a Priest Driven Ambulance - The Flaming Lips Biggest hit singlesThe following songs achieved the highest positions in the charts of 1990.1
# Artist Title Year Country of origin Chart Entries 1 Sinéad O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U 1990 UK 1 - January 1990; US Billboard 1 of 1990; Netherlands 1 - January 1990; Sweden 1 - February 1990; Austria 1 - March 1990; Switzerland 1 - February 1990; Norway 1 - February 1990; Poland 1 - March 1990; Germany 1 - February 1990; Éire 1 - January 1990; New Zealand 1 for five weeks, April 1990; Australia 1 for eight weeks, May 1990; KROQ 1 of 1990; Australia 3 of 1990; US Cash Box 4 of 1990; Italy 8 of 1990; Europe 8 of the 1990s; Rate Your Music 9 of 1990; Germany 19 of the 1990s; Poland 59 of all time; Belgium 90 of all time; Acclaimed 113; OzNet 138;Rolling Stone 162; WXPN 661. 2 Madonna Vogue 1990 UK 1 - Apr 1990, US BB 1 of 1990, US CashBox 1 of 1990, Sweden 1 - Apr 1990, Norway 1 - Apr 1990, Poland 1 - Apr 1990, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks May 1990, Australia 1 for 4 weeks Aug 1990, Holland 2 - Apr 1990, Switzerland 2 - Apr 1990, Italy 5 of 1990, Germany 4 - Apr 1990, France 7 - Apr 1990, Austria 7 - May 1990, POP 7 of 1990, US BB 8 of 1990, RYM 8 of 1990, Australia 10 of 1990, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1990, Party 181 of 2007, Germany 230 of the 1990s, Acclaimed 521, OzNet 881 3 Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby 1990 UK 1 - Nov 1990, US BB 1 of 1990, Holland 1 - Nov 1990, Éire 1 - Dec 1990, New Zealand 1 for 7 weeks Dec 1990, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Apr 1991, Sweden 2 - Nov 1990, Switzerland 2 - Nov 1990, Norway 2 - Dec 1990, Germany 2 - Jan 1991, Austria 3 - Nov 1990, US BB 4 of 1990, POP 4 of 1990, France 5 - Dec 1990, Australia 15 of 1991, US CashBox 21 of 1990, Party 42 of 2007, Italy 65 of 1991, Germany 82 of the 1990s, RYM 188 of 1990 4 MC Hammer U Can't Touch This 1990 Holland 1 - Jul 1990, Sweden 1 - Aug 1990, Australia 1 of 1990, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Jul 1990, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Oct 1990, Switzerland 2 - Jul 1990, UK 3 - Jun 1990, Germany 3 - Jul 1990, US BB 5 of 1990, Austria 5 - Aug 1990, POP 5 of 1990, France 6 - Jun 1990, Norway 6 - Aug 1990, US BB 8 of 1990, Scrobulate 18 of rap, US CashBox 39 of 1990, RYM 63 of 1990, Germany 147 of the 1990s, RIAA 201, Party 214 of 1999, Acclaimed 1797 5 Roxette It Must Have Been Love 1990 US Bullfrog 1 - Apr 1990 (25 weeks), US BB 1 of 1990, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1990, Norway 1 - Jun 1990, Poland 1 - Jun 1990, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Oct 1990, Japan (Tokyo) 2 - May 1990, UK 3 - Jun 1990, Holland 3 - Jun 1990, Sweden 3 - Dec 1987, Austria 4 - Jul 1990, Germany 4 - Jun 1990, US CashBox 6 of 1990, France 8 - May 1990, Australia 8 of 1990, Brazil 12 of 1990, US Gold (cerified by RIAA in Jun 1990), POP 30 of 1990, Italy 48 of 1990, Europe 52 of the 1990s, Japan (Osaku) 64 of 1990, Germany 119 of the 1990s, OzNet 716 Top hits on record "À toutes les filles..." - Félix Gray and Didier Barbelivien "Advice for the Young at Heart" - Tears for Fears "All Around the World" - Lisa Stansfield "All I Wanna Do (Is Make Love To You)" - Heart "Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins (released in late 1989) "Baila Esta Cumbia" - Selena y Los Dinos "Being Boring" - Pet Shop Boys "Better the Devil You Know" - Kylie Minogue "Bo le lavabo" - Lagaf' "Bird On A Wire" - The Neville Brothers "Black Cat" - Janet Jackson "Blaze of Glory" - Bon Jovi "Blue Savannah" - Erasure "Blue Sky Mine" - Midnight Oil "Candy" - Iggy Pop "Chain Reaction - John Farnham "Cherry Pie" - Warrant "Close to You" - Maxi Priest "Come Back to Me" - Janet Jackson "Cowboys from Hell" - Pantera "Crying in the Rain" - a-ha "Dancing Pompokolin" - B. B. Queens "Dangerous" - Roxette "Disappear" - INXS "Do Me!" - Bell Biv DeVoe "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" - Jane Child "Downtown Train" - Rod Stewart "Elephant Stone" - The Stone Roses "Enjoy the Silence" - Depeche Mode "Epic" - Faith No More "Escapade" - Janet Jackson "Everybody Everybody" - Black Box "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" - The Blues Brothers "Forever" - Kiss "Four Bacharach And David Songs (EP)" - Deacon Blue "Friends In Low Places" - Garth Brooks "From a Distance" - Cliff Richard "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now!)" - C+C Music Factory "Groove Is In The Heart" - Deee-Lite "Hard To Handle" - The Black Crowes "Heart of Stone - Cher "Heart of Stone - Taylor Dayne "Hello" - The Beloved "Higher Ground" - Red Hot Chili Peppers "Hijo de la Luna" - Mecano "Hippychick" - Soho "Hold On" - En Vogue "Hold On" - Wilson Philips "I Go To Extremes" - Billy Joel "I Wish It Would Rain Down" - Phil Collins "Ice Ice Baby" - Vanilla Ice "It Must Have Been Love" - Roxette "I'll Be Your Shelter" - Taylor Dayne "I'm Your Baby Tonight" - Whitney Houston "Janie's Got a Gun" - Aerosmith (released in 1989) "Jōnetsu no Bara" - The Blue Hearts "Jukebox In Siberia" - Skyhooks "Just Like Jesse James" - Cher "Justify My Love" - Madonna "Killer" - Adamski feat. Seal "Kingston Town" - UB40 "Lay Down Your Guns" - Jimmy Barnes "La Luna" - Belinda Carlisle "Le Jerk" - Thierry Hazard "Les hommes qui passent" - Patricia Kaas "Listen to Your Heart" - Roxette "Loaded" - Primal Scream "Love And Kisses" - Dannii Minogue "Love Takes Time" - Mariah Carey "Love Shack" - The B-52's "Love Will Lead You Back" - Taylor Dayne "Maldòn (la musique dans la peau) - Zouk Machine "More Than Words Can Say" - Alias Nah Neh Nah" - Vaya Con Dios "No Man's Land" - Eric Burdon, Tony Carey, Anne Haigis "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinéad O'Connor "Odoru Pompokolin" - B.B.Queens "Opposites Attract" - Paula Abdul "Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice)" - Gloria Estefan "Petit Frank" - François Feldman "Poison" - Bell Biv DeVoe "Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode "Rhythm Nation" - Janet Jackson "Right Here Right Now" - Jesus Jones "Roam" - The B-52's "Sacrifice / Healing hands" - Elton John "Sadeness" - Enigma "Saviour's Day" - Cliff Richard "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" - Maná "Serious" - Duran Duran "She Ain't Worth It" - Glenn Medeiros feat. Bobby Brown "Silhouttes" - Cliff Richard "Sixteen Tons" - Eric Burdon "Soca Dance" - Charles D. Lewis "So Close" - Hall & Oates "Star" - Erasure "Step by Step" - New Kids on the Block "Step Back in Time" - Kylie Minogue "Stronger Than That" - Cliff Richard "Suicide Blonde" - INXS "So Hard" - Pet Shop Boys "Taiyō no Komachi Angel" - B'z "Tears on My Pillow" - Kylie Minogue "Tengo Todo Excepto a Tí" - Luis Miguel "That's Freedom" - John Farnham "The Other Side" - Aerosmith (released in 1989) "The Power" - Snap! "Three Strange Days" - School of Fish (debut single) "The Thunder Rolls" - Garth Brooks "Tom's Diner" - Suzanne Vega "U Can't Touch This" - M.C. Hammer "Unbelievable" - EMF (debut single) "Un'estate italiana" - Edoardo Bennato and Gianna Nannini "Verdammt, ich lieb' dich" - Matthias Reim "Vision of Love" - Mariah Carey "Vogue" - Madonna "Vous êtes fous!" - Benny B "Wash Your Face In My Sink" - Dream Warriors "We Can't Go Wrong" - The Cover Girls "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" - Katrina & The Waves feat. Eric Burdon "What it Takes" - Aerosmith "What's a Woman?" - Vaya Con Dios "White and Black Blues" - Joëlle Ursull "With Every Beat Of My Heart" - Taylor Dayne "Wouldn't It Be Nice" - The Beach Boys "World In My Eyes" - Depeche Mode "Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue" - Exposé Charts United States: List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1990 (U.S.) Canada: RPM number-one hits of 1990, RPM number-one albums of 1990 Other significant singles "Little Fluffy Clouds" - The Orb (Sampling led to legal action.) Sampling copyright debate continues over the Soho single Hippychick, which uses a sample from How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths. Acclaimed Music AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 1990 Fear of a Black Planet — Public Enemy Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches — Happy Mondays Ritual De Lo Habitual — Jane's Addiction I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got — Sinéad O'Connor Goo — Sonic Youth Violator — Depeche Mode Behaviour — Pet Shop Boys The La's — The La's Ragged Glory — Neil Young and Crazy Horse Repeater — Fugazi Bossanova — Pixies People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm — A Tribe Called Quest The Good Son — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Nowhere — Ride AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted — Ice Cube AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs from 1990 Nothing Compares 2 U — Sinéad O'Connor Groove Is in the Heart — Deee-Lite Step On — Happy Mondays Loaded — Primal Scream Vogue — Madonna Mama Said Knock You Out — LL Cool J Being Boring — Pet Shop Boys Been Caught Stealing — Jane's Addiction Kinky Afro — Happy Mondays Friends in Low Places — Garth Brooks Humpty Dance - Digital Underground Birdhouse in your Soul - They Might Be Giants Soon - My Bloody Valentine The Only One I Know - The Charlatans Kool Thing - Sonic Youth Published popular music "Keep It Together" w.m. S. Bray & Madonna "The Simpsons theme song" m. Danny Elfman Classical music Mario Davidovsky Biblical Songs for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano Concertante for string quartet and orchestra Lorenzo Ferrero Parodia Four Modern Dances Zaubermarsch Discanto sulla musica sull'acqua di Handel Musica per un paesaggio Cadenza Rock my Tango John Harbison - The Flight into Egypt (cantata) Paul Lansky - Smalltalk Alvin Lucier - Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums John McCabe - Flute Concerto Meredith Monk - Book Of Days John Pickard - The Flight of Icarus Takashi Yoshimatsu - Symphony No. 1 Kamui-Chikap John Zorn - The Dead Man Opera Gerald Barry - The Intelligence Park Azio Corghi - Blimunda Mark Lanz Weiser - Purgatory (chamber opera, based on a play by William Butler Yeats) Musical theater Aspects of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber) - Broadway production A Change in the Heir Broadway production Five Guys Named Moe Broadway production Shogun Broadway production Sunday in the Park with George (Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine - London production) Truly Blessed Broadway production Computer and video game music This section has no content. You can help Wikipedia by introducing information to it. (June 2010) Awards The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Hank Ballard, Bobby Darin, The Four Seasons, The Four Tops, The Kinks, The Platters, Simon & Garfunkel and The Who Grammy Awards of 1990 Eurovision Song Contest 1990: Toto Cutugno Luc Ferrari wins the International Koussevitzky Prize for Recordings for his composition Histoire du plaisir et de la désolation Juno Awards: Best Composer: David Tyson/Christopher Ward Dalida is posthumously awarded the International Diploma by the "International Star Registry" (USA), three years after her death.23 Scottish composer Thomas Wilson is awarded a CBE. Kumar Sanu wins the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award Anuradha Paudwal wins the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award Glenn Gould Prize Yehudi Menuhin (laureate) Music festivals In Australia, the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival is founded by Michael Easton and Len Vorster. Births February 1 - Laura Marling, folk-pop singer-songwriter February 3 - Sean Kingston, R&B artist March - Claire Huangci, pianist July 24 - Ben McKenzie, Australian singer July 28 - Soulja Boy, American rapper October 23 - Stan Walker, Australian singer November 7 - Matt Corby, Australian singer December 20 - JoJo, R&B singer date unknown - Eldbjørg Hemsing, violinist Deaths January 18 - Melanie Appleby of British duo Mel and Kim, 23 (liver cancer) January 19 - Semprini, pianist and broadcaster, 81 January 23 - Allen Collins, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, 37 (complications from pneumonia) January 7 - Jimmy Van Heusen, composer and songwriter, 77 February 1 - Peter Racine Fricker, composer, 69 February 8 - Del Shannon, singer-songwriter, 55 (suicide by shotgun) February 14 - Tony Holiday, German singer, 38 (AIDS-related illness) February 24 - Johnnie Ray, singer, 63 (liver failure) March 6 - Mala, singer, 50 March 11 - Muriel Dickson, operatic soprano, 86 March 16 - Andrew Wood, singer (Mother Love Bone), 24 (heroin overdose) March 17 - Ric Grech, bassist (Family (band), Blind Faith), 43 (brain haemorrhage) April 3 - Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer, 66 (lung cancer) May 8 - Luigi Nono, composer, 66 May 16 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer, 64 June 6 - Joe Loss, English bandleader, 80 June 14 - Erna Berger, operatic soprano, 89 June 16 - Dame Eva Turner, operatic soprano, 98 June 21 June Christy, American singer, 64 (renal failure) Elizabeth Harwood, operatic soprano, 52 (cancer) June 25 - Peggy Glanville-Hicks, composer, 77 July 7 - Cazuza, singer and composer, 32 (AIDS-related) July 15 - Trouble T Roy, hip-hop dancer, 22 (fall from stage) July 16 - Sidney Torch, pianist, cinema organist, conductor, orchestral arranger and composer August 14 - Lafayette Leake, blues and jazz pianist, organist, vocalist and composer, 71 August 15 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer of Kino, 28 (car accident) August 17 - Pearl Bailey, singer, 72 August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist performer, 35 (helicopter crash) September 2 - Sari Biro, pianist, 78 September 6 - Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), 48 (AIDS-related) September 13 - Phil Napoleon, jazz trumpeter, 89 October 3 - Eleanor Steber, operatic soprano, 76 October 4 - Ray Stephens, a onetime member of The Village People, 35 October 6 - Asser Fagerström, pianist, composer and actor, 78 October 8 - B. J. Wilson, drummer of Procol Harum, 43 October 14 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor, 72 (pneumonia and a pleural tumor) October 16 Art Blakey, jazz drummer, 71 Jorge Bolet, pianist, 75 October 27 - Xavier Cugat, violinist, bandleader and arranger, 90 November 3 - Mary Martin, US singer and actress, 76 November 10 - Ronnie Dyson, soul singer and actor December 2 - Aaron Copland, American composer December 7 - Dee Clark, singer, 52 (heart attack) December 18 - Paul Tortelier, cellist, 76 See also 1990 in music (UK) Record labels established in 1990 Timeline of musical events References ^ Hawtin, Steve (10 February 2008). "Songs from the Year 1990". Steve Hawtin/TsorT. http://tsort.info/music/yr1990.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-26. ^ Dalida's Official Website, Awards and Achievements, retrieved 2009-12-29 ^ Dalida: Entre violon et amour, by Isaline, Éditions Publibook, 2002, p. 127. ISBN 2-7483-2629-6 and ISBN 978-2-7483-2629-1. (French), retrieved 2009-12-29
