Can someone tell me how this song charted at #4 on Billboard 100 but almost never gets played on radio these days and is widely not even remembered in Pop music culture?
The Brit-pop-alternative-dance sound of the early '90s has been pushed aside because it was too unique to fit alongside other trends of that decade. It wasn't grunge or "modern alternative."
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@@NJGuy1973 Yeah Grebo didn't really fit in with anything else in the early 90's once alternative music really broke either in UK or USA though I think Ned's Atomic Dustbin should have still done. Blood Brain Volume is really fucking good and kept their sound current. Hell that albums still holds up fucking well.
Just one week at number 4 then plummeted down the charts after a few weeks of steady progress from coming in in the 80s. It was number 4 the weekend of 9th November 1991
@@NJGuy1973 It just hasn't aged well. It's a sound very much of it's time (which is perfectly good). EMF's 'Unbelievable' which is in the same genre has aged better so is better remembered. Not necessarily better but more memorable
I was absolutely obsessed with this band. I had every cassette and a VHS tape of them playing. I would watch it everyday after school. Mike Edwards was supposed to be my husband 😂
but it's screwed up in the 90's because this song only went to #30 in airplay and #67 in sales...so no idea how it went to #4, although you're correct that it did...based on those numbers it should've barely made the top 40 if at all...
@@user-tb6iq4lb8g good ol payola! Either that or they were counting its plays & sales based on how the full album did? Which, no doubt, a lot of people got sucked into buying based on the “strength” of Right Here Right Now
@@user-tb6iq4lb8g are you sure it only hit #30 in radio airplay? I just listened to a Rick Dees top 40 from this weekend in 1991 and they were at #11 climbing up 3 spots from the week before. At this time, Rick based his countdown on the CHR Radio & Records charts which monitored national radio airplay.
This song is so underrated! I bet if I check back in a few years it will be in the millions. This song was before it's time and is complete nostalgia ✌
Loved these guys from Liquiizer, this song and video, nailed it for me. Why isn't it played more? Mike Edwards, guy thought out of the box. Still sounds fresh 1990!!! Thank for posting!!!
So many good songs are "put out to pasture" and forgotten. That's been going on since the 60s especially with songs that chart peaked between 20 to 40 (and lower) Fortunately many of these gems have since been rediscovered thru TV commercials, films or somewhere on the internet. This one went to #4 on the hot 100 and should have never been forgotten by any means. Me, I bought records thru the years so nothing is forgotten here.
This group only hit the US top 40 twice in 1991 but both times they went to the top 5. This peaked at #4. Love it to no end. ("Right Here Right Now" went to #2 a few months earlier)
@@JaDav40 - Autotune is just an effects device. It isn't a measure of "talent". Using Autotune to improve the vocal on a track doesn't mean that artist can't play an instrument
nineteen ninety something.. house party.. back garden.. acid.. hearing this for the first time.. pretty sure i feel real.. but now that you brought it up..
This was my first 7”, after Smash Hits gave away a JJ badge. They divided my friendship group and I’m glad I stuck to my guns. Never saw them in the early 90s but have seen them twice in 2018 and 2021. Their sound bridged several genres and they were streets ahead of their time.
