Music from October 1989

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October 1989 was as full of high points and low points as much as any other era. The surprise is the degree to which music could rise and/or sink. I find it almost incomprehensible that Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers’ “Swing the Mood” could co-exist on the same planet as Bob Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken,” but in 1989, their was room on the charts for both. Now, I don’t think we need hindsight to tell the great stuff from the crap, because we knew even then which was which. What makes it a lot easier to understand, though, is that the Dylan album remains a perennial favorite, while the average person would ask “Jive Bunny who?” Thank goodness for small favors.

Here’s a list of songs featured in today’s show;

1) The End of the Innocence – Don Henley

2) Keep On Moving – Soul II Soul

3) Me Myself and I – De La Soul

4) Love Shack – The B-52’s

5) Swing the Mood – Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers (a ‘Bad Hit’)

6) Political World – Bob Dylan (“Oh Mercy”)

7) Everything Is Broken – Bob Dylan (“Oh Mercy”)

8) Crime In the City – Neil Young (“Freedom”)

9) Rockin’ in the Free World – Neil Young (“Freedom”)