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Madonna was already a star, but "Vogue" made her a living art exhibit. Inspired by the underground ballroom scene of Harlem, she took gay club culture and put it in the center of the mall. The video is black-and-white perfection. Strike a pose.

For the goths and the art kids. In a year of bombast, Depeche Mode offered quiet minimalism. The thump-thump-thump of the drum machine and Dave Gahan’s baritone created a mood that has never gone out of style. top 100 songs from 1990

If you play these 100 songs in a row, you don't just hear music. You hear a world getting ready for the internet, for grunge, for the end of the Cold War. You hear the sound of teenagers borrowing their parents' cars, driving to the mall, and turning up the radio. Madonna was already a star, but "Vogue" made

The unofficial graduation anthem of 1990. Those harmonies (the daughters of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson and John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas) were like harmonic Valium. "Someday somebody's gonna love you" is a promise we are still waiting on. Strike a pose

Thanks to Pretty Woman , this Swedish ballad became the soundtrack for every slow dance and breakup cry-sesh in a parked car. The chimey guitar and Marie Fredriksson’s weary vocal make it the saddest happy song of the year.

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