1 2 EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORN –•– Poison
2 4 MY PREROGATIVE –•– Bobby Brown
3 1 LOOK AWAY –•– Chicago
4 3 GIVING YOU THE BEST THAT I GOT –•– Anita Baker
5 5 WAITING FOR A STAR TO FALL –•– Boy Meets Girl
6 12 TWO HEARTS –•– Phil Collins
7 9 WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE –•– Guns N’ Roses
8 13 IN YOUR ROOM –•– The Bangles
9 10 WALK ON WATER –•– Eddie Money
10 15 DON’T RUSH ME –•– Taylor Dayne
Poison’s Bret Michaels wrote "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" in response to a failed relationship with his girlfriend, Tracy Lewis. According to Songfacts, after playing at a bar in Dallas, Texas, Michaels called Lewis at her Los Angeles apartment and heard a man's voice in the background. The next day the disconsolate Michaels took his acoustic guitar with him to a laundromat and wrote the song right there. He told Rolling Stone: "We were on the road, touring in our Winnebago, and my relationship was falling apart. I still have the yellow legal pad I wrote it on. There are, like, a bazillion verses that I later edited down."….My Prerogative was Bobby Brown’s answer to the critics who thought he was crazy to leave New Edition, as stuff….Bun E. Carlos says Cheap Trick was offered Look Away first, as a follow up to The Flame…Giving You The Best That I Got was Anita Baker’s biggest hit….Boy Meets Girl, Boy Divorces Girl….Two Hearts was written for the Phil Collins movie Buster, and it lived up to it’s name, as it was a bust….Axl Rose wrote Welcome To The Jungle about Los Angeles while he was living in Seattle….In Your Room changed the focus of The Bangles to Susanna Hoffs and led to the band’s break-up…. There are lots of "na na na na na"s in Eddie Money’s Walk on Water. Money said it was supposed to be part of a horn line, but the horn player didn't show up so they did it with vocals. This was fine in the studio, but he felt silly singing "na na na..." over and over in concert….Don’t Rush Me was actually about AIDS and all the people dying from it.
Beyond The Valley of The Top Ten.
Here’s something to ponder. Def Lepperd’s Hysteria album was originally piloted by Jim Steinman, but all his work was scrapped and Mutt Lange was brought in. Armageddon It was one of a slew of hits from Hysteria….Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal was making big strides. Jackson’s dance moves made this a highlight at his concerts….The Boys Club, who did I Remember Holding You said they were Minnesota’s version of Wham. (That probably looked impressive on a business card.)…. A middling hit for Karyn White, The Way You Love Me…Jon Bon Jovi thinks Born To Be My Baby would’ve gone to #1 if the label had released the original acoustic version of the song….Another hair band doing a power ballad, Sherrif’s When I’m With You…. Cheap Trick’s Ghost Town was a formulaic Diane Warren song that peaked at #33….Some future big hits, with Samantha Fox and I Wanna Have Some Fun, Tone Loc’s Wild Thing, and Art of Noise and Tom Jones teaming up on Prince’s Kiss. And a good friend always referred to Paula Abdul as his future ex-wife. That didn’t happen, but Straight Up went to number one.