The Year Was: 1991
09.23.24
With The Year Was, Annett is taking you on a journey through time. Each show, we’re traveling back to one year. What did it sound like – around the world, across different genres, scenes, and areas of pop culture?
This time we go back to 1991, a year of enormous upheaval – in the world and in music. The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the decades-long Cold War ushered in a radical new era of optimism, technological progress and (relative) peace. There were revolutions in music too: Namely, the watershed moment when N.W.A.’s “Niggaz4life” became the first rap album to top the Billboard 200. And, of course, “Nevermind,“ the album that changed everything. Suddenly, alternative rock – and new anti-establishment ideas – were bubbling into the mainstream. At the same time, there was Eurodance, Pop-Rap, Diva House and early Trip Hop, the Hammer Dance was a thing, Hannibal Lector creeped the fuck out moviegoers, and the musical catchphrase of the year was: “You’re unbelievable. Oh! (What the?)”
1991 was a lot! This is what it sounded like.
Tracklist:
Lenny Kravitz – Fields Of Joy P.M. Dawn – Set Adrift on Memory Bliss Naughty By Nature – O.P.P Black Box – Hold On Dr. Alban – No Coke (7″ Remix) EMF – Unbelievable R.E.M. – Low Nirvana – In Bloom Blur – Repetition Another Bad Creation – Mental (So Pay Attention) Interlude A Tribe Called Quest – Check the Rhime DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Summertime Boyz II Men – Motownphilly The KLF – Make It Rain Rozalla – Everybody’s Free (Single Version) Mariah Carey – Make It Happen The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds Primal Scream – Slip Inside This House my bloody valentine – to here knows when Hole – Teenage Whore Scorpions – Wind Of Change Kombinaciya – Бухгалтер Roxette – Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave) 2Pac – Brenda’s Got A Baby Movie Clip from “Boyz in the Hood” De La Soul – A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays” De La Soul – Skit 5 N.W.A. – Real Niggaz Don’t Die Bikini Kill – Candy Blumfeld – Ghettowelt Pet Shop Boys – Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes off You) (7″ Version) Cypress Hill – How I Could Just Kill a Man MC Solaar – Bouge de là – Part. 1 Seal – Crazy Kult – 6 lat później Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
