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Your favourite number 1 of 1991

pedanticpat

1991 was a great year for albums. It's without a shadow of a doubt, the best year for albums of my lifetime. The number ones of that year in Ireland, however, was patchy to say the least, with novelty singles and movie tie-ins dominating.

Anyway, here's the list.

The Christmas Number One - Zig and Zag

Sadeness - Enigma

Do The Bartman - The Simpsons

Rhythm of My Heart - Rodney Stewart

Deep Deep Trouble - The Simpsons

The Shoop Shoop Song (In His Kiss) - Cher

Light My Fire - The Doors

Any Dream Will Do - Jason Donovan

Everything I Do (I Do It For You) - Brian Adams

Hay Wrap - The Saw Doctors

Don't Cry - Guns N Roses

I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python

The Fly - U2

Zigzagging - Zig and Zag

Black or White - Michael Jackson

Mysterious Ways - U2

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Some good songs, some awful songs, and Bohemian Rhapsody coming back to pay for enough hair dye to keep Brian May's natural look up to 2012.

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Billy86

jimgoose wrote: »

You know Daft Punk, the KLF and all that Electronica lot? Well Der Kraftwerk Krautrockmaschine invented it. :cool:

Although using different process, that general synthesised sound appeared somewhere before Kraftwerk. Actually, quite fitting given that it was 50 years ago to the day.

Billy86

Tabnabs wrote: »

1991 sounds like the best year in music history.

1967 would like a word...

Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band -AND- Magical Mystery Tour (album)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced -AND- Axis: Bold as Love
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Doors self titled
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Songs of Leonard Cohen
The Doors - Strange Days
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man
The Who Sell Out
Something Else by the Kinks
Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello (most overlooked musician of his time?)
Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
Miles Davis - Miles Smiles

...and then songs which were not on these albums:
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
The Mamas and the Papas - My Girl
Sam and Dave - Soul Man
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Smoky Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
Marvin Gay and Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Gladys Knight and the Pips - Heard it Through the Grapevine
Frankie Valli - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
Scott McKenzie - San Francisco
Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the Music
Procol Harrum - White Shade of Pale ("we skipped the light fandango...")
James Carr - The Dark End of the Street
Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher

There's also 1975:
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks -AND- The Basement Tapes (with The Band)
Queen - Night at the Opera
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
AC/DC - High Voltage
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Fleetwood Mac self titled
David Bowie - Young Americans
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
ELO - Face the Music
Roxy Music - Siren

Also 1984 as mentioned.

Pug160

I'm not sure about best years or decades but I think the 1980s seemed like the most diverse era of music. Probably the most cheesy decade too though.

Cienciano

1969 wasn't bad either. Pisses all over 1991
Beatles - Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin - I
Led Zeppelin - II
The Band - The Band
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Who - Tommy
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Johnny Cash - San Quentin
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline

Go a year back to 68:
Beatles - The White Album
Simon and Garfunkle - Bookends
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Van Morrisson - Astral Weeks
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets
Creedence - Creedence
Leonard Cohen - Songs of LEonard Cohen
The Band - Music from Big Pink

I reckon any year from 1965 to 1978 would beat 1991. Entirely subjective, so the entire thread is pointless!

Billy86

Cienciano wrote: »

1969

Ahem.

Cienciano

Billy86 wrote: »

Ahem.

LOL, there's loads of good stuff over those years, but I was never big into neil young and I was just putting stuff I like myself!

Just googled 1971, it has 4 of my top 10 albums of all time!
Pink Floyd - Meddle
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
LEd Zeppelin - IV
The Doors - LA Woman

J Cheever Loophole

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Reeling In The Years sometimes makes mistakes with the years of songs though. Sadeness was definitely out in 1991. Early 1991 though, so may have been released in Europe in late 1990.

NAIL-ON-THE-HEAD! Sadness entered the UK charts at number 27, week ending 15 December 1990.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I'm such a loser - can remember the months that particular songs were out.

I don't think of you as a loser - a fellow anorak maybe!!

Galwayguy35

The Brian Adams one was fairly good, I remember it was number 1 for weeks on end.

That Chesney Hawks song was played a lot as well, or maybe that was the next year , not too sure.

Galwayguy35

"Hazard" by Richard Marx was another good song from that year.

room_149

JupiterKid wrote: »

1991 also gave us this track...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45BtoJpoks

That was played in clubs/ raves the previous year (1990)
I remember hearing Eveson Allen/ the Ratpack (or it could have been Mad P from Top Buzz too) call it the national anthem one night at a warehouse in Hackney*

*back when Hackney was as rough as a dogs arse still/ before Hipster gentrification

Bit of a Uk centric tangent here, but Most of the house/ techno/ Bass stuff the hipster kids dance to these days sounds like stuff from 20 odd years ago- Blawan, Maia Coles, Disclosure, Scuba, Paul Woolford, Lone, Eats Everything etc. The backlash against the 'EDM' kids in the states reminds of the sneery atitude the likes of Mixmag/ Face/ ID magazine had towards the Rave scene (i.e. Hardcore/Breakbeat/proto-Jungle Techno stuff at Fantazia, Dreamscape, Raindance and on most of the pirates)
Music recycles itself every 20 years I guess

kfallon

Love the start of The Fly!

Bog Standard User

"Your favourite number 1 of 1991"

i always preferred (1)991 the 1 on the right looks shifty

bodice ripper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eXw47qb4U0

January 1992, but whatever.

nlgbbbblth

room_149 wrote: »

That was played in clubs/ raves the previous year (1990)
I remember hearing Eveson Allen/ the Ratpack (or it could have been Mad P from Top Buzz too) call it the national anthem one night at a warehouse in Hackney*

*back when Hackney was as rough as a dogs arse still/ before Hipster gentrification

Bit of a Uk centric tangent here, but Most of the house/ techno/ Bass stuff the hipster kids dance to these days sounds like stuff from 20 odd years ago- Blawan, Maia Coles, Disclosure, Scuba, Paul Woolford, Lone, Eats Everything etc. The backlash against the 'EDM' kids in the states reminds of the sneery atitude the likes of Mixmag/ Face/ ID magazine had towards the Rave scene (i.e. Hardcore/Breakbeat/proto-Jungle Techno stuff at Fantazia, Dreamscape, Raindance and on most of the pirates)
Music recycles itself every 20 years I guess

The Nomad track was compiled on Telstar's Thin Ice: The First Step [a short-lived follow up to their seminal Deep Heat series]. I played it lots back in the day.

Femme_Fatale

kfallon wrote: »

Love the start of The Fly!

Me too. And the whole song is so ****ing brilliantly used on Reeling In The Years 1991 for Operation Desert Storm. Can't find on YouTube. Other stuff popping up though, like the start of the Balkans War and release of the Birmingham Six... /sniff

Femme_Fatale

jimgoose wrote: »

Somewhat tangential, but does anyone remember RTE using this, of all things, as "filler" in-between programs in the late '70s/early '80s?

Sure do. Probably went on up to about 86/7 as I was only born in the late 70s and remember it clearly.
Also the one with the guy getting up and leaving the house to go work, but getting into a rocket and spending the day in space.
And the crap eastern European cartoons. And cheapy American cartoons like Barnaby. There's a bunch of threads on all that stuff in All Things Retro.

thegreatgonzo

kowloon wrote: »

I remember RTE having Polish cartoons some time in the late 80s or early 90s, I can't find any, but this fits the bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IJ9YOHtKo

I have a pain from laughing at that!
Don't remember RTE's polish cartoons but I did love Hamilton the musical elephant and some other Hallas and Bachelor ones

branie

Black or White - Michael Jackson

dasdog

Not top of the charts but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCoCTkC0oL0

bnt

From the OP list, I'd go for U2's "The Fly", like many others. But an honourable mention for Cher's "Shoop Shoop" song, since it's from a movie I enjoyed. (Mermaids with Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder and a very young Christina Ricci in her first movie role.)