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
