17
May
Musical Memories
Tagged by the Villainous Curmudgeon to reveal the Top 10 songs in the year I turned 18 and have a little post about them, I looked at the site that forms part of ‘ze rules’, and it is unsurprisingly USA-centric and the charts were almost unrecognizable to me.
So I went to this site to check out 1991’s top songs, and it turns out that the UK charts weren’t much better: 1991 was obviously a bad year for pop music….
- Bryan Adams: Everything I Do….: The aural equivalent of having your genitals trapped in a food blender containing tarantulas, if I never hear this song again it will be too damn soon. Canada, you owe the world big time for this AND Celine ‘why the long face’ Dion.
- Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody: OK, top song, ground-breaking video, but played to death. Fred’s dead baby, Fred’s dead.
- Cher: The Shoop Shoop Song: Die.
- Right Said Fred: I’m Too Sexy: No, as camp as a row of tents is what you are. Recently resurrected to advertise washing powder, it’s power to incite murderous rage is unabated.
- Jason Donovan: Any Dream Will Do: OK Jase, I have a dream, you, alligators, vat of sulphuric acid….that do?
- Chesney Hawkes: The One & Only: In the style of Dr Evil: “M, m ,m mole…..”
- The Simpsons: Do The Bartman: Was this international year of the deaf or something?
- Vic Reeves & The Wonderstuff: Without this song, legions of students would have had no sound-track to their sponging, beer-soaked lives. A curse upon you Reeves….
- Oceanic: Insanity: Who?
- 2 Unlimited: Get Ready For This: Oh, just fuck right off…..
Well there you have it. If you were compiling a playlist of songs for Satan to play at you during your eternal torment, by squeezing his hand in his armpit, whilst using Rosie O’Donnells voice, face and arse, you’d be hard pressed to beat this.
Christ, 91 was a bad year.
Personally it was the year I left school without a backward glance, with no intention of University as I wanted to earn my living ( 
) and got a job looking for asbestos for a crappy little laboratory in East London. Arsenal Football Club won the title and that was that.
Pop music may have been dire, but luckily I had discovered this group:
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May 17th, 2007 at 8:35 am
were you an angry 18 year old? Is this bringing up bad memories?
May 17th, 2007 at 9:19 am
A little. Seeing this just reminded me how awful music was back then…
May 17th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Hmmmmmm.
Chris, you saw on my post the wide discrepancies between the “national” chart and the charts in Chicago in 1975 — so Bravo to you for looking at the UK charts instead for 1991.
And I heard of “I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt” — at one point I enjoyed making the kids cringe by singing/reciting that….
Except for the Queen reissue, though, that’s the only one I actually knew.
(If I’d heard of the Cher remake of the Betty Everett classic, I’d suppressed it.)
As for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I’ve heard the name, and the bass line was pretty good… but don’t you think — at least now that you have children of your own — that these young men could have used a lyricist with a less, uh, basic vocabulary?
Thanks for playing along.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
What? You routed my last comment into the spam filter? You must think me villainous indeed….
May 17th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
I’m not sure what routed it into spam Curmudgeon. Probably because you mentioned Cher….
Anthony Kiedis has never been the world’s greatest songwriter, and they have improved their vocabulary in the last 16 years. Mind you, you should hear ‘Sir Psycho Sexy’ on the same album….
I still like that song I posted, as to that point in my life, I’d never heard anything like it, I was fairly sheltered musically, and the power of the playing, together with the style of the lyric just blew me away.
So yeah, the lyrics are a little cringe-worthy to me today (although they still make some very relevant points) but the music is still worth cranking up to 11