It was 20 years ago today..

It recently came to my attention that Primal Scream’s ‘Screamadelica’ album was celebrating it’s 20th birthday (I know, 20 YEARS!!). This got me thinking, and after some investigation I found that 1991 was in fact a vintage year for music, with a few all-time classics released in that year.

But every silver lining has a cloud – this was also the year that gave us THAT Bryan Adams number one single!

Anyhoo – here’s a few of my highlights from 1991, enjoy!

Primal Scream – Screamadelica

 

REM – Out Of Time

Massive Attack – Blue Lines

Blur – Leisure

Nirvana – Nevermind

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magic

There’s a whole lot more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_in_music#Albums_released

I know I’ve missed loads – feel free to tell me your favourites of ’91.

Blur, Hyde Park 2nd July 09

The first of the long-awaited Blur Hyde Park shows took place last night. After a blistering hot day in London, we got into the park at around 7.30, queued for the loo etc, and before we knew it, the boys were on stage (8.15). The place erupted as they ripped into the opening number, She’s So High.

Here’s a full setlist:

She’s So High

Girls & Boys

Tracy Jacks

There’s No Other Way

Jubilee

Badhead

Beetlebum

Out Of Time

Trimm Trabb

Coffee & TV

Tender

Country House

Oily Water

Chemical World

Sunday Sunday

Parklife

End Of A Century

To The End

This Is A Low

Popscene

Advert

Song 2

Death Of A Party

For Tomorrow

The Universal 

You’ll notice that the golden era of Blur was very well represented, with a lot of tracks from Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife.

Being a Blur fan from the beginning, and having seen them live I think around 10 times over the years (and also on TV at Glastonbury at the weekend), I can’t say the show delivered any surprises for me. This is a good thing, I really wanted the old Blur back, and that’s what we got. From the high-octane explosions of Popscene\Song 2, to the tear-jerking To The End\Badhead, via the knees-up of Parklife\Sunday Sunday, we got the full range of Blur’s back-catalogue. 25 songs in just over 2 hours.  I was  taken back to the heady days of Ally Pally and Mile End. Made an old man very happy!

Nice to see Phil Daniels take the stage for Parklife!

The band seemed genuinely happy to be there, and Damon seemed genuinely overwhelmed at times. Thanks guys, I was also very happy to be there, and also a little overwhelmed at times!

Hope to see you again soon boys, don’t leave it so long next time!