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*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Singer Bobby Gillespie has cited The Beach Boys Pet Sounds as an influence on this record. The bands 3rd.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Curve formed in London in 1990 and split in 2005. The band consisted of Toni Halliday (vocals, occasionally guitar) and Dean Garcia (bass, guitar, drums, programming). Halliday also wrote the lyrics of their songs and they both contributed to songwriting. An important collaborator was producer Alan Moulder, who helped them to shape their blend of heavy beats and densely layered guitar tracks set against Halliday's vocals. Garcia, half Hawaiian and half Irish, had played in some small bands when he auditioned for Eurythmics. The English-born Halliday met Dave Stewart of Eurythmics after he had read a rock magazine interview with her in which she praised his pre-Eurythmics band, The Tourists. Halliday and Garcia were introduced to each other by Stewart. Garcia had played bass guitar as part of Eurythmics' live band in 1983–84 and on two of their studio albums, while Halliday was signed to Stewart's Anxious Records label as a solo artist. The pair formed an ill-fated group named State of Play in the mid-1980s before parting ways, embarking on a no less ill-fated solo career (Halliday) and further stints as a backing musician (Garcia), and then reuniting for a more long-term partnership in Curve. bit.ly

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! From the British indie bands 2nd album.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Debut album from the British band that was originally founded as a goth rock band.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe said he rarely wrote from personal experience, so that's not really him in the corner. "“That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight’ was really about someone who's so shy, so intractably shy, a wallflower who's kind of forced forward into trying to express this feeling of love for someone, and failing miserably probably.” - on.today.com

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Debut album! Massive Attack sampled the drums from J.J. Johnson's "Parade Strut" here. -- Massive Attack at the time was a three-man production team: Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grantley "Daddy G" Marshall and Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. They used various vocalists on their compositions. Shara Nelson, who also sang on their song "Safe From Harm," appears on this track. -- The “hey, hey, hey, hey…” vocal refrain is taken from John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s "Planetary Citizen."

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Sampling Led Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks. Find this on the bands 1991 album Whirlpool.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Debut album! Electronic was an English group formed in 1998 by New Order singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner and ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Second and final album recorded by the band. It's regarded as a pivotal album to the math rock and post rock movements. The band reunited in 2005 to tour, playing the album in it's entirety.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Produced by Butch Vig and Billy Corgan at Vig’s Smart studios in Wisconsin from December 1990 through March 1991, Gish arrived at a pivotal time, the beginning of the ’90s alternative transformation and a year that also saw the releases of the Nirvana’s Nevermind (also a Vig production), Pearl Jam debut Ten, and the sole release by the Pearl Jam and Soundgarden supergroup Temple of the Dog. Through singles "Rhinoceros," "Siva," and "I Am One," the platinum selling Gish also became the highest selling independent album of all time at the time of its release. bit.ly

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Second release from the British-Irish shoegaze band. The band hired 19 different studios during the 2 years it took to record the album.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Second album from the Pennsylvania band. The Ocean Blue appeared on one of the first episodes of Club MTV, with Downtown Julie Brown. Honestly, does it get anymore 90's than that?

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Brian Eno and Natalie Merchant make guest appearances on this album from the Seattle band.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Released in 1991, "A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"" is the first single by hip hop trio De La Soul from their second studio album 'De La Soul Is Dead'. De La Soul pulled some vocals from "Good Times" for this track.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! "Motownphilly" is Boyz II Men's 1991 debut single for their debut album Cooleyhighharmony. The single was a success, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Michael Bivins (Bel Biv Devoe) who co-wrote the song, provides a guest rap during the bridge. The video for the song was filmed in various locations in Philadelphia, the group's home city in December 1990. Two new jack swing groups, Another Bad Creation and Bell Biv DeVoe (of which Bivins was a member), are mentioned in the first verse: "Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD, the East Coast Family." Both groups appear briefly in the video, as does Sudden Impact, a short-lived, all-white R&B group organized by Bivins. The song title etymology involves a combination of two of the group's main musical influences: 1960s Motown and 1970s Philly soul.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Stereolab's "Switched On" is a compilation of the first 3 Stereolab releases! This droning guitar-heavy shoegaze/post-rock track creates a beautiful backdrop to the ethereal vocals.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Debut album from the Rhode Island band.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! From the New York bands 3rd album. The band have broken up a couple of times but reunited in 2015.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! "There She Goes" is a song with one crazy story! It was written by the Liverpool singer and guitarist Lee Mavers, and recorded by his band The La's. The La's released it on their only album, titled The La's. "There She Goes" was released as a single, not once, not twice, but four times! The first release scratched the UK Singles chart in 1988 at #51. The second release in 1990 was the peak, with #13 on the UK Singles and also charting in the US. The third release was in 1999, and it charted the UK Singles at #65. The fourth release was in 2008, on vinyl only for the song's 20th anniversary, and charted again at #181.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! 2nd release from the band. The Minneapolis trio were first known as Tilt-a-Whirl when they formed in 1987 but had to change their name when they were sued by the Tilt-a-Whirl carnival ride company in 1990.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Formed in 1985, Material Issue was the brainchild of frontman Jim Ellison, who also played guitar, sang lead vocals, and wrote most Material Issue songs. Written by singer-guitarist Jim Ellison, "Valerie Loves Me" is about a neighbor girl that Ellison had a crush on when he was 11 years old. The music video for "Valerie Loves Me" was in heavy rotation on MTV's 120 Minutes program in early 1991. bit.ly Video for "Valerie Loves Me": youtu.be

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! From the 4th release by the band originally from New Jersey.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! *This is for Beau from Carpinteria by request! "Trapped" is the debut single from 2Pac's debut album '2Pacalypse Now'. The track addresses the issue of police brutality. Celebrating 50 years of KEXP with a journey back to 1991! kexp.org

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Chuck D of Public Enemy explained to Melody Maker in 1991: "'Shut 'Em Down' is about major corporations like Nike taking profits from the black community, but not giving anything back, never opening businesses in black areas. And it's saying that the best way to boycott a business is to start your own."

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Debut single, released in 1991 ahead of her album Dry.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Another 90's gem produced by Steve Albini.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! This album was the bands 1st major label release and the 1st recorded after bassist Lou Barlow left the band.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett shared that "Enter Sandman" was inspired by Soundgarden's 1989 album 'Louder Than Love'. bit.ly Thank you for powering KEXP! www.kexp.org

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! The song that changed everything and the opening track and lead single from the band's second album, 1991's "Nevermind." When Cobain first presented the song to his bandmates, it comprised just the main riff and the chorus vocal melody, which bassist Krist Novoselic dismissed at the time as "ridiculous." In response, Cobain made the band play the riff for "an hour and a half." In a 2001 interview, Novoselic recalled that after playing the riff repeatedly, he thought, "'Wait a minute. Why don't we just kind of slow this down a bit?' So I started playing the verse part. And Dave [started] playing a drum beat." As a result, it is the only song on Nevermind to credit all three band members as authors. wfcsradio.com

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! This album was released through A&M Records on October 8, 1991. Soundgarden began the recording sessions for the album with new bassist Ben Shepherd in the spring of 1991. The album maintained the band's heavy metal sound while featuring an increased focus on songwriting as compared with the band's previous releases. AllMusic considered the album's music to be "surprisingly cerebral and arty"; alternative tunings and odd time signatures were present on several of the album's songs, and lyrics were intended to be ambiguous and create imagery. Of this track, Chris Cornell revealed, ""I don't know how everyone else feels... but I definitely go through periods of extreme self-confidence, feeling like I can do anything. Perhaps a fan will sense that, like in a performance, and the hero image creeps out. But then someone will say something, however insignificant, or I'll get something in my head and, all of a sudden, I'm plummeting in the opposite direction, I'm a piece of shit, and I really can't do anything about it. That's where 'Outshined' comes from, and why I'll never consider myself a hero." Check out this fantastic interview with guitarist Kim Thayil in 2016, 25 years after the album's release: bit.ly

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! The one and only album from the Seattle supergroup of Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron. It was in tribute to Seattle musician Andrew Wood.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Debut album. Recorded at Seattle's London Bridge Studios and now a massive album forever associated with the grunge era in the PNW.

*CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF 1991 TODAY! Non album track.