"he and The Wonder Stuff will be performing. He ends up breaking in via the roof and falls onto the stage where he immediately begins to sing. The stage is stacked with a number of washing machines, one of which Reeves opens. The ""Top of the Pops"" performance of ""Dizzy"" also featured washing machines, with Reeves opening many machine doors in an attempt to find a camera inside one which he was meant to sing into, but it had been removed without his knowledge. Mortimer appears in the background of the music video with Wonder Stuff frontman Miles Hunt, playing"
"which was eventually released in 1990. ""Cake"" featured the band's largest worldwide hit single, ""Obscurity Knocks"" as well as a couple of other alternative music hits (""Only Tongue Can Tell"" and ""Circling the Circumference""). The band were often compared to The Smiths and the success of ""Cake"" in the United States, where it spent three months in the ""Billboard"" 200, led to extensive touring in both the UK and North America in support of the album. The follow-up record, ""I've Seen Everything"" was released in 1993. The song ""Hayfever"" made an appearance on the MTV animated series, ""Beavis and Butt-head""."
"1991 in music List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1991. The year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's ""Nevermind"", led by the surprise hit single ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"", becomes the most popular U.S. album of the year. Followed immediately by other grunge bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, in 1992 by Alice in Chains and Stone Temple Pilots, grunge dominates the U.S. charts for the next few years. Its success effectively ended the reign of the glam metal and other hard rock groups that enjoyed massive success in"
"1991 in the US according to Nielsen Soundscan. It is Nicks' best-selling solo album to date. The album spawned four substantial hit singles during 1981 and 1982: the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-penned duet ""Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"" (#3), the Don Henley duet ""Leather and Lace"" (#6), ""Edge of Seventeen"" (#11), and country-tinged ""After the Glitter Fades"" (#32). ""Bella Donna"" would mark the beginning of Nicks' trend of calling upon her many musician friends and connections to fully realize her sparse demo recordings. Along with friends Tom Petty and Don Henley, Nicks brought in session musician Waddy Wachtel, Bruce"
"Stuff and was their lead singer and principal songwriter until their split in 1994. He briefly presented ""120 Minutes"" on MTV Europe until mid '95, when he formed a new band Vent 414 who failed to match the success of his former band. He toured as a solo performer for a time until he reformed The Wonder Stuff in 2000. They are still together to this day, and are facing something of a career relaunch, having appeared on many summer festival bills in 2006. He also co-wrote and sang the theme tune to the CBeebies television programme ""Underground Ernie"". Over"
"success. It topped the 1991 ""Village Voice"" ""Pazz & Jop"" and ""Melody Maker"" year-end polls, and reached number two on ""Rolling Stone's"" list of best singles of the year. The single peaked at number six on the ""Billboard"" singles chart the same week that ""Nevermind"" reached number one on the albums chart. ""Teen Spirit"" hit number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and has been certified platinum (onemillion copies shipped) by the Recording Industry Association of America. However, many American Top 40 stations were reluctant to play the song in regular rotation, and restricted it to night-time play. The"
"a number one single and do a guest spot on the show. Jackson eventually guest starred in the episode ""Stark Raving Dad"" (season three, 1991) under the pseudonym John Jay Smith. While the song was never officially released as a single in the United States, it was successful in the United Kingdom. In 1991 it was the number one song in the UK for three weeks from February 16 to March 9 and was the seventh best-selling song of the year. It sold half a million copies and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry on February 1, 1991."
"his films. After a few minor roles, Reeves received a sizeable role in the 1986 drama film ""River's Edge"", which depicted how a murder affected a group of teens. Following this film's critical success, he spent the late 1980s appearing in a number of movies aimed at teenage audiences, including the lead roles in ""Permanent Record"" and the unexpectedly successful 1989 comedy, ""Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"", along with its 1991 sequel, ""Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey"". The same year he had a breakout role in the movie ""Parenthood"". From 1991, Reeves played bass guitar in the grunge band Dogstar."
"Rubin, one particular song title stuck out: ""Blood Sugar Sex Magik"". Although it was not a featured song, Rubin believed it to be ""clearly the best title"". In September 1991, ""Blood Sugar Sex Magik"" was released. ""Give It Away"" was released as the first single; it eventually became one of the band's biggest and most well known songs, winning a Grammy Award in 1992 for ""Best Hard Rock Performance With Vocal"" and became the band's first number one single on the Modern Rock chart The ballad ""Under the Bridge"" was released as a second single, and went on to reach"
"the UK. In 1990, they released their most successful hit single in the UK, ""I'm Free"", an up-tempo cover of a Rolling Stones song with an added toasting overdub by reggae star Junior Reid, which reached number five. The single also appeared on the soundtrack to British science fiction comedy film ""The World's End"". Subsequent albums continued in their own style and In 1992 they enjoyed their biggest U.S. hit with ""Divine Thing"" which reached number 26 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It also hit number three on the Modern Rock chart and its video was nominated by MTV as"
"to prominence with the euphoric single ""U R The Best Thing"" in the summer of 1992, an anthemic piano-house tune which did not chart but thanks to a Sasha remix was Pete Tong's Essential Tune of 1992. ""Things Can Only Get Better"", released in the spring of 1993, gave the group their first chart success. ""U R The Best Thing"" was eventually re-released in April 1993 and gave the group their second chart hit. The band were nominated for Best Dance act in the MTV Europe music awards in 1994 and for Best Single in the Brit Awards in 1995."
"to sell over 10 million copies), and ""Nine Lives"" (1997). In 1998, Aerosmith released the number one hit ""I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"", which remains the only single by a hard rock band to debut at number one. AC/DC produced the double platinum ""Ballbreaker"" (1995).<ref name=""AllmusicAC/DCOnline"">S. T. Erlewine, [ ""AC/DC""], ""Allmusic"", retrieved 20 July 2010.</ref> Bon Jovi appealed to their hard rock audience with songs such as ""Keep the Faith"" (1992), but also achieved success in adult contemporary radio, with the Top 10 ballads ""Bed of Roses"" (1993) and ""Always"" (1994). Bon Jovi's 1995 album ""These Days"" was"
"1991 in British music This is a summary of 1991 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. Like 1990, this year saw 17 songs at number 1. The first number 1 of the year surprisingly came from heavy metal band Iron Maiden, scoring their first and only number one ""Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter"" which stayed at the top for 2 weeks. The next number one was a track right at the opposite end of the musical spectrum – Enigma, with the calm and hypnotic ""Sadness Part 1"". Known as ""Sadeness Part 1"""
"Rats (1978), The Clash (1979), The Jam (1980), The Selecter (1980), UB40 (1981), Girlschool (1981), U2 (1982), Whitesnake (1983), The Alarm (1984), Nina Hagen (1984), The Cure (1985), The Damned (1986), The Pretenders (1987), The Stranglers (1988), Tanita Tikaram (1989), Georgia Satellites (1989), Soundgarden (1990), Bob Dylan (1990), Midnight Oil (1990), Billy Idol (1991), Nirvana (1992), Faith No More (1993), Chris Isaak (1993), Jethro Tull (1993), Aerosmith (1994), Simple Minds (1995), Bon Jovi (1995), Blur (1996), Pulp (1996), Neil Young (1996), David Bowie (1997), Sting (1997), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1997), Pet Shop Boys (1997), Beastie Boys (1998),"
"break through to the mainstream with their critically and commercially acclaimed ""Blood Sugar Sex Magik"". R.E.M. release their massive commercial breakthrough album ""Out of Time"". 1991 also brought us the revolutionary Sailing the Seas of Cheese, the first release of a Primus album on a major label. When it came to music, 1991 was one of the most successful years of the 1990s. The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1991. All albums have been named albums of the year for their hits in the charts. 1991 in music List of notable events in music"
"its second release) in November 1989. On March 29, 1989 the single was certified Gold. ""You've Got It (The Right Stuff)"" is commonly regarded as one of the band's signature songs. In the music video, Jordan Knight is seen wearing a Bauhaus T-shirt. The song ranked as number 92 on VH1's 100 greatest songs of the 80's. The song can be heard in the 1989 film ""The Wizard"". In 1992, ""Weird Al"" Yankovic parodied the song on his ""Off the Deep End"" album as ""The White Stuff,"" a loving ode to the white filling in Oreo cookies. It was also"
"album's first single ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"" quickly gained momentum, thanks in part to significant airplay of the song's music video on MTV. As it toured Europe during late 1991, the band found that its shows were dangerously oversold, that television crews were becoming a constant presence onstage, and that ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"" was almost omnipresent on radio and music television. By Christmas 1991, ""Nevermind"" was selling 400,000 copies a week in the US. In January 1992, the album displaced Michael Jackson's ""Dangerous"" at number one on the ""Billboard"" album charts, and also topped the charts in numerous other"
"both dancing on stage. ""Mindflux"" was used in music intros for BET's ""Video Vibrations"" in the United States from 1992 to 1997. Mindflux Mindflux is the name of a rave song by the British dance outfit N-Joi, released in 1991 from their ""Adrenalin EP"". The single, despite being released in the United Kingdom, only charted in the United States on Billboards Hot Dance Club Play Chart, reaching number 1 in 1992, giving the act its first of two number ones on this chart, the other coming from the act's first hit, 1990's ""Anthem"", which was re-released in 1996 as ""The"
"C symbol, where the ""&"" consists of twin snakes entwined around a hunting knife, a variation of a caduceus. Later Top 10 studio albums were ""Ghost Nation"" (1989), ""Cut"" (1992), and ""Demon Flower"" (1994). Their hit singles were ""Talking to a Stranger"" (1982), ""Throw Your Arms Around Me"" (1984), ""Say Goodbye"" (1986), ""When the River Runs Dry"" (1989), ""True Tears of Joy"" (1992), and ""Holy Grail"" (1993). They became one of the best live acts in Australia and according to musicologist, Ian McFarlane, their ""great achievement was to lay bare human emotions in the intensely ritualistic milieu of the pub-rock"
"Rico Suave (song) ""Rico Suave"" is a 1990 single by Ecuadorian rapper and singer Gerardo. It appeared on his 1991 album ""Mo' Ritmo"". The track peaked at number 7 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart of April 13, 1991, and reached number 2 on the Hot Rap Singles chart a week earlier. In the song, the narrator tells of his luck with women and his lady-loving lifestyle. The song ranks number 100 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s and number 9 on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders. It also ranked at number 37 on ""Blender""'s list of"
"1994, through to ""What's the Story Morning Glory?"" in 1995. These albums had popular songs on like Slide Away, Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger. Wonderwall reached a peak position of 2nd in the UK Singles charts, while achieving 8th in the US Billboard 100. Some of the top mainstream American alternative rock bands of the 1990s included Hootie and The Blowfish, Collective Soul, Creed, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Green Day, Weezer, The Offspring, Matchbox Twenty, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soul Asylum, Liz Phair, The Lemonheads, R.E.M., Soundgarden, Live, Counting Crows, Spin Doctors,"
"Sincerely""—name Hank Williams as the absentee.) Jim Reeves was a country music singer who had success early on in his career with hits such as ""I Love You"" (a duet with Ginny Wright), ""Mexican Joe"", and ""Bimbo"" which reached Number 1 on the U.S. Country Charts in 1954. In addition to those early hits, Reeves recorded many other songs for Fabor Records and Abbott Records. In 1954, Abbott Records released a 45 single with ""Bimbo"" on side-A which hit #1 and featured Little Joe Hunt of the Arkansas Walk of Fame. Jim Reeves and Little Joe Hunt met at the"
"(1984). Other power ballads includes American nu metal band Slipknot's song ""Snuff"" (2009), heavy metal band Metallica's ""Nothing Else Matters"" (1991), ""The Unforgiven"" (1991), ""One"" (1988), ""Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"" (1986) and ""Fade to Black"" (1984), and supergroup Velvet Revolver's song ""Fall to Pieces"" (2004). During the mid to late 1990s and early to mid 2000s a new form of rock ballad would appear, this time using post-grunge as the genre rather than hard rock, heavy metal and less often glam metal. A notable post-grunge ballad would be Bush's ""Glycerine"" from their debut album ""Sixteen Stone"". What makes the ballad stand"
"""Eddie F. and the Untouchables - Let's Get It On (1994)"" ""Changing Faces - Changing Faces (1994)"" ""Jade - Mind, Body & Song (1994)"" ""Usher - Usher (1994)"" ""Brownstone - From the Bottom Up (1994)"" ""Madonna - Bedtime Stories (1994)"" ""Intro - New Life (1995)"" ""Silk - Silk (1995)"" ""Phyllis Hyman - I Refuse to Be Lonely (1995)"" ""Mariah Carey - Daydream (1995)"" ""Horace Brown - Horace Brown (1996)"" ""Kenny Lattimore - Kenny Lattimore (1996)"" ""Assorted Phlavors - Assorted Phlavors (1996)"" ""CeCe Peniston - I'm Movin' On (1996)"" ""Brownstone - Still Climbing (1997)"" ""Kurupt - Kuruption! (Disc Two) (1998)"" Dave"
"a major hit on radio stations nationwide and became their first top-ten single in ""Billboard"" Hot 100, peaking at number ten. The second single was ""You Got It (The Right Stuff)"", a worldwide hit which peaked at number three on the Billboard charts. ""I'll Be Loving You (Forever)"", a ballad, was the third single released and became their first number-one in ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The title track was released next and also reached number one. ""Cover Girl"" was the fifth released; it peaked at number two. ""My Favorite Girl"" was released in January 1990 as a promotional single sent to"
"to a copy-editing error, ""911"" was printed as ""9/11"", which some readers took to be a reference to the September 11 attacks. A week later, the Post printed a correction. 911 Is a Joke ""911 Is a Joke"" is a 1990 song by American hip hop group Public Enemy, from their third album, ""Fear of a Black Planet"". The song is solely done by Flavor Flav. It was released as a single and became a hit in June 1990, reaching number 15 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, and number one on the Hot Rap Singles chart, becoming"
"the way and duck' records."" Nirvana found as they toured Europe during the end of 1991 that the shows were dangerously oversold, television crews became a constant presence onstage, and ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"" was almost omnipresent on radio and music television. ""Nevermind"" became Nirvana's first number one album on January 11, 1992, replacing Michael Jackson at the top of the ""Billboard"" charts. By this time, ""Nevermind"" was selling approximately 300,000 copies a week. ""Come as You Are"" was finally released as the second single in March 1992, also becoming a hit; it peaked at number nine on the U.K."
"""Say You Love Me"", both reaching Billboard's top-20 singles chart. It was ""Over My Head"" which first put Fleetwood Mac on American radio and into the national Top 20. In 1976, McVie began an on-the-road affair with the band's lighting director, which inspired her to write ""You Make Loving Fun"", a top-10 hit on the landmark smash ""Rumours"", one of the best-selling albums of all-time. Her biggest hit was ""Don't Stop"", which reached number three. The ""Rumours"" tour also included McVie's ""Songbird"", a ballad played as the encore of many Fleetwood Mac concerts. By the end of the ""Rumours"" tour"
"Biv DeVoe also have new jack swing elements in their late 1980s and early 1990s output. To date the most successful new jack swing album is ""Dangerous"", released in 1991 by Michael Jackson, produced by Jackson and Riley, which has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Many songs with elements of new jack swing and similar R&B styles ranked in the top 10 of the US R&B ""Billboard"" charts or the top ten of the US ""top 100"" charts throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1987, Keith Sweat's song ""I Want Her"" was number 5 in the US"
"legend Jim Reeves. Three of these songs were ""Don't Let Me Cross Over,"" ""Oh, How I Miss You Tonight"" and ""Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me."" All three duets were released as singles, and made the Top 10 on the country charts for Reeves' longtime label, RCA Records. Deborah was billed as ""The Mystery Singer"" on the first release, an innovative promotion by label head, Joe Galante. In 1980, Allen signed with Capitol Records. Her debut album for the label was 1980's ""Trouble in Paradise."" The album produced her initial solo hit ""Nobody's Fool"" peaking at No. 24"
"a song called ""Honeycomb"", which had been recorded by Bob Merrill and Georgie Shaw three years earlier. The tune was Rodgers' biggest hit, staying on the top of the charts for four weeks. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. The following year, he had a number of other hits that reached the Top 10 on the charts: ""Kisses Sweeter than Wine"", ""Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again"", ""Secretly"", and ""Are You Really Mine"". Other hits include ""Bo Diddley"", ""Bimbombey"", ""Ring-a-ling-a-lario"", ""Tucumcari,"" ""Tender Love and Care (T.L.C)"", and a version of ""Waltzing"
"where ""There's a Beat Going On"" reached the Top 10, and then ""9 A.M (The Comfort Zone)"" which subsequently became a modest success in the United Kingdom. They are best known for their song ""I've Been Thinking About You"", which hit Number 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in 1991, and for their close harmonies. Their follow-up single, ""A Better Love"", became a ""Billboard"" Hot 100 Top 20 hit, and they returned to Number 1 on the dance chart with ""Come Back"" (Hot 100 number 62). A demo of ""I've Been Thinking About"
"1991. He has won 18 Juno Awards and 1 Grammy Award. Adams also was hugely successful as part of a songwriting duo with fellow Vancouver musician Jim Vallance. Together they wrote songs for some the music industries biggest names: Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker, Tina Turner, Carly Simon. Jim Vallance would continue on as a music industry ""Song Doctor"". He would assist artists in cowriting songs. His list of clients include: Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Rick Springfield, Anne Murray. Vallance has the Juno Award for Composer of the Year 4 times. Producer Bruce Fairbairn would also become prominent during the"