‘In many ways, 1991 has been a live version of TV`s Short Attention Span Theater’ – Bill Tammeus
Dad’s ‘Pick of the Year’ tapes were always a firm family favourite where he would make a compilation cassette of his favourite songs form that year. He stopped in 1992 however, when music got a bit too modern for him. It’s something over the years I’ve tried to carry on, and did for a while but, no one listens to CDs anymore and they don’t have the same impact as mp3 playlists. I’ve often thought about restarting it all from 1982 on my blog though just so I have somewhere to put them all for prosperity sake.
The first rule of POTY is DON’T TALK ABOUT PICK OF THE YEAR, sorry, that’s the illegal underground fight club i’m part of.
The first rule of POTY is that you can only pick songs that charted in the top 75 in the UK. The second rule of POTY is that you can only pick enough songs that would fit onto an old C120 cassette (between 30-40 tracks). The final rule, one which I’ve imposed myself, is that you must include that year’s Christmas number 1 (highlighted in green)
- Crystal Waters – Gypsy Woman
- Beautiful South – A Little Time
- Oleta Adams – Get Here
- Heavy D & The Boys – Now That We Found Love
- Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Beverley Craven – Promise Me
- Salt n Pepa – Let’s Talk About Sex
- Paula Abdul – Rush Rush
- Prince – Gett Off
- DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Summertime
- The KLF – 3am Eternal
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Learning to Fly
- Michael Jackson – Black or White
- Rozalla – Everybody’s Free
- Chesney Hawkes – The One and Only
- The Simpsons – Do The Bartman
- Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet
- James – Sit Down
- Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up
- Bryan Adams – Can’t Stand This Thing We Started
- REM – Shiny Happy People
- Vic Reeves & The Wonderstuff – Dizzy
- REM – Losing My Religion
- Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy
- Queen – Innuendo
- Erasure – Love To Hate You
- Zucchero & Paul Young – Senza Una Donna
- Marc Cohen – Walking In Memphis
- Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over
- Extreme – More Than Words
- PM Dawn – Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
- Amy Grant – Baby Baby
- The Farm – Altogether Now
- The KLF – Justified and Ancient
- The Simpsons – Deep Deep Trouble
- Bee Gees – Secret Love
- The Clash – Should I Stay or Should I Go
- Queen – Bohiemian Rhapsody
- Scorpions – Wind of Change
- The Waterboys – The Whole of the Moon
