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- Dec 21, 2016
- 6 min
This Week In 1991: December 22, 1991
Every so often, a song comes along that completely changes the face of popular music. This week in 1991, the ARIA chart welcomed a rock...
- Dec 14, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: December 15, 1991
We hear a lot about climate change and the damage we're doing to the environment today, but some people were on the case decades ago....
- Dec 7, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1991: December 8, 1991
It must have been the warmer weather and the fact that party season had begun, because suddenly dance tunes were doing well on the ARIA...
- Nov 30, 2016
- 7 min
This Week In 1991: December 1, 1991
It's one thing for a Eurodance act or even an American house outfit to misappropriate vocals and pretend some pretty model (or two) is...
- Nov 23, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: November 24, 1991
In the 1980s, talking about sex in music had often resulted in songs and/or music videos being banned for being too risqué. To get away...
- Nov 16, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1991: November 17, 1991
By November 1991, it'd been more than four years since Michael Jackson had released his last album. Of course, given the fact he lifted...
- Nov 9, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: November 10, 1991
To say Jimmy Barnes and John Farnham had dominated the Australian music scene in the late '80s and early '90s would be a massive...
- Nov 2, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: November 3, 1991
It had happened twice already — once in 1985 and again in 1988. And so Australia was pretty much due for another record to debut at...
- Oct 26, 2016
- 6 min
This Week In 1991: October 27, 1991
Australia had taken its time getting into hip-hop music and, up until mid-1991, the big rap hits had pretty much been the obvious ones....
- Oct 19, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: October 20, 1991
There have been plenty of successful partnerships between songwriters and female singers over the years. Bacharach & David and Dionne...
- Oct 12, 2016
- 7 min
This Week In 1991: October 13, 1991
First impressions are everything — and this week in 1991, the debut singles by three quite different acts arrived on the ARIA top 50. All...
- Oct 5, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: October 6, 1991
This blog is, in theory, a journey through pop. But, sometimes the ARIA top 50 from years past isn't very helpful in that mission. Case...
- Sep 29, 2016
- 7 min
This Week In 1991: September 29, 1991
Back in the days of physical music formats (you know, the pre-iTunes era), I never approved of record companies deleting singles while...
- Sep 22, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: September 22, 1991
Some artists have a huge hit straight out of the gate — and then spend the rest of their career trying to live up to it. This week in...
- Sep 15, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1991: September 15, 1991
It only takes one song to ruin a hit streak. A song like "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi", which broke Kylie Minogue's initial run of number 1...
- Sep 8, 2016
- 3 min
This Week In 1991: September 8, 1991
In yesterday's flashback to 1986, we saw Belinda Carlisle embark on what would turn out to be a successful solo career. But what happens...
- Sep 1, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: September 1, 1991
Hot August Night. Whispering Jack. Innocent Eyes. 21. These are some of the albums to have held down the number 1 spot on the Australian...
- Aug 25, 2016
- 4 min
This Week In 1991: August 25, 1991
I don't know what was going on in 1991, but, Bryan Adams aside, it was a big year for songs taking forever to reach number 1. Whether it...
- Aug 18, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1991: August 18, 1991
I'm sure someone somewhere has tallied up the most common words to appear in top 50 hits. No doubt, "love" is one of them. This week in...
- Aug 11, 2016
- 5 min
This Week In 1991: August 11, 1991
For the previous few years, it had worked the other way. First, a performer would make a name for themselves on TV — usually in one of...
