Colm

It's great that you re-discovered/discovered some tracks. Part of our mission is to have a broad document of a particular year, including stuff you might not see on a typical retrospective compilation.

I think it wouldn't be right to exclude I Feel Love. I'd probably have opened one of the discs with, such as its stature.

It's a brilliant collection. To find 80 tracks from the genre and only feature one artist twice tells us the depth of this compilation. So many songs I didn't know. Great work. Also, looking forward to Dandy's collection.

What's the motivation behind having fixed release dates for the numbered series?

Safe? Netherlands out followed by others.

Gotta add a few more to this. My two favourites from 2024 were terrible live - Mustii and Kaleen. I will probably never watch the live performance again but the studio versions are still great. Doomsday Blue is not something I'll have on high rotation but the performance/staging will be my favourite ever for a long long time. I still watch it several times a week.

I agree. Netherlands and Ireland should leave too.

You're welcome to contribute. I've outlined the two ways that anyone can contribute. Is there something else you'd like to know?

I just listened to The Fly twice in a row. Not only is it my favourite U2 song, it's also my favourite number 1 of the 90s and one of my favourite songs of all time. I don't know how big a factor this is in my admiration for the song but it was such a departure for the band after the suffocating earnestness of Rattle and Hum. Whatever switch flicked in Bono's head also flicked in The Edge's head too. The guitars squalled. They scratched and clanged. Bono's vocals were breathy and seductive. And that guitar solo still makes me feel things no one guitar solo does. Pure melodic noise.

It could be that it's not as strong as those other songs.

They've done that many times before with the Anniversary and thec the Millennium editions.

27 years. Wow. I feel old

Disappointing but I didn't have high expectations. The year book seriee has descended into a cash in rather than any musical document of the year in question.

GIMP and Blender are free.

2010s 9/10 The quality soared throughout the decade

10/10 is correct. The inventiveness that we have seen in the last few years has been phenomenal. Ukraine 2021 Sebia 2022 Croatia 2023 Serbia 2023 Austria 2023 Finland 2023 Ireland 2024

By far the worst decade

It'll be interesting to see if they can fill the gaps that were obvious on the main yearbook. Animal Nitrate, Mr Vain and Boom Shake the Room weren't on that.

Glad we included that. It was the final addition because we had a few minutes to spare on disc 4 and gooddelta campaigned for it to be included. Poor Lisa Standsfield lost out to the Queen of pop, partly because her song In All the Right Places was too long.

Dexton, have you found anything you like that you didn't already know? Anyone else think that we left something essential out?

It was a year in transition, but in some ways it had a strong identity if its own. Reggae was everywhere. Going by the numbers it was very impressive. The genre held 49 top 5 places over the whole year compared to 1 in 1992 and zero in 1991.In 34 of the 52 weeks there was a reggae song in the top 5 up from once in 1992 and none at all in 1991. Dance music was still churning out classics, even if they weren't as startlingly original as they were in the previous two years. Alternative rock was very strong with American bands dominating the field. Automatic for the People was the second best selling album of the year, spending longer in the top 10 than any other albums - 37 weeks Britpop hadn't really been named at this stage and although Suede were media sensations, it was no indication of what was to come. There's only 2 Britop songs featured here. Little did we know there would be plenty in 1994 and enough to fill a whole disc in 1995 and 1996 (probably). A handful of bands from the 1980s had no trouble moving with the times. New Order, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys all up-dated their sound without sounding out of place. In my own music taste, 1993 was a big turning point. 1992 was all about Erasure and dance music for me. In early 1993 I got Automatic for the People and became a huge fan of REM. I became more interested in Depeche Mode and New Order too. Near the end of the year I discovered Kate Bush, and even though she didn't release any material in 1993, I got Tori Amos's debut album. American superstars were still running the show - Michael Jackson and Madonna were still pulling singles from albums that were a year or more old. Whitney was reigning supreme but Mariah was on her heals. And two boy bands were dividing teenage girls (and some teenage boys) into two rival factions up and down the country. Colm was firmly on the side of East 17. House of Love and It's Alright packed more punch than anything Take That were making. I have fond memories of the year in musical terms. It was fun if a little too heavy on commercial reggae. :D

Mr Jones, Shoop and Linger weren't hits in the UK until 1994. Bed of Roses was on the long list.

Echoing the love for The Box and A Design for Life. Two of my favorite pieces of music .

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