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Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mining

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Midnight Oil_Blue Sky Mining

On February 25, 1990, “Columbia” label released “Blue Sky Mining”, the seventh Midnight Oil album. It was recorded in 1989, at “Rhino” in Sydney, and was produced by Warne Livesey, Peter Garrett, Bones Hillman, Robert Hirst, Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey and Warne Livesey . At the “ARIA Music Awards” in 1991, “Blue Sky Mining” won “Best Group”, “Outstanding Achievement Award”, “Best Cover Art”, “Best Video” and “Album of the Year”. The album was awarded 5× Platinum in Australia by “ARIA”.

Personnel:

  • Peter Garrett – lead vocals
  • Jim Moginie – vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Martin Rotsey- vocals, guitars
  • Warne Livesey- keyboards
  • Bones Hillman – vocals, bass
  • Robert Hirst – vocals, drums
  • Jeremy Smith – French horn
  • Phillip Hartl – string leader
  • Glad and Carl – Horn Swells

Track listing:

  1. Blue Sky Mine – Peter Garrett, Bones Hillman, Robert Hirst, Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey
  2. Stars of Warburton – Peter Garrett, Martin Rotsey
  3. Bedlam Bridge – Robert Hirst
  4. Forgeotten Years – Robert Hirst, Jim Moginie
  5. Mountains of Burma – Robert Hirst
  6. King of the Mountain – Robert Hirst, Jim Moginie
  7. River Runs Red – Robert Hirst, Jim Moginie
  8. Shakers and Movers – Peter Garrett, Jim Moginie
  9. One Country – Peter Garret, Jim Moginie
  10. Antartica – Peter Garret, Robert Hirst, Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey
  11. You May Not Be released – Jim Moginie

Joni MItchell: Night Ride Home

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Night Ride Home

On February 19, 1991, “Geffen” label released “Night Ride Home”, the fourteenth Joni Mitchell album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, at “A&M Studios” in Hollywood, and “One On One Studios”, and was produced by Joni Mitchell and Larry Klein.

Personnel:

  • Joni Mitchell – vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, Billatron. oboe, Omnichord
  • Michael Landau – guitar
  • Bill Dillon – guitar, pedal steel guitar
  • Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
  • Larry Klein – bass, percussion, guitar, keyboards
  • Vinnie Colaiuta – drums, snare drum
  • Alex Acuña – percussion
  • Karen Peris – backing vocals
  • Brenda Russell – backing vocals
  • David Baerwald – backing vocals
  • Jeremy Lubbock – conductor, arranger, string arrangement

Track listing:

All tracks by Joni Mitchell; except where noted

  1. Night Ride Home
  2. Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free)
  3. Cherokee Louise
  4. The Windfall (Everything for Nothing)
  5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem – based on a poem – The Second Coming- by B. Yeats
  6. Come in from the Cold
  7. Nothing Can Be Done – words by Joni Mitchell, music by Larry Klein
  8. The Only Joy in Town
  9. Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac
  10. Two Grey Rooms

Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind

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GreenMind

On February 19, 1991, “Blanco y Negro” label released “Green Mind”, the fourth Dinosaur Jr, studio album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, and was produced by J. Mascis. The cover photograph,  “Priscilla”  was by Joseph Szabo, taken from his book of photographs “Almost Grown”.

Personnel:

  • J. Mascis- vocals, guitar, drums, bass, producer
  • Murph- drums
  • Joe Harvard – guitar, tape
  • Jay Spiegel – drums, tambourine, tom-tom
  • Don Fleming- guitar, acoustic bass, backing vocals
  • Sean Slade- mellotron
  • Matt Dillon- backing vocals

Track listing:

All songs written by J Mascis, except where noted.

  1. The Wagon
  2. Puke + Cry
  3. Blowing It
  4. I Live for That Look
  5. Flying Cloud
  6. How’d You Pin That one on me
  7. Water
  8. Muck
  9. Thumb
  10. Green Mind

 

Deacon Blue: Fellow Hoodlums

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Fellow Hoodlums

On February 9, 1991, “Columbia” label released “Fellow Hoodlums”, the third Deacon Blue studio album. It was recorded from July1989  to May 1990, and was produced by Jon Kelly.

Personnel:

  • Ricky Ross– vocals, guitar, piano, keyboard
  • Graeme Kelling– guitar
  • Lorraine McIntosh– vocal
  • James Prime– keyboard
  • Ewen Vernal– bass
  • Dougie Vipond– drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Ricky Ross, except where noted.

  1. James Joyce Soles
  2. Fellow Hoodlums
  3. Your Swaying Arms
  4. Cover from the Sky
  5. The Day that Jackie Jumped the Jail
  6. The Wildness – Ricky Ross, JamesPrime
  7. A Brighter Star than You Will Shine – Ricky Ross, James Prime
  8. Twist and Shout
  9. Closing Time
  10. Goodnight Jamsie – Ricky Ross, James Prime
  11. I Will See You Tomorrow – Ricky Ross, James Prime
  12. One Day I’ll Go Walking – Ricky Ross, Lorraine McIntosh

Queen: Innuendo

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On February 4, 1991,”Parlaphone” released “Innuendo”, the fourteenth Queen studio album. It was recorded March 1989 – November 1990,  at “Metropolis Studios” in London and “Mountain Studios” in Montreux, and was produced by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and David Richards. “Innuendo” was the final studio album to be released in Freddie Mercury’s lifetime and is the last to be composed entirely of new material. “Innuendo” was voted the 94th greatest album of all time in a national 2006 “BBC” poll.

Personnel:

  • Freddie Mercury– lead and backing vocals, piano, keyboards
  • Brian May– electric, slide and classical guitars, keyboards, piano, backing vocals
  • Roger Taylor– drums, lead vocals, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals
  • John Deacon– bass guitar
  • Steve Howe– classical guitar
  • Michael Moran– piano and keyboards
  • David Richards – keyboards
  • Richard Gray –design
  • Grandville – illustrations
  • Angela Lumley – additional illustrations
  • Simon Fowler –photography

All tracks by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, except where noted.

  1. Innuendo
  2. I’m Going Slightly Mad
  3. Headlong
  4. I Can’t Live With You
  5. Don’t Try So Hard
  6. Ride the Wild Wind
  7. All God’s People – Mike Moran, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon
  8. These Are the Days of Our Lives
  9. Delilah
  10. The Hitman
  11. Bijou
  12. The Show Must Go On

Screaming Trees: Uncle Anesthesia

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On January 29, 1991, “Epic” label released “Uncle Anesthesia”, the fifth Screaming Trees album. It was recorded in June 1990, and was produced by Mark Lanegan, Gary Lee Corner, Van Corner, Terry Date and Chris Cornell.

Personnel:

  • Mark Lanegan- vocals
  • Gary Lee Conner- guitar, backing vocals
  • Van Conner- bass, backing vocals
  • Mark Pickerel- percussion, drums
  • Chris Cornell- recorder, backing vocals
  • Terry Pickerel – percussion
  • Jeff McGraph – trumpet
  • Terry Date – backing vocals
  • Scott Miller – backing vocals
  • David Coleman – art direction
  • Mark Ryden- artwork
  • Karen Mason – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Mark Lanegan, Gary Lee Conner and Van Conner.

  1. Beyond This Horizon
  2. Bed of Roses
  3. Uncle Anesthesia
  4. Story of Her Fate
  5. Caught Between
  6. Lay Your Head Down
  7. Before We Arise
  8. Something About Today
  9. Alice Said
  10. Time for Light
  11. Dissappearing
  12. Ocean of Confusion
  13. Closer

Jesus Jones: Doubt

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On January 29, 1991, “Food / Parlaphone” labels released “Doubt”, the second Jesus Jones album. It was recorded in May 1990, and was produced by Ian Curnow, Mike Edwards, Phil Harding and Andy Ross.

Personnel:

  • Mike Edwards – vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Jerry De Borg – guitars
  • Iain Baker – keyboards, programming
  • Al Doughty- bass
  • Gen – drums, percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Mike Edwards, except where noted.

  1. Trust Me
  2. Who? Where? Why?
  3. International Bright Young Thing
  4. I’m Burning
  5. Right Here, Right Now
  6. Nothing to Hold Me – Mike Edwards, Iain Baker
  7. Real Real Real
  8. Welcome Back Victoria
  9. Two and Two
  10. Stripped
  11. Blissed

Sting: The Soul Cages

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The soul cages

On January 22, 1991, “A&M” label released “The Soul Cages”, the third Sting studio album.  It was recorded April – November 1990, at the “Studio Guillaume Tell” in Paris, and was produced by Hugh Padgham. In 1992, the title track won Sting his first ever “Grammy Award for Best Rock Song”.

Personnel:

  • Sting – vocals, bass, mandolin, synclavier, arrangements
  • Dominic Miller – guitars
  • David Sancious, Kenny Kirkland – keyboards
  • Branford Marsalis – saxophone
  • Paola Paparelle – oboe
  • Kathryn Tickell – Northumbrian smallpipe
  • Manu Katché – drums
  • Ray Cooper, Vinx, Bill Summers, Munyungo Jackson, Skip Burney, Tony Vacca – percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Sting.

  1. Island of Souls
  2. All This Time
  3. Mad About You
  4. Jeremiah Blues (Part 1)
  5. Why Should I Cry for You
  6. Saint Agnes and the Burning Train
  7. The Wild Wild Sea
  8. The Soul Cages
  9. When the Angels Fall

Freddie Mercury

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On November 24, 1991, Freddie Mercury died aged 45. He was musician (piano, guitar) singer, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter and front man of the band Queen. He wrote some of the band’s best known songs featuring “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” “Somebody to Love,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” and “We Are the Champions.”As a singer he had powerful vocal with over a four-octave range, and had unique stage appearance. In 1992, Mercury was awarded the “Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music”; in 2001,as a member of Queen, he was inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”; in 2002 Mercury was ranked at number 58 in the BBC’s poll of the “100 Greatest Britons”; in 2003 he was inducted in the “Songwriters Hall of Fame”; in 2005 he was inducted in the UK “Music Hall of Fame”; in 2005, in “Blender” and “MTV2” pool, Mercury was voted the “Best male singer of all time”; in 2008, editors of the magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked Mercury at number 18 on their list of the “100 greatest singers ever” and in 2009, “Classic Rock” poll elected him the best rock singer of all time.

U2: Achtung Baby

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On November 19, 1991, “Island” label released “Achtung Baby”, the seventh U2 studio album.  It was recorded October 1990  – September 1991, at the “Hansa Ton Studios” in Berlin, “STS” in Dublin, “Elsinore” in Dalkey and “Windmill Lane Studios” in Dublin, and was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. The album won “Grammy” in 1993 for “Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal”.

Personnel:

  • Bono – vocals, guitar
  • The Edge– vocals, guitar, keyboards, mixing
  • Adam Clayton– bass guitar
  • Larry Mullen, Jr.– drums, percussion
  • Brian Eno– keyboards
  • Daniel Lanois– guitar, percussion, mixing
  • Duchess Nell Catchpole –violin, viola
  • Paul Barrett – engineer
  • Robbie Adams – engineer
  • Steve Lillywhite – mixing
  • Flood – mixing
  • Arnie Acosta – mastering
  • Shaughn McGrath – design
  • Steve Averill – design
  • Anton Corbijn – photography
  • Ritchie Smith – photography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Bono, all music by Bono, The Edga, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.

  1. Zoo Station
  2. Even Better Than the Real Thing
  3. One
  4. Until the End of the World
  5. Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
  6. So Cruel
  7. The Fly
  8. Mysterious Ways
  9. Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World
  10. Ultraviolet
  11. Acrobat
  12. Love Is Blindness