First I'd like to congratulate JP on a vital thread that is keeping the soapbox thriving! We can only Simone brings back his legendary album series too!
It's 6am, I have just awoken and had my morning poo following a few drinks with popular forum member Rod last night & I'm ready once again to go DEEP.
1991, I was 7 and a half years old when the year started. Guns N Roses really were the only band on earth that mattered to me at the time. I still wasn't buying my own records but luckily for me my mother was into GNR. I seem to remember her not buying Use Your Illusion 1 on release week, instead we got 2, if I had to guess it was because You Could Be Mine was so fucking awesome & it had the terminator 2 tie in. We did get the 1st one not too long after, but at the time I remember much preferring 2, of course I was a stupid fucking child! Get In The Ring sounded so incredible, I'd never heard music so badass in my life before.
I think my nan (mums side) died this year and when we was cleaning the house out one of my cousin's who had lived there for a bit gave me a cassette which was one side Alice Cooper & the other the Beastie Boys. I played that to death, though tbh it was the Alice Cooper side (80s glam metal Alice) that I played over and over again.
I'd have to say, like JP my football memories are exactly the same. I don't recall being interested that much in football too much at the time, but those two games I vividly remember watching. My nan (not the dead one) came back from a Spanish holiday and bought me a Paul Gascoigne leather football, man it was cool.
Me & my dad was big into Nigel Benn, I don't remember any specific fight from that year but remember him bouncing back from that 1st loss to Euebank and winning a fight what seemed like every couple of months.
Snooker, the year Jimmy White couldn't fail! It was his year, Davis & Hendry was out, of course he'll beat John Parrott in the final,,,
Wrestling was my entire life. My favourite childhood wrestling moment of 1991? Bushwhacker Luke being thrown out of the royal rumble in 4 seconds by Earthquake then marching off like nothing had happened. I remember me and my parents laughing out loud for a good few minutes
Hogan won as usual, but I've always been a prick (as you all know!), so the fact everyone at school loved Hogan even at that age made me dislike him. Me & my mother were big on the new kid in town, The Undertaker! He was just making a dent in the lower to middle of the card, I thought the Undertaker rope walk was the coolest thing ever. For me the years biggest storyline was Virgil finally standing up to the million dollar man. Those video segments they ran having Virgil wipe the shit off the shoes & so on, well they wouldn't pass today would they?
but damn, when he finally stood up for himself, Virgil was a fucking hero. Of course he's a laughing stock now & he never could actually wrestle, but it didn't matter. Virgil was king & the crowd reaction during that feud was equal to anything Hogan was doing.
That October my parents took me and my cousin to Wembley arena to see WWF. Annoyingly there was no Hogan or Warrior, but I didn't care, it was the most incredible night of my life to that point. Legion of Doom topped the bill beating the nasty boys, though the match I was most excited about was The Undertaker Vs Roddy Piper. Also I got to see Ric Flair who hadn't been there long beat the Texas Tornado. There was these 2 old cunts (I say old cunts, they could have been 21, when you're young everyone is old) who spent the entire show moaning that the NWA/WCW was better
The British Bulldog beat Earthquake & had Andre the Giant walk to the ring with him, incredible scenes! Me & My Cousin bought Legion of Doom spikes made out of Foam.
Skip forward to the following morning, my cousin was in tears when his dog had ripped his spikes to shreds
I went to the cinema for the first time, to see Suburban Commando starring... Hulk Hogan! Though of course I was most excited for The Undertaker making a cameo. Films... Arnie was still king. Terminator 2 was released, though things took ages to come to VHS so I probably didn't see it until the following year. Was watching mostly just action films, Die Hard 2, Total Recall, The Turtles movie, loved Robocop 2 at the time.
Gaming wise, Mario Brothers 3 on the NES was the huge release. Played that game to death. Having a mario that could fly was mindblowing tbh. I had seen the film THE WIZARD prior to getting the game so knew where the warp was the first time I played it. If you've not seen The Wizard it is a film which I've seen more times than I like to admit & I have huge nostalgia for it. Stars Fred Savage, Christian Slater & Beau Bridges. It's supposed to be this wild children's adventure that involves a kid that's a wizard at computer games... but there's this really miserable family drama stuff involving a divorce, a kid being put in a home & a sister that drowned, could pass for a Ken Loach film at times! It was a flop, kids hated it, they were promised seeing loads of video games and there isn't enough plus tonally it is fucking weird, but I always fucking loved it and I still watch it once a year without fail. As a kid I thought the girl in the film was really cool, fast forward to about 2005 and I realised that she was Jenny Lewis
She'll always have a place in my heart for being in The Wizard.
TV, DINOSAURS was a huge hit in the Mahoney household, it was essentially Roseanne with Dinosaurs, we loved Roseanne as well! Mr Bean, Saved by the Bell, essential.
I'll get back with a tedious list of records and films in good time
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