

The second part of our look back at The Real World: San Francisco to commemorate its 25th anniversary is a mega playlist of many of the songs played during the season. I say many, not all, because it was simply impossible to capture and identify each one. Often brief instrumental snatches of songs that may or may not have been MTV staples back when the show aired in 1994 would play under dialogue. And then another would play, and then another. Within its first four minutes, the 19th episode of the season featured selections as wide ranging as General Public’s cover of “I’ll Take You There,” Dr. John’s traditionalist R&B “Television,” the heavy metal of Pantera’s “Planet Caravan,” and Tracy Chapman’s coffee-house activism in “Bang Bang Bang.” And there were still some 16 minutes left in the show.