1991: what a year for music

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albums released:

Pearl Jam - Ten
U2 - Achtung Baby
Rage Against the Machine - RATM
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Prodigy - Experience
Metallica - Metallica
Crowded House - Woodface
Trompe le Monde - Pixies
Bloodsugar... - RHCP
Out of time - REM

and above all, Nirvana - Nevermind


Best year for music in my lifetime (1980 - onwards) IMO. any thoughts?
 
that's right. 3 seattle bands on your list.

i would add...

Sebadoh-III
Guns N' Roses-Use Your Illusion I&II
The Smashing Pumpkins-Gish

edit: warpus beat me to gish
edit II: i graduated from high school in '91, quite a year indeed.
 
here comes the thread killer :p

2Pacalypse Now - 2Pac
Derelicts of Dialect - 3rd Bass
Spellbound - Paula Abdul
Waking Up the Neighbours - Bryan Adams
Ascension - The Aints
Gülümse - Sezen Aksu
Greatest Hits Volume 1 - Anal . .. .. .. .
Whispers - Thomas Anders
Coolin' At The Playground Ya Know - Another Bad Creation
Attack of the Killer B's - Anthrax
Blood for Blood - Aria
Cry For Help - Rick Astley
To Mother - Babes in Toyland
'80-'85 - Bad Religion
Pop Life - Bananarama
Beckology (box set compilation) - Jeff Beck
True Love - Pat Benatar
The Globe - Big Audio Dynamite II
Prince of Darkness - Big Daddy Kane
Midnight Radio - Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Revolution Girl Style Now - Bikini Kill
I Need a Haircut - Biz Markie
Travelers and Thieves - Blues Traveler
Leisure - Blur
War Master - Bolt Thrower
Vodou Adjae - Boukman Eksperyans
8 Duets: Hamburg 1991 - Anthony Braxton
Ropin' the Wind - Garth Brooks
Star Time - James Brown
Space I'm In - The Candyskins (debut)
Butchered at Birth - Cannibal Corpse
Emotions - Mariah Carey
Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious - Carcass
Reflexive Universe - C.C.C.C.
Chagall Guevara - Chagall Guevara
Whirlpool - Chapterhouse
Don't Fear the Reaper (EP) - Clint Ruin & Lydia Lunch
Nothing but a Burning Light - Bruce Cockburn
Marc Cohn - Marc Cohn
Love's Secret Domain - Coil
C.M.B. - Color Me Badd
String Of Pearls - Deborah Conway
Hey Stoopid - Alice Cooper
Mighty Like a Rose - Elvis Costello
The Ghosts That Haunt Me - Crash Test Dummies
Ceremony - The Cult
Entreat - The Cure
Island - Current 93 with HÖH
This Is Not The Way Home - The Cruel Sea
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
85-86 - Dag Nasty
Italia Mia - Dalida
Les Années Barlay (1956-1970) - Dalida
Blwch Tymer Tymor - Datblygu
Human - Death
Water (EP) - Def FX
De La Soul Is Dead - De La Soul
I Wish My Brother George Was Here - Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Kaira - Toumani Diabaté
Liebe ist... 2 - Die Flippers
Träume einer Nacht - Die Flippers
I - Die Krupps
Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr.
On Every Street - Dire Straits
Open Doors, Closed Windows - Disco Inferno
Like an Ever Flowing Stream - Dismember
Divinyls - Divinyls
Homebase - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Vinyl - Dramarama
5,000,000 - Dread Zeppelin
And Now the Legacy Begins - Dream Warriors
Ex:El - 808 State
Electronic - Electronic
Schubert Dip - EMF
Clandestine - Entombed
Chorus - Erasure
Into the Light - Gloria Estefan
Prisoners in Paradise - Europe
Shift-Work - The Fall
L'Autre... - Mylène Farmer
Time for a Witness - The Feelies
The Reality of My Surroundings - Fishbone
Believing in Better - Lennie Gallant
Step in the Arena - Gang Starr
We Can't Dance - Genesis
Mo' Ritmo - Gerardo
João - João Gilberto
Infrared Roses - Grateful Dead
Heart In Motion - Amy Grant
Hooked - Great White
Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses
Use Your Illusion II - Guns N' Roses
Masturbatorium - The Hafler Trio
Live - Happy Mondays
Yummy! - Hard-Ons
Havana 3am - Havana 3am
Pretty on the Inside - Hole
I'm On Your Side - Jennifer Holliday
O.G. Original Gangster - Ice-T
Iced Earth - Iced Earth (debut)
The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves - The Infectious Grooves
X - INXS
Nada dan Dakwah - Rhoma Irama
Dangerous - Michael Jackson
Grippe - Jawbox
Doubt - Jesus Jones
Catfish Rising - Jethro Tull
Page of Life - Jon & Vangelis
Amen - Salif Keita
Face the Nation - Kid 'n Play
The White Room - The KLF
Funke, Funke Wisdom - Kool Moe Dee
Wretch - Kyuss
Smell the Magic - L7
The La's - The La's (debut, final album)
LaTour - LaTour
A Little Ain't Enough - David Lee Roth
Future Without a Past - Leaders of the New School
V - Legião Urbana
Biscuits (EP) - Living Colour
Buena Suerte - Los Rodrígues
San Antorium - Lowlife
Shotgun Wedding - Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard
Geetan Bhari Patari - Gurdas Maan
It's... Madness Too - Madness
Distant Plastic Trees - The Magnetic Fields
The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection - Yngwie J. Malmsteen (compilation)
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
International Pop Overthrow - Material Issue
Solace - Sarah McLachlan
Clown Heaven and Hell - Me Mom & Morgentaler
Bullhead - Melvins
Eggnog - Melvins
Kindala - Margareth Menezes
Daniela Mercury - Daniela Mercury
Yerself Is Steam - Mercury Rev
We Are Here - Mescalinum United
The Human Factor - Metal Church
Metallica - Metallica
Mind Funk - Mind Funk
Let's Get To It - Kylie Minogue
Madra - Miranda Sex Garden
Spine of God - Monster Magnet
Lean Into It - Mr. Big
Blessed are the Sick - Morbid Angel
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Hymns Of Faith - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Hymns to the Silence - Van Morrison
Kill Uncle - Morrissey
1916 - Motörhead
Hoodoo - Alison Moyet
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Sexplosion! - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
13-Point Program to Destroy America - Nation of Ulysses
God Fodder - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Day 1 - Robbie Nevil
Boys Will Be Boyz - Newsboys
Places I Have Never Been - Willie Nile
Nevermind - Nirvana
Niggaz4life - N.W.A.
Ribbed - NOFX
Lunar Womb - The Obsessed
The Orb's Adventures Beneath the Overworld - The Orb
Orbital (The Green Album) - Orbital
Horrorscope - Overkill
No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
Ten - Pearl Jam
Pennywise - Pennywise
Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
A Picture of Nectar - Phish
Lawn Boy - Phish
Positively Phranc - Phranc
Trompe le Monde - Pixies
Swallow This Live - Poison
Pure Poverty - Poor Righteous Teachers
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus
Diamonds and Pearls - Prince
The Missing Years - John Prine
Grandes Exitos - Los Prisioneros
World Outside - The Psychedelic Furs
Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black - Public Enemy
Luck of the Draw - Bonnie Raitt
Innuendo - Queen
Out of Time - R.E.M.
Ratt N' Roll 8191 - Ratt
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Harmony Ranch - Riders in the Sky
Saints and Sinners - Kane Roberts
Born Suspect - Chris Rock
Horrorific Atrocities - Rotting Flesh
Joyride - Roxette
Roll The Bones - Rush
Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne
Heartbeat - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Streets: A Rock Opera - Savatage
Scamboogery - Scatterbrain
School of Fish - School of Fish
Uncle Anesthesia - Screaming Trees
Seal - Seal
Arise - Sepultura
Magia - Shakira
Hilang Permataku - Yuni Shara
Ask the Ages - Sonny Sharrock
Real Life - Simple Minds
Superstition - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Slave to the Grind - Skid Row
1,000 Smiling Knuckles - Skin Yard
Wayward Sons of Mother Earth - Skyclad
Suit suit...hehehe - Slank
Volume One - Sleep
Spiderland - Slint
Gish - The Smashing Pumpkins
Blow Up - The Smithereens
Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell - Social Distortion
Qui Sème le Vent Récolte le Tempo - MC Solaar
Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
Pocket Full of Kryptonite - Spin Doctors
Go Figure - Spirit of the West
The Soul Cages - Sting
Jah Won't Pay the Bills - Sublime (debut, independent demo cassette)
At The Village Vanguard - Sun Ra Sextet
No Pocky for Kitty - Superchunk
Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91) - Superchunk
Effigy of The Forgotten - Suffocation
Mistaken Identity - Donna Summer
Overspill - Sun Dial
By Heart - Brenda K. Starr
Keep It Comin' - Keith Sweat
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
Raise - Swervedriver
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
The Tea Party - The Tea Party
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog (debut, final album)
Milestone - The Temptations
Psychotic Supper - Tesla
Babyteeth - Therapy?
Miscellaneous T - They Might Be Giants
Violent Impression - This Picture
The Real Ramona - Throwing Muses
Everybody's Angel - Tanita Tikaram
Tin Machine II - Tin Machine
fear - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble - Transvision Vamp (final album)
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Boss of the Bass - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Slow, Deep and Hard - Type O Negative
As Ugly As They Want To Be - Ugly kid Joe
Unsane - Unsane
Achtung Baby - U2
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - Van Halen
The Comfort Zone - Vanessa Williams
Circuladô - Caetano Veloso
Vital Signs 2 - Vital Signs
Why Do Birds Sing? - Violent Femmes
Honey Lingers - Voice of the Beehive
Warfaze - Warfaze
The Pod - Ween
Widespread Panic - Widespread Panic
Love Wars - Womack & Womack
In Celebration of Life - Yanni
Baby - Yello
Play Kurt Weill - The Young Gods
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life - Frank Zappa
Good-bye My Loneliness - Zard
Mō Sagasanai - Zard
Mr. Bad Example - Warren Zevon
 
Wow, what a totally disrespectful shunning of the best musical genre. So, here goes:

Brooks & Dunn - Brand New Man
Aaron Tippin - You've Got To Stand For Something
Something In Red - Lorrie Morgan
Billy Dean - Billy Dean (Great breakout album, btw)
Reba McEntire - For My Broken Heart
Suzy Bogguss - Aces
Ricky Van Shelton - Backroads

And a whole lot more. All hail Nashville (and Branson)!!
 
albums released:

Pearl Jam - Ten
U2 - Achtung Baby
Rage Against the Machine - RATM
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Prodigy - Experience
Metallica - Metallica
Crowded House - Woodface
Trompe le Monde - Pixies
Bloodsugar... - RHCP
Out of time - REM

and above all, Nirvana - Nevermind


Best year for music in my lifetime (1980 - onwards) IMO. any thoughts?

Meh, I only see two good albums, and they were both from Seattle and launched the grunge movement.

I prefer the fall of your avatar's nation.
 
Close, Godwynn, but there's actually three there. The Pixies, REM and Nirvana.
 
albums released:

Pearl Jam - Ten
U2 - Achtung Baby
Rage Against the Machine - RATM
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Prodigy - Experience
Metallica - Metallica
Crowded House - Woodface
Trompe le Monde - Pixies
Bloodsugar... - RHCP
Out of time - REM

and above all, Nirvana - Nevermind


Best year for music in my lifetime (1980 - onwards) IMO. any thoughts?

The year Kurt Cocain played a few bad riffs on his guitar and blew away all those rock n roll transvestites into the pages of crap music history.

All hail Kurt. At least when he wanted to go drag, he did it properly and wore a dress like a real man.

Gone were the likes of Cinderella. No more Ratt. Bye bye Winger. And the acts that did survive stopped with all the glam crap.
Don't get me wrong, it was cool when David Bowie did it, but then all these morons kept milking it year after year.
 
1976 was a far better year.

And I was born in 1991.
 
that's right. 3 seattle bands on your list.

i would add...

Sebadoh-III
Guns N' Roses-Use Your Illusion I&II
The Smashing Pumpkins-Gish

edit: warpus beat me to gish
edit II: i graduated from high school in '91, quite a year indeed.

this is exactly the problem with seattle music right now. we live in the past based on the 3 or 4 year explosion of bands from seattle.
 
Actually, we need a new Nirvana/Seattle Sound that would upset the boring sounds of the tunes we here 24/7 on the radio or Mtv.
 
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