1991 BEST YEAR EVER

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1991 was surely the most defining year in the history of left of centre rock music.Depending on your taste,there was a seminal and/or groundbreaking classic for everyone...
Loveless,Nevermind,Achtung Baby,Blue Lines,Ten,Bandwagonesque,Metallica,Out of time,Screamadelica ect.

What was the best album of this inspired vintage?

notnumber

Id say Pearl Jam ten would be my pick of the bunch from 1991..but I think 1992 was an ever better year becuase thats when these albums hit the mainstream .I doubt to many folks in Ireland bought Nevermind in 1991? Also 1992 two of my all-time favs Angel Dust FNM and Pavement Slanted and Enchanted where released.

Thundercats Ho

It'd be Ten for me too.
I played 'out of time' in full a few months ago and was surprised how good it sounded.

Miguel_Sanchez

notnumber wrote: »

I doubt to many folks in Ireland bought Nevermind in 1991.

I don't know about that. I remember Smells Like Teen Spirit being number one in Fanning's Fab 50 that year. I was only 12 then but I remember all my friend's older brothers were already huge into Nirvana that year. Naturally we followed along fairly sharply.

notnumber

Cant really remember either.Remember swapping out the tape cassette in French Class when the teacher left to play smells like teen spirit..I was well cool in second year.Shame about the rest of my life.:pac:

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notnumber wrote: »

Cant really remember either.Remember swapping out the tape cassette in French Class when the teacher left to play smells like teen spirit..I was well cool in second year.Shame about the rest of my life.:pac:

first heard `smells like teen spirit' at the end of second year.It blew my head off and my copies of Queen`s Greatest Hits 2 and Use Your Illusion 1&2 were shelved for a considerable time!

woof im a dog

laughing stock by talk talk!

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woof im a dog wrote: »

laughing stock by talk talk!

Never heard it,might check it out...love `Uncertain Smile'-great tune!

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.....or was that `the the'?!....oops

SilverScreen

woof im a dog wrote: »

laughing stock by talk talk!

Great album. That and 1988's Spirit of Eden sowed the seeds for the post-rock explosion in the 90's.

I actually think 1993 was the best year of the 90's. You are spoiled for choice when it comes to great albums:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
The Auteurs - New Wave
The Breeders - Last Splash
Suede - Suede
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Tiger Trap - Tiger Trap
Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)

and many, many more.

RikkFlair

woof im a dog wrote: »

laughing stock by talk talk!

Good shout. Also The KLF White Room and Electronic (Johnny Marr & Bernard Sumner). 91 was a good 'un.

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Zero1986 wrote: »

Great album. That and 1988's Spirit of Eden sowed the seeds for the post-rock explosion in the 90's.

I actually think 1993 was the best year of the 90's. You are spoiled for choice when it comes to great albums:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
The Auteurs - New Wave
The Breeders - Last Splash
Suede - Suede
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Tiger Trap - Tiger Trap
Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)

and many, many more.

One of my faves from `93 is the oft derided `Come on feel the Lemonheads! Goofy as ****,but there`s some great 3 minute pop songs on there

SilverScreen

Olivia Tangy Flowerpot wrote: »

One of my faves from `93 is the oft derided `Come on feel the Lemonheads! Goofy as ****,but there`s some great 3 minute pop songs on there

Decent enough album but It's a Shame About Ray was by far their best

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Zero1986 wrote: »

Decent enough album but It's a Shame About Ray was by far their best

yeah,great album.the steel pedal guitar in `hannah and gabbi' gets me every time

notnumber

almost every of the nineties was great..

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1995

Would have to add whipping boy Heartworm to that list..

karaokeman

Good thread.

I would like to add Blood Sugar Sex Magik to that list.

People can say what they want about RHCP (and I do acknowledge they have gone downhill in the last decade or so) but they really were at the top of their game in 1991.

A few of my own favorite albums that made that year so special, and still listen to pretty regularly:

Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Golden Horde - S/t

Steel Pole Bathtub - Tulip

Wedding Present - Seamonsters

Nomeansno - Live + Cuddly

Leatherface - Mush

Seaweed - Despised

Armia - Legenda

Beat Happening - Dreamy

Lots more but that's just what I can think of off the top of my head right now without going through a room full of vinyl.

Memorable gigs for me were The Wedding Present w/ Buffalo Tom in Limerick, Sonic Youth w/ Nirvana in Sir Henry's in Cork, and Dinosaur Jnr in McGonagles in Dublin. Plus several others by The Golden Horde who me and some friends used to go around the country to see play different towns.

loyatemu

woof im a dog wrote: »

laughing stock by talk talk!

virtually ignored when it came out though, hardly anyone bought it.

SilverScreen

I love how Talk Talk went from a run-of-the-mill 80's synthpop band to something completely new and innovative.

Also, I can't believe nobody's mentioned this beauty yet:


While 1993 is my favourite musical year of the 90's, I think 1991 had the more innovative albums such as Spiderland, Laughing Stock, Loveless, Blue Lines and Screamadelica.

woof im a dog

girlfriend by matthew sweet as well

in hindsight 1991 was a very good year

notnumber

Deleted User wrote: »

A few of my own favorite albums that made that year so special, and still listen to pretty regularly:

Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

Golden Horde - S/t

Steel Pole Bathtub - Tulip

Wedding Present - Seamonsters

Nomeansno - Live + Cuddly

Leatherface - Mush

Seaweed - Despised

Armia - Legenda

Beat Happening - Dreamy

Lots more but that's just what I can think of off the top of my head right now without going through a room full of vinyl.

Memorable gigs for me were The Wedding Present w/ Buffalo Tom in Limerick, Sonic Youth w/ Nirvana in Sir Henry's in Cork, and Dinosaur Jnr in McGonagles in Dublin. Plus several others by The Golden Horde who me and some friends used to go around the country to see play different towns.

Leatherface-they where awesome...still gigging as would be cool to see them . Hadn't heard this cover before today,great cover of nick caves ship song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EQ6UoWQBYw

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notnumber wrote: »

almost every of the nineties was great..

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1995

Would have to add whipping boy Heartworm to that list..

not forgetting `horsedrawn wishes' by Rollerskate Skinny..one of the truly great Irish albums

iomega

Trompe le monde

Sinfonia

Can't fuck with '98:

Elliott Smith - XO
Air - Moon Safari
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pearl Jam - Yield
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Rufus Wainwright - S/T
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
System of a Down - S/T
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
QOTSA - S/T
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
REM - Up

Definitely more...

seachto7

Can remember actually listening to day time radio in the early 90s. Yeah you had your cheese with Kylie etc, but you also had some really good songs in the top 20. It was a good way to pass a few hours listening to it on a Sunday evening. You could have the Prodigy followed by Kylie followed by Maiden followed by Therapy or Metallica followed by Bryan Adams followed by REM!!

Tabnabs

1991;
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Orbital - Orbital
Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
NOFX - Ribbed

all great albums.

nlgbbbblth

notnumber wrote: »

.I doubt to many folks in Ireland bought Nevermind in 1991?

They did. The support gig with Sonic Youth in August raised Nirvana's profile and the word of mouth positive vibes for their set meant that quite a few picked up the LP.

I went to a lot of house parties in the autumn / winter of 1991 and Nevermind was on every stereo.

nlgbbbblth

1991 was great though.

Three fantastic Irish singles
1 A House - Endless Art (Bingo EP 12")
2 Would Be's - My Radio Sound's Different In The Dark
3 The Frank and Walters - Walter's Trip (EP1 12")

Saw some deadly gigs
Whipping Boy (few times in The Underground)
Would Be's in The Baggot with The Sultans of Ping FC
A House and The Frank and Walters in McGonagles
Curve in McGonagles and a signing session in Comet beforehand
Dinosaur Jr - McGonagles
Carter USM - McGonagles
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - McGonagles
Pixies - Point
Wedding Present - SFX
Therapy? - McGonagles
Feile 91 - Ride, The Farm, The LA's, The Mock Turtles, Black Francis and The Happy Mondays

Here's some albums I bought during 1991

mosstin

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

1991 was great though.

Three fantastic Irish singles
1 A House - Endless Art (Bingo EP 12")
2 Would Be's - My Radio Sound's Different In The Dark
3 The Frank and Walters - Walter's Trip (EP1 12")

Saw some deadly gigs
Whipping Boy (few times in The Underground)
Would Be's in The Baggot with The Sultans of Ping FC
A House and The Frank and Walters in McGonagles
Curve in McGonagles and a signing session in Comet beforehand
Dinosaur Jr - McGonagles
Carter USM - McGonagles
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - McGonagles
Pixies - Point
Wedding Present - SFX
Therapy? - McGonagles
Feile 91 - Ride, The Farm, The LA's, The Mock Turtles, Black Francis and The Happy Mondays

Here's some albums I bought during 1991

I too bought that Hole record and it was ****ing awful. Mind you 'Bertie's Brochures' there simply does not get enough love. Fatima Mansions were magnificent.

nlgbbbblth

I never play the Hole record now. I liked Garbage Man though. Blue vinyl.

mosstin

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

I never play the Hole record now. I liked Garbage Man though. Blue vinyl.

Ah blue vinyl - greatest record I own on blue vinyl is 'Yerself Is Steam', also released in 1991. Their best album by some distance.

nlgbbbblth

Got the Carwash Hair 7" for 50p in Virgin Tallaght on a freezing cold January day in 1992. Funny the things you remember. They played the Rock Garden around the same time. I picked up Yerself Is Steam a few weeks afterwards.

mosstin

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Got the Carwash Hair 7" for 50p in Virgin Tallaght on a freezing cold January day in 1992. Funny the things you remember. They played the Rock Garden around the same time. I picked up Yerself Is Steam a few weeks afterwards.

I bought it solely based on a Chris Roberts' review in Melody Maker. Wasn't disappointed.

julio_iglayzis

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Got the Carwash Hair 7" for 50p in Virgin Tallaght on a freezing cold January day in 1992. Funny the things you remember. They played the Rock Garden around the same time. I picked up Yerself Is Steam a few weeks afterwards.

Was that the gig where David Baker stage dived and the crowd parted like the red sea?

1991 really was an incredible year. I was 14 and only really starting to listen to music properly, I got to see the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr in the space of a few months. I'd give my left nutsack to see that SY/Nirvana gig in the Top Hat again.
Great albums released in 1991 that are worth mentioning too are Whipping Boy's Submarine*, Smashing Pumpkins Gish and The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld.
* I know this was recorded in 91 but it may not have been released until 92

AhrSkidar

Hadn't really thought about how good 1991 was until I started reading this.

To Mercury Rev, Talk Talk and Slint, I'd add two others.

For some reason Michael Gira seems to have effectively disowned "White Light from the Mouth of Infinity", but for me it's the best Swans' album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-e1feSOuP8

Also, given my username, I have to give a shout out to Thin White Rope's studio swansong "The Ruby Sea". Probably not their very best, but it does have Hunter's Moon on it.

1991 was also the year I saw Jane's Addiction in the Brixton Academy. A gig against which all others are still judged.

duckysauce

julio_iglayzis wrote: »

Was that the gig where David Baker stage dived and the crowd parted like the red sea?

1991 really was an incredible year. I was 14 and only really starting to listen to music properly, I got to see the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr in the space of a few months. I'd give my left nutsack to see that SY/Nirvana gig in the Top Hat again.
Great albums released in 1991 that are worth mentioning too are Whipping Boy's Submarine*, Smashing Pumpkins Gish and The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld.
* I know this was recorded in 91 but it may not have been released until 92

SY/Nirvana gig in the Top Hat that was some gig , Pure noise by Nirvana and then magic by Sonic Youth--- F*** Me

julio_iglayzis

AhrSkidar wrote: »

For some reason Michael Gira seems to have effectively disowned "White Light from the Mouth of Infinity", but for me it's the best Swans' album.

Forgot about this one - yeah, I agree with you, it's a fantastic album. This and Love of Life are their two best albums, I can't fathom why he's written them out of their history.

Prettyblack

1995 was great too:

Red House Painters - Ocean Beach
Neil Young - Mirror Ball
Foo Fighters' first album (the only one I ever bought)
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Bjork - Post
Oasis - Morning Glory
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
Beatles - Anthology (yup)
Passengers - Original Soundtracks Vol 1
Tricky - Maxinquaye
King Crimson - Thrak

The Britpop thing as well was taking off which was initially very exciting, plus the club scene was exploding and there were great compilations like Renaissance coming out.

Prettyblack

SilverScreen wrote: »

I actually think 1993 was the best year of the 90's. You are spoiled for choice when it comes to great albums:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
The Auteurs - New Wave
The Breeders - Last Splash
Suede - Suede
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Tiger Trap - Tiger Trap
Red House Painters - Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)

and many, many more.

May I add:

Bjork - Debut
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Nirvana - In Utero
Pearl Jam - Vs
Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth
Belly - Star
Frank Black - Frank Black
U2 - Zooropa
Lemonheads - Come On Feel The Lemonheads

Goolay

1994 will always be my fav year in music. It was the year I discovered music really, and had all of these bad boys on cassette

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Blur - Parklife
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Portishead - Dummy
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In

Prettyblack

Goolay wrote: »

1994 will always be my fav year in music. It was the year I discovered music really, and had all of these bad boys on cassette

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Blur - Parklife
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Portishead - Dummy
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In

Ahem, may I add:

Charlatans - Up To Our Hips
Ride - Carnival Of Light
Jamiroquai - Return Of The Space Cowboy
Brand New Heavies - Brother Sister
STP - Purple
Stina Nordenstam - And She Closed Her Eyes
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
Weezer - Weezer
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Stone Roses - Second Coming
Massive Attack - Protection

What a year! What a decade really, if you think about it!

Shakespeare's Sister

Yep, 1991 is my favourite musical year ever!

So many greats already mentioned.

I'd add:

Babes In Toyland - To Mother
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

1992, 1993 and 1998 were also the biz.

mosstin

Dear other years during the 90s that weren't 1991,
**** off and get your own thread.
All the best.