Music: Best Albums of the Year series: 1991

[Saturated Fats]

1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1994: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot

1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road (23 votes)

2nd Place: Led Zeppelin II (15 votes)
3rd Place: Led Zeppelin I (14 votes)
4th Place: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (11 votes)
5th Place: Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (10 votes)

Big thanks to everyone for taking part in what was easily our most active poll. Not a surprise that Abbey Road won, but pleased to see such a sound mandate.

Today, we're onto a year that is considered a catalytic moment in music history. There were some absolutely gargantuan albums in 1991, but also some excellent under-stated releases. Enjoy.

The next year that we will do is 1977.

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[Langdon Alger]

Nevermind is going to win this.

 

[Ouroboros]

Nevermind is going to win this.

I'd bet on Metallica.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Kind of a weak year overall IMO, even though there's a lot of major releases that were immensely popular. My ranking is stained with nostalgia and probably not worth much. Kind of a weird year for me, with stuff I don't know how to rate, like GNR's Use Your Illusion, a very ambitious project that I'm not sure if I like or hate - or Hoppy Kamiyama's King of Music, that I go back to from time to time if only because it's crazy and doesn't match anything else I know (it really ain't as good as his later work...).

1. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
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2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
3. Painkiller - Guts of A Virgin
4. Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move... It's the Infectious Grooves
5. Cows - Peacetika
6. Ween - The Pod
7. Cardiacs - Songs for Ships and Irons
8. Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction
9. Nirvana - Nevermind
10. Muslimgauze - United States of Islam

HM:
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages
Third Person - Trick Moon
Butthole Surfers - Piouhgd
Tom Petty And the Heartbreakers - Into the Great Wide open
Pixies - Trompe le monde
Jean Leloup - L'amour est sans pitié
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
Michael Nyman - Prospero's Books
HÖH & Current 93 - Island

Also a pretty good year for harder metal...
1. O.L.D. - Lo Flux Tube
2. Sepultura - Arise
HM: Wrathchild America - 3D (this one would be a metal masterpiece if the vocal was not as shitty)

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

In no order for me.

Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth

Darkthrone - Soulside Journey

Sepultura - Arise

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick

Broken Hope - Swamped In Gore

 

[Mescaleroman]

Voted Bandwagonesque and Screamadelica from the list.

Others are

Billy Bragg - Don't Try This at Home
the Farm - Spartacus
Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare My Butt

 

[Necrobutcher]

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick

Broken Hope - Swamped In Gore

A couple of total bangers. Been listening to the Broken Hope LP a lot lately. Boneheaded and brutal stuff yet still well played.
My top 5:

1. Integrity - Those Who Fear Tomorrow
2. Beherit - The Oath of Black Blood
3. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
4. Ice-T - O.G.
5. Disaster - War Cry

 

[Teemu]

Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
U2 - Achtung Baby
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Into the Great Wide Open
R.E.M. - Out of Time

 

[Aladyyn]

Master's Hammer - Rituál

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Autopsy - Mental Funeral

Personally I can’t get behind this album.

“Severed Survival” was and always will be their best IMO.

 

[Saturated Fats]

ATCQ - The Low End Theory

Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
Pearl Jam - Ten

De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
Nirvana - Nevermind
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

MBV - Loveless (I just can't get as behind it as others seem to be able to, but I recognize its genius in places)
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Primus - Sailing on the Seas of Cheese
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

 

[kihei]

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
Crowded House: Woodface
U2: Achtung Baby
Nirvana: Nevermind
Buddy Guy: Damn Right, I've Got the Blues
Milton Nascimento: Txai
Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque
Swervedriver: Raise
REM: Out of Time

 

[Perennial]

3way tie...

Nevermind
Ten
Metallica

 

[Saturated Fats]

Also I just realized that I typo'd it as My Blood Valentine and I'm gonna spend the next 46 hours being triggered.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

This thread reminds me that I've been meaning to try out De La Soul for a while and somehow always forget.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

I'm used to it by now, but this time I was absolutely certain my top 2 choices would be popular ones. You guys are sleeping on Mr. Bungle.



Their next album in 1995 is my favorite ever.

 

[kook10]

Add Cypress Hill in there.

 

[frisco]

Other:
Queen-Innuendo

My Best-Carey

 

[Saturated Fats]

Other:
Queen-Innuendo

My Best-Carey

One of these days, frisco, I'm going to make a poll with an option that you actually choose. It's my sole goal now.

 

[frisco]

One of these days, frisco, I'm going to make a poll with an option that you actually choose. It's my sole goal now.

I did pick Achtung Baby and Out Of Time...

My Best-Carey

 

[Oxbow Lakes]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
De La Soul Is Dead
Ween - The Pod
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black
Slint - Spiderland
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

Forgot The Pod at first

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Other:

Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

great hard, heavy trash metal album that people incorrectly associate with hair metal

 

[Ceremony]

Ten, obviously.

 

[Cas]

I'd have to echo Blessed Are the Sick and Mental Funeral and add:

Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Paradise Lost - Gothic
Entombed - Clandestine
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Samael - Worship Him
Cirith Ungol - Paradise Lost
Death - Human

Just tons and tons of good death metal in 1991, plus plenty of other good stuff.

To be honest, I've never been able to get into Sepultura.

Anyway, my pick for the best metal album of 1991... Death - Human.

 

[todeskultes]

No particular order:

Slint - Spiderland

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

Coil - Love’s Secret Domain

Death Side - Bet on the Possibility