Another place you might like to refer to for ideas is Allmusic. They have these "Allmusic Loves 1991" pages for just about every year. You'll find favourite albums lists from each of the staff critics, linked to individual album reviews. You might find you have similar taste to one or more of the critics. It's been useful to me over the last few years.
Another place you might like to refer to for ideas is Allmusic. They have these "Allmusic Loves 1991" pages for just about every year. You'll find favourite albums lists from each of the staff critics, linked to individual album reviews. You might find you have similar taste to one or more of the critics. It's been useful to me over the last few years.
Realizing I haven't listened to much music from that year... so let's do just 5.
1. MBV - Loveless
2. The Jesus Lizard - Goat
3. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
4. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
5. Slowdive - Just For A Day
1.Guns 'N' Roses-Use Your Illusion
2.Pearl Jam-Ten
3.Guns 'N' Roses-Use Your Illusion II
4.The Commitments-Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
5.Dire Straits-On Every Street
6.The Dayglo Abortions-Two Dogs Fucking
7.Metallica-Metallica
8.Motorhead-1916
9.Buddy Guy-Damn Right I've Got the Blues
10.Ozzy Osborne-No More Tears _________________ 100 Punk Favourites
I loved that album as a kid... but can't listen to it anymore. Same with Blind Melon. Idk - one hit wonders that it's ok to forget they ever existed (imo).
But Two Princes was the best song ever written when I was a kid.
I loved that album as a kid... but can't listen to it anymore. Same with Blind Melon. Idk - one hit wonders that it's ok to forget they ever existed (imo).
But Two Princes was the best song ever written when I was a kid.
I picked up a copy of Spin Doctors for 50c, and ended up keeping it. I don't know.. I let myself have guilty pleasures in my lists. Sometimes you need an album or two that don't demand too much from you. It's a feel good record. You know, when I think about it, it's got the carefree energy of young manhood, like early Rod Stewart records, and I've kept those for the same reason.
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I loved that album as a kid... but can't listen to it anymore. Same with Blind Melon. Idk - one hit wonders that it's ok to forget they ever existed (imo).
But Two Princes was the best song ever written when I was a kid.
I picked up a copy of Spin Doctors for 50c, and ended up keeping it. I don't know.. I let myself have guilty pleasures in my lists. Sometimes you need an album or two that don't demand too much from you. It's a feel good record. You know, when I think about it, it's got the carefree energy of young manhood, like early Rod Stewart records, and I've kept those for the same reason.
Oh for sure.
Somehow I didn't do this. Like my Ska cds from that phase in the late 90s... can't listen to them anymore, but still fun to think about. I still wear my black and white checkered guitar strap though... hehehe
As I promised three days ago I will try to plug (really a word from the 20th century 😉 ) a few of my favorite albums of 1991, this not including those I propose to Rhyner on his 1991 blog and not the ones already in Tilly's personal top chart of the year: we have 15 albums in common btw and btw2 I'm already looking forward to our discussion on III which for you is your personal favorite album of Sebadoh (and overall of the year) and for me one of my least favorite.
It's also an opportunity for me in reviewing the scores and the ranks of my favorite albums.
First on the band which to me has an absolutely unique position in rock music because of the very distinctive voice of Guy Kyser. The music is best described as desert rock with both country and psychedelic influences and they issued 5 albums from 1985 to 1991 which means that The Ruby Sea was their final one and also the album I discovered them first and still my favorite of them.
I never saw them live but they have finished off their career with a double live album which was taken from a live concert in Ghent, my town of birth: One That Got Away (1992) and Allmusic.com gives as the reason “the band enjoyed European success more than American, a result of their dark and occasionally campy sound”.
Tracks like Bartenders Rag are very much country but still have a very neat twist to them. But many other songs go further than that and I’ll limit myself to my description of the three best pieces on the album:
- The album starts in a great way by the title track which sounds very threatening/haunting the whole song (a bit in the sense of some of the early Nick Cave songs) and doesn't seem to give way to any kind of closure.
- The third track (Puppet Dog) is which is a bit of a slowburner: it starts off very country-ish and then builds up to a great guitar part.
- And then there’s the highlight Hunter’s Moon which is also building up to a climax with some great drumming and is even better on the aforementioned live album.
Overall this album has a very atmospheric feeling to it which is only enhanced by the great singing and the beautiful guitars.
In listening to this album again I revisited some scores of individual tracks which caused this album to move up from the 25th to the 18th rank in my personal top chart of 1991.
For everybody who wants to listen to this album comments are welcome because to me it is very much underrated: 464th album of the year and rank 28432 overall on BEA: only Johnnyo has this album as one of his favorites.
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1. Nevermind by Nirvana
2. Yerself Is Steam by Mercury Rev
3. Blue Lines by Massive Attack
4. Ten by Pearl Jam
5. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
6. The Ghosts that Haunt Me by Crash Test Dummies
7. Achtung Baby by U2
8. Mr. Bungle by Mr. Bungle
9. Sailing the Seas of Cheese by Primus
10. Gish by The Smashing Pumpkins
This could very easily change, and probably will as I further explore the year of 1991. Everything past the top three is very uncertain. And I could see Yerself Is Steam surpassing Nevermind in the near future. It has really shot up my charts in the past few months.
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