1. Nirvana -Nevermind
2. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
3. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
4. Pearl Jsm - Ten
5. Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
6. Swervedriver - Raise
7. Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
8. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
9. The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
10. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
11. Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 30 Something
12. The KLF - The White Room
13. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
14. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
15. Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing
16. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
18. Teenage Fanclub - The King
19. Slint - Spiderland
20. Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind.
Stuff 'n nonsense. Personally I can't think of many better. In fact when we last had a best year tourney on BEA it was my pick.
Aside from the aforementioned (especially Bandwagonesque and Seamonsters, as well as the other more obvious picks), well worth taking into account some indie-pop nuggets (Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha, The Field Mice's For Keeps and Heavenly vs Satan), British techno staples (Orbital S/T, FSOL's Accelerator, LFO's Frequencies) and a couple of LPs from before Dancehall went all Shaggy (especially Reggae Owes Me Money by the Ragga Twins).
No mention of REM's Out Of Time yet either... (EDIT - until the post above did). And worth flagging that this track came out in '91...
1991 was the breakthrough year for the whole Seattle grunge thing with Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, but it took a few years for that to take full effect
I don't agree that it took 'a few years' in the slightest. Nevermind replacing MJ's Dangerous at the top of the Billboard album charts has got to be as close to an instant impact as you can get. By the start of '92 we were all wearing lumberjack shirts and Cosmopolitan magazine were running features on 'best grunge fashion tips', or how to look like you've just got back from a festival and haven't washed your hair for 3 weeks. Also check out Nirvana's appearance on Top Of The Pops - a classic British TV moment. And heck, people were buying albums by Tad. TAD!! _________________ 'Reggae' & t'ing Folk 'n Stuff SHAMELESS RECORD DEALER PLUG
Stuff 'n nonsense. Personally I can't think of many better. In fact when we last had a best year tourney on BEA it was my pick.
Aside from the aforementioned (especially Bandwagonesque and Seamonsters, as well as the other more obvious picks), well worth taking into account some indie-pop nuggets (Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha, The Field Mice's For Keeps and Heavenly vs Satan), British techno staples (Orbital S/T, FSOL's Accelerator, LFO's Frequencies) and a couple of LPs from before Dancehall went all Shaggy (especially Reggae Owes Me Money by the Ragga Twins).
No mention of REM's Out Of Time yet either... (EDIT - until the post above did). And worth flagging that this track came out in '91...
I don't agree that it took 'a few years' in the slightest. Nevermind replacing MJ's Dangerous at the top of the Billboard album charts has got to be as close to an instant impact as you can get. By the start of '92 we were all wearing lumberjack shirts and Cosmopolitan magazine were running features on 'best grunge fashion tips', or how to look like you've just got back from a festival and haven't washed your hair for 3 weeks. Also check out Nirvana's appearance on Top Of The Pops - a classic British TV moment. And heck, people were buying albums by Tad. TAD!!
Forgot about Tad. Actually I think in 1991 there was just the beginnings of what electronic music would become in the 90s. Really wasn't very good yet. It was kind of fledgling. Besides accelerator and orbs Adventures, there wasn't really anything I liked very much. Of course in a couple years it would just take off into greatness,. But it really wasn't there yet. And I would grow to like a lot of grunge and alternative a few years later, but none of my favorites are from 91. The 90s got better as they went along.
Funny I prepared a post yesterday mentioning this famous year in music
My top 10:
1/ My Bloody Valentine : Loveless & Talk Talk : Laughing Stock
3/ Nirvana: Nevermind
4/ U2 : Achtung Baby
5/ A Tribe Called Quest : The Low End Theory
6/ Electronic : Electronic
7/ Massive Attack : Blue lines
8/ Lloyd Cole : Don't Get Weird On Me Babe
9/ Teenage Fanclub : Bandwagonnesque
10/ LFO : Frequencies
11 / The Mabuses: The Mabuses
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I don't agree that it took 'a few years' in the slightest. Nevermind replacing MJ's Dangerous at the top of the Billboard album charts has got to be as close to an instant impact as you can get. By the start of '92 we were all wearing lumberjack shirts and Cosmopolitan magazine were running features on 'best grunge fashion tips', or how to look like you've just got back from a festival and haven't washed your hair for 3 weeks. Also check out Nirvana's appearance on Top Of The Pops - a classic British TV moment. And heck, people were buying albums by Tad. TAD!!
We all make the mistake of assuming our experience mirrors everyone else's experience.
This is what the end of 1991 felt like in Australia (no sign of Nirvana in the top 50)
End of 1995
#7 Silverchair (Australia's own Nirvana in Pyjamas)
#13 Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
#31 Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
#35 Nirvana - Nevermind
#49 Pearl Jam - Ten (first time in the end of year top 50)
http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-chart...s-1995.htm
Good initiative Tilly and also an interesting year.
As this was a very good year in music for me I think my top 25 best represents my favorites. I have put the two albums for Rhyner in bold and I put my rank next to the BEA year rank.
My rank / BEA Rank Title - Band
1 / 78 Ascension - The Aints
2 / 1 Nevermind - Nirvana
3 / 203 The Word And The Flesh - Band Of Susans
4 / 125 The Beast Inside - Inspiral Carpets
5 / 205 Beat Songs - The Blue Aeroplanes
6 / 242 Blind Love - Ratcat
7 / 7 Metallica - Metallica
8 / 12 Out Of Time - R.E.M.
9 / 22 Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
10 / 30 Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr.
11 / 605 Bittersweet - Green
12 / 15 Trompe Le Monde - Pixies
13 / 23 Woodface - Crowded House
14 / 293 Uncle Anesthesia - Screaming Trees
15 / 676 The Last Days Of Pompeii - Nova Mob
16 / 29 Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
17 / 17 Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses
18 / 45 Seamonsters - The Wedding Present
19 / 4 Achtung Baby - U2
20 / 16 Gish - The Smashing Pumpkins
21 / 179 World Outside - The Psychedelic Furs
22 / 27 White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity - Swans
23 / 49 III - Sebadoh
24 / 683 Guilt Regret Embarrassment - Treepeople
25 / 462 The Ruby Sea - Thin White Rope
This is maybe also a good starting point to review this list and I already started because the Swans are a new addition from my blog. I'll try to write up something for every album in this list (except the two in bold because they are for Rhyner).
Maybe also interesting as an exercise could be to give the overall BEA top 20 of 1991 just to see if this blog (and Rhyner's) is able to change something to that maybe vote out Innuendo and replace by Bandwagonesque (currently 22)
BEA Rank Title - Band
1 Nevermind - Nirvana
2 Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
3 Ten - Pearl Jam
4 Achtung Baby - U2
5 Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
6 Spiderland - Slint
7 Metallica - Metallica
8 The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
9 Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
10 Screamadelica - Primal Scream
11 Blue Lines - Massive Attack
12 Out Of Time - R.E.M.
13 Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
14 Use Your Illusion II - Guns N' Roses
15 Trompe Le Monde - Pixies
16 Gish - The Smashing Pumpkins
17 Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses
18 Dangerous - Michael Jackson
19 Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog
20 Innuendo - Queen
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1. The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
2. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
3. Zbigniew Preisner - La Double Vie De Veronique
4. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
5. Pearl Jam - Ten
6. Gang Starr - Step In The Arena
7. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
8. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
9. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
10. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Stuff 'n nonsense. Personally I can't think of many better. In fact when we last had a best year tourney on BEA it was my pick.
Aside from the aforementioned (especially Bandwagonesque and Seamonsters, as well as the other more obvious picks), well worth taking into account some indie-pop nuggets (Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha, The Field Mice's For Keeps and Heavenly vs Satan), British techno staples (Orbital S/T, FSOL's Accelerator, LFO's Frequencies) and a couple of LPs from before Dancehall went all Shaggy (especially Reggae Owes Me Money by the Ragga Twins).
No mention of REM's Out Of Time yet either... (EDIT - until the post above did). And worth flagging that this track came out in '91...
I don't agree that it took 'a few years' in the slightest. Nevermind replacing MJ's Dangerous at the top of the Billboard album charts has got to be as close to an instant impact as you can get. By the start of '92 we were all wearing lumberjack shirts and Cosmopolitan magazine were running features on 'best grunge fashion tips', or how to look like you've just got back from a festival and haven't washed your hair for 3 weeks. Also check out Nirvana's appearance on Top Of The Pops - a classic British TV moment. And heck, people were buying albums by Tad. TAD!!
Loved this post! And in all fairness, TAD were really fucking good. lol.
1. Nirvana -Nevermind
2. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
3. Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
4. Pearl Jsm - Ten
5. Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
6. Swervedriver - Raise
7. Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
8. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
9. The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
10. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
11. Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 30 Something
12. The KLF - The White Room
13. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
14. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
15. Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing
16. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
18. Teenage Fanclub - The King
19. Slint - Spiderland
20. Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind.
This already proves to be a very interesting topic because I was very much intrigued by one of the albums mentioned by purplepash: The King by Teenage Fanclub. I discovered Bandwagonesque in 1991 and it is still one of my favorite albums and then I went back to A Catholic Education but I had never heard of The King also from 1991.
I looked for it and at first couldn't even find it until I discovered a wikipedia entry on it and it seems this was an album they contractually had to do on Matador before they went to Geffen and it seems the album was taken off the market on the day it was released.
Luckily you can still find it on Youtube and I'm listening to Interstellar Overdrive (yes the Pink Floyd song) as I type this and very much like it. There's even a cover of Like A Virgin on it.
I don't know if it's the quality of the recording itself or the quality on Youtube but the overall sound quality is very bad but that doesn't matter. This is a very guitar heavy album with lots of screaming (Robot Love) which already has the roots of the brilliant Bandwagonesque but not quite.
Maybe not something I would put in my top charts but overall an interesting discovery, thx Purplehpash.
Hmmm, I don't currently own many albums from 1991, so can't make up a top 10... So a fairly generic list.
Foxbase Alpha - St. Etienne
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
Spiderland - Slint
Trompe Le Monde - Pixies
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Nevermind - Nirvana
Distant Plastic Trees - Magnetic Fields
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