Top 21 Music Albums of 1991
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My Top 10 songs of 1991:
10. My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Loveless)
9. Slint - Washer (Spiderland)
8. The Tragically Hip - Little Bones (Road Apples)
7. The Tragically Hip - Three Pistols (Road Apples)
6. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Out Of Time)
5. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes (Loveless)
4. The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running (Road Apples)
3. Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphony (Blue Lines)
2. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep (Loveless)
1. The Tragically Hip - Fiddler's Green (Road Apples)
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"When I look at you, oh, I don't know what's real."

It'll give you tinnitus, but it's worth it.

Favourite Tracks: When You Sleep, Sometimes, Soon, Only Shallow, Come In Alone
[First added to this chart: 01/31/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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28,119
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Top rated album (86/100 - 2489 votes)  86 (2,489 votes)
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"You're the book that I have opened, and now I've got to know much more."

Favourite Tracks: Unfinished Sympathy, Blue Lines, Five Man Army, Daydreaming, Safe From Harm
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1991
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5,230
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"Well, little girls come on Remembrance Day, placing flowers on his grave. She waits in the shadows till after dark just to sweep them all away."

Music from Canadians for Canadians. At the time I'm writing this, I'm going to see them live in two days.
^
The above comment is a relic of happier times.

Favourite Tracks: Fiddler's Green, Long Time Running, Three Pistols, Little Bones, Cordelia, The Last Of The Unplucked Gems
[First added to this chart: 01/31/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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349
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"I'm the only one left. The storm took them all."

Favourite Tracks: Washer, Good Morning Captain, Breadcrumb Trail, Nosferatu Man
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Year of Release:
1991
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12,042
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You really just can't got wrong with Pharaoh Sanders blowing his brains out through his sax.

Favourite Tracks: Many Mansions, Who Does She Hope To Be, Promises Kept
[First added to this chart: 11/19/2017]
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1991
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355
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Favourite Tracks: Rothko Chapel 5, Rothko Chapel 1
Year of Release:
1991
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55
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7. (6) Down 1
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"Place my chair at the backroom door. Help me up, I can't wait anymore."

The follow up to Spirit of Eden, an album that sounds like nothing else ever recorded, sounds even more like nothing else ever recorded.

Favourite Tracks: Ascension Day, After the Flood, New Grass, Myrrhman
[First added to this chart: 06/15/2017]
Year of Release:
1991
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8,614
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"Love will save you from the truth when you think you're free. Love will save you from the cold light of boring reality."

Favourite Tracks: Better Than You, Blind, Love Will Save You, Failure, Why Are We Alive?
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1991
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802
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9. New entry
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"And I want the world to cry. And I watch the winds you fly. You can believe in everything. You can believe it all."

Favourite Tracks: Primal, Catch The Breeze, Spanish Air, Celia's Dream
Year of Release:
1991
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1,154
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10. (8) Down 2
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"Give sanity a longer leash, but some of us have sharper teeth in love's secret domain."

Favourite Tracks: The Snow, Teenage Lightning 2, Dark River, Windowpane
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Year of Release:
1991
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110
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Top 21 Music Albums of 1991 composition

Country Albums %


United States 13 62%
United Kingdom 4 19%
Mixed Nationality 1 5%
Ireland 1 5%
Japan 1 5%
Canada 1 5%
Live? Albums %
No 20 95%
Yes 1 5%

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