Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 by Repo

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***Repo's 1991 Hall Of Fame (Limit of 10 per year)****
1. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. MBV - Loveless
3. Slint - Spiderland
4. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
5. A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
6. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
7. Pixies - Tromp Le Monde
8. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
10. Primal Scream - Screamadelica ( but this has aged the worst of this top ten)

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***Essential EPS///
1. Pavement - Perfect Sound Forever
2. Dinosaur - Whatever's Cool With Me
3. Blake Babies - Rosy Jack World
4. Slowdive - Holding Our Breath
6. Babes In Toyland - To Mother
7. MBV - Tremolo
8. Ride - Today Forever


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Essential Comps
1. The Screaming trees - The SST Years
2. Dinosaur Jr - Fossils
3. Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift
4. V/A - Kill Rock stars
5. Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch with Your Mind
6. Talulah Gosh - They've Scoffed The Lot
7. Saint Vitus - Heavier Than Thou

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***Not "Mellow" Enough (i.e. albums I'll come back to next year when I'm younger)
1. The Aints - Ascension
2. Athiest - Unquestionable Presence
3. NoMeansNo - 0 + 2 = 1
4. White heaven - Out - sounds really good, MC5 influence Japanese RAWK
5. Sepultura - Arise
6. Death - Human
7. Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu (Essential heavy Indie Rock)
8. Ice Cube - Death Certificate
9. Public Enemey - Apocalypse (Not as good as the first two)
10. Leatherface - Mush
11. Motorhead - 1916
12. Nation of Ulyses - 13 Point Plan to Destroy America
13. Jesus Lizard - Goat (Essential Noise Rock)
14. L7 - Smell The Magic (Essential Riot Grrrl )
15. Mr. Bungle - s/t (Essential Alt Metal)
16. Hole - Pretty on The Inside ((Essential Riot Grrrl )


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***ALBUMS THAT MISS THE CUT (3+ listens )****

***Just not my thing///
1. Blue Aeroplanes - Beatsongs
2. Sam Phillips - Cruel Inventions
3. Fatima mansions - Bertie's Brochures
4. Caetano Veloso - Circulado
5. Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira Street
6. Crowded House - Woodface


My thing, but just okay or I'm tired of///
1. Metallica - Metallica
2. RHCP - Blood Sex Sugar Magic
3. U2 - Achtung Baby
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. REM - Out of Time
6. FSOL - Accelerator (some great singles though)
7. The Cramps - Look Mom, No Head (Simply passed by their imitators even though their influence was massive in '91, sounds a tad uninspired c/w their past and the new class of garage bands of '91)
8. Kitchens of Distinction - Strange Free World

to Listen

The Ex + Tom Cora -Scrabbling at the lock
Teh Legenderary Pink Dots - The Maria dimension
nusrat fateh ali khan - shahbaaz




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• Chart updated: 06/30/2023 02:45
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One From The Vault 
Live

 Grateful Dead

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’91:2 THE DEAD ARE THEIR OWN GENRE

Let’s face it. The Grateful Dead are their own genre. Their own cottage industry. There is nothing like them. I didn’t always know this. I used to lump them in with all these other jam bands my stoner friends and surfing buddies would listen to back in the early 90s when jam bands were having a renaissance. I mean the Spin doctors were popular solely because they were Jam Band lite. A poppified version of the jam bands that were all the rage back then. So funny that jam bands now make almost no appearance of anyone’s list from 1991 now. And please don’t even mention those goofballs Phish. They suck. lol. No. Grateful dead exist all alone. And because of all those a other jam bands my hipppie hippie friends would listen to in the early 90s bands like Big Head Todd, Blues Traveler, moe. and yes Phish. Lots & lots of Phish. I completely wrote off The Grateful Dead. I just assumed they sounded like all those other jam bands all my stoner friends liked.

But, I was wrong. The Dead stand alone.

And this is one of their best live albums. I’m no expert. I’m no Deadhead. I just know that this album rules. And has become one of my favorite live albums over the years. A staple for my camping trips over the last decade.

BUT, Glynspsa does know his Dead. His chart of the 100 best live albums from the Grateful Dead is a gift from the gods for us Dead neophytes. And I’m not surprised at all to find One From the Vaults in his top 6. It’s that good.

Glynspsa’s Dead chart: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=37849

Grade A: ESSENTIAL. I used to laugh that so many of one band’s live albums could be essential. I thought it was weird and just a bit pathetic. I mean there was sooo much great music out there. How could one just obsess about one band. Surely all these live albums sounded pretty much identical, right? With slight variations that only the total obsessive would notice and the rest of us normals would just scratch our heads and wonder why people would listen to a hundred different versions of the essentially the same album. I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. Long live The Dead! [First added to this chart: 12/30/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

12 charts

Rank Score:

46

Rank in 1991:

291

Rank in 1990s:

3,481

Overall Rank:

21,335

Average Rating:

 77 (21 votes)

Comments:

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Stranded In The Mystery Zone 

 Dead Moon

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Garage Rock
Essential [First added to this chart: 02/02/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

5 charts

Rank Score:

10

Rank in 1991:

723

Rank in 1990s:

8,482

Overall Rank:

53,339

Average Rating:

 72 (4 votes)

Comments:

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Umbrella 

 The Innocence Mission

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'91:13 Merchant Ivory Rock That Actually Like, You Know, Rocks!
(Repo AOTD#4)

I normally hate this genre. Adult alternative. Stuff like 10,000 Maniacs & The Sundays. They always seemed to lack a certain bite. A certain grounding . A risk of floating off into the ether on lightweight balls of cotton fluff. The aural equivalent of kissing your sister. And I knew it well. I pretty much knew I'd typically hit off with a girl if she likes this stuff on the condition that she didn't take her politics (and her self) too seriously.. No this was my niche. Girls who dug NPR & The New Yorker. Girls who were smarter than me. Plus, I love short hair on a girl. Throw a cute beret in there, & I'm pretty much done for. Yup. Slightly artsy, literary types who curl up with the Sunday Times and listen to NPR are my kryptonite in a sense.

Anyways, but this style of music I always found kind of boring or self-satisfied or, the worse - self righteous & weary.

So imagine my surprise when I absolutely fell in love with this little gem that's clearly been influenced by both Natalie Merchant & The Sundays. The vocalist positively channels these song and sings them with so much down home, earnest but tasteful passion & genuine love. While you can't help but be reminded of Natalie Merchant and The Sundays, I like it far better. Translation: I can actually make it through the entire album. Anyways, if you are a fan of Lilith Fair Adult Alternative feather rock, you should really check this out. For me to like it - stuff I normally hate & make fun of- means it must be AMAZING!

Grade: Essential. (A) [First added to this chart: 01/18/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

6 charts

Rank Score:

14

Rank in 1991:

620

Rank in 1990s:

7,252

Overall Rank:

45,583

Average Rating:

 76 (13 votes)

Comments:

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Breaking Atoms 

 Main Source

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Hip Hop
Great/Essential [First added to this chart: 01/09/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

81 charts

Rank Score:

279

Rank in 1991:

69

Rank in 1990s:

838

Overall Rank:

4,882

Average Rating:

 79 (70 votes)

Comments:

3

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Frequencies 

 LFO (UK)

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Electronica/IDM
Essential [First added to this chart: 12/30/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

58 charts

Rank Score:

179

Rank in 1991:

97

Rank in 1990s:

1,188

Overall Rank:

7,079

Average Rating:

 75 (58 votes)

Comments:

0

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Seamonsters 

 The Wedding Present

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Indie Rock
Essential [First added to this chart: 12/28/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

77 charts

Rank Score:

460

Rank in 1991:

47

Rank in 1990s:

562

Overall Rank:

3,224

Average Rating:

 77 (86 votes)

Comments:

2

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La Double Vie De Veronique 
Soundtrack

 Zbigniew Preisner

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Modern Classical/Soundtrack
Great/Essential [First added to this chart: 01/09/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

21 charts

Rank Score:

118

Rank in 1991:

141

Rank in 1990s:

1,674

Overall Rank:

9,940

Average Rating:

 78 (20 votes)

Comments:

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The Last Days Of Pompeii 

 Nova Mob

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'91:12 The Lost Great Husker Du Album

What were music critics thinking? That's the only thing I can ask myself. Everyone in America is mourning the loss of Husker Du. Worshipping at the altar of Bob Mould's every fart in the wake of Husker Du's implosion. And Grant Hart quietly makes yet another Husker Du album. That no one even notices. That never even makes it to the bargain bin because it gets no press whatsoever. The world is a fickle place. Thank God there's music heads like Dihansse out there. Paying no heed to public consensus. Placing a (S)Aints album of all things at the top of his charts in 1991 when everyone know they haven't done didily since the 70s. Because this is a gem. The great lost Husker Du album that was actually released and toured behind but no one paid attention to. My friends back then knew. The Husker Du worshippers I hung out with. But, did I listen to them. No! Because I'm an idiot. Don't be an idiot. If you LOVE Husker Du, well you've just receive the greatest christmas gift in the whole world. I've been listening to this on my walkmen as I shovel my car out of this Midwestern blizzard we've gotten over the last couple of days, and it totally brings me back to the sound of the American Underground in the mid to late 80s. Trying to figure out how this is only on two people's charts. We're all lemmings. Don't be a lemming.

Highly Recommended. And essential for you Husker Du fans out there. [First added to this chart: 01/18/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

8 charts

Rank Score:

20

Rank in 1991:

507

Rank in 1990s:

5,859

Overall Rank:

36,655

Average Rating:

 75 (5 votes)

Comments:

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Anton Webern: Complete Works Opp 1-31 

 Pierre Boulez

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Classical
Great/Essential [First added to this chart: 01/23/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

10 charts

Rank Score:

188

Rank in 1991:

92

Rank in 1990s:

1,142

Overall Rank:

6,814

Average Rating:

 75 (14 votes)

Comments:

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Distant Plastic Trees 

 The Magnetic Fields

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Indie Rock/Lo Fi
Great/Esssential [First added to this chart: 01/01/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

30 charts

Rank Score:

151

Rank in 1991:

118

Rank in 1990s:

1,369

Overall Rank:

8,145

Average Rating:

 73 (46 votes)

Comments:

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Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 composition

Artist	Albums	%
The Field Mice	2	2%
Teenage Fanclub	1	1%
Cranes	1	1%
The Orb	1	1%
Jonathan Richman	1	1%
Beat Happening	1	1%
Uncle Tupelo	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%
	59	59%
	29	29%
	3	3%
	2	2%
	1	1%
	1	1%
	1	1%
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 chart changes

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Up 38 from 100th to 62nd Native Son by The Judybats

Biggest fallers
Down 1 from 62nd to 63rd Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge by Mudhoney
Down 1 from 63rd to 64th Between Happiness And Heartache by Breathless
Down 1 from 64th to 65th Jack Frost by Jack Frost

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90/100	05/31/2023 04:11	Johnnyo	2,011	79/100
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100/100	07/16/2019 21:44	gidgidi	114	88/100
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From Johnnyo 05/31/2023 04:11

Excellent chart

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From dihansse 06/29/2019 18:51

congrats Tilly: one of those charts you keep coming back to!!

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From TheDude85 06/29/2019 16:36

Great information. I'll come back to this again and again.

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From gidgidi 06/29/2019 09:49

Wow! So detailed!

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From ForegroundNoise 06/29/2019 09:06

How could I give this any less than 100? As with all your Mellow Zone lists, this chart is a comprehensive snapchat for that year in music without losing any sense of your own personable charm.

You may have come across it anyway, but I'd thought I'd recommend the Les Razilles Dénudés bootleg, '77 Live, released in 1991 as something worth checking out. It's an album with a bit of a cult following and also a personal favourite of mine, catchy garage rock bass riffs overladen with screeching feedback. Let me know your thoughts on it!!

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From DommeDamian 12/15/2018 12:29

May not dig the albums that much, but descriptions are fine as ever.

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From Ulf 05/22/2018 20:23

great chart great year

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From elo269megv 05/22/2018 15:30

Great choices and even better commentary. You've given me a lot to discover so thank you! "Who cares about marketing? Fuck those guys..." you rock

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From HoldenM 05/22/2018 08:44

Almost unparalleled year in music.

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From NoisyBeast 05/09/2018 13:18

A truly Awesome 1991 chart; encompassing a nice diversity of genres!
Looking forward to explore a bunch of those unfamiliar titles... *especially* because of the excellent descriptive commentaries!!! I agree with baystateoftheart, would be interesting to see where your Hall of Fame items drop in. But either way, great job on this one!! A++

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