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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Indie Rock
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1991
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College Rock
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Alt rock/Country Rock
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Unpretentious, SOLID 80s style alt country from the progenitors of the sound. The kind of album you slide into your car's cassette player & just leave in there for week. Like a pear of old Levi's. Nothing special, but comfortable as shit. Recommended.
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Space Rock
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Pop Punk/Power Pop
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Dihansse

this is fun. lots of different styles of punk pop/power pop. Super catchy. My fave so far is "Pieces" which is completely inspired by the Buzzcocks, one of my all time faves. Def recommend to fan of this kind of genre. One of the songs sounds like Weezer before there was Weezer. Another one sounds like a 90s pop punk band covering the beach boys.
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Shoegaze
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Singer-songwriter
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 composition

Country Albums %


United States 59 59%
United Kingdom 29 29%
Australia 3 3%
Mixed Nationality 2 2%
Canada 1 1%
New Zealand 1 1%
Japan 1 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 97 97%
Yes 3 3%
Live? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%

Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 chart changes

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Climber Up 38 from 100th to 62nd
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Faller Down 1 from 63rd to 64th
Between Happiness And Heartache
by Breathless
Faller Down 1 from 64th to 65th
Jack Frost
by Jack Frost

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From 05/31/2023 04:11
Excellent chart
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From 06/29/2019 18:51
congrats Tilly: one of those charts you keep coming back to!!
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Great information. I'll come back to this again and again.
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Wow! So detailed!
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From 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 12/15/2018 12:29
May not dig the albums that much, but descriptions are fine as ever.
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From 05/22/2018 20:23
great chart great year
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From 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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Almost unparalleled year in music.
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From 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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