Top 100 Music Albums of 1991
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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
9. Moose - Jack
10. Tsunami - Headringer 7"


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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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• (Created: 12/19/2017 23:54).
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 The Field Mice

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'91:9 The Vacuum

When the Smiths broke up, I remember there being a palpable vacuum. A contingent of goth girls in my high school who all had had their heads shaved on one side went into literal state of mourning. And the music mags were filled with articles about who would be “the next Smiths”. On our shores none materialized. The closet being the Wedding Present. But, they were missing something. That feeling that you were lost in another world. Some insular place where nothing else mattered. That feeling that when they were on your beat-up, beloved walkmen, the rest of the world ceased to exist. Just you and your hopelessly romantic misery. Your heart simply breaking for a love that did not even exist.

Yet, all this time they were there! Hidden from us Yanks as some kind of punishment for not wanting pay our taxes. For telling the emperor that he had no clothes.

The Field Mice are the perfect compliment to what Galaxie 500 were doing on our shores and it seems they have a discography just a bit shorter in length that I’m now delving into with all the winsome excitement of child flipping through the pages of a Toys R Us catalog. Every song something new to get excited over.

Music to get lost in.
Music for overcast days.
Music that feels like a secret. Your secret.
Music for crushes that you do not even have!
Your heart simply breaking for that special girl who just absolutely positively has to be out there somewhere.
Perhaps she’s just been on the other shore.

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Year of Release:

1991

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11 charts

Rank Score:

41

Rank in 1991:

320

Rank in 1990s:

3,718

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 The Field Mice

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Year of Release:

1991

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29 charts

Rank Score:

99

Rank in 1991:

161

Rank in 1990s:

1,910

Overall Rank:

11,816

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From Johnnyo 05/31/2023 04:11 | #297309

Excellent chart

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From dihansse 06/29/2019 18:51 | #238643

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

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From TheDude85 06/29/2019 16:36 | #238628

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

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From gidgidi 06/29/2019 09:49 | #238614

Wow! So detailed!

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From ForegroundNoise 06/29/2019 09:06 | #238613

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 | #227181

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

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From Ulf 05/22/2018 20:23 | #215445

great chart great year

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From elo269megv 05/22/2018 15:30 | #215433

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 | #215406

Almost unparalleled year in music.

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From NoisyBeast 05/09/2018 13:18 | #214481

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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