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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Microgravity 

 Biosphere

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'91:8 It Should Have Been BIGGER Than….. Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld.

“This is music for aliens, Dada “ - Genni, age 5 & aspiring music critic

China occupying Tibet. Trump being somehow immune to the #MeTwo movement. Not one of you fucks mentioning Biosphere’s Microgravity on their 1991 lists. Not one of ya! And it’s not just you. Spin. The Village Voice. Pitchfork. Even AllMusic’s exhaustive Allmusic Loves 1991 retrospective failed to give it a mention. I mean what gives. Because it is arguably the greatest electronica album of the entire 90s never mind just 1991

There’s not much I can do about the first two. You know - Tibet & Trump. I’m just a stay at home Dad trying to make ends meet. Trying to decide whether “Natural” Skippy is really worth a buck more than “Regular” Skippy. (Probably not but… it has No High Fructose Corn Syrup. That’s something. That High Fructose Corn Syrup shit will kill ya!) Clipping coupons from the weekly Pennysaver. Making sure my kids have clothes on. You know. The basics. And on the side I do my simple part to fix the great musical injustices of the world. And in 1991, there was no bigger injustice than Biosphere’s Microgravity getting the shaft. The whole world went gaga over The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld. And Microgravity positively DESTROYS the ambient house brand of choice for 1991. The titles is already a tip. Microgravity is far cooler than the super-dweeb sounding Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld. I mean just how stoned do you have to be for that title to sound cool? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

A-side: I do really, really like The Orb’s debut. It will totally make my year chart. Well at least that first disc. I mean, how many of you out there - besides you, BobbyB - actually make it though both discs in one sitting? I thought so! My hunch - and I’m just guessing here - is that Disc 2 of Orb’s double CD extravaganza may just be the least played disc in the entire Pitchfork 100 of the 90s! But perhaps I just need more quality time with disc 2.

Grade: A+. 1991 was a seminal year for IDM and electronica music. With debuts by such electronica greats as The Orbital, LFO, and yes, The Orb. And this is the best of the lot. Easy. And arguably the best ambient house album of all time. No music evokes space so effortlessly. Even my five year old connected to it immediately. And my 8 year old absolutely loves every single song. Racing. Striving. It’s kinetic. Amniotic, alive & pulsating yet cold, pristine & precise. The ambient noises of some futuristic city run entirely by machines. Metal on metal. Strap yourself into a stolen sports car just past midnight next chance you get. Throw this on the stereo. And make sure you’re buckled in (Safety first! I’m a Dad, remember.) . Because this is easily the most exhilarating late night driving music out there. It should come fully loaded with EVERY gaming station’s analogous Pole Position style game. Every single one. Take no substitutes. For the ultimate in gaming & driving pleasure, choose Biosphere next time you want to take a 1991 Ambient House trip. And as Maui says, “You’re Welcome!”

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Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

33 charts

Rank Score:

96

Rank in 1991:

166

Rank in 1990s:

2,022

Overall Rank:

11,955

Average Rating:

 75 (37 votes)

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Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 composition

Artist	Albums	%
The Field Mice	2	2%
The Psychedelic Furs	1	1%
Matthew Sweet	1	1%
John Prine	1	1%
Lloyd Cole	1	1%
Throwing Muses	1	1%
fIREHOSE	1	1%
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	29	29%
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	1	1%
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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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