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
• (Created: 12/19/2017 23:54).
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III 

 Sebadoh

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Lo Fi
Essential

III was one of the albums made me believe that anything was possible in rock n’ roll. It sounded like nothing else back at the time. Considering Slanted & Enchanted was still a year off, and Bee Thousand was like two years off, III was the first serious volley of the lo-fi sound. It was the punk rock movement of the time. That all u need was some 4 track in your bedroom and you could make an album. Some of it is like high school year book shit - it was purposeful familiar and small. It dealt with real insecurities. It dealt with insecurity and teen alienation far better than Nevermind- the other American watershed album of the year. I was a HUGE Dinosaur fan when this dropped, and I loved this every bit as much as the first three dinosaur albums.

This is one of those magical double LPs like Zen Arcade were every song matters. every bit has been memorized. Internalized. Even Especially the mistakes. But, its sort of like religion. It’s like coming across some bizarre radio station while hanging out in your bedroom as a bored middle schooler that you know was meant just for you. Bakesale and Harmacy (thanks, KD) are great as well, but they are far less left-of-the dial. Far less off the beaten path. I mean that stuff just sounds like great indie rock songs. III sounded sacred. And for some of us, it was. [First added to this chart: 12/27/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

81 charts

Rank Score:

447

Rank in 1991:

48

Rank in 1990s:

570

Overall Rank:

3,293

Average Rating:

 76 (93 votes)

Comments:

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Nevermind 

 Nirvana

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[First added to this chart: 12/19/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

3,107 charts

Rank Score:

41,979

Rank in 1991:

1

Rank in 1990s:

2

Overall Rank:

14

Average Rating:

 87 (4,233 votes)

Comments:

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The Low End Theory 

 A Tribe Called Quest

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Hip Hop
HOF#2 [First added to this chart: 12/28/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

962 charts

Rank Score:

11,006

Rank in 1991:

6

Rank in 1990s:

29

Overall Rank:

138

Average Rating:

 85 (1,100 votes)

Comments:

65

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Blue Lines 

 Massive Attack

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[First added to this chart: 12/19/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

709 charts

Rank Score:

5,451

Rank in 1991:

10

Rank in 1990s:

63

Overall Rank:

331

Average Rating:

 80 (878 votes)

Comments:

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Loveless 

 My Bloody Valentine

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Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

2,109 charts

Rank Score:

33,812

Rank in 1991:

2

Rank in 1990s:

4

Overall Rank:

22

Average Rating:

 86 (2,408 votes)

Comments:

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Laughing Stock 

 Talk Talk

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Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

744 charts

Rank Score:

9,257

Rank in 1991:

7

Rank in 1990s:

35

Overall Rank:

173

Average Rating:

 84 (858 votes)

Comments:

79

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Spiderland 

 Slint

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[First added to this chart: 12/27/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

1,020 charts

Rank Score:

13,732

Rank in 1991:

4

Rank in 1990s:

18

Overall Rank:

95

Average Rating:

 84 (1,234 votes)

Comments:

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"After Awhile" 

 Jimmie Dale Gilmore

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'91:11 Character Sketches From a Saturday Night

Now this is what I was looking for. Country Blues that is immediate & real & raw. Character sketches that I can relate to. About human fallibility. About our flaws. Real life short stories that show just how little control we sometimes have over our lives & actions. The breadth of country music on display here is staggering and this is easily Gilmore's masterpiece. He's a worthy disciple of Townes Van Zandt, and I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who likes TVZ and his brand of country. This is now my favorite album of 1991. It's just that good. And my kids are memorized by the homespun lyrics. How they speak the simple truths of human nature in just a few lines.

Essential. [First added to this chart: 01/14/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

13 charts

Rank Score:

34

Rank in 1991:

371

Rank in 1990s:

4,237

Overall Rank:

26,164

Average Rating:

 73 (10 votes)

Comments:

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Bandwagonesque 

 Teenage Fanclub

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Power Pop
Essential

Spin took a lot of heat back in 1991 for naming this the best album of the year. I think they come out of it looking like geniuses. Easily one of the best of the year, and one of the finest power pop albums of all time. It was hardly derivative of Big Star.

Their ENTIRE discography is worth hearing. Not too many bands you can they that about! Totally agree that those three along with A Catholic Education r the highlights. 13 is underrated though. (I still need to check out The King though. ) [First added to this chart: 12/28/2017]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

295 charts

Rank Score:

1,629

Rank in 1991:

21

Rank in 1990s:

207

Overall Rank:

1,082

Average Rating:

 79 (312 votes)

Comments:

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Steady Diet Of Nothing 

 Fugazi

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Essential [First added to this chart: 01/05/2018]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

71 charts

Rank Score:

159

Rank in 1991:

111

Rank in 1990s:

1,312

Overall Rank:

7,822

Average Rating:

 77 (82 votes)

Comments:

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Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 composition

Artist	Albums	%
The Field Mice	2	2%
Superchunk	1	1%
Moose	1	1%
Ratcat	1	1%
Jack Frost	1	1%
Thin White Rope	1	1%
Nirvana	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	2,013	80/100
100/100	11/10/2020 11:28	desh79	1,281	93/100
100/100	07/16/2019 21:44	gidgidi	114	88/100
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100/100	06/29/2019 23:21	LedZep	1,078	84/100

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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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