Top 97 Music Albums of 1991
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Produced by Butch Vig. Nevermind was the album that changed everything at the exact moment it was needed. Tired hair metal was becoming dronish, and "Smells like Teen Spirit" gave us all hope for the future. This album reminded us all that we didn't have to follow the formula, that we didn't have to make crappy power ballads, that it was okay to rock without pyrotechnic guitar solos, and that you didn't have to wear spandex and makeup to be a star. Thank you, Nirvana. Always.
[First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
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1991
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37,107
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Produced by Rick Parashar & Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam is not just a band, it's a brotherhood. That's what has always made them great...you can feel the comraderie in their music. And when they have songs, they are simply great. On their debut, Ten, they had songs for days, and the result is a poweful and strong album connected by the brotherhood they already had. Grunge, blah blah blah. I don't care about how much flannel Eddie Vedder wore in the 90's. Ten is a great album, and I feel for those who don't get it.
[First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
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1991
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18,223
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1991 – ZOO ENTERTAINMENT
Produced By FRED MAHER & MATTHEW SWEET
1. Divine Intervention
2. I’ve Been Waiting
3. Girlfriend
4. Looking At The Sun
5. Winona
6. Evangeline
7. Day For Night
8. Thought I Knew You
9. You Don’t Love me
10. I Wanted To Tell You
11. Don’t Go
12. Your Sweet Voice
13. Does She Talk?
14. Holy War
15. Nothing Lasts
Matthew Sweet’s career has always been big on potential, while delivering less success. He worked early on with Michael Stipe of R.E.M., and also with Stipe’s sister Lynda. His first two albums were critically acclaimed but sold very little, leading him to sign with a new label to start off the nineties. His third album, Girlfriend, still stands as his strongest effort. With guitarists Richard Lloyd (of Television), Robert Quine and Lloyd Cole, Girlfriend, which was written following Sweet’s divorce, is loaded with pop rock gems and fine playing. The title track is a real gem, but there’s enough here to make the whole album enjoyable.
Girlfriend is special starting with the beautiful cover shot of Tuesday Weld from the late 50’s on down. “Divine Intervention” is a terrific song, as is “Winona” (written about Winona Ryder). Unfortunately, Sweet didn’t follow the path he was on at the time: his next album went for a heavier sound which had the effect of burying his songwriting skills. Nothing wrong with trying new things, which Sweet has done often, but the downside is that he’s never repeated the success he had here. Even with a few flaws, Girlfriend is the best of what Sweet has to offer. One of the true bright spots from 1991, for sure. [First added to this chart: 02/17/2021]
Produced By FRED MAHER & MATTHEW SWEET
1. Divine Intervention
2. I’ve Been Waiting
3. Girlfriend
4. Looking At The Sun
5. Winona
6. Evangeline
7. Day For Night
8. Thought I Knew You
9. You Don’t Love me
10. I Wanted To Tell You
11. Don’t Go
12. Your Sweet Voice
13. Does She Talk?
14. Holy War
15. Nothing Lasts
Matthew Sweet’s career has always been big on potential, while delivering less success. He worked early on with Michael Stipe of R.E.M., and also with Stipe’s sister Lynda. His first two albums were critically acclaimed but sold very little, leading him to sign with a new label to start off the nineties. His third album, Girlfriend, still stands as his strongest effort. With guitarists Richard Lloyd (of Television), Robert Quine and Lloyd Cole, Girlfriend, which was written following Sweet’s divorce, is loaded with pop rock gems and fine playing. The title track is a real gem, but there’s enough here to make the whole album enjoyable.
Girlfriend is special starting with the beautiful cover shot of Tuesday Weld from the late 50’s on down. “Divine Intervention” is a terrific song, as is “Winona” (written about Winona Ryder). Unfortunately, Sweet didn’t follow the path he was on at the time: his next album went for a heavier sound which had the effect of burying his songwriting skills. Nothing wrong with trying new things, which Sweet has done often, but the downside is that he’s never repeated the success he had here. Even with a few flaws, Girlfriend is the best of what Sweet has to offer. One of the true bright spots from 1991, for sure. [First added to this chart: 02/17/2021]
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1991
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[First added to this chart: 05/11/2012]
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1991
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7,100
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[First added to this chart: 02/07/2013]
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1991
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27,879
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1991 – JIVE
Produced By A TRIBE CALLED QUEST & SKEFF ANSELM
1. Excursions
2. Buggin’ Out
3. Rap Promoter
4. Butter
5. Verses From The Abstract
6. Show Business
7. Vibes And Stuff
8. The Infamous Date Rape
9. Check The Rhime
10. Everything Is Fair
11. Jazz (We’ve Got)
12. Skypager
13. What?
14. Scenario
The Low End Theory has been called the Sgt. Pepper’s of hip hop, and that may actually be the most accurate description of A Tribe Called Quest’s second album. Forget that the multitude of early 90’s references (pagers, Bell Biv Devoe, fades) sound painfully dated…this is one of the great hip hop masterpieces, and will always remain so. The key to this album, and the importance of it all,
is jazz. DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad expands on his use of jazz samples from their debut album to include pieces that are, at times, so subtle that they are almost invisible. This marriage of hip hop and jazz turns out to be completely natural, and it works amazingly well. Minimalism is something that hip hop has embraced, but with only a few exceptions, it has not done it well. Those few exceptions exist mostly on The Low End Theory, an album that both artists and producers should revisit much more often.
The highlights here are “Check The Rhime”, “Scenario” (with Busta Rhymes), and “Jazz (We’ve Got)”, but there are plenty of stellar moments. “Butter” flows like the title. “Excursions” features a nice sample from Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Everything here flows like it’s supposed to, and there’s no fluff pieces (skits), and unlike pretty much every hip hop album ever made, there is not an ounce of filler. A Tribe Called Quest had one more good album in them (the mainstream Midnight Marauders) before settling for average releases…but there will always be The Low End Theory, a beautiful and vastly important album that changed the genre of hip hop forever, in very good ways. It’s not just an important album, it’s an exceptionally good album that deserves a spot in any collection. [First added to this chart: 12/25/2014]
Produced By A TRIBE CALLED QUEST & SKEFF ANSELM
1. Excursions
2. Buggin’ Out
3. Rap Promoter
4. Butter
5. Verses From The Abstract
6. Show Business
7. Vibes And Stuff
8. The Infamous Date Rape
9. Check The Rhime
10. Everything Is Fair
11. Jazz (We’ve Got)
12. Skypager
13. What?
14. Scenario
The Low End Theory has been called the Sgt. Pepper’s of hip hop, and that may actually be the most accurate description of A Tribe Called Quest’s second album. Forget that the multitude of early 90’s references (pagers, Bell Biv Devoe, fades) sound painfully dated…this is one of the great hip hop masterpieces, and will always remain so. The key to this album, and the importance of it all,
is jazz. DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad expands on his use of jazz samples from their debut album to include pieces that are, at times, so subtle that they are almost invisible. This marriage of hip hop and jazz turns out to be completely natural, and it works amazingly well. Minimalism is something that hip hop has embraced, but with only a few exceptions, it has not done it well. Those few exceptions exist mostly on The Low End Theory, an album that both artists and producers should revisit much more often.
The highlights here are “Check The Rhime”, “Scenario” (with Busta Rhymes), and “Jazz (We’ve Got)”, but there are plenty of stellar moments. “Butter” flows like the title. “Excursions” features a nice sample from Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Everything here flows like it’s supposed to, and there’s no fluff pieces (skits), and unlike pretty much every hip hop album ever made, there is not an ounce of filler. A Tribe Called Quest had one more good album in them (the mainstream Midnight Marauders) before settling for average releases…but there will always be The Low End Theory, a beautiful and vastly important album that changed the genre of hip hop forever, in very good ways. It’s not just an important album, it’s an exceptionally good album that deserves a spot in any collection. [First added to this chart: 12/25/2014]
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1991
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10,037
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[First added to this chart: 11/29/2012]
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1991
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1,972
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1991-CAPITOL
Produced By MITCHELL FROOM & NEIL FINN
1. Chocolate Cake
2. It's Only Natural
3. Fall At Your Feet
4. Tall Trees
5. Weather With You
6. Whispers And Moans
7. Four Seasons In One Day
8. There Goes God
9. Fame Is
10. All I Ask
11. As Sure As I Am
12. Italian Plastic
13. She Goes On
14. How Will You Go
Some records are hard to rate...not this one. Tim Finn joins his brother Neil, and Crowded House, already a hugely underrated band, turns in one of the best albums of post Beatles pop rock ever made. Woodface is overflowing with great songs and amazing harmonies from the very beginning. If you're not hooked on this album by the end of "It's Only Natural", then I'm not sure what can be done for you. Woodface is not only the definitive Crowded House album, but it would be the masterpiece for almost every other band in existence. This is a classic, and this should be in every collection.
The Finn's have recorded together since, but they're still trying to match what they did here. Listen to this, then buy it. No need to thank me...I just try to steer y'all in the right direction. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
Produced By MITCHELL FROOM & NEIL FINN
1. Chocolate Cake
2. It's Only Natural
3. Fall At Your Feet
4. Tall Trees
5. Weather With You
6. Whispers And Moans
7. Four Seasons In One Day
8. There Goes God
9. Fame Is
10. All I Ask
11. As Sure As I Am
12. Italian Plastic
13. She Goes On
14. How Will You Go
Some records are hard to rate...not this one. Tim Finn joins his brother Neil, and Crowded House, already a hugely underrated band, turns in one of the best albums of post Beatles pop rock ever made. Woodface is overflowing with great songs and amazing harmonies from the very beginning. If you're not hooked on this album by the end of "It's Only Natural", then I'm not sure what can be done for you. Woodface is not only the definitive Crowded House album, but it would be the masterpiece for almost every other band in existence. This is a classic, and this should be in every collection.
The Finn's have recorded together since, but they're still trying to match what they did here. Listen to this, then buy it. No need to thank me...I just try to steer y'all in the right direction. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
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1991
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1,697
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[First added to this chart: 04/13/2012]
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1991
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701
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[First added to this chart: 05/01/2013]
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Top 97 Music Albums of 1991 composition
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| The Allman Brothers Band | 2 | 2% | |
| James Brown | 2 | 2% | |
| Nanci Griffith | 1 | 1% | |
| Angélique Kidjo | 1 | 1% | |
| Mike & The Mechanics | 1 | 1% | |
| Nirvana | 1 | 1% | |
| Squeeze | 1 | 1% | |
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62 | 64% | |
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20 | 21% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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From guigs13 01/05/2013 23:16 | #60265
1991 is just overwhelming, huh? Nice list.
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From ecwashere 10/26/2012 10:54 | #53454
Good variation on this list!
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