Top 45 Music Albums of 1991 by Jimmy Dread

The first in an occasional series. 1991 was the year I got my first CD player, and at least 2 of the albums on this list were given to me as Xmas presents (see if you can work out which). I was still taping the Top 40 off the radio at this point, which is the first place I ever heard Nirvana, and watching the Chart Show on ITV. Happy times, and an outstanding year for music (so much so that I've picked it for the BYT2). Jimmy, August 2019

• Chart updated: 08/23/2019 21:15
• (Created: 05/10/2012 00:58).
• Chart size: 45 albums.

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Loveless 

 My Bloody Valentine

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I'm writing this on the very week that they've just re-released Loveless in a newly remastered form, with all shiny boots on and everything. It just sounds ever so slightly louder than before, which is good 'cos I fear Shields may have taken another 20 years to decide if the amount of feedback 2:07 into Only Shallow was appropriate enough. [First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

2,109 charts

Rank Score:

33,774

Rank in 1991:

2

Rank in 1990s:

4

Overall Rank:

22

Average Rating:

 86 (2,408 votes)

Comments:

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Bandwagonesque 

 Teenage Fanclub

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It was Paul Aherne at school who lent me this after I'd badgered him for his copy after seeing "What You Do To Me" on the Chart Show. I couldn't get enough of it. The lurid fluorescent cover looked great in my burgeoning CD collection at the time. [First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

296 charts

Rank Score:

1,633

Rank in 1991:

21

Rank in 1990s:

206

Overall Rank:

1,080

Average Rating:

 79 (312 votes)

Comments:

19

3. (6) 3

Blue Lines 

 Massive Attack

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Unfinished Sympathy may get all the plaudits, but it's Lately that always gives me goosebumps. Shara Nelson's best vocal performance by a mile, and WHAT. A. BEAT. Extra marks for Horace Andy - quite a coup, that - although I could do without Tricky's Bristolian drawl. [First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

709 charts

Rank Score:

5,444

Rank in 1991:

10

Rank in 1990s:

64

Overall Rank:

333

Average Rating:

 80 (879 votes)

Comments:

52

4. (23) 19

Laughing Stock 

 Talk Talk

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[First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

744 charts

Rank Score:

9,244

Rank in 1991:

7

Rank in 1990s:

35

Overall Rank:

174

Average Rating:

 84 (860 votes)

Comments:

79

5. (3) 2

Seamonsters 

 The Wedding Present

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Never got the Weddoes until my old bandmate Peter made me buy this and Bizarro one day when I wondered into The Rock Box. I think Gedge is at his most vitriolic here - you can hear the heartbreak with every Albini-engineered kick drum driving into the depths of your soul. [First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

77 charts

Rank Score:

459

Rank in 1991:

47

Rank in 1990s:

562

Overall Rank:

3,227

Average Rating:

 77 (86 votes)

Comments:

2

6. (4) 2

Nevermind 

 Nirvana

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A real love-hate-love record. Loved it when it first came out. Then every fucker had a copy and it lost its appeal, so I ditched it to the back of my record box in favour of all the Britpop bands coming through. And this is where it stayed until about 18 months ago, where my hardened limey heart gave up fighting and listened to it with youthful abandon whilst driving past a garden centre in Camberley with the window down and a checked shirt on (they're back in, you know). [First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

3,109 charts

Rank Score:

41,973

Rank in 1991:

1

Rank in 1990s:

2

Overall Rank:

14

Average Rating:

 87 (4,233 votes)

Comments:

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Screamadelica 

 Primal Scream

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As a 16 year old kid I couldn't have given a toss whether this album was about E or what. I heard Loaded on a Now compilation and couldn't get enough of it. However my fondest memory was spinning this LP in the car straight after a job interview - and "Movin' On Up" was exactly what I did, out of Debenhams and into the merry world of fragrance retail! [First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

730 charts

Rank Score:

5,413

Rank in 1991:

11

Rank in 1990s:

65

Overall Rank:

335

Average Rating:

 79 (900 votes)

Comments:

62

8. (11) 3

The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld 

 The Orb

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[First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

163 charts

Rank Score:

697

Rank in 1991:

31

Rank in 1990s:

410

Overall Rank:

2,305

Average Rating:

 76 (153 votes)

Comments:

8

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The Low End Theory 

 A Tribe Called Quest

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[First added to this chart: 02/12/2015]

Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

963 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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Ask The Ages 

 Sonny Sharrock

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Year of Release:

1991

Appears in:

76 charts

Rank Score:

378

Rank in 1991:

54

Rank in 1990s:

653

Overall Rank:

3,816

Average Rating:

 79 (55 votes)

Comments:

2

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Top 45 Music Albums of 1991 composition

Artist	Albums	%
R.E.M.	1	2%
The Fall	1	2%
The Field Mice	1	2%
Morrissey	1	2%
Talulah Gosh	1	2%
My Bloody Valentine	1	2%
The Wonder Stuff	1	2%
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Country	Albums	%
	29	64%
	11	24%
	2	4%
	1	2%
	1	2%
	1	2%

Top 45 Music Albums of 1991 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 22 from 33rd to 11th For Keeps by The Field Mice
Up 19 from 23rd to 4th Laughing Stock by Talk Talk
Up 8 from 26th to 18th Just For A Day by Slowdive

Biggest fallers
Down 31 from 10th to 41st Oi Dai by Värttinä
Down 9 from 12th to 21st Out Of Time by R.E.M.
Down 8 from 9th to 17th Gish by The Smashing Pumpkins

New entries
Ask The Ages by Sonny Sharrock
Whirlpool by Chapterhouse
Raise by Swervedriver

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