Best Albums of 1991

Listed below are the best albums of 1991 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
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1991 year summaryThe best artists of 1991 were Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine, Pearl Jam, Slint, U2, A Tribe Called Quest, Talk Talk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and Massive Attack.
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"Takes you at time when things were a little different, when with a little help from your friends we were together as one for those long nights and chilled mornings at least!!"  Reply
- inparadiso | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"What to make of Out Of Time? As an R.E.M mega fan I’ve grappled with this question for 25 years & TBH I still don’t know & may never fully understand. The 1st 4 songs in Radio Song , Loosing My Religion, Low and Near Wild Heaven are average to say the least before Endgame , Shiny Happy People ( y..."  [+]  Reply
- Brad1770 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (8 helpful | 2 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"While Doolittle and Surfer Rosa get a lot more attention from critics, I place Trompe le Monde right there alongside those two albums in my own Pixies pantheon. Probably the most important difference between Trompe le Monde and the Pixies' earlier work is the reduced role of Kim Deal, making this..."  [+]  Reply
- buzzdainer | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1,965
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"Use Your Illusion should have been one disc. Would have gone down in history. My perfect Use Your Illusion: 1. Civil War 2. Yesterdays 3. Don't Cry (original) 4. November Rain 5. Perfect Crime 6. Double Talkin Jive 7. Estranged 8. You Could Be Mine 9. Garden of Eden 10. Coma Submit your own. Can'..."  [+]  Reply
- migglemo | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Beware! Anyone familiar with "Deserter's Songs", this is NOT chamber pop, but beautiful noise pop. If you like noise, this is the place to go. Blew my mind first time I heard it!"  Reply
- CellarDoor | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"I bought this album inspired by their great compilation "Recurring Dream" . "Woodface" was the logical choice with the outstanding "Weather With You" and the fine singles "Fall at Your Feet" and "It's Only Natural" - moreover "Woodface" is the only album to feature both Finn brothers. At first th..."  [+]  Reply
- Rovers | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"While the album as a whole may not be musically that dark, there is a haunting and gloomy aura hovering over the album, especially on tracks such as I'm Going Slightly Mad, Bijou and The Show Must Go On. Mercury was a dying man, but you genuinely cannot tell just by listening to the sheer power i..."  [+]  Reply
- DN02RZU | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1991
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