Best Albums of 1991
Explore the best albums of 1991, based on over 2 million album rankings across 59,000 charts.
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""Nirvana is most certainly an all time favorite band of mine, but i think that Nirvana's album Nirvana has better songs than Nevermind." LOL, that might be because its a greatest hits collection." Reply
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1234567890 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +15 votes (19 helpful | 4 unhelpful)
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1991
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"It's funny. If you listen to just the melodies, you're not left with anything too memorable. Song structures are simple. The guitar sounds are pretty amazing, but you wouldn't listen only to that by itself. The lyrics, what you can decipher at least, are nothing to die for either. Somehow everyth..." [+] Reply
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1991
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27,007
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"30 years later....and I still enjoy revisiting this album. I was considering dropping it from my top 100, but after another listen I realise what a poor decision that would be. In fact I will lift it up a few more places. Like fine wine, it seems to get better with age." Reply
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1991
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18,078
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"Before i listened to this, i looked up for the lyrics of the album and thought "this is about a dead captain i think, it cant be deep or dark" 39 minutes later ... "OH GOD WHY THEY CALL THIS ALBUM A MEME, THIS IS THE MOST OBSCURE THING I'VE HEARD IN MY LIFE, POOR CAPTAIN, OH GOD, THE I MISS YOU O..." [+] Reply
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1991
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11,553
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"When U2 released "Achtung Baby" in 1991 it caught me off guard. What a departure from previous albums. It seemed so ahead of it's time. A extreme personality metamorphosis happened here. U2 radically shifted gears, picking up on different sounds and added it to their own. Not many bands survive t..." [+] Reply
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~SMiLE~ | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1991
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"The album that got me into Hip-Hop. The jazzy flow is supreme, with Ron Carters bass on Verses From The Abstract, being the highlight. 25 years old, and still one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time." Reply
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1991
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9,750
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"Well, this comment previously had a link to the Red Krayola song 'Listen to This', but I removed it, as I don't think Mayo Thompson's way of saying the sentence sounds like he's refering to anything else but the sound that comes afterwards. My intention was of course to get Mayo Thompson to tell ..." [+] Reply
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1991
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8,244
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"Some musicians are just meant to play together and Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the perfect example of this. The Chili Peppers had to go through a lot of lineup changes before they finally found their ultimate incarnation, the one who proved to be their most inspired and composed as a group, an absol..." [+] Reply
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1991
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"So much debate over this album within the 'true metal community' on the merit of it. It became commercial, it introduced a whole new audience to metal, it wasn't as ferocious as there previous work. So because Metallica seemed to of sold out, the hardcore metallers dismissed it. But this is a sto..." [+] Reply
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1991
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7,097
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"Incredible album, so chilled and the perfect soundtrack to getting completely mashed. Higher Than The Sun one of my favourite tracks ever." Reply
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HigherThanTheSun | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1991
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 1 of 100
Best Albums of 1991 composition
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| Various Artists | 13 | 1% | |
| Frank Zappa | 4 | 0% | |
| Dinosaur Jr. | 3 | 0% | |
| Hawkwind | 3 | 0% | |
| NoMeansNo | 2 | 0% | |
| Iancu Dumitrescu | 2 | 0% | |
| James Brown | 2 | 0% | |
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448 | 45% | |
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237 | 24% | |
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40 | 4% | |
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31 | 3% | |
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29 | 3% | |
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26 | 3% | |
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21 | 2% | |
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