Best Records of 1991

[gregpolard]

Nirvana "Nevermind"
My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
Teenage Fanclub "Bandwagonesque"
R.E.M. "Out of Time"
Dinosaur Jr "Green Mind"
Fugazi "Steady Diet of Nothing"
Neds Atomic Dustbin "God Fodder"
Melvins "Bullhead"
Public Enemy "Apocalypse 91"
Mudhoney "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge"
Tad "8 Way Santa"
Swervedriver "Raise"
Soundgarden "Bad Motor Finger"
Metallica "Metallica"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"
Pearl Jam "Ten"
Nation Of Ulysses "13 point Program To Destroy America"
Green Day "Kerplunk"
Screeching Weasel "My Brain Hurts"

Great year. I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff.

[lewdd]

Kerplunk!

[gregpolard]

Kerplunk!

Oh shit! For some reason I thought that was 1992 but just looked. December 17, 1991 according to wiki. Adding it!

[the mean]

My 1991 Top 10 (alphabetically):

DAG NASTY - “85-86” 4EP (Selfless / Dutch East India Trading)
DRIVE LIKE JEHU - s/t LP (Headhunter / Cargo)
FUEL / ANGRY SON - split EP (Skene!)
FUGAZI - “steady diet of nothing” LP (Dischord)
HEROIN - “all about Heroin” EP (Down Side / Vinyl Communications)
JAWBOX - “grippe” LP (Dischord)
PHLEG CAMP - “bully my pushy” 2EP (Allied)
R.E.M. - “out of time” LP (Warner Bros.)
SENSE FIELD - s/t CD (Run H2O)
7SECONDS - “old school” LP (Headhunter / Cargo)

[xxxMidgexxx]

My 1991 Top 10 (alphabetically):

DAG NASTY - “85-86” 4EP (Selfless / Dutch East India Trading)
DRIVE LIKE JEHU - s/t LP (Headhunter / Cargo)
FUEL / ANGRY SON - split EP (Skene!)
FUGAZI - “steady diet of nothing” LP (Dischord)
HEROIN - “all about Heroin” EP (Down Side / Vinyl Communications)
JAWBOX - “grippe” LP (Dischord)
PHLEG CAMP - “bully my pushy” 2EP (Allied)
R.E.M. - “out of time” LP (Warner Bros.)
SENSE FIELD - s/t CD (Run H2O)
7SECONDS - “old school” LP (Headhunter / Cargo)

This is a very accurate representation of where my head was at it 1991. All stellar releases. ALL of them.

[jaybird]

To add on some of the others already noted (i.e., Nirvana, etc.)

Big Drill Car - Batch
Leatherface - Mush
Superchunk - No Pocky for Kitty
Pegboy - Strong Reaction
Down By Law - S/T

[drew]

My 1991 Top 10 (alphabetically):

DAG NASTY - “85-86” 4EP (Selfless / Dutch East India Trading)
DRIVE LIKE JEHU - s/t LP (Headhunter / Cargo)
FUEL / ANGRY SON - split EP (Skene!)
FUGAZI - “steady diet of nothing” LP (Dischord)
HEROIN - “all about Heroin” EP (Down Side / Vinyl Communications)
JAWBOX - “grippe” LP (Dischord)
PHLEG CAMP - “bully my pushy” 2EP (Allied)
R.E.M. - “out of time” LP (Warner Bros.)
SENSE FIELD - s/t CD (Run H2O)
7SECONDS - “old school” LP (Headhunter / Cargo)

This is a very accurate representation of where my head was at it 1991. All stellar releases. ALL of them.

I agree. I don’t dig REMs Out of Time that much. Never did. Other than LMR, side 1 sucks. Side 2 is very good though.
One addition? Soundgarden “Badmotorfinger”

[lewdd]

Pegboy and DBL are good choices. I would even flow Pearl Jam's Ten on a list.

[drew]

Nirvana "Nevermind"
My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
Teenage Fanclub "Bandwagonesque"
R.E.M. "Out of Time"
Dinosaur Jr "Green Mind"
Fugazi "Steady Diet of Nothing"
Neds Atomic Dustbin "God Fodder"
Melvins "Bullhead"
Public Enemy "Apocalypse 91"
Mudhoney "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge"
Tad "8 Way Santa"
Swervedriver "Raise"
Soundgarden "Bad Motor Finger"
Metallica "Metallica"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"
Pearl Jam "Ten"
Nation Of Ulysses "13 point Program To Destroy America"
Green Day "Kerplunk"
Screeching Weasel "My Brain Hurts"

Great year. I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff.

I saw most of these bands during this period. Sadly, Nirvana was not one of them. Unfortunately, Metallica was.
I’ll make fun of PJ but that year I saw them twice and they really brought the house down.
Tad & Primus at The Marquee was so packed it was scary. Show happened right as All the bands broke big at the same time. Every show was totally packed and the clubs had to get larger.

[gregpolard]

To add on some of the others already noted (i.e., Nirvana, etc.)

Big Drill Car - Batch
Leatherface - Mush
Superchunk - No Pocky for Kitty
Pegboy - Strong Reaction
Down By Law - S/T

Good call on basically all of those!

[BAIN]

Citizens Arrest - Colossus
Econochrist - Another Victim
Down By Law - S/T
Heroin - All About Heroin 7"
Downcast - S/T LP
Drive Like Jehu - S/T LP
Give Me Back - Compilation
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
Merel - S/T 7"
Green Day - Kerplunk
Rorschach - Needlepack 7"
Born Against - Nine Patriotic Hymns For Children LP
Admiral - Revolving And Loading 7"
Blatz & Filth - Shit Split
Slint - Spiderland LP
Antischism - Still Life LP
Pegboy - Strong Reaction LP
Citizen Fish - Wider Than A Postcard LP

[target]

A Tribe Called Quest - low end theory

[version sound]

My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
Dinosaur Jr "Green Mind"
Fugazi "Steady Diet of Nothing"
Swervedriver "Raise"
Nation Of Ulysses "13 point Program To Destroy America”

APPROVED

ADD:

Shudder To Think - Funeral at the Movies
Slowdive - Just for a Day
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Spacemen 3 - Recurring
Lush - Spooky
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

[xxxMidgexxx]

My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
Dinosaur Jr "Green Mind"
Fugazi "Steady Diet of Nothing"
Swervedriver "Raise"
Nation Of Ulysses "13 point Program To Destroy America”

APPROVED

ADD:

Shudder To Think - Funeral at the Movies
Slowdive - Just for a Day
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Spacemen 3 - Recurring
Lush - Spooky
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

I don't remember approving anything.

[Neal]

411 - this isn't me
big drill car - batch
black sheep - a wolf in sheep's clothing
de la soul - is dead
del tha funkee homosapien - i wish my brother george was here
didjits - full nelson reilly
dinosaur jr. - green mind
the freeze - misery loves company
green day - kerplunk!
infectious grooves - the plague that makes your booty move
jesus lizard - goat
leatherface - mush
mordred - in this life
ned's atomic dustbin - god fodder
nofx - ribbed
nomeanso - 0+2=1
pegboy - strong reaction
samiam - soar
screeching weasel - my brain hurts
seaweed - despised
shades apart - dude danger
snfu - the last of the big time suspenders
treepeople - guilt regret embarassment

[FormerLurker]

GG Allin and Antiseen - Murder Junkies

[SamDBL]

GG Allin and Antiseen - Murder Junkies

Lock this motherfucker.

[patient_ot]

This is easier than typing a bunch of stuff:

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/pa ... ss.rd/1991

[lewdd]

This is easier than typing a bunch of stuff:

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/pa ... ss.rd/1991

I tried going on their last night and the thing I liked most about the site being able to do the search by genre by year seems to be gone. There was an error message that popped up about that feature not being available right now or disabled or something to that order.

[patient_ot]

This is easier than typing a bunch of stuff:

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/pa ... ss.rd/1991

I tried going on their last night and the thing I liked most about the site being able to do the search by genre by year seems to be gone. There was an error message that popped up about that feature not being available right now or disabled or something to that order.

They are probably going through some maintenance or something. Those features should normally work. They have been meaning to update to a totally new system called Sonemic for years now, but it's taking forever. I'm guessing it's just some programmers that do this in their spare time. I don't have a paid membership, but if you get one you can preview some of the Sonemic features.

[scannest]

Lotta great answers here, but yet no one has named the Best Record released in 1991 yet. Kinda crazy.

[version sound]

This is easier than typing a bunch of stuff:

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/pa ... ss.rd/1991

It does list a bunch of stuff that was reissued in some form that did not come out in 1991, though.

[xxxMidgexxx]

Shudder To Think - Funeral at the Movies .

When they were still a great band.

[Fillavoid]

So many great records came out that year. Another favorite worth mentioning: Strange Free World by Kitchens of Distinction.

[Fillavoid]

Trompe le Monde by The Pixies
Rumor and Sigh by Richard Thompson
s/t by Chagall Guevara
Astronauts by The Lilac Time
Laughing Stock by Talk Talk

[gregpolard]

Lotta great answers here, but yet no one has named the Best Record released in 1991 yet. Kinda crazy.

For some reason I always think of this as 1992! doh

[Knutsen]

Leatherface - MUSH

[patient_ot]

So many great records came out that year. Another favorite worth mentioning: Strange Free World by Kitchens of Distinction.

Very underrated these days.

[patient_ot]

This is easier than typing a bunch of stuff:

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/pa ... ss.rd/1991

It does list a bunch of stuff that was reissued in some form that did not come out in 1991, though.

That's a glitch/feature of the site. Nothing I can do about that.

[gregpolard]

Trompe le Monde by The Pixies
Rumor and Sigh by Richard Thompson
s/t by Chagall Guevara
Astronauts by The Lilac Time
Laughing Stock by Talk Talk

HOW THE HELL DID I FORGET TROMPE LE MONDE?????

[JGJR]

So many great records came out that year. Another favorite worth mentioning: Strange Free World by Kitchens of Distinction.

Very underrated these days.

Couldn't agree more; "Drive That Fast" is one of THE defining songs of that whole era in between post-punk/goth and shoegaze/dream-pop. They blurred the line between those two so well. I think SFW is their best album, too. I think if they'd toured for the (really good) album they put out 8-9 years ago, they might not be as underrated nowadays?

[Fillavoid]

So many great records came out that year. Another favorite worth mentioning: Strange Free World by Kitchens of Distinction.

Very underrated these days.

Couldn't agree more; "Drive That Fast" is one of THE defining songs of that whole era in between post-punk/goth and shoegaze/dream-pop. They blurred the line between those two so well. I think SFW is their best album, too. I think if they'd toured for the (really good) album they put out 8-9 years ago, they might not be as underrated nowadays?

I agree with your assessment, JGJR. They're incredibly underrated, and maybe a tour for their reunion record would have helped. SFW is probably my favorite, but their other albums rank high for me as well, particularly The Death of Cool. Slightly off topic, but I think Julian Swales — KOD's guitarist — deserves to be as well known as Kevin Shields or The Edge. He managed to make his guitar sound like an orchestra with his effects, and it totally transports the listener. Awesome band.

[JGJR]

So many great records came out that year. Another favorite worth mentioning: Strange Free World by Kitchens of Distinction.

Very underrated these days.

Couldn't agree more; "Drive That Fast" is one of THE defining songs of that whole era in between post-punk/goth and shoegaze/dream-pop. They blurred the line between those two so well. I think SFW is their best album, too. I think if they'd toured for the (really good) album they put out 8-9 years ago, they might not be as underrated nowadays?

I agree with your assessment, JGJR. They're incredibly underrated, and maybe a tour for their reunion record would have helped. SFW is probably my favorite, but their other albums rank high for me as well, particularly The Death of Cool. Slightly off topic, but I think Julian Swales — KOD's guitarist — deserves to be as well known as Kevin Shields or The Edge. He managed to make his guitar sound like an orchestra with his effects, and it totally transports the listener. Awesome band.

I don't disagree with any of this.

[jaybird]

HOW THE HELL DID I FORGET TROMPE LE MONDE?????

i wish more people would.

[patient_ot]

Couldn't agree more; "Drive That Fast" is one of THE defining songs of that whole era in between post-punk/goth and shoegaze/dream-pop. They blurred the line between those two so well. I think SFW is their best album, too. I think if they'd toured for the (really good) album they put out 8-9 years ago, they might not be as underrated nowadays?

SFW is probably my favorite because I heard it first. I do like the first 3 albums a lot. 4th album is good too from what I remember but I don't have a copy.

[patient_ot]

Leatherface - MUSH

Monster album that should be required listening for anyone here.

[SamDBL]

HOW THE HELL DID I FORGET TROMPE LE MONDE?????

i wish more people would.

[JGJR]

Couldn't agree more; "Drive That Fast" is one of THE defining songs of that whole era in between post-punk/goth and shoegaze/dream-pop. They blurred the line between those two so well. I think SFW is their best album, too. I think if they'd toured for the (really good) album they put out 8-9 years ago, they might not be as underrated nowadays?

SFW is probably my favorite because I heard it first. I do like the first 3 albums a lot. 4th album is good too from what I remember but I don't have a copy.

I've never heard it tbh if you mean Cowboys and Aliens, but according to most, it's regarded as their weakest. I have a friend who regards it as his favorite/the best, so really, they don't have any obvious duds unless you count that one, and again, the reunion album Folly from 2013 is excellent, too.

[JGJR]

Leatherface - MUSH

Monster album that should be required listening for anyone here.

Timely since I found a copy of the recent reissue yesterday and jumped on it to save paying UK shipping prices. I'm playing it now. Couldn't agree more; does anyone else here think that one and their last one The Stormy Petrel are by far their best?

[FormerLurker]

Only dumbasses fail to recognize "Fill Your Boots."

[jaybird]

Stormy Petrel was pretty meh IMO.... Horsebox is my 2nd favorite after Mush.

[FormerLurker]

Stormy Petrel was pretty meh IMO.... Horsebox is my 2nd favorite after Mush.

Correct. TOFGS,T.

[jaybird]

Stormy Petrel was pretty meh IMO.... Horsebox is my 2nd favorite after Mush.

Correct. TOFGS,T.

[patient_ot]

Only dumbasses fail to recognize "Fill Your Boots."

It's very good. I still need to get a copy eventually. Not as good as Mush though .