1991 for music

Newch91

I think it's safe to say that 1991 was one of the best, if not the best, year for music. It brought us new bands and brilliant albums.

It gave us these albums that are considered classics:

Achtung Baby - U2
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

That right there, I feel, can not be topped for any year, maybe 1967. Anyone have anythoughts on this?

musicismylife78

not just for rock though. Hip hop was in its golden age.

Joerock

musicismylife78 wrote:

not just for rock though. Hip hop was in its golden age.

True dat :ugeek:

ThumbingMyWay310

Newch91 wrote:

I think it's safe to say that 1991 was one of the best, if not the best, year for music. It brought us new bands and brilliant albums.

It gave us these albums that are considered classics:

Achtung Baby - U2
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

That right there, I feel, can not be topped for any year, maybe 1967. Anyone have anythoughts on this?

Metallica's black album came out in 1991 as well

kenny olav

I heart Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_in_music

The year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", becomes the most popular U.S. album of the year. Followed immediately by other grunge bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots, grunge dominates the U.S. charts for the next few years. Its success effectively ends pop-oriented, 1980s glam metal groups like Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison and Ratt, whose sales and critical viability were beginning to decline for about two years previously. Even so, the rock band Guns N' Roses's popularity flourishes with the release of their albums Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 both reaching selling over 10 million copies each. A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory is released this year; it would go on to be considered one of the best hip hop albums of the 1990s. A Tribe Called Quest, along with De La Soul, Dream Warriors, Gang Starr and the Poor Righteous Teachers, help define what comes to be known as alternative rap with important releases this year.

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury dies at home in London on November 24, due to AIDS complications. Rumors had been circulating that Mercury had AIDS, but the death comes as a shock to millions of fans and the music industry. The remaining members of Queen form the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the following year, a tribute concert is staged in Wembley Stadium. A sell-out crowd in attendance witness the three surviving members reuniting to play along with performances by the likes of David Bowie, Elton John, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Metallica, Annie Lennox, and George Michael.

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody goes to number one for the second time, which is the only time a single has gone to number one in the same version more than once. It is also the only time a single has gone to number one more than once on the UK Christmas charts. It has now spent a total of 14 weeks on top of the UK charts.

1991 is also the year CCM, or contemporary Christian music, reaches a new peak. Amy Grant, who had already crossed back and forth between CCM and pop in the mid-80s, achieves her (and CCM's) first #1 hit on the pop charts with the hit single "Baby Baby." Another single, "That's What Love Is For," would also top the charts, this time in the Adult Contemporary field. Meanwhile, Grant's album Heart In Motion reaches #11 on the pop chart and #1 on the Christian chart despite its non-religious objective, and quickly becomes a best-seller. Another CCM crossover artist in 1991 is Michael W. Smith, who achieves a Top Ten pop hit with his single "Place In This World." The subsequent album, Go West Young Man, is also a hit.

The massive success of Garth Brooks in this year sets the stage for the mid-1990s influx of pop-oriented country musicians. In addition, several soon-to-be pivotal bands form or release debuts, including Dave Matthews Band, Live, Phish, Spin Doctors) and stoner metal (Kyuss, Sleep, The Obsessed). Massive Attack's Blue Lines, while unique at the time, invents the sound that would eventually become known as trip hop. Entombed's Clandestine and Dismember's Like an Ever Flowing Stream are early releases from the Scandinavian metal scene. On the other side of the Atlantic, New York death metal band Suffocation release their debut full-length Effigy of the Forgotten, often considered one of the most influential extreme metal albums ever recorded. Trance music rises to prominence in the underground dance scene of Frankfurt, Germany, pioneered by such producers as Dance 2 Trance and Resistance D. U2 release their seventh album Achtung Baby, considered by many of their fans to be their best album. Metallica also release their most commercially successful self-titled album, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers break through to the mainstream with their critically and commercially acclaimed Blood Sugar Sex Magik. R.E.M. release their massive commercial breakthrough album Out of Time.

Newch91

Ah yes, forgot about Hip-Hop being at it's height then. And not really big on Metallica, but I understand it's a good album and a bit "controversial" (is that the right word?) for fans of Metallica because they said it was too "pop" (sound familiar to people?).

gabers

Right so R.E.M. - Out of Time was huge too. And one of my personal favorites - It's a Shame About Ray by the Lemonheads.

JH165252

Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusions too! Unreal year.

JordyWordy

Incredible year. So much Seminal music in one short period.
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Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing
Mr Bungle - S/T
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Orbital - S/T
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open
Michael Jackson - Dangerous.. It didnt change music but that album was huge.
The Divinyls - Divinyls (the album with "I Touch Myself" on it)

Even the pop charts were full of classics!!
Chris Isaac - Wicked Game
James - Sit Down
Leny Kravitz - It Aint Over Till Its Over
Marc Cohen - Walking In Memphis
Salt N Peppa - Lets Talk About Sex
Scorpions - Winds Of Change
The Source & Candi Staton - You've Got The Love

Also the year of "The Doors" movie, and Freddie Mercury died. ....I was only 6, and i remember some of this quite clearly. weird.

HeyWayne

Oh to be 16 again. What a year it was.

g under p

Also Ozzy Ozbourne and PRONG had a release

Peace

intodeep

No More Tears was ozzy's last good album he should have stopped then

91 was a great year. I was 13 years old and it is when i really started to get into music.

Porchsitter

intodeep wrote:

No More Tears was ozzy's last good album he should have stopped then

91 was a great year. I was 13 years old and it is when i really started to get into music.

It almost was. The "No More Tours" shows began (I believe) in 92. Ah, what could've been.

91 was an incredible year. To think that over half of the best albums of the 90s (my opinion) came out in 91 is just incredible.

Yefa

1991 was surely a fine year for music. Check out the following from 1971...and it's not a complete list of the strong albums from that year.

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Can - Tago Mago
Alice Cooper - Killer
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Crazy Horse - Crazy Horse
Faust - Faust
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Led Zeppelin - IV
John Lennon - Imagine
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Pink Floyd - Meddle
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
War - All Day Music
The Who - Who's Next

spnoone

after it got pushed back 100x, i think jane's addiction's ritual was 91 too.

bigbadbill

In 1991, I was 16 years old (turned 17 in November). I had no idea who Pearl Jam was (I think I remember this girl talk about them, along with Nirvana, in my chemistry class that year when we were in groups). The only type of music I related to at that time was rap and hip hop. Groups I liked were Too Short, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, MC Breed, Ice Cube, NWA, Eazy E, Special Ed, L.L. Cool J, Run DMC, Ice T, King Tee, Beastie Boys, etc. In January 1992, one of my friends got me into listening to Nirvana (he said it was good work-out music...whatever).

craigb

1969.

Led Zeppelin I - Led Zep
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zep
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Tommy - The Who
Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Space Oddity - David Bowie
The Stooges - The Stooges
The Soft Parade - The Doors

And so many more great albums were released...proving that 1969 was the best year in music. Although 1991 was pretty awesome, too.

BamaPJFan

musicismylife78 wrote:

not just for rock though. Hip hop was in its golden age.

The Humpty Dance is your chance to do the Hump!!!

Newch91

craigb wrote:

1969.

Led Zeppelin I - Led Zep
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zep
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Tommy - The Who
Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Space Oddity - David Bowie
The Stooges - The Stooges
The Soft Parade - The Doors

And so many more great albums were released...proving that 1969 was the best year in music. Although 1991 was pretty awesome, too.

I think 1967 tops 1969, although 1969 is pretty damn good. Here's '67:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beates
Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Axis: Bold As Love -The Jimi Hendrix Experince
The Doors - The Doors
Strange Days - The Doors
Disraeli Gears - Cream
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
The Who Sell Out - The Who
Winds of Change - The Animals
Mellow Yellow - Donovan
John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan

DirectionOfTheEye

Tragically Hip - Road Apples was out in '91 too. Gets overlooked...

Kevinman

spnoone wrote:

after it got pushed back 100x, i think jane's addiction's ritual was 91 too.

I think it was 1990, maybe late 90 though.

Kevinman

How about 1994,

Soundgarden Superunknown
NIN Downward Spiral
Blur Parklife
Weezer Blue Album
Jeff Buckley Grace
Oasis Definitely Maybe
Korn Korn

just to name a few....


Pearl Jam files complaint with TM

Kurt Cobain

Thoughts_Arrive

Newch91 wrote:

I think it's safe to say that 1991 was one of the best, if not the best, year for music. It brought us new bands and brilliant albums.

It gave us these albums that are considered classics:

Achtung Baby - U2
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

That right there, I feel, can not be topped for any year, maybe 1967. Anyone have anythoughts on this?

I share your thoughts and was about to post 'best since 1967' but you beat me to it.

Thoughts_Arrive

Newch91 wrote:

craigb wrote:

1969.

Led Zeppelin I - Led Zep
Led Zeppelin II - Led Zep
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Tommy - The Who
Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Space Oddity - David Bowie
The Stooges - The Stooges
The Soft Parade - The Doors

And so many more great albums were released...proving that 1969 was the best year in music. Although 1991 was pretty awesome, too.

I think 1967 tops 1969, although 1969 is pretty damn good. Here's '67:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beates
Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Axis: Bold As Love -The Jimi Hendrix Experince
The Doors - The Doors
Strange Days - The Doors
Disraeli Gears - Cream
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
The Who Sell Out - The Who
Winds of Change - The Animals
Mellow Yellow - Donovan
John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan

You forgot these gems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealistic_Pillow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Und ... d_%26_Nico

Thoughts_Arrive

What about 1977?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash_%28album%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Mind ... ex_Pistols

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_Home

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_to_Russia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damned,_Damned,_Damned

Punk rock explosion!