Music Gourmets Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 1991

[Zeeba Neighba]

Lots of goodies this year - bet you've got a great pick. So, let's get started!

Here's the next year in our "Great Music" thread

Welcome to 1991!

Here's the rules:

Each Friday (typically) we'll introduce a new year from 1957 through 2016. Each member selects an album released in that year with a few lines (or more) on why you picked it/enjoy it. Your selection does not have to be the most important release or the most admired release of that year (though it certainly can be), simply an album that grabs you and that you really love.

However, once an album is selected by a member, you must choose a different album.

Together we will compile quite the canon of "Great Music" and, who knows, maybe inspire each other to check out some new artists (or to revisit old forgotten classics).

This week - the albums of 1991

 

[Postalboy]

Oh boy, I get to go first!
Matthew Sweet- Girlfriend

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Oh boy, I get to go first!
Matthew Sweet- Girlfriend

Ooooh, but you didn't post that beautiful album cover

 

[patrikc325]

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Weld

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nirvana - Nevermind

 

[axolotl]

^ Speaking of Nevermind, there's this important message:

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1991

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

^ Speaking of Nevermind, there's this important message:

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1991

Don't you mean:

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Damn, it's hard out here for babies tryna make a dolla.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Spotify playlist here:

Catching up...

 

[lpfreak1170]

Oh boy, I get to go first!
Matthew Sweet- Girlfriend

This is the obvious winner...stunning masterpiece of an album. I'll have to now go with a worthy runner-up.

U2 - Achtung Baby


Still by far their best album.

 

[Mattafett]

A masterpiece of heavy music. It stuck the first time I saw the video on MTV. I was late to school because I stayed for the whole thing. Still listen to this every couple weeks.
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991)

 

[LeslieC]

R.E.M. - Out of Time

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira St.



One of those guitar guys who can play any style - country, jazz, blues, rockabilly - and make it sound good. An oft-quoted piece of trivia is that he was roommates with Roy Buchanan, and learned a lot from him. I don't know the back story, but it was a requirement of the label that his first album with them be all instrumental. And so it is.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Time to get in your 1991 picks....oooh that means me too

 

[Ojai Sam]

Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone

With their second release, Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy served notice both that Uncle Tupelo was not a one hit wonder and that "No Depression" was more than an old Carter Family song. AMG calls their approach "Gram Parsons Meets The Minutemen" but I see it as something much more than a mere mashup. UT, realizing that grunge would soon become a dead end, found in the emotional power of country music a whole new direction. Countless artists, including the likes of Ryan Adams, would shortly follow them down that road.

 

[Worm]

Pearl Jam - Ten

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Majik

Where it all clicked for the Chili Peppers - great bunch of songs that show off some different aspects of their music. Yes it's too long (c'mon guys 74 minutes!?) and fades in the final stretch but a number of great songs make up for it (killer first half of the album - Californication has the same issues, still I like that one even better)

 

[patrikc325]

HM's
Buddy Guy - Damn Right, I've Got the Blues

Jerry Garcia Band - ST

Tom Petty - Into The great Wide Open

Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam

Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence

 

[Unsomnambulist]

HMs:

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless



Slint - Spiderland



Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity



The Jesus Lizard - Goat



Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

 

[Markonomicon]

Four Horsemen 'Nobody Said It Was Easy'