Urban75 Album of the Year 1991

[killer b]

crowded house but no coil? this is worse than the time the fratellis made the top ten end of year list

 

[belboid]

Coil wasn't far off the bottom of the list, Talk Talk were nowhere though.

I can't believe not one other person voted for the Teenage Fanclub or the Richard Thompson though.

 

[Orang Utan]

Nice, must have been the last year before I went full techno as I owned 15 out of 20 of those

 

[AverageJoe]

Cheers Belboid!

 

[Raheem]

Just for the record, I actually do think Peggy Suicide is the best album of 1991. Although "all time" is another matter.

 

[AverageJoe]

This was my list in case anyone cares about what I was listening to when I was 21

Nevermind – Nirvana

Black Album – Metallica

The White Room – KLF

Out Of Time – REM

Mama Said – Lenny Kravitz

Blue Lines – Massive Attack

Schuberts Dip – EMF

The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy – Jello Biafra and No Means No

Woodface – Crowded House

Leisure – Blur

Ten – Pearl Jam

Screamadelica – Primal Scream

Blood Sugar Sex Magik – RHCP

Orbital (The Green Album) – Orbital

Loveless – My Bloody Valentine

30 Something – Carter USM

 

[Knotted]

A bit embarrassed about my list. Just things I've liked for decades and most of that doesn't even sound 1991. Meh. Nirvana deserved to win though IMO.

The Ex & Tom Cora - Scabbling at the Lock
Nirvana - Nevermind
Iva Bittová - Iva Bittová
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black
Lindsay Cooper - Oh Moscow
Shub-Niggurath - C'Etaient De Tres Grands Vent
Dunaj - Rosol
Fred and Ferd - Dropopera
Lindsay Cooper - An Angel on the Bridge
Robert Wyatt - Dondestan

 

[ska invita]

thank u belboid!

a couple of (three in fact) bands ive never even heard of in that list!

anyway my top of the pops

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Young Disciples - Road To Freedom
Gang Starr - Step in the Arena
Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Caveman - Positive REaction
The Freestyle Fellowship ‎– To Whom It May Concern
New York House N Authority - Restoration and Renovation
LFO ‎– Frequencies
Orbital - Orbital

Saw average joe mention Mama Said – Lenny Kravitz - forgot all about that album existing, listened to that a lot in 91! With all his money and massive scarves its weird he stopped making music.... ETA: just looked, he hasnt actually, had an album in 2018...single sounds very Radio 2

 

[ska invita]

no one posting their lists then? i like to see them

 

[killer b]

no one posting their lists then? i like to see them

I'm slightly ashamed that I forgot Laughing Stock tbh

 

[killer b]

LFO - Frequencies
Nation of Ulysses - 13 Point Plan to Destroy America
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Psí vojáci - Leitmotiv
Bikini Kill - Revolution Girl Style Now
Sepultura - Arise
4 Hero - In Rough Territory
Entombed - Clandestine
Wedding Present - Sea Monsters
La Monte Young – The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China

 

[hitmouse]

Mine fit fairly well with the urban hivemind (in alphabetical order cos I cba with ranking, deciding on ten is tricky enough):

Beat Happening - Dreamy
Bikini Kill - Revolution Girl Style Now
Born Against - Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children
Fall - Shift-Work
Jesus Lizard - Goat
Nation of Ulysses - 13 Point Plan to Destroy America
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91
Talulah Gosh - They've Scoffed the Lot

What I want to know is, did anyone actually have the courage and good taste to vote for the Wonderstuff? Edit: Also, blimey, a poor showing for Slint. Admittedly, I didn't vote for them, but I would've expected some people to?

 

[Spandex]

no one posting their lists then? i like to see them

Here ya go:

Dub Syndicate – Stoned Immaculate
Lush ‎– Spooky
Gary Clail/On-U Sound System ‎– Emotional Hooligan
The Orb ‎– The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Public Enemy ‎– Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black
LFO - Frequencies
Cabaret Voltaire ‎– Body And Soul
808 State ‎– ex:el
Ultramarine ‎– Every Man And Woman Is A Star
Orbital – Green Album
The Ragga Twins ‎– Reggae Owes Me Money
Mylene Farmer ‎– L'Autre...
4 Hero - In Rough Territory
Front 242 ‎– Tyranny >For You<
A Tribe Called Quest – Low End Theory
RDF - Wasteland
Ice-T ‎– O.G. Original Gangster
Consolidated – Friendly Fa$cism
Lassigue Bendthaus ‎– Matter
De La Soul – De La Soul is Dead

 

[AverageJoe]

I think 2001 will be even harder to do that 1991 (if that's the next year - it goes up in decades doesn't it?)

 

[hitmouse]

Anyway, although Live Through This might technically be "a different album to Pretty on the Inside" and "have come out in 1994", might as well put this here on account of how we've all just voted Pretty on the Inside to have been the best album of 1991:

Hole's Live Through This with Anwen Crawford, Part One | Bloomsbury Academic Podcast

Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives – so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a...

www.bloomsburyacademicpod.com

Hole's Live Through This with Anwen Crawford, Part Two | Bloomsbury Academic Podcast

Live Through This is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives – so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a...

www.bloomsburyacademicpod.com

Quite interesting, although a shame they didn't bother licensing any relevant music and so it's just introduced with some weak string jolliness when they could've had Violet.

 

[Steel Icarus]

No Leatherface. Ffs.