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Urban75 Album of the Year 1991

Trying to think of other stuff people might want to include, the last KLF album was 1991:
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Also, as with riot grrl, suppose it was an important year for first-wave black metal, but not many records came out then, so anyone who's desperate to vote for a Burzum album will have to wait for the 1992 list. Darkthrone did Soulside Journey but apparently that's before they started playing BM?
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Slightly housier side project of KMFDM & Thrill Kill Kult. The 12" version of Conquer Your House is the best thing either of them did (but that version's not on the album). This does more of the same across an album with cheery titles like We Love War and Finger on the Trigger.
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As 1991 albums from industrial side projects go, anyone know the Steroid Maximus one?
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The Leonard Cohen tribute album I'm Your Fan is mostly pretty forgettable, but then there's John Cale's version of Hallelujah, the only cover of Hallelujah we ever need to hear again (maybe the only cover of Hallelujah that was ever needed?)
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Pixies I Can't Forget is great as well:
 
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French synthpop album of the year. Lead single Désenchantée was a massive hit in France, staying at the top of the charts for two months. I fucking love this song, totally one of my desert island discs:

 
Heavenly Vs Satan is a decent indie-pop album - I was reading about their singer Amelia Fletcher (who I saw performing a couple of months ago in her latest band Swansea Sound, she's still great) and apparently her post indie pop career has seen her serve as chief economist at the office of fair trading, boardmember at the financial conduct authority, and professor of competition policy at the university of east anglia. rock & roll. :cool:

 
Was just listening to that this evening, it's up on bandcamp:


(And presumably other places as well but that's where I found it)
Solid album, wasn't instantly blown away by it though.
 
Probably my favourite Half Man Half Biscuit album Mcintyre, Treadmore & Davitt - the songwriting isn't overwhelmed by the whackiness like it can be on some of them

 
Stephen Stapleton & David Tibet - The Sadness of Things. I think this, along with Musical Pumpkin Cottage, is some of the best stuff either of them have done.

 
This is listed as an LP on discogs, 33rpm 6 tracker, runs to a good 30 odd minutes LP? its an EP really but whatever
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X-101 - X-101

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"Underground Resistance-related techno project of Mike Banks, Jeff Mills and Robert Hood."
Sonic Destroyer is the big track off that but its all good
 
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Uwe Schmidt is a prolific producer with many, many aliases. Lassigue Bendthaus is an electro-industrial project of his. The whole Matter album is great, but Automotive is immense:

 
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock. You can call it post rock , you can call parts of it jazz, You can talk about the production, its recording techniques., you can talk about the space between the notes , or how sound is amplified by silence or how voice can be an instrument itself. You can call it "exercise in self-indulgence and nothing more.". However, to me it's a master piece , how the fuck a boy pop group singing songs like Talk Talk , however good a pop song that was, ends up with the final two remaining members of the group leaving us this as their last album is as incredible as the album itself. Its simply beautiful, at the same time majestic and humble. inspiring comforting . Music as an epiphany .

 
Three big UK rap albums
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Caveman - Positive Reaction

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Silver Bullet - Bring Down The Walls No Limit Squad Returns

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Hijack - The Horns Of Jericho

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Into this great album of shoegazish noise pop from Band of Susans (the date on the youtube clip is wrong I'm fairly sure)

 
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Blue Meanies were a great ska-punk band that I saw a couple of times. I picked up this cassette album at one of their gigs. It's their only album. They released one 7", which wasn't as good as this, and there's apparently a live cassette of them and Citizen Fish at the Venue in New Cross in '92 (which was the second time I saw them). I can't find any music from this on the internet, so you'll have to trust me that it's one of the albums of the year.
 
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I mean SLTS is for me one of the best songs ever made but the trouble is it's about ten times as good as everything else on Nevermind, as good a record as some of it is. I always preferred Dinosaur to Nirvana anyway, Bleach is a great record in parts and Sliver is a brilliant single, but I've said elsewhere on Urban Nirvana were more interesting as people than their songs ever were, kind of the opposite to how I feel about Dinosaur and Sonic Youth
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I never got Nirvana and loved Dinosaur Jr but my favourite guitar album of the year was No Pocky For Kitty. Produced by Albini and released by Matador it was meant to be a huge breakthrough album but then go overshadowed by the damn grunge explosion.
I should be on trend and say Spiderland but to me the final track on that album is just so superior to the rest and I hardly play the other tracks.
 
No albums to do it justice (the Human Resource what did Dominator one isnt that bad tbf) but when it comes to 1991 Belgium had it going on
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Belgian/Euro rave (91) for the weekend

Nice article here: 20 best Belgian, R&S Euro Techno/Rave tracks http://www.factmag.com/2009/07/29/20-best-euro/ I do disagree a little with a point made in the article that it was the original rave sound, and everyone else was catching up - yes Belgian tunes were a big influence on the UK...
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ETA: Ive done a couple of 1991 dance mixes as it goes - love this year

BelgianeSque hardcore
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1991 Hardcore Techno Bizniz

At this time of the year here in the UK Bangface , the annual 4-day all things hardcore dance festival goes off - and it really does go off!...
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More UK style raving



Oh and another old UK rave fashion mix here
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Flashback to 91 - Ravers Selection

Brushing off some personal favourites from the golden days of raving - broke a sweat mixing this let me tell you! Original 1991 junglism. ...
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Gigi Masin & Allesandro Monti's Wind Collector - decent quality new age ambient stuff. Masin has recently found himself a late-blossoming career after one of his albums was reissued a few years ago to raptures from people who buy records from Boomkat - tbf he's great so fair play. On tour this month I think.

 
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