Urban75 Album of the Year 1991

[stavros]

I don't think Seamonsters has been mentioned yet.

 

[ska invita]

a vote from the ether from stethoscope:

Rebel MC - Black Meaning Good

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I didnt know this existed! Only know the 12s

 

[hitmouse]

Are there any great crust or grind records from 1991? It sort of feels like it should have been within the golden age for those scenes, or is 1991 already a bit too late? Were there any really great Japanese or Swedish punk records then?

 

[Steel Icarus]

I don't think Seamonsters has been mentioned yet.

I like the Weddos but I never could get into this for some reason.

 

[Elpenor]

Unsurprisingly no one has said either of these two, the final studio albums of two British bands that conquered the world in the 1980s, and are thoroughly unpopular on urban. They’re probably the only albums from 1991 that I listened to at that time, and I still like them both now

Dire Straits - On Every Street. It was always going to be tough to follow up Brothers In Arms, the album that defined the rise of the CD, and it shows. I do have a soft spot for the title song, and Calling Elvis.



Genesis - We can’t Dance. Some gems among the longer songs including Fading Lights and Driving the Last Spike

 

[Indeliblelink]

We've not yet mentioned the Bernard Sumner [New Order] & Johnny Marr album; Electronic - Electronic
Still sounds pretty good to me.
The US version had the single, "Getting away with it" [with Neil Tennant], included.

 

[Raheem]

Don't think this has been posted yet.

Would be somewhere in my top ten.

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s LFO’s Frequencies and I’ll fight anyone who disagrees

 

[The39thStep]

We've not yet mentioned the Bernard Sumner [New Order] & Johnny Marr album; Electronic - Electronic
Still sounds pretty good to me.
The US version had the single, "Getting away with it" [with Neil Tennant], included.

Liked the single but I remember feeling disappointed about the whole album tbh

 

[killer b]

Treepeople's Guilt, Regret, and Embarrassment - - liking this one. Post hard-core from one of the guys from Built to Spill

 

[Steel Icarus]

It’s LFO’s Frequencies and I’ll fight anyone who disagrees

How tall are you OU and what do you weigh?

 

[Orang Utan]

How tall are you OU and what do you weigh?

5’ 11” and I weigh myself later. I fight dirty and am not shy about using weapons and furniture though

 

[Steel Icarus]

5’ 11” and I weigh myself later. I fight dirty and am not shy about using weapons and furniture though

Alright, LFO it is

 

[Steel Icarus]

(It's not, though, it's Mush by Leatherface)

 

[hitmouse]

Sort of mentioned in the OP, but suppose we should properly acknowledge that REM album?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Sort of mentioned in the OP, but suppose we should properly acknowledge that REM album?

Yeah, some of it is brilliant tbh, Country Feedback, Texarkana and Half A World Away along with the obvious huge hit

 

[hash tag]

"sad but true" because "nothing else matters" enter the sandman with Metallica's black album. Not the best of '91 but one of the best albums, ever, it rocks.

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[hitmouse]

I reckon 1991 is pretty much the official start of the East Coast-West Coast beef:

 

[AverageJoe]

Noones mentioned Enigma yet have they? It was a massive album at the time.

I asked a couple of mates and they came up with this.

Spiderland - Slint
Goat - Jesus Lizard
8-way Santa - Tad
White Noise - Cop Shoot Cop
Shift-work - The Fall
most - Attwenger
Necroticism (Descanting the Insalubrious) - Carcass
I need a haircut - Biz Markie

And

Everything’s alright forever - Boo Radleys
30 Something - Carter USM
Electronic- Electronic
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Loveless - My bloody valentine
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub

 

[AverageJoe]

What sites are you looking at for "not commercially successful releases"?

I'm sure I bought loads of those but can't find a proper list of them anywhere

 

[killer b]

What sites are you looking at for "not commercially successful releases"?

I'm sure I bought loads of those but can't find a proper list of them anywhere

Best albums of 1991 - RYM/Sonemic

The greatest albums of 1991, as voted by RYM/Sonemic users

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you can filter it by genre etc - it's a great resource

 

[May Kasahara]

In the second half of '91 I moved to Wellingborough to do voluntary work with abused children. Anyone who's been to Wellingborough will know it isn't a bright cultural centre and is one of the last places to discover exciting new music (this was before the internet). But one day I was in the HMV at the Swansgate Shopping Centre in town and on the floor was a TDK cassette with no case, so I picked it up and pocketed it and took it home to see what was on it. It was Dub Syndicate's Stoned Immaculate and that's the first dub album I listened to. It totally blew me away and remains one of my favourite albums, one of those albums that I rate far more than it perhaps deserves because it introduced me to a whole style of music. I just listened to it and, yes, I still love it as much as ever.

This is such an early 90s tale, I love it and also love this album. In similar vein, I took my tape copy (Stoned Immaculate on one side, Echomania on the other) on a stoner holiday to Amsterdam, where it ended up being played in a coffee shop instead of endless Bob Marley. The barmaid was well into it, she wouldn't let us leave till both sides had played out Dub Syndicate, seeding themselves wherever they went.

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 .

This is the answer.

 

[Orang Utan]

I also have fun but hazy memories of Dub Syndicate and not just that album. They were great musicians but underrated.

 

[cloudyday]

peak ozrics

 

[cloudyday]

The final Spacemen 3 album

 

[Indeliblelink]

Alpha & Omega - Overstanding - probably my favourite album of theirs

 

[SpookyFrank]

Yeah, some of it is brilliant tbh, Country Feedback, Texarkana and Half A World Away along with the obvious huge hit

And a guest spot from KRS-one!

 

[Spandex]

peak ozrics

Ozric Tentacles always seemed to be playing at those big Megadogs at Brixton Academy, breaking up the doof doof doof dance music with their guitars and hippie space rock. Their coming on was the signal to head off and see what else was going on, stumbling around out of our heads, dancing in the foyer, rolling a spliff and chatting shit with randoms, anything else...

Except this one time, when I was as high as I've ever been on a microdot and I'd been on one of those wanders and headed into the main room just as Ozrics had come on and there was this weird wall of sound that transfixed me for a bit until it occurred to me that I'd been caught by their hippie music and I headed off again, only to find my friends wondering where the fuck I'd been for the last hour. Seems I'd watched their whole set.

 

[killer b]

a not at all bad LP of primitive garage rock from Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker

 

[ska invita]

Alpha & Omega - Overstanding - probably my favourite album of theirs

spotted this too...theres the beginnings of UK digi dub scene brewing at this time, Disciples putting out stuff, Shaka camp releases including Dread and Fred...for me its not quite there yet but it all had a very distinctive sound. Would love to have witnessed the dances from his era

a not at all bad LP of primitive garage rock from Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker

like that track a lot!
i see theres a live album after this with the great name "oh no theyre recording this show!"