klang
klang
a good indicator of what's to come. so unique, A&O, even then.
Urban75 Album of the Year 1991
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klang
klang
A&O would have ran their Roaring Lion Sound then, setting things up nicely for the west country. Would have loved to witness that.
there's a nice version of Waiting for the Man toolike that track a lot!
i see theres a live album after this with the great name "oh no theyre recording this show!"
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.
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Genesis - We can’t Dance. Some gems among the longer songs including Fading Lights and Driving the Last Spike
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I remember listening to both of those a fair bit at the time.
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A few techno/trance bits I liked back then.
Hypernature - In Memory Of The Ritual
trippy techno sampling Burroughs
Hypernature - In Memory Of The Ritual
trippy techno sampling Burroughs
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Frequency X - Hey No Fear
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Quazar - Seven Stars
acid trance
acid trance
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Trilithon - Trance Dance128
Other TG alumni albums in 1991:
Chris & Cosey released an album of icy EBM, Pagan Tango
Psychic TV released another fake compilation of acid house bangers of mixed quality, Ultrahouse - Thee LA Connection
PTV also released another album called Direction ov Travel, but what I've heard of it isn't worth bothering with
Chris & Cosey released an album of icy EBM, Pagan Tango
Psychic TV released another fake compilation of acid house bangers of mixed quality, Ultrahouse - Thee LA Connection
PTV also released another album called Direction ov Travel, but what I've heard of it isn't worth bothering with
One of my best discoveries of 1990 was kiwi postpunk singer/songwriter Peter Jefferies - I've just come across this '91 album of shoegaze / psych folk from a band called Cakekitchen, who's main guy is one Graeme Jefferies, who turns out to be his brother (and former bandmate). It's very good anyway.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
The year is 2021,
It seems our freedom's dead and gone.
The power of the rich is held by few.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
All our freedom's dead and gone
It's with O'Leary in the grave
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
System 7 - album of the same name, noice.
mojo pixy
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1991 was the last year I was bothered with metal till about 2006; the 1990s and early 2000s were 99% electronic for me. The last metal album I bought before my 15-year betrayal was Mental Vortex, by Coroner - it's a bloody good prog-thrash album, but it wouldn't even make U75's top 1000
Therefore this isn't a vote as much as a note in the margins.
Therefore this isn't a vote as much as a note in the margins.
This is good though, cheers!1991 was the last year I was bothered with metal till about 2006; the 1990s and early 2000s were 99% electronic for me. The last metal album I bought before my 15-year betrayal was Mental Vortex, by Coroner - it's a bloody good prog-thrash album, but it wouldn't even make U75's top 1000
Therefore this isn't a vote as much as a note in the margins.
hitmouse
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Only proper metal album from 1991 I know, I think, is War Master by Bolt Thrower. It's... a bit silly? Quite fun though?1991 was the last year I was bothered with metal till about 2006; the 1990s and early 2000s were 99% electronic for me. The last metal album I bought before my 15-year betrayal was Mental Vortex, by Coroner - it's a bloody good prog-thrash album, but it wouldn't even make U75's top 1000
Therefore this isn't a vote as much as a note in the margins.
Steel Icarus
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Cathedral's Forest of Equalibrium was decent, and Voivod released Angel Rat but it's not very metal tbh
Great album though.
Steel Icarus
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Seem to remember my best pal owned Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious by Carcass simply because it amused him
La Monte Young – The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China - it's a longform trumpet drone piece, with the musicians of a trumpet ensemble playing long single notes dropping in and out to create lulls and crescendos. It's very beautiful.
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Without going off to search, the only one I can think of is Brutalize, by Roserose (Japan), but 1991 wasn't a good year for hardcore IIRC. 1992 was pretty awesome because of Brutal Truth, but we'll come to that next year
dipping into some of the extreme metal albums, this one's good - Suffocation: Effigy of the Forgotten. I've no idea how to write about this stuff tbh, but it's apparently a massively influential technical death metal LP. loads of crunchy fast riffs, double speed drumming, the singer need some strepsils.
this is good
I only dabble in extreme metal so I'm sure I miss some nuances, but it seems to me that metal has more or less reached it's final form by 1991 - I haven't heard anything more recent that doesn't use some of the same tropes and themes that were in play this year. It feels that way for quite a lot of other guitar-based music too - much of the punk, post hardcore, math rock type stuff that was around in 1991 feels like a template that's still being ploughed fruitfully now, without many further innovations in sound?
