Best rock album of 1991?

YellowSnow

PurpleThrobber

YellowSnow

Nevermind - Nirvana

After sexting with @GrundleStiltzkin I'm guessing I have probably listend to Achtung Baby a lot more than Ten or Nevermind. Those mormons love them some U2 and I went to HS with @89ute 's polygamy loving peeps.

YellowSnow

Nevermind - Nirvana

I'm planning to do 2 album shit poles per day. Tomorrow will be 1966 and 1992, then 1967 and 1993...you get the picture. This was we can please the ok boomers, gen x bros and millennial douche canoes all at once.

PurpleThrobber

YellowSnow said:

I'm planning to do 2 album shit poles per day. Tomorrow will be 1966 and 1992, then 1967 and 1993...you get the picture. This was we can please the ok boomers, gen x bros and millennial douche canoes all at once.

Nothing pleases the millennials.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Use Your Illusion I & II - G n' R

If REM gets any votes I'm gonna burn this motherfucker down. Faggiest, whiniest fucking band of all time and I hate them.

whlinder

Nevermind - Nirvana

1991 being without question the greatest year of my life even though I didn't know it at the time (Redskins 14-2, SB Champ, Huskies 12-0, won natty and popped off), I include all of the music I like which was released then. Nevermind, Ten, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the Black album, I never associate Achtung Baby with that year. I like U2, and I love that album and many of the songs on it, but it's not a 1991 album to me.

Into the Great Wide Open was also 1991, not one of Petty's best but warrants mentioning.

YellowSnow

Nevermind - Nirvana

whlinder said:

1991 being without question the greatest year of my life even though I didn't know it at the time (Redskins 14-2, SB Champ, Huskies 12-0, won natty and popped off), I include all of the music I like which was released then. Nevermind, Ten, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the Black album, I never associate Achtung Baby with that year. I like U2, and I love that album and many of the songs on it, but it's not a 1991 album to me.

Into the Great Wide Open was also 1991, not one of Petty's best but warrants mentioning.

Yeah, but still it was a mediocre row boat season - ie 4th in the Natty race (Cincinnati regatta since UW still was in IRA hiatus).

Fishpo31

Ten - Peal Jam

Being the Boomer (NOT a sooner, FTG) that I am, I actually spent the early 90’s listening to a lot of jazz and blues...I was over U2, over G n’ R, and never dialed in to the angst and despair of Nirvana and SG, which was not really that different than PJ, but I could understand Kurt’s vocals, Eddie’s not so much. For me, PJ had a little more groove (prolly Cruzen / Abruzzese). Was exposed to Metallica, which is my #2 here. Ten grew on me, as has Nevermind, but Ten had a jump...Blast away!

alumni94

Bad Motorfinger - Soundgarden

As a drummer, Badmotorfinger is the best drummer album of the 90's.

DerekJohnson

Ten - Peal Jam

Fishpo31 said:

Being the Boomer (NOT a sooner, FTG) that I am, I actually spent the early 90’s listening to a lot of jazz and blues...I was over U2, over G n’ R, and never dialed in to the angst and despair of Nirvana and SG, which was not really that different than PJ, but I could understand Kurt’s vocals, Eddie’s not so much. For me, PJ had a little more groove (prolly Cruzen / Abruzzese). Was exposed to Metallica, which is my #2 here. Ten grew on me, as has Nevermind, but Ten had a jump...Blast away!

I'm not a Boomer but I love Ten. If I had looked at this poll on a different day, I might have picked Nevermind.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Use Your Illusion I & II - G n' R

I voted based on my 18-year self's favorite at the time. Ten and Never Mind are probably tied for 47-year old me.

YellowSnow

Nevermind - Nirvana

Fishpo31 said:

Being the Boomer (NOT a sooner, FTG) that I am, I actually spent the early 90’s listening to a lot of jazz and blues...I was over U2, over G n’ R, and never dialed in to the angst and despair of Nirvana and SG, which was not really that different than PJ, but I could understand Kurt’s vocals, Eddie’s not so much. For me, PJ had a little more groove (prolly Cruzen / Abruzzese). Was exposed to Metallica, which is my #2 here. Ten grew on me, as has Nevermind, but Ten had a jump...Blast away!

I've always felt Pearl Jam was basically grunge packaged for classic rock bros. Alive is basically the Free Bird of the early 90s.

chuck

Nevermind - Nirvana

YellowSnow said:

Fishpo31 said:

Being the Boomer (NOT a sooner, FTG) that I am, I actually spent the early 90’s listening to a lot of jazz and blues...I was over U2, over G n’ R, and never dialed in to the angst and despair of Nirvana and SG, which was not really that different than PJ, but I could understand Kurt’s vocals, Eddie’s not so much. For me, PJ had a little more groove (prolly Cruzen / Abruzzese). Was exposed to Metallica, which is my #2 here. Ten grew on me, as has Nevermind, but Ten had a jump...Blast away!

I've always felt Pearl Jam was basically grunge packaged for classic rock bros. Alive is basically the Free Bird of the early 90s.

Top 40 friendly "grunge". Pearl Jam was the first band from that wave that I thought was ok at the time. That's how I know they suck.

Fishpo31

Ten - Peal Jam

YellowSnow said:

Fishpo31 said:

Being the Boomer (NOT a sooner, FTG) that I am, I actually spent the early 90’s listening to a lot of jazz and blues...I was over U2, over G n’ R, and never dialed in to the angst and despair of Nirvana and SG, which was not really that different than PJ, but I could understand Kurt’s vocals, Eddie’s not so much. For me, PJ had a little more groove (prolly Cruzen / Abruzzese). Was exposed to Metallica, which is my #2 here. Ten grew on me, as has Nevermind, but Ten had a jump...Blast away!

I've always felt Pearl Jam was basically grunge packaged for classic rock bros. Alive is basically the Free Bird of the early 90s.

Spot on...as I have learned over the years of the different likes and influences of the Seattle bands and musicians, PJ’s list is / was probably closest-aligned to my own, certainly in 91...Brah

Swaye

Metallica (Black Album) - Metallica

Was really close. The last good (not great) Metallica album, or the epic from Soundgarden.... went with Metallica because Cornell is a quitter.

dnc

Nevermind - Nirvana

Hell of a year for rock.

Hard to top this shit though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcJEvMcnEg

greenblood

Metallica (Black Album) - Metallica

The "Enter Sandman" intro is arguably the best intro of all-time

dnc

Nevermind - Nirvana

greenblood said:

The "Enter Sandman" intro is arguably the best come out of the locker room entrance song of all-time

greenblood

Metallica (Black Album) - Metallica

dnc said:

greenblood said:

The "Enter Sandman" intro is arguably the best come out of the locker room entrance song of all-time

Hell yeah, nothing made you feel more like a bad ass than running out on to the field to that song

Doog_de_Jour

Achtung Baby - U2

YellowSnow said:

whlinder said:

1991 being without question the greatest year of my life even though I didn't know it at the time (Redskins 14-2, SB Champ, Huskies 12-0, won natty and popped off), I include all of the music I like which was released then. Nevermind, Ten, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the Black album, I never associate Achtung Baby with that year. I like U2, and I love that album and many of the songs on it, but it's not a 1991 album to me.

Into the Great Wide Open was also 1991, not one of Petty's best but warrants mentioning.

Yeah, but still it was a mediocre row boat season - ie 4th in the Natty race (Cincinnati regatta since UW still was in IRA hiatus).

Oh! If that’s the case than fuck 1991.