Thanks for including Death’s Human on your list. My buddy Paul Masvidal is the other guitar player here. Also, the amazing drummer on this album, Sean Reinert, has since passed away, sadly.🤘🏼🙏🏼
Wow, not since the Retrun of the Jedi have i been so sad to see the conclusion coming up of such a great franchise. Job well done. I enjoyed this series a ton, even if my wife kept begging me to turn over the remote so she could watch CSI . Looking forward to the final episode.
Achtung Baby is a definite "Top 10 of 1991" entry for me. I'll also defend 'Zooropa' - u2 always were more interesting when they would take a risky artistic swing over what they've been doing over the past 25 years.
Greatness again! Agreed on many of these. And this edition of the Billy Corgan impression one of my napping cats just twitched his ears. He liked the rat part. Thanks for doing this countdown! You've reminded me of old friends and some new ones to listen
This has been a fun experiment. There’s some on this list that I’ll have to check out that I haven’t heard before. Thanks for that! Though I still have a bone to pick with that Tin Machine placement! Good job!
Tea Party is awesome. Songs from this are on album Splendour Solis which is fantastic but their next album The Edges Of Twilight is my favorite. Well worth checking out.👍🎶U2 is kinda sh!t now but Actung Baby is a fantastic album. Top 3 album for me from them. Thanks for the Chapterhouse name drop. Interesting stuff. Team Blur for sure along with Suede, The Verve and Pulp over Oasis easily. My favorite Kravitz album as well. Great list and content. Hopefully you do more years in the future.
Tea Party are pretty great, here in Canada they were pushed big all over TV and Radio. I think their best stuff is their middle three albums "Transmission", "Tripytch" and "The Interzone Mantras". Stepping away from the Zeppelin/Doors influences, and entering more industrial/alternative territory, this is where they were truly something special.
Right there with you on Prince - Dirty Mind through Sign O The Times is his best stuff by far. This has been a great series. 1991 was never my favorite year of music, but there were some good things that came out of it for sure. Thanks! ETA: I met the guy who wrote Fields of Joy, the Lenny Kravitz tune - it was Michael Kamen, who went on to work with Pink Floyd's string arrangements on The Wall, and Metallica, plus a zillion movie soundtracks. I wasn't much of a Lenny fan until I heard that song and realized it was the same one I used to listen to on the New York Rock Ensemble's "Roll Over" album - a cool obscurity definitely of its time.
Alot of work you put into this, fun to watch. Many albums I had never heard of. Will be checking out Chapterhouse and Tea Party. Cool thing is since it is ‘91, these will sound just fine on cd. Totally agree early late 80’s and earlt 90s were the sweet spot for good sound on cd. Glad you put U2’s album in there. Achtung Baby was when U2 finally wrote an album that was not only solid all the way through but had an edge (no pun intended) to it that wasn’t pretentious. U2 were still ahead of the times on this album. And it had, what, half an album of very good to outright great hits? To me, their best album. Everyone sites Joshua Tree, but to me that could be an EP and would be a better presentation. Achtung Baby got played alot in the car back then and is the only U2 album that I would consider a keeper all the way through. War is also right up there. I would place it second. But it is such a different album than Achtung. Too long a post, now I am sounding pretentious. Cool to see Lenny on there also. First three albums are winners. Down to luck 13, Will we see Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese??…or maybe we did, I can’t remember. Thanks for the video Robert!
Hey Robert, been watching for a few months, eventually remembered to subscribe a couple of weeks back 😅 i've noticed you've said you love albums with a variety of sounds a few times and i've wanted to ask you if you've every checked out Lordis Killection album, with you liking rock/metal it's something if you haven't already listened to, you might enjoy :) --- been loving this journey from 1991 and honestly, if you have the time to do this, i'd love to see you do one for more years, especially the 80s :D i'm sure you'd have so many good stories to tell about some of those bands/albums! keep up the great work!
I’ve been a big Coil fan since the late 80s…great to see them here. Stolen & Contaminated Songs is an alternative version of Love’s Secret Domain and I like it even more.
I need to revisit Tea Party, I recall hearing 'The River' and buying that CD immediately but being let down by the rest, gonna give it another shot. (funny you mention Riding Easy records, I'm kinda friends with Daniel who runs it) btw I still LOVE the sound of that Metallica album, I always use it when testing out any audio equipment -perfect sound IMO!
Have to say I thought 'Loveless' by My Bloody Valentine would have made the top 10......In particular the songs Blown A Wish, When You Sleep, Come In Alone, What You Want, but really the whole album is a masterpiece. One of those albums I wasn't convinced by at first, not really knowing what to expect, but grew and grew on me the more I listened: I can still pinpoint the exact breakthrough moment for me, it was about halfway through the track Blown A Wish towards the end of the album, and I just thought "jeez, this is just music from another planet. This is just _so, so_ good"
I love that "Birthday" song on Blur's Leisure too. I didn't hear about blur until Parklife and the whole Oasis thing, but Birthday was always the standout to me on that first album. The UK version had "Sing" on it - I only knew "Sing" from the Trainspotting soundtrack. I'm with you on U2 too - I was still mostly with them until "how to Build an Atomic Bomb" - Pop was sort of embarrassing but still had some good stuff, and the Miss Sarajevo/Passengers album was about 50/50, but Zooropa was interesting. I never understood why people hated Rattle and Hum so much. I liked the movie and love the album, but maybe I'd see it differently if I watched it again...
So Teenage Fanclub was my number one! It’s the album I love the most from the year and still play I regularly. Thirteen is good and maybe Gramd Prix is even better. I had U2 at number two. Fascinated to see what the next lot are - could be stuff I forgot? Oh and that Warrior Soul track is fantastic! Never heard of them before here in England
Noel Gallagher was a roadie/guitar tech for Inspiral Carpets before he decided to throw his lot in with Liam. Well he sort of decided - he was let go because he partied harder than the band.
Being in highschool from '91-'95 I'd say the Black album was the most played album everywhere over that stretch. Probably because they were already a known entity. So much great music in the early 90s, especially if you liked guitars. Needless to say I expected something new and exciting when I entered college, but I'd say the answer was definitely closer to "Nope", especially on the radio.
Mama said tour i saw lenny live and he staged dived backwards and we carried him to the back and the front of the house all sweaty 100 lbs of him. He did a lot of Let love rule on that tour
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless. Too low. Its a top #5 album despite the massive competition for 1991. Groundbreaking production and the evolution of Kevin Shields' grand vision is one of the great stories of music
I remember that original review for "Nevermind" in Rolling Stone (as well as the Teenage Fanclub review). I remember thinking they got it wrong; a little too critical and dismissive. I was familiar with their earlier stuff, and it was exciting that they were putting out an album on a major label, making a video, etc. It seemed they were on the same path as Soundgarden (indie-major-more exposure etc.). The review was not totally shocking; Rolling Stone had done the same thing with "Paul's Boutique" a couple of years earlier. They lambasted it as a piece of trash in the original review, then about a year later they had a "revisionist" review and called it a masterpiece. R.S. just seemed more and more like a '60s relic at this point in time.
Kudos to you for the inclusion of Teenage Fanclub. As a Scot myself, it's always heartening to see my people, the Scots, gain a following outside of our (otherwise tiny) nation. So many great songs on Bandwagonesque.
Sounds that drums don't make. One is "Here's that 20 quid I borrowed last week". That might just be my drummer. He's chased more dragons than Saint George lol. Thanks for doing these rankings I've been enjoying them.
Okay-- more albums I have. Prince, U2 (and like REM I think I played Acthung Baby more often than Nevermind that year. Definitely one of my favorite U2 albums), Blur (I'm a big fan of their famous album, Parklife. I call it the Magical Mystery Tour album of the 90s :) But this one is good too). Do have some mp3 tracks of Teenage Fanclub and Lenny Kravitz (and yes, I agree his cover of "American Woman" was not good).
Oof, Metallica's Black Album ahead of Loveless is certainly a choice. :D But nah, glad to see Loveless, Bandwagonesque, Whirlpool and especially Love's Secret Domain up here. Although as a very straight edge person with five Coil albums on the shelf, I would heavily disagree with the first sentence in their segment. Looking forward to the top 13!
With Achtung Baby U2 returns back to Europe after the Americana of Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum. And there was a lot going on in Europe that time, the Berlin wall, the collapsing of the communist part of Europe and so on. And I think U2 really capture very well the atmosphere of what was going in Europe at that time. So for me its maybe their most essential album they made and even the most essential album of 1991.
Ahhh, Metallica's "Black Album". Just listened to this again for the first time in many many years, and I think it's great. Almost like AC/DC "Back in Black" album, in the sense that, every track is solid. Almost no filler.
Only heard 5 of these. Of course I'm still kinda sick of the Metallica, but probably wouldn't turn it off either. Kinda like that U2 album. Not sure why I don't have that yet, as I have been buying up all the early ones. Zooropa is my cut off. That one by Coil I havent heard since the 90s. Got a feeling my girlfriend at the time wrote it down wrong on the tape. Because I still call it L.S.D. Love's Secret Domain. That Lenny has been on my to play list for awhile now. Got that with a small binder of loose discs. And I definitely don't need that My Bloody Valentine ever again. See what sucks is when friends recommend certain albums. And then I just aint impressed with them. Well that's definitely one of them. Didn't really like it back in the 90s either. So with me thinking, oh let's give it another chance. Nope. Went straight into my pile to get rid of. And yes, that Tea Party CD did get reissued on vinyl not that long ago. I have never seen that CD up here in Canada. But you can pretty much get all the others out of the dollar bin any day of the week. Just not that indie one. I would hate to see what that would go for up here now. Especially if it happens to be an autographed copy. But I would say they are pretty big up here. Then again, they are just 2 hours away. So speaking along those lines. I have avoided looking up the wiki list of 1991 albums. And i don't even remember if I am right, but I bet that Road Apples by The Tragically Hip might not be on your list. Pretty sure its from 91. Because their next albums tour was when Nirvana opened for them for maybe 1 show. And that's just unheard of. Even back then. Looking forward to the next video. I guess I should take a peek at my other comments to see if I was right in how many I would have listened to.
This is from a channel called AP Mastering. I post this in response to your comments about cds. I'm not sure I totally buy it, but it is interesting. Oh yeah, the countdown is getting intense! th-cam.com/video/30EznMSZMBU/w-d-xo.html
Acthung baby modernized u2 for the 90s and got me full into them. I have done 5 songs from it at karaoke the deeper cuts the better. I still have the recordings of me singing these tracks
I'll miss this series. It's been perfect for dull and dark January evenings. Thank you Robert.
It sounded like he was planning to do another year. We can only hope! 🤞🙏
You’re hilarious man. Definitely the most entertaining vinyl channel.
Thanks Robert. A cople bands I was unaware of : Tea Party and Inspiral Carpets that I need to delve into.
Thanks for including Death’s Human on your list. My buddy Paul Masvidal is the other guitar player here. Also, the amazing drummer on this album, Sean Reinert, has since passed away, sadly.🤘🏼🙏🏼
I was ready with the volume for your Billy Corgan this time.
Wow, not since the Retrun of the Jedi have i been so sad to see the conclusion coming up of such a great franchise. Job well done. I enjoyed this series a ton, even if my wife kept begging me to turn over the remote so she could watch CSI . Looking forward to the final episode.
Seeing Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque this high up as a fantastic album made me tear up with joy, thank you Robert!🥹Some great choices here! 🤗
Achtung Baby is a definite "Top 10 of 1991" entry for me. I'll also defend 'Zooropa' - u2 always were more interesting when they would take a risky artistic swing over what they've been doing over the past 25 years.
"Soon" is one of my favorite closing tracks of all time.
Greatness again! Agreed on many of these. And this edition of the Billy Corgan impression one of my napping cats just twitched his ears. He liked the rat part. Thanks for doing this countdown! You've reminded me of old friends and some new ones to listen
This has been a fun experiment. There’s some on this list that I’ll have to check out that I haven’t heard before. Thanks for that! Though I still have a bone to pick with that Tin Machine placement!
Good job!
Tea Party is awesome. Songs from this are on album Splendour Solis which is fantastic but their next album The Edges Of Twilight is my favorite. Well worth checking out.👍🎶U2 is kinda sh!t now but Actung Baby is a fantastic album. Top 3 album for me from them. Thanks for the Chapterhouse name drop. Interesting stuff. Team Blur for sure along with Suede, The Verve and Pulp over Oasis easily. My favorite Kravitz album as well. Great list and content. Hopefully you do more years in the future.
I knew it…I knew it…You’re saving Amy Grant’s “Heart in Motion” for the top 10!
Spoiler. Lol
Tea Party are pretty great, here in Canada they were pushed big all over TV and Radio. I think their best stuff is their middle three albums "Transmission", "Tripytch" and "The Interzone Mantras". Stepping away from the Zeppelin/Doors influences, and entering more industrial/alternative territory, this is where they were truly something special.
The Tea Party were great, one of the most underrated bands from the 90’s.
They're huge in Australia too. Not sure why America hasn't heard of them.
Right there with you on Prince - Dirty Mind through Sign O The Times is his best stuff by far. This has been a great series. 1991 was never my favorite year of music, but there were some good things that came out of it for sure. Thanks!
ETA: I met the guy who wrote Fields of Joy, the Lenny Kravitz tune - it was Michael Kamen, who went on to work with Pink Floyd's string arrangements on The Wall, and Metallica, plus a zillion movie soundtracks. I wasn't much of a Lenny fan until I heard that song and realized it was the same one I used to listen to on the New York Rock Ensemble's "Roll Over" album - a cool obscurity definitely of its time.
Still hanging in there Robert! Be sad when it’s over❤️
Thanks!! 1992 is next.
@ Alright!
Alot of work you put into this, fun to watch. Many albums I had never heard of. Will be checking out Chapterhouse and Tea Party. Cool thing is since it is ‘91, these will sound just fine on cd. Totally agree early late 80’s and earlt 90s were the sweet spot for good sound on cd.
Glad you put U2’s album in there. Achtung Baby was when U2 finally wrote an album that was not only solid all the way through but had an edge (no pun intended) to it that wasn’t pretentious. U2 were still ahead of the times on this album. And it had, what, half an album of very good to outright great hits? To me, their best album. Everyone sites Joshua Tree, but to me that could be an EP and would be a better presentation. Achtung Baby got played alot in the car back then and is the only U2 album that I would consider a keeper all the way through. War is also right up there. I would place it second. But it is such a different album than Achtung. Too long a post, now I am sounding pretentious. Cool to see Lenny on there also. First three albums are winners.
Down to luck 13, Will we see Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese??…or maybe we did, I can’t remember.
Thanks for the video Robert!
100% agree on the Lenny Kravitz. This was the album that got me into his music. Been here since the first 1991 video.
Fantastic videos bro definitely a difficult undertaking. I may not have agreed with all of your ranking i definitely respect it
Thanks!!
Hey Robert, been watching for a few months, eventually remembered to subscribe a couple of weeks back 😅 i've noticed you've said you love albums with a variety of sounds a few times and i've wanted to ask you if you've every checked out Lordis Killection album, with you liking rock/metal it's something if you haven't already listened to, you might enjoy :) --- been loving this journey from 1991 and honestly, if you have the time to do this, i'd love to see you do one for more years, especially the 80s :D i'm sure you'd have so many good stories to tell about some of those bands/albums! keep up the great work!
I’ve been a big Coil fan since the late 80s…great to see them here. Stolen & Contaminated Songs is an alternative version of Love’s Secret Domain and I like it even more.
I need to revisit Tea Party, I recall hearing 'The River' and buying that CD immediately but being let down by the rest, gonna give it another shot. (funny you mention Riding Easy records, I'm kinda friends with Daniel who runs it) btw I still LOVE the sound of that Metallica album, I always use it when testing out any audio equipment -perfect sound IMO!
Warrior Soul - Wasteland 🤘🤘🔥🥁🎸
Warrior Soul was the opening act for Queensryche in 1991or 92.
Good stuff.
Have to say I thought 'Loveless' by My Bloody Valentine would have made the top 10......In particular the songs Blown A Wish, When You Sleep, Come In Alone, What You Want, but really the whole album is a masterpiece.
One of those albums I wasn't convinced by at first, not really knowing what to expect, but grew and grew on me the more I listened: I can still pinpoint the exact breakthrough moment for me, it was about halfway through the track Blown A Wish towards the end of the album, and I just thought "jeez, this is just music from another planet. This is just _so, so_ good"
I love that "Birthday" song on Blur's Leisure too. I didn't hear about blur until Parklife and the whole Oasis thing, but Birthday was always the standout to me on that first album. The UK version had "Sing" on it - I only knew "Sing" from the Trainspotting soundtrack. I'm with you on U2 too - I was still mostly with them until "how to Build an Atomic Bomb" - Pop was sort of embarrassing but still had some good stuff, and the Miss Sarajevo/Passengers album was about 50/50, but Zooropa was interesting. I never understood why people hated Rattle and Hum so much. I liked the movie and love the album, but maybe I'd see it differently if I watched it again...
So Teenage Fanclub was my number one! It’s the album I love the most from the year and still play I regularly. Thirteen is good and maybe Gramd Prix is even better.
I had U2 at number two.
Fascinated to see what the next lot are - could be stuff I forgot?
Oh and that Warrior Soul track is fantastic! Never heard of them before here in England
Fun fact, the only Job Noel Gallagher had outside of Oasis was being a roadie for Inspiral Carpets.
Death - Human - what a true masterpiece!
Hell yeah! Beyond killer.
Love this series!! ❤
Thanks!!
Shoegaze was definitely used in the 90’s, it was coined in the early 90’s actually and it was used all the time in my circles.
Absolutely.
Noel Gallagher was a roadie/guitar tech for Inspiral Carpets before he decided to throw his lot in with Liam. Well he sort of decided - he was let go because he partied harder than the band.
I Agree, U2 Achtung Baby is great album.
Being in highschool from '91-'95 I'd say the Black album was the most played album everywhere over that stretch. Probably because they were already a known entity. So much great music in the early 90s, especially if you liked guitars. Needless to say I expected something new and exciting when I entered college, but I'd say the answer was definitely closer to "Nope", especially on the radio.
I love that Inspiral Carpets album.
Hi Robert, I like U2 music and the Album Auchtung Baby.
I freaking love Warrior Soul!!!!!
I'd just like to point out that Spin magazine, in their 1991 year end top 20, ranked Teenage Fanclub #1, over Nirvana, My Bloody Valentine, etc.
Another Canadian classic that I'm guessing isn't in the final video is Road Apples by the Tragically Hip. Check that one out
Spot on 👍🎶
Mama said tour i saw lenny live and he staged dived backwards and we carried him to the back and the front of the house all sweaty 100 lbs of him. He did a lot of Let love rule on that tour
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless. Too low. Its a top #5 album despite the massive competition for 1991. Groundbreaking production and the evolution of Kevin Shields' grand vision is one of the great stories of music
I remember that original review for "Nevermind" in Rolling Stone (as well as the Teenage Fanclub review). I remember thinking they got it wrong; a little too critical and dismissive. I was familiar with their earlier stuff, and it was exciting that they were putting out an album on a major label, making a video, etc. It seemed they were on the same path as Soundgarden (indie-major-more exposure etc.). The review was not totally shocking; Rolling Stone had done the same thing with "Paul's Boutique" a couple of years earlier. They lambasted it as a piece of trash in the original review, then about a year later they had a "revisionist" review and called it a masterpiece. R.S. just seemed more and more like a '60s relic at this point in time.
Kudos to you for the inclusion of Teenage Fanclub. As a Scot myself, it's always heartening to see my people, the Scots, gain a following outside of our (otherwise tiny) nation. So many great songs on Bandwagonesque.
Best U2 album even though we tried to hate it. Last great Metallickah album and Lenny rode the coattailes.
Love the debut Chapterhouse & the many My Bloody Valentine 💝 fans would have to wait 24 years for the follow-up. Kevin Shields indeed very deliberate.
Sounds that drums don't make. One is "Here's that 20 quid I borrowed last week". That might just be my drummer. He's chased more dragons than Saint George lol. Thanks for doing these rankings I've been enjoying them.
Still hoping to see God Fodder. If not you need to redo the list 😂
There's still one video left.
Coil are fucking great.
LSD is one of my favourites.
Okay-- more albums I have. Prince, U2 (and like REM I think I played Acthung Baby more often than Nevermind that year. Definitely one of my favorite U2 albums), Blur (I'm a big fan of their famous album, Parklife. I call it the Magical Mystery Tour album of the 90s :) But this one is good too). Do have some mp3 tracks of Teenage Fanclub and Lenny Kravitz (and yes, I agree his cover of "American Woman" was not good).
So you think CD's do more than be coasters? :)
together as one is about conjoined twins
Oof, Metallica's Black Album ahead of Loveless is certainly a choice. :D
But nah, glad to see Loveless, Bandwagonesque, Whirlpool and especially Love's Secret Domain up here. Although as a very straight edge person with five Coil albums on the shelf, I would heavily disagree with the first sentence in their segment.
Looking forward to the top 13!
With Achtung Baby U2 returns back to Europe after the Americana of Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum. And there was a lot going on in Europe that time, the Berlin wall, the collapsing of the communist part of Europe and so on. And I think U2 really capture very well the atmosphere of what was going in Europe at that time. So for me its maybe their most essential album they made and even the most essential album of 1991.
Love me some “Disco Hospital.” 🪩 🏥
Trying My Bloody Valentine again.
Death pushed boundaries, both musically and socially (two gay members.) RIP Chuck and Sean.
Coil!💜
Robert, do you like Chilie’s, in Ohio!? 🌶️
Chapterhouse !!!!
Ahhh, Metallica's "Black Album". Just listened to this again for the first time in many many years, and I think it's great. Almost like AC/DC "Back in Black" album, in the sense that, every track is solid. Almost no filler.
Only heard 5 of these. Of course I'm still kinda sick of the Metallica, but probably wouldn't turn it off either. Kinda like that U2 album. Not sure why I don't have that yet, as I have been buying up all the early ones. Zooropa is my cut off. That one by Coil I havent heard since the 90s. Got a feeling my girlfriend at the time wrote it down wrong on the tape. Because I still call it L.S.D. Love's Secret Domain. That Lenny has been on my to play list for awhile now. Got that with a small binder of loose discs. And I definitely don't need that My Bloody Valentine ever again. See what sucks is when friends recommend certain albums. And then I just aint impressed with them. Well that's definitely one of them. Didn't really like it back in the 90s either. So with me thinking, oh let's give it another chance. Nope. Went straight into my pile to get rid of. And yes, that Tea Party CD did get reissued on vinyl not that long ago. I have never seen that CD up here in Canada. But you can pretty much get all the others out of the dollar bin any day of the week. Just not that indie one. I would hate to see what that would go for up here now. Especially if it happens to be an autographed copy. But I would say they are pretty big up here. Then again, they are just 2 hours away. So speaking along those lines. I have avoided looking up the wiki list of 1991 albums. And i don't even remember if I am right, but I bet that Road Apples by The Tragically Hip might not be on your list. Pretty sure its from 91. Because their next albums tour was when Nirvana opened for them for maybe 1 show. And that's just unheard of. Even back then.
Looking forward to the next video. I guess I should take a peek at my other comments to see if I was right in how many I would have listened to.
Metallica should have hung it up in 91
I liked some of their stuff after 1991, when did that "Fuel" song come out? I thought that rocked. I lost track of them after the 90s.
This is from a channel called AP Mastering. I post this in response to your comments about cds. I'm not sure I totally buy it, but it is interesting. Oh yeah, the countdown is getting intense!
th-cam.com/video/30EznMSZMBU/w-d-xo.html
Acthung baby modernized u2 for the 90s and got me full into them. I have done 5 songs from it at karaoke the deeper cuts the better. I still have the recordings of me singing these tracks
Loveless is the greatest album of all time.