Albums of the Year | 1991

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  • After giving a brief overview of the year in music, Jason, Kramzer, and Joe each make their picks for the best albums of 1991 and discuss what they think makes them so great.
    Best-Selling Album: Mariah Carey: s/t
    Longest No. 1 Single: I Love Your Smile by Shanice
    Grammy - Album of the Year: Unforgettable...with Love by Natalie Cole
    Grammy - Record of the Year: Unforgettable by Natalie Cole
    Grammy - Song of the Year: Unforgettable by Natalie Cole
    Groups Formed: Archers of Loaf, Belly, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Cake, Clem Snide, Counting Crows, Face to Face, Frente!, Grant Lee Buffalo, Incubus, The Muffs, Oasis, Refused, Smoking Popes, Tripping Daisy, Unwound, Wax, Vertical Horizon
    Groups Disbanded: Bad English, Devo, The Dream Syndicate, Galaxie 500, Japan, Modern English, Psychedelic Furs, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Vanilla Fudge, Y&T
    Musicians Who Died: Steve Clark, Serge Gainsbourg, Steve Marriott, Johnny Thunders, Gene Clark, David Ruffin, Stan Getz, Rob Tyner, Miles Davis, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Eric Carr, Freddie Mercury
    Top-Grossing Film: Terminator
    TIME’s Person of The Year: Ted Turner
    Don't forget to comment below with your favorite albums of '91, and if you'd like, take a stab at guessing what our picks for 1992 will be.
    Thanks for watching!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 415

  • @Pazuzu82
    @Pazuzu82 3 роки тому +11

    1- Nevermind - Nirvana
    2- Achtung Baby - U2
    3- Trompe le Monde - Pixies
    4- Out Of Time - REM
    5- The Black Album - Metallic

  • @russthompson8050
    @russthompson8050 3 роки тому +14

    1. My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
    2. Slint- Spiderland
    3. Pixies-Trompe le Monde
    4. REM- Out of Time
    5. Smashing Pumpkins- Gish

  • @celticbird2398
    @celticbird2398 3 роки тому +14

    -Metallica - The Black Album
    -Michael Jackson - Dangerous
    -Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
    -Queen - Innuendo
    -Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Into the Great Wide Open
    AOTY: Nirvana - Nevermind
    🏆

    • @garfieldcummings6539
      @garfieldcummings6539 3 роки тому +2

      I love your list. Even though I wouldn’t have any of these in my top 5 - they are all incredible. This is what makes music so wonderful. MJ dangerous for example - even tho it’s a huge pop hit - is
      Extremely slept on.
      No more tears and into the great wide open are so solid. And black album is a classic.
      It’s great that we can slot things differently based on our own perceptions but all these wonderful albums speak to us in different ways. Peace.

  • @stevefleming8742
    @stevefleming8742 3 роки тому +13

    1. ACHTUNG BABY U2
    2. WOODFACE CROWDED HOUSE
    3.OUT OF TIME REM
    4.MAMA SAID LENNY KRAVITZ
    5.DIAMONDS AND PEARLS PRINCE

  • @tomklenskjr.2491
    @tomklenskjr.2491 3 роки тому +11

    My favorite album, of 1991 is:
    Out of Time by R.E.M. - Losing my Religion came out when I was fifteen years of age, and it was a revelatory moment for me .. it has a very eclectic track listing, which I love every last bit of. To this day, the whole album sounds incredible to me.
    Other favorites:
    Mental Jewelry by Live
    Achtung Baby by U2
    Into the Great Wide Open by Tom Petty
    Don’t Try This at Home by Billy Bragg
    Fear by Toad the Wet Sprocket
    Stars by Simply Red
    The Beast Inside by Inspiral Carpets
    Electronic by Electronic
    Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub
    Nevermind by Nirvana
    Rumor and Sigh by Richard Thompson
    Back from Rio by Roger McGuinn

  • @edreynolds5769
    @edreynolds5769 3 роки тому +7

    5. Blur - Leisure
    4. Electronic - Electronic
    3. Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear
    2. OMD - Sugar Tax
    1. Ocean Blue - Cerulean

  • @Christopher-jv2ec
    @Christopher-jv2ec 3 роки тому +10

    1) OUT OF TIME-R.E.M. 2) ACHTUNG BABY-U2 3) THE SOUL CAGES-Sting 4) TEN-Pearl Jam
    5) SHEPHERD MOONS-Enya

    • @mrp4242
      @mrp4242 3 роки тому +1

      Excellent choices here.

    • @179rich
      @179rich 3 роки тому

      Agreed. I love all those choices as well.

  • @mrtb7676
    @mrtb7676 2 роки тому +4

    10. Pearl Jam - Ten
    9. Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam
    8. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
    7. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
    6. Nirvana - Nevermind
    5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    4 Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
    3 Slint - Spiderland
    2. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
    1. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

  • @davidgagen9856
    @davidgagen9856 3 роки тому +7

    1. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
    2. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
    3. Out of Time - REM
    4. Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
    5. Honey Steels Gold - Ed Kuepper
    6. Doughboy Hollow - Died Pretty
    7. Rumor & Sigh - Richard Thompson
    8. Ten - Pearl Jam.
    9. Nevermind - Nirvana
    10. Achtung Baby - U2

  • @juliancuena4164
    @juliancuena4164 3 роки тому +6

    1. Nirvana - Nevermind
    2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    3. Pearl Jam - Ten
    4. Metallica - Metallica
    5. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
    6. RHCP - Blood Sugar sex magik
    7. A tribe called quest - The low end theory
    8. Massive attack - Blue lines
    9. R.E.M - Out of time
    10. Talk Talk - Laughing stock
    Phenomenal year. Best year of the '90s maybe. Close with 1994

    • @Hi-kq1vi
      @Hi-kq1vi 3 роки тому +1

      No question-I think 1993 was the second strongest year behind 1991 though, jsut ahead of 1994.

  • @RandyforRoyals
    @RandyforRoyals 3 роки тому +9

    My choices for 1991
    1. Aching Baby-U2
    2. Rumor & Sigh-Richard Thompson
    3. Hymns To The Silence-Van Morrison
    4. The Globe-Big Audio Dynamite
    5. Temple Of The Dog-Temple Of The Dog
    6. Out Of Time-R.E.M.
    7. The Ghosts That Haunt Me-Crash Test Dummies
    8. Marc Cohn-Marc Cohn
    9. Don’t Try This At Home-Billy Bragg
    10. Girlfriend-Matthew Sweet

  • @benjamincrutcher1069
    @benjamincrutcher1069 3 роки тому +11

    So happy to see Matthew Sweet on here, one of my favorite artists ever! Would love to see you all do a least to best on him one day!!!

    • @christianewen3227
      @christianewen3227 3 роки тому +1

      I second that 👍🏻

    • @Sanpablo147
      @Sanpablo147 3 роки тому +1

      I love his record before Girlfriend called Earth. Still my favorite Matthew Sweet album.

  • @albarton7189
    @albarton7189 3 роки тому +8

    1. Night Ride Home - Joni Mitchell
    2. Seal - Seal
    3. Achtung Baby - U2
    4. On Every Street - Dire Straits
    5. Storyville - Robbie Robertson

    • @dancurtin9362
      @dancurtin9362 3 роки тому +1

      i overlooked 'On Every Street'! i know it's not supposed to be, but i think it's my favorite Dire Straits album...

    • @davidbeckman7925
      @davidbeckman7925 3 роки тому

      Omg I played Seal's debut to death.. Such a great, great album. Good call. 🎶🤗

  • @Hi-kq1vi
    @Hi-kq1vi 3 роки тому +8

    1. REM-Out Of Time
    2. Metallica-Black Album
    3. Nirvana-Nevermind
    4. U2-Achtung Baby
    5. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-Into The Great Wide Open
    6. Red Hot Chilli Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    7. Pearl Jam-Ten
    8. Ice Cube-Death Certificate
    9. G&R Use Your Illusion 1
    10. G&R Use Your Illusion 2
    This is another 1967 year-so many classic albums that cannot even make my top ten-Simply Red-Stars, Michael Jackson-Dangerous, Lenny Kravitz-Mama Said, De La Soul-De La Soul Is Dead, Sting-The Soul Cages, Primal Scream-Screamadelica, Van Morrison-Hymns To The Silence, Prince-Diamonds & Pearls, Talk Talk-Laughing Stock, Crowded House-Woodface, NWA-Efil4zaggin, Pixies-Trompe Le Monde, St Etienne-Foxbase Alpha, Public Enemy-Apocalypse 91, Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger, Massive Attack-Blue Lines, Seal-Seal, Ozzy Osbourne-No More Tears, Richard Thompson-Rumour & Sigh, The Fall-Shiftwork.

  • @varsityfan2000
    @varsityfan2000 3 роки тому +8

    My favorite albums of 1991 are:
    1. The Lilac Time - "Astronauts"
    2. Billy Bragg - "Don't Try This At Home"
    3. Michael Jackson - "Dangerous"
    4. Saint Etienne - "Foxbase Alpha"
    5. Kitchens of Distinction - "Strange Free World"
    Honorable Mentions:
    The Field Mice - "For Keeps"
    My Bloody Valentine - "Loveless"
    Electronic - "Electronic"

    • @NormanWorm
      @NormanWorm 3 роки тому

      Lilac Time have never made a bad album!! Love 'em

  • @benderrodriguez5934
    @benderrodriguez5934 3 роки тому +8

    My Top 5:
    1. U2 ´´Achtung Baby´´
    2. NIRVANA ´´Nevermind´´
    3. PEARL JAM ´´Ten´´
    4. METALLICA ´´Metallica´´
    5. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ´´Blood Sugar Sex Magik´´
    Greetings from Canary Islands

  • @5150-for-music
    @5150-for-music 3 роки тому +6

    1. Into The Great Wide Open by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
    2. Mama Said by Lenny Kravitz
    3. No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne
    4. Ten by Pearl Jam
    5. Diamonds And Pearls by Prince & The New Power Generation

  • @darrellwhitman2967
    @darrellwhitman2967 3 роки тому +4

    My List :
    5. Metallica - Metallica
    4. Achtung Baby - U2
    3. Mama Said - Lenny Kravitz
    2. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
    1. Nevermind - Nirvana

  • @lovethyself744
    @lovethyself744 3 роки тому +3

    Very good topic guys ! 1991 was my birth year eh eh but yes good energy and video !

  • @jamesbaxterfromax
    @jamesbaxterfromax 3 роки тому +5

    1. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
    2. Trompe Le Monde - Pixies
    3. Spiderland - Slint
    4. Blue Lines - Massive Attack
    5. Screamadelica - Primal Scream
    What a year! Maybe the best of the 90s even. Could build a whole additional top 5 on the runner ups!

  • @PaulShemmy
    @PaulShemmy 3 роки тому +4

    Love your channel guys... great list. Maybe red hot chilli peppers in there, Nevermind of course and possibly Ozzy’s No more tears ... keep up the good work.

  • @martinfarnworth6659
    @martinfarnworth6659 3 роки тому +6

    1. Electronic - Electronic
    2. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
    3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    4. Soundgarden - Superunknown
    5. 808 State Ex:cel
    Others- Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur JR, Massive Attack, Kitchens Of Distinction, Mercury Rev. I was 17 that year so new music had a big impression but great year much more than 1992 . Hard to put in order but top 5 probably in order of what I listened to most.

  • @kevlar_t4echo
    @kevlar_t4echo 3 роки тому +8

    Top 8...
    Pearl Jam -Ten
    U2 -Achtung Baby
    R.E.M. -Out of Time
    Queen -Innuendo
    Temple Of the Dog
    Blues Traveler -Travelers and Thieves
    Massive Attack -Blue Lines
    Mercury Rev -Yerself Is Steam
    For consideration:
    Fates Warning -Parallels
    Julian Cope -Peggy Suicide
    The Tragically Hip -Road Apples
    Metallica -The Black Album
    Toad the Wet Sprocket -Fear
    Widespread Panic -s/t
    Richard Thompson -Rumor and Sigh
    Nirvana -Nevermind
    Robbie Robertson -Storyville
    Dinosaur Jr. -Green Mind
    Savatage -Streets -A Rock Opera
    Soundgarden -Badmotorfinger
    Talk Talk -Laughing Stock
    This Mortal Coil -Blood
    Throwing Muses -The Real Ramona
    Bela Fleck and the Flecktones -Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
    Bodeans -Black and White
    Bruce Cockburn -Nothing But A Burning Light
    Midge Ure -Pure
    Primus -Sailing the Seas of Cheese
    Slint -Spiderland
    Slowdive -Just For a Day

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому +1

      Another vote for Mercury Rev. That gets a thumbs up from me.

  • @thecroft6070
    @thecroft6070 3 роки тому +6

    You guys pretty much nailed '91, I have nothing to add. For '92 I would include Harvest Moon by NY, and Henry's Dream by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 😉

  • @mjk4576
    @mjk4576 3 роки тому +8

    Fun choices!! I will say with Nevermind I would have liked an explanation from at least 1 of you guys why Nevermind didn’t make any of your top 5’s considering its legendary status? My top 5. Nirvana Nevermind. U2 Achtung baby. Pixies Trompe le mond. Guns N’ Roses use your illusion 2. Temple of the Dog. Wonderful year! Keep up the great work!

    • @TastesLikeMusic
      @TastesLikeMusic  3 роки тому +5

      Hey MJK, for me Nevermind is a top 10. It’s a little too overplayed so I think I take it for granted a little bit. - Joe

    • @dans3765
      @dans3765 Рік тому

      I have Nevermind at 7. It’s a great album, and it’s influence is undeniable because it did usher in a new era in rock music and swept away the hair bands that defined the 80’s. But when I’m ranking my favorites I’m not counting influence or importance. I rarely listen to it anymore but I do listen to Achtung Baby, Into the Great Wide Open and some of the others on this list. Also ‘91 is a massive year. Deep with quality.

  • @stratman6939
    @stratman6939 3 роки тому +5

    5.Into the Great Wide Open-Tom Petty
    4.Luck of the Draw-Bonnie Raitt
    3.Waking Up the Neighbors-Bryan Adams
    2.Temple of the Dog
    1.Achtung Baby

  • @kevtruth
    @kevtruth 3 роки тому +6

    Love Joe's pick of Richard Thompson Rumour And Sigh. 1991 was a great year for music.

  • @Michael253
    @Michael253 3 роки тому +3

    Runner Ups:
    Achtung Baby - U2
    Hymns To The Silence - Van Morrison
    Rumor & Sigh - Richard Thompson
    Cruel Invention - Sam Phillips
    Favorite Album of the Year:
    Mighty Like a Rose - Elvis Costello

  • @steveramsey6562
    @steveramsey6562 3 роки тому +5

    I know now 91 is mostly remembered for Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but I remember the biggest music release that year was Use your Illusion, that made the mainstream news outlets with stories of record stores opening at midnight and people lining up before hand to get it. I agree with Joe that it should have been cut at least in half, would have been an all time great. Good video guys.

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому +2

      I'll second that. I'm not the biggest fan of November Rain but had that album been cut down to the best 9 or 10 songs it would have lived up to the hype. To me, the biggest music related news story was when Nevermind knocked Michael Jackson's Dangerous off the top of the Billboard chart. That was a big deal at the time.

  • @threestringsomg
    @threestringsomg 3 роки тому +6

    And here comes the year of the undeniable masterpiece.....Nevermind....youve gotta be in denial if it's not near top of your thoughts for 1991.....that album is an all-timer.......
    5 Out of Time REM
    4 Nevermind (my third fave Nirvana record)
    3 Arise Sepultura
    2 Loveless My Bloody Valentine
    1 Use Your illusions 1 and 2...Guns N Roses.....I'd be in denial not to admit that these two records were were just massive at the time and huge in my house growing up. Great epic song writing throughout and both out the same year. An amazing achievement.
    special mentions Innuendo Queen, Black Album Metallica (also huge that year but for me not Metallica's best listen these days), Gish Smashing Pumpkins

    • @179rich
      @179rich 3 роки тому +1

      Use You Illusion I made my list at number 12. Much of it kicks major ass but I consider some of it to be filler which held it back.

  • @brentschildt9091
    @brentschildt9091 3 роки тому +3

    Wow, I didn't think I'd ever see one of you pick a Richard Thompson album. Especially in a year like 1991. One of my all time favorite artists. Rumor and Sigh would probably be my pick for best album of the year, but then I'm definitely biased.

  • @mrp4242
    @mrp4242 3 роки тому +6

    My Top-5 (I was 15 to start 1991, these top 5 essentially haven’t moved in 30 years)
    1. Actung Baby, U2 ua-cam.com/video/NHa1ThS9avA/v-deo.html
    2. Fear, Toad The Wet Sprocket ua-cam.com/video/iNEt60MoK_I/v-deo.html
    3. Shepherd Moons, Enya ua-cam.com/video/T2zau-Xrg4I/v-deo.html
    4. Ten, Pearl Jam ua-cam.com/video/5ZH2it92ZmA/v-deo.html
    5. Nevermind, Nirvana ua-cam.com/video/PbgKEjNBHqM/v-deo.html
    Honorable mentions:
    Leveling the Land (The Levellers): ua-cam.com/video/H6lk9bG8Qnw/v-deo.html
    Leisure (blur): ua-cam.com/video/LJzCYSdrHMI/v-deo.html
    Metallica ua-cam.com/video/YEEBCSComdM/v-deo.html
    Schubert Dip (EMF): ua-cam.com/video/sfCLt0kTd5E/v-deo.html
    Godfodder (Ned’s Atomic Dustbin): ua-cam.com/video/HqGzBqPnNBk/v-deo.html
    Blood Sugar Sex Majik (Red Hot Chili Peppers): ua-cam.com/video/GLvohMXgcBo/v-deo.html
    And this list doesn’t include such memorable stuff as a Tribe Called Quest, REM, GNR, Tom Petty. So much good stuff that year!

  • @CliveBarnesMusic
    @CliveBarnesMusic 3 роки тому +2

    Great job as usual guys. Many thanks for doing these videos. Much appreciated

  • @painless465
    @painless465 3 роки тому +4

    Gotta give Joe props to recognizing "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"by RT. What a fantastic song

  • @roxannewalsh
    @roxannewalsh 3 роки тому +7

    Off topic:
    Albums as discussed in this series are understood as an art form of its own and more than just a couple of tracks sharing the same physical medium, at least the ones mentioned here fall into this category. So we avoid compilations even on the price of those rare ones that work as an artistic statement nevertheless, especially for artists that are/were not "album artists".
    For me, 1991 was special in the way that a box set was the event of that year - I am normally not a friend of that format, but here is the exception:
    James Brown - Star Time ("The hardest working man in show business" is part of the "soundtrack of my life". He was on the radio in the 60s, his music played at all parties of my youth, he was on TV and in movie soundtracks. He influenced nearly everyone I was listening to.
    And...I had not a single James Brown LP in my collection in 1991. His records were strange assemblies of a hit and then part2 of that hit and then some obscure instrumental and some filler - and often he released 2 or 3 or 4 in one year.
    I saw this box and read the track list and suddenly noticed that I knew about 80 percent of these tunes. I immediately bought it and it stayed open near the CD player for nearly a year. It is nothing to listen to from start to finish, it is 4 times 70 minutes, but I listened to it back and forth and across, 5 to 10 tracks at a time and it always blew me away. It also made me check a lot of other artists I knew but not listened to too often, Sly Stone, George Clinton as well as Otis, Prince and many more.)
    So, in that particular way, it was my album of the year...(there is my regular 1991 list as well)

    • @Ras137
      @Ras137 3 роки тому +1

      I agree Star Time is the best put together box set ever. Even the liner notes are great.

    • @179rich
      @179rich 3 роки тому +1

      My favorite James Brown are the heavy, extra pumped up funk tracks on the live LOVE POWER PEACE.

    • @roxannewalsh
      @roxannewalsh 3 роки тому

      @@179rich While it was recorded (overdubbed in the studio) in 1971 it was not released until 92, i.e. after Star Time.

  • @corleth84
    @corleth84 3 роки тому +5

    1 - U2 - Achtung Baby
    2 - Material Issue - International Pop Overthrow
    3 - Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
    4 - Primal Scream - Screamadelica
    5 - R.E.M. - Out of Time (hasn't aged well imho but I can't deny I enjoyed it then...)
    HM's
    Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
    Hoodoo Gurus - Kinky
    Pixies - Trompe le Monde
    Roger McGuinn - Back from Rio
    Blur - Leisure
    Crowded House - Woodface
    Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Pearl Jam - Ten
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Into the Great Wide Open
    This time I won't award Queen's 'Innuendo' the Razzie, in respect to Freddie Mercury (RIP) - but to be fair it contained only 1&1/2 acceptable songs.

    • @TastesLikeMusic
      @TastesLikeMusic  3 роки тому +2

      It might have more than 1.5 good songs, but I agree that Innuendo is wildly overrated. -Jason

    • @Hi-kq1vi
      @Hi-kq1vi 3 роки тому

      @@TastesLikeMusic I think it is because of the Miracle album that came before it being so bad.

  • @chasingthebeat
    @chasingthebeat 3 роки тому +8

    1. Out of Time - REM
    2. Blue Lines - Massive Attack
    3. Don't Get Weird on Me Babe - Lloyd Cole
    4. Achtung Baby - U2
    5. Amen - Salif Keita
    Bubbling under:
    Nevermind - Nirvana
    Woodface - Crowded House
    Worldwide - Everything But The Girl
    Bandwagonesque _ Teenage Fanclub
    Screamadelica - Primal Scream
    Ten - Pearl Jam
    Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
    Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne
    The Soul Cages - Sting
    Don’t Try This at Home - Billy Bragg
    Stars - Simply Red
    The Real Ramona - Throwing Muses
    Electronic - Electronic
    Peggy Suicide - Julian Cope
    Mighty Like a Rose - Elvis Costello
    Electric Landlady - Kirsty MacColl

    • @179rich
      @179rich 3 роки тому +2

      I'm crazy about that Throwing Muses album (except for "Golden Thing").

    • @oppothumbs1
      @oppothumbs1 3 роки тому +1

      Wow you liked "Don't Get Weird on me BabE" By Lloyd Cole. His first two solos were great and so neglected.

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому +1

      @@179rich The Real Ramona is a new discovery for me. I saw several people had it on their lists and I've been enjoying it for two days now. It probably won't end up making my top 5 but it's a great album.

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому +1

      That Saint Etienne record is pretty good. That's new for me as well.

    • @chasingthebeat
      @chasingthebeat 3 роки тому

      @@AbbeyRoadkill1 So Tough from 1993 is even better from St Etienne

  • @ThePhysicalillusion
    @ThePhysicalillusion 3 роки тому +4

    Right now it’s probably My Bloody Valentine - Loveless, Nirvana - Nevermind, R.E.M. - Out Of Time, Pearl Jam - Ten and Guns N’ Roses - Use Your Illusion II. Pixies - Trompe Le Monde is also a contender to get in there. The others in my top 10-15 might be pretty challenging to pick out - definitely a pretty deep year.

  • @expresscp
    @expresscp 3 роки тому +6

    A great year for music! Lots of diversity with pop, rock, grunge, and country.
    Here's my top 10:
    1 Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
    2 Achtung Baby - U2
    3 Mad Mad World - Tom Cochrane
    4 Ten - Pearl Jam
    5 Ropin' the Wind- Garth Brooks
    6 Out of Time - R.E.M.
    7 Nevermind - Nirvana
    8 Electric Barnyard - The Kentucky Headhunters
    9 Marc Cohn - Marc Cohn
    10 Waking Up the Neighbours - Bryan Adams

    • @curly_wyn
      @curly_wyn Рік тому

      You gotta be kidding with The Kentucky Headhunters. A bunch of talentless Kentucky hicks playing substandard southern rock.

  • @garfieldcummings6539
    @garfieldcummings6539 3 роки тому +2

    I really love this channel and would love to talk music with Jason and Joe. Your picks are great but Kramzer - you are my man. You get it. I hope you are influencing your pals. Thank god you had MBV and Slowdive. Achtung Baby is a great pick and I’m not a huge U2 guy but it’s a wonderful album.

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому

      Kramz let me down slightly by not including Nirvana. If he switched out the Slowdive record in favor of Nevermind his list would be unassailable (to me.)

    • @garfieldcummings6539
      @garfieldcummings6539 3 роки тому +1

      @@AbbeyRoadkill1 I agree with you. But at least he picked his faves.
      But hard to leave out Nevermind. The cool Thing is he might expose a lot of people to slowdive and we all know nevermind.

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому

      @@garfieldcummings6539 True. In the end you gotta go with what really speaks to you. I do appreciate it when people pick relatively obscure albums that deserve more recognition. The more perspectives the better.

    • @garfieldcummings6539
      @garfieldcummings6539 3 роки тому

      @@AbbeyRoadkill1 exactly! Nevermind seems hard to exclude but it’s very cool that they had the guts to pick what they felt passionate about.

  • @anthonybernard3689
    @anthonybernard3689 3 роки тому +5

    Seal-1st album, Squeeze-Play, Spin Doctors-pocket full of kryptonite, Level 42-guaranteed, marshall crenshaw-life's too short

    • @NormanWorm
      @NormanWorm 3 роки тому +1

      Play by Squeeze is so underrated!!

  • @joedec
    @joedec 2 роки тому +2

    1. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
    2. U2 - Achtung Baby
    3. Metallica - Metallica
    4. Nirvana - Nevermind
    5. Pearl Jam - Ten
    6. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    8. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
    9. Ice T - O.G. Original Gangster
    10. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

    • @tbd407
      @tbd407 10 місяців тому

      Perfect list

  • @tokyochuchu
    @tokyochuchu 3 роки тому +2

    1. Out of Time - R.E.M
    2. Kill Uncle - Morrissey
    3. Stars - Simply Red
    4. Waking up the Neighbors - Bryan Adams
    5. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub

  • @NormanWorm
    @NormanWorm 3 роки тому +2

    1 - NEVERMIND - Nirvana
    2 - GIRLFRIEND - Matthew Sweet
    3 - STRUCK BY LIGHTNING - Graham Parker
    4 - WOODFACE - Crowded House
    5 - PLAY - Squeeze
    6 - OUT OF TIME - REM
    7 - LAUGHING STOCK - Talk Talk
    8 - LITTLE EARTHQUAKES - Tori Amos
    9 - RUMOUR & SIGH - Richard Thompson
    10 - MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE - Elvis Costello

  • @mcpop3005
    @mcpop3005 3 роки тому +4

    1991 faves:
    Teenage Fanclub-Bandwagonesque
    Matthew Sweet- Girlfriend
    Material Issue- International Pop Overthrow
    REM- Out of Time
    Velvet Crush- In the Presence of Greatness
    The Feelies- Time For a Witness
    The Bats- Fear of God
    David Kilgour- Here Come the Cars
    Crowded House- Woodface
    Grant McLennan- Watershed

    • @NormanWorm
      @NormanWorm 3 роки тому

      stellar list!!

    • @mcpop3005
      @mcpop3005 3 роки тому

      @@NormanWorm thanks and yours too!

  • @tbd407
    @tbd407 10 місяців тому +1

    Phenomenal year with five alltime great albums, each with not one skippable track, in one year:
    Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
    Achtung Baby
    Loveless
    Ten
    Metallic - Black Album
    Henry's Dream by Nick Cave, Trompe Le Monde, Massive Attack Blue Lines, there were MANY other great albums

  • @briangilroy6294
    @briangilroy6294 3 роки тому +5

    1. Pearl Jam - Ten
    2. Metallica - Black Album
    3. Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion II
    4. U2 - Achtung Baby
    5. Southside Johnny - Better Days
    HM
    Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion I
    Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open
    Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
    John Mellencamp - Whenever We Wanted
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    R.E.M. - Out of Time
    Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
    Tempe of the Dog - self-titled
    Tesla - Psychotic Supper
    Allman Brothers Band - Shades of Two Worlds
    Rush - Roll the Bones
    Soundgarden - BadMotorFinger
    Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbors
    1991 is definitely one of the best years ever. Southside Johnny’s Better Days is one of the best albums that nobody knows about. Ten edges out the Black Album for me and both would be in my top 25 of all-time. My 6 thru 10 would all make my top 5 in most years.

    • @TastesLikeMusic
      @TastesLikeMusic  3 роки тому +1

      Really loaded year for hard rock. - Joe

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому +1

      I listened to Better Days. Are you sure Southside Johnny is not just one of Bruce Springsteen's aliases? Heh-heh.

    • @briangilroy6294
      @briangilroy6294 3 роки тому +1

      @@AbbeyRoadkill1 Bruce wrote one of the songs and he also sang with Southside on another song. Steven Van Zant wrote most of the songs. It definitely does have a big Bruce influence.

  • @afermata949
    @afermata949 3 роки тому +1

    5. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
    4. Diamanda Galas - Plague Mass
    3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    2. Slint - Spiderland
    1. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

  • @spencergadoury
    @spencergadoury 3 роки тому +2

    For me :
    1. Achtung Baby! : U2
    2. Out of Time : REM
    3. Nevermind : Nirvana
    4. Blood Sugar Sex Magik: Chilli Peppers
    5. Road Apples : The Tragically Hip

  • @jblack7159
    @jblack7159 3 роки тому +5

    How could you fail to even mention:
    Hymns To The Silence (Van Morrison)
    Apocalypse 91 (Public Enemy)
    Weld/Arc (Neil Young)
    Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross (PM Dawn)
    and possibly the best album of the decade:
    Blue Lines (Massive Attack)?

  • @ste.6026
    @ste.6026 3 роки тому +3

    Crowded House - Woodface
    U2 - Achtung Baby
    Morrissey - Kill Uncle
    Erusure - Chorus
    Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open

  • @georgealbertina1498
    @georgealbertina1498 3 роки тому +3

    I love all the picks for the great year in music! I want to add a few albums that are so important to this year. Primal Scream: "Screamadelica", Massive Attack: "Blue Lines" and The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultra World. Not only great albums they paved the way for future music and influence that continue today.

    • @TastesLikeMusic
      @TastesLikeMusic  3 роки тому +1

      Primal Scream and Massive Attack have always slipped under the radar for me. I need to check them out. - Joe

    • @georgealbertina1498
      @georgealbertina1498 3 роки тому +1

      @@TastesLikeMusic, Just be sure it's those albums.

    • @179rich
      @179rich 3 роки тому +1

      Actually, I myself would recommend Mezzanine over Blue Lines by a mile. It has that dark trip hop vibe in full effect.

    • @georgealbertina1498
      @georgealbertina1498 3 роки тому +2

      @@179rich , I love all of their stuff but I was sticking with albums from 1991.

    • @putonghua73
      @putonghua73 3 місяці тому

      Good lord! I had almost - although I left out Primal Scream (got into them later - saw them late 90s) - the same post verbatim, except you beat me by 3 years.
      Almost forgot: I really liked Hole - 'Pretty on the Inside'. Was listening to stuff like Babes in Toyland, L7 and Lunachicks, plus a bunch of dance stuff.
      I am not a big grunge fan (although I love In Utero), not a shoe-gazing fan, and detest much of Britpop (the good stuff happened later on the 90s). But the sheer diversity of music during this time is incredible.

  • @shaynewest8757
    @shaynewest8757 3 роки тому +3

    3 masterpieces this year in Nevermind - Nirvana, Low End Theory- A Tribe Called Quest and Gish - Smashing Pumpkins
    2 great live albums Weld - Neil Young and Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life - Zappa.

  • @painless465
    @painless465 3 роки тому +3

    '91 a landmark year in rock;
    1.Achtung Baby-U2
    2.Nevermind-Nirvana
    3.Trompe Le Monde-Pixies
    4.Spiderland-Slint
    5.Loveless-My Bloody Valentine
    6.Peggy Suicide-Julian Cope
    7.Time for a Witness-The Feelies
    8.Laughing Stock-Talk Talk
    9.The Missing Years-John Prine
    10.Ten-Pearl Jam

  • @Shah-of-the-Shinebox
    @Shah-of-the-Shinebox 3 роки тому +3

    1. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
    2. Ten - Pearl Jam
    3. Nevermind - Nirvana
    4. Metallica - Metallica
    5. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden

    • @179rich
      @179rich 3 роки тому

      I chose BSSM as well. Cheers

  • @mrs1196
    @mrs1196 Рік тому +1

    5. Nirvana - Nevermind
    4. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
    3. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
    2. Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity
    1. MBV - Loveless

  • @harrybaccarini3739
    @harrybaccarini3739 3 роки тому +7

    Richard Thompson - brilliant choice

  • @fourseasons4105
    @fourseasons4105 Рік тому +1

    1. My bloody valentine- Loveless
    2. A tribe called quest- Low end theory
    3. Mr. Bungle- Self titled
    4. Carcass- Necroticism
    5. Soundgarden- Badmotorfinger

  • @threestringsomg
    @threestringsomg 3 роки тому +6

    Kind of agree about Guns N Roses Joe but I'm going ahead and counting them as one....Defines 91 for me👍

  • @ZINCOVIX8754
    @ZINCOVIX8754 3 роки тому +2

    Great channel guys.Loved yer picks.
    i would go for
    1 - SLOWDIVE -JUST FOR A DAY.
    2 - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION - STRANGE FREE WORLD.
    3 - LFO - FREQUENCIES.
    4 - PIXIES - TROMPE LE MONDE.
    5 - JULIAN COPE - PEGGY SUICIDE..

  • @mattymac1399
    @mattymac1399 3 роки тому +3

    I love the Jim Jarmusch reference. Richard Thompson is a badass. Achtung Baby is a masterpiece. I will have what Kramzer is drinking 🤟

  • @AbbeyRoadkill1
    @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому +10

    🏆 Nevermind -Nirvana (groundbreaking album that combined punk & metal with Beatlesque melodies... for those of us living in Seattle at the time Nevermind's release was like an atomic bomb going off and leveling the city... little did we know it would also level the entire music world... RIP, hair bands)
    RUNNER-UPS:
    ▪︎Temple of the Dog s/t (some of my fellow Seattleites think this album is better than Nevermind and I can't say I completely disagree)
    ▪︎Blood Sugar Sex Magik -Red Hot Chili Peppers (so raw, and funky, and melodic... easily the Chili's finest hour... literally, it's more than an hour long)
    ▪︎Ten -Pearl Jam (one of the greatest debuts of all time, every song is excellent... and to think "Yellow Ledbetter" was left off this album!)
    ▪︎Achtung Baby -U2 (takes a special album to crash my grunge party but this might be the most successful "musical makeover" for an established band since the Beatles did Sgt Pepper's... U2's 4th and final appearance in my top 5)
    JUST MISSED THE CUT:
    ▪︎Loveless -My Bloody Valentine
    ▪︎Yerself is Steam -Mercury Rev
    ▪︎The Black Album -Metallica
    ▪︎Screamadelica -Primal Scream
    ▪︎Blue Lines -Massive Attack
    ▪︎Badmotorfinger -Soundgarden
    ▪︎Trompe Le Monde -Pixies
    (It really pains me to leave Loveless and Yerself is Steam out of the top 5... I'll make it up to MBV and Mercury Rev in the future... *foreshadowing*)
    LIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
    ▪︎Weld -Neil Young & Crazy Horse
    '91 is my favorite year for music in my adult lifetime (I'm 48.) I was forced to leave out some acts I love... Smashing Pumpkins, REM, Crowded House, Teenage Fanclub, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, Guns 'n Roses, Dire Straits, Tom Petty, Allman Brothers, etc, etc... so many great albums.

  • @manalive256
    @manalive256 3 роки тому +6

    Blue Lines - Massive Attack
    Nevermind - Nirvana
    Screamadelica - Primal Scream
    Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
    The White Room - KLF

  • @bradmenpes809
    @bradmenpes809 7 місяців тому +1

    I didn't think I'd do this but here goes:
    1. Nevermind
    2. Ten
    3. Out of Time
    4. Trompe le Monde (no-one is as cool as Kim Deal 😉 )
    5. Gish
    I felt I had to show some love for Nirvana. Nevermind is one of my all time faves. Perhaps the most divergent year between me and the Top 5 picks of all the years I've watched so far. But this is music! Diversity is good!!

  • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
    @alphabetaxenonzzzcat 2 роки тому +2

    My Top 5 :-
    1. Nevermind - Nirvana(what more can I say?)
    2. Achtung Baby - U2(they changed their sound, but it didn't go dancelike with their later albums)
    3. Out of Time - R. E. M.
    4. Innuendo - Queen.
    5. Dangerous - Michael Jackson
    Honourable mention to Soul Cages - Sting.

  • @kitoyobeni1
    @kitoyobeni1 3 роки тому +2

    Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
    Saigon Kick - Saigon Kick
    Corrosion Of Conformity - Blind
    Metal Church - The Human Factor
    RHCP - Blood Sugar Sexton Magic
    Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
    Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said
    Badlands - Voodoo Highway
    Pearl Jam - Ten

  • @hazydavo
    @hazydavo 3 роки тому +2

    Whilst there was some solid experience already there from previous bands, PJ (as PJ) really hit it out of the park with Ten. Gotta be up there in the list of the best debuts. Not sure but have you guys done a video of the top debut albums of all time?

    • @TastesLikeMusic
      @TastesLikeMusic  3 роки тому

      I don’t think we have. - Joe

    • @TastesLikeMusic
      @TastesLikeMusic  3 роки тому +1

      Yes we have. It was side 3 of Pretenders week. -Jason

    • @hazydavo
      @hazydavo 3 роки тому

      @@TastesLikeMusic cool found it, thanks Jason

  • @AnotherBadSpeech
    @AnotherBadSpeech 3 роки тому +2

    What a year! So many great albums. It's a tough decision between Nevermind and Achtung Baby, but in the end Nirvana take the first spot.
    Other greats: Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
    ; Out Of Time - R.E.M.; Ten - Pearl Jam;
    Trompe Le Monde - Pixies... the list goes on

  • @kevinmcardle4087
    @kevinmcardle4087 3 роки тому +6

    1. Out of Time - R.E.M.
    2. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
    3. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
    4. Trompe Le Monde - Pixies
    5. Chorus - Erasure
    6. Chicken Rhythms - Northside
    7. God Fodder - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
    8. De La Soul is Dead - De La Soul
    9. Achtung Baby - U2
    10. Nevermind - Nirvana
    11. Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr.
    12. Woodface - Crowded House
    13. Recurring - Spacemen 3
    14. Cerulean - The Ocean Blue
    15. Electronic - Electronic
    16. Leisure - Blur
    17. Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
    18. Time for a Witness - The Feelies
    19. Screamadelica - Primal Scream
    20. Kill Uncle - Morrissey
    21. Blue Light Red Light - Harry Connick, Jr.
    22. Don't Try This At Home - Billy Bragg
    23. Foxbase Alpha - St. Etienne
    24. Scavenger - The Walkabouts
    25. Rumour and Sigh - Richard Thompson

    • @179rich
      @179rich 3 роки тому +2

      well done

    • @christianewen3227
      @christianewen3227 3 роки тому +1

      Great to see The Ocean Blue... ‘Ballerina Out of Control’ is wonderful 👍🏻

    • @mrp4242
      @mrp4242 3 роки тому +1

      Good choices here

  • @jasonjames6383
    @jasonjames6383 3 роки тому +1

    5. BadMotorFinger - Soundgarden
    4. Trompe Le Monde - The Pixies
    3. Woodface - Crowded House
    2. Ten - Pearl Jam
    1. The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
    A great year for music, hard to leave out so many other great albums.

  • @carncats07
    @carncats07 3 роки тому +3

    5. Metallica's self titled
    4. Perspex Island by Robyn Hitchcock
    3. Nevermind by Nirvana
    2. Sailing The Seas Of Cheese by Primus
    1. No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne

  • @wolfgangamadeuskeen
    @wolfgangamadeuskeen 11 місяців тому +1

    1. U2 - Achtung Baby
    2. Nirvana - Nevermind
    3. RHCP - Blood Sugar..
    4. GNR - Use Your Illusions
    5. Metallica - Black

  • @DCHurlford1
    @DCHurlford1 2 роки тому +2

    Queen's "Innuendo" was a really strong album imo (and a fitting swansong for the late, great Freddie Mercury.)

  • @scottthewozznijak359
    @scottthewozznijak359 3 роки тому +1

    Album
    Nirvana- Nevermind
    Metallica- Black Album
    Soundgarden- Badmotherfinger
    Guns N Roses- Use your illusion I
    Pearl Jam- Ten
    Nirvana- Live at Paramount
    Guns N Roses- Use Your Illusion II
    Green Day- 10/Smooth/39
    Singles
    Nirvana- Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Pearl Jam- Jeremy

  • @roxannewalsh
    @roxannewalsh 3 роки тому +5

    Just slightly outside - Allman Brothers Band - Shades of Two Worlds, Linton Kwesi Johnson - Tings an Times, Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Pere Ubu - Worlds in Collision, Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
    5. Richard Thompson - Rumor and Sigh (This made it into the top 5 on last consideration, the Mitchell Froom production still is more than a slight disturbance but after another listen the songs and RT's performance are just too brilliant. The way he mixes Shakespeare-style lyrics with the leather jackets and motorcycle of his protagonists is something only he can come up with.)
    4. REM - Out of Time (The influence of the band cannot be denied and I always found their albums interesting and with many great songs. None of them however was great from beginning to end. This is neither but the good ones are just too good to ignore.)
    3. Del Shannon - Rock On! (Yes, the album follows that pattern of Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl two years earlier, with Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty taking an old rock 'n' roller and "renovating" him. Del Shannon had a string of hits in the early 60s - Runaway, Little Town Flirt, Hats Off to Larry etc - and I like this one better than Orbison's because Shannon wrote all songs himself for this album - new songs - and he was more of a rocker than Orbison. Great voice, the Heartbreakers rock like hell - big fun.)
    2. Mekons - The Curse of the Mekons (What does a band like this do when they feel cursed, broken and down on their luck? Articulate it a great album and snarl at the "enemy". Music for those who do not give up the fight against those they cannot beat. By now they were the godfathers of alternative-everything. No bad track on this album but many great ones.)
    1. Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages (John McLaughlin refused to play some of the noisy feedback that Miles wanted on Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson. Uncredited young guitarist Sharrock - former band member of Pharoah Sanders - provided what Miles had in mind. He made some albums with Herbie Mann and with his singing wife Linda Sharrock but his career ended when they divorced in 1975. He returned to music over a decade later and produced phenomenal albums - Guitar, Seize the Rainbow, Dance With Me Montana, Highlife. He also provided his sound to Bill Laswell's bands Last Exit and Material. But he could do more than just feedback, he also played utterly beautiful melodic runs and on this album he had Pharoah Sanders on saxophones and legendary drummer Elvin Jones to challenge him. Gorgeous. This is the first time I have an instrumental album in the #1 slot.)

    • @chrisboerger465
      @chrisboerger465 3 роки тому +1

      I also have the Thompson album in my top five. As you said, the songwriting overpowers the production. There isn't a song I dislike and several are in fact excellent. I think Froom's efforts at sabotaging are more evident on another album from this year, Mighty Like a Rose, though the fact that it's far from Elvis' best batch of songs doesn't help matters. Both will rebound rather nicely with Brutal Youth.

    • @johnkennedy7786
      @johnkennedy7786 3 роки тому +1

      'Rumor and Sigh' was really my introduction to RT. At the time, John Peel and Andy Kershaw were playing tracks from it, especially "Vincent Black Lightning 1952". Made a big impression on me, and kickstarted a serious love for / obsession with the man and his remarkable body of work.

    • @roxannewalsh
      @roxannewalsh 3 роки тому +1

      @@johnkennedy7786 It is a strange thing when I see an artist whom I have admired for decades all of a sudden gets recognised for his least convincing effort...This feels to me like Yes getting famous after their heyday for their mediocre later efforts.
      Anyway, I have RT still as a hot candidate to win some coming years with far better albums.

    • @johnkennedy7786
      @johnkennedy7786 3 роки тому +1

      @@roxannewalsh Much as I like the album, I think if we were ranking the entire back catalogue, it would definitely slide down the pecking order, because he had several better LPs pre-91 and - like you - I would probably rank most of his subsequent releases ahead of it too.
      I think there's a good chance we might have one or two No. 1s in common in the 90s and 00s. And not just with RT either. (I think '97 could be a good bet).

    • @roxannewalsh
      @roxannewalsh 3 роки тому +1

      @@johnkennedy7786 When I look at your #7 today...

  • @EphemeralBalconist
    @EphemeralBalconist 3 роки тому +2

    I was getting uneasy that none of you picked Loveless and then one of you picked Loveless. Carry on.

  • @ChristopherDeSanty
    @ChristopherDeSanty 3 роки тому +1

    1. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (#1 by a mile)
    2. Pearl Jam - Ten
    3. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
    4. Galactic Cowboys - Galactic Cowboys
    5. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

  • @bryanbyrde8338
    @bryanbyrde8338 3 роки тому +3

    It’s great to hear some appreciation for the brilliant Lenny Kravitz. Mama Said is the standout album from 1991 for me. My runners up are Achtung Baby by U2, Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roll The Bones by Rush and Into The Great Wide Open by Tom Petty & Heartbreakers. I’m not really a grunge fan but I can’t deny that ‘91 was a vintage year thanks to some excellent breakthrough releases from several of those bands.
    1992 has got to be the year when REM finally hit the top spot for at least one of you. I can take or leave a lot of their music but Automatic For The People is the one album of theirs I really love.

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому +1

      I think both Jason and Kram had Green as their #1 album of 1988, if I'm not mistaken. I'll have to check the tape on that.

    • @bryanbyrde8338
      @bryanbyrde8338 3 роки тому +1

      Whammy Bard, yes you are right about Kramser with Green - Jason had it as one of his runners up. Automatic seems to be the REM album that casual fans, including myself, tend to choose.

    • @179rich
      @179rich 3 роки тому +1

      @@bryanbyrde8338 Automatic is great but doesn't actually rank high for me.

  • @chrisboerger465
    @chrisboerger465 3 роки тому +6

    I know a lot of people were down on 1990 last week, but for me it was a goldmine compared to this year. For instance, the Sundays' Reading, Writing and Arithmetic would have been a no contest number one in 1991 but for '90 it didn't even make my top five (though in retrospect it probably should have, considering how the song My Finest Hour tears open something inside me every time I hear it). A couple of my favorite artists had a disappointing year in '91. Elvis Costello released his second of two consecutive albums that found him insufferably precious and pretentious (all is forgiven, Elvis). And Big Audio Dynamite's second iteration, BAD II, put out a record that was more atmospheric than their previous work, more ambient if you will, also, sadly, more boring. One album that most certainly did not make my list is Nevermind. I admit, I owned all three Nirvana albums back in the day, listened to them rather frequently, but I always thought they were overhyped, and it's worth noting that Rolling Stone's initial review of the album gave it only three out of five stars. It wasn't until Nevermind was all over the radio and selling mucho copies that they declared Kurt Cobain his generation's greatest musical genius. Whatever. I have similar feelings toward Achtung, Baby, an album I've never owned and never quite warmed up to. So 1991 might be the Year of the Overrated. I had a hard time scraping together a top five, but even so there were a couple of fine titles that didn't make the cut. Why Do Birds Sing? by Violent Femmes is a fun record, and I also want to mention Flyin' the Flannel by fIREHOSE, because I have fond memories of seeing them live to support the album, and being rewarded for some post-concert enthusiasm with a shoulder-dislocating high five from Mike Watt.
    But enough of this blather, on to the actual list. Number five, Metallica, or the Black Album if you will. I'm the worst Metallica fan in the world, I only bought their commercial albums, this one, Load and Reload, and never explored the rest of their catalogue in depth. Black is no Physical Graffiti, no Zep II for that matter, but it is a really great hard rock record. Number four, The Unreal World by the Godfathers.I'd forgotten all about these guys until recently, too bad, because their debut, Birth, School, Work, Death (love that title) would have definitely scored a top five slot in 1988. Here the blue collar British rockers go psychedelic. The blistering This Is War has to be one of the greatest closing tracks of all time. Number three, Rumor and Sigh by Richard Thompson. This is the album that gave Thompson radio airplay and limited commercial success, yet it also features maybe his most twisted track, Psycho Street. It's poppy and angry and funny and mournful, on occasion demented. Number two, Struck by Lightning by Graham Parker. All three of the British "angry young men" from the mid to late '70s released an album in '91, but Parker is the clear winner. As I already said, Elvis Costello's contribution, Mighty Like a Rose, ranks among his weakest, and Joe Jackson's Laughter & Lust is inconsistent, with some of his best music alongside some of his worst. Like the Richard Thompson album, this is a long but remarkably consistent effort, featuring the artist's usual high quality songwriting with his anger still intact though partly replaced with resignation. The cover, though, is one of the worst ever. Number one, Trompe le Monde by the Pixies, their last album with Kim Deal and before their long hiatus, and every bit as good, I think as the previous two. Any album that features the chorus Jefrey with one f, Jefrey is all right with me. And that's all I gotta say.

    • @curly_wyn
      @curly_wyn 2 роки тому

      “Ugh! Give me back my hair metal!”

  • @jamesreckling6697
    @jamesreckling6697 3 роки тому +3

    Props to Joe for the Richard Thompson mention.

  • @OttawaNow
    @OttawaNow 2 місяці тому +1

    Hard At Play by Huey Lewis and the News
    Pocket Full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors
    Curtis Stigers by Curtis Stigers

  • @JAugust
    @JAugust 3 роки тому +4

    What a tough year to try to pick 5....I graduated high school in '91 so it holds extra meaning for me. Great lists guys!
    5. Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
    4. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP
    3. Nevermind - Nirvana
    2. Gish - Smashing Pumpkins
    1. Ten - Pearl Jam
    Looking ahead to '92, I think it might be even better. I really, really hope you guys give some love to "Copper Blue" by Sugar, and "Propeller" by Guided By Voices. Two albums that I don't think enough people know about.

  • @realCaptainSanta
    @realCaptainSanta 3 роки тому +3

    HM: Hymns to the Silence - Van Morrison (if a single album its top 5) Psychotic Supper - Tesla; Innuendo- Queen; Achtung Baby - U2; Mr Bad Example - Warren Zevon
    5. Lean Into It - Mr. Big
    4. Metallica
    3. No More Tears - Ozzy
    2. 10 - Pearl Jam
    1. The Sky Is Crying - Stevie Ray Vaughan

  • @johnw706
    @johnw706 2 роки тому +1

    U2 : Achtung Baby
    Rush : Roll the Bones
    Crowded House : Woodface
    Stevie Ray Vaughan : The Sky is Crying
    Tom Petty : Into the Great Wide Open
    Cheers !

  • @jefferysteen1041
    @jefferysteen1041 3 роки тому +8

    Here's my list boys!1.Nirvana-Nevermind!Still love it!2.Pearl Jam-Ten! 3.U2-Achtung baby! 4.Metallica (black album)5.Smashing Pumpkins-Gish*

  • @goneforwater7547
    @goneforwater7547 3 роки тому +6

    Love Richard Thompson! Good pick

  • @jeffreymorra2724
    @jeffreymorra2724 3 роки тому +1

    1) ten - Pearl Jam
    2) achtung baby - U2
    3 blood sugar sex magic - peppers
    4) low end theory - ATCQ
    5) temple of the dog

  • @jesuschambers
    @jesuschambers 3 роки тому +5

    I'm not a massive fan of U2 and Queen but their respective albums(Achtung Baby & Innuendo) released this year are easily my favourites of their discography and are very unlucky not to get in my top 5. I will start with a few honourable mentions:
    Electronic - Electronic
    Elvis Costello - Mighty Like A Rose
    The KLF - The White Room
    Monster Magnet - Spine Of God
    Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example
    Hoodoo Gurus - Kinky
    Kyuss - Wretch
    Golden Earring - Bloody Buccaneers
    Steve Forbert - The American In Me
    Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
    Spin Doctors - Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
    Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia
    Chris Rea - Auberge
    Jethro Tull - Catfish Rising
    My top 5 look like this:
    5. The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
    4. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
    3. Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
    2. Pearl Jam - Ten
    1.TEMPLE OF THE DOG - TEMPLE OF THE DOG
    I have to hold my hands up for the earlier comment because I never expected that my number 1 was going to be so popular!

    • @TastesLikeMusic
      @TastesLikeMusic  3 роки тому

      Yeah, TOTD rules.

    • @paulsimister944
      @paulsimister944 3 роки тому

      I saw your comment that no one else would have your #1 and thought it was brave considering the terrific audience the lads have acquired and the eclectic tastes.
      As a fellow Nils Lofgren fan, I'm surprised you didn't share my affection for Silver Lining. We seem to have diverged again.

    • @jesuschambers
      @jesuschambers 3 роки тому

      @@paulsimister944 I'm kicking myself for forgetting about Silver Lining, of course I should've had it in my honourable mentions. I won't make the same mistake next friday for 1992(You know what I mean, C.L.!) I honestly didn't expect anybody to have Temple Of The Dog in their top 5 because there were so many grunge albums in 1991. I thought most fans would choose: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins etc. but in a way I was glad to be wrong because that is a fantastic album that deserves to be acknowledged as a grunge masterpiece. I know that you are not keen on grunge but you should persevere with Pearl Jam as they are much more than just another grunge band. I'm really a classic rock fan like yourself and I rate them as one of the greatest bands, ever! By the way you need to correct your comment on your favourites for 1990. Read it again anf you will spot your mistake :-)

    • @paulsimister944
      @paulsimister944 3 роки тому

      @@jesuschambers thanks. It took me a while to find it. The autocorrect does get me into trouble from time to time.

  • @independenceltd.
    @independenceltd. 3 роки тому +1

    5. Streets: A Rock Opera - Savatage
    4. 1916 - Motorhead
    3. Ten - Pearl Jam
    2. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
    1. Temple of the Dog

  • @heresthething41
    @heresthething41 2 роки тому +1

    5. "Gish" Smashing Pumpkins
    4. "Spiderland" Slint
    3. "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" Primus
    2. "Rain Tree Crow" Rain Tree Crow
    1. "Laughing Stock" Talk Talk

  • @toonhkuitjes6382
    @toonhkuitjes6382 3 роки тому +3

    Hard to look beyond Nevermind imho.
    1. Nevermind
    2. Ten
    3. Blood, sugar, sex, magik - RHCP
    4. Out of time - R.E.M.
    5. For unlawful carnal knowledge - VH
    HMs Loveless, The Soul Cages, Achtung Baby, Woodface, Roll the bones

  • @Sanpablo147
    @Sanpablo147 3 роки тому +1

    1. Kenny Loggins - Leap of Faith
    2. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
    3. Grant McLennan - Watershed
    4. Pet Shop Boys - Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
    5. P.M. Dawn - Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
    6. Amy Grant - Heart in Motion
    7. Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the Draw
    8. Vanessa Williams - The Comfort Zone
    9. The Kings and Queens of Township Jive: Modern Roots of the Indestructible Beat of Soweto
    10. The Pooh Sticks - The Great White Wonder

  • @chrisdelisle3954
    @chrisdelisle3954 3 роки тому +3

    1. Nevermind - Nirvana (last great zeitgeist rock record)
    2. Loveless - My Bloody Valentine (best shoegaze album ever)
    3. Achtung Baby - U2 (best U2 album...after The Joshua Tree and War)
    4. Spine of God - Monster Magnet (best stoner rock album ever)
    5. Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black - Public Enemy (my favorite hip hop album ever)
    Honorable Mention: Out of Time - REM, Ten - Pearl Jam, Seamonsters - Wedding Present, Soul Cages - Sting, Mama Said - Lenny Kravitz, Bootleg Series Volume 1-3 - Bob Dylan, One From the Vault - Grateful Dead

    • @AbbeyRoadkill1
      @AbbeyRoadkill1 3 роки тому +1

      Nice list. U2 is one of those bands that doesn't have a real musical misstep until they're a dozen years into their career. To me they're "The Stones" of their generation- they kept going well past their prime but their first decade was was so great it doesn't matter.

  • @eljac63
    @eljac63 3 роки тому +1

    5. Mighty Like a Rose-Elvis Costello
    4. World Outside-The Psychedelic Furs
    3. Ten-Pearl Jam
    2. Metallica-"Black Album"
    1. Girlfriend-Matthew Sweet

  • @keithmarus8554
    @keithmarus8554 3 роки тому +5

    Blood Sugar Sex Majik. Top 5 for me. Gish and Orbital’s debut also.

  • @spencerdobkin9479
    @spencerdobkin9479 7 місяців тому +1

    #1 Temple of the Dog
    2. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
    3. Pearl Jam - Ten
    4. GNR - UYI 1
    5. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
    6. Nirvana - Nevermind

  • @stevemalek2970
    @stevemalek2970 Рік тому +1

    My list of albums that weren't mentioned:
    ATCQ - The Low End Theory
    RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    Metallica - Black Album
    De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
    Ice Cube - Death Certificate
    Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

  • @EvanB9487
    @EvanB9487 3 роки тому +1

    As you approach 1996 - Spoon will be entering the mix. Any plans to cover Spoon

    • @TastesLikeMusic
      @TastesLikeMusic  3 роки тому

      I would love to. I'm sure we'll get around to them eventually. -Jason

  • @trickygoose2
    @trickygoose2 3 роки тому +2

    This is a really strong year for me and I found it very hard to pick just five:
    Honourable mentions:
    Woodface - Crowded House
    Blue Lines - Massive Attack
    Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
    Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
    Out of Time - REM
    Achtung Baby - U2
    5 Ten - Pearl Jam
    4 Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fan Club
    3 Metallica (aka the Black Album) - Metallica
    2 Screamadelica - Primal Scream
    1 Nevermind - Nirvana
    I agree that Guns n Roses should have released just the one double album that year which could have been phenomenal.

  • @kkww7707
    @kkww7707 3 роки тому +1

    5-Harry Connick Jr-Blue Light Red Light
    4-Tragically Hip-Road Apples
    3-Rush-Roll The Bones
    2-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-Into The Great Wide Open
    1-Van Halen-F.U.C.K.