December 1991: Was anyone listening to and enjoying the new records by MBV, Nirvana, Slint, and Talk Talk?

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And if so, do you remember thinking to yourself, "This was a pretty good year for music."

Obviously a ton of other great records came out that year, but I'm curious about those four (Loveless, Nevermind, Spiderland, Laughing Stock). Were you aware that they were out and did you care about them?

Which of these is your favorite now?

― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

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NOT!

― Tape Store, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

I DO remember thinking it was a banner year for good music.

I was listening to Loveless & Nevermind a lot. I was WAY behind on Laughing Stock (not until 2000!), not so much on Spiderland (95 or so).

My favorite now is Laughing Stock followed closely by Loveless & Spiderland (I fear I am burned-out for good on Nevermind).

― Sum Fitch, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

in wrong order, reflecting what I thought at the time:

1) thought Nevermind sounded like it was pretty awesome from what I heard on KROQ, but figured I was hearing enuf of it daily to justify buying other stuff instead, so didn't buy it
2) didn't hear Loveless, assumed MBV was still the pretty-uninteresting band they'd been a couple of years before
3) had no idea Spiderland existed, was pretty out of the T&G loop
4) disliked Talk Talk then and couldn't give a rat's for them now

was more interested in Pastroal Hide & Seek and old Steely Dan tapes at the time

― Hans Rott, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

For some reason I remember pretty well:

Had already decided that "Isn't Anything" was better (heard "Loveless" first);

Was sick of Nirvana as someone I worked with had gotten an advance tape and played it all day every day for what seemed like months while constantly assuring a disbelieving group of us that they were gonna be huge;

Didn't quite get why "Spiderland" was such a big deal;

Wasn't aware of Talk Talk, and probably wouldn't have been interested at the time.

This last part would change quite a bit subsequently.

― dlp9001, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

1991 was a fabulous year for music, are you kidding? Would have been even better without Nirvana to spoil things.

― Bimble, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

Once again dlp9001 is correct: Isn't Anything was so much better than Loveless.

― Bimble, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

the important thing about whether Isn't Anything is better than Loveless is that nobody gives a shit

― Hans Rott, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

Awwwww. 22 year old me feel sad now.

― dlp9001, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I would happy if less people gave a shit.

― Bimble, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

I was aware of "Laughing Stock" (which I hated, hated their new direction) and the press made me sure to be aware of "Nevermind" even though it didn't really take off commercially until 1992.

As for the others, I knew there was a band called My Bloody Valentine (which was a cool band name but still nothing I was particularly interested in), while "Spiderland" I didn't hear about until a few years ago.

It wasn't until Britpop that I became an "indie kid" although I did find "Nevermind" exciting in that it was better than other hard rock and it also represented a nice alternative to the rap and house music that tended to dominate the hitlists at the time.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

I LOVED slint, MBV and Talk Talk in 1991! Not so much Nirvana though. I thought nirvana sounded like squirrel bait when i first heard them. which was kinda cool. i liked mudhoney better. i thought kurtd was a dope on headbangers ball. trying way too hard to be, um, annoying or something.

1991 i was all about: slint, MBV, talk talk, swans, eyehategod, slayer, godflesh, um, lots of stuff. death metal. kd lang. roxy music. steely dan. jackyl. i moved back to connecticut around then (for a couple of years) and the environment really brought out the rockhead in me. blasting jackyl in my 84 cavalier in new milford connecticut. good times indeed.

― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

There's no way I would have heard of Talk Talk's "new direction" in 1991.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

Nirvana: yeah, played it pretty regularly, liked it. Don't need to hear it again.

Talk Talk: knew only "It's My Life" but was intrigued by a couple of Melody Maker stories about Laughing Stock and found it used, really loved it.

Slint: knew it existed but otherwise indifferent

And I think we all know about MBV and me by now.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:17 (eighteen years ago)

i had already been awed by the awesomeness that had come earlier, so i was ready for laughing stock. they are a band i have kept track of ever since i heard their first single on local rock radio. during a rare "new wave" hour that the biggest fm rock station in the area had going for about a month. the day i moved in with my brother in CT he handed me a promo casette of laughing stock! it was like a housewarming gift. i haven't been without talk talk in my life since 1981.

― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

:-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

Low End Theory came out the same day as Nevermind. I remember trying to decide between them & then buying both.

― mulla atari, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

um, sure. it was an okay year! there are a LOT of other reasons why in addition to just those of course...

― Mike McGooney-gal, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

I spent 1991 dancing around my living room to MC Hammer and Michael Jackson and Boyz II Men cassettes in my footy pajamas. I highly recommend it. (Alright, so I was about 5 years old at the time, but it beats listening to Nirvana.)

― The Reverend, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I definitely was aware of when Loveless and Nevermind came out, and I loved both of them (Im eh abt Nevermind now though). I'd been into MBV since their punkpop days so even "Isn't anything" had been a magnificent sock to the stomach when it came out - Loveless just cemented that.

To my eternal amazement I hadn't heard of Slint at all til about a year ago. Didn't realise TalkTalk were still going by 91. Huh.

― Trayce, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm never cease to be amazed by the fact that, despite spending my formative years during the '90s, I managed to never hear Nirvana until about five years ago.

― The Reverend, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm never cease to be

Thumbs up to me.

― The Reverend, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't hear Nirvana till about 1999. Loveless I think I heard in 2003, Spiderland later that same year, and Laughing Stock uh like last year (though I'd bought Spirit of Eden and knew about Talk Talk like 3 years ago).

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

My friend bought Nevermind the day it came out. I visited him at college that week when I was 17 and heard it all weekend. I saw the video like a week later and then they got really big after that. I still listen to it in that favorite record from when you were 17 kind of way.

I bought Loveless in early 1992, I think. I dug it for a while, then for some reason ditched it. I bought it again in 1998 and still listen to it a lot. I kind of think that Isn't Anything has an apt title.

Heard of but never heard Slint until maybe 6 years ago, but I love Spiderland. Talk Talk I've only heard a handful of songs by and haven't gotten around to checking out yet.

― joygoat, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)

i had a weird '91. first half was at college, which was all new jack swing and r.e.m. second half was in the u.k., which was primal scream, teenage fanclub, nirvana and, uh, carter usm. i liked nirvana, was aware of and only mildly interested in mbv (full appreciation came several years later with a used copy of loveless purchased for 92 cents), was uninterested in talk talk (a condition that persists, rightly or wrongly) and didn't hear of slint until 1994.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I tried to get interested in Talk Talk once, too...couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. It was some cassette with a white sleeve.

― Bimble, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

I was, what, 12 and a half? Yeah, eighth grade, my dad (who also posts to ILX, though I dunno his nü-ILX login) bought both Talk Talk and Nirvana. I played the shit out of Nirvana, and that Laughing Stock album is one that I heard a lot of hype about (I was cribbing CMJs), listened to, derided as gay in whatever the parlance of the time was ("retarded"? "lame"? "Gay" seems much more like what my 12-year-old self woulda said, except I didn't know "gay" as "bad" then).

Over the years, my ardor for Nevermind has lessened, but I never got Laughing Stock (haven't tried in a couple years, probably due for another one of those periodic listens where I try to figure out if it was me being retarded or whether the album wasn't very good). I've tried to get into Loveless again and again, but I just find it boring as hell. Which is weird, because I can listen to JAMC, Spacemen 3 or Flying Saucer Attack all day long. Slint's over-rated too, I think. Just sounds kinda embarrassing now, mostly (to my ears) due to all the folks that ripped 'em off but did it better.

― I eat cannibals, Monday, 30 April 2007 07:24 (eighteen years ago)

What I do remember is September 1991 when (at least in Britain), Screamadelica, Nevermind and Laughing Stock all came out in the same week (as did Robert Wyatt's Dondestan and, erm, Use Your Illusion 1 & 2, but anyway)...so that period did feel pretty special. Loveless has probably been talked to death on ILM.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 30 April 2007 07:42 (eighteen years ago)

Spiderland was this odd album we'd picked up in Rough Trade, mainly on the strength of the cover (since in those halycon days of albums costing £5.49-£6.49 you could afford to take a few more risks than now). Really liked the record and also the fact that you couldn't easily pigeonhole it except in a post-Saqqara Dogs/Blind Idiot God sort of way (ask your dad/Simon Reynolds/delete where applicable)...and then MM published an ecstatic review by Albini a few weeks later.

Obviously with hindsight it was the beginning of time.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 30 April 2007 07:46 (eighteen years ago)

1991 was this for me; http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-ten-songs-i-loved-to-dance-to-at-the-school-disco-aged-12.htm

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:30 (eighteen years ago)

i listened the shit out of all these records in 4th grade

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

Lots of songs there Dale Winton's unlikely ever to play on Pick Of The Pops.

Good records, though.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

slint had a HUGE pre-teen audience due to their Nickelodeon guest-spots

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

bigger than Hammer or Nilla Wafer or Kriss Krosstepherson or who ever was the reigning teenybopper idol of the day

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

My Bloody Valentine: Bigger than slap-bracelets

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

At home I was listening to Marillion and Guns N Roses.

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

Talk Talk: being a fan guaranteed you 4th grade pussy

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

Nirvana: never heard of 'em

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

nick's school disco list gets a lot of it but my school discos (i was 11 and went to big school in the autumn of '91) were... ravey/housey. things like cc penniston. there's no way they'd have played new order. the biggest tune of that year round the way was probably 'charly'.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

i barely heard nirvana till after KC offed himself; obviously never heard the others till years later.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

yeah the prodigy, cece peniston, oceania's 'insanity', c&c music factory, sabrina johnston's 'peace'...everything on this amazing thing basically. good good times.

also kris kross, and shanice's 'i love your smile', which was my first ever favourite song.

as for the bands in the title - i had never heard of any of them at the time (lucky me). as of today i've only heard nevermind which i think is really terrible. i've still never heard anything BY slint or talk talk (obv i have heard the gwen cover of 'it's my life' which i like), and only one song by mbv which passed me by in a wash of nothingness.

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

(btw i was eight in 1991)

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

i had both loveless and nevermind pretty much within the first fortnight of release. it probably helped that i already had and adored their previous single/EP releases..

― electricsound, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

i was born in 1982.

my older brother played nevermind all the time on its release. i liked it, but for some reason favoured pearl jam's ten.

i might have chanced upon mbv's name in a couple of magazines around that time, but didn't hear properly till about 97.

got into talk talk towards the end of 2000.

and slint, i would have heard for the first time in 1998. got into them uber-fucken-bigtime an 2002

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:36 (eighteen years ago)

I was also listening to: Perspex Island, Cerulean, Joyride, Roll the Bones, and, my favorite, Electronic.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

Nevermind

was aware, listened to tons, still like but don't play too often

Loveless

heard, liked but not totally satisfied with... feeling continues to this day really (i.e. yes is v.v.good, yes also a -bit- overrated)

― fandango, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

Let's be honest though; were any of these REALLY as good as "Do The Bartman"?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

was more interested in 'Achtung Baby' than 'Nevermind'.
was more interested in 'Ex:El' than 'Achtung Baby'.

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, forgot Ex:El! Man, I wore that cassette to death...

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

finally! 808 State Ex:El all the way. MBV Loveless too obv.

― Alan, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Let's be honest though; were any of these REALLY as good as "Do The Bartman"?

Yes. On the other hand, none were even close to "Woodface". :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

(which was also released at roughly the same time - towards the end of 1991)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

was listening to Ride (album, eps) and a bunch of other similar stuff a LOT the year before...

hey Trompe Le Monde was 1991! that got a whole chunk of eartime

― fandango, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

I remember making a joke earlier that year about "so what happened to My Bloody Valentine? Did they influence themselves to death after Isn't Anything?" Ha ha ha, and then Loveless came out. And then they haven't released anything else since.

Nirvana bored me. My best friend at the time really liked Bleach, but I didn't get it. Slint were popping up on my radar because a bandmate was really really into them, but they didn't seem that different from what else was around. I wasn't even aware of Laughing Stock.

Mostly 1991 seemed to be some amazing new UK shoegazer band popping up, one after another and trying to get hold of imports. So much hinged around finding the latest import copy of Select. Oh, and tangling out the Spacemen 3 spin-offs as they happened. I think it was also around the height of my New Order obsession, so there were NO spinoffs to keep track of.

What I was actually listening to in December 1991 - err, actually there's an entry in my sketchbook about "Christmas 1991 and Cocteau Twins' Victorialands on the stereo."

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

'ex:el' is shit. come on guys.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

oh fuck: 'the white room'

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

i spent half the year trying to decide whether to buy 'the white room' or not. never did.

i never thought of 'ex:el' as a perfect album but it was the one i listened to the most the year and there didn't seem to be much else like it so accessible. what i didn't like at the time i like more now tho so if anything my approval of it has increased over the years. 'lambrusco cowboy' is the only weak track imo. so come on togtq.

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

i love lambrusco cowboy. and ex:el is pure marvyness

― Alan, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

'Epire' and 'Nephatiti' have aged particularly well. This is what Kraftwerk could've been doing at the time instead of fannying about with 'The Mix'.

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

THIS IS THE SOUND OF KRAFTWERK BEING BEATEN AT A GAME THEY WEREN'T EVEN BOLD ENOUGH TO PLAY

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

To stick to Mark's qn:

End of 1991 was a weird time for me - just left school, fallen in with a bunch of new friends, I was educating them in NME-style indie and in (student-friendly) hip-hop, they were educating me in art rock and some new wave stuff I'd overlooked (Cale, Eno, Talking Heads, XTC). One result is that I'd given up reading the music press so I didn't know what was coming out. I heard stuff in the charts but the last 'new' album I'd bought was probably "Trompe Le Monde" (which I adored and still like more than any of the four in Mark's thread).

Loveless: heard it for the first time the following Summer, heard and loved "Soon" on Peel's Festive 50. By the next summer it felt like its time had already been and gone and I didn't listen to it much and never have really.

Nevermind: was aware of and surprised by how big they were getting, I had only known the "Grandpa take me home" song. One of the things that united me and new friends was a shared contempt for rock and rock gesture: Cobain was breaking away from those but not far enough for us. I've never got into Nirvana. Fifteen years later I'm finally shedding that reflexive contempt so no doubt their time will come.

Spiderland: Didn't hear of it at the time, finally heard it in University a few years later, disliked it and still do (as far as I know, not heard it since).

Laughingstock: The only one I was into at the time! A friend taped it for me, I had zero idea it was a current release though. Listened to it a lot, especially the next spring and summer, thoroughly enchanted, thought it was a HUGE leap from Spirit Of Eden, which had bored me. I couldn't have articulated then or now why I felt such a difference. It amuses me a bit that it's become such a touchstone - it still feels like a private, minor (in a good way) record.

― Groke, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

As for thinking, is this a good year? I think I thought it wasn't as good as the year before. It was a year for discovering old music: July to September that year I think I listened to nothing but Bob Dylan.

― Groke, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think they actually played 'Swallow' on the Top 40 show despite the release being listed as just 'To Here Knows When' on both everyhit and polyhex and being announced as same by Brookes (but why if it was the 'Tremolo' EP?).

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

I don't remember thinking, "this is a great year for music," but I wasn't quite the music consumer yet that I would become. Getting information on the kind of music that I would enjoy (via say NME or whatever it was at the time) was harder before the Internets because the magazines were imports and/or hard-to-find on a consistent basis and expensive.

I did have "Laughing Stock" which I thought was great. I remember that was the time when late period Talk Talk was kind of an unknown factor(a friend of mine in high school had introduced me to Spirit of Eden). However, people would look at my music collection and say, "Why do you own Talk Talk records?" Then, I'd put it on and people would go out and buy it.

I remember hearing Nirvana and liking it at the time, but then remember seeing them on SNL and kind of thinking they were lame rock star assholes.

I didn't hear Loveless until summer of 1992 and the first time I heard it, I liked a couple of songs, but mostly found it hard to comprehend, but it intrigued me. I bought a copy and after hearing it over a period of a month or so, thought it was amazing.

― Bill in Chicago, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Select magazine... Foxbase Alpha... Deadline magazine... Bandwagonesque... Cinzano... Screamadelica... unrequited lust... happy days

― Kaliova, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Only got into Loveless via Honey's Dead, Going Blank Again and Lazer Guided Melodies in March 1992... Nirvana when they released Come as you are and Slint only after Mogwai.

― Kaliova, Monday, 30 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

slint and talk talk records i only heard 7 years ago.
nirvana and mbv - listened to them while they came out,liked them to a degree,but i liked better the touch @ go stuff(jesus lizard,big black..).
in 2007,still like them better

― Zeno, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

So, is it correct to say that Nevermind isn't aging terribly well? I loved it as much as any acne-riddled 17 year-old dork at the time, but I rarely return to it anymore and am never particularly blown away by it. It'll always hold a place in my heart, but it seems a little flimsy in relation to the endless canonization it recieves.

In December '91, I was jamming Bandwagonesque and Mudhoney's Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, both of which I still love.

― hamburgers n. hotdogs, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Mudoney>>>nirvana.
maybe cause they werent so much of a "grunge" sounded band

― Zeno, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

slint had a HUGE pre-teen audience due to their Nickelodeon guest-spots

-- latebloomer, Monday, April 30, 2007 4:43 AM (7 hours ago)

ok is this true?

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

So, is it correct to say that Nevermind isn't aging terribly well?

i think it's aging fine - the problem is that most of us who "rarely return to it anymore" have already memorized it front to back, know all the songs by heart, and don't see a need to really play it more than once every few years now - and that's no fault of the album's because it's a solid release from top to bottom - it's just that once most of us know a record by heart and stop hearing new things with each spin, there's not a big draw to play it again

though maybe i'm wrong

― stephen, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

it's aging about as well as any other album that's got nothing but awesome songs (bar one or two) that i've listened to six billion times, yeah

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

In early December 1991 I was packing to move back to Seattle from Madison WI. I'd moved to Madison that summer because I had a couple of friends going to college there, and I was losing my mind and making random decisions.

Anyway, packing my stuff late at night. And some local college radio show was on. The DJ started talking, surprisingly, about Talk Talk, whom I'd known in 9th grade for the It's My Life LP, bought by 14-year-old me for its animal-rich video, sweet synthy single and the cool cover. Mr. DJ was talking about TT's new record, which was not at all what he was expecting. He proceeded to air "Taphead". Biggest aural epiphany of my life til then (the SST giants who'd dominated my latter teens had as big an impact, but more incrementally, less eureka). I felt my brain recurling right there.

As soon as I got back to Seattle, I hunted down Laughing Stock, which immediately became a cult for me and my best friend Tom. And by spring, 3 or 4 tracks from the Nirvana record were everywhere. I liked 'em a lot. They made me smile. But I never felt like owning it; it seemed a little derivative.

Loveless would wait until the next summer, a random buy at whatever that used store in Queen Anne was called. I liked it a lot, but I had just had my first hearing of motherfucking Soul Discharge, and between that and Laughingstock (and searching for anything else that was supposed to sound like either one) about 70% of my passion was taken up.

Never quite fell for Slint, though I was a Squirrelbait fan.

Also, first post here after appx. 1 year of lurking. Hi.

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

by the way...I first heard Nevermind in 7th grade (1997-98), loved the album through high school, haven't played it but once or twice since then...picked up Loveless probably around 10th grade (2000-01), loved the album then, love it even more now, and it makes my hypothetical top 10 albums of all time list without a second thought...got into Spiderland in probably 10th or 11th grade (2000-02) via the Mogwai (a band that I still prefer) comparisons, never really saw the big deal about it being canonical, though I do like the album alright...got into Laughing Stock my first year of college (2003-04) I believe, think it's a fantastic record, miles better than Spirit of Eden, though I also love their early/mid period work

my ranking as of today: Loveless > Laughing Stock > Nevermind > Spiderland

― stephen, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

yes to Nevermind and Loveless, no to Spiderland (I still don't care about Slint but hadn't even heard of them in '91) and didn't hear the Talk Talk til much later (2000 or so?)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Also, first post here after appx. 1 year of lurking. Hi.

HI DERE

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

This was clearly the time when I was spending a shit load of my wages on music every week, as I bought at least half of all the albums metioned on this thread. Christ, how could I afford it all?
I got Loveless (vinyl lp) on the Friday before it was released from dear old Magpie Records; Nevermind and Laughing Stock (and Ex:El, Bandwagonesque, Screamadelica etc) I got on dear old cassette.

I didn't buy many CDs then, can't remember why now. But I was quite excited by the MBV and was counting the days, and badgering the Magpie staff about it, till they got it in. The others were big Maker faves, which I - clearly - slavishly followed. But everyone was aware of, and bought Nevermind. Even Steve Wright's posse were raving about it on the Radio 1 breakfast show ('Wrighty' himself probably didn't think it was as good as Kenny G or something though).

Shanice, "I Love Your Smile" = what a wonderful song!

― DavidM, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

December 1991: making $5/hour at Tower Records Chicago, so I didn't buy any of these at the time, though I managed to make off with the in-store play copy of Loveless when they cleaned out the play pile. Nirvana and MBV were played a lot in the store during evening hours. Slint was a big deal locally, as with all T&G stuff at the time.

― dad a, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

i only knew nirvana and mbv at the time. whereas i didn't buy the hype about nevermind (i found it sounded retro) but i quite liked them later on i was immediately enthralled by loveless. that was a new sound i coulkd lose myself in. nowadays i enjoy laughing stock the most. it doesn't follow pop/rock music's rule of diminishing returns. i am still discovering new things in that record by every listen. not sure if i have ever listened to spiderland, if yes it didn't leave a lasting impression. i very much liked their cover of cortez the killer though.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

I remember the endless debates my friends and I would have during winter break re Out of Time vs [/i]Achtung Baby[/i] vs [/i]Nevermind[/i]. I tried quite hard to make a case for Shanice, "Baby Baby," the Psychedelic Furs' "Until She Comes," and Electronic's "Get The Message."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

and of course 1991 was a terrific year for music. the first smashing pumpkins, electronic, bandwagonesque, seamonsters, screamadelica, this mortal coil's blood, the field mice must have had an album in that year. it was the year i got into indie. the last time when english bands were cutting edge. britpop was more or less the end of british rock music imo.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

slint had a HUGE pre-teen audience due to their Nickelodeon guest-spots

-- latebloomer, Monday, April 30, 2007 4:43 AM (7 hours ago)

ok is this true?

-- Curt1s Stephens, Monday, April 30, 2007 7:32 PM (1 hour ago)

lexbot 2.0?

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

1991 also spawned "Screamadelica". Still the most well-done stylistic conglomerate of dance, indie, rock'n'roll and classic pop the world has ever seen.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

Still not particularly awesome all in all though. Music became considerably better with Britpop in the mid 90s.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

why do you even bother?

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Some (but not all) good albums from 1991 (in order):

1991
Loretta Lynn – Country Music Hall Of Fame Series (MCA reissue)
James Brown – Star Time (Polydor reissue)
The Electric Eels – God Says Fuck You (Homestead reissue)
Kix – Hot Wire (Atlantic)
Amy Grant – Heart In Motion (A&M)
Malidita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5 Patio – El Circo (Ariola Mexico)
Corina – Corina (Cutting)
Bang Tango – Dancin’ On Coals (Mechanic/MCA)
Mylene Farmer – L’Autre (Polygram France)
Anacrusis – Manic Impressions (Metal Blade)
Gazebo – I Like Chopin (Alex)
Mecano – Aidalai (BMG U.S. Latin)
Mano Negra – Amerika Perdida (Virgin France)
Lisa M – Flavor Of The Latin (Sony Discos)
L’Trimm – Groovy (Atlantic)
Fobia – Mundo Feliz (Ariola Mexico)
Cypress Hill – Cypress Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
The Nomads – Sonically Speaking (Sonet)
The Neon Judgement – Are You Real (Play It Again Sam)
Les Negresses Vertes – Famille Nombreuse (Delabel)
Michael Jackson – Dangerous (Epic)
Kik Tracee – No Rules (RCA)
The KLF – The White Room (Arista)
Los Prisioneros – Grandes Exitos (Capitol/EMI Latin reissue)
The Kentucky Headhunters – Electric Barnyard (Mercury)
Junkyard – Sixes, Sevens & Nines (Geffen)
I Start Counting – Catalogue (Mute)
Guns N Roses – Use Your Illusion II (Geffen)
Guns N Roses – Use Your Illusion I (Geffen)
Daddy Freddy – Stress (Chrysalis)
Aldo Nova – A Portrait Of (Epic/Legacy reissue)

― xhuxk, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Scaruffi's list for 1991:

1. Slint: Spiderland (Touch & Go) (9)
2. My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (Sire) (9)
3. Type O Negative: Slow Deep And Hard (Roadrunner) (9)
4. Mercury Rev: Yerself Is Steam (Rough Trade) (9)
5. Dogbowl: Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain (Shimmy Disc) (8.5)
6. Unsane (Matador) (8)
7. Jesus Lizard: Goat (Touch & Go) (8)
8. Lida Husik: Bozo (Shimmy Disc) (8)
9. Honeymoon Killers: Hung Far Low (Fistpuppet) (8)
10. Slowdive: Just For A Day (Creation) (8)
11. Barkmarket: Vegas Throat (Triple X) (8)
12. Pegboy: Strong Reaction (Quarterstick) (8)
13. Codeine: Frigid Stars (SubPop) (8)
14. Eden: Gateway To The Mystery (Third Mind) (8)
15. Swans: White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (Young God) (7.5)
16. Cop Shoot Cop: White Noise (Big Cat) (7.5)
17. Will: Pearl Of Great Price (Third Mind) (7.5)
18. Peter Jefferies: The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World (Xpressway) (7.5)
19. Ed Hall: Gloryhole (Trance) (7.5)
20. Delerium: Spiritual Archives (Dossier) (7.5)
21. Screeching Weasel: My Brain Hurts (Lookout) (7.5)
22. Steroid Maximus: Quilombo (Big Cat) (7.5)
23. Fugazi: Steady Diet Of Nothing (Dischord) (7.5)
24. Fishbone: Reality Of My Surroundings (Columbia) (7.5)
25. American Music Club: Everclear (Alias) (7.5)

― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

26. Ozric Tentacles: Strangeitude (Demi Monde) (7.5)
27. Nirvana: Nevermind (Geffen) (7)
28. Primus: Sailing The Seas Of Cheese (Interscope) (7)
29. Primal Scream: Screamadelica (Sire) (7)
30. Joni Mitchell: Night Ride Home (Geffen) (7)
31. Talk Talk: Laughing Stock (Verve) (7)
32. Drunk Tank (Radial) (7)
33. Lycia: Ionia (Projekt) (7)
34. Dwarves: Thank Heaven For Little Girls (SubPop) (7)
35. Pixies: Trompe Le Monde (Elektra) (7)
36. White Heaven: Out (PFS) (7)
37. Sebadoh: III (Homestead) (7)
38. Gas Huffer: Janitors Of Tomorrow (Empty) (7)
39. Metallica: self-titled (Elektra) (7)
40. Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend (Zoo) (7)
41. Orbital: Yellow (Ffrr) (7)
42. Levitation: Coterie (Capitol) (7)
43. 808 State: Ex:el (ZTT) (7)
44. Orb: Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld (Big Life) (7)
45. Guns And Roses: Use Your Illusion (Geffen) (7)
46. Helios Creed: Lactating Purple (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
47. Djam Karet: Burning The Hard City (HC Productions) (7)
48. Hole: Pretty On The Inside (Caroline) (7)
49. Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (SubPop) (7)
50. Eric Andersen: Stages (Columbia) (7)
51. Superchunk: No Pocky For Kitty (Matador) (7)
52. Blackgirls: Happy (Mammoth) (7)
53. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Lovelyville (Matador) (7)
54. Melvins: Bullhead (Boner) (7)
55. Julian Cope: Peggy Suicide (Island) (7)
56. Tumor Circus: self-titled (Alternative Tentacles) (7)
57. Pearl Jam: Ten (Epic) (7)
58. Ambitious Lovers: Lust (Elektra) (7)
59. Enya: Shepherd Moons (Warner Bros) (7)
60. Ghost: Ghost (PSF) (7)
61. Spectrum: Soul Kiss (Silvertone) (7)
62. Saint Etienne: Foxbase Alpha (Warner Brothers) (7)
63. Trespassers W: Roots And Locations (TW) (7)
64. Monster Magnet: Spine Of God (Primo Scree) (7)
65. Cathedral: Forest Of Equilibrium (Earache) (7)
66. Ice-T: Original Gangster (Sire) (7)
67. Neil Young: Arc (Reprise) (7)
68. Seam: Headsparks (Homestead) (7)
69. Steve Hillage: System 7 (Ten Dix) (7)
70. Sarah McLachlan: Solace (Nettwerk) (7)
71. Biosphere: Microgravity (Origo) (7)
72. Primal Scream: Screamadelica (Creation) (7)
73. Stetsasonic: Blood, Sweat & No Tears (1991) (7)
74. Bikini Kill: Revolution Girl Style Now (K Records) (7)
75. Rocket From The Crypt: Paint As A Fragrance (Headhunter) (7)
76. Drive Like Jehu: self-titled (Headhunter) (7)
77. Terminal Cheesecake: Angels In Pigtails (Pathological) (7)
78. Windbreakers: Electric Landlady (DB) (7)
79. Victor DeLorenzo: Peter Corey Sent Me (Dali) (7)
80. Sting: The Soul Cages (A&M) (7)
81. Mr Bungle (Slash) (7)
82. Toad The Wet Sprocket: Fear (Columbia) (7)
83. Big Chief: Drive It Off (Get Hip) (7)
84. Plaid: Mbuki Mvuki (BDP) (7)
85. Lords Of Acid: Lust (Caroline) (7)
86. Savatage: Streets (1991) (7)

― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

I made a Summer of 1991 mixtape and wrote about it here (scroll down).

― jaymc, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

Of the bands/albums mentioned in the thread title, I heard them in the following order:

Nirvana, Nevermind (1993)
Slint, Spiderland (1997)
My Bloody Valentine, Loveless (2001)
Talk Talk, Laughing Stock (2003)

― jaymc, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

Which one do you like the best?

― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

41. Orbital: Yellow (Ffrr) (7)

I thought it was 'Green'?

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I went to college at IU Bloomington, all of those Touch & Go bands were popular as most played there at some point. I don't remember when I got Slint's Spiderland, but it had to be sometime within a year of the album come out. Slint like Rodan had pretty much broken up by the time their album came out. Quite a few of those other T&G affiliated bands played Bloomingon at one time or another like Mule, Brainiac, The Laughning Hyenas, Jesus Lizard, etc.

I had Bleach, but I thought Mudhoney was a better band than Nirvana at that point. I did get Nevermind about the day it came out as I had heard Smells Like Teen Spirit from a promo doing a radio show.

I got Loveless right after it came out. Like Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque, it was really hyped up by reviews at the time.

I've still not gotten around to checking out Talk Talk. I doubt it would have been my thing at that time, but I would eventually like to hear one of their records.

― earlnash, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Another popular CD that I listened to probably as much as Nevermind in 1991 was Dinosaur Jr's Green Mind. I loved The Wagon and would play that tune over and over.

― earlnash, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

For me 1991 was all about C+C Music Factory. I bonded with my new best friend in grade 4 (we were about 9) because we both knew all the words to "Things That Make You Go Hmm" - this kind of set in train a pattern of me memorising lyrics much faster than any other person I knew IRL.

I discovered MBV and Talk Talk in 1997 I think, both immediately became v. important to me. I think I had this idea of a "minor canon" of marginal experimental UK indie that I was trying to uncover (this led me to hunt obsessively for stuff like A.R. Kane and Disco Inferno for the longest time), which seems v. silly in retrospect given how totally celebrated-to-death these records in particular are. Have never heard Slint. Somewhat appreciative of Nirvana's singles but never felt a strong urge to buy an album.

― Tim F, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

Lots of great stories on this thread.

Tim, the 12" remix of "Here We Go (Let's Rock and Roll)" is clearly the best thing C+C ever did (besides their Aretha collab).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

Really the four singles from that album were like a golden age of house-pop in an of themselves. "Just A Touch of Love" is the one I pull out most these days. That album deserves to be way more canonised than it is.

In other news, at around this time or maybe a year or so earlier I thought Ya Kid K was the epitome of coolness, and disliked Womack & Womack's "Teardrops" because my mum loved it --> I decided it was sappy and conservative or something. How wrong I was!

― Tim F, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

haha. around this time i also bought dannii minogue's debut album (i think my first album proper, as opposed to dance compilation) and acted superior to everyone who preferred kylie (ie everyone else in the world).

oh! 'now that we found love' by heavy d & the boyz!

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

Really the four singles from that album were like a golden age of house-pop in an of themselves

That's how I regard The KLF's "What Time is Love?" and "3 A.M. Eternal." The former still sounds like either a superior rewrite of "Gonna Make You Sweat" (down to the diva interjections) and a future that sadly never happened.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

Let's not forget the genius of Natural Selection's "Do Anything."

Oh! As for house-pop, what about Crystal Waters?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

Mark, I think I probably like Laughing Stock best. Nevermind is classic, of course, but I never think to actually listen to it anymore. Spiderland is pretty rad, too, but it never really struck me as deeply as other post-rock stuff. And I've never really got Loveless. I can see why other people like it, but too often it just sounds like tediously harmonious hoovering.

― jaymc, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

"100% Pure Love" was my choon. Still is. Anytime I get the chance to play stuff in public it comes out.

― Tim F, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

la da dee, la da da...

crystal waters is actually in the uk charts again right now!

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

lexbot 2.0?

-- That one guy that quit, Monday, April 30, 2007 2:33 PM (5 hours ago)

hey, fuck you!

xpost er no offense lex

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

I turned four in December 1991 so I honestly didn't know

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

no worries, nrq is slightly obsessed w/ me

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

oh yes, '91 was also the first time i heard the source & candi staton's 'you got the love' which is eternal favourite 4eva

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

The first three Black Box singles -- "Everybody Everybody," "Strike it Up," and "I Don't Know Anybody Else" -- are at least as good as the first three C+C Music Factory singles.

― jaymc, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

as is rozalla's 'everybody's free (to feel good)'

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

THIS was my 1991

i only discovered the other month that cola boy = st etienne!

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

I turned four in December 1991 so I honestly didn't know

You mean, you weren't even grooving to "Turtle Power"? :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

The first three Black Box singles -- "Everybody Everybody," "Strike it Up," and "I Don't Know Anybody Else" -- are at least as good as the first three C+C Music Factory singles

And "Ride On Time" from '89 slays'em all.

Speaking of Loleeta Holloway, what about "Good Vibrations" -- house-pop hip-hop!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

ha, wasn't that with marky mark or something? i remember it though, it was brilliant.

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

Loleeta Holloway, like Martha Wash and Aretha Franklin, is the one singer that 13 out of 12 female singers these days tries to copy. (which, obviously, is very boring in the long run)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

You turned four Curt1s? Jesus I was 21.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

oh no another thread listing fun dance tracks from a bygone age!

'Just A Touch Of Love' was good tho, I often forget it myself. And 'Makin Happy' was a third good single by Waters.

(which, obviously, is very boring in the long run)

like when men with guitars try to sound like other, older men with guitars

'13 out of 12' is an unusual stat to quote tho. i appreciate the novelty.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

Let's see... I was born in 1984, so I was 7 in 1991. I think that was 2nd grade. I think Kris Kross was big. Boyz II Men were huge (I grew up in Philly). Also... I seem to remember Bohemian Rhapsody was huge in my class that year - but that might've been an aberration.

Personally, I was living to the Les Miz soundtrack over and over again.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

Boyz II Men were huge whether you grew up in Philly or not.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

'Bo Rap' getting re-released was a sucky way for the year to end, with so much excitement elsewhere.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

oh no another thread listing fun dance tracks from a bygone age!

consider how it began, and be thankful for small mercies

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Nevermind I heard in early 1992
Loveless I heard in late 1992
Spiderland I heard in 1994 or 1995
Laughing Stock I heard in 1999

I love all of these albums. I would perhaps rate them LS/Nevermind/Loveless/Spiderland. Perhaps.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

I may not have actually heard Laughing Stock until 2000. Nevermind and Loveless are the only two that I have firm memories of hearing for the first time, whereas with the other two I have very specific memories of listening to them at "important" moments removed from whenever I first heard them.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Also... I seem to remember Bohemian Rhapsody was huge in my class that year - but that might've been an aberration.

It was rereleased in early 1992 to coincide with the first Wayne's World movie. Its popularity on the charts was kind of weird: it peaked higher than it had in 1976 (#2, maybe?), and I remember hearing it on B96 in Chicago, which was otherwise a dance/urban radio station: it was sandwiched between, like, Kris Kross and Yaz.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

i started hanging aout at my college's radio station in 1991. sometime in that fall my soon to be girlfriend sat me down in the radio station's lounge and played bits of Spiderland for me & the Breeders album Pod. This was pre-Internet, so we didn't know for sure that both bands shared a drummer, it was all just rumor until the next Trouser Press Guide came out, but the more I listened to both, the more I was conivcned they were the same person. Shannon Doughton seemed like a cover up.

Loveless was huge, of course, and so was Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend.

I will never get sick of Nevermind.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

haha matthew sweet otm

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

i was giving that dude's records a fair shake into college

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

even the one with the rip-off roger dean cover

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

and I remember hearing it on B96 in Chicago, which was otherwise a dance/urban radio station: it was sandwiched between, like, Kris Kross and Yaz.

i wonder if this in turn was what inspired that awful Braids version.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Girlfriend is great! A little on the long side. Also, I stopped listening to Gish as much after Nevermind. Oh, I was also WAY into Green Mind by Dinosaur Jr.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

my taste between 1991 and 1994 or so was such a trainwreck of awesome and awful. i think i even owned a belly record.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

actually i owned two belly albums! damn you, columbia house!

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

"your alt-rocking shame"

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

my taste between 1991 and 1994 or so was such a trainwreck of awesome and awful.

soooooo very OTM.

Take your head off boy when you're talking to me
and be there when i feeeeed the treeee

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

i mean my taste was awful between those years as well.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

i was still listening to Toad the Wet Sprocket in 1991.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

the pop music i was listening to pre-1991 is pretty unimpeachable; even the bad stuff is vaguely redeemed by nostalgia. there's really nothing redeemable about grant lee buffalo, however.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

i remember being 12 or 13 and thinking some toad the wet sprocket song was REALLY DEEP. it wasn't even a snob thing, like "this is so much deeper than c&c music factory."

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

*hangs head in shame about the Toad revelation*

ha, I heard that Grant Lee Buffalo dude on NPR the other day. dude writes for the Gilmore Girls now or something? he's a strolling troubadour??

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

at least you didn't start hearing Levellers songs and thinking 'actually this is alright'

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

If we ignore the Bryan Adams interregnum, 1991 was GREAT for pop. Hell, I heard Jesus Jones' "Real, Real, Real" at the cafeteria last week and it sounded killer.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

?!?!? A Grant Lee Buffalo fan? Jess I'm honestly shocked.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

someone was actually writing a review of the new grant lee phillips album for me, so i decided to snag one of the glb albums off of slsk and it's actually not too bad. dude's affecting mor alt-rock songs were kinda torpedoed by his undigested "back to the land"isms though.

i was 15 for chrissakes, ned.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

i mean i owned a reverend horton heat cd.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

no I'm sorry Jesus Jones is a crime against humanity.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

THEY POINTED THE WAY TO THE FUTURE.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

'Real Real Real' is grebt!

the worst record i actually BOUGHT (as opposed to copied off a school friend) between 91 and 94 tho...quite tough as there weren't actually many. if not INXS greatest hits then maybe Senser's 'Stacked Up' (for the preachiness/worthiness).

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

the Blake Babies! I had all of their CD's and I loved them. I don't have any of their stuff anymore.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

i was 15 for chrissakes, ned

Yeah but I thought you were already way into Gravity Records stuff by then.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

oh i was! i mean that's kind of my point.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Clarity.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

i was listening to like, the wu-tang clan, grant lee buffalo, born against, and mary j. blige.

haha actually other than grant lee buffalo that's pretty much what i listen to now.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

going to jesus lizard shows and at the same time really digging the friggin' toadies

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i listened to the Replacement's Take Out The Trash from high school onwards, but I still had the Toad the West Sprocket and REM jones until probably halfway through college

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

i was writing something for work this week and when i realized i could call up the names of both a toadies album and a reverend horton heat album from memory that i was inexorably part of the alt-rock generation

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Smoke Em If You Got Em

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

it's also easy to forget this stuff was pop! (at least in america.) i remember hearing shudder to think songs in the car on the way to the mall.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

on the radio, i should say.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of 1991 Top Tens....I just heard Michael W. Smith's "Place in This World."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

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