1991 Best NME Album Poll (Ends 11th May)

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Taken from NME end of year polls list
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/1991.html

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Nevermind - Nirvana	25
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine	18
Foxbase Alpha - St Etienne	8
Screamadelica - Primal Scream	7
The white room - The KLF	6
Peggy suicide - Julian Cope	5
Death certificate - Ice cube	5
Blue Lines - Massive Attack	5
Trompe Le Monde - The Pixies	4
The low end theory - A tribe called quest	3
Frequencies - LFO	3
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub	3
Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse	2
Apocalypse '91 The enemy strikes.. - Public Enemy	2
The great white wonder - The pooh Sticks	2
Diamonds and Pearls - Prince	2
The real Ramona - Throwing Muses	2
Leisure - Blur	1
Pretty on the inside - Hole	1
Exiel - 808 State	1
Honey lingers - Voice of the beehive	1
Orbital - Same	1
In the presence of greatness - Velvet crush	1
Beatsongs - Blue Aeroplanes	1
Just for a day - Slowdive	1
Strange free world - Kitchens of distinction	1
Watershed - GW McLennan	1
Electronic - Electronic	1
Shiftwork - The Fall	1
And now the legacy begins - Dream warriors	1
30 Something - Carter USM	1
OG - Original Gangster - Ice T	1
God fodder - Ned's atomic dustbin	1
Kill Uncle - Morrissey	1
Slinky - The Milltown Brothers	0
Out of time - REM	0
Mush - Leatherface	0
Achtung Baby - U2	0
Never loved Elvis - The Wonder stuff	0
Whirlpool - Chapterhouse	0
Of the heart, of the soul etc. - PM Dawn	0
Schubert dip - EMF	0
Eat yourself whole - Kingmaker	0
Love & Life: A Journey with.... - Definition of sound	0
Friendly Fascism - Consolidated	0
Don't try this at home - Billy Bragg	0
Spartacus - The Farm	0
To mother - Babes in toyland	0
Bertie's brochures - The Fatima mansions	0
The first of too many - Senseless things	0

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

It's kinda obvious what ILM is going to vote for isn't it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

I went for LFO.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

ANOTHER completely useless early '90s list.

I went with KLF, which I don't even like that much.

Second place, bizarrely enough, would be Nirvana!

(I do like a couple later Leatherface albums, though, so that one might have possibilities.)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

Chuck are you another one who prefers 80s NME to 90s?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, did you read the other thread?

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

Certainly the Electronic album got the most Walkman play that year, but it's not my favorite.

Odd list -- a new world struggling to be born.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Also: where the fuck are the Amy Grant and Roxette records?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

I still probably listen to Great White Wonder as much now as ever (and I can't believe it was even on there!), but Green Mind was easily my best album of that year.

― Saxby D. Elder, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

Select http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/select.html#1991
and
Melody Maker http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mmlists_p2.htm#1991
lists from 1991

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

God, this is pretty dire. Went with Death Certificate since I picked Nevermind on the Kerrang thread.

― JN$OT, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

I take that back. Just noticed the Ice-T, PM Dawn and Pixies records. Guess it's time to wake up and smell the coffee.

― JN$OT, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

EW EW EW - this is why i never ever bought the nme! fucking disgraceful.

british ilm-ers, you all say you used to buy the nme religiously. for this?? why???

― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:00 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah massive attack obv

― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

"Woodface" is one of the 1991 albums most often listed in best albums of all time polls, and NME didn't even include it? Says something about how pathetic NME is in its stupid ageism.

Voted "Screamadelica". IMO the ninth best album of 1991, but the only one of my Top 10 from that year to make the NME year-end list.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

What is it with the NME and Consolidated ffs? Plenty of conscious rap on there I see. Does anyone still listen to Dream Warriors?

― Matt #2, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

91 is at least better than 92 but not my much. lfo,mbv,st etienne and slowdive were all good, but with exception of mbv worked out much better on singles and eps

― 600, Sunday, 6 May 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for Public Enemy.

― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 6 May 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

Gah! It's all so worthy. You were only allowed in if you:
(i) played guitars but didn't try too hard to sound or look good (Kingmaker, Neds or the Fall - but not Crowded House, GnR or Metallica);
(ii) looked like you paid your dues (so Prince gets a token place, while Jacko or Simply Red never would)
(iii) had the right politics (any amount of forgotten rappers, no sign of NWA)

I take it all very personally. 1991 was where I came in. This kind of thinking ruined music for years - scrabbling about in Missing trying to find second-hand Mega City Four and what exactly Husker Du was, instead of going to parties and learning to dance. I blame you, NME.

Credit to the Nation were the logical end-point for these journos - I imagine them still coalescing in pub basements like grebo Trots, pints of snakebite in scabby hands, plotting the return of Back to the Planet (and repeal of the Criminal Justice 'Bill' - the whole thing, obviously). And cursing the kids for taking Oasis to their hearts instead.

To be fair, it was a genuinely shocking year for the charts in the UK (Bryan Adams, Color Me Badd and the Shoop Shoop Song). But no year is ever totally useless. Even then, the NME's token pop shocker on their singles list was typically crap - 'What do I have to do?' scores an oh-so-provocative no 30, instead of something genuinely brilliant like 'Charly'.

Anyway, back to the point - 1991 obviously belongs to the KLF.

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 6 May 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

I hope I'm not the only one voting for LFO.
And I bought that,Screamadelica, Bandwagonesque, Orbital, My Bloody Valentine , Massive Attack and Husker Du albums from Missing in Glasgow! So NME didn't make me miss out on dance music.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

pretty impressive year for new releases

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I thought!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

xpost--

I still listen to Dream Warriors. They were the first to rap about D & D!

Also some nice sampling of Buddhist monk choirs on that rec.

― Jon Lewis, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

It was also the year I got into music at the ripe old age of 18. Maybe that's why 1991/92 means so much to me. And then years later I discovered other albums from that time I missed out on originally.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I bought most of those albums as well - so I exaggerate a bit about my ruined life ... but I still reckon that it left me pointing in the wrong direction. Earnest rather than frivolous. The fact is that there's not much pop on these lists, and that's where most of the fun is in music. I doubt someone like Justin Timberlake, say, would've got much love from NME in those days.

Having said that, I've just trawled through the list of top 20 singles during 1991, and I don't see much joy there at all. Maybe them was just rotten days.

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

There are 8 albums on the list which I got when they came out; 7 of which I got rid of within a couple years. Therefore I suppose my vote must go to Code:Selfish by default, my 18th favorite Fall album :/

(Though if the impending reissue spruces up the gray shit sound I'll like it a lot more)

― Jon Lewis, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

OMG I meant to post that on the 1992 thread..!!

Sorry...

― Jon Lewis, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Funny how 91 was great, but 92 not so (at least accorign to these nme charts)

I went for st et!

― Robin G, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

The Kerrang list in 1992 had some good stuff in it though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

of course Loveless is going to handily win, so I voted strategically for Blue Lines -- it deserves to place in the top 2-3 here

― stephen, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe lots of people wont vote nevermind or loveless thinking the same and they end up with hardly any.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

so now you realize you underestimated me, the ice / you thought that i was ok, but now you realize im nice

what else could i possibly vote for ^_^

― ☪, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

We shouldn't under-estimate the ILM Carter USM faction though. Unless of course The Wonderstuff splits the vote.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Can Grimly choose between them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

i can't not vote for foxbase alpha...

― CharlieNo4, Sunday, 6 May 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

hah, somehow i don't have that problem

― vodka chthonic, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

I really dont understand the ILM loathing for 1990-92 era NME britband stuff! FFS, it was shoegazer heaven, we had MBV andf the Cocteaus and Slowdive and Ride and Swervedriver and Sonic Youth and all that.

But what the fuck ever.

― Trayce, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

The trouble is, pretty much every record from the indie genre makes the list, while hardly anything else does. Leaving aside the genuinely great indie albums, there might just about be space for the Wonder Stuff, say, but to include them AND Kingmaker AND Billy Bragg AND Ned's AND Kitchens of Distinction AND the Blue Aeroplanes is pretty poor. And that's not to mention the fucking Farm!

The only justification would be if no other genre produced a single thing of value that year - and to be fair not a great deal springs to mind. All the same, I wouldn't be surprised if Celine DIon had released an album that stands up better than the Senseless Things.

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

The only justification would be if no other genre produced a single thing of value that year - and to be fair not a great deal springs to mind

For starters:

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)
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 Kentucky Headhunters – Electric Barnyard (Mercury)
Junkyard – Sixes, Sevens & Nines (Geffen)
I Start Counting – Catalogue (Mute)
Daddy Freddy – Stress (Chrysalis)

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

Four more:

Niagara - Religion (Traffic)
Noir Desir - Du Ciment Les Plaines (Barclay)
Sandee - Time Will Tell (Fever)
Voivod - Angel Rat (Mechanic)

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

except for the shitty michael jackson album i haven't heard one of them. would they have made the EOY poll in any magazine?

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

As opposed to household names like the Milltown Brothers and Senseless Things and Velvet Crush, you mean?

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

... they made the EOY in this magazine. i've only heard of senseless things of the three, but they are the kind of thing nme readers liked. Malidita Vecindad Y Los Hijos Del 5 Patio – El Circo (Ariola Mexico), not so much.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

As opposed to household names like the Milltown Brothers and Senseless Things and Velvet Crush, you mean?

Please tell us more of what you learned from that time where you lived in England during the early 90s and are thus aware of what bands were famous and which weren't.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

Please tell us more lies about what kinds of music didn't make NME's '80s lists, Dom.

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

OK, you're right, Sade was a reggae musician.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

How dark is the actual paperbag you use in your test, Chuck?

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

do you think music mags should cover - or even mention in EOY lists - bands they believe their demographic might not like, nrq

― lex pretend, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

yes, which probably explains lfo 'frequencies'.

like you reviewing paris for plan b, the nme would often call on steven wells to say things like 'atomic kitten are actually better than travis, when you think about it'.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

but chuck's list is a smidge unrealistic?

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

It's useless, Lex. You're talking to guys who apparently think Linton Kwesi Johnson, Salif Keita, Shinehead, Fela Kuti, Teena Marie, Change, and Mantronix were obscure '80s Brit-pop acts. (Why else would they have made the NME poll? It's the only explanation. Those polls never change.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

As opposed to Dream Warriors, Ice T, Public Enemy, why am i bothering, etc etc etc.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

what the fuck are you on about? leaving aside the fact the lex doesn't even know who you're talking about (j/k!), while the nme of the 80s featured some of them sometimes (i guess -- was salif keita on the cover?) none of them quite rivalled, you know, THE SMITHS.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

eh, it'd be all ok if a) the nme admitted it was a specialist single-genre publication, made no pretences to being generalist, and stopped acting like its decrees meant anything outside of a v particular demographic, and hence b) you all could ignore its meaningless pronouncements

― lex pretend, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:37 (eighteen years ago)

This is not an indie list. If it was, then Public Enemy, Dream Warriors, Orbital or LFO wouldn't be in there. To name just a few.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

And NME IS a generalist publication! The just cover more indie because indie is superior to other generes. And fans of other genres should realize that too.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

indie is superior to other generes

The truth finally comes out. Thanks, Geir!

― xhuxk, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Well, at least it has been since around 1990.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

indie > bach

― 600, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

There hasn't been a lot of new Bach around since 1990 :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

geir help me realise

― 600, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

there hasnt been a lot of new indie around since 1990:D

― 600, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

i cant work out if you are more stupid than chuck or not

― 600, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Chuck, how dare you not like '90s indie rock. What are you, stoopid or something?

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ i dont like 90s indie rock either

― 600, Monday, 7 May 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

It's a conspiracy I tell ya.

― JN$OT, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

There hasn't been a lot of new Bach around since 1990 :)

Not since he left Skid Row ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Does NME describe itself as a general music mag or an indie mag now?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Melody Maker list
1. Screamadelica - Primal Scream
2. Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3. Out of time - REM
4. Yerself is steam - Mercury rev
5. Nevermind - Nirvana
6. Never loved Elvis - The wonder stuff
7. Loveless - My bloody valentine
8. Everclear - American music club
9. The real Ramona - The throwing muses
10. Use your illusion 2 - Guns 'n' roses
11. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
12. Laughing stock - Talk talk
13. Pretty on the inside - Hole
14. Levelling the land - The levellers
15. Electronic - Electronic
16. Metallica - Metallica
17. Foxbase alpha - St etienne
18. Of the heart, of the soul etc.... - PM Dawn
19. Trompe le monde - The pixies
20. 30 something - Carter USM
21. Apocalypse '91 - enemy strikes bak - Public enemy
22. Adventures beyond the ultraworld - The orb
23. Blue lines - Massive attack
24. Diamond and pearls - Prince
25. Original gangster - Ice T
26. And now the legacy begins - Dream warriors
27. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
28. To mother - Babes in toyland
29. The ruby sea - Thin white rope
30. Schubert dip - EMF

Select Top 50

1. Primal Scream - Screamadellca
2. R.E.M - Out of time
3. Public Enemy - Apocalypse ‘91 the enemy strikes back
4. Pixies - Trompe la monde
5. Massive attack - Blue lines
6. My bloody Valentine - Loveless
7. The Fall - Shiftwork
8. Teenage fanclub - Bandwagonesque
9. Ice-T - Origanal Gangster.
10. Intastella and the family of people - Same
11. Nirvana - Nevermind
12. Julian Cope - Peggy suicide
13. Definition of sound - Love and life
14. Neil Young - Weld
15. KLF - The white room
16. MC Buzz "b" - Words escape me
17. 808 state - Excel
18. PM Dawn - Of the heart of the soul etc...
19. World of twist - Quality street
20. Throwing muses - Real ramona
21. Blue aeroplanes - Beat songs
22. St Etienne - Foxbase alpha
23. Spacemen 3 - Recurring
24. Mercury rev - Yerself is steam
25. Dinosaur jr - Green mind
26. Wonderstuff - Never loved elvis
27. KMD - Mr hood
28. Prince - Diamonds and pearls
29. Bongwater - The power of pussy
30. Terminator x - In the valley
31. Chapter and the verse - Great western
32. Lenny Kravitz - Mama said
33. Mock turtles - Two sides
34. Blur - Lleisure
35. Guns n' roses - Use your illusion 2
36. Kraftwerk - The mix
37. LFO - Frequencies
38. Thin white rope - The ruby sea
39. Ned's atomic dustbin - God fodder
40. Soul family sensation - New wave
41. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
42. American music club - Everclear
43. Electronic - Same
44. Slowdive - Just for a day
45. Butthole surfers - Pioughd
46. Young disciples - Road to freedom
47. Jesus Jones - Doubt
48. Morrissey - Kill uncle
49. Springhouse - Land falls
50. Black radical mk2 - Undiluted

VOX
Vox 50 Albums of 1991

In no particular order..

* 3rd Bass - Derelicts Of Dialect
* James Brown - Star Time
* Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
* Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind
* Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol 1 - 3
* The Farm - Spartacus
* John Lee Hooker Mr Lucky
* Blur - Leisure
* Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - 30 Something
* Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal - The Hot Spot
* Will Downing - A Dream Fulfilled
* Electronic - Electronic
* Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusions II
* Ice Cube - Kill At Will
* Billy Bragg - Don't Try This At Home
* Gary Clail - On-U Sound System
* Definition Of Sound - Love And Life - A Journey With The Chameleons
* Dream Warriors - And Now The Legacy Begins
* Enya - Shepherd Moons
* Buddy Guy - Damn Right I've Got The Blues
* Ice T - OG
* Jesus Jones - Doubt
* Kmd - Mister Hood
* Massive Attack - Blue Lines
* Van Morrison - Hymns To The Silence
* Nirvana - Nevermind
* Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
* Prince - Diamonds And Pearls
* Simply Red - Stars
* Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
* The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis
* Julian Joseph - The Language Of Truth
* Love And Money - Dogs In Traffic
* Metallica - Metallica
* My Bloody Valentine
* The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
* PM Dawn - Of The Heart, Of The Soul, Of The Cross
* Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91:The Enemy Strikes Back
* The Specials - The Singles Collection
* U2 - Achtung Baby
* Neil Young And Crazy Horse - Weld
* Kingmaker - Eat Yourself Whole
* Bob Marley And The Wailers - Talking Blues
* Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home
* Aaron Neville - Warm Your Heart
* Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open
* Primal Scream - Screamadelica
* R.E.M. - Out Of Time
* Teenage Fanclub - Banwagonesque
* The Waterboys - Best Of The Waterboys

Q Magazine

• Blur - Leisure
• Billy Bragg - Don’t try this at home
• Gary Clail/On-U Sound System - The Emotional Hooligan
• Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
• Elvis Costello - Mighty like a rose
• Crowded House - Woodface
• Dire Straits - On every street
• The Dream Warriors - And now the legacy begins
• EG and Alice - 24 years of hunger
• 808 State - Ex.El
• Electronic - Same
• EMF - Schubert dip
• Erasure - Chorus
• Flowered up - A life with Brian
• Guns N’ Roses - Use your illusion II
• John Lee Hooker - Mr Lucky
• Ice T - Original Gangster
• Jellyfish - Bellybutton
• Jesus Jones - Doubt
• The KLF - White Room
• Kraftwerk - The mix
• Lenny Kravitz - Mama said
• Metallica - Same
• The milltown brothers - Slinky
• Nirvana - Nevermind
• Omar - There’s Nothing like this
• Alexander O’Neil - All true man
• Tom Petty - Into the great wide open
• P.M. Dawn - Of the heart, of the soul and of the cross..
• Primal Scream - Screamadelica
• Prince - Diamonds and pearls
• Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the draw
• Chris Rea - Auberge
• REM - Out of time
• Runrig - The big wheel
• Seal - Seal
• Simply Red - Stars
• Slowdive - Just for a day
• Squeeze - Play
• St Etienne - Fox Base Alpha
• Sting - The soul Cages
• Teenage fanclub - Bandwagonesque
• Richard Thompson - Rumor and sigh
• U2 - Achtung baby
• Various artists - I’m your fan
• Various artists - Where the pyramid meets the eye: A tribute to Roky Erickson
• Voice of the beehive - Honey lingers
• Chris Whitley
• The wonder stuff - Never loved Elvis
• Neil Young - Arc weld

SPIN
Best of 1991

1. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
2. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Pixies - Trompe le Monde
5. Pet Shop Boys - Discography
6. Robyn Hitchcock - Perspex Island
7. Public Enemy - Apocalypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Black
8. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
10. P.M. Dawn - Of The Heart, Of The Soul And Of The Cross: The Utopian Experience
11. Metallica - Metallica
12. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
13. Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing
14. Urge Overkill - The Supersonic Storybook
15. Pearl Jam - Ten
16. Seal - Seal
17. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
18. Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
19. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I And II
20. Hole - Pretty On The Inside

ROLLING STONE

1. R.E.M. - Out Of Time
2. U2 - Achtung Baby
3. Nirvana - Nevermind
4. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
5. American Music Club - Everclear

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Dom do you see all the forward thinking funk,reggae and dance music on those Spin lists?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

The biggest selling album of 1991 in the UK I believe was Simply Red - Stars.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I hereby cast the single vote to be tallied for Julian Cope's Peggy Suicide.

― christoff, Monday, 7 May 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe someone else will give him a vote.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

No maybe about it. Another for Peggy here.

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Good to see "Bellybutton" in the Q list. Except it was released in 1990 :)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Diamonds And Pearls!

― admrl, Monday, 7 May 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

SPIN's list wins. (No Screamadelica.)

― billstevejim, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

Thus Spin loses. (But not unexpected from a US mag)

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

KLF plz.

― Belisarius, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

Geir doesn't seem to like American mags. Why?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

A lot of the best music never makes it to the US market.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

Wilful ignorance on the part of Chuck here since he knows full well that the NME writers who voted in the nineties polls were not, by and large, the same NME writers who voted in the eighties polls. Changing times, changing demographics (though clearly in the C86/hip hop wars the former won).

Also the inclusion of Dangerous in his list invalidates everything else he's said here.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

This thread needs some urgent and key mark s input.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, 1991 was a good year for me, both musically and otherwise; piss not on our dreams and we'll try not to shit on yours.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

chuck is just annoyed because there arent enough 17 year old girls in dungarees on rollerskates on it for him

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

sure you're not mixing up chuck eddy with frank kogan?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

weird thing is, i momentarily couldnt remember his name, and thought he was chuck berry

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

Wilful ignorance on the part of Chuck here since he knows full well that the NME writers who voted in the nineties polls were not, by and large, the same NME writers who voted in the eighties polls

Actually, I didn't know this, but it explains a lot.

And Dangerous is great, if only for "Give In To Me."

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Is that a Cocteau Twins sample I can hear in the intro to "Give In To Me"?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

Two important contributors' names to remember when considering NME lists of the early nineties: Collins and Maconie.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41357000/jpg/_41357512_chuckles416.jpg

― 600, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Chuckleheads...

― braveclub, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

This thread needs some urgent and key mark s input.

-- Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:58 (1 hour ago)
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HI DERE! oh wait...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

loveless, even though it prob doesn't another vote to win this anyway. I did give lfo a second or two of thought.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Loveless will walk it I wish you had voted LFO!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

if you're so sure about the winner why do the poll at all?

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

^^ same reason you buy the daily mail

― 696, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Steve buys the Daily Mail?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

oops. sorry steve

― 696, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

i've been holding back my Daily Mail EOY list poll but no more.

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

It has to happen. Maybe it will have lots of pop and RnB in it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for the Dream Warriors although some others came close.

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

It was a bit close, but I can't not vote for Foxbase Alpha - the only 1991 album I can think of that sampled both Richard Whiteley and Willie Rushton

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

That's got to be a unique claim to fame!

"Woodface" is one of the 1991 albums most often listed in best albums of all time polls, and NME didn't even include it? Says something about how pathetic NME is in its stupid ageism.

Geir, I doubt many NME readers were interested in it either.
What would your alternate 1991 list be?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Geir, I doubt many NME readers were interested in it either.

In 1991, it isn't unlikely that they were.

What would your alternate 1991 list be?

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/GeirH/my_top_50_albums_of_1991

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Good to see you liked LFO!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

I like 10 that's in your list geir.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

did the reggae-and-funk classic 'C86' (i forget who was behind it) count as an album in that year's EOY list?

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 07:51 (eighteen years ago)

Dream Warriors probably the only album of 1991 to sample both Buddhist monk chants and Judge Dread.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 07:53 (eighteen years ago)

Who were The Milltown Brothers?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Ask the Timmy Mallett lookalike who didn't stop bopping around and singing along to them when they were bottom of the bill to the Pixies at Crystal Palace in '91 and then promptly vanished...we suspected he was an A&M plant...

Sort of Nick Hornby's idea of indiepop; lots of tasteful guitars and harmonies. Geir probably likes them. Nearest thing they had to a hit was "Which Way Do I Stand?" or something like that.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

I dislike most of the songs Nick Hornby picked in that essay a few years ago.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

I dislike ~~most of the songs~~ Nick Hornby ~~picked in that essay a few years ago~~.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

What songs did he pick?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

Screamadelica defines yawning

― billstevejim, Thursday, 10 May 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

No it doesn't.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

Couple of hours voting left.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

'Loveless' in coming second shocker!

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

WOW!! I thought that would be the runaway winner.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

nah! (now let's see what won..)

..

PSSSSHHHH!!!

Ah, OK. Nice that Peggy Suicide came up so high. (I have the title track on a demo cassette btw)

― Mark G, Friday, 11 May 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

Seen from the outside, Saint Etienne coming third is probably the biggest surprise here when compared to how the "canon" would look at the year.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 11 May 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

But this is ILM.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

rockier than ever

― blueski, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

I would say outside of the top 2 those votes are pretty much split between rock and non-rock. There's just no general consensus between those albums.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Not even the first Orb album for Lex to vote for.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure there must've been something there he could've voted for.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, Loveless isn't #1.

― billstevejim, Friday, 11 May 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

All I can remember about the Milltown Brothers is that they did the theme tune to TV series All Quiet On The Preston Front

― Forest Pines, Friday, 11 May 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

where is 'yerself is steam', nme fuckers?

― Just got offed, Friday, 11 May 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Anything else you all think should be in this list but was missed out? Maybe that would've made a better question at the start actually.

So anyone?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Melody Maker Albums List
1. Screamadelica - Primal Scream
2. Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3. Out of time - REM
4. Yerself is steam - Mercury rev
5. Nevermind - Nirvana
6. Never loved Elvis - The wonder stuff
7. Loveless - My bloody valentine
8. Everclear - American music club
9. The real Ramona - The throwing muses
10. Use your illusion 2 - Guns 'n' roses
11. Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
12. Laughing stock - Talk talk
13. Pretty on the inside - Hole
14. Levelling the land - The levellers
15. Electronic - Electronic
16. Metallica - Metallica
17. Foxbase alpha - St etienne
18. Of the heart, of the soul etc.... - PM Dawn
19. Trompe le monde - The pixies
20. 30 something - Carter USM
21. Apocalypse '91 - enemy strikes bak - Public enemy
22. Adventures beyond the ultraworld - The orb
23. Blue lines - Massive attack
24. Diamond and pearls - Prince
25. Original gangster - Ice T
26. And now the legacy begins - Dream warriors
27. Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
28. To mother - Babes in toyland
29. The ruby sea - Thin white rope
30. Schubert dip - EMF

MM Singles 1991

1. Unfinished sympathy - Massive attack
2. Losing my religion - REM
3. Higher than the sun - Primal scream
4. Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana
5. Blindfold EP - Curve
6. Coppelina EP - Levitation
7. Tremolo EP - My bloody valentine
8. Nothing can stop us - St etienne
9. Carwash hair - Mercury rev
10. Enter sandman - Matallica
11. Size of a cow - The wonder stuff
12. Bring the noise - Anthrax/Public enemy
13. This is fascism - Consolidated
14. Starsign - Teenage fanclub
15. Last train to transcentral - The KLF
16. Where the streets have no name - The pet shop boys
17. Get the message - Electronic
18. Adoration - Cranes
19. Winter in July - Bomb the bass
20. Teenage whore - Hole

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

It's in the MM list just got offed

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

What do ilxors think was best single of 1991?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 13 May 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

fuck off

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

How childish.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

piss up a rope

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

Grow up.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

wanker

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

get a blog

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

no.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 13 May 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

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