Forgot Ask the Ages came out in '91. Would've voted for that over everything else in the top 45 easy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat),
ditto
― it's not arugula science (WilliamC), Monday, 22 June 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
'91 is a strange year for me in that I was probably just a year or so too young to really appreciate it at the time. I started high school in the Fall of '92, so a lot of these albums were in the periphery of my awareness without actually being things I listened to yet. Within a year or two of their release, Achtung Baby and Of the Heart... were among the most frequently played albums in my admittedly small personal CD collection. My sister owned Nevermind and Ten, and anyways the weren't albums that a kid starting high school needed to personally own in the early 90s in order to hear them everywhere (ditto Blood Sugar Sex Majik, which, at least at my school, seemed to rival both Nirvana and PJ in popularity). Blue Lines, Loveless and Bandwagonesque were things I wouldn't discover for myself until either the very end of high school or in my early university days. So while I get that 1991 was indeed a "monster year," it is still one that I can only appreciate through several layers of distance, not completely unlike, say, 1966 or 1977 or something.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 22 June 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Heh!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 00:45 (eight years ago) link
No Gish, eh?
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
To be quite honest, I might have voted for Gish if it had been there.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 17:51 (eight years ago) link