poll: megaselling rock albums released in 1991

the one that i would vote for if possible is 1 CD mixtape of the best songs of use yr illusion 1 & 2

Going with Achtung. Fuck Nevermind, by the way.

yeah only because they stole Jaz's precious riff.

I hated 1991.

You can't hate a year in which Amy Grant's Heart in Motion was such a big hit.

'91 was sick.

I owned every single one of those albums but it's gotta be Nevermind.

This probably only is due being born in 1980, but pre-grunge 90s is the era I get most nostalgic for.. including the brief time when "Teen Spirit" actually sounded different than everything else on the radio.. by summer '92 that was not the case.

nevermind gets the edge for era-defining blah blah blah. song for song, r.e.m. and u2 are close contenders. the others all have at least a few great tracks. i don't hate any of these.

its hard to believe now that RHCP used to be good.

Nuh-uh.

for the fuck of it, favorite single and non-single from each album:

Radio Song/Belong, Sad But True/Of Wolf And Man, Jeremy/Porch, Garden Of Eden/Back Off Bitch, Estranged/14 Years, In Bloom/Drain You, Breaking The Girl/The Power Of Equality, Even Better Than The Real Thing/Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World

"Of Wolf and Man" classic if for no other reason than engendering the insult "your mom's of wolf and man".

i haven't listened to the black album in ages, so it was hard to remember the deep cuts well and just kinda had to go with the one with the funniest title tbh

How about this one?

― Poxy Fule Of Kryptonite (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 21 August 2009 06:37 (3 days ago) Bookmark

I'm thinking Poxy Fule Of Bourbon would be even better

that is a good one

Hmm, I thought ILM was a lot more anti-Nirvana than the results so far would indicate. Making it hard to be a contrarian-wannabe, but I'm gonna vote for it anyways.

I never did get around to cherry-picking G'n'R tracks to assemble the ideal Use Your Illusion I 1/2, which conceivably could've gotten my vote.

definitely not a very anti-Nirvana board imo:
Poll: Bandwagonesque v. Nevermind v. Loveless
Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam POLL
Billboard Modern Rock Number One Hits: 1991
Billboard #1 Albums from 1992

really i hesitated to start this thread or to start it w/o removing Nevermind as an option because it's pretty much a foregone conclusion as first place winner imo

had to look up the tracklist but yeah Use your Illusion VOl 1 is pretty dope really:

listen 1. Right Next Door To Hell [Explicit] 3:02 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 2. Dust N' Bones [Explicit] 4:58 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 3. Live And Let Die 3:04 $0.99 Buy Track
listen 4. Don't Cry (Original) 4:44 $0.99 Buy Track
listen 5. Perfect Crime [Explicit] 2:23 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 6. You Ain't The First 2:36 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 7. Bad Obsession [Explicit] 5:28 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 8. Back Off Bitch [Explicit] 5:03 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 9. Double Talkin' Jive [Explicit] 3:23 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 10. November Rain 8:57 $0.99 Buy Track
listen 11. The Garden 5:22 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 12. Garden Of Eden [Explicit] 2:41 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 13. Don't Damn Me 5:18 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 14. Bad Apples [Explicit] 4:28 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 15. Dead Horse 4:17 $0.89 Buy Track
listen 16. Coma [Explicit]

it's got my vote

do we have a 1vs2 poll?

i did this in the pre-poll era: Taking Sides: Use Your Illusion I vs. Use Your Illusion II

also did song polls for each of the 2 albums

then time for a poll!

"Dust'N'Bones", "Bad Obsession", "Double Talkin' Jive", and "Bad Apples" are all such excellent jams. 1 has always been my fave

I bought all of these except the R.E.M., and still have them all. Bought the Illusions and the RHCP on the days they came out.

izzy def was on fire on his songs on UYI

i wasnt checking any of these at the time other than radio singles but the stuff i heard off nevermind caused me to peek outside of hip-hop for the first time in years (still didn't hear the whole album until a few years later) so that. 'under the bridge' was my shit though, and i loved the rem i had heard, just didn't occur to me to buy rock albums when i was using using bus money to buy the rap tapes i wanted

i like how these bands have mostly been paired off in the public's mind as the yin/yang of a particular rock subgenre -- Nirvana/Pearl Jam, GNR/Metallica, REM/U2 -- and then there's RHCP, holding down the funk by themselves.

i guess the can bro down with the Spin Doctors, at least

hen there's RHCP, holding down the funk by themselves.

Mike Rutherford slapped his bass a couple of times on We Can't Dance, so here's another reason to decry its omission here.

and u2 is a weird blind spot for me --i had loved joshua tree, one of the first albums i ever bought, but if you had told me they had broken up after that i wouldve believed it, totally not paying attention. i do remember seeing the thing with the big TVs in the background, don't remember any songs coming out though.

Yeah, and putting it that way points toward an explanation of RHCP's longevity: they were accepted by the Nirvana/PJ crowd and the U2/REM crowd, if not the metal crowd (cf. the 2nd Lollapalooza).

eh, I'm not sure there'd be a Limp Bizkit or a System Of A Down if RHCP hadn't been accepted by the GNR/Metallica fans

Guns n Roses - Use Your Illusion I vs II Poll

Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest the metal kids never fell for RHCP; they didn't in 91 I don't think.

tru

yeah we did, at least it did. that was a weird time. i remember waiting in line at midnight for Use Your Illusion 1 & 2, listening to Nothing's Shocking in the car tape deck outside of music land....

faith no more's the real thing came out in 89, so that was a couple years ago then, and "knock me down" and "higher ground" had gotten mother's milk some inroad

plus there's also sortsa uncool shit like warriorsoul that gets left out of the equation now....

or living colour was huge with all us

Someone interested in modern rock this decade would find it fruitful to write a book about 1991 (you could add the first Lollapalooza to that).

no doubt...

also Infectious Grooves "The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move" came out in 91, wiki tells me, which seems silly to say now but was probably just as influential to all us as RHCP

i saw a lot of Infectious Grooves videos on Headbanger's Ball back in the day but i don't really remember any songs/song titles specifically

lol neither do i but i listened to that shit all the time

"you can't bring me down" by suicidal and "trip at the brain" were big favs too

btw:

this juju hounds record is on part with the first x-pensive winos record!

fuck yeah - Izzy Stradlin and the Ju-ju Hounds - Classic or Classic?

woah just looked up juju hounds wiki

lead guitarists was from Georgia Satellites!

bassist went on to be in Buckcherry!

drummer was in OG LA punk band The Plugz and also Agent Orange...went on to be in 00s era Social Distortion

I bet you could six degrees of Kevin Bacon Juju Hounds with any band from California EVER

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this juju hounds record is on part with the first x-pensive winos record!

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as a big Pearl Jam stan i say them getting that many votes is bullshit