Top Albums of 1991





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
2
Nirvana Nevermind Grunge
2
43
Massive Attack Blue Lines Trip Hop
3
54
My Bloody Valentine Loveless Noise Pop, Shoegaze
4
82
U2 Achtung Baby Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
5
107
Primal Scream Screamadelica Alternative Dance, Neo-Psychedelia
6
142
Pearl Jam Ten Grunge, Hard Rock
7
194
A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
8
217
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik Alternative Rock, Funk Rock
9
220
Metallica Metallica ["The Black Album"] Heavy Metal
10
308
Slint Spiderland Math Rock, Post-Rock
11
350
R.E.M. Out of Time Jangle Pop
12
492
Talk Talk Laughing Stock Post-Rock
13
620
Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque Jangle Pop, Power Pop
14
653
The Orb The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld Ambient Dub, Ambient House
15
773
The KLF The White Room Acid House
16
900
Crowded House Woodface Pop Rock
17
909
De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead Conscious Hip Hop
18
922
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I Hard Rock
19
932
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II Hard Rock
20
938
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger Alternative Metal, Grunge, Hard Rock
21
1065
Cypress Hill Cypress Hill Gangsta Rap
22
1129
Pixies Trompe le Monde Indie Rock
23
1148
LFO Frequencies IDM, Techno
24
1334
Derrick May Innovator: Soundtrack for the Tenth Planet / Innovator [1997] Detroit Techno
25
1357
The Jesus Lizard Goat Noise Rock
26
1379
Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog Grunge
27
1406
Neil Young and Crazy Horse Weld Hard Rock
28
1530
Gang Starr Step in the Arena Jazz Rap
29
1548
Public Enemy Apocalypse '91 - The Enemy Strikes Black Conscious Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
30
1585
Ice Cube Death Certificate Gangsta Rap, Political Hip Hop
31
1604
Matthew Sweet Girlfriend Jangle Pop, Power Pop
32
1764
Ice-T O.G. Original Gangster Gangsta Rap
33
1906
Michael Jackson Dangerous Contemporary R&B, Pop
34
2085
Lenny Kravitz Mama Said Rock
35
2116
Saint Etienne Foxbase Alpha Alternative Dance, Indie Pop
36
2382
Mercury Rev Yerself Is Steam Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
37
2384
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Into the Great Wide Open Heartland Rock, Pop Rock
38
2412
The Wedding Present Seamonsters Indie Rock, Noise Pop
39
2455
Sebadoh III Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
40
2516
Sonny Sharrock Ask the Ages Avant-Garde Jazz
41
2564
Simply Red Stars Blue Eyed Soul, Pop Soul, Sophisti-Pop
42
2694
American Music Club Everclear Folk Rock, Slowcore
43
2981
MC Solaar Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo Boom Bap, Conscious Hip Hop, French Hip Hop, Jazz Rap

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Étienne Daho Paris ailleurs French Pop
P.M. Dawn Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience Conscious Hip Hop, Pop Rap
Electronic Electronic Alternative Dance, Synthpop
Sepultura Arise Thrash Metal
Smashing Pumpkins Gish Alternative Rock
Richard Thompson Rumor and Sigh Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Seal Seal Pop Soul
Main Source Breaking Atoms Boom Bap, Conscious Hip Hop
Prince & The New Power Generation Diamonds and Pearls Contemporary R&B, Dance-Pop, Funk, Pop Soul
Van Morrison Hymns to the Silence Singer/Songwriter
Element of Crime Damals Hinterm Mond Indie Pop, Slowcore
Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing Post-Hardcore
Young Disciples Road to Freedom Acid Jazz, Soul
Monster Magnet Spine of God Heavy Psych, Space Rock, Stoner Rock
Randy Weston The Spirits of Our Ancestors Jazz
Julian Cope Peggy Suicide Psychedelic Rock
Garth Brooks Ropin' the Wind Contemporary Country, Country Pop
Mudhoney Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge Garage Rock, Grunge
The Tragically Hip Road Apples Rock
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese Funk Metal
Jimmie Dale Gilmore After Awhile Alt-Country, Progressive Country
Throwing Muses The Real Ramona Indie Rock
Stan Getz & Kenny Barron People Time Jazz
Angelique Kidjo Logozo Fon Music, Pop
Son of Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk Hip Hop
John Lee Hooker Mr. Lucky Electric Blues
The Future Sound of London Accelerator Ambient Techno
808 State Ex:El Acid House
Dream Warriors And Now the Legacy Begins Jazz Rap
Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind Indie Rock
Biosphere Microgravity Ambient House, Ambient Techno
Slowdive Just for a Day Dream Pop, Shoegaze
Hole Pretty on the Inside Grunge, Riot Grrrl
Klezmatics Rhythm + Jews Klezmer
Superchunk No Pocky for Kitty Indie Rock, Punk Rock
Linton Kwesi Johnson Tings an' Times Dub Poetry
Billy Bragg Don't Try This at Home Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Organized Konfusion Organized Konfusion Boom Bap, Jazz Rap
The Wonder Stuff Never Loved Elvis Indie Pop, Jangle Pop
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine 30 Something Grebo