20 Albums From 1991 That Can Still Be Thought-Pieced To Death Before The Year Ends

By Maura Johnston Fri., Sep. 30 2011 at 8:00 AM

Surely some enterprising writer can find a way to link these three records.

20. Tom Petty, Into The Great Wide Open

19. Skid Row, Slave To The Grind

18. Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque

17. Prince & The New Power Generation, Diamonds & Pearls

16. Fishbone, The Reality Of My Surroundings

15. NWA, Efil4zaggin

14. Infectious Grooves, The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves

13. Michael Bolton, Time, Love & Tenderness

12. Van Halen, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

11. Live, Mental Jewelry

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Jason

How has De La Soul is Dead managed to escape all of these lists?

Negafulobooks

Loved the Commitments movie and album. The UK class wars illustrated thru Northern Soul. *Sparkle* for the soccer terrace set.

Mustangsally

The Commitments is set in Ireland.

SamuelAAdams

So we're still on for my "Girlfriend is the real Nevermind" piece?

Epac

Damn, forgot what a great song Sunless Saturday is...haven't listened to that in awhile! I know Skid Row are remembered as part of the whole poodle-hair-metal thing grunge killed, but STTG is actually a pretty heavy album.

Nice to see Mr Bungle + Death (RIP Chuck) get a mention.

Rush WERE a great band...until the late 80's hit.

"The Commitments"...uh, no.

And I still love Christina Amphlett...I don't care what she looks like nowadays.

Wilbur_W

18. Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque is the only good record on this list.

Brad Nelson

This is crap because Human and Slave to the Grind are on this list.

Choire Sicha

I always wish Mariah had named that album "Emoticons."

Al Shipley

You are not ready for my 800-word treatise on Genesis's We Can't Dance.

Al Shipley

I totally rocked out to "Sunless Saturday" and "Poundcake" this morning because of this post. And I may have been wearing the same plaid pajama pants as Sammy Hagar in that video.

The Spin Doctors are about to do some shows playing Pocket Full of Kryptonite in its entirety, so I assume you've already got a thinkpiece in the pipeline about that.

Serious answer, though: De La Soul Is Dead, The Black Album and Blue Lines are probably the most epochal albums that I haven't seen any deluxe reissues or critical reevaluations of in the past few months.