⇦ 1990

1992 ⇨

The Best Music of 1991

Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1991. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.

For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 1991, check out this list.

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
2Pac	2Pacalypse Now	☆
A Tribe Called Quest	The Low End Theory	☆
Amy Grant	Heart in Motion	☆
Big Audio Dynamite	The Globe	☆
Billy Bragg	Don't Try This at Home	☆
Blur	Leisure	☆
Bonnie Raitt	Luck of the Draw	☆
Boyz II Men	Cooleyhighharmony	☆
Brooks & Dunn	Brand New Man	☆
Bryan Adams	Waking Up the Neighbours	☆
Buddy Guy	Damn Right, I've Got the Blues	☆
Chapterhouse	Whirlpool	☆
Crowded House	Woodface	☆
Cypress Hill	Cypress Hill	☆
De La Soul	De La Soul Is Dead	☆
Death	Human	☆
Dinosaur Jr.	Green Mind	☆
Dire Straits	On Every Street	☆
Enya	Shepherd Moons	☆
Erasure	Chorus	☆
Frankie Knuckles	Beyond the Mix	☆
Gang Starr	Step in the Arena	☆
Garth Brooks	Ropin' the Wind	☆
Genesis	We Can't Dance	☆
Guns N' Roses	Use Your Illusion I	☆
Guns N' Roses	Use Your Illusion II	☆
Hole	Pretty on the Inside	☆
Ice Cube	Death Certificate	☆
Ice-T	O.G. Original Gangster	☆
Jesus Jones	Doubt	☆
Kathy Mattea	Time Passes By	☆
L.A. Guns	Hollywood Vampires	☆
Lenny Kravitz	Mama Said	☆
Live	Mental Jewelry	☆
Luther Vandross	Power of Love	☆
Mariah Carey	Emotions	☆
Massive Attack	Blue Lines	☆
Matthew Sweet	Girlfriend	☆
Metallica	Metallica	☆
Michael Jackson	Dangerous	☆
Motörhead	1916	☆
Mudhoney	Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge	☆
My Bloody Valentine	Loveless	☆
N.W.A	Niggaz4Life	☆
Naughty By Nature	Naughty By Nature	☆
Nirvana	Nevermind	☆
Orbital	Orbital	☆
Overkill	Horrorscope	☆
Ozzy Osbourne	No More Tears	☆
Pearl Jam	Ten	☆
Peter Himmelman	From Strength To Strength	☆
Pixies	Trompe le Monde	☆
Primal Scream	Screamadelica	☆
Primus	Sailing the Seas of Cheese	☆
Prince & the New Power Generation	Diamonds and Pearls	☆
Public Enemy	Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black	☆
Queen	Innuendo	☆
R.E.M.	Out Of Time	☆
Reba McEntire	For My Broken Heart	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Blood Sugar Sex Magik	☆
Rod Stewart	Vagabond Heart	☆
Roxette	Joyride	☆
Rush	Roll the Bones	☆
Ruth Brown	Fine and Mellow	☆
Sarah McLachlan	Solace	☆
Seal	Seal	☆
Sepultura	Arise	☆
Skid Row	Slave to the Grind	☆
Slayer	Decade of Aggression	☆
Slint	Spiderland	☆
Slowdive	Just for a Day	☆
Smashing Pumpkins	Gish	☆
Soundgarden	Badmotorfinger	☆
Spin Doctors	Pocket Full of Kryptonite	☆
Sting	The Soul Cages	☆
Swans	White Light From the Mouth of Infinity	☆
Talk Talk	Laughing Stock	☆
Tanya Tucker	What Do I Do with Me	☆
Teenage Fanclub	Bandwagonesque	☆
Temple of the Dog	Temple of the Dog	☆
The KLF	The White Room	☆
The Orb	Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld	☆
The Tragically Hip	Road Apples	☆
Toad the Wet Sprocket	Fear	☆
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Into the Great Wide Open	☆
U2	Achtung Baby	☆
Uncle Tupelo	Still Feel Gone	☆
Van Halen	For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge	☆
Various Artists	A Very Special Christmas 2	☆
Various Artists	Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	☆

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Songs (?)		Wikipedia
2 Live Crew	Pop That Coochie	☆
2Pac	Brenda's Got a Baby	☆
A Tribe Called Quest	Check the Rhime	☆
A Tribe Called Quest	Buggin' Out	☆
A Tribe Called Quest	Jazz (We've Got)	☆
A Tribe Called Quest ft. Leaders of the New School	Scenario	☆
Alice Cooper	Feed My Frankenstein	☆
Amy Grant	Baby, Baby	☆
Amy Grant	Every Heartbeat	☆
Angela Lansbury	Beauty and the Beast	☆
Big Audio Dynamite	Rush	☆
Bikini Kill	Double Dare Ya	☆
Black Sheep	The Choice is Yours (Revisited)	☆
Blur	There's No Other Way	☆
Bob Dylan	Blind Willie McTell	☆
Bonnie Raitt	Something To Talk About	☆
Bonnie Raitt	I Can't Make You Love Me	☆
Boyz II Men	Motownphilly	☆
Brooks & Dunn	Boot Scootin' Boogie	☆
Bryan Adams	(Everything I Do) I Do It for You	☆
Bryan Adams	Do I Have to Say the Words?	☆
Buddy Guy	Damn Right, I've Got the Blues	☆
CeCe Peniston	Finally	☆
Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson	Beauty and the Beast	☆
Color Me Badd	I Wanna Sex You Up	☆
Crowded House	Weather with You	☆
Crowded House	Fall at Your Feet	☆
Cypress Hill	How I Could Just Kill a Man	☆
De La Soul	Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)	☆
Del tha Funky Homosapien	Mistadobalina	☆
Dire Straits	Heavy Fuel	☆
Divinyls	I Touch Myself	☆
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince	Summertime	☆
Extreme	Hole Hearted	☆
Frankie Knuckles	The Whistle Song	☆
Garth Brooks	The River	☆
Garth Brooks	Shameless	☆
Genesis	I Can't Dance	☆
Genesis	Jesus He Knows Me	☆
George Michael & Elton John	Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me	☆
Geto Boys	Mind Playing Tricks on Me	☆
Gloria Estefan	Coming Out of the Dark	☆
Gloria Estefan	Live for Loving You	☆
Guns 'N Roses	You Could Be Mine	☆
Guns N' Roses	November Rain	☆
Guns N' Roses	Knockin' On Heaven's Door	☆
Guns N' Roses	Don't Cry	☆
Heavy D. & the Boyz	Now That We Found Love	☆
Helmet	Unsung	☆
Ice-T	O.G. Original Gangster	☆
Jerry Orbach And Angela Lansbury	Be Our Guest	☆
Jesus Jones	Right Here Right Now	☆
Jesus Jones	Real, Real, Real	☆
Kiss	God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II	☆
Lenny Kravitz	It Ain't Over Til It's Over	☆
Lenny Kravitz	Always On The Run	☆
Live	Operation Spirit (The Tyranny of Tradition)	☆
Live	Pain Lies on the Riverside	☆
Luther Vandross	Don't Want to Be a Fool	☆
Marc Cohn	Walking in Memphis	☆
Mariah Carey	Emotions	☆
Mariah Carey	Make It Happen	☆
Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch	Good Vibrations	☆
Masato Nakamura	Green Hill Zone	☆
Massive Attack	Unfinished Sympathy	☆
Massive Attack	Safe from Harm	☆
Matthew Sweet	Girlfriend	☆
MC Lyte	Poor Georgie	☆
Metallica	Enter Sandman	☆
Metallica	The Unforgiven	☆
Metallica	Nothing Else Matters	☆
Metallica	Sad But True	☆
Metallica	Wherever I May Roam	☆
Michael Bolton	When a Man Loves a Woman	☆
Michael Jackson	Black Or White	☆
Michael Jackson	Will You Be There	☆
Michael Jackson	Remember the Time	☆
Ministry	Jesus Built My Hotrod	☆
Motörhead	1916	☆
My Bloody Valentine	Only Shallow	☆
My Bloody Valentine	When You Sleep	☆
Naughty by Nature	O.P.P.	☆
Nirvana	Come As You Are	☆
Nirvana	In Bloom	☆
Nirvana	Lithium	☆
Nirvana	Smells Like Teen Spirit	☆
Nirvana	Something In the Way	☆
Ozzy Osbourne	Mama, I'm Coming Home	☆
Ozzy Osbourne	No More Tears	☆
P.M. Dawn	Set Adrift on Memory Bliss	☆
Paula Abdul	Rush Rush	☆
Pavement	Summer Babe (Winter Version)	☆
Pearl Jam	Alive	☆
Pearl Jam	Even Flow	☆
Pearl Jam	Jeremy	☆
Pearl Jam	Black	☆
PJ Harvey	Dress	☆
Primal Scream	Movin' On Up	☆
Primus	Jerry Was a Racecar Driver	☆
Primus	Tommy the Cat	☆
Prince and the New Power Generation	Cream	☆
Prince And The New Power Generation	Diamonds and Pearls	☆
Prince And The New Power Generation	Gett Off	☆
Public Enemy	Can't Truss It	☆
Public Enemy	By the Time I Get to Arizona	☆
Queen	The Show Must Go On	☆
Queen	These Are the Days of Our Lives	☆
Queen Latifah	Nature of a Sista'	☆
R.E.M.	Losing My Religion	☆
R.E.M.	Shiny Happy People	☆
Reba McEntire	Fancy	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Give It Away	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Under The Bridge	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Suck My Kiss	☆
Richard Marx	Hazard	☆
Right Said Fred	I'm Too Sexy	☆
Roberta Flack with Maxi Priest	Set the Night to Music	☆
Rod Stewart	Have I Told You Lately	☆
Rod Stewart	Rhythm Of My Heart	☆
Rod Stewart	The Motown Song	☆
Roxette	Joyride	☆
Rush	Dreamline	☆
Rush	Roll the Bones	☆
Seal	Crazy	☆
Shanice	I Love Your Smile	☆
Simply Red	Stars	☆
Siouxsie & the Banshees	Kiss Them For Me	☆
Soundgarden	Outshined	☆
Soundgarden	Rusty Cage	☆
Soundgarden	Jesus Christ Pose	☆
Spin Doctors	Two Princes	☆
Spin Doctors	Little Miss Can't Be Wrong	☆
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble	Little Wing	☆
Sting	All This Time	☆
Talk Talk	New Grass	☆
Temple Of The Dog	Hunger Strike	☆
Temple Of The Dog	Say Hello 2 Heaven	☆
The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette	Justified & Ancient (Stand By the Jams)	☆
The Tragically Hip	Little Bones	☆
Toad The Wet Sprocket	All I Want	☆
Toad the Wet Sprocket	Walk on the Ocean	☆
Tom Cochrane	Life Is A Highway	☆
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Learning To Fly	☆
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Into The Great Wide Open	☆
Townes Van Zandt	Marie	☆
Trisha Yearwood	She's In Love With The Boy	☆
U2	Mysterious Ways	☆
U2	One	☆
U2	Even Better Than The Real Thing	☆
U2	So Cruel	☆
U2	Until the End of the World	☆
U2	Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses	☆
Van Halen	Right Now	☆
Vanessa Williams	Save the Best for Last	☆
Vanilla Ice	Ice Ice Baby	☆

⇦ 1990

1992 ⇨