An ongoing ranking and rating of my favorite albums of 1991. Items in bold are part of my personal CD collection.
THE TOP TEN
1. Van Halen ~ For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (10.2)
2. Tall Stories ~ Tall Stories (10.1)
3. Skid Row ~ Slave To The Grind (10.0)
4. Metallica ~ Metallica (9.9)
5. Spin Doctors ~ Pocket Full Of Kryptonite (9.8)
6. Neverland ~ Neverland (9.8)
7. Foreigner ~ Unusual Heat (9.7)
8. Genesis ~ We Can’t Dance (9.7)
9. Pearl Jam ~ Ten (9.7)
10. Toad The Wet Sprocket ~ Fear (9.6)
THE REST: ALPHABETICAL BY RATING
Bonnie Raitt ~ Luck Of The Draw (9.6)
Guns N’ Roses ~ Use Your Illusion I (9.4)
Guns N’ Roses ~ Use Your Illusion II (9.3)
U2 ~ Achtung Baby (9.3)
John Mellencamp ~ Whenever We Wanted (9.0)
Bryan Adams ~ Waking Up The Neighbours (9)
Danger Danger ~ Screw It! (9)
Ozzy Osbourne ~ No More Tears (9)
Richard Marx ~ Rush Street (9)
Tesla ~ Psychotic Supper (9)
Eddie Money ~ Right Here (8.8)
Marc Cohn ~ Marc Cohn (8.6)
The Storm ~ The Storm (8.5)
Junkyard ~ Sixes, Sevens & Nines (8.5)
The Law ~ The Law (8.4)
Dire Straits ~ On Every Street (8.4)
Billy Falcon ~ Pretty Blue World (8.3)
Great White ~ Hooked (8.2)
Queen ~ Innuendo (8.1)
David Wilcox ~ Home Again (8.1)
Screaming Jets ~ All For One (8.1)
Enuff Z’Nuff ~ Strength (8)
Fates Warning ~ Parallels (8)
Kix ~ Hot Wire (8)
Lita Ford ~ Dangerous Curves (8)
Nirvana ~ Nevermind (8)
R.E.M. ~ Out Of Time (8)
Rush ~ Roll The Bones (8)
Tuff ~ What Comes Around Goes Around (8)
Tyketto ~ Don’t Come Easy (8)
Yes ~ Union (8)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ~ The Fire Inside (8.0)
The Cult ~ Ceremony (7.6)
The Allman Brothers Band ~ Shades Of Two Worlds (7.1)
Badlands ~ Voodoo Highway (7)
Bonham ~ Mad Hatter (7)
BulletBoys ~ Freakshow (7)
D:A:D ~ Riskin’ It All (7)
Mr. Big ~ Lean Into It (7)
Saraya ~ When The Blackbird Sings… (7)
Temple Of The Dog ~ Temple Of The Dog (7)
Vicious Rumors ~ Welcome To The Ball (7)
Huey Lewis And The News ~ Hard At Play (6.9)
L.A. Guns ~ Hollywood Vampires (6.6)
McAuley Schenker Group ~ MSG (6.6)
.38 Special ~ Bone Against Steel (6)
Aaron Neville ~ Warm Your Heart (6)
Aldo Nova ~ Blood On The Bricks (6)
Bad English ~ Backlash (6)
Britny Fox ~ Bite Down Hard (6)
Metal Church ~ The Human Factor (6)
RTZ ~ Return To Zero (6)
Savatage ~ Streets: A Rock Opera (6)
The Scream ~ Let It Scream (6)
Shotgun Messiah ~ Second Coming (6)
Soundgarden ~ Badmotorfinger (6)
White Lion ~ Mane Attraction (6)
XYZ ~ Hungry (6)
McQueen Street ~ McQueen Street (5.6)
Big House ~ Big House (5)
David Lee Roth ~ A Little Ain’t Enough (5)
Galactic Cowboys ~ Galactic Cowboys (5)
Mariah Carey ~ Emotions (5)
Richie Sambora ~ Stranger In This Town (5)
Saigon Kick ~ Saigon Kick (5)
Tattoo Rodeo ~ Rode Hard And Put Away Wet (5)
Ugly Kid Joe ~ As Ugly As They Wanna Be (5)
I, Napolean ~ I, Napolean (4.2)
Armored Saint ~ Symbol Of Salvation (4)
Blackeyed Susan ~ Electric Rattlebone (3)
Chrissy Steele ~ Magnet To Steele (3)
Contraband ~ Contraband (4)
Europe ~ Prisoners In Paradise (4)
Kik Tracee ~ No Rules (4)
Pleasure Bombs ~ Days Of Heaven (4)
Poison ~ Swallow This Live [Live] (4)
Roxette ~ Joyride (4)
SouthGang ~ Tainted Angel (4)
Sting ~ The Soul Cages (4)
Tangier ~ Stranded (4)
Vanessa Williams ~ The Comfort Zone (4)
White Trash ~ White Trash (4)
Bad Romance ~ Code Of Honor (3)
Baton Rouge ~ Lights Out On The Playground (3)
Billy Squier ~ Creatures Of Habit (3)
Boyz II Men ~ Cooleyhighharmony (3)
Crimson Glory ~ Strange And Beautiful (3)
The Eric Gales Band ~ The Eric Gales Band (3)
Havana Black ~ Exiles In Mainstream (3)
Infectious Grooves ~ The Plague That Makes Your Booty Shake… It’s The Infectious Grooves (3)
Paula Abdul ~ Spellbound (3)
Randy Jackson’s China Rain ~ Bed Of Nails (3)
Shadow King ~ Shadow King (3)
Slayer ~ Live: Decade Of Aggression (3)
Dangerous Toys ~ Hellacious Acres (2)
Desmond Child ~ Discipline (2)
Jim Jamison ~ When Loves Comes Down (2)
Marc Bonilla ~ EE Ticket (2)
Primus ~ Sailing The Seas Of Cheese (2)
Bang Tango ~ Dancin’ On Coals (1)
Cycle Sluts From Hell ~ Cycle Sluts From Hell (1)
Susie Hatton ~ Body And Soul (1)
CURRENTLY UNRANKED
Alanis Morissette ~ Alanis
Alice Cooper ~ Hey Stoopid
Asphalt Ballet ~ Asphalt Ballet
Axel Rudi Pell ~ Nasty Reputation
Blue Cheer ~ Dining With Sharks
Bonfire ~ Knock Out
Cheap And Nasty ~ Beautiful Disaster
Chicago ~ Twenty 1
Cirith Ungol ~ Paradise Lost
The Doobie Brothers ~ Brotherhood
Doro ~ True At Heart
EZ Livin’ ~ After The Fire
Gillan ~ Toolbox
Gloria Estefan ~ Into The Light
Green Day ~ Kerplunk
Harem Scarem ~ Harem Scarem
Helloween ~ Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Iced Earth ~ Night Of The Stormrider
Jethro Tull ~ Catfish Rising
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts ~ Notorious
Joe Walsh ~ Ordinary Average Guy
Kingdom Come ~ Hands Of Time
Lenny Kravitz ~ Mama Said
Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ 1991
Marillion ~ Holidays In Eden
Michael Bolton ~ Time, Love & Tenderness
Michael Jackson ~ Dangerous
The Moody Blues ~ Keys Of The Kingdom
Nazareth ~ No Jive
Overkill ~ Horrorscope
Pat Benatar ~ True Love
Pink Cream 69 ~ One Size Fits All
Praying Mantis ~ Predator In Disguise
Procol Harum ~ The Prodigal Stranger
Raven ~ Architecht Of Fear
Rod Stewart ~ Vagabond Heart
Running Wild ~ Blazon Stone
Samantha Fox ~ Just One Night
Seal ~ Seal [1]
Sheena Easton ~ What Comes Naturally
Solitude Aeturnus ~ Into The Depths Of Sorrow
Status Quo ~ Rock ‘Til You Drop
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble ~ The Sky Is Crying
Tin Machine ~ Tin Machine II
Tom Cochrane ~ Mad Mad World
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ~ Into The Great Wide Open
Uriah Heep ~ Different World
[Last updated: 2020.05.23]
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