1991 in music

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Albums released

• Derelicts of Dialect - 3rd Bass
• The Razor's Edge - AC/DC
• Waking Up the Neighbours - Bryan Adams
• Facelift - Alice in Chains
• Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
• Attack of the Killer B's - Anthrax
• To Mother - Babes in Toyland
• '80-'85 - Bad Religion (compilation of their older albums)
• Against the Grain - Bad Religion
• True Love - Pat Benatar
• The Globe - Big Audio Dynamite II
• Prince of Darkness - Big Daddy Kane
• Midnight Radio - Big Head Todd & the Monsters
• Revolution Girl Style Now - Bikini Kill (debut, independent demo cassette)
• I Need a Haircut - Biz Markie
• Travelers and Thieves - Blues Traveler
• Leisure - Blur (debut)
• War Master - Bolt Thrower
• Ropin' the Wind - Garth Brooks
• Space I'm In - The Candyskins (debut)
• Marc Cohn - Marc Cohn (debut)
• Butchered at Birth - Cannibal Corpse
• Chagall Guevara - Chagall Guevara
• Whirlpool - Chapterhouse (debut)
• Nothing but a Burning Light - Bruce Cockburn
• Mighty Like a Rose - Elvis Costello
• Ceremony - The Cult
• Entreat - The Cure
• Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill (debut)
• Italia Mia - Dalida (compilation)
• Les Années Barlay (1956-1970) - Dalida (compilation)
• Blwch Tymer Tymor - Datblygu
• Human - Death
• De La Soul Is Dead - De La Soul
• I Wish My Brother George Was Here - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
• Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr.
• On Every Street - Dire Straits
• Like an Ever Flowing Stream - Dismember
• Divinyls - Divinyls
• Homebase - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
• Vinyl - Dramarama
• Images and Words - Dream Theater
• And Now the Legacy Begins - Dream Warriors
• Electronic - Electronic (debut)
• Schubert Dip - EMF
• Clandestine - Entombed
• Chorus - Erasure
• Prisoners in Paradise - Europe
• Pornograffiti - Extreme
• Time for a Witness - The Feelies (final album)
• The Reality of My Surroundings - Fishbone
• Believing in Better - Lennie Gallant
• We Can't Dance - Genesis (first album in 5 years)
• Infrared Roses - Grateful Dead
• Step in the Arena - Gang Starr
• Heart In Motion - Amy Grant
• Hooked - Great White
• Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses
• Use Your Illusion II - Guns N' Roses
• Pretty on the Inside - Hole
• I'm On Your Side - Jennifer Holliday
• O.G. Original Gangster - Ice-T
• Iced Earth - Iced Earth (debut)
• Released in the United States for the first time.
• The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves - The Infectious Grooves
• X - INXS
• Dangerous - Michael Jackson
• Doubt - Jesus Jones
• Catfish Rising - Jethro Tull
• Face the Nation - Kid 'n Play (final album)
• The White Room - The KLF
• Funke, Funke Wisdom - Kool Moe Dee
• Wretch - Kyuss (debut)
• Smell the Magic - L7
• The La's - The La's (debut, final album)
• Future Without a Past - Leaders of the New School (debut)
• Biscuits - Living Colour (EP)
• The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection - Yngwie J. Malmsteen (his first compilation album)
• Blue Lines - Massive Attack
• International Pop Overthrow - Material Issue (debut)
• Bullhead - Melvins
• Eggnog - Melvins
• The Human Factor - Metal Church
• Metallica - Metallica
• Mind Funk - Mind Funk (debut)
• Let's Get To It - Kylie Minogue
• Spine of God - Monster Magnet
• Lean Into It - Mr. Big
• Blessed are the Sick - Morbid Angel
• Kill Uncle - Morrissey
• 1916 - Motörhead
• Hoodoo - Alison Moyet
• Loveless - My Bloody Valentine (final album)
• Sexplosion! - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
• God Fodder - Ned's Atomic Dustbin (debut)
• Nevermind - Nirvana
• Niggaz4life - N.W.A. (final album)
• Ribbed - NOFX
• Lunar Womb - Obsessed
• Horrorscope - Overkill
• No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
• Ten - Pearl Jam
• Pennywise - Pennywise
• Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
• A Picture of Nectar - Phish
• Lawn Boy - Phish
• Positively Phranc - Phranc
• Trompe le Monde - Pixies (final album before disbanding)
• Swallow This Live - Poison
• Pure Poverty - Poor Righteous Teachers
• Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus
• Diamonds and Pearls - Prince
• World Outside - The Psychedelic Furs (final album)
• Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black - Public Enemy
• Luck of the Draw - Bonnie Raitt
• Innuendo - Queen
• Out of Time - R.E.M.
• Ratt N' Roll 8191 - Ratt
• Blood Sugar Sex Magik - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Roll The Bones - Rush
• ' - Savatage
• Scamboogery - Scatterbrain
• School of Fish - School of Fish (debut)
• Uncle Anesthesia - Screaming Trees
• Seal - Seal (debut)
• Arise - Sepultura
• Magia - Shakira
• Mack Daddy - Sir Mix-A-Lot
• Real Life - Simple Minds
• Superstition - Siouxsie & the Banshees
• Slave to the Grind - Skid Row
• 1,000 Smiling Knuckles - Skin Yard
• Wayward Sons of Mother Earth - Skyclad
• Volume One - Sleep (debut)
• Spiderland - Slint
• Gish - Smashing Pumpkins (debut)
• Blow Up - The Smithereens
• Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell - Social Distortion
• Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
• Pocket Full of Kryptonite - Spin Doctors
• Jah Won't Pay the Bills - Sublime (debut, independent demo cassette)
• Effigy of The Forgotten - Suffocation
• Mistaken Identity - Donna Summer
• Overspill - Sun Dial
• Keep It Comin' - Keith Sweat
• Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
• Laughing Stock - Talk Talk (final album)
• Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog (debut, final album)
• Psychotic Supper - Tesla
• Babyteeth - Therapy? (debut)
• Miscellaneous T - They Might Be Giants
• Violent Impression - This Picture (debut)
• The Real Ramona - Throwing Muses
• Tin Machine II - Tin Machine(final album)
• Fear - Toad the Wet Sprocket
• Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble - Transvision Vamp (final album)
• The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
• Boss of the Bass - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
• Achtung Baby - U2
• For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - Van Halen
• Why Do Birds Sing? - Violent Femmes
• Honey Lingers - Voice of the Beehive
• Cherry Pie - Warrant
• The Pod - Ween
• Widespread Panic - Widespread Panic
• The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life - Frank Zappa (recorded live during the 1988 world tour)
• Mr. Bad Example - Warren Zevon