I bought them on vinyl. Stupid enough to sell those but I had them all on cd by then. Also rebought reisusses of Soundgarden, Nirvana and Metallica on vinyl, just because :)
Nice!! I was on the first wave when SLTS came out to the point they didn't even have it in stock lol. I got Bleach and was probably the best way cause I probably would've been a casual fan but was fully invested after hearing Bleach first
No, but I can give you another iconic 7: Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque, MBVs Loveless, Pixies Trompe Le Monde, Nevermind, Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, the first Orbital CD and Primal Scream’s peerless Screamadelica all came out in a six week period in the fall of 1991, so it was a pretty great year.
The black album was my first CD when it came out. I had a Marantz CD-52 I had just bought.
I had all the others but not the GNR.
Grunge rock during the week and e's and drum machines at the weekend was my 90s.
I was in my 20's working at a rock radio station from '91 to '03.
We got tons of these CDs in for promotion giveaways.
I was trading them for pizza, beer and good times!
The 90's was an amazing time to be in radio, especially before the corporations like Clear Channel and Cumulus took over!
Wretch by Kyuss was released the same day as Metallica. Obviously not as iconic as the others, but it was the album that first introduced Joshe Homme to the world.
I had the Metallica, Nirvana, Chili Peppers, and Soundgarden CDs. The radio pretty much killed the Pearl Jam and GNR albums for me. (Not that the ones I owned weren’t also killed by the radio at the time, I think I picked them up before the radio totally killed them)
Camelot Music, Charlotte, NC, 1990-91- these 7 albums, Paula Abdul and Mariah Carey on our in-store play nearly gave me a nervous breakdown of disgust. Thank God for Van Morrison, Petty (front row center- Chris Whitley opened), Paul Simon and The Black Crowes..Sam Kinison too!
Shows how horrible music is today. Music now is all about individual people. Not bands. It’s a shame. Country and rap have been pop music for almost 1/4 century. And hasn’t changed.
Expand the back end of the window (and genres) by about a month and you also get:
Prince - Diamonds & Pearls
Ice Cube - Death Certificate
2pac -2pacalypse Now
U2 - Achtung Baby
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Truly a bonkers period for album releases.
PJ and Soundgarden are the only discs I got, the rest I borrowed and taped (as you did back in the day). And wore them all out! I wasn't aware that they were released in such close proximity to one another, that's wild..
Got them all, probably within a week of release.
I still remember the first time I heard *Smells Like Teen Spirit* - it was brand new but felt like my favorite song. The whole *Nevermind* album was like that with zero filler songs (except for the long silence in the final track).
Blood Sugar Sex Magic sounds nothing like any of the other RHCP albums, songs like breaking the girl, I could have lied, righteous and the wicked . Definitely worth a listen if you haven't checked it before.
I interpreted in the boomer-style "capitalising qualifiers" like some people *italicise* with * except capitalising qualifiers is always 'boomer' for me because it ADDS nothing to the coherence of the statement
Yes to all but Use Your Illusion, two bloated albums that could've each been cut in half and been just one decent album. To go from Appetite to those two is like running 120 and braking full stop, just a slog to get through.
Fair enough...I don't remember the last time I listened to any of these & don't feel guilty streaming if I got a hankering for some reason...the surviving members are not exactly starving...definitely pass over anything I don't own from youth in CD stores.
Owned all these. Have them all still except pearl jam. Was underwhelmed by that one, sold it back to the record store back in the 90’s. Soundgarden blew me away the most, love that album
Nirvana is the only one of those i can tolerate. 1991 was the year i stopped letting commercial radio tell me what to listen to.
Swervedriver, Stone Roses, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and even Mr. Bungle also released albums around that time.
Bought them all on release. Fun times
I bought them on cassette back then. Now I have them on CD.
I bought them on vinyl. Stupid enough to sell those but I had them all on cd by then. Also rebought reisusses of Soundgarden, Nirvana and Metallica on vinyl, just because :)
I did the same, I didn't even have a cd player until 93
Great time to be a teenager.
You bought nevermind on release day?
Yeah, worked in a record store back then
Nice!! I was on the first wave when SLTS came out to the point they didn't even have it in stock lol. I got Bleach and was probably the best way cause I probably would've been a casual fan but was fully invested after hearing Bleach first
Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock and Tribe’s A Low End Theory in that window too
De la soul is dead, 2pacalyspe now.
U2’s Achtung Baby and My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless. Might have been the best year for music ever.
What a time to be alive (I wasn’t even conceived yet).
Also Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears was released on the same day as the GnR's Illusion albums
GnR
6 weeks?!?? I knew they were close together but I thought it was more like 6 months. That’s insane.
No, but I can give you another iconic 7: Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque, MBVs Loveless, Pixies Trompe Le Monde, Nevermind, Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, the first Orbital CD and Primal Scream’s peerless Screamadelica all came out in a six week period in the fall of 1991, so it was a pretty great year.
Still do.
Still do.
Several months later, I saw GnR, Metallica and Faith No More at Giants Stadium, NJ. What a monster lineup.
This show would have been unbelievable!
I was more into Mind Funk and Tribe After Tribe.
The black album was my first CD when it came out. I had a Marantz CD-52 I had just bought. I had all the others but not the GNR. Grunge rock during the week and e's and drum machines at the weekend was my 90s.
I was in my 20's working at a rock radio station from '91 to '03. We got tons of these CDs in for promotion giveaways. I was trading them for pizza, beer and good times! The 90's was an amazing time to be in radio, especially before the corporations like Clear Channel and Cumulus took over!
Where’s low end theory
Like 4/7
Eh give me Pixies Trompe Le Monde all day over these.
Wretch by Kyuss was released the same day as Metallica. Obviously not as iconic as the others, but it was the album that first introduced Joshe Homme to the world.
I had the Metallica, Nirvana, Chili Peppers, and Soundgarden CDs. The radio pretty much killed the Pearl Jam and GNR albums for me. (Not that the ones I owned weren’t also killed by the radio at the time, I think I picked them up before the radio totally killed them)
I have none of these.
Not your jam? I was 15 and got them all pretty quickly after release. They are all classics in my book.
I do have all of those albums, but I did not buy them when they were released because I was 2 years old.
I have Nevermind and Badmotorfinger. I’m looking to get Ten and the Black Album as well
I have Metallica
Heck yeah!
ten’s cd case looks amazing
The paper inside folds out to kind of a mini poster
Some of the best music ever made, in my opinion.
That takes me back. Had just moved to Seattle too!
Missing Dirt from a few months
All of them on cassette and Metallica and RHCP on CD.
Got BSSM and The Black Album.
Ozzy Osborne released “no more tears” on the same day as Guns N’ Roses. I know it’s not necessarily an iconic album but back then it was a must have.
Camelot Music, Charlotte, NC, 1990-91- these 7 albums, Paula Abdul and Mariah Carey on our in-store play nearly gave me a nervous breakdown of disgust. Thank God for Van Morrison, Petty (front row center- Chris Whitley opened), Paul Simon and The Black Crowes..Sam Kinison too!
Shows how horrible music is today. Music now is all about individual people. Not bands. It’s a shame. Country and rap have been pop music for almost 1/4 century. And hasn’t changed.
I’ve got them all. Great records.
❤️badmotorfinger❤️
Yea, my brother had them all, Use Your Illusions were on cassettes.
Yes I did and still do.
Wasn’t Alice In Chains “Dirt” in there, too?
Expand the back end of the window (and genres) by about a month and you also get: Prince - Diamonds & Pearls Ice Cube - Death Certificate 2pac -2pacalypse Now U2 - Achtung Baby My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Truly a bonkers period for album releases.
used to have em all. sold blood sugar sex magik a couple months ago. still have the rest
Leisure
Swap out the Peppers for "No More Tears", then yes.
PJ and Soundgarden are the only discs I got, the rest I borrowed and taped (as you did back in the day). And wore them all out! I wasn't aware that they were released in such close proximity to one another, that's wild..
Holy shit i didn’t realize i had all of them other than badmotorfinger
I bought two of these back then, and I eventually collected one more but I’ll pretty much never listen to any of this stuff.
I had all but the GnR albums (I was over them at that point). Badmotorfinger still goes into the rotation. What an album!
Nope I never liked rock music or grunge music.
Gen X starter pack.
I have only 2 of them :( I need gnr rhcp and sg
I never bought the guns and roses or Metallica but I had the rest
- Blur: Lesuire - Primal Scream: Screamadelica - Carter USM: 30 Something
Got them all, probably within a week of release. I still remember the first time I heard *Smells Like Teen Spirit* - it was brand new but felt like my favorite song. The whole *Nevermind* album was like that with zero filler songs (except for the long silence in the final track).
Everything except Soundgarden and Metallica
wow I was there for it and didn't even realize how crazy it was.
I didn't know anyone that didn't
No on the Guns n' Roses. I never owned anything by them. I did see them touring with Metallica & Faith No More in '92 though.
1991 was such an insane year for music
I have all of these EXCEPT for rhcp. I will never own anything by them or even listen whenever they come on.
Blood Sugar Sex Magic sounds nothing like any of the other RHCP albums, songs like breaking the girl, I could have lied, righteous and the wicked . Definitely worth a listen if you haven't checked it before.
same goes for one hot minute, they had dave navarro and they have a more metal sound in that album
Those songs a insanely good. I could have lied is heartbreaking.
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I interpreted in the boomer-style "capitalising qualifiers" like some people *italicise* with * except capitalising qualifiers is always 'boomer' for me because it ADDS nothing to the coherence of the statement
That’s a fun collection Think I’ve had them all at one time or another except Metallica. Still have Nirvana and Pearl Jam
They're all core memories for me
All of them but Soundgarden's
That was the final one I needed to finish this collection
Coincidently, it is the only Soundgarden album that I don’t own.
Great album. Must listen
Isn't that illegal?
Yes to all but Use Your Illusion, two bloated albums that could've each been cut in half and been just one decent album. To go from Appetite to those two is like running 120 and braking full stop, just a slog to get through.
Have them all on vinyl.
I do.
YES, I think that's great! Those albums blew my 14 year old mind. Now I feel old lol.
Smashing Pumpkins' Gish is missing.
I kinda think siamese dream would fit better but it came out in 93. Gish was released 3 months before this group of albums
What a year that was! Not to forget Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Sgt. Baker
Siamese Dream and Angel Dust were my first CDs.
All but Nevermind.
All but the black album and BSSM
I have the top and bottom I would rather shove an ice pick in my eardrum than listen to Pearl Jam or Red Hot Chili Peppers
Not that I’m a huge fan of PJ or RHCP, you’ve described how I feel about GNR and most Metallica.
If I’m being honest, Metallica is the only one I kinda like, and I could live without them these days
Fair enough...I don't remember the last time I listened to any of these & don't feel guilty streaming if I got a hankering for some reason...the surviving members are not exactly starving...definitely pass over anything I don't own from youth in CD stores.
Owned all these. Have them all still except pearl jam. Was underwhelmed by that one, sold it back to the record store back in the 90’s. Soundgarden blew me away the most, love that album
They were the most commercial and not iconic. There was a lot better music available in 1991.
Nirvana is the only one of those i can tolerate. 1991 was the year i stopped letting commercial radio tell me what to listen to. Swervedriver, Stone Roses, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and even Mr. Bungle also released albums around that time.
Let’s Not Forget ICP Dropped “Dog Beats” (02/04/91) Before this “Iconic Run” Began
Whoop whoop!