Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1991

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Albums:

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01 | My Bloody Valentine | Loveless (#1 all time)
02 | Slint | Spiderland (top 50 all time)
03 | Mercury Rev | Yerself is Steam (top 50)
04 | A Tribe Called Quest | The Low End Theory (top 150)
05 | Nirvana | Nevermind
06 | Talk Talk | Laughing Stock
07 | Public Enemy | Apocalypse `91: The Enemy Strikes Black
08 | Jesus Lizard | Goat
09 | Chapterhouse | Whirlpool
10 | Massive Attack | Blue Lines
11 | Pixies | Trompe Le Monde
12 | Sonny Sharrock | Ask the Ages
13 | Primal Scream | Screamadelica
14 | Soundgarden | Badmotorfinger
15 | Moondog | Elpmas

Like always I didn't get around to hearing all of the new albums I wanted to. Robert Wyatt, Teenage Fanclub, Organized Konfusion, Coil, and De La Soul could have all possibly placed had I had some more time.

But seriously, what a great and diverse year. You've got the pinnacle of recorded music for me, plus great experimental, mainstream rock, hip-hop, and electronic albums. I greatly prefer 1991 to the years preceding and following it, and I think it may have a case as the best year of the decade (with 1997 giving it strong competition).
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Songs:

1 | Slint | Good Morning, Captain
2 | Massive Attack | Unfinished Sympathy
3 | My Bloody Valentine | To Here Knows When
4 | Primal Scream | Movin' On Up
5 | Mercury Rev | Chasing a Bee
6 | My Bloody Valentine | When You Sleep
7 | Soundgarden | Jesus Christ Pose
8 | My Bloody Valentine | Sometimes
9 | Nirvana | Smells Like Teen Spirit
10 | Mercury Rev | Frittering
11 | Public Enemy | By the Time I Get to Arizona
12 | A Tribe Called Quest | Buggin' Out
13 | Primal Scream | Higher Than the Sun
14 | Nirvana | Breed
15 | Talk Talk | Ascension Day
16 | My Bloody Valentine | I Only Said
17 | Massive Attack | Safe From Harm
18 | Organized Konfusion | Releasing Hypnotical Gases
19 | Jesus Lizard | Mouth Breather
20 | A Tribe Called Quest | Scenario
21 | Bob Dylan | Blind Willie McTell
22 | Pearl Jam | Alive
23 | Sonny Sharock | Many Mansions
24 | Pixies | Alec Eiffel
25 | R.E.M. | Losing My Religion
26 | Geto Boys | Mind Playing Tricks On Me
27 | My Bloody Valentine | Only Shallow
28 | Teenage Fanclub | The Concept
29 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Give It Away
30 | Matthew Sweet | Girlfriend

One of the best song years ever! 2 in my top 10, 5 in my top 25, and that's not counting my number 2 all time track "Soon," which counts for 1990. I'm surprised that "Only Shallow" has gotten pretty much all the votes for Loveless tracks in this poll, with way too little love for "To Here Knows When," "Sometimes," and "When You Sleep."
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This is an absolutely great year for music, no denying that.

1. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. The Jesus Lizard - Goat
3. Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
4. Slint - Spiderland
5. Pearl Jam - Ten
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
7. Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
8. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
9. Metallica - Metallica
10. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

Songs

1. Pavement - Summer Babe
2. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
3. Nirvana - Drain You
4. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
5. Metallica - Enter Sandman
6. Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
7. Nirvana - In Bloom
8. The Wedding Present - Dalliance
9. Nirvana - Aneurysm
10. Superchunk - Throwing Things
11. Pearl Jam - Black
12. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
13. Nirvana - Lithium
14. Slint - Good Morning Captain
15. The Wedding Present - Suck
16. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
17. Nirvana - Breed
18. A Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhime
19. The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather
20. Nirvana - Lounge Act
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Generally speaking, do people not like Summer Babe that much, or do people not realize that it's an option for 1991? Just curious.
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Sorry, Nic, no time enough to properly update my 2007 votes. The only change this time was the inclusion of Miguel's #1 song in order of getting a chance to get in (I love this song!)

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ALBUMS:

1. MASSIVE ATTACK “Blue Lines” (#92 in my all-time list)
2. NIRVANA “Nevermind” (#100)
3. R.E.M. “Out of Time”
4. TEENAGE FANCLUB “Bandwagonesque”
5. PRIMAL SCREAM “Screamadelica”
6. TALK TALK “Laughing Stock”
7. THE PIXIES “Trompe le Monde”
8. MERCURY REV “Yerself Is Steam”
9. MATTHEW SWEET “Girlfriend”
10. VAN MORRISON “Hymns to the Silence”
11. METALLICA “Metallica”
12. U2 “Achtung Baby”
13. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST “The Low End Theory”
14. PRINCE “Diamonds and Pearls”
15. MANO NEGRA “King of Bongo”
16. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”
17. RICHARD THOMPSON “Rumor and Sigh”
18. SAINT ETIENNE “Foxbase Alpha”
19. RAY HEREDIA “Quien no corre vuela”
20. PEARL JAM “Ten”
21. VARIOUS “Until the End of the World OST”
22. GUNS’N’ROSES “Use Your Illusion II”
23. ANTONIO VEGA “No me iré mañana”
24. THE KLF “The White Room”
25. SLINT “Spiderland”


SONGS:

1. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (#26 in my all-time list)
2. MASSIVE ATTACK “Unfinished Sympathy” (#40)
3. NIRVANA “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (#84)
4. THE PIXIES “Alec Eiffel”
5. ELVIS COSTELLO “So Like Candy”
6. R.E.M. “Near Wild Heaven”
7. METALLICA “Enter Sandman”
8. TEENAGE FANCLUB “What You Do to Me”
9. PIZZICATO 5 “Twiggy Twiggy”
10. PRINCE & THE NEW POWER GENERATION “Gett Off”
11. U2 “One”
12. MASSIVE ATTACK “Safe From Harm”
13. PRIMAL SCREAM “Higher Than the Sun”
14. ANTONIO VEGA “Se dejaba llevar por ti”
15. NIRVANA “Polly”
16. GUNS ‘N’ ROSES “You Could Be Mine”
17. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS “Give It Away”
18. TEENAGE FANCLUB “Star Sign”
19. MY BLOODY VALENTINE “When You Sleep”
20. THE PIXIES “Motorway to Roswell”
21. R.E.M. “Country Feedback”
22. LLUÍS LLACH “Roda”
23. VAN MORRISON “I’m Not Feeling It Anymore”
24. U2 “The Fly”
25. RAY HEREDIA “Alegría de vivir”
26. PM DAWN “Paper Doll”
27. MICHAEL JACKSON “Black or White”
28. PAVEMENT “Summer Babe”
29. NIRVANA “Come As You Are”
30. TALK TALK “After the Flood”
31. THE KLF “3 A.M. Eternal”
32. 091 “La vida qué mala es”
33. MATTHEW SWEET “I’ve Been Waiting”
34. BILLY BRAGG “Sexuality”
35. JULEE CRUISE “Summer Kisses, Winter Tears”
36. MANO NEGRA “King of Bongo”
37. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS “Under the Bridge”
38. MASSIVE ATTACK “One Love”
39. A TRIBE CALLED QUEST “Check the Rhime”
40. R.E.M. “Shiny Happy People”
41. RICHARD THOMPSON “I Feel So Good”
42. PRINCE & THE NEW POWER GENERATION “Diamonds and Pearls”
43. PRIMAL SCREAM “Movin’ on Up”
44. RUBÉN BLADES “Camaleón”
45. SPIN DOCTORS “Two Princes”
46. SLINT “Good Morning Captain”
47. PÉRICLES CAVALCANTI “Blues da passagem”
48. LENNY KRAVITZ “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over”
49. PEARL JAM “Jeremy”
50. HOLE “Teenage Whore”


BEST COMPILATION: PHIL SPECTOR “Back to Mono (1958-1969)” (#26 in my all-time list)
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Songs

1. Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
2. Nick Cave and the Black Seeds - (I'll Love You) Till the End of the World
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
4. U2 - Until the End of the World
5. Prince - Gett Off
6. A Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhime
7. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)
8. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
9. De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
10. Pavement - Summer Babe
11. Nirvana - Lithium
12. A Tribe Called Quest - Buggin' Out
13. U2 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
14. Lou Reed -What's Good
15. Richard White and Cast - Gaston
16. Pet Shop Boys - Where The Streets Have No Name/Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
17. Pixies - Alec Eiffel
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss
19. Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.
20. A Tribe Called Quest - Show Business
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1 . Massive Attack - Blue Lines
2 . My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3 . Slint - Spiderland
4 . Nirvana - Nevermind
5 . U2 - Achtung Baby
6 . REM - Out Of Time
7 . Primal Scream - Screamadelica
8 . Crowded House - Woodface
9 . Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
10 . Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
11 . Neil Young - Weld
12 . Pearl Jam - Ten
13 . Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
14 . Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
15 . Metallica - Metallica
16 . Orbital - Orbital
17 . Ice Cube - Death Certificate
18 . Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
19 . A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
20 . Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
21 . LFO - Frequencies
22 . Billy Bragg - Don't Try This At Home
23 . The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
24 . The KLF - The White Room
25 . Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
26 . Blur - Leisure
27 . Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
28 . Electronic - Electronic
29 . Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster
30 . The Future Sound Of London - Accelerator
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Best albums of 1991

1. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
2. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. Slint - Spiderland
4. U2 - Achtung Baby
5. R.E.M. - Out of Time
6. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
7. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Weld
8. Guns 'n Roses - Use Your Illusion II
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
10. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
11. Pearl Jam - Ten
12. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead
13. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
14. KLF - The White Room
15. Guns 'n Roses - Use Your Illusion I

(Other close contenders: The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, Metallica's Metallica, and Ice Cube's Death Certificate.)

Best Songs of 1991
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge"
2. Guns 'n Roses - "November Rain"
3. R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion"
4. Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
5. U2 - "Mysterious Ways"
6. R.E.M. - "Country Feedback"
7. Pavement - "Summer Babe"
8. U2 - "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?"
9. Guns 'n Roses - "Civil War"
10. Pearl Jam - "Alive"
11. Slint - "Good Morning Captain"
12. U2 - "One"
13. Primal Scream - "Higher Than The Sun"
14. Guns 'n Roses - "Estranged"
15. Massive Attack - "Safe From Harm"

(Other close contenders: Metallica's "Enter Sandman," Soundgarden's "Room A Thousand Years Wide," and Neil Young's live version of "Farmer John" from Weld).
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nicolas wrote:ok Henrik !! But you don't need to post yr list again if it's not updated. And thanks for the Anouar Brahem recommendation !!
Here's the reminder to include my list that was posted the 9th. No changes.
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1991 is definitely an album year for me. It felt almost impossible and even pointless to rank songs. So many great albums with so many fantastic songs but no stand out songs. After my #1 there could be almost any song from my top 11 albums (and many songs from #12- albums).

Songs
1 . Stina Nordenstam - Soon after Christmas
2 . Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun
3 . U2 - The Fly
4 . Massive Attack - Song for the Big Wheel
5 . Guns n' Roses - Estranged
6 . Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
7 . Saint Etienne - Spring
8 . Metallica - The Unforgiven
9 . Primal Scream - Shine Like a Star
10 . Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
11 . Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
12 . Nirvana - In Bloom
13 . Michael Jackson - Black or White
14 . Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One
15 . Queen - The Show Must Go On
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Albums


1 . William Sheller | Sheller en solitaire
2 . Nirvana | Nevermind
3 . Cesária Evora | Mar azul
4 . Pearl Jam | Ten
5 . Red Hot Chili Peppers | Blood Sugar Sex Magic
6 . Matthew Sweet | Girlfriend
7 . Robert Wyatt | Dondestan
8 . De La Soul | De La Soul Is Dead
9 . R.E.M. | Out Of Time
10 . Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudolph | Gift of The Gnawa
11 . U2 | Achtung Baby
12 . A Tribe Called Quest | The Low End Theory
13 . MC Solaar | Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
14 . Anouar Brahem | Barzakh
15 . Massive Attack | Blue Lines


16 . Element Of Crime | Damals Hinterm Mond
17 . Metallica | Metallica
18 . The Orb | The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
19 . Jorge Palma | Só
20 . Alain Bashung | Osez Joséphine
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songs


1 . R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
2 . William Sheller - Un homme heureux
3 . Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
4 . U2 - One
5 . Cesária Evora - Cize
6 . Cesária Evora - Mar azul
7 . Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
8 . Pearl Jam - Alive
9 . Robert Wyatt - The Sight Of The Wind
10 . Nirvana - Come as You Are
11 . Pearl Jam - Jeremy
12 . Nirvana - Lithium
13 . Metallica - Enter Sandman
14 . Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
15 . Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudoplh - Ma'bud Allah

16 . Nirvana - In Bloom
17 . Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
18 . Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl
19 . Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
20 . Nightmares On Wax - Nights Interlude
21 . Mano Negra - Don't Want You No More
22 . MC Solaar - Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo
23 . Guns N' Roses - Knocking On Heaven's Door
24 . A Tribe Called Quest - What ?
25 . Anouar Brahem - Raf Raf
26 . Guns N' Roses - November Rain
27 . Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over Till It's Over
28 . De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays
29 . Alain Bashung - Osez Joséphine
30 . U2 - The Fly
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I haven't looked through 1991 nearly as much as I should have, so here's my very half-hearted list. Hopefully I'll be back on the bandwagon proper in 1992.

1. Slint - Spiderland
2. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
4. Nirvana - Nirvana
5. Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam
6. U2 - Achtung Baby
7. Metallica - Metallica
8. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
9. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
10. Pixies - Trompe Le Monde

Songs:

1. Slint - Washer
2. Slint - Good Morning Captain
3. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
4. Metallica - Enter Sandman
5. Mercury Rev - Chasing a Bee
6. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
7. Mercury Rev - Frittering
8. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
9. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
10. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
11. Blumfeld - Ghettowelt
12. Slint - Breadcrumb Trail
13. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
14. U2 - One
15. Pavement - Summer Babe
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Albums
1.U2 - Achtung Baby
2.My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
3.Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
4.Pearl Jam - Ten
5.Nirvana - Nevermind
6.Toad The Wet Sprocket - Fear
7.Primal Scream - Screamadelica
8.R.E.M. - Out Of Time
9.Massive Attack - Blue Lines
10.Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Bloodsugarsexmagik

Songs
1.Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2.Teenage Fanclub - The Concept
3.Toad The Wet Sprocket - All I Want
4.Billy Bragg - Sexuality
5.De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays
6.Toad The Wet Sprocket - I Will Not Take These Things For Granted
6.U2 - One
7.Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge
8.R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
9.Marc Cohn - Walking In Memphis
10.My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
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Albums
1. R.E.M. - Out of Time
2. Nirvana - Nevermind
3. Pearl Jam - Ten
4. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magick
6. De la Soul - De la Soul is Dead
7. U2 - Achtung Baby
8. Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
9. Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
10. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

Songs
1. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
2. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
3. Pearl Jam - Jeremy
4. Nirvana - Come As You Are
5. Pavement - Summer Babe
6. R.E.M. - Country Feedback
7. Pearl Jam - Black
8. Nirvana - Breed
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
10. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

The top 4 for me are so far ahead of everything else.
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1 . Nirvana - Nevermind | 1059
2 . U2 - Achtung Baby | 571
3 . My Bloody Valentine - Loveless | 548
4 . Massive Attack - Blue Lines | 411
5 . R.E.M. - Out Of Time | 364
6 . Pearl Jam - Ten | 354
7 . A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory | 354
8 . Slint - Spiderland | 315
9 . Primal Scream - Screamadelica | 222
10 . Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend | 181
11 . Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sex Sugar Magik | 163
12 . Metallica - Metallica | 136
13 . Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque | 128
14 . Jesus Lizard - Goat | 114

I don't think another album will get more than 1000 points...

U2 and My Bloody Valentine are Irish, so there is still one spot for a non anglophone album which is :

15. William Sheller - Sheller en solitaire (France) | 61(real ranking : 22, 3 votes : Dan, Michel, Nicolas)

They almost made it

15 . De La Soul | De La Soul Is Dead | 95
16 . Talk Talk - Laughing Stock | 94
17 . Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam | 88
18 . Prince - Diamonds and pearls | 72
19 . Pixies - Trompe le Monde | 68
20 . Crowded House | Woodface | 63

Other non anglophone albums

Cesaria Evora - Mar Azul (Cape Verde) (47 pts, 2 votes)
MC Solaar - Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo (France) (2 votes)
Element Of Crime - Damals hinterm Mond (Germany) (2 votes)
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nicolas wrote:1 . Nirvana - Nevermind | 1059

I don't think another album will get more than 1000 points...
OK Computer will get at least 1200 points probably more (if there are at least almost as much voters than last month). I guess that even Automatic for People will get more points than Nevermind (mostly because 1992 isn't as good on albums as 1991 is).
nicolas wrote: They almost made it
16 . Talk Talk - Laughing Stock | 94
17 . Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam | 88
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At least there was a significant gap between the last one in and the first one out

Songs to follow in a couple hours
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1 . R.E.M. - Losing My Religion | 645
2 . Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit | 586
3 . U2 - One | 364 (Ireland, so 1st non UK US)
4 . Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy | 264
5 . Pavement – Summer Babe | 163
6 . Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge | 162
7 . Slint - Good Morning, Captain | 155
8 . Pearl Jam - Alive | 152
9 . Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell | 144
10 . Nirvana - Lithium  | 134
11 . My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow | 114
12 . Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me | 110
13 . Nirvana - Come as You Are | 107
14 . Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies | 100


non anglophone song
(17). William Sheller - Un homme heureux (France) | 80 (2 votes : nicolas and Romain)

almost made it (general)

15 . Metallica - Enter Sandman | 90
16 . Pearl Jam - Jeremy | 84
18 . Toad The Wet Sprocket - All I Want | 70
19 . U2 - Mysterious Ways | 66
20 . Guns N' Roses - November Rain | 64
21 . My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes | 58

almost made it (non anglophone)

25 . Pizzicato Five: Twiggy Twiggy (Japan) | 57
66 . Cesária Évora | Mar Azul (Cape Verde) | 25
70 . Alain Bashung - Madame Rêve (France) | 23
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Can't say I'm unhappy for the Sheller nominations (1st and 2nd respectively in my lists). I hope people will play the game and actually listen to those foreign songs in december for the final.
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Honorio wrote: The only change this time was the inclusion of Miguel's #1 song in order of getting a chance to get in (I love this song!)
nicolas wrote: almost made it (non anglophone)
25.Pizzicato Five: Twiggy Twiggy (Japan)|57
:cry: (Thanks anyway, Honorio)
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Thanks for fast results, nicolas! Some surprises (Laughing Stock, Enter Sandman and Jeremy not making the T15).

The love for Stina Nordenstam looked promising in the recommendation thread, but apparently wasn't enough. I hope people saved their votes for her even better album "And She Closed Her Eyes" from 1994.
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I guess Jeremy and Enter Sandman were victims of the new point scale : Magnetic Fields qualifies with only two votes, but two #1; and Bonnie Raitt had only 3 or 4 votes.
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I like the new scale, it's actually working out in practice as it's supposed to by getting 100,000 Fireflies (2 #1s) in over Enter Sandman (10 ~#10s)
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Re: The Results : Albums

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nicolas wrote:1 . Nirvana - Nevermind | 1059
2 . U2 - Achtung Baby | 571
3 . My Bloody Valentine - Loveless | 548
4 . Massive Attack - Blue Lines | 411
5 . R.E.M. - Out Of Time | 364
6 . Pearl Jam - Ten | 354
7 . A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory | 354
8 . Slint - Spiderland | 315
9 . Primal Scream - Screamadelica | 222
10 . Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend | 181
11 . Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sex Sugar Magik | 163
12 . Metallica - Metallica | 136
13 . Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque | 128
14 . Jesus Lizard - Goat | 114
I'm pretty happy with that top 15, though I'm a bit disappointed Yerself is Steam couldn't get in. What does surprise me, is that U2 came second. Second! Ahead of Loveless and Screamadelica (9th for Scream)! Also suprised Pearl Jam and REM are THAT high - I expected them to get in, but in the lower positions.
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Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1991

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It's awesome that 100,000 Fireflies made it through. If this is due to a new scoring format, I'm all about it!
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