Tag: 1991
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Drop Nineteens, 1991, 2025 on Wharf Cat Records
While this was written and recorded by Drop Nineteens back in 1991, it was remixed by the band and Max Rose and released in 2024 on tour and 2025 on vinyl. My copy direct from the band.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, The Sky is Crying, 1991 on Epic
This was the fifth and final studio album from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, compiling tracks cut earlier and released more than a year after Vaughan’s death in August of 1990. (Compiled by Jimmie Vaughan). It includes a wonderful version of Hendrix’s “Little Wing” in addition to the title track and Willie Dixon’s “Close…
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Tin Machine, Tin Machine II, 1991 on Victory.
Is this post going to get me flagged on various social platforms? The cover image is four Greek Kouroi, status of nude male youths. That led to the cover being changed in the US to airbrush out the bits you’d expect. (The Canadian covers followed the European releases). Tin Machine was a band fronted by…
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Naughty By Nature, Naughty By Nature, 1991 on Tommy Boy
Though self-titled, this is actually their second album together, the first (Independent Leaders) being released under the artist name The New Style. The unavoidable massive hit here was “O.P.P” but there are a lot of great songs, including “Ghetto Bastard” (aka “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright”). “Uptown Anthem,” and “1, 2, 3.” Featured vocalists/rappers include Queen…
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A Tribe Called Quest, Low End Theory, 1991 on Jive.
A Tribe Called Quest, Low End Theory, 1991 on Jive. Tribe were part of the Native Tongues collective, with De La Soul, Queen Latifah, and Jungle Brothers. Busta Rhymes features on “Scenario” and Ron Carter provides bass on “Verses from the Abstract.” Although I had this on CD back then, this copy is a reissue…
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James Cotton, Mighty Long Time, 1991 on Antone’s.
James Cotton, Mighty Long Time, 1991 on Antone’s. My copy is a 2015 New West reissue as a double LP with four bonus tracks. Great blues album, with a 6:47 Stormy Monday on side 3
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Quivers, Out of Time, 2020 on Turntable Kitchen
Quivers, Out of Time, 2020 on Turntable Kitchen Limited edition white vinyl, cover album for R.E.M.’s 1991 LP Love this record as much as the original and on some songs maybe even more
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Alison Moyet, Hoodoo, 1991 on Columbia.
Alison Moyet, Hoodoo, 1991 on Columbia. Third solo studio album from Alison Moyet Just no mistaking the voice (which you knew from Yazoo/Yaz). Guests include Kirsty MacColl, and Andy Cox & David Steele of Fine Young Cannibals. An underappreciated gem from the early nineties that actually got pressed on vinyl (at least in the UK).
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Jayhawks, Hollywood Town Hall, 1991 on Def American.
Jayhawks, Hollywood Town Hall, 1991 on Def American. Mine is the 2014 remaster & reissue on American Recordings (same label, newer name), which sounds great. (That’s the town hall of Hollywood Township MN)

