Ten by Pearl Jam
Buy Ten Pearl Jam‘s excellent debut is one of the most potent and indelible of debut albums ever released. The album called Ten was released in August 1991, at the vanguard of a […]
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Metallica (Black Album) by Metallica
Buy Metallica After four studio albums and ever-building popularity in the 1980s, heavy metal band Metallica felt they were poised for their artistic breakthrough. During the summer of 1990, the band got together […]
Psychotic Supper by Tesla
Buy Psychotic Supper Out of the deluge of “hair bands” that populated the rock scene in the late 1980s, Tesla was, perhaps, the most talented and interesting. The band composed songs which were […]
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Buy Blood Sugar Sex Magik Just as the Red Hot Chili peppers were starting to break out in the late 1980s, two of the band’s members were struggling mightily with drug abuse. One […]
Nevermind by Nirvana
Buy Nevermind I was born on the same day in February 1991 that Kurt Cobain, the lead singer, guitarist, and principle songwriter for Nirvana, celebrated his twenty fifth birthday. Later that same year, […]
Out of Time by R.E.M.
Buy Out of Time Following the success of R.E.M.‘s 1988 album Green and the extensive supporting tour which followed, the band took nearly a year to recuperate before reconvening to produce their next […]
Luck of the Draw by Bonnie Raitt
Buy Luck of the Draw It had taken nearly two decades for Bonnie Raitt to achieve the commercial success that critics had long felt she would achieve. That success came with Raitt’s 1989 […]
Pocket Full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors
Buy Pocket Full of Kryptonite As the Grateful Dead’s long career began to wind down in the early nineties, there were many pseudo-hippie, jam-oriented bands that emerged to fill the void for the […]
Mama Said by Lenny Kravitz
Buy Mama Said Lenny Kravitz followed up his brilliant 1989 debut, Let Love Rule with Mama Said two years later. Although many critics thought this sophomore effort paled in comparison, Mama Said was […]
Gish by The Smashing Pumpkins
Buy Gish Gish is the debut album by alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins, released independently in 1991. The album was co-produced by Butch Vig and recorded in his studio in Madison, Wisconsin. The […]