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91:
Front 242-For You
Tad-8 Way Santa
Dino Jr-Green Mind
Butthole Surfers-Piouhgd
Jesus Lizard-Goat
Sepultura-Arise
The Fall-Shift Work
Swans-White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity
Nation of Ulysses-13 Point Plan To Destroy America
Mudhoney-EGBDF
Uncle Tupelo-Still Feel Gone

93:
Flipper-American Grafishy
Dino Jr-Where You Been
fIREHOSE-Mr Machinery Operator
Radiohead-Pablo Honey
Butthole Surfers-Independent Worm Saloon
Cop Shoot Cop-Ask Questions Later
Polvo-Today's Active Lifestyles
PJ Harvey-Rid Of Me
Fugazi-In On The Kill Taker
Redd Kross-Phaseshifter
Harry Connick Jr.-When My Heart Finds Christmas

Very difficult to choose. Maybe more quantity in 1993 onwards, but the sheer quality of 1991...

1991 by a thin hair.

More gems to add...

1991:
Mercury Rev - Yerself is steam
Slint - Spiderland
Swervedriver - raise
Poster children - Daisychain reaction
Jawbox - Grippe
Tar - Jackson
Jacob's mouse - No fish parking
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Mindfunk
PIxies - Trompe le monde.
Melvins - Bullhead
Pigface - Gub
Wedding present - Seamonsters
Sandy duncan's eye
Fugazi - Steady diet...
Monster Magnet - Spine of God.
Hypnolovewheel - space mountain



1993:
Swervedriver - Mezcal head
Circus Lupus - Solid brass
Unwound - Fake train
Mercury rev - Boces
GvsB - Venus luxure
Shorty - Thumb days
Craw
Arcwelder - Pull
Fenn - Spanish
The werefrogs - Swing
Pitchblende - Kill atom smasher
Paw - Dragline
Neurosis - Enemy of the sun
Liquor bike - Lowborne
Scrawl - Velver hammer
Don caballero - for respect
TITD - Supernova
Terence Trent D'arby - Symphony or damn
Fluf - Whitey on the moon
Godheadsilo - The friendship village (just a 4 track 7", but I love it)
Fiddlehead - The deaf waiter
Alloy
Voivod - the outer limits
Godandtexas - Criminal element
Hum - Electra2000

1991

Grotus - Brown

1993

Grotus - Slow-Motion Apocalypse


So you would say a tie, but Neurosis put out Enemy of the Sun in 1993, and Coil put out Love's Secret Domain in 1991.

Could probably go on and on like this. I'll just say a tie.

I noticed Sepultura and Front 242 above in 1991, but both bands had major albums in ‘93 as well. Tough call.

biscuitdough wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 2:53 pm I noticed Sepultura and Front 242 above in 1991, but both bands had major albums in ‘93 as well. Tough call.

Fuck Up Evil kills Tyranny For You

It seems many of my favorite 90's bands (Jawbreaker, Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys) fell into a pattern of releases on even years. Others hadn't quite hit their classic era yet (Superchunk, Guided By Voices)

More in 91:
Samiam- Soar
Leatherface- Mush
Mudhoney- Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Seaweed- Four

seby wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:18 pm

biscuitdough wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 2:53 pm I noticed Sepultura and Front 242 above in 1991, but both bands had major albums in ‘93 as well. Tough call.

Fuck Up Evil kills Tyranny For You

I’m an Evil Off man, myself, but they’re both excellent. Most of Tyranny For You fails to live up to the promise of the title track.

biscuitdough wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 7:32 pm

seby wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:18 pm

biscuitdough wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 2:53 pm I noticed Sepultura and Front 242 above in 1991, but both bands had major albums in ‘93 as well. Tough call.

Fuck Up Evil kills Tyranny For You

I’m an Evil Off man, myself, but they’re both excellent. Most of Tyranny For You fails to live up to the promise of the title track.

Aha! Interesting...I much prefer the other. I really should give FEO another run I think

seby wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:48 pm

biscuitdough wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 7:32 pm

seby wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:18 pm

Fuck Up Evil kills Tyranny For You

I’m an Evil Off man, myself, but they’re both excellent. Most of Tyranny For You fails to live up to the promise of the title track.

Aha! Interesting...I much prefer the other. I really should give FEO another run I think

It’s a mix of “what if Coil embraced the dance music sounds of their time” (edit: The Snow notwithstanding) with a few synth punk reminescences. Very layered and both of its time and a rejection of its time, but not “timeless” at all. I feel it’s the more record-collectory of the two from 1993, in that way. It’s also the one I had during my formative years, not getting its contemporary until a decade later or so, so there’s a subjective angle. It’s not just the 12” mixes of Fuck Up Evil, though. In another world they’d have just been a double album together.

Christ. Double album CDs. You’d have to edit it to match a terrible movie, if you wanted 140+ minutes of sound to make an impact today.