25 Best Rock Albums of 1991
Some years give us pretty solid rock records, but there s the occasional year that changes the face of rock music. The year 1991 was one of those game-changing years and you can see that evolution within our 25 Best Rock Albums of 1991.
Coming out of the 80s, there was a status quo of labels pushing out accessible heavy music that would get radio play, with some of these acts falling under the hair metal label. But by the fall of 91, hard rock was about to get the jolt it needed to shake things up in the form of Nirvana . and then Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and what amounted to the birth of the grunge era.