Dangerous is the eighth studio album by Michael Jackson, released on November 26, 1991.
It became his second to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, where it spent the next four consecutive weeks. Dangerous spent 117 weeks in the Billboard 200, thirty more than Bad. The album has sold over 32 million copies worldwide.
1. Jam
2. Why You Wanna Trip On Me
3. In The Closet
4. She Drives Me Wild
5. Remember The Time
6. Can’t Let Her Get Away
7. Heal The World
8. Black Or White
9. Who Is It
10. Give In To Me
11. Will You Be There
12. Keep The Faith
13. Gone Too Soon
14. Dangerous
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Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 19 November 1991 on Island Records.
After criticism of their 1988 release Rattle and Hum, U2 shifted direction to incorporate alternative rock, industrial, and electronic dance music influences into their sound. U2 began recording Achtung Baby in Berlin’s Hansa Studios in October 1990. The sessions were fraught with conflict, as the band argued over their musical direction and the quality of their material. After weeks of tension and slow progress, the group made a breakthrough with the improvised writing of the song “One”.
The Zoo TV Tour were central to the group’s 1990s reinvention. The Zoo TV stage featured dozens of large video screens that showed visual effects, video clips from pop culture, and flashing text phrases. Live satellite link-ups, channel surfing, prank calls, and video confessionals were incorporated into the shows. Bono portrayed several characters he conceived, including “The Fly”, “Mirror Ball Man”, and “MacPhisto”.
Achtung Baby is one of U2’s most successful records. It spawned five hit singles, including “One”, “Mysterious Ways”, and “The Fly”. The album has sold 18 million copies worldwide and won a Grammy Award in 1993 for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
Not to be out done by Pearl jam’s documentry PJ20. U2 have their own doco “From the Sky Down” about production of their 1991 album Achtung Baby. The film documents the difficult recording period, the band members’ relationships, and the record’s legacy. Archival footage and stills from the recording sessions appear in the film, along with unreleased scenes from the group’s 1988 motion picture Rattle and Hum.
What do you think is it still as good as it was 20 years ago, or has it past its used by date?
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Rick Rubin, it was the band’s first record released on Warner Bros. Records.
The musical styles of Blood Sugar Sex Magik was first album to be produced by Rick Rubin. It differed notably from the techniques employed on the Chili Peppers’ preceding album, Mother’s Milk, They originaly wanted Rick to produce Mother’s Milk.
Peaking at number three on the Billboard 200, the album has sold over seventeen million copies worldwide and was the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ was their break through album to the world stage. Blood Sugar Sex Magik produced an array of hit singles including the hugely successful “Under the Bridge”, “Give It Away”, “Suck My Kiss” and “Breaking the Girl”. Guitarist John Frusciante quit the band mid-tour in 1992 (until returning in 1998) due to his inability to cope with the album’s popularity.
Blood Sugar Sex Magik is recognized as an influential and seminal component of the alternative rock explosion in the early 1990s.
What do you think is it still as good as it was 20 years ago, or has it past its used by date?
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No More Tears is the sixth studio album by English heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne. Released on 17 September 1991, the album charted at number 17 on the UK Albums Chart and 7 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart.
No More Tears spawned five singles, of which four reached the top ten of the US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, including the number-two “Mama, I’m Coming Home”, and it contains the Grammy winning track “I Don’t Want To Change The World”. It is also one of Osbourne’s two best-selling albums in North America, along with his debut Blizzard of Ozz, having been certified four times platinum by the RIAA and double platinum by CRIA. To date, sales stand at over 5,000,000 copies worldwide.
Motörhead’s, Lemmy collaborated with Ozzy on this album, he co-wrote such popular tracks as “Hellraiser,” “Don’t Want to Change the World,” “Desire” and “Mama I’m Coming Home.”
And just recently Ozzy was credited in part to reuniting a lost autistic boy in California.
Joshua Robb ran away into the wilderness near his elementary school in San Barnardino on September 12 and was missing for approximately 24 hours. A team of about 60 people on foot and in vehicles scoured the lands in attempts to find the boy. The boy’s father, Ron, requested that his son’s two favourite tunes, Osbourne’s “No More Tears” and country artist Alan Jackson’s “Good Time,” be blasted over the San Barnardino National Forest’s public address system. The thought was that even though Joshua is allegedly fearful of loud noises, the familiar songs would draw him out of hiding.
“I heard them blaring ‘No More Tears’ and it was a short time after that we heard the rescuers had found him,” Ron Robb told NBC.
The boy, scratched & bruised, was taken to a local hospital, but is reportedly fine otherwise.
What do you think is “No More Tears” still as good as it was 20 years ago, or has song like this one below past its used by date?
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Ten is the debut studio album by the American grunge band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records. Following the disbanding of bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard’s previous group Mother Love Bone, the two recruited vocalist Eddie Vedder, guitarist Mike McCready, and drummer Dave Krusen to form Pearl Jam in 1990. Most of the songs began as instrumental jams, to which Vedder added lyrics about topics such as depression, homelessness, and abuse.
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Ten was not an immediate success, but by late 1992 it had reached number two on the Billboard 200 chart. The album produced three hit singles: “Alive”, “Even Flow”, and “Jeremy”. While Pearl Jam was accused of jumping on the grunge bandwagon at the time, Ten was instrumental in popularizing alternative rock in the mainstream.[1] The album has been certified diamond by the RIAA in the United States, selling over 9,800,000 copies, and remains Pearl Jam’s most successful album.
Pearl Jam have released the first track from the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s forthcoming documentary Pearl Jam Twenty. “Crown of Thorns”
What do you think is Pearl Jam still as good as it was 20 years ago, or has it past its used by date?
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Metallica (also known as “The Black Album”) is the eponymous fifth studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released on August 13, 1991 through Elektra Records. Metallica produced five hit singles that are considered today among the band’s best-known songs: “Enter Sandman”, “The Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Matters”, “Wherever I May Roam”, and “Sad but True”.
It spent four consecutive weeks at number one on Billboard 200. Metallica is the band’s best-selling album to date, with over 15 million copies sold in the United States. It is the best-selling album of the SoundScan era. The album was certified 15x platinum (diamond) by the RIAA on November 13, 2009.
Metallica was a departure from the thrash metal style of Metallica’s previous four albums and saw the band moving towards a more commercial heavy metal sound. Many fans consider the album the initial turning point in their music, where “old” and “new” Metallica are distinguished from one another.
What do you think is it still as good as it was 20 years ago, or has it past its used by date?
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Blue Lines is the debut album by British electronica group Massive Attack, released on 8 April 1991 UK (6 August 1991 US) by Virgin Records.
Blue Lines is generally considered the first trip hop album, although the term was not coined until years later. The album was a success in the United Kingdom, reaching #13 in the albums chart; sales were limited elsewhere. A fusion of electronic music, hip hop, dub music, ’70s soul music and reggae, the album established Massive Attack as one of the most innovative British bands of the 1990s and the founder of trip hop’s Bristol Sound. Music critic Simon Reynolds stated that the album also marked a change in electronic/dance music, “a shift toward a more interior, meditational sound. The songs on Blue Lines run at ‘spliff’ tempos — from a mellow, moonwalking 90 beats per minute …down to a positively torpid 67 bpm.” The group also drew inspiration from concept albums in various genres by artists such as Pink Floyd, Public Image Ltd., Billy Cobham, Herbie Hancock and Isaac Hayes.
Blue Lines featured breakbeats, sampling, and rapping on a number of tracks, but the design of the album differed from traditional hip hop. Massive Attack approached the American-born hip hop movement from an underground British perspective, as well as incorporating live instruments into the mixes. It features the vocals of Shara Nelson and Horace Andy, along with the rapping of Tricky Kid. Blue Lines proved to be popular in the club scene, as well as on college radio stations.
What do you think is it still as good as it was 20 years ago, or has it past its used by date?
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