The year in music
Best Songs of 1991
Nirvana’s “Nevermind” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” change rock overnight. R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”, U2’s “Achtung Baby”, Metallica’s Black Album, Massive Attack’s “Unfinished Sympathy”. Freddie Mercury dies.

Play 1991
59 songs

Come As You Are
Nirvana

Love to Hate You
Erasure

(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
Bryan Adams

Do I Have to Say the Words?
Bryan Adams

Thought I’d Died and Gone to Heaven
Bryan Adams

The Show Must Go On
Queen

Black or White
Michael Jackson

Charly
The Prodigy

Everybody in the Place
The Prodigy

Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)
Roxette

Joyride
Roxette

Spending My Time
Roxette

The Big L.
Roxette

Drain You
Nirvana

In Bloom
Nirvana

Lithium
Nirvana

One
U2

Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana

Cry for Help
Rick Astley

How I Could Just Kill a Man
Cypress Hill

I Can't Dance
Genesis

Jesus Christ Pose
Soundgarden

Latin Lingo
Cypress Hill

No Son of Mine
Genesis

Outshined
Soundgarden

Rusty Cage
Soundgarden

Buggin' Out
A Tribe Called Quest

Check the Rhime
A Tribe Called Quest

Scenario
A Tribe Called Quest

Emotions
Mariah Carey

Feed My Frankenstein
Alice Cooper

Losing My Religion
R.E.M.

Alive
Pearl Jam

American Music
Violent Femmes

Black
Pearl Jam

Enter Sandman
Metallica

Jeremy
Pearl Jam

Mama, I'm Coming Home
Ozzy Osbourne

No More Tears
Ozzy Osbourne

Nothing Else Matters
Metallica

Sad But True
Metallica

Give It Away
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Under the Bridge
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Motownphilly
Boyz II Men

November Rain
Guns N’ Roses

Similak Child
Black Sheep

Strobelite Honey
Black Sheep

The Choice Is Yours
Black Sheep

Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack

Batonga
Angélique Kidjo

Only Shallow
My Bloody Valentine

Silent All These Years
Tori Amos

When You Sleep
My Bloody Valentine

Good Vibrations
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Hunger Strike
Temple of the Dog

I’m Too Sexy
Right Said Fred

Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Geto Boys

O.P.P.
Naughty by Nature

Two Princes
Spin Doctors
1991 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 59 songs first released in 1991. Rock, Alternative Rock and Grunge lead the year. Nirvana, Roxette and A Tribe Called Quest are among the voices of 1991.
Artists of 1991
- Nirvana5
- Roxette4
- A Tribe Called Quest3
- Black Sheep3
- Bryan Adams3
- Metallica3
- Pearl Jam3
- Soundgarden3
- Cypress Hill2
- Genesis2
- My Bloody Valentine2
- Ozzy Osbourne2
- Red Hot Chili Peppers2
- The Prodigy2
- Alice Cooper
- Angélique Kidjo
- Boyz II Men
- Erasure
- Geto Boys
- Guns N’ Roses
- Mariah Carey
- Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
- Massive Attack
- Michael Jackson
The sound of 1991
- Rock90s
- Alternative Rock90s
- Grunge90s
- Hip-Hop90s
- Pop90s
- Pop Rock90s
- Boom Bap90s
- Classic Rock90s
- Hard Rock90s
- Metal90s