For me it has to be 1982 music checkmate by Prince when he released 1999, What Time Is It? by The Time and Vanity 6 all in one year!

In a way 1991 was indeed the best year.
Not for pop/funk etc, at all.

But for everything rock, grunge, metal, it was. It produced the music i would listen the next 20 years to and let me escape my 80's/Prince obsession.

1987 was the best year for the rest of popular music surely, to me.

ItsLetoyaBaby said:

Are you kidding me? 1991 is the year Letoya Jackson released the album No Relations. When I listened to it for the first time I knew it would be legendary right away. Epic. Sexbox remains a pop hit and Let's Rock The House is pure Beat-it style rock (notice how it even has "rock" in the name). Wild Side was a #1 hit in the Phillipines.

Hmmm, ID name checks out.

Therefore, this is The Post Of The Year.

Urine said:

Acthung Baby Dangerous Diamonds and Pearls Use Your Illusion Mama Said Blood Sugar Sex Magik Is there a better year?

Yeah. An amazing musical year. It did countless 25th anniversary post on my Instagram in 2016. Ther was no better year.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBYFdsYH2to/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=ev672phzftqi

TheFman said:

In a way 1991 was indeed the best year.
Not for pop/funk etc, at all.

But for everything rock, grunge, metal, it was. It produced the music i would listen the next 20 years to

Agreed.

Write your book guys

https://www.amazon.com/Ne...1250130913

RodeoSchro said:

ItsLetoyaBaby said:

Are you kidding me? 1991 is the year Letoya Jackson released the album No Relations. When I listened to it for the first time I knew it would be legendary right away. Epic. Sexbox remains a pop hit and Let's Rock The House is pure Beat-it style rock (notice how it even has "rock" in the name). Wild Side was a #1 hit in the Phillipines.

Hmmm, ID name checks out.

Therefore, this is The Post Of The Year.

Are you implying what I wrote is not true? I suggest you read the East Timorean press from around 1991 talking about the album. Then talk to me and let's see if you're still singing the same tune. I mean, I have never read it either but perhaps you can and tell me what they wrote. Just so I know...

jaawwnn said:

ItsLetoyaBaby said:

RodeoSchro said:

Hmmm, ID name checks out.

Therefore, this is The Post Of The Year.

Are you implying what I wrote is not true? I suggest you read the East Timorean press from around 1991 talking about the album. Then talk to me and let's see if you're still singing the same tune. I mean, I have never read it either but perhaps you can and tell me what they wrote. Just so I know...

I reached out to both investigative newspaper Tempo Semanal and the Timor Post for comment. They issued a joint statement, which is found below:

"Our dearest RodeoSchro:

Thank you for your recent inquiry into the East Timorean press's coverage of La Toya Jackson and her long-playing phonograph record "No Relations". By the way, we are surprised by your misspelling of her first name. It is not spelled "Letoya". Our initial reaction was that you may not be the La Toya Jackson fan you'd like us to believe you are. No matter, you asked about her long-playing phonographic record and we shall address that now.

In order to familiarize ourselves with this particular long-playing phonograph record, we went to the YouTube and searched for the long-playing phonographic record's first song "Sexbox". Nine other results appeared before Miss Jackson's artistic endeavor. These results included a show where people have sex in a box, as well as a vignette that revolved around a sexual apparatus found in a baby's nursery. Quite disturbing and if the East Timorean government is monitoring our web searches, this may be the last transmission you receive from us.

If so, please tell our families we loved them.

Back to the point at hand. While we're certain Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record was released, we here in East Timor never heard it at the time. You see, in 1991 we were still under Indonesian rule and it was not until 1999 that we obtained self-rule. As one might imagine, we had a lot of music to catch up on and sadly, Miss Jackson's "No Relations" was far down the list. As we recall, it came after "Barney the Dinosaur's Greatest Hits" but before Bjork's entire catalogue.

Since you are a student of East Timor, you must know that until 1975 we were under the blissful but strict control of the Portuguese. They allowed little musical influence in our daily lives. But on 28 November of the Year of Our Lord 1975, our Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor declared a break from Portugal, and we were free. For nine glorious days, we listened to the latest be-bop long-playing phonograph records and rejoiced.

No one will ever forget that at 5 PM on the ninth day of our freedom, we were invaded by Indonesian forces. Our nation had just finished collectively listening to Mr. Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" long-playing phonograph record - a true and instant classic. The next long-playing phonograph record in the queue was Queen's "A Night at the Opera". Just as Mr. Freddie Mercury sang "Galileo Galileo!" all power was cut, and that was the last thing we heard from a long-playing phonograph record until our 1999 separation from Indonesia.

Imagine our surprise - and disappointment - as we dedicated the Years Of Our Lord 1999 - 2006 to working our way through the years of lost music. 1975 was glorious! 1976 was stupendous! 1977 was disco! 1978 introduced a young mono-named gentleman called "Prince"! And so on and so on - until the horrid Year of Our Lord 1991.

1991 is known in East Timor as The Year Of The Great Disappointment.

The music we called rock and/or roll died that year. A bunch of unwashed heathens from somewhere called "Seattle" released a long-playing phonograph record entitled "Nevermind". We wish everyone had taken that advice and ignored it, but alas. No such luck.

Rock and/or roll music changed from being optimistic and centering around having a party, meeting members of (usually) the opposite sex, and generally enjoying life. Our beloved rock and/or roll music was now about loneliness, negativity, poor hygene, and generally not enjoying life.

It made us wish the Indonesians would come back and kill us all.

Perhaps had we listened instead to Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record, we could avoided some Disappointment. To be sure, Miss Jackson still adhered to the concepts of sex, drugs and rock and/or roll. Sadly, Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record was left on the ash heap of The Year Of The Great Disappointment.

So really, we have no answer to your query re: East Timorean press coverage of said long-playing phonograph record. We apologize for the length of our reply, but what did you expect?

If you wanted brevity, you should have asked a West Timorean.

Respectfully submitted in the spirit of love, happiness and rock and/or roll,

Your friends in East Timor"

RodeoSchro said:

ItsLetoyaBaby said:

Are you implying what I wrote is not true? I suggest you read the East Timorean press from around 1991 talking about the album. Then talk to me and let's see if you're still singing the same tune. I mean, I have never read it either but perhaps you can and tell me what they wrote. Just so I know...

I reached out to both investigative newspaper Tempo Semanal and the Timor Post for comment. They issued a joint statement, which is found below:

"Our dearest RodeoSchro:

Thank you for your recent inquiry into the East Timorean press's coverage of La Toya Jackson and her long-playing phonograph record "No Relations". By the way, we are surprised by your misspelling of her first name. It is not spelled "Letoya". Our initial reaction was that you may not be the La Toya Jackson fan you'd like us to believe you are. No matter, you asked about her long-playing phonographic record and we shall address that now.

In order to familiarize ourselves with this particular long-playing phonograph record, we went to the YouTube and searched for the long-playing phonographic record's first song "Sexbox". Nine other results appeared before Miss Jackson's artistic endeavor. These results included a show where people have sex in a box, as well as a vignette that revolved around a sexual apparatus found in a baby's nursery. Quite disturbing and if the East Timorean government is monitoring our web searches, this may be the last transmission you receive from us.

If so, please tell our families we loved them.

Back to the point at hand. While we're certain Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record was released, we here in East Timor never heard it at the time. You see, in 1991 we were still under Indonesian rule and it was not until 1999 that we obtained self-rule. As one might imagine, we had a lot of music to catch up on and sadly, Miss Jackson's "No Relations" was far down the list. As we recall, it came after "Barney the Dinosaur's Greatest Hits" but before Bjork's entire catalogue.

Since you are a student of East Timor, you must know that until 1975 we were under the blissful but strict control of the Portuguese. They allowed little musical influence in our daily lives. But on 28 November of the Year of Our Lord 1975, our Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor declared a break from Portugal, and we were free. For nine glorious days, we listened to the latest be-bop long-playing phonograph records and rejoiced.

No one will ever forget that at 5 PM on the ninth day of our freedom, we were invaded by Indonesian forces. Our nation had just finished collectively listening to Mr. Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" long-playing phonograph record - a true and instant classic. The next long-playing phonograph record in the queue was Queen's "A Night at the Opera". Just as Mr. Freddie Mercury sang "Galileo Galileo!" all power was cut, and that was the last thing we heard from a long-playing phonograph record until our 1999 separation from Indonesia.

Imagine our surprise - and disappointment - as we dedicated the Years Of Our Lord 1999 - 2006 to working our way through the years of lost music. 1975 was glorious! 1976 was stupendous! 1977 was disco! 1978 introduced a young mono-named gentleman called "Prince"! And so on and so on - until the horrid Year of Our Lord 1991.

1991 is known in East Timor as The Year Of The Great Disappointment.

The music we called rock and/or roll died that year. A bunch of unwashed heathens from somewhere called "Seattle" released a long-playing phonograph record entitled "Nevermind". We wish everyone had taken that advice and ignored it, but alas. No such luck.

Rock and/or roll music changed from being optimistic and centering around having a party, meeting members of (usually) the opposite sex, and generally enjoying life. Our beloved rock and/or roll music was now about loneliness, negativity, poor hygene, and generally not enjoying life.

It made us wish the Indonesians would come back and kill us all.

Perhaps had we listened instead to Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record, we could avoided some Disappointment. To be sure, Miss Jackson still adhered to the concepts of sex, drugs and rock and/or roll. Sadly, Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record was left on the ash heap of The Year Of The Great Disappointment.

So really, we have no answer to your query re: East Timorean press coverage of said long-playing phonograph record. We apologize for the length of our reply, but what did you expect?

If you wanted brevity, you should have asked a West Timorean.

Respectfully submitted in the spirit of love, happiness and rock and/or roll,

Your friends in East Timor"

[Edited 3/26/19 11:49am]

ItsLetoyaBaby said:

RodeoSchro said:

I reached out to both investigative newspaper Tempo Semanal and the Timor Post for comment. They issued a joint statement, which is found below:

"Our dearest RodeoSchro:

Thank you for your recent inquiry into the East Timorean press's coverage of La Toya Jackson and her long-playing phonograph record "No Relations". By the way, we are surprised by your misspelling of her first name. It is not spelled "Letoya". Our initial reaction was that you may not be the La Toya Jackson fan you'd like us to believe you are. No matter, you asked about her long-playing phonographic record and we shall address that now.

In order to familiarize ourselves with this particular long-playing phonograph record, we went to the YouTube and searched for the long-playing phonographic record's first song "Sexbox". Nine other results appeared before Miss Jackson's artistic endeavor. These results included a show where people have sex in a box, as well as a vignette that revolved around a sexual apparatus found in a baby's nursery. Quite disturbing and if the East Timorean government is monitoring our web searches, this may be the last transmission you receive from us.

If so, please tell our families we loved them.

Back to the point at hand. While we're certain Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record was released, we here in East Timor never heard it at the time. You see, in 1991 we were still under Indonesian rule and it was not until 1999 that we obtained self-rule. As one might imagine, we had a lot of music to catch up on and sadly, Miss Jackson's "No Relations" was far down the list. As we recall, it came after "Barney the Dinosaur's Greatest Hits" but before Bjork's entire catalogue.

Since you are a student of East Timor, you must know that until 1975 we were under the blissful but strict control of the Portuguese. They allowed little musical influence in our daily lives. But on 28 November of the Year of Our Lord 1975, our Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor declared a break from Portugal, and we were free. For nine glorious days, we listened to the latest be-bop long-playing phonograph records and rejoiced.

No one will ever forget that at 5 PM on the ninth day of our freedom, we were invaded by Indonesian forces. Our nation had just finished collectively listening to Mr. Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" long-playing phonograph record - a true and instant classic. The next long-playing phonograph record in the queue was Queen's "A Night at the Opera". Just as Mr. Freddie Mercury sang "Galileo Galileo!" all power was cut, and that was the last thing we heard from a long-playing phonograph record until our 1999 separation from Indonesia.

Imagine our surprise - and disappointment - as we dedicated the Years Of Our Lord 1999 - 2006 to working our way through the years of lost music. 1975 was glorious! 1976 was stupendous! 1977 was disco! 1978 introduced a young mono-named gentleman called "Prince"! And so on and so on - until the horrid Year of Our Lord 1991.

1991 is known in East Timor as The Year Of The Great Disappointment.

The music we called rock and/or roll died that year. A bunch of unwashed heathens from somewhere called "Seattle" released a long-playing phonograph record entitled "Nevermind". We wish everyone had taken that advice and ignored it, but alas. No such luck.

Rock and/or roll music changed from being optimistic and centering around having a party, meeting members of (usually) the opposite sex, and generally enjoying life. Our beloved rock and/or roll music was now about loneliness, negativity, poor hygene, and generally not enjoying life.

It made us wish the Indonesians would come back and kill us all.

Perhaps had we listened instead to Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record, we could avoided some Disappointment. To be sure, Miss Jackson still adhered to the concepts of sex, drugs and rock and/or roll. Sadly, Miss Jackson's long-playing phonograph record was left on the ash heap of The Year Of The Great Disappointment.

So really, we have no answer to your query re: East Timorean press coverage of said long-playing phonograph record. We apologize for the length of our reply, but what did you expect?

If you wanted brevity, you should have asked a West Timorean.

Respectfully submitted in the spirit of love, happiness and rock and/or roll,

Your friends in East Timor"

[Edited 3/26/19 11:49am]

Who is that and what is she saying?

RodeoSchro said:

By the way, we are surprised by your misspelling of her first name. It is not spelled "Letoya".

Maybe that person is talking about LeToya Luckett from Destiny's Child

RodeoSchro said:

ItsLetoyaBaby said:

[Edited 3/26/19 11:49am]

Who is that and what is she saying?

It's Letoya. I have no idea but I agree with her!

ItsLetoyaBaby said:

RodeoSchro said:

Who is that and what is she saying?

It's Letoya. I have no idea but I agree with her!

And I'll bet she's agreeing with the fine journalists from East Timor!

RodeoSchro said:

ItsLetoyaBaby said:

It's Letoya. I have no idea but I agree with her!

And I'll bet she's agreeing with the fine journalists from East Timor!

What cuckoo idea is that? Do you honestly think that is the case? Gee, bring on the cuckooness meter.

I think this gif was taken from Letoya's Reality Show on Oprah Winfrey Network. I believe it was from a scene where Letoya is confronted with her keloids (KEE-LOYDS) and the fact she never addressed them in public, hiding instead of being the face of a cause. It reminded people of how Michael hid his vilaligo instead of campaigning for its survivors, voluntarily being its face and contributing to better vilaligoed people's life. Letoya pretended her keloids never existed and just went on with her life. Yeah, we get you had a pretty tough life with that devilish Jack Gordon but could you just come clean about your keloids?

By the way Rodeo, do I get a medal for The Post Of The Year? Is there anything I'm required to do? Like, I don't know, pose for a photo or something? Because if that is the case I'll find a hole in my schedule somewhere and go take a pic with the moderators of the forum and perhaps with the medal or the ribbon or whatever is it that you want to give me.

jaawwnn said:

Cant tell if joking or not... sign of a good troll, kudos! Good troll medal is also awarded, its in the mail.

What is a "troll"?

RodeoSchro said:

jaawwnn said:

Cant tell if joking or not... sign of a good troll, kudos! Good troll medal is also awarded, its in the mail.

What is a "troll"?

What? Really? ItsLetoyaBaby may or may not be one, I can't tell.

Dancelot said:

without checking all released album lists in detail, my guess it that any year from mid 70s to late 80s could qualify


1988 would kick in just based on Hip Hop albums alone

It takes A Nation Of Millions, By All Means Necessary, Long Live The Kane, Adventures Of Slick Rick, Follow The Leader, He's the DJ I'm the Rapper, Straight Outta Compton, Straight Out The Jungle and so on and so on


1989 and 1990 woud be equally good I guess, Masta Ace, Ice Cube, X-Clan, ATCQ, PE...
btw, Mama Said Knock You Out was in 1990 not 1991

Golden Age of Hip Hop the best fucking time ever to witness in music history

[Edited 3/22/19 5:40am]

Co-sign.

To each his own and yes we all have different tastes but the albums mentioned in the first post (by the OP) are albums that don´t mean anything to me.

But the ones you mentioned shaped my identity ..

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*(except for Diamonds and Pearls, of course. That album still means a lot to me).

[Edited 3/28/19 5:17am]

MickyDolenz said:

I wonder why people on this site always say music made 1970s or after is the best. Why not 1908, 1924, 1957, 1968, etc.? Or even pre-recording industry? How can you claim that the best music is the one you heard all the time?

Let's be serious. Ain't nobody on this site checking for music from 1908 or 1924. My mom is 75

and she's not checking for music back then. The reason people on this site talk about music from the 70's and beyond is because it evolved from the doo wop sound of the 50's and 60's into a bolder sound and the fashion that accompanied it. Also there are probably not many 70 year olds and beyond on this site. People who make these posts are basing it off what they

like and their opinion. Nothing to overthink here.

Aye most definitely, I certainly have fond memories of hair metal, cock rock and perm funk being killed off and standing around with nothing but uncertain futures and cans of hairspray. Plenty of blockbuster Grunge and HR albums mentioned there, as well as others that shaped the scene like 'Loveless', 'Badmotorfinger', 'Tromp le monde' and 'Spiderland', and some significant firsts like 'Gish', 'Temple of the Dog', 'Pretty on the Inside', 'Just for a Day', etc.

Rap had some nice things going with the Christian hip hop on 'Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross...', the innovation of 'The Low End Theory', 'Cypress Hill' and the delightful racism of 'Death Certificate'. The mainstream had 'Woodface', 'Satellites' and 'Rush Street', as well as solid work from bigger fish on 'Shepherd Moons', 'Joyride' and 'L'autre'. I still remember the event of 'Dangerous', waiting eagerly for the worldwide debut of "Black or White" and thinking it sure lived up to the name, simultaneously establishing Wacko as a thoroughly creative artistic force and a crotch-grabbing freak to be avoided, while Chage & Aska had the monster 'Tree' with "Say Yes" being a staple at Asian weddings for the rest of the decade. There were some masterpieces of production too, Trevor Horn's work on 'Seal', 'Take One', 'Praise the Lard' and the KLF taking House in strange new directions with 'The White Room'.

Empress said:

jaawwnn said:

LOL, i've never even heard this Letoya Jackson song and wiki says the album was only released in Colombia, Germany and Holland. But hey, I approve of musical delusions, we all have them.

I couldn't name one Latoya Jackson song. She is practically talentless IMO.

i heard her sing on Geraldo, she wasn't any better or worse than janet but she had no image and her rep was tainted by ratting out her family and posing nude.

IstenSzek said:

ah, the year of "little fluffy clouds", "innuendo" and "ring ring ring (ha ha hey)", "losing my religion",
"unfinished sympathy" and so many other great tunes

I'm not going to argue about 1991 being the best year or not, but I just wanted to add - Cathy Dennis' "Touch Me" to this ^ list Remember that?

What's "little fluffy clouds" btw??

1808 was a proper banger ... can't believe no ones mentioned it yet ...

DaveT said:

1808 was a proper banger ... can't believe no ones mentioned it yet ...

What about 1791? A Requiem for the ages, the greatest Singspiel ever, the swansong of opera seria written in a dozen days, the greatest concerto for a wind instrument, a heavenly piano concerto and motet. All while having to spend the first months of the year writing hackjob dance music to pay the bills and waiting for proper commissions, teaching to boost the income, spending endless hours in rehearsals and tailoring the arias for the Primadonnas. Oh, and sick and weak for months, isolated socially, the debt collector banging on his door, abandoned by a wife who was probably cheating on him, after 3 years of depression and practically stopping writing music because he had no hope of ever being recognized, no audience and no demand for his work. And just when he was about to get success, he dies and is buried in a pauper's grave with no one giving two shits about it (insert 21st revisionist myth: it was the burial law of the time for people who were not nobility, ya know? Which is why other composers got a much better funeral despite the law still existing!!!). You've probably heard of this dude. And perhaps even got bonuses "intelectually-coolness-I'm-so-edgy" points for calling him overrated.

1991 was actually a massive dropoff for me. I have a big spreadsheet with 15,000+ song ratings from which I came up with a formula to rank years. While 1990 started the decade off well for me (my 15th favorite year), 1991 plummeted down to 40th place. It turned out that 1990 was by far the high point of the decade for me, and 1991 was more of a harbinger of what was to come.

It's weird, the 90s were my teenage years so I should have loved them, but I far prefer the 70s, 80s, and 00s.