50 Great Albums Celebrating Their 20th Anniversary in 2011

1991-2011: We remember the great albums that are turning 20 this year.

Just how good was 1991 for music? Think about this: Nevermind and Blood Sugar Sex Magik came out on the same day. So did Use Your Illusion and No More Tears.

It also was a polarizing year for music fans. Some embraced the apparent end of hair metal and the onslaught of amazing music coming from America's Pacific-Northwest.

For others, 1991 signaled the "death of metal" — although judging by stellar releases from Death, Suffocation, Metallica and Sepultura, it would appear some bands didn't get the memo.

If blues was your thing, you probably just sat back and enjoyed B.B. King's Live at the Apollo, The Fabulous Thunderbirds' Walk that Walk, Talk that Talk and the first posthumous Stevie Ray Vaughan release, The Sky Is Crying.

Whatever your tastes, most will agree that '91 was a tremendous year for music. That's why we've assembled this list of 50 now-classic albums that will be celebrating their 20th anniversaries this year.

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1991-2011: Albums Celebrating Their 20th Anniversary

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  Kyuss
  Wretch
  Originally Released: September 23, 1991

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20 Classic Albums Celebrating Their 20th Anniversary in 2011

Monday • May 9, 2011 11:11:08

It is now 2011. Twenty years have passed since the year 1991. A year before I started playing the guitar and a year full of great and now classic albums that shaped mine and many’s musical tastes. It is kinda of amazing to think back how many amazing albums that were released in that one year. These 20 classic albums released in the year 1991 are just to name a few. All the albums listed below contain many hit songs and many songs that have defined each artist/band as well as a generation of music fans. Don’t believe some of the albums are classic? Look up the track listing on the albums listed that you are not sure of and you will see. Definitely check them all out!

Listed in no particular album they are:

ROXETTE – “Joyride”
LENNY KRAVITZ – “Mama Said”
SKID ROW – “Slave to the Grind”
VAN HALEN – “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge”
ANTHRAX – “Attack of the Killer B’s”
METALLICA – Metallica (“The Black Album”)
SPIN DOCTORS – “Pocket Full of Kryptonite”
PEARL JAM – “Ten”
GUNS N’ ROSES – “Use Your Illusion I”
GUNS N’ ROSES – “Use Your Illusion II”
OZZY OSBOURNE – “No More Tears”
BRYAN ADAMS – “Waking Up the Neighbours”
NIRVANA – “Nevermind”
RED HOT CHILI PEPERS – “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”
SOUNDGARDEN – “Badmotorfinger”
GENESIS - “We Can’t Dance“
U2 – “Actung Baby”
MICHAEL JACKSON – “Dangerous”
R.E.M. – “Out Of Time”
TOM PETTY – “Into The Great Wide Open”