released “Out of Time,” the group’s best-selling album, which also featured its biggest hit, the mandolin-laced “Losing My Religion.” Having made their major-label debut with “Green” in 1988 - after years of being the kings of college rock - R.E.M. The big rock bang in 1991 began that March when R.E.M. ullstein bild via Getty Images Axl Rose and Slash powered Guns n’ Roses to a double hit with “Use Your Illusion I” and “II.” WireImage By 1992, it’s a done deal, and alternative is the thing for the rest of the decade.” Nirvana led the grunge movement with “Nevermind” in 1991. But alternative rock is kind of mounting its charge. “You were coming off of the metal and hard-rock dominance of the late ’80s, with hair metal sort of being the dominant strain of rock music. The size of the songs were just indestructible,” added Ronen Givony, author of the 2020 book “ Not For You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense.” “All of these things crystallized that had been really bubbling up for a few years.”īillboard deputy editor Andrew Unterberger told The Post that the year was a “crossroads in rock history.” “Every 10 or 15 years, a new generation comes along, and it wants something for itself, and was really ripe in that particular year. While today’s rock seems all but dead in a sea of pop and hip-hop, three decades ago it was the force of youthful rebellion and culture-moving creativity. That year was a perfect storm of metal, alternative rock and grunge that all came together to dominate the music industry. It’s the old people’s music now.” Lyndsey Parker, host of SiriusXM’s “Volume West.” “Unfortunately rock music kind of became known to Gen Z and millennials as their parents’ music. They were still playing a lot of videos, and ‘120 Minutes’ and ‘Headbanger’s Ball’ were getting behind a lot of newer rock bands.” Metalliica bangs heads on the Monsters of Rock tour in 1991. “Obviously, there was something in the water,” said Lyndsey Parker, host of SiriusXM’s “Volume West.” “I think MTV had a lot to do with it. (“Out of Time”) and U2 (“Achtung Baby”) - not to mention the first Lollapalooza 30 summers ago - and there’s no doubt that it was a golden age for the genre. The week before that, Guns N’ Roses dropped not one but two blockbuster LPs: “Use Your Illusion I” and “II.” And in the previous month, two monster rock albums arrived in Pearl Jam’s “Ten” and Metallica’s self-titler, known as “The Black Album,” which turns 30 on Thursday.Īdd to that other seminal 1991 albums by the likes of R.E.M. In 1991, rock was on such a roll that Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” and Soundgarden’s “Badmotorfinger” - now considered classic albums of the era - all came out on the very same day: Sept. RIP Taylor Hawkins: Foo Fighters’ drummer’s life in photos Taylor Hawkins’ heart weighed double that of an average man: report Bobby Rydell, teen idol and ‘Volare’ singer, dead at 79Ĭelebrating legendary rock star Eric Clapton’s 77th birthday in photos
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