# Favorite Year

A curated list by [Streeb\-Greebling](https://waxlog.com/user/streeb-greebling) on Waxlog, submitted to the **Favorite Year** challenge.

> I've chosen 1991,
> Not necessarily as the year has my favourite albums, but mainly as it has the album Peggy Suicide, the start of Julian Cope's golden period, it summed up Britain in the 1980's. It was also a great year for gigs I was living at the Elephant Castle, and was excellent for getting to gigs, Camden, New Cross and Brixton not far away.

96 releases · last updated 2026-09-05

## Releases

1. **Julian Cope** — Peggy Suicide
2. **The KLF** — The White Room
3. **The Charlottes** — Things Come Apart
4. **The Orb** — The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
5. **U2** — Achtung Baby
6. **Christy Moore** — Smoke & Strong Whiskey
7. **Prince & The New Power Generation** — Diamonds And Pearls
8. **The Lilac Time** — Astronauts
9. **Nirvana** — Nevermind
10. **Bread And Roses** — Mr Fox's Garden
11. **Genesis** — We Can't Dance
12. **Jesus Jones** — Doubt
13. **The Waterboys** — The Best Of The Waterboys '81 \- '90
14. **Belinda Carlisle** — Live Your Life Be Free
15. **Chris Rea** — Auberge
16. **Enya** — Shepherd Moons
17. **Tom Jones** — Carrying A Torch
18. **Pete Wylie & Wah\! The Mongrel** — Infamy\! Or How I Didn't Get Where I Am Today
19. **His Name Is Alive** — Home Is In Your Head
20. **Gary Clail & On\-U Sound System** — The Emotional Hooligan
21. **The Farm** — Spartacus
22. **Therapy?** — Babyteeth
23. **Inspiral Carpets** — The Beast Inside
24. **Levellers 5** — Clatter
25. **Fields Of The Nephilim** — Earth Inferno
26. **The Shamen** — Progeny \(Move Any Mountain \- Progen\)
27. **The Wedding Present** — Seamonsters
28. **Flowered Up** — A Life With Brian
29. **The Southernaires** — Deeds Not Words
30. **Feargal Sharkey** — Songs From The Mardi Gras
31. **Primal Scream** — Screamadelica
32. **Rain Tree Crow** — Rain Tree Crow
33. **Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark** — Sugar Tax
34. **Pixies** — Trompe Le Monde
35. **R.E.M.** — Out Of Time
36. **Chris Isaak** — Wicked Game
37. **Cactus Rain** — In Our Own Time
38. **Billy Bragg** — Don't Try This At Home
39. **The Wendys** — Gobbledygook
40. **Frank Zappa** — You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4
41. **Frank Zappa** — The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
42. **Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine** — 30 Something
43. **Julian Cope** — Head
44. **Julian Cope** — Easty Risin' \(East Easy Rider\)
45. **Pink Floyd** — Tonite Let's All Make Love In London ... Plus
46. **Curve** — Frozen EP
47. **The Wendys** — The Sun's Going To Shine For Me Soon
48. **The Family Cat** — Colour Me Grey
49. **Monty Python** — Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life....
50. **Sun Dial** — Fire Ball
51. **Chapterhouse** — Pearl
52. **Queen** — The Show Must Go On
53. **Queen** — The Show Must Go On
54. **The Sugarcubes** — Hit
55. **Prince & The New Power Generation** — Diamonds & Pearls
56. **James** — Sound
57. **The Soup Dragons** — Electric Blues
58. **Lisa Stansfield** — Change
59. **Pete Wylie & Wah\! The Mongrel** — Don't Lose Your Dreams
60. **Fat Tulips** — The Tulip Explodes\!
61. **U2** — The Fly
62. **Monty Python** — Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life...
63. **Hale And Pace & The Stonkers & Victoria Wood** — The Stonk / The Smile Song
64. **U2** — Mysterious Ways
65. **Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine** — After The Watershed
66. **Julian Cope** — Heed: Of Penetration And The City Dweller
67. **New Fast Automatic Daffodils** — Get Better
68. **Julian Cope** — Easty Risin' \(East Easy Rider\)
69. **The Dylans** — Lemon Afternoon / My Hands Are Tied
70. **Loud** — Song For The Lonely
71. **Gary Clail & On\-U Sound System** — Human Nature
72. **Shaft** — Roobarb & Custard
73. **Sensitize** — Maniac
74. **Vic Reeves** — Abide With Me
75. **Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff** — Dizzy
76. **Van Morrison & The Chieftains** — I Can't Stop Loving You
77. **Malcolm McLaren & Alison Limerick** — Magic's Back \(Theme From 'The Ghosts Of Oxford Street'\)
78. **Poppy Factory** — Stars
79. **INXS** — Shining Star
80. **Erasure** — Chorus
81. **The Dylans** — Lemon Afternoon / My Hands Are Tied
82. **Julian Cope** — Love L.U.V. \(Beautiful Love\)
83. **808 State & Björk** — Ooops
84. **Flowered Up** — Take It
85. **The KLF** — Justified & Ancient
86. **The Apples** — Eye Wonder
87. **Flowered Up** — It's On \- Egg Rush
88. **Senseless Things** — Easy To Smile
89. **Fortran 5** — Groove
90. **Julian Cope** — East Easy Rider
91. **Fat And Frantic** — Brian\!
92. **R.E.M.** — Losing My Religion
93. **Throwing Muses** — Counting Backwards
94. **The Saw Doctors** — That's What She Said Last Night
95. **U2** — The Fly
96. **Siouxsie & The Banshees** — Kiss Them For Me \(Snapper Mix\)

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