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What was it that made 1991 such a good year for rock music ? Consider this,
Guns and Roses, Metallica and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers would all go onto release albums that would define their career, if not creatively than commercially. Perry Farrell would start Lollapalooza as a show case of alternative music from all the different scenes

Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins would release debut albums that would eventually make make them household names. Nirvana would release an album that would make them a huge household name and catapult the grunge movement into the mainstream.

As result of all these events the age of poodle perms and spandex was finally over. The likes of Warrant and Poison were left wondering whether to leave the make up in the draw and jump on the grunge band wagon.

In short grunge killed glam and for that I am eternally grateful. What went in music followed in fashion as well.
Women started suddenly looking hotter, teased fringes gave way to long straight hippie hair. Mini skirts and spandex were replaced with floral dresses, jeans and baggy black teas. Stillettos were ditched in favour of Docs and sneakers and women started getting into the mosh pit in a big way as result. All these were good things but the scene started becoming bland fast.

Pearl Jam in particular was to blame for that. Not intentionally I might ad. Its just that their sound was so popular that every to bit wannabe band chasing a record deal started too sound like them. And some in the cases the likes of Live, Stone Temple Pilots and the truly awful "Creed", actually managed to make very successful careers out of it.

1991 had started the decade off to a flying start as far as rock music goes, but by the mid nineties it was all unravelling, Kurt Cobain had topped himself and even more tragic then that, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers were still alive. Its as if no one had the courage to tell them "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" was their finest hour and that they should quit while they are at the top of their game.

As the rest of the decade descended into Girl Power, Boy Bands, Celine Dion worship and every other truly awful music fad you could think of (anyone for the macerena ? )

The one thing still remained, that no matter how dark things became, the true believes could cling to the fact that 1991 was a damn good year in rock !