man you might as well just ask me to chose my righticle over my lefticle.

Maybe it should be a top 3 plus include an album you feel is underrated?

i'm actually just kidding around haha i'll pick one over the weekend. way overtired at the moment, plus i'm sure there will be people who'll be "incapable" of simply sticking to a single album.

Wow, it's a random but thoughtful topic. Blood Sugar Sex Magik gets my vote.
and totally get you on the "incapableness" of picking one good album... esp. if you're an alternative junkie. haha cause i'm one too.

If I did a top three:

1. Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Released: September 24, 1991

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2. Sailing the Seas of Cheese by Primus
Released: May 28, 1991

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3. Nevermind by Nirvana
Released: September 24, 1991

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edit: Slanted & Enchanted was 1992 :(

Nevermind.

And my underrated picks include:

1. Goat by The Jesus Lizard
Released: February 21, 1991

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2. No Pocky for Kitty by Superchunk
Released: 1991

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3. My Brain Hurts by Screeching Weasel
Released: 1991

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My favourite is Loveless but these are also excellent.

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I came up with this lot for my favourite albums of 1991.

You may argue amongst yourselves as to if any of them quality as 'alternative'...

Current 93 - As the World Disappears
The Fatima Mansions - Berties Brochures
Birdland - Birdland
The Telescopes - Celeste
The Cult - Ceremony
Poison Idea - Dutch Courage
The Field Mice - For Keeps
Thee Headcoatees - Girlsville
PainKiller - Guts of a Virgin
Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs in E Minor
Heavenly - Heavenly vs. Satan
Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard - Shotgun Wedding
Thee Hypnotics - Soul Glitter & Sin
The Throbs - The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds
Nova Mob - The Last Days of Pompeii
Tumor Circus - Tumor Circus
Motörhead - 1916
REM - Out Of Time
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Nation of Ulysses - 13-Point Program to Destroy America
Blur - Leisure
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious

Definitely an amazing album, and I spent a good portion of 1991 wearing it the **** out.
It reminds me in a way of MJ's Off the Wall in that it's the under-appreciated masterpiece that really served as the foundation of one egomaniac's delusions of grandeur and was subsequently followed by a long string of popular and lauded albums that really could not compare.