The following is a Designated Cheerleader piece by @mbswolf for the Best Album of 1991 tournament. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you follow the link to vote in the tournament. Thanks!
Jesus Jones. A band I was introduced to when I was given a free copy of their debut album Liquidizer (1989) at the Nine Inch Nails show at the original 9:30 Club in Washington DC in 1990. An amazing night spent pressed right against a speaker at the stage edge made even better when the next morning (once most of the ringing in my ears was gone) by throwing this CD into the player and discovering this mix of rock guitars, electronic samples and in some places a bit of a hip-hop sensibility.
Doubt, their sophomore album, is a tight forty-one-minute, 12 song effort that is a mix of music like their debut but with some songs showing more of a Pop edge ("Right Here, Right Now" and "International Bright Young Thing") and others hinting at more Industrial turn that Jesus Jones’ third album Perverse (1993) took.
"Right Here, Right Now" was an inescapable part of 1991 in the US where it reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains Jesus Jones most well-known song, but personally, I am fonder of "International Bright Young Thing" and "Real, Real, Real" as the Pop influenced tracks on the album. Guitar-driven tracks "Two and Two" and "Trust Me" plus the more Industrial "Stripped" and "Nothing to Hold Me" stand out if Pop just is not your thing. Overall, I feel there is enough variety in the genres and tracks that you will find a song or two that will at least pique your interest and hopefully you will even enjoy.
