In 1991, they released the album Big House.[7][8][9] Throndson recalled that Boom Town thought that it could market the band as a Canadian version of Guns N' Roses, and the label did invest in the band. The album was recorded at Prince's Paisley Park Studios, it was produced by the prominent David Bendeth and its cover was designed by Hugh Syme, who did all of the covers for Rush.
Three singles were released from the album: "Dollar In My Pocket (Pretty Things)", "All Nite" and "Baby Doll". "Dollar in My Pocket (Pretty Things)", topped the RPM Canadian Content chart in August 1991,[11] and appeared on RPM's Top Singles chart that month. The song's video was a regular feature on MuchMusic, as were the videos for “Baby Doll” and “All Nite”. In his book Metal on Ice: Tales from Canada's Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes musician Sean Kelly wrote that he considers "Dollar In My Pocket (Pretty Things)" to be "the best Canadian hard rock song of all time.
At the Juno Awards of 1992, Big House received three nominations: recording engineer Randy Staub was nominated as Best Recording Engineer for "Dollar In My Pocket (Pretty Things)", Syme was nominated for Best Album Design and the album itself was nominated as Hard Rock Album of the Year.