Pick one album from the year 1989.

warm, soothing & gorgeous... for me, a very uplifting album!

a genuine breath of fresh air for hip hop taking it into uncharted territory in lyrical and musical experimentation and recontextualization.

1989 Top UK Albums
1 Phil Collins - :But Seriously
2 Simply Red - A New Flame
3 Gloria Estefan - Cuts Both Ways
4 Chris Rea - The Road To Hell
5 Erasure - The Innocents
6 Jason Donovan - Ten Good Reasons
7 Elton John - Sleeping With The Past
8 Tina Turner - Foreign Affair
9 Madonna - Like A Prayer
10 Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw And The Cooked
11 Deacon Blue - When The World Knows Your Name
12 Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol. One
13 Erasure - Wild!
14 Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi Four Seasons
15 Rod Stewart - The Best Of Rod Steward
16 UB40 - Labour Of Love II
17 Kylie Minogue - Enjoy Yourself
18 Queen - The Miracle
19 Eurythmics - We Two Are One
20 Tears For Fears - The Seeds Of Love

(PS albums suxx u r all gay)

My pick: The Cure - _Disintegration_: A lush, intimate exploration of love, melancholy, anger, passion, and regret expressed via crazy metaphor, gorgeous guitar melodies, perfect keyboard swells, driving bass lines and almost perfect songwriting.

I'd probably pick The Stone Roses s/t, just cos I'm a schmindie puff and still love it to bits.

Tom, one album please! :-)
(PS albums suxx u r all gay)
you had that "opinion" back in '89 as well? (btw, with THAT opinion I refer to "albums suxx")

Sounds Magazine:

http://www.rocklist.net/sounds.html

1. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. Lou Reed - New York
4. De La Soul - Three Feet High And Rising
5. Bob Mould - Workbook
6. Grant Hart - Intolerance
7. The Wedding Present - Bizarro
8. The Pursuit Of Happiness - Love Junk
9. Green On Red - Here Come The Snakes
10. New Order - Technique
11. Aerosmith - Pump
12. Buffalo Tom - Buffalo Tom
13. The Perfect Disaster - Up
14. Edwyn Collins - Hope And Despair
15. Nirvana - Bleach
16. Mega City Four - Tranzophobia
17. Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality
18. The Wonder Stuff - Hup
19. Madonna - Like A Prayer
20. Faith No More - The Real Thing
21. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
22. The Cure - Disintegration
23. Screaming Blue Messiahs - Totally Religious
24. The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge
25. Peter Gabriel - Passion
26. Bad Brains - Quickness
27. Elvis Costello - Spike
28. Kate Bush - The Sensual World
29. Inner City - Paradise
30. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Automatic
31. Eat - Sell Me A God
32. Neil Young - Freedom
33. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Mothers Milk
34. Soul II Soul - Club Classics Volume I
35. NWA - Straight Outta Compton
36. Dan Reed Network - Slam
37. American Music Club - United Kingdom
38. King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
39. Throwing Muses - Hunkpapa
40. The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
41. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
42. The Cult - Sonic Temple
43. Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi
44. Fugazi - Margin Walker
45. Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
46. Meat Puppets - Monsters
47. Wolfhounds - Blown Away
48. Fatima Mansions - Against Nature
49. Lush - Scar
50. Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World

MM

http://www.rocklist.net/mmpage.html

Disintegration - The Cure
Doolittle - The Pixies
The sensual World - Kate Bush
The stone roses - The stone roses
Freedom - Neil Young
New York - Lou Reed
L'eau rouge - The young gods
Hats - The blue Nile
Oh mercy - Bob Dylan
3 feet high and rising - De la soul
The trinity sessions - The cowboys junkies
Technique - New order
Club classics vol. I - Soul II soul
United kingdom - American music club
Automatic - Jesus and Mary chain
Hope and despair - Edwin Collins
Hup - The wonder stuff
I - AR Kane
Superfuzz bigmuff - Mudhoney
Spike - Elvis Costello
Straight outa Compton - NWA
Hunkpapa - Throwing muses
Playing with fire - Spaceman 3
Raw like sushi - Neneh Cherry
Scarlet and other stories - All about eve
Bizarro - The wedding present
The iceberg/Freedom of speech - Ice-T
The only ones live - The only ones
Manic, Magic, Majestic - Band of holy joy
Pump - Aerosmith

NME Albums
http://www.rocklist.net/1989.html

3 Feet high & rising - De La Soul
The stone roses - The Stone Roses
New York - Lou Reed
Doolittle - Pixies
Technique - New Order
Yellow Moon - Neville Brothers
Club Classics vol I - Soul II Soul
Hup - The wonder stuff
Maria McKee - Maria McKee
Spike - Elvis Costello
Pauls Boutique - Beastie Boys
Paradise - Inner city
Avalon Sunset - Van Morrison
Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan
Automatic - The Jesus & Mary chain
Raw like Sushi - Neneh Cherry
The sensual world - Kate Bush
Hats - The Blue Nile
Freedom - Neil Young
Straight outta Compton - NWA
Love is hell - Kitchens of distinctions
This is the day..The hour..this is. - Pop will eat itself
Disintegration - The Cure
Mlah - Les Negresses Vertes
Why should I stand up? - The colour-blind James experience
Bizarro - The wedding present
Candleland - Ian McCulloch
Freaky Trigger - Win
Workbook - Bob Mould
The Black Swan - The Triffids
The Cinderella theory - George Clinton
33 45 78 - Stereo MC’s
Hunkpapa - Throwing muses
Moss Side story - Barry Adamson
Megatop Phoenix - Big audio dynamite
Indigo Girls - Same
Steel Wheels - Rolling Stones
Batman - Prince
Tranzophobia - Mega City 4
Don’t stop the night - Momus
The raw and the cooked - Fine young cannibals
Up - The perfect Disaster
Don’t tell a soul - The Replacements
Results - Liza Minnelli
Magnum Cum Louder - The Hoodoo Gurus
Playing with fire - Spacemen 3
Full moon fever - Tom Petty
Def dumb and blond - Deborah Harry
Hope and despair - Edwin Collins
Captain Swing - Michelle Shocked

awesome sprawling multi-textured tripping experience.

the top two kings of lists are:

Piero Scaruffi
http://www.scaruffi.com/music.html

Fast n Bulbous
http://www.fastnbulbous.com/rock.htm

or maybe 'Intolerance', Grant Hart.

toss-up between 3 Feet High..., Technique, and Disintegration.

would probably depend on my mood. i'd say in all three cases, the reasoning would be the same: probably each is the most cohesive, wholly brilliant album put forth in each band's career.

Don't think it was a great year for music. 1984 was, though.

(I am prepared to be outduhed by someone if I have misremembered the release date)

Dastoor, you donut that was 1988 !

Anyway, if it were eligible it would be my pick. So I'm going with Three Feet High and Rising.

Honorable mention to Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine since it hasn't been mentioned at all yet. Come now, who among us didn't spend a whole year in high school listening to nothing but this album?

Normally I don't have a problem with that at all! If we're talking 1989, I ended up hearing Martika's "Toy Soldiers" over the weekend and that was pretty damn beautiful and anthemic (much more so than "Eternal Flame," which I also heard again -- eeg).

(Except I'm not sure I agree about the gooey part. And even if I did, I don't know if I'd tell Will to Power's Bob Rosenberg. He might shoot me.)

I have a feeling you would not be Phil Spectored. Ranted at a bit, I'll grant you.

I call it goo if only because the delivery of the Skynyrd lines are pure Muzak mush. Definitely wins on the dissonance factor, but not on the 'okay, but is this actually interesting enough to listen to again and enjoy?' tip. It definitely was as much the 'original' bootleg as anything the Evolution Control Committee did, though.

The L'trimm is an *excellent* choice but then I gotta go with Soul II Soul and Kylie.Æ’

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Come on.......

but this makes no sense either, beastie boys are ridiculuosly unfashionable right now, certainly more so than in 89

People avoided it like the plague when it came out.... but it seems to be one of those albums that people find it rather ironic to like nowadays.

Personally, I think its their best record. And the sleeve's my favourite album cover ever.

But to say you bought it in 89... and liked it.

Hmm... I find that hard to believe.....

They did get a lot of positive press back then, if I remember rightly.

and neither did That Girl!

and if you were going to pretend xyz, surely youd pretend someting cooler than the beastie boys!

I considered mentioning _Pretty Hate Machine_ but I couldn't remember if it was '89 or '90 and it doesn't beat _Disintegration_.

What do whitebread rhythm-deficient pop-punk hacks have to do with Nietzsche-inspired gun-toting redneck folk-muzak Latin-freestyle weirdos like Will to Power??? This makes no sense at all, Anthony.

Anyway, one point I forgot to make is that Will to Power's immortal ambient-discofication of Frampton and "Free Bird", as great as it is, is hardly the best thing on their debut album....or at least, it's certainly not notably *better (or weirder) than "Searchin'" or "Fading Away" or "Say It's Gonna Rain" or "Zarathustra" or "Anti-Social." (Also, the word from Florida back in those days is that Rosenberg's arsenal of weaponry in his home could've rivaled Ted Nugent's, so I wouldn't be sure that he wouldn't pull a Phil Spector if fully inspired to do so. And come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if Spector was a MUSICAL influence on him, as well.) (And oh yeah, WtoP's SECOND album, *Journey Home, was even *better. Easily in my top ten of the '90s -- a hell of a lot more original than, say, Nirvana's Squirrel Bait/Dinosaur/Die Kreuzen/Husker Du ripoff thing, and Rosenberg had a better sense of rhythm and meolody than Cobain, too. Not to mention, I bet, a far better sense of firearm safety.)

Fine-tuning their stylistic hybridization into a super-focused album full of the kind of energy they had previously reserved for their live shows, this album is a forceful and focused explosion of funk and fun...not to mention it captures such a huge range of emotions and thoughts and feelings. Shit like "Fight The Youth", "Housework", "Pray to the Junky-maker"...all I can say is DAMN!

And if they're no more rhythmically deficient than Chuck faves Everclear, Local H, Queens Of The Stone Age or just about any other '90s-on rock band. Their biggest hit is even based on the drums from Lust For Life.

I and a couple of my buddies bought Paul's Boutique the day it came out. Why wouldn't we? Licensed to Ill was like everybody's favorite record for two years after it came out.

(beastie's suxor in 1989, 2003 and all yrs btwn btw)

(also, i have a pressing of jamie principal's your love on persona recs from 1985)

(I realise the 'or something' takes away from it a little)

As I stated, I worked in a record shop when both Licensed to Ill and Pauls Boutique came out. Licensed sold massively, due mainly to the hype surrounding the band at the time and the controversy that seemed to follow them everywhere (and Daily Mirror headlines calling them filth and stuff).... Paul's Boutique, as I stated earlier, sold NOTHING. It gathered dust on the shelves for months and months - HEAPS of the bloody things, and, despite me playing it loads in the shop, prominent displays and frequent word of mouth - nobody was interested. As soon as it had began, it was over - capital 'O'. Paul's Boutique was a frequenter of bargain bins the length and breadth of the land for the same reason we had in our shop - no-one bought it. I love the album. The UK general public certainly didn't. So Dan Perry, those are the facts - not false.

Michael Wells - far from listening to Alison Moyet in 1989 (did she have anything out then? Of course, you wouldn't know would you, you sarcy twat?), I, too, was listening to the person you mentioned. However, I would seriously check that red hot track you boast about at the end of your post.... as on MY Jamie Principle records, he was never 'Principal'. The rest of your post is indecipherable so I'll refrain from comment.

Smart arse.

i still dont understand why it matters whether or not i bought pauls boutique in 89. i didnt buy kevin ayers records in 1974 either, due to the problematic fact of not being born yet

sadly, the 2 lps i was going to choose for myself for this thread have both turned out to be 1988 (and i didnt buy either of them when they came out either hahahaha!)

Why? Because I could relate, and because they came up with something new.

Three close runners up:
NWA, Straight Outta Compton
Soul II Soul, Keep On Movin'
Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique

wan*cough*.

all well here, thanks.... and yourself? Raging? Something I never ever do - bad for the blood pressure.