Melody Maker Albums of the Year 1989

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Option	Votes
4. The stone roses - The stone roses	12
2. Doolittle - The Pixies	9
1. Disintegration - The Cure	6
7. L'eau rouge - The young gods	6
10. 3 feet high and rising - De la soul	6
12. Technique - New order	4
19. Superfuzz bigmuff - Mudhoney	4
21. Straight outta Compton - NWA	3
23. Playing with fire - Spaceman 3	3
30. Pump - Aerosmith	2
11. The trinity sessions - The cowboys junkies	2
5. Freedom - Neil Young	1
24. Raw like sushi - Neneh Cherry	1
18. I - AR Kane	1
26. Bizarro - The wedding present	1
8. Hats - The blue Nile	1
27. The iceberg/Freedom of speech - Ice-T	0
28. The only ones live - The only ones	0
25. Scarlet and other stories - All about eve	0
29. Manic, Magic, Majestic - Band of holy joy	0
3. The sensual World - Kate Bush	0
22. Hunkpapa - Throwing muses	0
9. Oh mercy - Bob Dylan	0
20. Spike - Elvis Costello	0
6. New York - Lou Reed	0
17. Hup - The wonder stuff	0
15. Automatic - Jesus and Mary chain	0
14. United kingdom - American music club	0
13. Club classics vol. I - Soul II soul	0
16. Hope and despair - Edwin Collins	0

― hard-core Anglophilic ass kisser (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

Doolittle or Freedom, but they left out so many great records from that year.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

Bizarro

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

Raw Like Sushi quite possibly the best album on this boring list, but I'll vote for Young Gods anyway, in hopes that their album is better. (Haven't ever played them back to back.)

No idea who All About Eve are. Or Band Of Holy Joy.

And I love the Only Ones, but a live album by them making a list in 1989 seems like major grasping for straws! Who knows, though, maybe it's great.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

the young gods album gets my vote.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

cuz i know others will vote for the roses album

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, this list looks more boring than I might have expected. I guess Disintegration gets my vote.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

ugh, there's like five of my all-time favorite albums on this list.

― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

The best year of the 1987-91 down period for music. Voted Stone Roses, but Kate Bush, Cure and Elvis Costello also excellent albums. Obviously too "indie" to include Madonna's best ever album in the list.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

Disintegration, really? I know MM was run by a bunch of goths, but wow.

― Nicodle Otago (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

Young Gods, Spacemen 3 or American Music Club. Never liked the Roses, and that was the year I went off The Cure.

Probably Young Gods. Or Spacemen 3. Nah, Young Gods.

― Duke, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

No idea who All About Eve are.

Goth goth goth

― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

de la soul

pretty easy choice for me.

― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

yeah some of these MM lists are kinda boring...

shoulda voted Doolittle but voted Freedom...

― hard-core Anglophilic ass kisser (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

Technique. What is doing so low down the list?

― DavidM, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

nice to see some votes for the young gods

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:23 (seventeen years ago)

Technique.

― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

Kinda challopsy, but the Pixies and Stone Roses albums were like the point at which indie started going sour for me. Hated them so much at the time, cos for the major indie records of the year, they seemed to me to be a such a massive retreat from Isn't Anything & 69 & Daydream Nation and all those other amazing things from the year before. The Young Gods was the one thing that really delivered for me (and Spacemen 3 to a lesser extent), so I gotta go with that. I can remember playing the absolute shit out of that Neil Young record when it came out though, cos that absolutely floored me. And the American Music Club one was great too, so I guess I was a bit inconsistent in applying my whole new-noise fundamentalism.

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

I'll stand by the first three. And even though I voted for Disintegration, anytime someone says "What was going on in the music world in 1989?" Stone Roses is invariably the first thing that pops into my head.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

hurrah for young gods votes

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 30 April 2009 08:21 (seventeen years ago)

No idea who All About Eve are.

Scarlet and Other Stories is good but maybe only back in the day...

― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 April 2009 08:27 (seventeen years ago)

add a vote to Disintegration, even if the Stone Roses debut had a bigger impact for me...

― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 April 2009 08:29 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LWbQazgfUY

― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Thursday, 7 July 2016 09:14 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

One vote for Hats

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 00:25 (four years ago)

not to mention 1 for i

― the adventures of pavlo and schrödis (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 02:28 (four years ago)

One vote for Dylan; the other 11 records on the list I've heard have a few songs apiece that I like.

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 03:38 (four years ago)

At the time, my top 2 would've been "Disintegration" and "Technique". For many years, my allegiance switched to "Doolittle". Now I think I would vote "Disintegration".

― o. nate, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 19:06 (four years ago)

Doolittle and The Sensual World would be my runners-up.

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 19:13 (four years ago)

people voting for Pump need to GTFO.

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 19:47 (four years ago)

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