Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1989 poll

It was so hard for me to not vote for Bleach since I loved that album dearly and saw that tour twice. But Doolittle is something Nirvana only wished they could have written.

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I voted for Madonna.

Nice to see appreciation for The Neville Brothers here; that's a good record. I didn't appreciate De La, Beasties and Jungle Bros. at the time as much as I do now. And while I was kinda over alt rock by 1989, I loved Doolittle then and now.

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever- I had this one on CD, saw him live around that time with Lenny Kravitz as the opener. He was one of the few 'classic rocker' types that seemed to actually get more popular as grunge/altrock etc happened.

I gotta hand it to his PR people and his own persona; also, he seems to get a second Wilburys-inspired wind that carried him through Wildflowers.

And yeah, hard to figure how Cosmic Thing didn't make this list. I just may have voted for it.

Cosmic Thing is not that acclaimed of an album. it's ranked around 300 on Rate YOur Music.

Stone Roses, Beasties, New Order, and Mano Negra are all pretty excellent

Well if Rate Your Music says so

I vote de la soul

Would've voted Cosmic Thing, though

not to say Cosmic Thing is a bad album but i can see it not making the Top 75 from 1989. though Acclaimed Music web site does mention it for that year, just doesn't rank it. was very surprised at the RYM ranking, however.

RYM is just a bunch of dudes that like white male rock music fyi

I mean, I am not surprised that Cosmic Thing is not as highly ranked as some Marillion album or some paisly underground thing.

The 26-50 picks are better than the 1-25

bleach

i played the shit out of my cassette of '3 feet high...' at the time but 'technique' is all time top 10 material for me so voted that.

Wow what a year! Josh Clover was right. Gotta go with Paul's Boutique, but there are maybe ten others that could take the crown. Please, no Disintegration though!

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That looks pretty much how I expected.

No way is Doolittle better than On Fire (neither of which is my #1). I am surprised to see so much love for Pixies, whom I once loved and now like, but I have to say have not aged very well. Surprisingly. No longer sounds as weird and left field as it did. Whereas Paul's Boutique is still incredibly fresh.

Mad love for whoever voted for Jungle Brothers by the way.

wait till Lou finds out where he landed in this poll

biggest shock The Stone Roses only getting one vote?

never really thought of the pixies as sounding weird. Always regarded and loved them for being poppy and catchy as fuck.

i voted de la though.

pump beat bleach... LAME

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you don't like Automatic? man i loved that album at the time.