this list is outstanding, every album in the Top 10 is golden outside that Neil Young album that i do not know.
but this has to be Violator, with Nowhere second? will think about it though.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 11 June 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
even outside the Top 10 Reading, Writing & Arithmetic, Heaven or Las Vegas, Chill Out and even World Clique are great.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 11 June 2015 03:05 (eight years ago) link
Cocteaus over Sundays
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 11 June 2015 03:18 (eight years ago) link
Tough call between Violator and Heaven or Las Vegas. I went with the one that soundtracked more collegiate trysts.
― We'd like to conduct a wobulator test here (Sanpaku), Thursday, 11 June 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
From the global villageIn the ageof communication
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 11 June 2015 04:33 (eight years ago) link
Violator, obviously.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 11 June 2015 08:21 (eight years ago) link
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic is one of the most important albums in my life. So that's easy. Heaven or Las Vevas is coming in close behind.
― Tarkus Aurelius (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 June 2015 10:26 (eight years ago) link
This was the year I first started paying attention to music, but I was really listening to commercial pop radio rather than album-oriented music, so I'm not that familiar with a lot of stuff on here. Voted Heaven or Las Vegas, because it's excellent.
― hongro strulkington (dog latin), Thursday, 11 June 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link
3 420 Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
tried again this the other day on a whim and jesus christ it is unlistenable
― irl friend of the geir (NickB), Thursday, 11 June 2015 10:32 (eight years ago) link
Pod.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:16 (eight years ago) link
Songs for Drella is amazing!
It's either that or Tribe for me...
― niels, Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:33 (eight years ago) link
Naked City
― WilliamC, Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:35 (eight years ago) link
Whoops I missed heaven or las vegas when I first scanned through these, pretend I voted for that.
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 June 2015 11:57 (eight years ago) link
Bunch of great choices. Tough call.
Prefab Sprout over La's and Ride. That PS album still melts me everything I play it.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 11 June 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
OTOH I tried this again today and will probably listen to it nonstop for the rest of the day; "Three Days" through "Classic Girl" is one of my favorite sequences of songs of all time.
Honestly though this poll is impossible
― DJP, Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:17 (eight years ago) link
They are right with this one, Fear of a Black Planet is best.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
Ritual De Lo Habitual has some great stuff on it but, overall, it severely pales in comparison to its predecessor. I'd say roughly the same of Pills 'n' Thrills.
― Tarkus Aurelius (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
The relationship between Nothing's Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual is fascinating to me. Over the years, I've always held that one was their best overall album while the other had their best songs on it, but my designation of which one was which keeps flipping depending on my mood. Right now, I'd agree that Nothing's Shocking hangs together better as an album but there aren't any other songs in the JA catalog that come close to touching "Three Days", "Then She Did", "Of Course" and "Classic Girl" for me.
― DJP, Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
Maybe it's brought up before, but is there a reason why Acclaimed Music so diligently strips out metal and classical in their lists? If you compare this chart with the RYM one for 1990 it's pretty striking.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
What a great year. I could vote for 10 or 15 of those, but it comes down to Fear of a Black Planet or Repeater for me, and I'm going with the latter since I'm afraid no one else will....
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Thursday, 11 June 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
No one's mentioned Mama Said Knock You Out, so I will.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 June 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
Hmm. PE vs. Sinead vs. Neil, for me. Guess I know what I'm gonna spend my weekend listening to.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
Also, a former co-worker has repeatedly insisted over the years that I should listen to the La's album. Should I? I only know the one song that everybody knows.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
I thought the La's album was really disappointing. "There She Goes" is good, and I think there's one other song that's not bad, but most of it is pretty bland and samey.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
Only counting the albums I've heard start to finish, these are all incredible:
1 131 Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet2 366 Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches3 420 Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual4 434 Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got5 437 Depeche Mode - Violator7 530 Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour12 762 A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm14 905 Ride - Nowhere15 1091 LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out16 1125 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas17 1161 Ice Cube - AmeriKKKas Most Wanted21 1286 The KLF - Chill Out22 1333 Deee-Lite - World Clique29 1984 Living Colour - Time's Up
I mean, the weakest album here is the Living Colour album, which is fucking great.
― DJP, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah. Still had to go with Fear of a Black Planet.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
I'm leaning heavily towards Tribe
― DJP, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
Tribe barely over Cube
― Spottie, Friday, 12 June 2015 00:15 (eight years ago) link
No 'Extricate'.
― mr.raffles, Friday, 12 June 2015 04:34 (eight years ago) link
here are the next 10:
31 Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Soundtrack32 Digital Underground - Sex Packets33 Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining34 Brian Eno & John Cale - Wrong Way Up35 Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss36 The Charlatans UK - Some Friendly37 Garth Brooks - No Fences38 Uncle Tupelo - No Depression39 The Fall - Extricate40 Ali Farka Touré - The River
― Bee OK, Friday, 12 June 2015 05:52 (eight years ago) link
I doubt I'd vote for it but I feel like Garth Brooks should be way higher
― Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! (crüt), Friday, 12 June 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
Don't have particularly strong feelings about 31-40 outside of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, which is probably up there with SAWII among the music I've not-necessarily-intentionally listened to the most. It makes for excellent background music, is what I'm saying.
― No Darts Or Chasms In The Classroom (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 June 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
And it really is fantastic, as well. Didn't mean to slight it.
― No Darts Or Chasms In The Classroom (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 June 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
There are better albums on this list but no album meant more to me in 1990 then Nowhere, so it gets my vote.
― the future is now, Friday, 12 June 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Just realized the production on Liz Phair - Whip Smart is indebted to Heaven or Las Vegas
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
Tribe is the worst rap album here. Voted PE over Gang Starr.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 13 June 2015 10:01 (eight years ago) link
Heaven Or Las Vegas and Behavior are both in my top albums of all time. It's like chosing between chocolate or wine.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 13 June 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic is one of the most important albums in my life. So that's easy.
^^^
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 13 June 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Any Happy Mondays love? A beautiful apex of their arc.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Saturday, 13 June 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
right here, played it probably the most out of any other album on this list. i went to this concert as it was called Call the Cops and i can say it changed my life, forever. did not listen to any Goth type of music (what i played before that show) for a few years.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 14 June 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
in regards to the La's, it's a tight 30 or 35 minutes album. it had something like five singles from it iirc and is a very catchy pop album. i also played it a lot at the time but haven't heard the album probably since the 90's.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 14 June 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
Proud to say I know the "Dennis and Lois" of the Happy Mondays track
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Sunday, 14 June 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
I have owned at least half of these at one time or other and I still play the Nick Cave record more than the rest combined so The Good Son gets my vote.
― Steampig, Sunday, 14 June 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
After spending the weekend with my three favourite records on this list, I finally concluded that as much as I dig Black Planet and Ragged Glory, Sinead's was the one I most enjoyed spending some time with again.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 15 June 2015 03:43 (eight years ago) link
is there a story where you can share here?
― Bee OK, Monday, 15 June 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
voted Violator.
when people say that Pills n' Thrills is just singles and filler I point them to "Dennis and Lois", probably the most blissful tune they ever wrote
― frogbs, Monday, 15 June 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
HoLV, just ahead of Pod and Naked City.
― Duane Barry, Monday, 15 June 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
World Clique, then Sinéad and Reed/Cale.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 15 June 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Fear of a Black Planet is an easy choice here. It still sounds like the future of music to me.
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Monday, 15 June 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
Oh god yeah, 'Dennis and Lois' is one of the Happy Mondays' finest moments... not to mention it seems to have been an inspiration for U2's 'Until The End Of The World'.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 15 June 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
Bossanova
― the discreet charm of the georgeoisie (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link