Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1989!!

A strong set, but heavy on the commercial stuff. Voted 3 Ft. High, tho.

This was a surprisingly difficult one to vote for. I had to wrestle with a good five or six options before I opted for the album I voted for. I'll reveal it once the results are in.

i'm a predictable bore, so disintegration.

but ya: this was hard. tomorrow i'd probably vote technique or hats or cosmic thing. what a great year.

is this the first year of CD bloat? I adore Oranges & Lemons but it's lesser tracks weigh it down 30 years later.
Workbook, Doolitle, Paul's Boutique, On Fire, Technique all in the running for me.

i'm a predictable bore, so disintegration.

but ya: this was hard. tomorrow i'd probably vote technique or hats or cosmic thing. what a great year.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin),

You've mentioned the four albums that were the big contenders for me. I went with Hats.

Can't say I worship any of these albums tbh. I've listened to Doolittle the most, so I might go with that (but I prefer Surfer Rosa).

I could have written that sentence myself.

The Poppies are on patrol...

It's weird how Paul's Boutique seemed like a lesser, too late cousin of 3 Feet High and Rising when it came out, but gradually eclipsed it, as did De La Soul is Dead. Summer of 1989, 3 Feet was the most charming thing I'd ever heard in my life.

From New York to Los Angeles
One of the fastest trains

On Fire
Playing with Fire
L'Eau Rouge
Streetcleaner
Haus der Lüge
Disintegration

Are all classics.

Probably will vote On Fire

https://youtu.be/1Swb2_1kHNA

great year and great list, but the answer is hats

great year and great list, but the answer is hats

Not going to let Renegade Soundwave get blanked here. Great little group!

Still find Bob Mould's first solo outing a thrill.

Sorry but gonna have to sit this one out...I think this is the worst year of the 80’s...

WUT

At the time it would have been De La Soul or the Stone Roses. Thirty years later, it’s Hats.

Fucking dire choices
Stone Roses over Oranges and Lemons

I could conceivably have chosen PWEI or Neneh Cherry at the time. I think I'll opt for De la Soul, though it again feels like I've known and enjoyed a dozen+ of these for virtually my whole life.

voted surfer rosa for 1988, voting doolittle here. Pixies were one of the best things ever for a while there.

Beastie Boys – Pauls Boutique
De La Soul – Three Feet High and Rising
Faith No More – The Real Thing
Godflesh – Streetcleaner
New Order – Technique
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
Pixies – Doolittle
PWEI – This is the Day….This Is The Hour….This Is This!
Renegade Soundwave - Soundclash
Soul II Soul – Club Classics
The B-52’s – Cosmic Thing
The Cure – Disintegration
The Stone Roses – s/t

All of these albums range from "very good" to "incredible"

went with de la

Went for Bob Mould's 'Workbook' - it was my first foray into CDs after years of buying vinyl.

So many good albums this year as has already been pointed out. Side B of The Real Thing is one of my favorite sides of music ever though, so went with that.

nothing is better than Paul's Boutique

that is what I'm voting for

I've heard parts of the massive box set "Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88" released in 1989 and it is incredible I think, never owned a physical copy

technique vs hats is impossible

The Cecil set in box form sold out quickly, and is ludicrously expensive today if you can find it. However, all the discs on it were issued individually. There's nary a dud among them, with the possible exception of the trio with Evan Parker and Tristan Honsinger. And one of the discs -- the 2CD orchestra work Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) -- was called "the best thing Cecil's ever done" by Bill Dixon (who should know).

I haven't heard Alms/Tiergarten (Spree), I will look for it

i've been too busy to keep following these threads but has nobody really mentioned "no one can do it better" by the d.o.c.???

Oh yeah that album kicks ass. Also love The Cactus Album by 3rd Bass

I haven't heard that in 30 years, remember liking it

Sorry but gonna have to sit this one out...I think this is the worst year of the 80’s...

See, I can't figure this out because I really, really struggled to find more than one album I wanted to vote for in the 1988 list, but really had to think hard about what I wanted to vote for in THIS list. There were easily six albums in contention for my vote here and it took me a really long time to figure out which one I wanted to opt for.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Disintegration

When I was young, would've been 'Disentigration' hands-down. But since I first heard it in my 20s, 'Hats' supplanted it as the album that defines '89 for me. Though '3 Ft High...' held sway for a while, too.

Inner City – Paradise (US: Big Fun)

love that this was included, hope it gets votes

btw, I have these threads to thank for checking out a lot of old favourites (and even finding a few new ones), much
more than I normally would, and I’m enjoying it. So thank you, compilers and contributors.

in 89 I definitely would have picked “A Mind is a Terrible Thing...”, just a hair over Pretty Hate Machine, The Real Thing, Paul’s Boutique, and Doolittle.

Doolittle has aged the best and I still listen to it all the time, so I picked that one. I can’t wait to listen to all of these and 90% of the suggestions by posters on this thread. To me, I’m sure partially it’s the age I was at the time, but ‘88-‘92 were some magical years for music.

Mekons Rock n Roll is my fave from that year. Of the ones listed, I’ll vote for Freedom, the start of a nice run for Neil Young.

How/When exactly did Hats get this status of Totally Perfect Canonical Rock Classic That Stands the Test of Time? I don’t recall seeing it on these best-of lists until very recently.

Boredoms for me. I didn’t hear it until ‘93 but it still sounded like the future.

Mr Snrub, when the tastemakers started to get into their thirties?

I had never heard of Hats until a couple years ago, on this site, and have never seen anything about it anywhere else. never heard a note either.

same

young people like sophistipop.

seen it mentioned in a few places recently (quietus, pitchfork, etc.), but i imagine it's because of relentless championing from people on boards like this one

For data lovers: years ranked by the % of zero vote albums:

1. 1989 (34%)
2. 1985, 1988
4. 1981
5. 1984
6. 1980, 1982, 1983
9. 1986, 1987 (18%)

years ranked by the % of votes that went to the winner:
1. 1983 (22%)
2. 1980
3. 1987
4. 1988
5. 1985
6. 1989
7. 1984
8. 1981
9. 1986
10. 1982 (10%)

There is no correlation, either positive or negative between the two measures (p=.95)

what is your fave 1990 record?

this one i reckon

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/Please_Hammer_Don%27t_Hurt_%27Em.jpg/220px-Please_Hammer_Don%27t_Hurt_%27Em.jpg

going to futilely militate for the legendary pink dots

Might actually just start the poll today but end it the middle of the week after if its ok with mike

thats fine by me

you got a list of the just bubbling under albums that missed out? I forgot to take a note.

add LJ's suggestion to it

i dont. im at work lol

oh well you can post it later

Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1990!! by pfunkboy & Michael B

My fave was Freedy Johnston’s The Trouble Tree. Quite OK to have missed it out. Sinéad on the other hand...

shakey come on man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jggxmc9yMwA