I could have written that sentence myself.
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
The Poppies are on patrol...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 15 June 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― bendy, Saturday, 15 June 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
From New York to Los AngelesOne of the fastest trains
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 15 June 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
On FirePlaying with FireL'Eau Rouge StreetcleanerHaus der Lüge Disintegration
Are all classics.
― Duke, Saturday, 15 June 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Probably will vote On Fire
https://youtu.be/1Swb2_1kHNA
― Duke, Saturday, 15 June 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
great year and great list, but the answer is hats
― k3vin k., Saturday, 15 June 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Not going to let Renegade Soundwave get blanked here. Great little group!
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 15 June 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
Still find Bob Mould's first solo outing a thrill.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 15 June 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
Sorry but gonna have to sit this one out...I think this is the worst year of the 80’s...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 15 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
WUT
― dorsalstop, Saturday, 15 June 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
At the time it would have been De La Soul or the Stone Roses. Thirty years later, it’s Hats.
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 15 June 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
Fucking dire choices Stone Roses over Oranges and Lemons
― calstars, Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 15 June 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
voted surfer rosa for 1988, voting doolittle here. Pixies were one of the best things ever for a while there.
― silverfish, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
Beastie Boys – Pauls BoutiqueDe La Soul – Three Feet High and RisingFaith No More – The Real ThingGodflesh – StreetcleanerNew Order – TechniqueNine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate MachinePixies – DoolittlePWEI – This is the Day….This Is The Hour….This Is This!Renegade Soundwave - SoundclashSoul II Soul – Club ClassicsThe B-52’s – Cosmic ThingThe Cure – DisintegrationThe Stone Roses – s/t
All of these albums range from "very good" to "incredible"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 17 June 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
went with de la
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Monday, 17 June 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Went for Bob Mould's 'Workbook' - it was my first foray into CDs after years of buying vinyl.
― Grantman, Monday, 17 June 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 17 June 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
nothing is better than Paul's Boutique
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 June 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Monday, 17 June 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
technique vs hats is impossible
― ufo, Monday, 17 June 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
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).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 17 June 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard Alms/Tiergarten (Spree), I will look for it
― Dan S, Monday, 17 June 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
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.???
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah that album kicks ass. Also love The Cactus Album by 3rd Bass
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
I haven't heard that in 30 years, remember liking it
― Dan S, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
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.
― Dee the (Summer-Hating) Lurker (deethelurker), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Disintegration
― the future is now, Thursday, 20 June 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
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.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 20 June 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
Inner City – Paradise (US: Big Fun)love that this was included, hope it gets votes
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 20 June 2019 07:55 (four years ago) link
btw, I have these threads to thank for checking out a lot of old favourites (and even finding a few new ones), muchmore than I normally would, and I’m enjoying it. So thank you, compilers and contributors.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 20 June 2019 08:01 (four years ago) link
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.
― beard papa, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 20 June 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
Boredoms for me. I didn’t hear it until ‘93 but it still sounded like the future.
― o. nate, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Mr Snrub, when the tastemakers started to get into their thirties?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
same
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
young people like sophistipop.
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
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
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
I remember reading a "classic albums revisited" piece about 'Hats' in Uncut magazine in the early 00's
― . (Michael B), Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
I initially preferred 'A Walk Across the Rooftops'(and heard it first, probably just as a post-punk/new-wave album in my early 20s obsession in the early 2000s) and 'Hats' didn't as immediately click. But when it did a few years later, it just perfectly embodied a sound and a feeling I really love and am constantly seeking more of and making mixes from the searching.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 20 June 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
Maybe it's a regional thing. It feels like Hats has been adored in certain circles for a full three decades. Even when it was released I got the impression there was a substantial audience waiting for the long-awaited follow-up to the debut. (I had no firm opinion on the matter. I was a child and it all sounded terribly adult. LOL)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 21 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
aw, didn't vote but could have thrown tom petty something in retrospect. 'i won't back down' and 'don't do me like that' were important songs from my childhood
― imago, Friday, 21 June 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
some seem to forget that i did this seven years back, so to compare to that poll:
Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1989 poll
Pixies - Doolittle 18Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique 9De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising 8New Order - Technique 8The Cure - Disintegration 5Galaxie 500 - On Fire 5The Blue Nile - Hats 4Aerosmith - Pump 3Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire 3Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever 3Madonna - Like a Prayer 3Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol. One/Keep On Movin' 2Nirvana - Bleach 2The Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon 2Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy 1Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature 1The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 1Neil Young - Freedom 1Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 1Fugazi - 13 Songs (Fugazi EP + Margin Walker EP) 1Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time 0Faith No More - The Real Thing 0Mano Negra - Puta's Fever 0808 State - 90 0Lou Reed - New York 0
― Bee OK, Friday, 21 June 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
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
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
i dont. im at work lol
― . (Michael B), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
oh well you can post it later
Best Album on OUR Favourite Albums of......1990!! by pfunkboy & Michael B
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
My fave was Freedy Johnston’s The Trouble Tree. Quite OK to have missed it out. Sinéad on the other hand...
― dorsalstop, Friday, 21 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
shakey come on man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jggxmc9yMwA
― k3vin k., Friday, 21 June 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link