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

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

I remember reading a "classic albums revisited" piece about 'Hats' in Uncut magazine in the early 00's

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.

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)

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

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

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 18
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique 9
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising 8
New Order - Technique 8
The Cure - Disintegration 5
Galaxie 500 - On Fire 5
The Blue Nile - Hats 4
Aerosmith - Pump 3
Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire 3
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever 3
Madonna - Like a Prayer 3
Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol. One/Keep On Movin' 2
Nirvana - Bleach 2
The Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon 2
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy 1
Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature 1
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 1
Neil Young - Freedom 1
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine 1
Fugazi - 13 Songs (Fugazi EP + Margin Walker EP) 1
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time 0
Faith No More - The Real Thing 0
Mano Negra - Puta's Fever 0
808 State - 90 0
Lou Reed - New York 0

xp "Don't Do Me Like That" is from 1979

eh whatever, we had a double cassette with another album on it

looking it up, full moon fever was a solid album! i remember most of it fondly

Wow, I'm one of just TWO people to vote for Bleach! I'm... stunned.

i knew hats wouldn't win

Godflesh – Streetcleaner 0

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

if all of these have been 50 choices I wonder which year had the least "zero" votes?

It's Friday afternoon so I had the time and inclination to collect some data. 80s only:

YEAR - NUMBER OF ZERO VOTES - NUMBER OF VOTES FOR #1 - TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES
1980 - 13 - 28 - 137
1981 - 15 -12 - 115
1982 - 13 - 13 - 129
1983 - 13 - 26 - 125
1984 - 14 - 16 - 121
1985 - 16 - 18 - 131
1986 - 9 -15 - 144
1987 - 9 -20 - 127
1988 - 16 - 20 - 127
1989 - 17 -17 - 128

the 1990 poll will start next week. Mike and I have our 50 (subject to late changes)

I feel very confident in predicting that my favourite record of 1990 will not be among the 50 this time, but I'll happily vote for one of my other three faves.

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