The Best Albums Of 1989

Top 50

1. Automatic - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
2. I - A.R. KANE
3. Monsters - MEAT PUPPETS
4. 3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
5. The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
6. Doolittle - PIXIES
7. Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
8. Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
9. Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
10. Hup - THE WONDER STUFF
11. Lick - THE LEMONHEADS
12. Hunkpapa - THROWING MUSES
13. Buzz factory - SCREAMING TREES
14. Bleach - NIRVANA
15. Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM
16. Headache rhetoric - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS
17. Bizzaro - THE WEDDING PRESENT
18. Sittin’ pretty - THE PASTELS
19. Love is hell - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION
20. Don’t stop the night - MOMUS
21. Technique - NEW ORDER
22. Dubrovnik blues - THE DUBROVNIKS
23. Love agenda - BAND OF SUSANS
24. L’eau rouge - THE YOUNG GODS
25. Spike - ELVIS COSTELLO
26. Key lime pie - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
27. Cataract - THE WALKABOUTS
28. Scar - LUSH
29. When in Rome, kill me - CUD
30. Sell me a god - EAT
31. Up - THE PERFECT DISASTER
32. Rock’n’roll - THE MEKONS
33. The whitey album - CICCONE YOUTH
34. The Iceberg / Freedom of speech...just watch what you say - ICE T
35. Talking to God - PORCELAIN BUS
36. Distemper - THE NEW CHRISTS
37. Intolerance - GRANT HART
38. One of our girls (has gone missing) - A.C. MARIAS
39. Oranges and lemons - XTC
40. Black swan - THE TRIFFIDS
41. Blind ear - THE CELIBATE RIFLES
42. Fromohio - FIREHOSE
43. More songs about love and hate - THE GODFATHERS
44. Lincoln - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
45. Tranzophobia - MEGA CITY 4
46. Brain drain - RAMONES
47. This is the day...this is the hour...this is this - POP WILL EAT ITSELF
48. Workbook - BOB MOULD
49. Candleland - IAN McCULLOCH
50. Groove - NICKY SUDDEN & THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Also recommended:

Dum-Dum - THE VASELINES, Margin walker - FUGAZI, Go the hack - COSMIC PSYCHOS, A warning to the curious - I, LUDICROUS, Tell ’em we ’re surfin’ - THE FAMILY CAT, Fade out - LOOP, Playing with fire - SPACEMEN 3, Taste - THE TELESCOPES, Free - CONCRETE BLONDE, Queen Elvis - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS, Boomerang - THE CREATURES, Blind man’s zoo - 10000 MANIACS, Sonic Temple and the court of Babylon - BRIAN RITCHIE, Lately I keep scissors - BARBARA MANNING, The taller you are, the shorter you get - MY DAD IS DEAD, 3 - VIOLENT FEMMES, Pop said - DARLING BUDS, Snowball - FIELD MICE, Meglamania - BIRDHOUSE, The circle - WIPERS, Transportation D. Vices - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Awakening - THE LAST, Chris Cacavas - CHRIS CACAVAS & JUNKYARD LOVE, I pass for human - STONE BY STONE, Beelzebubba - THE DEAD MILKMEN, Primal Scream - PRIMAL SCREAM, The Acid House album - BIFF BANG POW!, It’s beginning to and back again - WIRE, Here today, tomorrow next week - THE SUGARCUBES, Paul's boutique - BEASTIE BOYS, Am I black enough for you? - SCHOOLLY D, Ghetto music: The blueprint of hip hop - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, Unfinished business - EPMD, Friendly as a hand grenade - TACKHEAD, Disintegration - THE CURE, Tweez - SLINT, United Kingdom - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, On fire - GALAXIE 500, In heat - FUZZTONES, Unknown passage - DEAD MOON, Dial M for Motherfucker - PUSSY GALORE, Positraction - LIVE SKULL, Wrong - NOMEANSNO, Thermos - BAILTER SPACE, The law of things - THE BATS, Labyrinth - THE MOFFS, Some disenchanted evening - THE VERLAINES, Hail - STRAITJACKET FITS, The size of food - JPS EXPERIENCE, Lyceum - THE ORCHIDS, The honey tangle - ADULT NET, Earwig - BLAKE BABIES, Black candy - BEAT HAPPENING, President Yo La Tengo - YO LA TENGO, Telepathic surgery - THE FLAMING LIPS, The freed man - SEBADOH, Too much sleep - BONGWATER, Financially dissatisfied, philosophically trying - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Hard volume - ROLLINS BAND, God's balls - TAD, Umber - BITCH MAGNET, Understand? - NAKED RAYGUN, Roadmouth - FLUID, Witch doctor - SIDEWINTERS, Failure - THE POSIES, Against nature - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, We shoot for the moon - SLOVENLY, Rock 'n' roll - THE CYNICS, Ego tripping at the gates of hell - LOUIS TILLETT, Moss side story - BARRY ADAMSON, Hope and despair - EDWYN COLLINS, Floating into the night - JULEE CRUISE, Haus der luge - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, The king and eye - RESIDENTS, The burning world - SWANS, Mother's milk - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, The real thing - FAITH NO MORE, Pretty hate machine - NINE INCH NAILS, The mind is a terrible thing to taste - MINISTRY, No control - BAD RELIGION, Love is a battlefield of wounded hearts - THE HARD-ONS, Mystery road - DRIVIN' N CRYIN', Just because you can't see it... doesn't mean it isn't there... - KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS, Enquire within - THE STEPPES, Scenes from the dreams of angels - OUTSKIRTS OF INFINITY, Headcoats down! - THEE HEADCOATS, Live'r than God - THEE HYPNOTICS, Griller - UT, Tantilla - HOUSE OF FREAKS, Manic, magic, majestic - THE BAND OF HOLY JOY, End of the century party - GARY CLAIL, As nasty as they wanna be - 2 LIVE CREW, No one can do it better - THE D.O.C., Road to the riches - KOOL G RAP & DJ POLO, Grip It! On that other level - GETO BOYS, It's a Big Daddy thing - BIG DADDY KANE, Club classics Vol.1 - SOUL II SOUL, 33 45 78 - STEREO MC’S, Liquidizer - JESUS JONES, What's that noise? - COLDCUT, Mind bomb - THE THE, The enraged will inherit the earth - McCARTHY, This one's for the ladies - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Magnum cum louder - HOODOO GURUS, Don't tell a soul - THE REPLACEMENTS, Cloudland - PERE UBU, New York - LOU REED, Freedom - NEIL YOUNG, Oh mercy - BOB DYLAN, Full moon fever - TOM PETTY, Avalon sunset - VAN MORRISON, Yellow moon - NEVILLE BROTHERS, Indigo Girls - INDIGO GIRLS, Raw like sushi - NENEH CHERRY, Maria McKee - MARIA McKEE, The sensual world - KATE BUSH, Each man kills the thing he loves - GAVIN FRIDAY, Customs - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Εν πλω - ΕΝ ΠΛΩ, Laying down law - THE WRECKERY, Blow - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, Scratch the surface - THE JASMINE MINKS, The singular adventures of the Style Council - THE STYLE COUNCIL, Once round the fair - THE LOFT, Giant Sandwich - GIANT SAND, Seminal live - THE FALL