The Best Albums Of 1990

Top 50

1. Extricate - THE FALL
2. Goo - SONIC YOUTH
3. Fear of a black planet - PUBLIC ENEMY
4. Cleopatra grip - THE HEART THROBS
5. Pills and thrills and bellyaches - HAPPY MONDAYS
6. Swagger - THE BLUE AEROPLANES
7. Submarine bells - THE CHILLS
8. Sack full of silver - THIN WHITE ROPE
9. Soundclash - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
10. Bossanova - THE PIXIES
11. Repeater - FUGAZI
12. Social Distortion - SOCIAL DISTORTION
13. Ritual de lo habitual - JANE'S ADDICTION
14. Laughing down the limehouse - ANASTASIA SCREAMED
15. A catholic education - TEENAGE FANCLUB
16. Gold mother - JAMES
17. Birdbrain - BUFFALO TOM
18. Beet - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
19. Nowhere - RIDE
20. 101 damnations - CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE
21. Amerikkka's most wanted - ICE CUBE
22. Pod - THE BREEDERS
23. She hangs brightly - MAZZY STAR
24. Pastoral, hide 'n' seek - THE GUN CLUB
25. Chemicrazy - THAT PETROL EMOTION
26. The comforts of madness - PALE SAINTS
27. Life - INSPIRAL CARPETS
28. Third eye - REDD KROSS
29. Spanking machine - BABES IN TOYLAND
30. Claw Hammer - CLAW HAMMER
31. Stuck in Wonderamaland - DRAMARAMA
32. Some friendly - THE CHARLATANS
33. Heaven or Las Vegas - COCTEAU TWINS
34. Pigeonhole - NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS
35. Leggy mambo - CUD
36. Heaven scent - PERFECT DISASTER
37. Done by the forces of nature - JUNGLE BROTHERS
38. People's instinctive travels and the paths of rhythm - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
39. Reading, writing and arithmetic - THE SUNDAYS
40. A gilded eternity - LOOP
41. Reason is 6/7 of treason - X-TAL
42. Under towers - ARSON GARDEN
43. Lovey - THE LEMONHEADS
44. The cactus album - 3RD BASS
45. Metatron - MARK STEWART
46. Every brilliant eye - DIED PRETTY
47. The winding sheet - MARK LANEGAN
48. The good son - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
49. Last scream of the missing neighbors - JELLO BIAFRA WITH D.O.A.
50. Mental floss for the globe - URBAN DANCE SQUAD

Also recommended:

Smell the magic - L7, Down the primrose path - SALEM 66, This is our music - GALAXY 500, Fontana - HOUSE OF LOVE, Love god - SOUP DRAGONS, Immigrants, emigrants and me - POWER OF DREAMS, One thing - SYLVIA JUNCOSA, Joy 1967 - 1990 - ULTRA VIVID SCENE, Blood letting - CONCRETE BLONDE, Danger in the past - ROBERT FORSTER, Kerosene man - STEVE WYNN, The wonder - TOM VERLAINE, Black sheets of rain - BOB MOULD, Privilege - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Psych out - THE SEERS, Paradise discotheque - CRIME AND THE CITY SOLUTION, 90 - 808 STATE, Manscape - WIRE, Flood - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, Swerve / Long stem rant - GIANT SAND, Rag and bone - THE WALKABOUTS, Come down heavy - THEE HYPNOTICS, New funky nation - BOO YAA TRIBE, Vertigo - VERTIGO, Black milk - BEASTS OF BOURBON, Green cat island - RUN WESTY RUN, Any gas faster - BEVIS FROND, Slam - BIG DIPPER, Beyond it all - H.P. ZINGER, Who cares wins - MEGA CITY 4, Positively spooked - BAND OF HOLY JOY, Sage advice - BAND OF BLACKY RANCHETTE, Up in it - THE AFGHAN WHIGS, Head - THE JESUS LIZARD, Superchunk - SUPERCHUNK, Fakebook - YO LA TENGO, In a priest-driven ambulance - THE FLAMING LIPS, Sunburn - BLAKE BABIES, Eye - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Recurring - SPACEMEN 3, Spectrum - SONIC BOOM, Viva dead ponies - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, Fat Axl - SILVERFISH, Consumer revolt - COP SHOOT COP, Twin infinitives - ROYAL TRUX, Historia de la musica rock - PUSSY GALORE, Cold hands - BOSS HOG, Mystical shit - KING MISSILE, Defiance - DEAD MOON, Eucalyptus - PITCHFORK, Strap it on - HELMET, Smoke 'em if you got 'em - THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Roundhouse - TAR, Ben Hur - BITCH MAGNET, No depression - UNCLE TUPELO, Frigid stars - CODEINE, Ichabod and I - THE BOO RADLEYS, Ani Difranco - ANI DIFRANCO, Dear 23 - THE POSIES, Songs for Drella - LOU REED & JOHN CALE, Ragged glory - NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE, Stay sick! - THE CRAMPS, Against the grain - BAD RELIGION, Fly me courageous - DRIVIN 'N’ CRYIN', Glue - THE FLUID, How it looks - How it is - THE LAZY COWGIRLS, Melt - STRAITJACKET FITS, Hey spinner! - ABLE TASMANS, Vehicle - CLEAN, Skywriting - THE FIELD MICE, Other way out - SUN DIAL, Supernatural - STEREO MCs, Let the rhythm hit ‘em - ERIC B & RAKIM, Edutainment - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, Sex packets - DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, Pawns in the game - PROFESSOR GRIFF & THE LAST ASIATIC DISCIPLES, To the east blackwards - X CLAN, One for all - BRAND NUBIAN, Take a look around - MASTA ACE, Killer - RUTHLESS RAP ASSASSINS, Formula one generation - THE POOH STICKS, A cast of aspersions - LOUIS TILLET, Auntie Ramos’ pool hall - SIDEWINDERS, Skelington / Drooliant - JULIAN COPE, Bang up to date - POPINJAYS, Turtle soup - MOCK TURTLES, Wrong way up - ENO & CALE, Eugenie - THE POPGUNS, Vivian’s fountain - VIV ACAULDREN, The La’s - THE LA’S, The last temptation of Reid - LARD, Mule / Revenge fantasies of the impotent - ALICE DONUT, Ghosts of love - GREEN PAJAMAS, Fragile - PORCELAIN BUS, Today wonder - ED KUEPPER, Eat your sons - THE THREE JOHNS, Angel bite - CLAW BOYS CLAW, Blood nirvana - THE LAST DRIVE, Τρύπες στον παράδεισο - ΤΡΥΠΕΣ, Stop draggin' me down - THE MONO MEN, Blood guts & pussy - DWARVES, Feel the darkness - POISON IDEA, Yummy! - THE HARD-ONS, Audio sonic love affair - THE DUBROVNIKS, All shook down - THE REPLACEMENTS, And the horse they rode in on - SOUL ASYLUM, Songs for the sad eyed girl - BIFF BANG POW!, Cult of the basement - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, Violator - DEPECHE MODE, The crushed velvet apocalypse - THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, Naked city - JOHN ZORN, Aion - DEAD CAN DANCE, An Emotional Fish - AN EMOTIONAL FISH, I do not want what I haven't got - SINEAD O'CONNOR, Hell's ditch - THE POGUES, From the secret laboratory - LEE SCRATCH PERRY, 1990 - DANIEL JOHNSTON