Your favorite albums of 1990

[pcqgod]

Some of my essential play list from the time:

Flaming Lips – In a priest driven ambulance
Robyn Hitchcock – Eye
Sonic Youth – Goo
Redd Kross – Third Eye
Afghan Whigs – Up in it
Bongwater – The Power of Pussy
Soul Asylum – And the Horse they Rode in On
Lemonheads – Lovey
Ween – GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
Public Enemy – Fear of a Black planet
Fastbacks - -Very very powerful motor
Breeders – Pod
Uncle Tupelo – No Depression

[naughty boy]

Extricate
Pills Thrills and Bellyaches
Bossanova

[Matt Wilson]

Of the LPs not named:

Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints
Neil Young - Ragged Glory
Replacements - All Shook Down
The La's
Pixies - Bossanova
Morissey - Bona Drag
Lou Reed/John Cale - Songs for Drella
Posies - Dear 23
Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 3
Sundays - reading, writing, and arithmetic
Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Happy Mondays - Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches
Van Morrison - Enlightenment
Sinead O'Conner - I do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Babes in Toyland - Spanking Machine
Black Crows - Shake Your Moneymaker

EDIT: Well, Coan named a couple, but he doesn't count.

[Goat Boy]

Do you have spreadsheets, Matt?

[Matt Wilson]

Of course, I thought all BCBers knew that. Color coordinated too, as Diamond Dog can well tell you.

[driftin]

Lustmord - Heresy
The KLF - Chill Out
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
John Zorn - Naked City
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Sonic Youth - Goo
Dead Can Dance - Aion

[GoogaMooga]

1990 was the year I switched from vinyl to CD

jj cale - travel-log
david bowie - changesbowie
little feat - representing the mambo
joan jett - the hit list
lou reed & john cale - songs for drella
wilson phillips - s/t
santana - spirits dancing in the flesh
neville brothers - brother's keeper
los lobos - the neighborhood
neil young & crazy horse - ragged glory
derek & the dominos - layla 20th anniversary edition
grateful dead - without a net
traveling wilburys vol.3

[Dayodead]

1. Ride- Nowhere
2. Yo La Tengo- Fakebook
3. Galaxie 500- This is our music
4. Sonic Youth- goo
5. Fugazi- Repeater
6. Kitchens of Distinction- Strange free world
7. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
8. Public Enemy- Fear of a black planet
9. The Breeders- Pod
10. Cows - Effete and Impudent Snobs
11. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
12. Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
13. The Cramps- Stay sick!!
14. Superchunk- Superchunk
15. Ghost- Ghost
16. Pixies- Bossanova
17. Loop- A Gilded Eternity
18. Concrete Blonde- Bloodletting
19. Dwarves - Blood, Guts & Pussy
20. Lustmord- Heresy

[Geezee]

1. Ride- Nowhere
2. Yo La Tengo- Fakebook
3. Galaxie 500- This is our music
4. Sonic Youth- goo
5. Fugazi- Repeater

Jesus, pretentious much?

[Darkness_Fish]

Alice Donut - Mule
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
Front 242 - Tragedy ►For You◄
Phil Ochs - There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968
KMFDM - Naïve: Hell to Go
Lard - The Last Temptation of Reid
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Half Japanese - We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
Current 93 - Looney Runes
Bourbonese Qualk - My Government Is My Soul
Sixth Comm - Morthogenesis
Sleep Chamber - Sirkle Zero
In the Nursery - Sesudient
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Alien Sex Fiend - Curse
Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions

[joels344]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
The Legendary Pink Dots - The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack From Twin Peaks
Depeche Mode - Violator
Tim Buckley - Dream Letter: Live in London 1968
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
John Zorn - Naked City
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Fugazi - Repeater
Lustmørd - Heresy

[toomanyhatz]

The best album of 1990:

[sloopjohnc]

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Sinead O"Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Ice Cube - Amerkkka's Most Wanted
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
The Charlatans - Some Friendly
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Ride - Nowhere
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
World Party - Goodbye Jumbo
Eric B and Rakim

[KeithPratt]

1990, not the 1990s.

[Dayodead]

1. Ride- Nowhere
2. Yo La Tengo- Fakebook
3. Galaxie 500- This is our music
4. Sonic Youth- goo
5. Fugazi- Repeater

Jesus, pretentious much?

Yes...terribly...Also like good music, hence the listing...

[Graham Murakami]

1 Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
2 Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches - Happy Mondays
3 Ritual de lo Habitual

There also a couple I enjoyed, which might not count:
Smile - Ride is just a couple of singles
Wrong Way Up - Eno/Cale but the best song on my CD is only there as an extra track on a remaster

[sloopjohnc]

1990, not the 1990s.

No wonder. Revised.

[pcqgod]

Yes...terribly...Also like good music, hence the listing...

I have known you for years and can confirm that you do actually listen to that rubbish. (Most of which I like, too )

[Charlie O.]

Paul Simon - Rhythm Of The Saints
Fugazi - Repeater
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Ghost Of A Dog
Sonic Youth - Goo
Los Lobos - The Neighborhood
Ultra Vivid Scene - Joy 1967-1990
Neil Young + Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
They Might Be Giants - Flood
The Breeders - Pod
Unrest - Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Neville Brothers - Brother's Keeper
Travelling Wilburys - Vol. 3
Robyn Hitchcock - Eye
KLF - Chill Out
Urban Dance Squad - Mental Floss For The Globe
That Petrol Emotion - Chemicrazy
Betty Boo - Boomania


Looking at that list I'm surprised by how many of them have been played by me within the last six months.

And though I deliberately left off reissues and the like, it would feel wrong not to at least mention Pet Sounds, Dream Letter: Live In London, Missing Links Vol. 2 and the Robert Johnson box in passing.

[Ghost of Harry Smith]

Records I bought in 1990 that I still play lots now:
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
The Chills - Submarine Bells
The Fall - Extricate
Robert Forster - Danger in the Past
Ed Kuepper- Today Wonder
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Straitjacket Fits - Melt
Cocteau Twins- Heaven and Las Vegas
The La’s - The La’s
The Breeders - Pod
Beasts of Bourbon - Black Milk
The Replacements- All Shook Down
My Bloody Valentine - Glider 12”

Records that I loved then that I don’t play much now:
Goo, Ragged Glory, Floating into the Night, Bossanova, Pills Thrills Bellyaches, Songs for Drella, Nowhere, House of Love, The Good Son, Mama Said Knock You Out, Ritual De Lo Habitual, Mental Floss for the Globe, Louis Tillett - A Caste of Aspersions, and Died Pretty’s Every Brilliant Eye.

Records that I didn’t listen to much in 1990 that I really like now:
AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted, Repeater, Violator, Love Positions’ Billiepeebup, KLF Chillout, Sunset Strip’s Move Right In, Pet Shop Boys’ Behaviour, Bloodloss’s The Truth is Marching In, and Grant Hart’s Intolerance (ok ok it came out Dec’89).