Good choice Mercury: this was the year I started to work, bought my first CD player and started to buy masses of CDs so definitely a year in which I was into a lot of new music. Have a look into my year chart for recs.
I got my first cd player in 1990. I can remember it because the first cd I ever bought was ...
Indeed a great rec: my wishlist already had his first album the Big Heat with that fantastic song Camouflage but this second one deserves a listen as well!
MercuryTurn your back on the pay-you-back last callProfile St. Louis
thanks for the rec, I placed that high on my queue and I will get to it. Litsened to the first 2 songs and liked it, especially track 1. so yeah I'm jazzed about it...
dihansse wrote:
Good choice Mercury: this was the year I started to work, bought my first CD player and started to buy masses of CDs so definitely a year in which I was into a lot of new music. Have a look into my year chart for recs.
Tilly wrote:
I got my first cd player in 1990. I can remember it because the first cd I ever bought was ...
and thanks dihansse! I am looking forward to it. And yeah there is an almost exact 10 year difference between me and you 2. 10th birthday, late June 1999, got from my sister the album I had been secretly listening to in her collection, the Nine Inch Nails double album "The Fragile".
My parents went a bit more PG or PG 13, with the Creed album "Human Clay", and the Bush album "The Science of Things". Strangely, I think I appreciate that Bush album the most of the 3 today.
As for the first I bought with my own money earned from mowing lawns of my aunts and uncles, in 2000 I went to the store and picked up...
1. Doolittle - Pixies
2. Disintegration - Cure
3. The Stone Roses
4. Paul's Boutique - Beasties
5. Altars of Madness - Morbid Angel
6. Beneath The Remains - Sepultera
7. Wrong - NoMeansNo
8. On Fire - Galaxie 500
9. 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul
10. 101 - Depeche Mode
RYM has a vibrant Metal community unlike the other places I will be qouting. And I am looking forward to delving into this seminal year for Death, Thrash, Industrial and other forms of Metal. I mean about 50% of the top 40 on RYM are some strand of Metal!!! I did not expect that.
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BEA Top 10 of 1989:
1. Doolittle
2. The Stone Roses
3. Disintegration
4. Paul's Boutique
5. On Fire
6. Bleach - Nirvana
7. Pretty Hate Machine - NIN
8. 3 Feet High and Rising
9. Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
10. New York - Lou Reed
as already pointed out, BEA ranks are based off charts and not ratings and charts and number of votes, so the most popular and iconic rock artists get a lot of love here more than RYM, thus the inclusion of Reed, NIN, Petty and NIN on the top 10. Not that those aren't good albums, cuz each one is good, but I don't feel like they are as classic as othr albums they've released in their catalogues.. I don't know. Maybe I'll change my mind. But as of now that RYM top 10 is cool as fudge brownies.
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AcclaimedMusic.com Top 10 of 1989:
1. Doolittle
2. The Stone Roses
3. 3 Feet High and Rising
4. Paul's Boutique
5. Disintegration
6. Like A Prayer - Madonna
7. Technique - New Order
8. New York
9. Pretty Hate Machine
10. Club Classics Vol. 1 - Soul II Soul
and this list is cool cuz it includes a couple albums which are acclaimed and were very very acclaimed at the year of release which time has not given as much credit to, namely Like A Virgin and Soul II Soul's classic debut. I think this site more looks at the reception of the albums at the year of release, maybe, I don't know. I could research it, but I'm not in the mood.
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Pitchfork Top 100 of of the 1980s (only including 1989 inclusions):
11. The Mekons Rock and Roll - The Mekons (#97 of '80s)
10. Soul Discharge - Boredoms (#89 of '80s)
9. Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3 (#88 of '80s)
8. Lincoln - They Might Be Giants (#78 of '80s)
7. Naked City - John Zorn (#47 of '80s... NOTE: This is marked as a 1990 album on both BEA and RYM, so......)
6. The Stone Roses (#39 of '80s)
5. Disintegration (#38 of 80s)
4. 3 Feet High and Rising (#18 of '80s)
3. On Fire (#16 of '80s)
2. Doolittle (#4 of '80s)
1. Paul's Boutique (#3 of '80s)
So, leave it to pitchfork to mention some albums I didn't see coming (The Mekons, The Boredoms, They Might Be Giants, and the 1990 classic Naked City)
But overall we seem to have a consensus regarding this year about 4 albums: Doolittle, Stone Roses, Disintegration, Paul's Boutique) Hell throw 3 Feet High and Rising which is on all 4 lists, and On Fire which is on 3 of 4. So Those are the consensus 5 I'll call 'em.
My Top as of last night when I listened to Disintegration a couple times is:
1. Disintegration
2. Doolittle
3. Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan (OF COURSE I have a hard on for a Dylan album!)
4. Paul's Boutique
5. Complete Discography - Minor Threat (a bit of a "1989" cheat)
6. The Sensual World - Kate Bush (OF COURSE I have a hard on for a Kate Bush album!)
7. Symphony No. 6 (Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven) - Glenn Branca (Fun fact: This is the only one that has ever been on my overall chart! its really cool... and frightening... and loud)
8. Pretty hate Machine (This is where my "favorites turn into albums I think I like because I grew up with them or I ran out of true classics to list)
9. New York
10. Bleach
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Okay, and so there ya go, there is the overview of the year. 1989 per RYM is Metal-heavy in the extreme.
Altars of Madness, Beneath The Remains, Streetcleaner, Coroner's No More Color, Overkill's The Years of Decay, classics from Faith No More, Voivod, Pestilence, King Diamond, Autopsy, Sodom, Savatage, Running Wild, Annihilator, Terrorizer, Kreator, W.A.S.P., etc ---- and the weirdest thing is the Thrash "Big Four" ALL collectively took a break in '89, whereas in 88 Slayer, and Metallica released classics and 1990 Megadeth and Anthrax released classics. I'm not sure but I think this is the only time in the first 15 years that these 4 bands were active that they all failed to release an album. Anyway, there ya go.
I'm gonna finish this Janelle album and then perhaps do some listening to '89. I'm also gonna flush out my 1989 chart, as I have opinions on more than 25 and may have gone too far in trimming the fat. I mean, Streetcleaner and Altars of Madness aren't on there when I know and love those albums, so what gives.
So I gave this a new listen. Listened to it once a couple years ago when puncture placed it at #1 on his chart. I thought it a bore then. I quite like it now.
Its impressive that this trio can build up these engaging, heartfelt, simmering little nuggets without going overboard or ever becoming melodramtic. I see why its considered a classic of '89 and a classic of its genre, Slowcore(?) yeah its cool. The songs are great, the embellishments are solid with one song at least that I heard horns (pretty and catchy at that), and with cool pretty guitar licks thrown in, etc.
Anyway, I liked it. Didn't buowl me over. but yeah its gonna be something I come back to
8.2/10, goes to #10, just behind The Cardiacs' "On Land And In The Sea" and just ahead of The Stones Roses' debut. _________________ -Ryan
Finally giving this a close attentive listen. Have listened to and quite liked their album"Mental Vortex". But this thing is a bit different. Short, in your face, classic thrash metal with a technical inventiveness which a lot of other thrash bands didn't have. The strange breakdown on "D.O.A" with its sudden shift in time and tempo and that bassline bouncing around gloriously is a perfect example of Coroner just doing their own thing within the genre.
And with most of the relative dinosaurs of the genre taking a break in 1989 (Metallica, Slayer, Testament, Megadeth, Anthrax, Bathory, etc - - notable exceptions being solid albums from Exodus, Kreator and Metal Church and of course Overkill that year) the scene was left open for some young guns to come around and assert themselves with their own unique style in this calendar year. So along with this second classic by Coroner, you had the classic debuts by Sepultera and Annihilator.
This, so far, takes the cake for the best album by that next wave of thrash, in terms of musicianship, arrangements and just brillinatly injecting their own sound into Thrash and making it their own.
Plus, "Mistress of Deception" is one of the greatest metal songs ever. Its got that prog-y flavor, and it has the speed and the sudden shifts which can give Rust In Peace-era Megadeth a run for its money.
Okay, and with all that said, I give this a grade of, say, 8.9/10 and place it at #8, just behind Branca's 6th, and just ahead of Streetcleaner by Godflesh.
And yeah just as an aside, If I were to rank thrash bands - and not just the "Big 4" in terms of early popularity, - based off all factors, it would go something like...
1. Slayer
2. Metallica
3. Testament
4. Coroner
5. Overkill
6. Pantera
7. Megadeth
8. Voivod
9. Exodus
10. early Bathory (although a mix of Black with Thrash, still)
and there are a lot of bands that I know I left off unfairly which I just haven't delved into as much such as Sodom, Metal Church, Kreator, etc. _________________ -Ryan
well, this is nice. Connick has a great voice and is quite talented. The whole album is very whimsical, romantic and fun. But do i also feel it was a waste of time slightl? slightly, yes. I mean i could have spent an additional 50 minutes and just watched the movie which is glorious. The soundtrack accentuates the hbumor, warmth and beauty of the film, but it is not a driving factor at all in the greatness of the film.
Its nice pop jazz, with nice big band swing tracks, solo piano grooves, and pretty romantic themes throughout.
Grade: 6.5/10 and its gonna stay there at the tail end of my chart of 1989 until I have a firmer grip on the other albums which I have there already and will relisten to and the new albums which will be added. _________________ -Ryan
ah this album is really solid. a messy, ragged, and passionate lo fi garage rock/punk album which clearly comes straight from the hearts of the members of the band. The drums have a beautiful home-made sound which clatters and thunders along, the guitars are sharp and explosuve, and the melodies and hooks are actually really well written.
The lead singer sings with a confident passionate shout, and the songs which go for heartbreak such as A Miss of You, really work to express the sad pain, mournful as hell, but still ragged and lo fi. This album has balls.
solid 8.4/10 and will have to check out more from the Portland-based garage rockers.
its now number 12, just behind the Cardiacs and just ahead of Galaxie 500.
Now i am listeni ng to Yanka, a russian songwriter who in released 3(!) albums which looked cool. and right now I'm listening to ะัะพะดะฐะฝะพ! and i'm liking it.
I mean its Kate Bush. Its that cover. Its that title. Its everything about the set up for this album which gets me all kinds of revved up. Then you start the album and you hear her virtuosic shouts and moans (oh lordy!) and those whispers (my goodness!) and then I'm hooked and I am making sweet love to this album. Then it ends 45 minutes later and I have a cigarette and wonder where my life went wrong...
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The music, well as the third leg of her 1-2-3 punch of The Dreaming-Hounds of Love-The Sensual World, it works in toning down the strange aspects of Hounds of Love (which itself toned down a lot of the starngeness of The dreaming) and it follows up on exotic sounds, more catchy and less on-first-listen weird sounds and shifts. Its still very progressive pop, with layers and layers of melodic and rhythmic detail, and her vocals are almost as great as at any time in her career. The whole album is just as impressive and energetic and inspiring as much of her earlier career masterpieces. Which by my count made this the 5th masterpiece in 11 years. She was a musical force of nature.
"The Fog" has that familiar sad, atmospheric power which parts of Hounds of Love featured. What an excellent song!
To highlight other classics here, "Heads Were Dancing" is a danc-y sweaty, sexy, grunting mass of fuzzy bass, monstrous beats and just absolutely stunning sound design. Its amazing!
"Deeper Understanding" is perhaps the most cringey moment here, but the lyrical content aside, once you buy in on the song, the song's qualities become evident. The melody is just classic 80s romance. The chorus is epic and soaring and sad and touching.
and of course "This Woman's Work" is stunning, delicate, pure and moving. Its one of the highlights of this album and her career. She really is one of the greatest vocalists of all time.
There are other highlights of course. But yeah.
Overall this isn't as conceptually brilliant as Hounds of Love or as deliriously feverishly risky and crazy as The Dreaming, but if you love prime Kate Bush and love pop which goes in daring directions and keeps you absolutely invested and hooked by all the multitudes of changes and details, then this album does indeed hold up as a classic in her legendary catalog.
9/10 moving this up from 8 to 4 on my 1989 chart just ahead of Minor Threat and Bob Dylan and behind only Paul's Boutique, Doolittle and Disintegration. Nice. _________________ -Ryan
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