1990
by Daniel Johnston
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Daniel Johnston bestography
1990 is ranked 2nd best out of 29 albums by Daniel Johnston on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Daniel Johnston is Hi, How Are You: The Unfinished Album which is ranked number 2049 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 805.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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1990 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/29/2025 03:40 |  Kingturtle | 7,530 | 73/100 |
| ! | 10/04/2025 04:54 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 |
| ! | 10/03/2025 13:48 | cicadelic | 11,742 | 73/100 |
| ! | 10/03/2025 03:07 | stareaterogni0n | 286 | 73/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2025 04:34 | Proto | 3,954 | 33/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.
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I always get really emotional when listening to this
LebowskiRams 03/04/2021 04:32 | #266938
This album reminds me of playing guitar, saxophone and drums in my basement as a kid.
This rawness, this genuineness, this emotion...this is what music is about.
JulianR 08/03/2017 08:20 | #195432
I just dont know. I - ... ya I just dont know. There is no reference point for anything like this. Daniel skipped the music part of music and jumped right to the message and the emotion.
Mattdup279 07/31/2016 15:36 | #172029
Fractured and hard to listen to. I wouldn't have it any other way.
A brilliant, raw tear-jerker of an album by the schizophrenic king of lo-fi music and imo the best Daniel Johnston album
This is so lo-fi it's probably better to call it 'no-fi'. You can hear background noise while DJ crudely plays and even more crudely sings. Strangely, it works somewhat, and isn't as terrible as that combination implies.
meccalecca 04/24/2014 22:01 | #109993
While you were busy painting your masterpiece, a five year old sat down with some crayons and made something far more creative and emotional than your work can ever become.
Has its moments, te album is patchy a mix of well produced and lo-fi songs, worth it for Devil Town and Some Things...
extraordinary lyrics as always, streight from an open wound. Bad Beatles cover
johnner 01/02/2012 22:32 | #34252
The best album from the very prolific 'inventor' of lo-fi, 1990 can make for painful listening - particularly on Careless Soul when Daniel sounds likes he's going into meltdown. Daniel's compositions display a purity and a beauty that outshines all of the studio trickery on hand to his more successfull peers. Seek it out but it might just break your heart.
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