Best Albums of 1990

Listed below are the best albums of 1990 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
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1990 year summaryThe best artists of 1990 were Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, Ride, Megadeth, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Jane's Addiction, Fugazi, Public Enemy and The La's.
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"Baker knows how to set a mood, and she does so again here on her fourth album. This disc has all the hallmarks of a great Baker album. There's calm, soothing ballads by the handful, a couple of thumping up-tempo numbers and tremendous singing all through out."  Reply
- TheDude85 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Can't explain it - don't even want to - but this album "Stray" has made it's mark on me for over 30 years and still does to this day. I have it rated no 1 for 1990; no 2 for the 90's and 14 in my overall chart. Strange how an album can impact someone (ie me), yet have minimal impact elsewhere. Th..."  [+]  Reply
- Moondance | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Loved the first album, still do, bought Solitude Standing and then this at release...I felt neither of the latter were as good as the first, got a bit bored and didn't by any more of Suzanne's albums. I hadn't listened to either of those two in a long time, perhaps 20 years, and this starts stron..."  [+]  Reply
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"Good pop/rock album. Best 10 songs average is 83,0/100 and the album can get good 85/100. Best song is "That's freedom" 90/100, followed by "All our sons and daughters" and "The time has come" both 85/100. All other songs in the average region of 75-80/100, except last song "Time and money" poor ..."  [+]  Reply
- Eastwood | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Probably the album they most nailed the things they do best. Creative fun unique listening experience. I think its strength lies in them leaning heavily on the talents of Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell on this record. To me the are the strengths of this ensemble, with Fishman being servicable ..."  [+]  Reply
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"Not bad for a death metal album. The music is good, it moves and it grooves, and it even rocks in places. Still, I can't get beyond the Cookie Monster vocals; hence, the three star rating."  Reply
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"This is my favorite album by these guys. This is when they went full out metal. Still a few traces of punk in the vocals but Rocky is a full metal guitarist. Go N' Breakdown is an instant thrash classic."  Reply
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"I've had a look at this Led Zeppelin Box for a long time, but hesitated to buy, hoping that the original albums would be reissued with interesting and relevant bonus material. Since this hope does not appear to be realistic in the near time, I decided to get it after all. I am in no way disappoin..."  [+]  Reply
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