Best Album of....1990

[jebus]

The 1988 poll is now closed, the winner was the Pixies' Surfer Rosa. The 1989 poll is still open for 4 more days, and here are your options for 1990. Remember when voting other to include what you've actually voted for so it can be counted

[noby]

Mmm, this is a tougher one. Along with about three from the poll I'd add Inspiral Carpets - Life; KLF - Chill out; They Might Be Giants - Flood; Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic; Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining, and of course Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son.

I'm going to have to think about this before voting.

[GuisaSaigon]

Not the best year for albums IMO but i'd go for Primus - Frizzle Fry. I haven't listened to it in a while but it would have been rocking my walkman back in the day!.

[Macy]

(Predictably) Went with the Mondays - an era defining record.

[jebus]

Gonna be more interesting this year for sure. The 1989 poll was always gonna end in a Stone Roses win so was too predictable for me. This year, before grunge broke, and Britpop started up could be the most open poll of the lot

[beautifulrock]

Went with the Mondays, with Janes a very close second.

[shakermaker1982]

gone with the La's.

[Pauro 76]

Went with Jane's Addiction. Really wasnt into music much around that time. But that one stands out for me. Havent heard much of the other albums in that list mind...

[Wolfie]

Had to mull this one over a fair bit as I love the La's album to this day - but I went for the Mondays.

I think Ride's "Nowhere" album and the Pixies "Bosonnova" records deserve a mention also.

[jebus]

I think Ride's "Nowhere" album and the Pixies "Bosonnova" records deserve a mention also.

I was expecting a bigger backlash for excluding the Pixies in this year's poll to be honest :)

[Wolfie]

I was expecting a bigger backlash for excluding the Pixies in this year's poll to be honest :)

Yeah, always liked Bossonova - it proved the band had some versatility and a willingness to alter their established sound. "Ana" is fine tune that you wouldn't immediately equate to the Pixies up to that time.

Out of interest, Select Magazine (remember that?) made it their 1990 album of the year.

The concensus view was less than unequivoal - not everyone was/is mad on it -so you could have been right excluding it for that reason alone, Jebus.

[jebus]

Out of interest, Select Magazine (remember that?) made it their 1990 album of the year.

Ah Select magazine, that and Vox are pillars of my teenage years :)

[Macy]

Ah Select magazine, that and Vox are pillars of my teenage years :)
Select would've been the staple, with Vox depending on who featured. NME, Melody Maker or Sounds?

[gustavo]

I went for Bossnova , even though its only my 3rd favourite by them

[SaucyJack]

under "other" I'd have The House of love's 2nd album,(called The House of love), a gorgeous album.

[jebus]

Select would've been the staple, with Vox depending on who featured. NME, Melody Maker or Sounds?

Melody Maker randomly, Sounds very rarely, and the NME used to be a weekly read around my house up until 1995/1996 when they got too caught up in the Britpop scene and started hyping mediocre bands to high heavens, a policy which they continue to this day I believe. Select and Vox were far superior magazines to the NME even before the NME stuck the Spice Girls (remember that! coke fuelled madness if I ever I saw it!) on the front cover anyway

[Lionel Ritchie]

At the risk of sounding like a bit of a saddo sentimentalist I think I can rank 1990 as the very happiest year of my life so far ...and that despite my revulsion at much of the so called Madchester nonsense that was about.

Album of the Year for me ...I'm going to back Flood by They Might Be Giants which also supplies my single of the year Birdhouse in Your Soul.

Honourable mention to the finest Irish album of the year -'Himself' by Andy White ...a record still very dear to me. Also 'Paradise In The Picturehouse' by The Stunning ... a good chunk of which was recorded here in Limerick in long since gone Xeric studios.

Hell of a year ...an absolute hell of a year ...in a good way.:)

[superfrank]

I'm going to go for AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted by Ice Cube, followed by Kill At Will by Ice Cube simply because they're the only albums from 1990 I have. :o

ATCQ's is supposed to be very good but I've never got around to buying it.

[noby]

Ok, I'm going to get this out of the way:

Other: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son


I just hav a sneak preview of my 1991 albums, and it's not going to get any easier.

[Pauro 76]

Ok, I'm going to get this out of the way:

Other: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son


I just hav a sneak preview of my 1991 albums, and it's not going to get any easier.

Me too and Im dreading it. Same with 94 and 96. All very tough years to choose a favourite.

[monzo]

Went for Pixies' Bossanova.

I listened to The Good Son yesterday for the first time. Great album. I particularly enjoyed the Witness Song near the end, and of course The Weeping Song.

[tetsujin1979]

Tough call, but I went with the Happy Mondays.
On another day I could have picked the La's, or Jane's Addiction, or Sonic Youth

[Terry]

like a lot of others i went for "other" . Cant think of what else was around then but will come up with something after a quick google !

EDIT:

1. Suicidal Tendencies : Lights, camera, revolution

2. Slayer: Seasons in the abyss

3. Megadeth: rust in peace

4. Pantera: cowboys from hell

these would be a personal top 4.

[Dodge]

kudos for including A Tribe called Quest jebus. Hip Hop with soul. Where did it all go wrong?

[jebus]

kudos for including A Tribe called Quest jebus. Hip Hop with soul. Where did it all go wrong?

Snoop Dogg is where it went wrong. Initially it was because he went global, then he brought too much money into hip hop, then he believed he was a 70s pimp, and the whole scene became about money. These polls have shown the declining quality in hip hop if anything else, where are all the NWAs, Public Enemies and Tribes gone?

That ATCQ album is a masterpiece though, I just had to pick Fear of a Black Planet over it as I remember listening to it non-stop for a long period from the age of 10-16, and have gone back to it again in my 20s

[TonyD]

Cake - Trashcan Sinatras. Great debut album (though it's not their best.) Of those listed the only one I could listen to is the La's.

[razor]

Cake - Trashcan Sinatras. Great debut albumWas just about to add this myself, top class album

[TonyD]

Was just about to add this myself, top class album

Ah, someone else with taste. Good Man. Assume you have all their other albums ? If not I can't recommend them highly enough. The last release, "Weightlifting" is stunningly good. Probably the best album I've heard this century. Prospect of a new album later this year too.

[stann]

Very nearly went for Extricate, love that album. But, despite Fear... being the best of the PE albums by a long way, had to go for Tribe Called Quest in the end, it's a beautiful thing.

[razor]

Ah, someone else with taste. Good Man. Assume you have all their other albums ? I do indeed, saw them in Cork a few years back, top class.