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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of 1989 this week. Playing in full: The Cure, Disintegration; Pixies, Doolittle; New Order, Technique; The Stone Roses' debut. Don't get many years like that any more 🎉
It was a good one. Good selection of albums too.
De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising, TWP - Bizarro, Wonder Stuff - Hup, Sugarcubes - here today tomorrow next week, Kitchens of Distinction - Love is Hell. I could go on for a while here.
Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique, FNM - The Real Thing
Nine Inch Nails-Pretty Hate Machine
PWEI-This Is The Day....
Fasith No More-Angel Dust.
Classics!
Good shout on Kitchens of Distinction, also The Mekons with The Mekons Rock ‘n’ Roll and David Byrne with Rei Momo which is an underrated classic.
Now that's What I Call Music 14, 15 and 16!
Hup!!! 30 years ago in Mr Carricks physics lesson I finally talk to a real live girl. She's super cool as she has a sony walkman. "What you listening to" "its my cousins band, they're called The Wonderstuff" "wow your so cool, can I listen?"
My life changed that day...never spoke to the girl again!!!
PWEI-This Is The Day….
Played the whole lot live when I saw them (and Georgia Hunts cousin!) in that london a few months ago.
( Angel Dust : 1992 )
Was still at school... little money to buy albums... Recording tapes off mates or the radio.
Ice T - The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say!
Deep Heat (1)
Didn't have much music back then so all the rest of it that I remember was either preceding or following.
(De La Soul as mentioned up there)
Nenah Cherry - Raw Like Sushi.
Do the Right Thing, better known to contain the first release of Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Best album of 89 wasn’t even an album, but an EP. Utter Oakenfold genius...
That Rosetta vocal at the start still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Sounds like it was recorded yesterday. Sublime!
Yes! +1 for Hallelujah - I didn't know that was Oakenfold, you learn something new every day.
List:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_in_music#Albums_released
From that lot, ignoring albums I missed from bands I otherwise love:
Electric Youth Debbie Gibson
(guilty pleasure, don't judge me!)
Skid Row Skid Row
Sonic Temple The Cult
When the World Knows Your Name Deacon Blue
The Miracle Queen
The Real Thing Faith No More
Trash Alice Cooper
Waking Hours Del Amitri
Now That's What I Call Music 15 Various Artists
Dr. Feelgood Mötley Crüe
Pump Aerosmith
Flying in a Blue Dream Joe Satriani
Slip of the Tongue WhitesnakeOK.... The Real Thing... Not Angel Dust.
An even better offering from 'The More' (as absolutely no one calls them).
What a good year...this was rather special....
Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix
Bob Mould’s Workbook. Outstanding songs and guitar playing.
Fugazi - 13 songs
Bastard Kestrel - Oh Splendid Mushroom
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
NiN - Pretty Hate Machine
Pixies - Dolittle
Spacemen 3 - Playing with fire
Throwing Muses - Hunkpapa
Best drum&bass act of all time 😉
Indie types - check this for an indie-disco setlist. Not the type of nostalgia I'd get involved in, obviously.. but drag me off the dancefloor 😆
https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/1980s/1989
Albums i recall obtaining around that time and enjoying (listening to) an awful lot at the time
Skid Row - Skid Row -
Extreme - Extreme
The Headless Children - W.A.S.P.
Mr. Big - Mr. Big
The Real Thing - Faith No More
Bad English - Bad English
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska - King's X
Trash - Alice Cooper
Alice in Hell - Annihilator
Pump - Aerosmith
Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu - Suicidal Tendencies
Albums I recall obtaining and enjoying subsequently
A New Flame - Simply Red
In Step- Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
The Offspring- The Offspring
Flying in a Blue Dream - Joe Satriani
The only album from that year that really stands out for me is:
The The: Mind Bomb
Although this was pretty good
Motley Crue: Dr Feelgood
Lots of the other releases seem to have been from bands I felt were past their best (such as W.A.S.P. and Black Sabbath.
Milli Vanilli - Girl you know it's true.
I think this was the year that consolidated my love for MOBO. I was 17 so it was a pretty formative time. I was still liking smooth soul as well as trying out edgier rap. I don't think I got on with the Beasties as much as I would later. Still influenced by Andy Peebles and Jeff Young on a friday night (just before everything went Pete Tong 🙂 )
Nenah Cherry – Raw Like Sushi
Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol. One
De La Soul – 3 feet high and rising
Ice T – Freedom of Speech… Just Watch What You Say!
Quincy Jones - Back on the Block (which introduced me to Weather Report and others)
EPMD - Unfinished Business
Prince - Batman Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin – Simple Pleasures
Heavy D and the Boyz – Big Tyme
Standouts obviously are De la Soul, Paul's Boutique and Stone Roses. I probably listened as much to the Nenneh Cherry album and Mind Bomb (the the) which don't quite stand up the same way. That soul to soul one was on everywhere. (This was London pre mortgage, proper job and kids, when I still bought the nme religiously and was more likely to see a band than buy their stuff. We only had a dying random colours telly as out the whole time. Hey ho...)
One I've still got from '89, Urban Dance Squad "Mental Floss for the Globe" - mainly for this track
1989 was an awesome year. I was 1st/2nd year at uni. Stone roses and all the Manchester stuff. Pixies and throwing muses too. Reading festival that year saw new order the pogues gaye bikers on acid.
Album of the year definitely the stone roses. Changed my life that did.
One of my favourite albums of all time, Carter USM - 101 Damnations
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Broadway the hard way - Frank Zappa
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 - Frank Zappa
In Step -Stevie Ray Vaughan
Lots of good releases that year, actually '87-'89 were corkers, for me fuelled by the friday rock show, and random radio 1 hits.
Skid row
motley cure Dr feelgood
black sabbath - headless cross, just loved the production on that one.
FNM - the real thing
FYC - raw and the cooked
Doro pesch...hmmm doro...
de la soul - 3ft high
DM - 101,
Cult - sonic temple
WASP - headless children. still my favourite wasp album.
Cure - disintegration.
Warrant -dirty rotten
Annihlator - alice in hell, still on the playlist!
transvision vamp.
sugarcubes
All about eve - scarlet
808 state.
That's all from the wiki list.
Thought I'd recognise more albums I acquired from '89 from when I was fifteen, all I could see on the wiki list link was Raw Like Sushi (Neneh Cherry) and But Seriously (Phil Collins).
Good choice of year OP and thanks for that link Cougar.
Music,it's blinkin time travel init.
ARRRRRGHHHHH... 101 DAMNATIONS..... AWESOME CHOICE!!
Sorry to shout but I do like a bit of Carter.
Some fine choices!
But seriously, Phil Collins? 😉
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio
Quality OP, OP.
Here's a BBC 6 Music selection from 1989:
Sepultura- Beneath The Remains and Bad Religion- No Control. Mother******.
101 Damnations came out in 1990 btw, the Sheriff Fatman single was 89.
It's been 30 years since The Stone Roses? Wow.
And I'm still waiting for the world to catch up with PWEI's masterpiece the way it did with MBV.
I will offer up....
Good Deeds are like Dirty Rags by Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
Top band and stomping ground of Shirley Manson, of course
No one mentioned Thunder & Consolation yet?
Agree with Stone Roses. Another one from ‘89 still on regular rotation is Tell ‘em we’re surfin’
101 Damnations came out in 1990 btw, the Sheriff Fatman single was 89.
15 Jan 1990 - harsh but fair. I assume the 1990 thread will be along shortly when the North was truly At Its Heights.