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Post by TheThorne on Sept 23, 2023 8:07:11 GMT 1
89 Sting - The Soul CagesHis third solo album and probably the last one I expect to properly like. Some really good singles on this one and apart from 'The Wild Wild Sea; which is too long and boring, it is a pretty solid record. But yeh a lot I like but Sting will never be The Police. The record reached #1 in the UK and #2 in the US. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 23, 2023 7:40:42 GMT 1
90 Dan Reed Network - The Heat
The third album from the US funk rock band and I was already kinda past them at this point. Only ust remembered I saw him live recently, OMG so random. He was supporting FM over here. My mate loves FM so went along. It was actually a great show and Dan Reed was damn good, actually. A lot on this record is excellent as well but it is that thing again, it is far too long. The last four songs can just go. It is generally just pretty mid, it is fine while you listen but it just does not stay with you. It doesn't help that the first track is the best, "Baby Now I". After their last record though, there was a new fanbase waiting for this, hence it reached #15 in the UK. It's fine, just a bit average and too long. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 22, 2023 10:41:24 GMT 1
91 Spin Doctors - Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Stop come back!!! Yes I am as shocked as all of you that this made my top 100. This was the debut album from the American rock band. I did buy "Two Princes" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" 99p 7" singles mind you but I had never heard the album and it actually still stands up. It is a fun record, the songs are actually superb and they can play. Yes they have a terrible image and "Two Princes" was overplayed but I really didn't mind this at all. The record reached #2 in the UK and #3 in the US selling over a million copies. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 22, 2023 10:36:10 GMT 1
92 Kitchens of Distinction - Strange Free World
The second album from the English alternative rock band. This was where I first discovered this band with the track '"Drive That Fast" but honestly I was shocked how much I loved this when I played it a few weeks ago. The reference points were not there for me in 1991 but after being into bands like Interpol and Editors and finally appreciating Joy Division, this record was really up my street. This is a pretty solid post-punk album and I am tempted to go back and listen to their debut now. There is also a bit of shoe gaze influence and early R.E.M so yeh I like it. The record reached #45 in the UK. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 22, 2023 10:29:43 GMT 1
93 Bad English - Backlash
Oh dear. Their second album and the band had split before the record was released. It is not a bad record, it is nowhere close to their debut but it still has John Waite's brilliant vocals even if the whole record feels rushed and overproduced. Still so many songs I really like, especially "Straight to Your Heart" and "Time Stood Still". It is still a good listen. The record reached #72 in the US. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 22, 2023 10:24:57 GMT 1
94 Dire Straits - On Every Street
The sixth and last album from them and yes it probably was the end of the road. It was better than I remembered but it was a tall order, the pressure to follow 'Brothers In Arms' must have been immense and this kinda dribbles out. There is nothing I don't like but nothing that I am raving about either, the only reason this is above some of the previous albums is it has no duffers but the title track is the only song that is close to a highlight. The record was #1 everywhere but the US where it reached #12 which I think is a fairer placing, this is not a number one record. The record sold 3 million worldwide, oddly France being its biggest territory. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 22, 2023 10:17:54 GMT 1
95 Thompson Twins - Queer
Still hanging on, but for me, they had a bit of a renaissance as they embraced 90s dance music. This was their eighth and last album. The two singles were both excellent as remixes but as an album it is still pretty good but it just kinda lacks something. I think if they had gone bigger with the modern dance producers, this could have been a top 75 album at least. 'The Saint' is probably my favourite but 'Flower Girl' was a very pleasant surprise and if it had come out 2 or 3 years ago, this could have been a hit. It only charted in Australia and even then just #193 so that is probably only about 100 copies 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 21:05:57 GMT 1
1 1 Teenage Fanclub - STARSIGN 2 3 Primal Scream - DON’T FIGHT IT FEEL IT 3 7 The Stone Roses - I WANNA BE ADORED 4 2 Smashing Pumpkins - SIVA 5 11 EMF - LIES 6 9 Utah Saints - WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME 7 13 Bryan Adams - CAN'T STOP THIS THING WE STARTED 8 4 Manic Street Preachers - STAY BEAUTIFUL 9 16 Wonderstuff - SLEEP ALONE 10 6 Bad English - STRAIGHT TO YOUR HEART 11 5 Blur - BANG 12 20 Tom Petty - INTO THE GREAT WHITE OPEN 13 18 Electronic - FEEL EVERY BEAT 14 17 Nine Inch Nails - HEAD LIKE A HOLE 15 23 Mock Turtles - STRINGS & FLOWERS 16 8 REM - NEAR WILD HEAVEN 17 26 Guns n Roses - DON’T CRY 18 10 Spiritualized - RUN 19 new Levellers - ONE WAY 20 12 Flowered Up - ITS ON 21 24 Black Crowes - HARD TO HANDLE 22 28 Heart - YOURE THE VOICE 23 14 Martika - LOVE THY WILL BE DONE 24 29 Dan Reed Network - BABY NOW I 25 new Thompson Twins - COME OUTSIDE 26 15 Telescopes - FLYING 27 32 Paris Angels - FADE 28 31 Love & Money - LOOKING FOR ANGELINE 29 new Belinda Carlisle - LIVE YOUR LIFE BE FREE 30 21 Transglobal Underground - TEMPLEHEAD 31 new Voice Of The Beehive - I THINK I LOVE YOU 32 36 Neds Atomic Dustbin - TRUST 33 35 The Cult - WILD HEARTED SON 34 19 Metallica - ENTER SANDMAN 35 new Botany 5 - ONLY ONE IN YOUR LOVE 36 22 The Apples - STAY PEOPLE CHILD 37 25 Paula Abdul - PROMISE OF A NEW DAY 38 40 Bizarre Inc - SUCH A FEELING 39 new Mariah Carey - EMOTIONS 40 27 Oceanic - INSANITY
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 21:02:04 GMT 1
96 Cher - Love Hurts
Yep another veteran and it is her twentieth album and the last of her run of rock records. It is all over the place, I really don't know where to start. I actually think I have been generous placing it this high."Love and Understanding" is by far the best song on the album. I only like "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" with the video with no volume, as I was and still am a huge Winona Ryder fan. So many covers that we didn't ask for but a lot of decent AOR as well but nothing on the same level as her last two records bar 'L&U'. Nothing I really hate but I think Cher did the right thing reinventing herself again after this album. Again it is a UK #1, that is 4 out of 5 in this batch. It made #48 in the US. It has sold over 2 million worldwide. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 20:55:03 GMT 1
97 Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Yes, Oof at these juggernauts, no respite this time. This was Michael Jackson's eighth album and probably the last one, that I actually paid much attention to. It is another mixed bag, launching of course with "Black or White", with some great guitar work from Slash. And I am also a big fan of "Remember the Time". These are all good as well "Jam, "In the Closet", "Give In to Me" and "Who Is It". The rest goes from decent "Dangerous" to "Heal the World" actually "Keep the Faith" is even worse, only the second time I have heard it and I don't want to again. The album was of course #1 everywhere and has sold 32 million worldwide. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 20:47:51 GMT 1
98 Genesis - We Can't Dance
Back to the rock veterans, and it is also a fourteenth album. By 1991 Genesis were so far away from my ballpark that I was playing a different game entirely. But 30 odd years later, I can find quite a lot to enjoy. "I Can't Dance" is complete cringe and maybe their worst song and certainly video ever, ok that is maybe 'Illegal Alien' on the video front...a whole different level of cringe. But they are still better than Phil solo which is the main thing. I really can't find much to say it's good but definitely their worst album so far, that I have listened to. It also went tp #1 in the UK and #3 in the US selling over 10 million worldwide. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 20:41:33 GMT 1
99 The Dylans - The Dylans
From one of the biggest bands ever to a debut album from a band from Sheffield. Early Brit Ppp or post-baggy, it can sit along either but falling between both scenes really. Nothing groundbreaking it is the kind of stuff you would expect and see a lot of soon, think cast, Ocean Colour Scene or The Charlatans and you pretty much have them. Only the single "Godlike" had a bit of an early in the night indie disco appeal. The record did not chart but I do recommend it to any serious Brit Pop fans. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 20:36:46 GMT 1
Ok let's start 1991 proper, and bear in mind I have listened to around 160 albums not all in full but 94% of them. All these albums have done very well to make the top 100, I had to leave a lot of good stuff out. 100 Queen - InnuendoI did say we were going to have some big names in this first batch. This album is a very mixed bag. We have instant Queen stadium rockers like "Headlong", we have A Kind Of Magic style power ballads "The Show Must Go On", we have prog epics "Innuendo" and the plain ridiculous "I'm Going Slightly Mad". And of course the beautiful "These Are the Days of Our Lives". There are some naff album tracks and a couple of good ones. Under the circumstances it is a measure of the talent of Freddie and the band, that it turned out this good overall. I don't love much of it but I don't hate anything really either, ok maybe 'Delilah'. The album was a UK #1 and #30 in the US and has sold nearly 2 million worldwide, although it could be more as its sales are cannibalized by 'Greatest Hits II'. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 13:35:42 GMT 1
A great #1 album, I bought it the first week it came out on CD. I got into them via hearing them on John Peel's Radio 1 evening show in 1989 (Can't Be Sure topped Peel's Festive 50 chart from his listenership - that was the one year I submitted a Top 10 to count towards it). By them I listened more to evening Radio 1 than daytime Radio 1, due to the poor state of the charts compared to the first half of the 1980s. John Peel didn't really fit with my social life, I was nearly always out when it was on. I was listening to Mark Goodier in the evenings mostly. And as I said some weekend shows, although BBC Scotland played some great music as well. Also used to listen to Bryan Burnett at Radio Clyde, his shows were excellent, sad how commercial radio as fallen. But yes daytime Radio 1 not as much now especially as it was only in FM when I was Edinburgh.
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 12:59:55 GMT 1
This brings me to a BBC article last week that said "one in four top 40 songs samples older track", crazy, the lack of originality these days To be fair pick most charts between 1987-1990 and a quarter of the chart actually is old songs or covers.
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 7:51:28 GMT 1
1 7 Life's a Pill - Koyo 2 3 Quarter Life Crisis - Baby Queen 3 4 Paris - Front Bottoms 4 new Modern Girl - Bleachers 5 new Get Back - Pip Blom 6 new Love You More - Dream Wife 7 new Share My Heat - The Joy Formidable 8 new If You Wanna - STONE 9 6 Next Best Exit - floweroflove 10 new Kismet - The Beaches 11 11 War With America - Gretel Hanlyn 12 12 Hopeless - Too Close To Touch, TELLE 13 9 Talking In My Sleep - Chvrches 14 10 respawn. - LATE 90s 15 18 Teeth - Nell Mescal 16 16 Bad Idea - Vistas 17 22 Who Would You Be For Me - Metric 18 17 Summer Still Comes - The Big Moon 19 21 Square One - Calva Louise 20 30 When I Let You Down - Citizen 21 new Losing My Head - Neon Trees 22 new Another Name - Cold War Kids 23 new Sweet & Sour America - Demob Happy 24 23 She's On My Mind - Romy 25 new use me - Charlotte Sands 26 new Born For Loving You - Big Thief 27 25 Arguing With Thermometers - Superlove 28 24 Grand Canyon -Rozwell Kid 29 new Get Up - Jaws 30 26 fool for you - yuronomo
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 21, 2023 7:51:16 GMT 1
1 2 Take Me With You - Neck Deep 2 3 BREATHING UNDERWATER - Hot Milk 3 1 Highlands - Middle Kids 4 9 Usual Places - Ash 5 5 Teenage Sacrifice - Creeper 6 6 Your Side of Town - The Killers 7 10 Proud Of You - Wayside 8 4 Like A God - Ash 9 14 I Want To Be Your Pet - Bombay Bicycle Club 10 7 There's No Place In This World For Me - The Menzingers 11 15 Burn Out The Sun- Filter 12 18 The Hype - Sigrid 13 8 BLOODSTREAM - Hot Milk 14 28 Are You Awake? - Lauren Mayberry 15 26 Hope is a Dangerous Little Thing - The Menzingers 16 31 Shiner In The Dark - Royal Blood 17 32 Little Fires - Gaslight Anthem 18 11 Cut Your Face - The Joy Formidable 19 22 Scapa Flow - Drop Nineteens 20 30 Cry - BOYS LIKE GIRLS 21 27 Jaded - Spiritbox 22 25 Ghostwriter - Speedy Ortiz 23 12 Negative Space - Queens Of The Stone Age 24 13 Parallax Error // Asymmetry - Wayside 25 36 Afterwords - Fatherson 26 38 Street Rat - Blondshell 27 40 S’old - Taking Back Sunday 28 48 Something On My Mind - Purple Disco Machine 29 51 Turn The World On - Bombay Bicycle Club 30 17 Skipping Like A Stone (feat. Beck) - The Chemical Brothers, Beck 31 16 Digital Self - Teenage Wrist 32 52 Strangers - Meet Me @the Altar 33 53 Colourfast - Pendulum 34 41 F:K:H - Shed Seven 35 20 Diving (feat. Holly Humberstone) - Bombay Bicycle Club 36 19 THE OUTSIDE - BOYS LIKE GIRLS 37 21 The Lens - Lonely The Brave 38 59 Salt - Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers 39 60 are we 3ven? - I see Stars 40 61 Wishing Well - Sundara Karma
41 23 I'm Alright - Mammoth WVH 42 45 The Hat - The Joy Formidable 43 62 love is embarrassing - Olivia Rodrigo 44 new Fake As Hell (with Avril Lavigne) - All Time Low 45 63 Burden - Drift 46 24 Barbaric - Blur 47 new Stay For Something - CMAT 48 49 Crashed Out Wasted - Ash 49 68 Nothing Works - Declan Mckenna 50 new Stuck In a Car With You - Twin Atlantic 51 57 I Got Heaven - Mannequin Pussy 52 new As Good As It Gets - FIZZ 53 new Would You Come To My Funeral - Crawlers 54 new Oslo - Ash 55 new Birthday Party - Don Broco 56 46 Little Miss Sunshine - SWMRS 57 29 Invisible Hand-✝✝✝ (Crosses) 58 42 Burn The Way - Another Sky 59 new Thrall - cursetheknife 60 33 Liar Liar (Feat. Bastille) - Dylan. Bastille 61 34 The Trench Coat Museum - Yard Act 62 new Angel - NewDad 63 new The Better Me - Beartooth 64 35 Just Pretend - Bad Omens 65 37 History Books (feat. Bruce Springsteen) - The Gaslight Anthem 66 new Nudge - Fidlar 67 new Looking At You - Only The Poets 68 new Victim / The Bear - Lonely The Brave 69 39 Call My Name - Franky Wah, Rae Morris 70 new Light As A Feather -✝✝✝ (Crosses) 71 47 Everything Blu - Day Aches 72 new You, Me, Lonely - FIZZ 73 44 Doubt Me - Beartooth 74 43 Run Away With Me - Cold War Kids 75 50 Punk's Dead - SOFT PLAY
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 20, 2023 13:53:55 GMT 1
A bunch of acts just miss out in 1991, many of which have done very well in past years
Mudhoney, Runrig, Slow Bongo Floyd, River City People, The Cult, FM, Lita Ford, Hue and Cry, The Popguns, 38 Special, Van Halen, Gary Clail / On-U Sound System, American Music Club, The Smithereens, The Tragically Hip and Botany 5. These ae all 3.5 albums
110 The Psychedelic Furs - World Outside 109 Hole - Pretty on the Inside 108 Slint - Spiderland 107 Band of Susans - The Word and the Flesh 106 Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia 105 Energy Orchard - Stop the Machine 104 Letters to Cleo - Sister 103 Honeymoon Suite - Monsters Under the Bed 102 The Hollow Men - Cresta 101 Intastella - And the Family of People
We will be back later in the week with the first batch which includes some huge records.
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 20, 2023 13:45:12 GMT 1
Well my number one album of 1990 is also my number one album of the 90s So let's just re-use the text The Sundays -Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
Another debut album and along with The Stone Roses and The Pixies they were the band that got me into indie music. The Sundays sounded like indie music that had been around before but I just found it more accessible. Although I could appreciate the sound of The Cocteau Twins, I could not relate to them. Also Harriet seemed about the same age as me and she was cute, that helped. The beautiful vocals and the shimmering guitars on this record, will always be the watermark that indie is has to match for me. It is quite a melancholic album though and I only play it when I am feeling particularly emotional or nostalgic. This cassette lived in my walkman and it was one of my select walk home at night albums. I still remember the first time I heard 'Cant Be Sure' and 'Here's Where The Story Ends'. I think it was on Saturday afternoon on Radio 1 with Richard Skinner, can you imagine having a moment like that now, he also introduced me to The Pixies. That whole Smashy & Nicey business was a bit harsh, many of the old guard still had great taste. Anyway the hype was massive and the album went straight in at #4 in the UK and even made the top 40 in the US reaching #39. 1991 coming soon
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 20, 2023 13:41:26 GMT 1
2 Ride - Nowhere
My number six of the 90s. The debut album from the shoegaze rock band from Oxford. I was really not quite ready for it when I bought it. I did tend to make some big leaps of faith based on reviews when I was 17-18. Ride were my first shoegaze band and yes I did hear this music on The Chart Show and the indie club I went to on friday nights but Ride were somehow different. They were a proper rock band at the same time so not that dissimilar to The Stone Roses in that sense rather than just noise, yes I hadn't got into MBV at this point. As for this record it is pure brilliance and is it better than the 4 EPs probably not. But it does take two of their best songs and fan favourite 'Vapour Trail' must be one of the best last tracks on any record. Also the extended album which includes more EP tracks is even better and the one I listened to while compiling this list. The record reached #11 in 1990 in the UK.
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