NME/Melody Maker/Sounds/Kerrang/Vox/Spin/Rolling Stone/The Face - Best Albums of 1990 (POLL ENDS 11th May)

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As requested by Mark C and taken from those magazines end of year lists.
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/year_idx90s.htm

Hopefully it's a bit more complete than the 1991 and 1992 polls and there's something for everyone in it.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Fear of a black planet - Public enemy	9
Pills 'n' thrills and bellyaches - Happy Mondays	3
Ritual de lo habitual - Janes addiction	3
Chillout - The KLF	3
Reading, writing & arithmetic - The Sundays	3
The cactus album - 3rd Bass	2
Boomania - Betty Boo	2
Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet	2
Heaven or Las vagas - Cocteau twins	2
Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality	2
Loop - A Gilded Eternity	2
Floating - Julee Cruise	2
Alice In Chains - Facelift	1
Love/Hate - Blackout In The Red Room	1
The Chills - Submarine Bells	1
Amerikkka’s most wanted - Ice Cube	1
Lloyd Cole - Same	1
The vegetarians of love - Bob Geldof	1
Violator - Depeche Mode	1
Warrior Soul - Last Decade Dead Century	1
Fugazi - Repeater	1
Ultra-Vivid Scene - Joy 1967-1990	1
L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out	1
Goo - Sonic youth	1
World clique - Deee-lite	1
Music from twin peaks - Angelo Badalmenti	1
Ragged Glory - Neil Young & Crazy Horse	1
The La's - The La's	1
Nowhere - Ride	1
Jordan: The comeback - Prefab sprout	1
Goodbye jumbo - World party	1
Mega City 4 - Who Cares Wins	0
MONIE LOVE Down To Earth	0
Queensrÿche - Empire	0
Iggy Pop - Brick By Brick	0
Judas Priest - Painkiller	0
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss	0
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker	0
BLAZE 25 Years Later	0
Wolfsbane - All Hell's Breaking Loose Down At Little Kathy Wilson's Place	0
Celtic Frost - Vanity/Nemesis	0
DEE-LITE World Clique	0
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection	0
Into Paradise - Under The Water	0
The Poets - The Poets	0
King's X - Faith Hope By King's X	0
Lard - The Last Temptation Of Reid	0
The Shamen - En-tact	0
Dread Zeppelin - Un-led-ed	0
BELOVED Happiness	0
JUNGLE BROTHERS Done By The Force Of Nature	0
3rd Bass - The Cactus Album	0
Thunder - Back Street Symphony	0
King's X - Faith, Hope, Love	0
Loud - D Generation	0
Atom Seed - Get In Line	0
The Almighty - Blood, Fire And Live	0
Quireboys - A Bit Of What You Fancy	0
Mother Love Bone - Apple	0
Prong - Beg To Differ	0
Eric B. & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em	0
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting	0
Primus - Frizzle Fry	0
Living Colour - Time's Up	0
Rosanne Cash - Interiors	0
Burning Tree - Burning Tree	0
Electric Boys - Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride	0
Nelson - After The Rain	0
Megadeth - Rust In Peace	0
Robert Plant - Manic Nirvana	0
TEN CITY State Of Mind	0
Led Zeppelin - Remasters Boxed	0
ROBERT OWENS Rhythm's In Me	0
ZZ Top - Recycler	0
Was (Not Was) - Are You OK?	0
I do not want what I haven't got - Sinead O'Connor	0
Happiness - The beloved	0
Fontana - The house of love	0
101 Damnation’s - Carter USM	0
Graffiti Bridge - Prince	0
Choke - The beautiful south	0
Dream letter - Tim Buckley	0
My brothers keeper - The Neville Brothers	0
March - Michael Penn	0
Who cares wins - Mega city four	0
Gala - Lush	0
Some friendly - The Charlatans	0
Enlightenment - Van Morrison	0
Gold mother - James	0
Behaviour - Pet shop boys	0
People's Instinctive travels etc.. - A tribe called quest	0
Songs for drella - Lou Reed/John Cale	0
Extricate - The fall	0
The good son - Nick Cave	0
Bossanova - Pixies	0
She hangs brightly - Mazzy star	0
Hells ditch - The pogues	0
Life - Inspiral carpets	0
Done by the forces of nature - The Jungle Brothers	0
Are you okay? - Was(not was)	0
Laughing down the limehouse - Anastasia screamed	0
A catholic education - Teenage fanclub	0
Spanking machine - Babes in toyland	0
Swagger - The blue aeroplanes	0
That Petrol Emotion - Chemicrazy	0
The Gun Club - Pastoral Hide And Seek	0
Crime And The City Solution - Paradise Discotheque	0
Soul II Soul - Volume II 1990: A New Decade	0
New Model Army - Impurity	0
Ruthless Rap Assassins - Killer Album	0
Bob Mould - Black Sheets Of Rain	0
Supernatural - Stereo mc's	0
Pod - The breeders	0
Viva dead ponies - Fatima Mansions	0
The comforts of madness - Pale saints	0
Pigeon hole - New FADS	0
Electribal Memories - Electribe 101	0
Killing time - Clint Black	0
World clique - Deee-lite	0
Cleopatra grip - The heart throbs	0
All shook down - The replacements	0
Set the controls .. for the bass - Bass-o-matic	0
Pod - The breeders	0
Van Morrison - Enlightenment	0

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Someone seriously put Dread Zeppelin on a best-of list? I think I was the prime target audience for that one and I was 11 at the time.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Hmm, I didn't realise how blinkered I was back in those days. Still it's a pretty good choice. I'm going to go home and, um, refer to this list at 1s0hunt, I think.

(Teh Sundays ftw btw lol)

― Mark C, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link

It was the Kerrang list that had Dread Zeppelin.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't get the concept here--why a bunch of combined lists? What purpose does it serve to mix albums from Kerrang's list with Rolling Stone's list, etc.? Why not just list every album released that year?

That said, I'm not but a little tempted to vote for Mother Love Bone. Just because it's Mother Love Bone, and no one else has ever been Mother Love Bone.

― sw00ds, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link

I think Violator may win this. But it's hard to say.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link

I didn't include P&J as no doubt that will get it's own poll. If I do separate Kerrang polls people moan it's got nothing they like and it also means rock fans are excluded from general polls. I just wanted to try and be more all-inclusive.

I didn't know where to find out everything released in 1990 and this seemed the best way.

Meh, can't please everyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Damn, a couple of albums got included twice. If you want to vote for those albums please vote for the 1st instance they appear in the poll.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

That's a damn long list.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link

It took ages to do! And then I included stuff twice argh.
Did you manage to pick a winner though?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link

I bet it was Betty Boo

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link

90 seemed markedly more dayglo and, well, better than 91 and 92

― 696, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy you need your own board

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link

I think I voted for The Sundays rather than bother to read the whole thing. I'd have voted for Lush if I'd noticed they were on there earlier.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link

this was the best year for music ever

― akm, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link

It's not really fair to include the Immaculate Collection.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link

No 1990 poll is complete without Jellyfish. But "Jordan....The Comeback" isn't undeserving of a vote at least (when will the Legacy Edition be released? ;) )

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Geir there was a Jellyfish album in the Kerrang 1991 poll but you said you voted for Nirvana as that was the only decent album in there!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Love/Hate, then Celtic Frost. (Let me guess what magazine poll they're from...)

(Actually, The Immaculate Collection is far and away the best album up there, but I discounted it on a technicality.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link

I dunno, though, if I got another copy of that Jungle Brothers album (which I put in my top ten when it came out) maybe I'd regret my vote. (Or maybe I should've gone with LL, on the basis of its three great singles alone. But it's too late now.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Actually chuck Sounds did cover a lot of heavy rock(Kerrang was a Sounds spin off) Warrior Soul and Janes Addiction made the list. And it was actually Sounds who included the Madonna.
Here's the full list ( a lot of it is the same as NME/MM but like I said a few other things that didn't make it)
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/sounds.html#1990

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Maybe I shouldn't have included the Madonna. but TBH I didn't even notice when I was copying and pasting.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link

It was between Fear On A Black Planet and Julee Cruise for me so I voted for the latter 'cos no one else will.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Fear OF A Black Planet ffs.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link

This is where I'm the only guy to vote for "The Cactus Album"

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link

Good record, though.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Cocteau Twins for me.

World Clique by Deee-Lite is on the list at least three times.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Beloved, Dee-Lite, Van the Man, Jungle Brothers and The Breeders are all listed twice.

Think I'll probably go for KLF, though PE, Prefab Sprout, Mazzy Star and The Sundays are all contenders.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link

I've voted for what mattered most to me at the time (Ride).

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link

That's a fair way to view it.
But I wasn't into music then

World Clique by Deee-Lite is on the list at least three times.

3? I thought it was twice. Oh well no one will be stupid enough to vote for the 2nd and 3rd times.

I really have no idea what will win this. The Happy Mondays don't seem to get much ILM love, but clearly that was the uk critics fave at the time.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link

"This is where I'm the only guy to vote for "The Cactus Album""

Haha, no. Voted for it before I saw this, otherwise I might have gone with Fugazi. And the New Fast Automatic Daffodils— I think I might be the only one outside of England to buy that in the last five or so years (to be fair, it was ¢50, and no one will buy it back).

― I eat cannibals, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Last day to vote

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link

27 albums get one vote each.

― Mark G, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link

You have 27 log-ins?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Couple of hours voting left.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Loved the Masters of Reality record. That and Jordan:the Comeback. Hmmm...

― ellaguru, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link

I thought Violator would have won this. But all it got was 1 vote.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link

27 albums get one vote each.

-- Mark G,

19 actually.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:49 (sixteen years ago) link

bump

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 08:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Glad Masters Of Reality and Mark Lanegan got a couple of votes each.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

so who voted for the bob geldof?

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link

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