20. Depeche Mode, Violator
19. Bell Biv DeVoe, Poison
18. Fugazi, Repeater
17. Sinéad O'Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
16. Deee-Lite, World Clique
15. LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out
14. Concrete Blonde, Bloodletting
13. Sonic Youth, Goo
12. Madonna, The Immaculate Collection
11. Jane's Addiction, Ritual de lo Habitual
10. Public Enemy, Fear Of A Black Planet
9. INXS, X
8. Alice In Chains, Facelift
7. The Black Crowes, Shake Your Money Maker
6. Danzig, Danzig II: Lucifuge
5. The La's
4. George Michael, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
3. Megadeth, Rust In Peace
2. Mother Love Bone, Apple
1. Jellyfish, Bellybutton
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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Don't you know ink washes out easier than blood?
Yes, but is "Song #1" a "fuck you" song?
Incidentally, it's the 20th anniversary of all the Lookout shit that blew me away when I was fourteen that will have me locked in the bathroom drinking vodka and Snapple and screaming, "I once had two wallet chains! Two!" at the roaches.
YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU OWN
i don't own a dildo, therefore i am a dildo.
Matt, you poser, Repeater only has "Song Number One" on it if you bought the CD instead of the vinyl.
Of course, I bought the cassette, so what does that say about me?
Um, the lyric I quoted was from the song "Repeater" which was always on the album Repeater? Also, I have 3 Songs on 45. JUS' SAYIN' B.
Yeah, dude. I'm the poseur. Matt's only posing at posing. AND YOU ARE NOT HEEDING THE LESSONS OF "MERCHANDISE", SON.
Unfortunately, I think the lesson of "Merchandise" is a battle that's been long lost. "BUY SOME MUGS AND T-SHIRTS GUYS!!"
At one point I had the schedule of premiums for trading in your punk points. Ten got you a travel mug. Twenty thousand got you a mortgage.
Hey, you can shuck your obligations and try and be different from your peers but one of these days...
TWO WALLET CHAINS, fucker.
It's true, I called out the wrong poster. MY BAD!
Oh dear, Immaculate Collection, really? Guess I'll be getting that AARP card in the mail soon.
The weeping gets a whole lot more profound when you look at 30 year anniversaries. And don't even get me started on the Hokey Pokey.
No kidding. And it's even worse when you consider the perspective: The albums we think about at 30 now (Zenyatta Mondatta?!) were, when released, the same time distance away from, say, Doris Day Tea for Two
Abe, this is the worst type of mind game to play. Like, Ritual de lo Habitual is to today's HS senior what The White Album was to me as a HS senior.
Ha! WRONG! Thanks to retro-styling, Ritual de lo Habitual is to today's HS senior what Ritual de lo Habitual was to you as a HS senior. Culture FAIL.
I'm guilty of this mind-gaming as well. And Abe is right about both "Tea For Two" and "Ritual de lo Habitual".
Speaking of old, Justin Bieber is the same age as Weezer's blue album.
heartstopping.
*SPLODES!!!
He is also a year younger than a cat I am friends with.
@garge: That cat is only acting like it likes you.
That cat will leave you if it ever meets Bieber's hair.
My friend Goo just goes, "Turn off that noise & get off my lawn!" (womp womp)
I sit around wondering why there's nobody on my lawn.
Fear of a female planet.
Wow, 1990 was a hot year.
I can't wait for 20 years from now, when The Machines who are writing The Awl get all misty-eyed about Janelle Monae's ARCHANDROID. Just kidding! The only sound present by then will be the soft whirr of their cooling fans.
oh, I Pretty Hate Machine.
"THE STATED DATE IS INCORRECT. THIS SENTIMENTAL HUMAN "ALBUM" OF INDIVIDUAL MUSIC UNITS OF ANTI-MACHINE INSTIGATION WAS RELEASED IN 1989. YOU ARE REMINDED THAT YOU ARE A STUPID HUMAN. RETURN IMMEDIATELY TO YOUR BLOOD-REFINING POD."
That Goo is poison. Never trust a big butt and a smile.
GOING TO GO LISTEN TO BLOODLETTING AND CRY NOW, THANKS.
(Of course, that's also known as 'A Typical Wednesday' in my world, so.)
I AM GOING TO +1 THIS SHIT OUT OF THIS POST
Also: All Shook Down, Nowhere and, good Christ, No Depression.
Good Christ No Depression indeed. Now I AM old.
Over-exposure to that Sinead O'Connor album means that I still occasionally inside my head repeat the Serenity Prayer in an Irish accent. Not even at times of strain, just randomly. Anyway I too now feel old. But I like old! Jellyfish... what was going on there? I think I liked them. Was I wrong?
No, you were all sorts of right! They are one of the best bands EVER.
Yes! I used to love that album. It was the first album I ever bought because of a positive review (5 stars in Q magazine!) I felt very adult.
It's not very nice to remind me that my 20th high school reunion is right around the corner. This was pretty much the soundtrack for my junior/senior year in high school with Nirvana and The Smiths and U2 thrown in.
I'm getting the HEY CLASS OF '90 DUDEBRO IT'S ALMOST THAT TIME harassmails on teh Facebooks from reunion-committee people I neither knew nor remember. FILED UNDER: CATEGORICALLY IGNORE/DNR.
Yes, they keep bugging me to send them old photographs. That's going right to the top of the list!
Next year: The Low End Theory. It's 1991 and I refuse to come wack. Back? Something. Oh Christ . . .
Back in the days when I was a teenager, etc.
We came in first in my white bread grade school for a dance routine set to a mix of BBD's Poison ABC's Iesha. The work is still considered by many some teen hysterians to be groundbreaking in the field of acronym usage, with's its heartbreaking tale fusion of teen innocence and ensuing early twenties bitterness later going on the inspire TLC's "No Scrubs" and also TLC's "Little People, Big World."
"grade school ^ talent show"
Oh shit, Deee-lite, plus the best George Michael album! I am going back to 1990 to relive life in only the hot light of that year.
Also UP THE IRONS
This post is severely lacking in #summer of megadeth.
i thought summer of megadeth was a reference to the gulf oil leak
It's pretty much a reference to everything.
If you stare at #summer of megadeth long enough you will see #the great singularity.
I was just thinking about that Johnette Napolitano, Paul Westerberg duet on 'All Shook Down.' He told a great story about it in some interview. My memory ain't what it used to be or I would link. Also, when you get old you get tired, so look it up yourselves, younguns.
I bought World Clique on my first ever trip to the States from the Tower Records on Broadway, so that will always be my New York record.
Next year: Blue Lines by Massive Attack.
Hopefully, the intervening 20 years has faded my once-Jr High classmates memories of me and two friends wearing colored denim, aqua socks, and "Just Do It" neon tank-tops.
The Bel Biv Devoe "Do Me" video was *so* influential.
Ahh, you good sir are never minding what's been selling!
The Chills' Submarine Bells, Pylon's Chain, and the Go-Betweens' 1978-1990, which makes me feel 13 years older still.
I <3s Submarine Bells
What's number one in the chartssss? Bel Biv DeVoe. Bell Biv DeVoe. Number one in the chartssss: Bell Biv DeVoe...
AND!? MAURA! Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation.
I was really worried it was gonna be Imperial.
Yes She is my Skinhead Girl single, too.
Welcome to the Terrordome indeed.
Ride's Nowhere, too. Man...
& The Stone Roses, for that matter
Stone Roses was '89, I think?
Ride, Roses, Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Lush, MBV, Primal Scream. And on and on. It's almost grotesque how much good stuff came out from 89-92.
Also "Flood", "Heaven or Las Vegas" and "Superchunk".
"Flood"!!!
Cocteau Twins is ideal bedroom soundtrack and thus never gets old, even if it's 20. (!)
I love this list. I hate the reason why this list was posted.
Andrew! You... are... not... old! Also you bleed hardcore and that is currency in certain zip codes.
Oh, I mean, sure, I'm just relating to what Maura's saying on this one. She and I are the same age, after all.
And dude, I hate a lot of the hardcore I hear these days, which also makes me feel old.
Uncle Tupelo, No Depression
Yeah.
Wasn't there a Replacements that year too?
Causing Some Depression as we speak.
The Pixies, Bossanova
You said it. 'All Shook Down.'
wanders off in disgust
<3
There was also a Suicidal Tendencies record and it was the year I met Shelter. Which went from my walkman, to my discman, to my ipod.
Hey! this listicle has commentary too... (In the title).. what is going on around here today?
Didn't get the magazine? This here's a (smart and idiosyncratic) commentary site.
Ohhhhh. Does that make me smart and idiosyncratic?
Listicle without prejudice.
It's a brand new record / for 1990 / They Might be Giants' / brand new album "Flood"
I pretty much hate myself for not having pointed this out immediately, but: SEASONS IN THE ABYSS, hello??
Thank god for that Feelin'... I could not ask for any more.