some records i apparently liked in 1989

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judging from this never-before-seen-by-eyes other-than-mine (nor by mine for the past 15+ years) list discovered in my hall closet, i was for some reason getting a lot pickier, and maybe even had to fish a little to come up with decent top tens.

ALBUMS
1. beastie boys - paul' s boutique
2. bobby brown - dance!...ya know it!
3. will to power- will to power (carryover from '88)
4. neneh cherry - raw like sushi
5. stacey q - hard machine (carryover from '88)
6. jungle brothers - done by the forces of nature
7. schoolly-d - am i black enough for you?
8. l'trimm - drop that bottom
9. *in the key of e* (carryover from '88)
10. precious metal - that kind of girl (carryover from '88)
11. guns n roses - lies (carryover from '88)
12. *black havana*
13. *silver on black*
14. *sabroso!* (???)
15. don henley - the end of the innocence (i guess)
16. roxanne shante
17. liza minelli - whatever one the pet shop boys produced
18. warren zevon
19. new kids on the block
20. cheb khaled
21. voivod - nothingface
22. faith no more - the real thing
23. bo diddley (a new album, not a reissue; forget its name though)
24. k.c flight - in flight
25. flipper - sex bomb baby! (carryover from '88)
26, soul II soul
27. *pay it all back, vol. 2* (???)
28. inner city
29. *o samba*
30. bohannon (a new album i reviewed together with bo diddley for Request)
31. einsturzende neubauten
32. *funky reggae crew* (???)
33. madonna - like a prayer
34. los van van
35. *techno: the new dance sound of detroit* (carryover from '88)
36. s-express
37. coldcut
38. *techno 1*
39. bellamy brothers - greatest hits volume III
40. debbie harry
41. rosanne cash - a best-of, probably
42. junkyard
43. al green
44. just-ice
45. death of samantha - where the women wear the glory and the men wear the pants (probably, ,which would make this another carryover from '88)
44. de la soul - 3 feet high and rising
45. celtic frost - cold lake (ANOTHER '88 carryover)
46, stacey q - nights like this
47. todd terry project - to the batmobile let's' go (another one)
48. yazz (another one)
49. malcolm mclaren
50. *gotta have house* (another one -- what the hell?)
51. ten city
52. *def jam classics*
53. *house hallucinations*
54. tiffany - hold an old friend's hand (i think) (= another one)
55. rhys chatham - die donnergotter
56. queensryche - operation: mindcrime
57. white lion - big game

SINGLES
1. frankie knuckles presents Satoshi Tomiie - tears
2. bon jovi - i'll be there for you
3. n.w.a. - gangsta gangsta
4. new order - round and round
5. kix - don't close your eyes (first time i listed them, and with a ballad??!!)
6. cinderella - coming home (but no mention of their great second album! on which this is not even the best single!)
7. karyn whiite - superwoman
8. rhythm is rhythm - it is what it is
9. edelweiss - bring me edelweiss
10. white lion - little fighter
11. wee papa girl rappers - heat it up
12. young mc - bust a move
13. bobby brown - every litte step
14. metallica - one
15. guy - teddy's jam
16. jody watley featuring rakim - friends
17. rob base and dj ez rock - get on the dance floor ('88 carryover)
18. jungle brothers (i think) - on the run/i'll house you
19. neneh cherry - buffalo stance
20. guns n roses - patience
21. beastie boys - hey ladies/shake your rump
22. pet shop boys - left to my own devices/atom splitting
23. don henley - the end of the innocence
24. ??? - ragamuffin hip-hop
25. ?? - inside out/dance for me
26. john mellencamp - jackie brown
27. takin my business (i think they were called) - just got laid
28. lil louis - french kiss
29. tiffany - radio romance
30. ??? - hillbilly hell
31. ??? - useless
32. ??? - its's a mean world
32. kon kan - i beg your pardon
33. marcia griffiths - electric boogie
34. sa-fire - let me be the one/thinking of you
35. a guy called gerald - voodoo ray
36. liza minelli (i think) - losing my mind
37. prince (i think) - batdance (batmix)/200 balloons
38. ??? - dance hall
39, reese and santonio EP (carryover from '88)
40. inner city - good life/big fun
41. ??? -- reggae christmas medley
42. madonna - like a prayer
43. ??? - baby hold on
44. spoonie gee (i think) - you ain't just a fool (you's an old fool)

REISSUES
1. jerry lee lewis - milestones
2. disco tex and his sex-o-lettes - get dancin'
3. *hip hop heritage volume one*
4. *the golden age of black music (1970-1975)*
5. charlie haden - liberation music orchestra

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

I have to say I've been loving all these lists.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 June 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

You liked that absolutely killer Voivod album less than New Kids on the Block and Don Henley.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 6 June 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

thanks, google!:

24. ??? - ragamuffin hip-hop = Daddy Freddy
25. ?? - inside out/dance for me = Queen Latifah
30. ??? - hillbilly hell = Bellamy Brothers
32. ??? - its's a mean world = Mark IV
41. ??? -- reggae christmas medley = Shinehead

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

49. malcolm mclaren

Something's jumping in my shirt, perhaps?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

9. edelweiss - bring me edelweiss

i have no memory of this song whatsoever, but i was rummaging through my LP collection a couple days ago to pull things out to sell at a record fair next week and i stumbled across this 12-inch and i figured this had something to do with you, xhuxk, so i'm glad to see it on your singles list!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Pay It All Back is that Adrian Sherwood/On-U compilation series. I have vol. 3, it's pretty good.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 6 June 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Bring Me Edelweiss was done following the Timelords' The Manual: How To Have A Number One The Easy Way

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

chuck gets props for loving on "bring me eldelweiss" and schoolly-d.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 6 June 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_16191

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

great atste - i love/still play shouldn't have sold half of these..i bought the boobbybrown - dance ya know it for an extra track.

― feil ninn, Monday, 6 June 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

31. "Useless (I Don't Need You Now)" - Kym Mazelle.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

>49. malcolm mclaren
Something's jumping in my shirt, perhaps? <

Well, *Waltz Darling*, actually (which included that song as one of its tracks)

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

15. don henley - the end of the innocence (i guess)
16. roxanne shante
17. liza minelli - whatever one the pet shop boys produced
18. warren zevon
19. new kids on the block
20. cheb khaled

dude!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

wait, what's wrong with shante or khaled (or henley or new kids for that matter)? (though actually, i stick with don's greatest hits CD these days.)

some more stupid album ommissions:

taylor dayne - can't fight fate
gloria estefan and miami sound machine - hits (a promo only best-of)
faster pussycat - wake me when it's over
les negresses vertes - mlah
lord tracy - deaf gods of babylon
pull my daisy - pull my daisy (unlabeled swiss demo-tape EP)
the real roxanne - the real roxanne
seduction - nothing matters without love
warrant - dirty rotten filthy stinking rich

― xhuxk, Monday, 6 June 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

That Seduction album is great shit.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

haha I didn't say there was anything wrong with it. I just said "dude!" if that stretch of five albums doesn't six albums doesn't merit a "dude!" then no one should bother making rated lists of albums they like. which is a distinct possibility.

― micc1o (too lazy to fill in password just yet), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

so apparently "funky reggae crew" (which i just googled) was a band (who aparrently sounded, um, like some kind of funky reggae crew), not a compilation. (i still have no memory, though, of them ever existing.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

i remember my 18 year old self thinking that since schooly d was angrier than public enemy, it must therefore be better. i was wrong.

soul II soul was probably my favorite album of that year.

lastly, i love love loved those yound mc and bobby brown songs. still do.

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

This one makes me want to dance right now. Did "French Kiss" ever get reissued in any form?

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

KC Flight had that one song that sampled Talking Heads, right? Dreaded that was the only good song, shit everything else tape purchase.

Interesting that 3 feet high was so low as that and paul's were very much the same to me then.

no simon harris either. (though maybe that daddy freddy track was on his tape comp)

― Viz (Viz), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

The chuckformula worked then as it does now....that cetain (exact?) percentage of shit and great stuff and whatever.

Makes us go hmmmmmmm, doesn't it?

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

>KC Flight had that one song that sampled Talking Heads, right? Dreaded that was the only good song, shit everything else tape purchase.<

Yeah, he was the T-Heads sampling guy. But actually the album deserves to be way higher on the list -- It might be my favorite hip-house album ever; totally solid. And as of a few months ago, at least (last time I played it) it definitely holds up. (Best track, I think, is "Summer Madness," though of the top of my head I can't recemember if that's the one that samples "Once in a Lifetime" or not.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

where are the pixies? doolittle is by far my favourite from 1989.

more omissions of phantastic albums:

peter gabriel - passion soundtrack
the cure - disintegration
lou reed - new york
yo la tengo - president yo la tengo
new order - technique
bob dylan - oh mercy
laurie anderson - strange angels
julee cruise - floating in the night

the only album in my top ten you mentioned later on is mlah by les négresses vertes. we seem to live on different music planets, chuck.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

"julee cruise - floating in the night"

Yeah this is a bit major

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

A.R. Kane - i was also this year.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Good point, on all those. But thing is, I prefered listing albums that I actually *liked*. (Quirky way to pick my favorite records of the year, I know, but hey, we each have our own way of doing things!)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

What's wrong w/Julee?

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Uh....well, I have nothing against her, to be honest. There's just other new age music that I'd prefer in my particular elevator, I guess. I did kinda like *Twin Peaks*, though!

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Liza Minnelli!?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

The voice is too "big" for those Tennant/Lowe tunes; maybe if they'd written her a musical instead...

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Liza's version of "Rent" is a classic.

― drewo (drewo), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

I actually kinda agree with Alfred; after a year or two, the Liza album (as interesting as its concep was) kinda started to grate on me (though to be honest, at the time, I probably figured a bigger voice was just what Lowe/Tennant tunes needed. (Tennant, when I interviewed him for *Request*, told me that he'd always considered Minelli a Bowie/Ferry type glam rock singer growing up, which given how she looked in *Cabaret* didn't seem all that absurd to me, oddly enough.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

. *black havana*

That's Havana Black. Coincidentally, in that Bad Company Company thing I sent you yestiddy. It's OK, everyone made the same mistake, perhaps leading to their demise after their second album.

They did sound much like Bad Company and a single enjoyed some FM and exposure on MTV, getting them onto tours traipsing about the land. I saw them, seem to remember it being opening for the Cult. They sounded like Bad Company, only maybe a little better, because I didn't know the songs and wasn't sick to death of everything from the first four Bad Company records. I thought they were from Sweden or Norway, maybe Finland, none of which explains the Havana name. Maybe that was someplace they would like to go or the name of a Cuban tobacco/cigars enjoyed in Scandinavia.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I think he was referring to the Black Havana compilation, George

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Liza singing "Street Life" >>>>> Grace Jones singing "Love is the Drug"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Matos is right, but I have a feeling if I heard them both now, I might actually vastly prefer Havana Black to *Black Havana* (which had some kind of Afro-Caribbean dance music on it, I think). The Joneses sounded promising, too. And Brian Howe came off pretty funny in that Bad Co. interview. But too bad, George, you can't interview them again now, and ask them about your all-Bad-Co-tribute CMT theory!

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Hooray! (I mean, this is always how I've voted over the past couple of years in P/J -- I rank them by how many times I've listened to something!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

haha I just gave props for the same quote on the Excelsior thread.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but with a different explanatory context than most Exclesior posts. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Angelo Badalamenti's orchestra arrangements for Liza's version of "Rent" really transformed that song. The PSB version pales by comparison.

― drewo (drewo), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

I think I still have the 12-inch of KC Flightt's Planet E, the Heads-sampling tune in question. Good God, there were some amazing records that year.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

AN OUTRIGHT OFFICIAL FIASCO CAN YOU SHIELD ME FROM THIS DRASTIC TRUTH?

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Huh?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Now that you mention it, Brian Howe of Bad Company might have been mixing up the Black Havana comp with Havana Black, too. The Joneses' "Hard" was a good record, not to be confused with The Joneses' from southern California. These Joneses were from Boston, I think. I still have it and slap it on every now and then. Definitely sounds better than many of the CMT bands, but not all of them.

These all came back when the record company's were on that kick where they had become convinced that radio DJs were purposely playing their new records and not naming the artists so people wouldn't know what to buy. "If you play it, say it!" or something like that is a sticker on a bunch of my things from then. Havana Black had one, too.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

(Shouting along to Voivod.)

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

(Shouting along to Voivod.)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh....

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

at the time i didn't like operation mindcrime as much as rage for order.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised that you didn't mention Expose's "What You Don't Know." I remember that you included their spring-1990 minor-hit "Your Baby Never Looked Good In Blue" in an on-line article a few years back. I've always regarded it as one of the great forgotten singles from my high school years.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

tiffany - radio romance

they just played her single on the radio. i immediately started to imitate her weird handmotions.

jody watley featuring rakim - friends

I still have that single. never got around to buying the record, though.

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

jody watley featuring rakim - friends

I still have that single. never got around to buying the record, though.

"Used to be a quiet storm / but now it's rainin'!"

Best guest rap ever.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

After ODB on Mariah's Fantasy, I mean.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

Year-end list for a college radio show I did at the time. The friend I mailed this to found it and scanned it.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/1989_zpsn4lfd2h7.jpg

Some of those songs I still love, though the list would of course be quite different today. I think I can live with everything on there. The 28th Street Crew actually got me into a bit of trouble with the CRTC--had to write a letter of apology (to them or the listener who complained, I can't remember).

― clemenza, Friday, 3 July 2015 17:33 (ten years ago)

wild thing, i beg your pardon, and oh father are my faves on there. good life should have been on there though!

― scott seward, Saturday, 4 July 2015 01:10 (ten years ago)

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