Billboard #1 Albums from 1989

Three albums I'm fond of: Like A Prayer, The Raw and the Cooked, Rhythm Nation, not counting the '88 holdover by GNR.

But seriously (heh), Richard Marx, and Milli Vanilli?

Rhythm Nation will walk this, right???

Lōc-ed After Dark - Tone Loc

^^gets tagged as a 2 hit wonder but actually this album is super great, old school funky break shit and very solid all the way through

still haven't heard it yet!

tone is so charming and affable!

Rhythm Nation more consistent than Raw and the Cooked

Good Thing might be the best song on any of these albums tho

better than "Like A Prayer" and "Express Yourself"?!?

as is well-documented on the Madonna thread, I am not much for Like a Prayer. Express Yourself is a much closer call, but yeah, maybe.

Rhythm nation in the countriest of miles

I need $50 to make you holler I get paid to do the wild thing

if these were my choices on a bar jukebox, i'd go with the appetite for destruction

Oh wow. A poll Prince will lose.

Yeah, Rhythm Nation 1814, despite my consistent (earnest) votes for Anita Baker

can you defend it, PappaWheelie? I like Rapture fine, but, having grown up with Giving You The Best That I Got, I found "Just Because" and the title track way too soft.

I'll probably devote the next 5 hours of this evening defending it against at least 3 posters, with some sideline comments from other ilxors.

I got baked like Anita.

Oh stop getting me all curious about Anita Baker albums, you ilxors! I've got plenty of other music to get into right now.

Rhythm Nation is the clear choice, here, although I'm tempted to believe Tone Loc really was as entertaining over an album's length as his hits were.

Considering where the members of Fine Young Cannibals came from, it's amazing they turned out to be as annoying as they were (I even used to have a post-punk 7" by Akyrlykz that had a pre-FYC Roland Gift on it). They didn't seem so annoying at first, but gradually they were overplayed and now I really can't stand them.

1989 was the year I graduated from high school. Don Henley's "The End of The Innocence" single came out around that time, and not surprisingly, it seemed to fit the feeling of graduating. I still love that song, too. But yeah, folks...by '89 I was way past any of this stuff. Where's the Stone Roses? Where's...etc etc etc.

Also Richard Marx is the very definition of medicrity and should be eradicated from the planet, pronto. I mean all the people who get on Coldplay's case now ought to fucking jump him in an alley.

Rhythm Nation is the clear choice, here, although I'm tempted to believe Tone Loc really was as entertaining over an album's length as his hits were.

I wouldn't say as entertaining as Wild Thang + Funky Cold Medina. It's different.

Basically, if you liked sample heavy Hip-Hop in 1989, the album was on par, but no hooky, Young MC penned, instantly danceable club/radio bangers. I remember it being another project to sample Edwin Starr's Easin' In (although I thought better than Ice T's High Rollers)

Also Richard Marx is the very definition of medicrity and should be eradicated from the planet, pronto. I mean all the people who get on Coldplay's case now ought to fucking jump him in an alley.

I've always felt the same until recently. For whatever reason, out of the blue, I've had "Dont' Mean Nothin'" looping in my head, and I'm all like, damn, something about that track, and kinda wondering if I should revisit in order to recontextualize.

Oh stop getting me all curious about Anita Baker albums, you ilxors! I've got plenty of other music to get into right now.

It's just me, and my 'if-Michael-McDonald-was-living-in-Sade's-world' thing. I felt that then. I feel it now.

Oddly, it's a similar MOR Jazzy Soul thing that is kinda what caused/causes me to be waaaaay too into Basia.

gotta be Tone Loc... dude looks conspicuously like a Martin Lawrence-Fresh Prince hybrid, i.e. the composite Bad Boy. ++ "I don't fool around with no Oscar Meyer Weiner" is just a fuckin hot line by any standard

I've always felt the same until recently. For whatever reason, out of the blue, I've had "Dont' Mean Nothin'" looping in my head, and I'm all like, damn, something about that track, and kinda wondering if I should revisit in order to recontextualize.

I don't mind that one; it sounds like the Eagles' "Long Run," only better.

Well, Joe Walsh did play slide guitar on both . . .

I was just thinking about the color of the bathroom tiles on the Dr. Feelgood album cover today. I'll give it to Crue instead of G'n'R mainly because I'm just tired of giving it to G'n'R.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/4/4a/MotleyCrueDr._Feelgood.jpg

Who among you will cast the contrarian vote for Rob & Fab? Come on!

"Blame It On the Rain" was pretty great.

"Like a Prayer". Without doubt. Madonna has never ever been better.

I voted for FYC: I've loved all the singles over the years, but a couple of years ago bought the album for 99 cents and have loved the whole album. Was "I'm Not The Man I Used To Be" a single? Because it would have been a great one.

Considering where the members of Fine Young Cannibals came from, it's amazing they turned out to be as annoying as they were (I even used to have a post-punk 7" by Akyrlykz that had a pre-FYC Roland Gift on it). They didn't seem so annoying at first, but gradually they were overplayed and now I really can't stand them.

even today the potential of hearing "she drives me crazy" once more causes me to entertain thoughts of suicide

Was "I'm Not The Man I Used To Be" a single?

4th single from album. Peaked at #54

Giving You the Best That I Got is fabulous - not as good as Compositions, but close

this is overall some grim fare tho, gah

^^^this was number one on my birthday! <3 <3 <3

I wonder if Axl has any regrets about sowing the seeds of his own downfall: despite the oft-stated claim that grunge killed hair metal, I maintain that Appetite For Destruction laid the groundwork for grunge's acceptance into the mainstream by fostering an appetite for something more authentically grotty.

Inotherwords, Appetite for the win, Mr. Brownstone!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'm with Geir on this one... Madonna.

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poor Debbie Gibson.