GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1990

[Serjeant Grumbles]

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Obviously make sure to hit up RYM yourself and search your favourite genres.

The deadline is 2nd of August 2019.

The rules:
- submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.

GNMD = General Non-Metal Discussion, so NO UNAMBIGUOUSLY METAL ALBUMS are to be included in anybody's list.

 

[CiG]

...oh fuck.

 

[Slammed]

1. AC/DC – The Razor’s Edge
2. Jimmy Barnes – Two Fires
3. Icehouse – Code Blue
4. Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
5. John Farnham – Chain Reaction
6. The Jeff Healey Band - Hell to Pay
7. The Black Sorrows - Harley & Rose
8. Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues
9. Hard-Ons – Yummy!
10. ZZ Top – Recycler

 

[jimmy101]

1 Eric B & Rakim - Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em
2 Primus - Frizzle Fry
3 A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
4 John Zorn - Naked City
5 Sonic Youth - Goo
6 Boogie Down Productions - Edutainment
7 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Wanted: Dead or Alive
8 Steve Coleman - Motherland Pulse
9 ACDC - The Razors Edge
10 Fugazi - Repeater

Subject to change

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

The Razors Edge

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Fugazi - Repeater
2. Bitch Magnet - Ben Hur
3. The Jesus Lizard - Head
4. Devo - Hardcore Devo, Vol. 1: 74-77
5. Tuning Circuits - No Compassion
6. Neurosis - The Word as Law
7. Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
8. Yoshinori Kawamoto - Burning Force
9. King's X - Faith Hope Love
10. Riverdogs - Riverdogs
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo habitual
Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics
Depeche Mode - Violator
Chick Corea Elektric Band - Inside Out
Skinner Box - The Playhouse
Pain Teens - Born in Blood
Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness
The KLF - Chill Out
Fishwife - Snail Killer
U Totem - U Totem
Lustmørd - Heresy

Not as great of a non-metal year for me as I thought it'd be but still some great albums. Need to relisten to a bunch of these, the top ~6 are probably relatively solid but 7-10 could change a lot.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
2. Cowboy Junkies - The Caution Horses
3. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
4. Dwight Yoakam - If There Was a Way
5. Ride - Nowhere
6. Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
7. Bad Religion - Against the Grain
8. Social Distortion - Social Distortion
9. V/A - Wild at Heart OST
10. Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs for Drella

 

[jimmy101]

That'd be such a hard bump to take. It's up to the guy receiving the bump to stretch his arms out to make the move look good, & then have got to put all their faith in Hall to slam them to mat safely.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

That'd be such a hard bump to take. It's up to the guy receiving the bump to stretch his arms out to make the move look good, & then have got to put all their faith in Hall to slam them to mat safely.

imagine having to trust Scott Hall. Scary.

 

[jimmy101]

Yep, that's the most fucked up part about it

 

[CiG]

2 Primus - Frizzle Fry

Didn't this count for the metal round?

 

[CiG]

1. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
2. Flag of Democracy - Down With People
3. Neurosis - The Word as Law
4. Lunachicks - Babysitters on Acid
5. Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness
6. Rorschach - Remain Sedate
7. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
8. Dead Moon - Defiance
9. Fugazi - Repeater
10. Dwarves - Blood Guts & Pussy

HM:

Spoiler

11. Reagan Youth - Volume Two
12. Daniel Johnston - 1990
13. Depeche Mode - Violator
14. Jawbreaker - Unfun
15. Turning Point - It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn
16. Ozric Tentacles - Erpland
17. Front Line Assembly - Caustic Grip
18. Creaming Jesus - Too Fat to Run, Too Stupid to Hide
19. Green Day - 39/Smooth
20. ALL - Allroy Saves

 

[jimmy101]

Didn't this count for the metal round?

It shouldn't tbh. But if that's the consensus I guess I can edit it out of my list.

Basically nothing metal about it.

 

[jimmy101]

Especially if ACDC is being looked at as non-metal.

 

[CiG]

Yeah I checked, nobody mentioned it in the 1990 metal game.

 

[Burkhard]

1. Primus - Frizzle Fry
2. Dead Can Dance - Aion
3. Gypsy Kyss - When Passion Murdered Innocence
4. Sarband - Cantico
5. Jingo de Lunch - Underdog
6. Ketil Bjørnstad - The Shadow

Somewhat weird list and still subject to possible changes. Haven't listened to most of these releases for a very long time and I'm not sure if System Decay's demo really fits in here.

Edit: Removed System Decay's "Inbetween All Times", because it's progressive metal and definitely not alternative rock, as someone labeled it on discogs.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

4. Sarband - Cantico

This certainly garners my attention.

 

[Bloopy]

1. Bad Religion - Against the Grain
2. Whitehouse - Thank Your Lucky Stars
3. The Macc Lads - The Beer Necessities
4. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
5. S.P.U.D. - Sour
6. H.W.A. - Livin' in a Hoe House
7. ZZ Top - Recycler
8. Pain Teens - Born in Blood
9. New Model Army - Impurity
10. Biohazard - Biohazard

I thought about including Sons of Kyuss and then decided it's a more up-front metal release than the rest of their stuff, even though the RYM genre votes suggest the reverse. Encyclopaedia Metallum says metal enough as they judged it as a separate entity from Kyuss.

 

[CiG]

6. H.W.A. - Livin' in a Hoe House

Nice.

 

[Bloopy]

Discovered via your post in the Badass Rap thread. Not quite a source of fav tracks or anything, but quality entertainment nevertheless!