The Best Rock Albums of 1990

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1990

 (Compiled by Mauro Bondoni based on my ratings)
  1. Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives (Drag City) (9)
  2. Nick Cave: The Good Son (Mute) (9)
  3. Fugazi: Repeater (Dischord) (9)
  4. Cop Shoot Cop: Consumer Revolt (Circuit) (8.5)
  5. Phish: Lawn Boy (Absolute A Gogo) (8)
  6. Ed Hall: Love Poke Here (Boner) (8)
  7. Robin Holcomb: self-titled (Elektra) (8)
  8. Ozric Tentacles: Erpland (Demi Monde) (8)
  9. Primus: Frizzle Fry (Caroline) (8)
  10. Techno Animal: Ghosts (Pathological) (8)
  11. Ant-Bee: Pure Electric Honey (Voxx) (8)
  12. Azalia Snail: Snailbait (Albertine) (8)
  13. Jesus Lizard: Head (Touch & Go) (7.5)
  14. Daniel Johnston: 1990 (Shimmy Disc) (7.5)
  15. Bewitched: Brain Eraser (N. 6) (7.5)
  16. Original Sins: Self Distruct (Psonik) (7.5)
  17. Ween: God Weed Satan - The Oneness (Twin Tone) (7.5)
  18. Marc Ribot: Rootless Cosmopolitans (Island) (7.5)
  19. Jellyfish: Bellybutton (Charisma) (7.5)
  20. Mark Lanegan: Winding Sheet (SubPop) (7.5)
  21. Bob Mould: Black Sheets Of Rain (Virgin) (7.5)
  22. Bitch Magnet: Ben Hur (Communion) (7.5)
  23. Freedy Johnston: Troubled Tree (Bar None) (7.5)
  24. Sun City Girls: Torch Of The Mystics (Majora) (7)
  25. Of Cabbages And Kings: Basic Pain Basic Pleasure (Triple X) (7)
  26. Hetch Hetchy: Swollen (Texas Hotel) (7)
  27. KLF: Chill Out (Wax Trax) (7)
  28. Pain Teens: Born In Blood (Trance Syndicate) (7)
  29. Railroad Jerk: self-titled (Matador) (7)
  30. Chainsaw Kittens: Violent Religion (Mammoth) (7)
  31. Tragic Mulatto: Chartreuse Toulouse (Alternative Tentacles) (7)
  32. Breeders: Pod (4AD) (7)
  33. Helmet: Strap It On (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
  34. B.A.L.L.: Hardball (Shimmy Disc) (7)
  35. Bad Religion: Against The Grain (Epitaph) (7)
  36. Dwarves: Blood Guts & Pussy (SubPop) (7)
  37. Babes In Toyland: Spanking Machine (Twin/Tone) (7)
  38. Thin White Rope: Sack Full Of Silver (Frontier) (7)
  39. Enigma: MCMXC A.D. (Virgin) (7)
  40. Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly (Rough Trade) (7)
  41. Ruins: Stonehenge (Shimmy Disc) (7)
  42. His Name Is Alive: Livonia (4AD) (7)
  43. Cows: Effete And Impudent Snobs (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
  44. King Snake Roost: Ground Into The Dirt (Aberrant) (7)
  45. Lubricated Goat: Psychedelicatessen (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
  46. David Baerwald: Bedtime Stories (A&M) (7)
  47. Blake Babies: Sunburn (Mammoth) (7)
  48. In The Nursery: L'Esprit (Wax Trax) (7)
  49. Consolidated: The Myth Of Rock (Nettwerk) (7)
  50. Delerium: Stone Tower (Dossier) (7)
  51. Cramps: A Date With Elvis (Big Beat) (7)
  52. Tiny Lights: Hot Chocolate Massage (Absolute A Go Go) (7)
  53. Silverfish: Fat Axl (Touch & Go) (7)
  54. Arto Lindsay & Peter Scherer: Pretty Ugly (Made To Measure) (7)
  55. Shudder To Think: Funeral At The Movies (Dischord) (7)
  56. Arson Garden: Under Towers (Community 3) (7)
  57. Steel Pole Bath Tub: Tulip (Boner) (7)
  58. Fastbacks: Very Very Powerful Motor (Popllama) (7)
  59. Jah Wobble: Without Judgement (KK) (7)
  60. Clawhammer: self-titled (Sympathy For The Record Industry) (7)
  61. Surgery: Nationwide (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
  62. Tone Dogs: Ankety Low Day (C/Z) (7)
  63. KMFDM: Naive (Wax Trax) (7)
  64. Black Crowes: Shake Your Money Maker (Def American) (7)
  65. Ass Ponys: Mr Superlove (Okra) (7)
  66. John Hiatt: Stolen Moments (A&M) (7)
  67. Boss Hog: Cold Hands (Amphetamine Reptile) (7)
  68. Chills: Submarine Bells (Slash) (7)
  69. Galaxie 500: This Is Our Music (Rough Trade) (7)
  70. Los Lobos: Neighborhood (Slash) (7)
  71. Joe Henry: Shuffletown (Coyote) (7)
  72. Megadeth: Rust In Peace (Capitol) (7)
  73. Ride: Nowhere (Sire) (7)
  74. Spacemen 3: Dreamweapon (Fierce) (7)
  75. Lush: Gala (4AD) (7)
  76. Scrawl: Smallmouth (Rough Trade) (7)
  77. Crystalized Movements: This Wideness Comes (No 6) (7)
  78. Posies: Dear 23 (Geffen) (7)
  79. U Totem: self-titled (Recommended) (7)
  80. Lustmord: Heresy (Soleilmoon) (7)
  81. Killing Joke: Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions (Noise International) (7)
  82. Eyehategod: In the Name of Suffering (1990)
  83. Dead C: Trapdoor Fucking Exit (Siltbreeze) (7)
  84. Blues Traveler: Blues Traveler (A&M) (7)
  85. Angkor Wat: Corpus Christi (Death) (7)
  86. Gang Starr: Step In The Arena (1990) (7)
  87. Spongehead: Legitimate Beef (Community 3) (7)
  88. Pantera: Cowboys From Hell (Atlantic) (7)
  89. Deicide (Roadrunner) (7)
  90. They Might Be Giants: Flood (Elektra) (7)
  91. Charlatans: Some Friendly (Beggars Banquet) (7)
  92. Flour: Luv 713 (Touch & Go) (7)
  93. Bathory: Hammerheart (1990)
  94. Victoria Williams: Swing The Statue (Rough Trade) (7)
  95. Goo Goo Dolls: Hold Me Up (Metal Blade) (7)
  96. Renegade Soundwave: In Dub (Mute) (7)
  97. Peter Blegvad: King Strut (Silvertone) (7)
  98. Giant Sand: Swerve (Amazing Black Sand) (7)
  99. Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum (1990)
  100. Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)

Songs
(compiled mostly by Austin from my reviews))
( Click here to play them on Spotify (thank you Luke!))
  1. Nick Cave: Witness Song
  2. Royal Trux: Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
  3. Fugazi: Turnover
  4. La's: There She Goes
  5. Cop Shoot Cop: She's Like A Shot
  6. Nick Cave: Foi Na Cruz
  7. Ed Hall: Sam Jackson
  8. Ween: You Fucked Up
  9. Robin Holcomb: Hand Me Down All Stories
  10. Primus: Too Many Puppies
  11. Stranglmartin: Tidal Wave
  12. Royal Trux: Funky Son
  13. Jesus Lizard: Pastoral
  14. Fugazi: Blueprint
  15. Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly
  16. Breeders: Hellbound
  17. Azalia Snail: Anywhere is Here
  18. Pantera: Cemetery Gates
  19. Cop Shoot Cop: System Test
  20. Megadeth: Tornado of Souls
  21. Deee-Lite: World Clique
  22. Ruins: Stonehenge
  23. Bad Religion: 21st Century Digital Boy
  24. Freedy Johnston: That's What You Get
  25. Ozric Tentacles: The Throbbe
  26. Bitch Magnet: Mesentery
  27. Daniel Johnston: Don't Play Cards With Satan
  28. Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares
  29. Pain Teens: Pleasure of the Flesh
  30. King Snake Roost: Adrenitude
  31. Entombed: Drowned
  32. Babes in Toyland: Pain in My Heart
  33. Bewitched: Mold
  34. Hetch Hetchy: Perfect Puzzle
  35. Enigma: Mea Culpa
  36. Railroad Jerk: Participant
  37. They Might Be Giants: Birdhouse in Your Soul
  38. Jellyfish: The Man I Used to Be
  39. Chumbawamba: Cartouble
  40. Gang Starr: Step in the Arena
  41. Alice in Chains: Man in the Box
  42. Helmet: Repetition
  43. Bob Mould: Stop Your Crying
  44. Was Not Was: You You You
  45. Deicide: Carnage in the Temple of Darkness
  46. Ride: Paralyzed
  47. Steel Pole Bath Tub: Arizona Garbage Truck
  48. Blake Babies: Out There
  49. Lubricated Goat: Eternal Loser
  50. Eyehategod: Children of God
  51. Posies: Mrs. Green
  52. Shudder to Think: Vacation Brain
  53. Tone Dogs: No Cry
  54. Spongehead: Plumber's Lament
  55. Chainsaw Kittens: Bliss
  56. Flour: Rain Reign
  57. Chills: Dead Web
  58. Silverfish: Shit Out of Luck
  59. Ass Ponys: Mr. Superlove
  60. Los Lobos: Emily
  61. Of Cabbages and Kings: Snake
  62. TISM: Existentialtism
Extended tracks
(compiled mostly by Austin from my reviews))
  1. Royal Trux: (Edge of the) Ape Oven
  2. Azalia Snail: So Much More To Go
  3. Phish: Reba
  4. Ant-Bee: Evolution #7
  5. B.A.L.L.: Ball Four
  6. Techno Animal: Walk Then Crawl
  7. Phish: Run Like An Antelope
  8. Ozric Tentacles: Cracker Blocks
  9. Bitch Magnet: Dragoon
  10. Keith Rowe: Untitled
  11. Original Sins: Black Hole
  12. Spacemen 3: Dreamweapon
  13. A Certain Ratio: BTTW90
  14. Lustmord: Heresy
  15. Steel Pole Bath Tub: Christina
  16. Crystalized Movements: Third Half
  17. Blues Traveler: Crystal Flame
  18. Arto Lindsay & Peter Scherer: Pretty Ugly
  19. Jah Wobble: Spirit
  20. The KLF: 3AM Somewhere Out of Beaumont
  21. Delerium: Lost Passion

Songwriters

Hardcore
  1. Ed Hall: Love Poke Here (Boner)
  2. Jesus Lizard: Head (Touch & Go)
  3. Drive Like Jehu (Headhunter)
  4. Lard: The Last Temptation Of Reid (Alternative Tentacles)
  5. Bad Religion: Against The Grain (Epitaph)
  6. Dwarves: Blood Guts & Pussy (SubPop)
  7. Of Cabbages And Kings: Basic Pain Basic Pleasure (Triple X)
  8. Cows: Effete And Impudent Snobs (Amphetamine Reptile)
  9. King Snake Roost: Ground Into The Dirt (Aberrant)
  10. Lubricated Goat: Psychedelicatessen (Amphetamine Reptile)

Industrial

Electronica

Gothic

Heavy rock

Psychedelia

Instrumental

Progressive

Britain

Germany

Japan

France & Belgium

Australia

Canada

TM, ®, Copyright © 1998 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Best of the 1960's Best of the 1970's Best of the 1980's Best of the 1990's Best of the 2000's