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index of artists


ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 1990


compiled from the critics' choices in the following publications: Q, Melody Maker, Record Mirror, Sounds and the NME


1
Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
Happy Mondays

2
World Clique
Deee-Lite

3
Floating Into The Night
Julee Cruise

4
Bossanova
The Pixies

5
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins

6
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Sinead O'Connor

7
Fear of a Black Planet
Public Enemy

8
Ragged Glory
Neil Young & Crazy Horse

9
The La's
The La's

10
Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys

11
She Hangs Brightly
Mazzy Star

12
Songs For Drella
Lou Reed/John Cale

13
The Good Son
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

14
Nowhere
Ride

15
Some Friendly
The Charlatans

16
Goodbye Jumbo
World Party

17
Jordan: The Comeback
Prefab Sprout

18
Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
The Sundays

19
People's Instinctive Travels & the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest

20
Happiness
The Beloved

21=
Boomania
Betty Boo

21=
Gold Mother
James

21=
Enlightenment
Van Morrison

24
Extricate
The Fall

25
Pigeonhole
New Fast Automatic Daffodils

26
Cleopatra Grip
The Heart Throbs

27
Violator
Depeche Mode

28
Goo
Sonic Youth

29
A Catholic Education
Teenage Fanclub

30
Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jane's Addiction


NOTES:
Difficult not to see this chart as the last one of an old decade, rather than the first of a new. The only debutants who were to survive convincingly were The Charlatans and Teenage Fanclub, the two most traditional acts of the lot.
Below the top 30 lurked the likes of George Michael, Prince, The Beautiful South and Was (Not Was).