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Best Rock Album - 1989?

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,871 Founders Club
    Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty

    For the record I'd have probably voted Pixies over Soundgarden if included, but I've been trying to choose among Yella's offerings when possible.
    That will change for 88 if there's no "Operation: Mindcrime" or maybe "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" listed.

    Full Moon Fever was great; very worthy
    Cheers--

    I kinda ducked over Petty in 1994 with no Wildflowers. Felt I owed him one vote in this exercise.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,077 Founders Club
    Petty was pretty spotty after his debut
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,841 Standard Supporter


    Fuck all y'all.

    89

  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,871 Founders Club
    Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty

    Petty was pretty spotty after his debut

    His first three records are all pretty solid. He had a dry spell in the 80s before Full Moon Fever.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,846 Swaye's Wigwam
    Freedom - Neil Young
    The ballads on Freedom are a little weak. Throw them out and you have:

    Rockin in the free world (acoustic)
    Crime in the city
    Don't Cry
    Eldorado
    On Broadway
    No more
    Too far gone
    Rockin in the free world (electric)

    Perhaps Neil's best work.

    I know...its kind of like saying "if you threw out his bad plays he had a really good game..."
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,841 Standard Supporter
    chuck said:

    The ballads on Freedom are a little weak. Throw them out and you have:

    Rockin in the free world (acoustic)
    Crime in the city
    Don't Cry
    Eldorado
    On Broadway
    No more
    Too far gone
    Rockin in the free world (electric)

    Perhaps Neil's best work.

    I know...its kind of like saying "if you threw out his bad plays he had a really good game..."




    Hunter rose to global prominence after posing as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in 1989

    #teamrod

  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,897 Standard Supporter
    Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue
    I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I would not call Neil Young "rock" music, same goes for Bonnie Raitt and The Cure. Not enough good electric guitar turned up to 11 in any of that. Nirvana album was before anyone had ever heard of them so I kinda think that's cheating - I actually didn't know they had an earlier album than Nevermind but I've never been a fan of them.

    This was also a year in which Milli Vanilli, Paula Abdul, and New Kids on the Block topped the charts, though, so...yeah.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,871 Founders Club
    Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty

    I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I would not call Neil Young "rock" music, same goes for Bonnie Raitt and The Cure. Not enough good electric guitar turned up to 11 in any of that. Nirvana album was before anyone had ever heard of them so I kinda think that's cheating - I actually didn't know they had an earlier album than Nevermind but I've never been a fan of them.

    This was also a year in which Milli Vanilli, Paula Abdul, and New Kids on the Block topped the charts, though, so...yeah.

    The list of “rock” sub genres is endless. Folk rock and metal are both types of “rock”.