Some cracking stuff, I always say 89 was my best musical year. 5 guys in a Transit van, 17/18 years old, we probably did a club every weekend of that year. Lincoln, Manchester, Nottingham, Derby, the normal haunts with some Birmingham and London thrown in the mix. A couple of favourites missing, Vain - No Respect and Faster Pussycat - Wake Me When It’s Over and Bulletboys, self titled.
Very good!!!! Forgot all about pump. Still have the cassette and cassette single from back in day. Permanent Vacation still my favorite. Good work guys!!!!
Dude - that Aerosmith weekend was QUALITY! You arrived at my student dorm, Moroccan in hand, smoked all day, got into the Aerosmith gig for a tenner and smoked away in there. Getting to our seats as they just started Sweet Emotion - one of the best rock n roll days of my life lol!
Thought Quireboys released their debut album in '89, but I might be wrong. Have to agree that Queen's The Miracle had its moments but far from their best (not forgetting that there are hints why they didn't tour the album). For albums that I loved from that year... Xentrix - Shattered Existence Sepultura - Beneath the Remains Overkill - Years of Decay Obituary - Slowly We Rot Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Terrorizer - World Downfall RHCP - Mother's Milk Soundgarden - Louder than Love There's other albums from the year that I could mention but think that would be enough for now. Look forward to the next one.
Agree with Jam, Sonic Temple was fantastic, still a regular for me Down Under ;) Will also lock in with Dyl on Skid Row has aged extremely well. For my third I'd go the Badlands debut. And being such a good year honorable mentions are plenty, Tesla's Great Radio Controversy, D.A.D No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims, Whitesnake Slip Of The Tongue (yes you read that right ;) Kingdom Come In Your Face (and read that right too ;) Little Angels Don't Prey For Me, Tangier's Four Winds and White Lion's Big Game (well said Gappy) would round out my ten 'though do feel a need to swap something out for Pump! A great year of music \m/
1. Savatage - Gutter Ballet 2. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross 3. Overkill - The Years of Decay 4. Annihilator - Alice In Hell 5. Faith No More - The Real Thing 6. The Cult - Sonic Temple 7. King Diamond - Conspiracy 8. Whitesnake - Slip of The Toongue 9. Blue Murder - Blue Murder 10. Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise 11. Candlemass - Tales of Creation 12. King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska 13. Skid Row - Skid Row 14. UDO - Mean Machine 15. Soundgarden - Louder Than Love 16. Gary Moore - After The War 17. Joe Satriani - Flying In a Blue Dream 18. Blind Guardian - Follow The Blind 19. Testament - Practice What You Preach 20. Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
FNM were AMAZING live. Those hummingbird gigs were top 5 in my life. Good times! Enuff Z Nuff was a not album that didn’t get a message. I think Badlands and Blue Murder shoulda got in the top 12 though. Fair enough on the top 1&2 though… I’d rather have black box than FM…
Only one of my selections made the top 12 and none made the top 5. 1. King Diamond - Conspiracy 2. Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise 3. Annihilator - Alice In Hell 4. Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind 5. Atheist - Piece of Time Kinda fell out of purchasing new music after 89 as the metal music scene was too watered down or just too extreme for my taste at the time. Good variety of picks by the PowerAge crew.
Live Fast Die Fast
What a fantastic mother of an album
Thanks mate!
That Wolfsbane album is incredible, I love it.
Thanks mate!
Some cracking stuff, I always say 89 was my best musical year. 5 guys in a Transit van, 17/18 years old, we probably did a club every weekend of that year. Lincoln, Manchester, Nottingham, Derby, the normal haunts with some Birmingham and London thrown in the mix. A couple of favourites missing, Vain - No Respect and Faster Pussycat - Wake Me When It’s Over and Bulletboys, self titled.
Very good!!!! Forgot all about pump. Still have the cassette and cassette single from back in day. Permanent Vacation still my favorite. Good work guys!!!!
Cheers for the mention, 35 years later and the four of us are still going! 🤘🐺
You are indeed, we caught you on the Genius tour at Craufurd Arms MK and you were superb as always, keep it coming cheers lads 🤘🤘
We love you boys - and always will 🤘
@@talesfromthepowerage thanks, stay tuned for what we're up to this year 😉
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Dude - that Aerosmith weekend was QUALITY! You arrived at my student dorm, Moroccan in hand, smoked all day, got into the Aerosmith gig for a tenner and smoked away in there. Getting to our seats as they just started Sweet Emotion - one of the best rock n roll days of my life lol!
Support marillion at Sheffield city hall it was a awesome show
Thought Quireboys released their debut album in '89, but I might be wrong. Have to agree that Queen's The Miracle had its moments but far from their best (not forgetting that there are hints why they didn't tour the album).
For albums that I loved from that year...
Xentrix - Shattered Existence
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Overkill - Years of Decay
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Terrorizer - World Downfall
RHCP - Mother's Milk
Soundgarden - Louder than Love
There's other albums from the year that I could mention but think that would be enough for now. Look forward to the next one.
Hi - the Quireboys singles came out in 1989, the album was 1990 (and rather good too!)
Agree with Jam, Sonic Temple was fantastic, still a regular for me Down Under ;)
Will also lock in with Dyl on Skid Row has aged extremely well.
For my third I'd go the Badlands debut.
And being such a good year honorable mentions are plenty, Tesla's Great Radio Controversy, D.A.D No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims, Whitesnake Slip Of The Tongue (yes you read that right ;) Kingdom Come In Your Face (and read that right too ;) Little Angels Don't Prey For Me, Tangier's Four Winds and White Lion's Big Game (well said Gappy) would round out my ten 'though do feel a need to swap something out for Pump!
A great year of music \m/
1. Savatage - Gutter Ballet
2. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
3. Overkill - The Years of Decay
4. Annihilator - Alice In Hell
5. Faith No More - The Real Thing
6. The Cult - Sonic Temple
7. King Diamond - Conspiracy
8. Whitesnake - Slip of The Toongue
9. Blue Murder - Blue Murder
10. Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise
11. Candlemass - Tales of Creation
12. King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
13. Skid Row - Skid Row
14. UDO - Mean Machine
15. Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
16. Gary Moore - After The War
17. Joe Satriani - Flying In a Blue Dream
18. Blind Guardian - Follow The Blind
19. Testament - Practice What You Preach
20. Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
Great choices once again lads I would like to add 2 more to the list Little Angels with don't prey for me and marillions seasons end saw Little Angels
Yeah - good shout with those two! I saw H’s first ever gig with Marillion in a tiny pub in Oxfordshire - mad !!
FNM were AMAZING live. Those hummingbird gigs were top 5 in my life. Good times! Enuff Z Nuff was a not album that didn’t get a message. I think Badlands and Blue Murder shoulda got in the top 12 though. Fair enough on the top 1&2 though… I’d rather have black box than FM…
Whitesnake (slip of the tongue) best album of 1989
Nah ! 😅
White Lion's Pride is a far superior record to Big Game in my estimation.
Always like to hear someone agreeing with me cheers 🤘
Last year of the 1980s lads, looking forward to this one! 🤘
Cheers - look forward to having your comments!!
Only one of my selections made the top 12 and none made the top 5.
1. King Diamond - Conspiracy
2. Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
3. Annihilator - Alice In Hell
4. Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
5. Atheist - Piece of Time
Kinda fell out of purchasing new music after 89 as the metal music scene was too watered down or just too extreme for my taste at the time.
Good variety of picks by the PowerAge crew.
Cheers! We all have different taste - including you!
Badlands towers over everything on this list. Superior and timeless bluesy hardrock with a touch of sleaze.
What would be your top 5?