Do you know what? I think this series is becoming an absolute classic series of videos that I can see myself returning to again and again. There’s so much to pick over here and it’s that dense that one doesn’t want to miss anything. It’s always good to find someone with a really wide taste in good music different to one’s own. It’s lovely to discover new old music one has missed, and it’s nice to relive old memories, music is so powerful in dredging up stuff from the past. Great picks !
Thank you, seriously, it's so nice to hear these videos are connecting. I've always felt a bit guarded about some of this stuff...worries about oversharing, that sort of thing. I'm trying to strike a balance where I can open up, be a bit autobiographical, whilst keeping "the music" the central pillar. It's actually proved to be easier than I thought, because music is, always has been, at the centre of my life anyway! The honesty required is the thing that's been most interesting for me. All too easy to cherry pick stuff, and by sticking to the "what was my favorite then" rather than the "what would I pick looking back now", I've found these very enjoyable to make, and very illuminating, too. Really appreciate the support! Best, D
In 1989 I hadn’t heard of Bob Mould. I have one track in my Apple Music collection, Monument (2016). I will look into the back catalogue. Like Green last week, Disintegration was my Gateway album to The Cure, still holds up 35 years on. Honourable mentions for me this year: Blind Man’s Zoo, Full Moon Fever, The Stone Roses , and simply for the nostalgia of Love Shack, Cosmic Thing. Tin roof. Rusted. I also had a dilemma between 2 greats for Album of 1989. Both I consider the best of each artist: The The Mind Bomb and The Blue Nile Hats. Very different genres but both spoke and continue to speak to me musically and lyrically. Getting off the fence, by the smallest of margins that I can only describe as it draws you in rather than hitting you in the face, Hats is the winner for me.
Of the Mould solo albums, if you want a few recommendations then I'd go Workbook (naturally!), S/T (with the "hubcap" cover art), Silver Age and, of his most recent ones, I'd take Sunshine Rock ahead of Blue Hearts. Of those two, I'd probably go Hats too. I think it's maybe aged a little better than Mind Bomb, but saying that, it's been a few years since I played it (I had it on heavy rotation for a bit, maybe 5-10 years ago). Think your description is bang on...Johnson comes across as a bit "shouty" when I listen to Mind Bomb now. Cheers, D
Damn! How could I forget Waking Hours by Del Amitri? Doesn’t change my album of the year choice, but certainly Best Lyrics album of the year. Also first and best band I saw at the students union. Standout track - Move away Jimmy Blue.
Excellent episode 👏👏👏 I loved the intro where you talk about how in ‘89 where were all still very “one eyed” , at least I was anyway 😅 My favourite album from this year at the time would of been something by the likes of “Little Angels” , “Aerosmith” , “Alice Cooper” or “Skid Row”. And as much nostalgia I still have for these releases, knowing now that the likes of “Nirvana” , “Godflesh” and , my personal fave, “Nine Inch Nails” , all debuted this year makes me wish I looked below the surface of the iceberg as you so accurately put it. The one album that I haven’t already mentioned that I think deserves a shoutout is “Faith No More” with their breakout release, “The Real Thing”. This was Hard Rocking heavy music but not exactly the same old, same old that I’d been spoon feed by the corporate machine so far in my life. It was the first album that I brought for myself that was perhaps a little “alternative”, rather than the standard Hard Rock or Heavy Metal. Again, thanks so much for this episode and I look forward to you entering the 1990’s next week 😎🤘
Cheers! '88, '89 was pretty much 100% guitars...all alt/indie stuff...but fast forward a year and I would've been listening to a fair bit of hip-hop and electronic stuff alongside that, without even thinking about it. Good shout on "The Real Thing"...it was one of those records (Depeche Mode's "Violator" is another) that I forever associate with Uni Halls...the kind of records that really "cut through" to a wider audience than "pure" metal or electronic/synth fans. All the best, D
Yay, I guessed your no. 1 pick from your description! Didn't study the thumbnail, honest. So many great records released in 1989... the eighties really ended on a high. The charts were probably getting lame already though, yes. Can't pick just one album but feel like playing Julee Cruise's Floating Into the Night, Kate Bush's the Sensual World or A.R. Kane's"ï".
You could get Doolittle from the thumb (the colours are a dead giveaway), but Workbook's a bit of an odd/muddy/blue/grey one, so not quite so obvious, maybe? I dunno. Man, that Julee Cruise album was a thing late '89, wasn't it? Completely forgot that one. I used to lust over a copy of "i" in the inexplicable indie record shop that opened up in my hometown circa '90 or thereabouts. That was insane. I went from trawling the racks of Woolworths for anything vaguely obscure in '88 and '89, to being able to walk 20 yards off the main high street, and leaf through literally every single Rough Trade, Mute, 4AD and Creation album on general release. Ultra Vivid Scene, Biff Bang Pow, Dead Can Dance, all The Bad Seeds stuff...shit, I even remember a copy of Slates I could have picked up for peanuts. It's probably wrong to fantasize about using a time machine just to go record shopping, right? Cheers, D
@@discellany Yeah, I too have similar memories, be it from the local indie record store or traveling to a record fair... when there was so much great recent music and older to discover. Building a collection was just so much fun! Flipping through those records, admiring the covers and finding the "best ones" while (mostly) enjoying looking through all of them. The internet is great and handy and all but having some sort of mental list and seeing what was actually available and what just looked interesting and cheap enough to gamble on was brilliant fun too. Still is.
Great vid as always! I've been waiting for this one; and was curious what you would choose. I had predicted that it would be one of two albums, and you chose neither (but I'm glad to know that one of my picks was the runner up). 1989 was also pretty big year for me, though for different reasons than you. I was thirteen, and that was the year I shifted my music tastes to more contemporary stuff rather than the classic rock, oldies, and folk which I was listening to prior. Concurrent to this was me really focusing on learning how to play guitar, and there was so much great music that year to inspire me. Last week's entry was a frequent play, as were Cosmic Thing and Violent Femmes 3 (which was the first album I anticipated the release of). I also remember my brother giving Key Lime Pie, Peace And Love, Doolittle, and The Real Thing some spins, and of course I have since discovered other classics from that year, like Disintegration, Oranges And Lemons, Pretty Hate Machine, Bleach, Paul's Boutique, and Don't Tell A Soul. Truly a classic year for music. Looking forward to 1990! (oh, and if you can track down a copy of the out of print Richard Thompson tribute album, Beat The Retreat, Bob Mould does a stellar cover of "Turning Of The Tide"-- and REM does "Wall Of Death", to boot)
Thanks! '89 still feels like a great year, looking back. Really diverse, with a bunch of stand-outs. Key Lime Pie is a good call, too. Remember really liking the Status Quo cover off that one! I think this year (maybe '88, I'm not sure) is the year I picked up guitar again and started learning it in earnest. I'd tried and failed many years before (I was 7 or 8 maybe), but finally being able to play along to music I loved (Green was probably my "go to" for that) really spurred me on and kept me sticking with it. Will keep an eye out for the Thompson tribute. I'm a sucker for those! D
A lovely year and time for music. It’s hard to separate the music from the changes taking place across Europe. I think it’s possible to pick any of the big records and not be wrong on any decision. Still stuck listening to hip-hop, so I’d side with 3ft High. Annoyingly, I lent my tape out to a friend and never had it back. Yes, one of those. Sigh. Bought it a few times over the years since. The track Buddy is phenomenal - you get De La, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Jungle Brothers right there on the same track. When the mood takes me, I can still recite it word for word. A more lighthearted record - Young MC - Stone Cold Rhymin. Super-pleased to see The Kitchens get a mention.
3ft was such a great entry point for new listeners to hip hop that year. The whole linking "skit" thing works, but got overplayed by a lot of imitators (or so it felt) in the years immediately following it. Always liked Ghetto Thang along with the bigger hits/singles. Admission time...I actually have a signed photo of KOD somewhere in a box of old Uni memorabilia! A friend at Leics Uni worked on the Union paper there, was interviewing them (I think), knew I was really into them, and got them to autograph a press shot for me. Fanboy! Cheers, D
That's interesting, I only took notice of Mould again when he kicked off Sugar, didn't even know he'd done 2 solo records post Husker Du. I'll give them a turn.
The post-Sugar S/T album is pretty good, too. It was labelled as Bob's lo-fi album at the time (as I recall), but it's not like he went GBV or anything. I like it. Cheers, D
Great picks for sure! I'm a Pixies fan, so... on the heavy side 89 has streetcleanner and The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste of Godflesh and Ministry that still stand to this day. Wrong of No Means No is fenomenal!!
Pixies/Mould was so tight, it really was. In the end, I asked my wife (we met in 1990) which one I banged on about more back in the day. "Oh, God", she said, "Bob Mould, by a mile". So that sealed it! The Nomeansno Peel session from summer '89 was mindblowing...a mix of stuff from "Small Parts" and the then-still-unreleased "Wrong". I recorded it at the time of broadcast, played it on repeat for months, and then picked up "Wrong" for Christmas that year. It's an incredible record. Cheers, D
Great to have been 17 in 1989…so much amazing music happening. In some ways it’s like I was having a mirror image musical experience…had all those same albums you’d shown…didn’t quite get the Roses either…I discovered so much amazing music that year…in such a short space of time..blew my mind.its like I went from zero to 100 in a couple of months. Was introduced to Husker Du in September that year by a new friend, who was one of two Husker Du heads in my town. Soon after he gave me Workbook. Grew to love this album so much, along with all the Huskers stuff. By 1990 that other Husker fanatic had asked my to join his band ( on drums)…the band was called (wait for it)….Sunspots😂. I was no Grant Hart….but we gave it a good go! Finally got to see Bob play in November last year…still can’t believe he played here (Cork). …so many great memories. Thanks for giving me a reason to drudge them up. As for my favourite album from ‘89 might be Tweez by Slint…although I don’t think I heard it ‘till 1990.
Yeah, '88 through to '90 felt like years experienced in fast forward, at 10x speed. Constantly playing catch-up! Finally got to see Mould circa Sugar's "Copper Blue" tour, at UEA. 92? 93? I was absolutely overwhelmed. Will never forget him rolling around on his back playing "Man On The Moon" at the close of the show, without fluffing a single note. Hero. University, life stuff, unemployment meant I didn't get a band together 'til about '97 or '98, by which time I was playing/listening to some pretty different stuff to ten years previous. I'll probably get around to talking about that when those years roll around, July or thereabouts maybe? I was lagging a bit with Slint myself...a year or two behind, I reckon. Amazing to think that David Pajo was actually studying in Norwich ( at the Art School, not UEA) in the early 90s whilst I was here, too. I swear I knew a friend of a friend of a friend (something like that anyway) who looked just like him...Who knows? Maybe it was him? Cheers, D
Even though I'm a big Richard Thompson fan, I never really took to Workbook, I prefer it when Mould cranks up the distortion. In addition to the albums you mentioned, albums I was playing include Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3, 13 Songs by Fugazi and New York by Lou Reed. On the heavier side of things, I was listening to Nothingface by Voivod and Streetcleaner by Godflesh. My absolute favourite though, is Rock 'n' Roll by The Mekons. It's a stunning album. Not as country as other Mekons albums, it does exactly what it says on the tin. They played in a wee Scottish mining town not too far from where I live around this time, one of the greatest gigs I've ever been to.
'Pure' was my first real time Godflesh album but, wow, amazing something that still sounds so modern like 'Streetcleaner' came out in '89! I bought 'New York' that summer too (I have a fascination with 'city' music) and am now slightly embarrassed by a memory of insisting my family listened to it in the car on the way to Yarmouth for the yearly holiday. Surprised we lasted the whole 1st side of tales of drugs, AIDS and hookers blowing cops before my parents took it off. Do you know I've never listened to the Mekons? I'll put that album to the top of my must hear list 😃
@@markroff1012 I can just imagine being in that car, Lou's vocals are really prominent on that album, there's no mistaking what he's talking about! Hope you like the Mekons.
The Mekons are 100% fine with me. Rock 'n' Roll is amazing, and I also love their The Curse Of... album from a few years later. Always considered them a Leeds band for years, until finding out Jon Langford actually came from Newport, right next to my hometown. He actually has a side project called Jon Langford And The Men Of Gwent, which I must chase down one of these days. Cheers, D
1989 was important for me... the year I graduated high school which maybe wasn't that life changing! But, finding Pixies "Doolittle" in the fall of 89 during my first semester of college certainly did change my life musically speaking.
'89 was an epiphany year for me in my musical awakening. As spoken of before i had interests but impulsively picking up a copy of NME due to the strange allure of having a then unknown (to me), lipstick smeared Robert Smith on the front opened me up to the indie charts and it's been kind of a runaway train since. A casette copy of 'Doolittle' bought from Our Price in Redcar whilst visiting a displaced school friend ('Surfer Rosa' followed v soon after). 'Disintegration' - ironically bought a little later but still possibly my favourite album of all time (possibly!). The Wedding Present. Throwing Muses (Pixies' 4AD connection). JAMC. MBV. Wow, so revelatory to my young mind (I'm about a year younger than you, Darren) and still are. I think i picked up 'Workbook' coz it was in a 99p clear out sale at the local record shop. Was vaguely, vaguely aware of Husker Du and listened to the casette maybe once before it got shelved. Later found the thrill of noise and the Huskers and so revisited 'Workbook'; such a great album but has even greater meaning when you later find out the context for Mould. How can you heartbreak a stranger? Listen and find out.
Think my first NME might have coincided with my first flight! We, my family, were going to stay with family friends in the States in the summer of '88, and I picked up a copy at Heathrow for something to read en route. Wracking my brains to think what music I packed for the trip...definitely tapes of The Joshua Tree and (I think) the Joy Division Substance comp that had come out that summer. Also remember buying my copy of the House Of Love's debut whilst we were in the USA, from some random record chain in a Mall somewhere or other! By the end of the year, my NME was getting delivered weekly with the morning papers from the local corner shop! That was it...I was locked in. Start of '89, late January, Snub TV...there were Pixies playing live pre-album versions of "Dead" and "I Bleed". I couldn't believe what I was seeing/hearing. Incredible times. D
Also oof on that stone roses take. I still think that album is a work of genius, but you can for sure blame it for better or worse all the britpop that came after, so in a way I understand what you mean. Besides all of us are entitled on a classic indie group we don't get (mine is Dinosaur Jr)
Was tempted to go all clickbait with the Roses angle, but decided to tuck it away mid-video and let it play out naturally! Honestly, I don't mind "Fools Gold" as a single, but never got much out of them beyond that. Going to Uni in 1990 that album was completely unavoidable...everyone had a copy. Apart from me of course! Cheers, D
Should also add that I edited out a string of running gags about the Roses that I had woven through the entire second half of the video. Had to cut them for time! D
I have the Roses album for 'Waterfall' alone. 'Bug' by Dinosaur ruled my world and I think I listened to it constantly for 2 weeks after buying. But, horses for courses, y'know? 😉
If I had to pick 1 from 1989, it would have to be De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising. I was all about hip hop those days (and house music for a bit), and the production and rhymes were so wildly different from most acts then. I was thrilled they finally released it on streaming. Later on, though, Pixies "Doolittle" was a massive influence on me. (Sorry, edited out Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, thought it was 89. Close though).
Peel wasn't a fan of the Stone Roses either and compared them to Herman Hermits !! He was forced to play them when they had several entries in the 1989 Festive Fifty
Probably very hard to find but Max Q released an album called Max Q - worth trying to find- parts of it no doubt on RUclips. MaxQ was INXS frontman Michael Hutchene's attempt to take a different direction- electronic dance with Ollie Olsen. He'd be fooling around with acting Dogs in Space in 86 and a Frankenstein film in 90, problaby trying to get away from INXS. Its a great album and he's great on it, better the most INXS stuff except their very early stuff, which is like a lot of young bands early work, really interesitng.
The Blue Nile weren't really on my radar at the time, but I've listened to "Hats" a bit since, and like it. Put me in mind of a less melodramatic, more-electronic UK take on American Music Club (Scottish Music Club?), who I adore. I guess they were perceived as a bit "smooth" at the time, but I'm over those kind sweeping generalisations now, and have learned to enjoy them! Cheers, D
1989 - It was certainly Disintegration that made the biggest impact at the time on me, but New Order and Throwing Muses would be close behind it. Disintegration was just the easier one to wallow in as I waited my time out through high school to escape my small town. Much of the import music of this year for me was a look back to the previous few years. Big Black, Echo and the Bunnymen, This Mortal Coil. These would be things that I keep coming back to throughout the next 30+ years. Side note. Disc rot sucks. Lost my favorite Peel Sampler (A New Season) to it, amongst other discs.
Disc rot...I could take this if it was an "old" CD, but it ain't. This Galaxie 500 one, plus my copy of "Today" are CD reissues on Domino from 2010, and they've both degraded to the point of being unplayable. A bad batch, obviously, but Domino can't replace them because they've lost the rights to these, and they're now out of print. Grrrrr. D
Do you know what? I think this series is becoming an absolute classic series of videos that I can see myself returning to again and again. There’s so much to pick over here and it’s that dense that one doesn’t want to miss anything. It’s always good to find someone with a really wide taste in good music different to one’s own. It’s lovely to discover new old music one has missed, and it’s nice to relive old memories, music is so powerful in dredging up stuff from the past. Great picks !
Thank you, seriously, it's so nice to hear these videos are connecting. I've always felt a bit guarded about some of this stuff...worries about oversharing, that sort of thing. I'm trying to strike a balance where I can open up, be a bit autobiographical, whilst keeping "the music" the central pillar. It's actually proved to be easier than I thought, because music is, always has been, at the centre of my life anyway! The honesty required is the thing that's been most interesting for me. All too easy to cherry pick stuff, and by sticking to the "what was my favorite then" rather than the "what would I pick looking back now", I've found these very enjoyable to make, and very illuminating, too.
Really appreciate the support! Best, D
Agree
Great choice. I love this album.
1989 a number. Another summer. Great pick for an amazing year in music of course
In 1989 I hadn’t heard of Bob Mould. I have one track in my Apple Music collection, Monument (2016). I will look into the back catalogue.
Like Green last week, Disintegration was my Gateway album to The Cure, still holds up 35 years on.
Honourable mentions for me this year: Blind Man’s Zoo, Full Moon Fever, The Stone Roses , and simply for the nostalgia of Love Shack, Cosmic Thing. Tin roof. Rusted.
I also had a dilemma between 2 greats for Album of 1989. Both I consider the best of each artist: The The Mind Bomb and The Blue Nile Hats. Very different genres but both spoke and continue to speak to me musically and lyrically.
Getting off the fence, by the smallest of margins that I can only describe as it draws you in rather than hitting you in the face, Hats is the winner for me.
Of the Mould solo albums, if you want a few recommendations then I'd go Workbook (naturally!), S/T (with the "hubcap" cover art), Silver Age and, of his most recent ones, I'd take Sunshine Rock ahead of Blue Hearts.
Of those two, I'd probably go Hats too. I think it's maybe aged a little better than Mind Bomb, but saying that, it's been a few years since I played it (I had it on heavy rotation for a bit, maybe 5-10 years ago). Think your description is bang on...Johnson comes across as a bit "shouty" when I listen to Mind Bomb now. Cheers, D
Damn! How could I forget Waking Hours by Del Amitri? Doesn’t change my album of the year choice, but certainly Best Lyrics album of the year. Also first and best band I saw at the students union. Standout track - Move away Jimmy Blue.
Excellent episode 👏👏👏
I loved the intro where you talk about how in ‘89 where were all still very “one eyed” , at least I was anyway 😅
My favourite album from this year at the time would of been something by the likes of “Little Angels” , “Aerosmith” , “Alice Cooper” or “Skid Row”. And as much nostalgia I still have for these releases, knowing now that the likes of “Nirvana” , “Godflesh” and , my personal fave, “Nine Inch Nails” , all debuted this year makes me wish I looked below the surface of the iceberg as you so accurately put it.
The one album that I haven’t already mentioned that I think deserves a shoutout is “Faith No More” with their breakout release, “The Real Thing”. This was Hard Rocking heavy music but not exactly the same old, same old that I’d been spoon feed by the corporate machine so far in my life. It was the first album that I brought for myself that was perhaps a little “alternative”, rather than the standard Hard Rock or Heavy Metal.
Again, thanks so much for this episode and I look forward to you entering the 1990’s next week 😎🤘
Cheers! '88, '89 was pretty much 100% guitars...all alt/indie stuff...but fast forward a year and I would've been listening to a fair bit of hip-hop and electronic stuff alongside that, without even thinking about it. Good shout on "The Real Thing"...it was one of those records (Depeche Mode's "Violator" is another) that I forever associate with Uni Halls...the kind of records that really "cut through" to a wider audience than "pure" metal or electronic/synth fans. All the best, D
Another great one.
Yay, I guessed your no. 1 pick from your description! Didn't study the thumbnail, honest. So many great records released in 1989... the eighties really ended on a high. The charts were probably getting lame already though, yes. Can't pick just one album but feel like playing Julee Cruise's Floating Into the Night, Kate Bush's the Sensual World or A.R. Kane's"ï".
You could get Doolittle from the thumb (the colours are a dead giveaway), but Workbook's a bit of an odd/muddy/blue/grey one, so not quite so obvious, maybe? I dunno.
Man, that Julee Cruise album was a thing late '89, wasn't it? Completely forgot that one. I used to lust over a copy of "i" in the inexplicable indie record shop that opened up in my hometown circa '90 or thereabouts. That was insane. I went from trawling the racks of Woolworths for anything vaguely obscure in '88 and '89, to being able to walk 20 yards off the main high street, and leaf through literally every single Rough Trade, Mute, 4AD and Creation album on general release. Ultra Vivid Scene, Biff Bang Pow, Dead Can Dance, all The Bad Seeds stuff...shit, I even remember a copy of Slates I could have picked up for peanuts.
It's probably wrong to fantasize about using a time machine just to go record shopping, right?
Cheers, D
@@discellany Yeah, I too have similar memories, be it from the local indie record store or traveling to a record fair... when there was so much great recent music and older to discover. Building a collection was just so much fun! Flipping through those records, admiring the covers and finding the "best ones" while (mostly) enjoying looking through all of them.
The internet is great and handy and all but having some sort of mental list and seeing what was actually available and what just looked interesting and cheap enough to gamble on was brilliant fun too. Still is.
Great vid as always! I've been waiting for this one; and was curious what you would choose. I had predicted that it would be one of two albums, and you chose neither (but I'm glad to know that one of my picks was the runner up).
1989 was also pretty big year for me, though for different reasons than you. I was thirteen, and that was the year I shifted my music tastes to more contemporary stuff rather than the classic rock, oldies, and folk which I was listening to prior. Concurrent to this was me really focusing on learning how to play guitar, and there was so much great music that year to inspire me.
Last week's entry was a frequent play, as were Cosmic Thing and Violent Femmes 3 (which was the first album I anticipated the release of).
I also remember my brother giving Key Lime Pie, Peace And Love, Doolittle, and The Real Thing some spins, and of course I have since discovered other classics from that year, like Disintegration, Oranges And Lemons, Pretty Hate Machine, Bleach, Paul's Boutique, and Don't Tell A Soul.
Truly a classic year for music.
Looking forward to 1990!
(oh, and if you can track down a copy of the out of print Richard Thompson tribute album, Beat The Retreat, Bob Mould does a stellar cover of "Turning Of The Tide"-- and REM does "Wall Of Death", to boot)
Thanks! '89 still feels like a great year, looking back. Really diverse, with a bunch of stand-outs. Key Lime Pie is a good call, too. Remember really liking the Status Quo cover off that one!
I think this year (maybe '88, I'm not sure) is the year I picked up guitar again and started learning it in earnest. I'd tried and failed many years before (I was 7 or 8 maybe), but finally being able to play along to music I loved (Green was probably my "go to" for that) really spurred me on and kept me sticking with it.
Will keep an eye out for the Thompson tribute. I'm a sucker for those! D
A lovely year and time for music. It’s hard to separate the music from the changes taking place across Europe. I think it’s possible to pick any of the big records and not be wrong on any decision. Still stuck listening to hip-hop, so I’d side with 3ft High. Annoyingly, I lent my tape out to a friend and never had it back. Yes, one of those. Sigh. Bought it a few times over the years since. The track Buddy is phenomenal - you get De La, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Jungle Brothers right there on the same track. When the mood takes me, I can still recite it word for word. A more lighthearted record - Young MC - Stone Cold Rhymin. Super-pleased to see The Kitchens get a mention.
3ft was such a great entry point for new listeners to hip hop that year. The whole linking "skit" thing works, but got overplayed by a lot of imitators (or so it felt) in the years immediately following it. Always liked Ghetto Thang along with the bigger hits/singles.
Admission time...I actually have a signed photo of KOD somewhere in a box of old Uni memorabilia! A friend at Leics Uni worked on the Union paper there, was interviewing them (I think), knew I was really into them, and got them to autograph a press shot for me. Fanboy! Cheers, D
That's interesting, I only took notice of Mould again when he kicked off Sugar, didn't even know he'd done 2 solo records post Husker Du. I'll give them a turn.
The post-Sugar S/T album is pretty good, too. It was labelled as Bob's lo-fi album at the time (as I recall), but it's not like he went GBV or anything. I like it. Cheers, D
Great picks for sure! I'm a Pixies fan, so... on the heavy side 89 has streetcleanner and The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste of Godflesh and Ministry that still stand to this day. Wrong of No Means No is fenomenal!!
Pixies/Mould was so tight, it really was. In the end, I asked my wife (we met in 1990) which one I banged on about more back in the day. "Oh, God", she said, "Bob Mould, by a mile". So that sealed it!
The Nomeansno Peel session from summer '89 was mindblowing...a mix of stuff from "Small Parts" and the then-still-unreleased "Wrong". I recorded it at the time of broadcast, played it on repeat for months, and then picked up "Wrong" for Christmas that year. It's an incredible record. Cheers, D
Thank you for reminding me that “The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste” came out this year, I don’t know how I forgot about that 🙄👍
Great to have been 17 in 1989…so much amazing music happening. In some ways it’s like I was having a mirror image musical experience…had all those same albums you’d shown…didn’t quite get the Roses either…I discovered so much amazing music that year…in such a short space of time..blew my mind.its like I went from zero to 100 in a couple of months. Was introduced to Husker Du in September that year by a new friend, who was one of two Husker Du heads in my town. Soon after he gave me Workbook. Grew to love this album so much, along with all the Huskers stuff. By 1990 that other Husker fanatic had asked my to join his band ( on drums)…the band was called (wait for it)….Sunspots😂. I was no Grant Hart….but we gave it a good go! Finally got to see Bob play in November last year…still can’t believe he played here (Cork). …so many great memories. Thanks for giving me a reason to drudge them up. As for my favourite album from ‘89 might be Tweez by Slint…although I don’t think I heard it ‘till 1990.
Yeah, '88 through to '90 felt like years experienced in fast forward, at 10x speed. Constantly playing catch-up! Finally got to see Mould circa Sugar's "Copper Blue" tour, at UEA. 92? 93? I was absolutely overwhelmed. Will never forget him rolling around on his back playing "Man On The Moon" at the close of the show, without fluffing a single note. Hero.
University, life stuff, unemployment meant I didn't get a band together 'til about '97 or '98, by which time I was playing/listening to some pretty different stuff to ten years previous. I'll probably get around to talking about that when those years roll around, July or thereabouts maybe?
I was lagging a bit with Slint myself...a year or two behind, I reckon. Amazing to think that David Pajo was actually studying in Norwich ( at the Art School, not UEA) in the early 90s whilst I was here, too. I swear I knew a friend of a friend of a friend (something like that anyway) who looked just like him...Who knows? Maybe it was him? Cheers, D
Even though I'm a big Richard Thompson fan, I never really took to Workbook, I prefer it when Mould cranks up the distortion.
In addition to the albums you mentioned, albums I was playing include Playing With Fire by Spacemen 3, 13 Songs by Fugazi and New York by Lou Reed.
On the heavier side of things, I was listening to Nothingface by Voivod and Streetcleaner by Godflesh.
My absolute favourite though, is Rock 'n' Roll by The Mekons. It's a stunning album. Not as country as other Mekons albums, it does exactly what it says on the tin. They played in a wee Scottish mining town not too far from where I live around this time, one of the greatest gigs I've ever been to.
'Pure' was my first real time Godflesh album but, wow, amazing something that still sounds so modern like 'Streetcleaner' came out in '89!
I bought 'New York' that summer too (I have a fascination with 'city' music) and am now slightly embarrassed by a memory of insisting my family listened to it in the car on the way to Yarmouth for the yearly holiday. Surprised we lasted the whole 1st side of tales of drugs, AIDS and hookers blowing cops before my parents took it off.
Do you know I've never listened to the Mekons? I'll put that album to the top of my must hear list 😃
@@markroff1012 I can just imagine being in that car, Lou's vocals are really prominent on that album, there's no mistaking what he's talking about! Hope you like the Mekons.
@@alanwilson1724 Perhaps, as the eldest of 3, not my finest hour mate 🫣
The Mekons are 100% fine with me. Rock 'n' Roll is amazing, and I also love their The Curse Of... album from a few years later. Always considered them a Leeds band for years, until finding out Jon Langford actually came from Newport, right next to my hometown. He actually has a side project called Jon Langford And The Men Of Gwent, which I must chase down one of these days. Cheers, D
@@discellany I had The Curse of... on a TDK tape, I should really get a "proper" copy.
1989 was important for me... the year I graduated high school which maybe wasn't that life changing! But, finding Pixies "Doolittle" in the fall of 89 during my first semester of college certainly did change my life musically speaking.
'89 was an epiphany year for me in my musical awakening. As spoken of before i had interests but impulsively picking up a copy of NME due to the strange allure of having a then unknown (to me), lipstick smeared Robert Smith on the front opened me up to the indie charts and it's been kind of a runaway train since. A casette copy of 'Doolittle' bought from Our Price in Redcar whilst visiting a displaced school friend ('Surfer Rosa' followed v soon after). 'Disintegration' - ironically bought a little later but still possibly my favourite album of all time (possibly!). The Wedding Present. Throwing Muses (Pixies' 4AD connection). JAMC. MBV. Wow, so revelatory to my young mind (I'm about a year younger than you, Darren) and still are.
I think i picked up 'Workbook' coz it was in a 99p clear out sale at the local record shop. Was vaguely, vaguely aware of Husker Du and listened to the casette maybe once before it got shelved. Later found the thrill of noise and the Huskers and so revisited 'Workbook'; such a great album but has even greater meaning when you later find out the context for Mould. How can you heartbreak a stranger? Listen and find out.
Think my first NME might have coincided with my first flight! We, my family, were going to stay with family friends in the States in the summer of '88, and I picked up a copy at Heathrow for something to read en route. Wracking my brains to think what music I packed for the trip...definitely tapes of The Joshua Tree and (I think) the Joy Division Substance comp that had come out that summer. Also remember buying my copy of the House Of Love's debut whilst we were in the USA, from some random record chain in a Mall somewhere or other! By the end of the year, my NME was getting delivered weekly with the morning papers from the local corner shop! That was it...I was locked in. Start of '89, late January, Snub TV...there were Pixies playing live pre-album versions of "Dead" and "I Bleed". I couldn't believe what I was seeing/hearing. Incredible times. D
Also oof on that stone roses take. I still think that album is a work of genius, but you can for sure blame it for better or worse all the britpop that came after, so in a way I understand what you mean. Besides all of us are entitled on a classic indie group we don't get (mine is Dinosaur Jr)
Was tempted to go all clickbait with the Roses angle, but decided to tuck it away mid-video and let it play out naturally! Honestly, I don't mind "Fools Gold" as a single, but never got much out of them beyond that. Going to Uni in 1990 that album was completely unavoidable...everyone had a copy. Apart from me of course! Cheers, D
Should also add that I edited out a string of running gags about the Roses that I had woven through the entire second half of the video. Had to cut them for time! D
I have the Roses album for 'Waterfall' alone. 'Bug' by Dinosaur ruled my world and I think I listened to it constantly for 2 weeks after buying. But, horses for courses, y'know? 😉
If I had to pick 1 from 1989, it would have to be De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising. I was all about hip hop those days (and house music for a bit), and the production and rhymes were so wildly different from most acts then. I was thrilled they finally released it on streaming.
Later on, though, Pixies "Doolittle" was a massive influence on me. (Sorry, edited out Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, thought it was 89. Close though).
Peel wasn't a fan of the Stone Roses either and compared them to Herman Hermits !! He was forced to play them when they had several entries in the 1989 Festive Fifty
Yeah, The Smiths got a pass when they blitzed the F50 in '87, because he actually liked them. Not so for The Roses! D
Probably very hard to find but Max Q released an album called Max Q - worth trying to find- parts of it no doubt on RUclips. MaxQ was INXS frontman Michael Hutchene's attempt to take a different direction- electronic dance with Ollie Olsen. He'd be fooling around with acting Dogs in Space in 86 and a Frankenstein film in 90, problaby trying to get away from INXS. Its a great album and he's great on it, better the most INXS stuff except their very early stuff, which is like a lot of young bands early work, really interesitng.
what do you think about hats - the blue nile? that or disintegration would be my choice. a great year fs
also happy 35 years to disintegration also!
Hats +1
The Blue Nile weren't really on my radar at the time, but I've listened to "Hats" a bit since, and like it. Put me in mind of a less melodramatic, more-electronic UK take on American Music Club (Scottish Music Club?), who I adore. I guess they were perceived as a bit "smooth" at the time, but I'm over those kind sweeping generalisations now, and have learned to enjoy them! Cheers, D
1989 - It was certainly Disintegration that made the biggest impact at the time on me, but New Order and Throwing Muses would be close behind it. Disintegration was just the easier one to wallow in as I waited my time out through high school to escape my small town. Much of the import music of this year for me was a look back to the previous few years. Big Black, Echo and the Bunnymen, This Mortal Coil. These would be things that I keep coming back to throughout the next 30+ years.
Side note. Disc rot sucks. Lost my favorite Peel Sampler (A New Season) to it, amongst other discs.
Disc rot...I could take this if it was an "old" CD, but it ain't. This Galaxie 500 one, plus my copy of "Today" are CD reissues on Domino from 2010, and they've both degraded to the point of being unplayable. A bad batch, obviously, but Domino can't replace them because they've lost the rights to these, and they're now out of print. Grrrrr. D
@@discellany yea that sucks even more.