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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: 1989 |
| Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:05:09 -0400 |
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I certainly remember 1989 as a 12-month festival of crap myself, but
you have to realize, I was living in Friona, Texas that year.
(This'll give you an idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friona ) The
nearest place to buy music at all was a Gibson's Discount Store in
Hereford, about 25 miles east, the nearest proper record store was a
Hasting's in Clovis NM, 30 miles west, and the nearest decent record
stores were Ralph's and University in Lubbock, about 75 miles to the
southwest. Then factor in that I didn't buy my first CD player until
May of 1990, and since vinyl was unavailable by then, I was limited to
buying albums mainstream enough to be available on cassette.
I swear to god, I think the only new albums I bought in 1989 itself
were the B-52s' COSMIC THING and THERE GOES THE WONDERTRUCK by Mary's
Danish. Surprisingly, both of them still hold up pretty well.
But in retrospect, I'm looking at my iTunes, and here's ten entirely
solid albums released in '89 that I don't think anyone's mentioned
yet:
THE SENSUAL WORLD -- Kate Bush
HEADACHE RHETORIC -- The Close Lobsters
FLOATING INTO THE NIGHT -- Julee Cruise (amazing, amazing album that's
still terribly underrated)
THREE FEET HIGH AND RISING -- De La Soul (um, hello, only the single
greatest hip-hop album of all time)
KITE -- Kirsty MacColl
THE ENRAGED WILL INHERIT THE EARTH -- McCarthy
TECHNIQUE -- New Order
MARCH -- Michael Penn
PURE -- The Primitives (come to think of it, I probably bought this in
'89 proper as well)
PRESIDENT YO LA TENGO -- Yo La Tengo
So it wasn't ALL bad.
S
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