I don't remember 1989 as having much of a musical personality, but some 
records I really like came out that year:

Good Evening, Marshall Crenshaw
Oh Mercy, Bob Dylan (and I'm not really a Dylan fan)
The first Indigo Girls album
Heart Shaped World, Chris Isaak
Acadie, Daniel Lanois (he's probably why I like the Dylan)
Neville Brothers, Yellow Moon (yep, a Lanois kinda year)
Lou Reed, New York (which I think is great)
Nearly Human, Todd Rundgren
Smithereens 11
Oranges and Lemons, XTC

I used my Excel album data base to pull these out, but scanning the list, 
that is pretty much how I remember the year (toss in the McCartney, the 
Petty, and the Stones, Steel Wheels)

You can see, by 1989 I was no longer paying attention to popular music...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Flowers In the Dirt


> Josh:
>
> My impression of 1989 is that it stands as one of the worst years in 
> history
> for popular music (New Kids, Richard Marx, Skid Row, etc)
>
> With the exception of some college radio albums from that year, everything
> I hear from 1989 is practically unlistenable...at least to my ears.
>
> I can't even stand "Full Moon Fever" any more.
>
> Jeff
>>
>> I didn't know thtere were trends in 1989.  I would have pegged that era
>> as between trends (a few years earlier, cheesy synths; a few years
>> after, very loud then very soft...)
>>
>