My favourite albums from 1989

1. 30

   Masters of Reality

   Masters of Reality

   

   

   Stoner rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Theme for the Scientist of the Invisible
   2. Domino
   3. The Blue Garden ●
   4. Gettin' High
   5. The Candy Song
   6. Magical Spell
   7. The Eyes of Texas
   8. Sleep Walkin'
   9. Lookin' to Get Rite
   10. John Brown
   11. Kill the King

2. 29

   Realm of Chaos

   Bolt Thrower

   

   

   Death metal | Grindcore

   Tracks:

   1. Intro
   2. Eternal War
   3. Through the Eye of Terror ●
   4. Dark Millenium
   5. All That Remains
   6. Lost Souls Domain
   7. Plague Bearer
   8. World Eater
   9. Drowned in Torment
   10. Realm of Chaos
   11. Outro

3. 28

   Nothingface

   Voivod

   

   

   Progressive metal | Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Intro / The Unknown Knows
   2. Nothingface
   3. Astronomy Domine
   4. Missing Sequences
   5. X-Ray Mirror
   6. Inner Combustion
   7. Pre-Ignition ●
   8. Into My Hypercube
   9. Sub-Effect

4. 27

   Death or Glory

   Running Wild

   

   

   Power metal | Heavy metal | Pirate metal

   Tracks:

   1. Riding the Storm ●
   2. Renegade
   3. Evilution
   4. Running Blood
   5. Highland Glory (the Eternal Fight)
   6. Marooned
   7. Bad to the Bone
   8. Tortuga Bay
   9. Death or Glory
   10. Battle of Waterloo

5. 26

   Severed Survival

   Autopsy

   

   

   Death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Charred Remains
   2. Servoce for a Vacant Coffin
   3. Disembowel ●
   4. Gasping for Air
   5. Ridden with Disease
   6. Pagan Saviour
   7. Impending Dread
   8. Severed Survival
   9. Critical Madness
   10. Embalmed
   11. Stillborn

6. 25

   Force Majeure

   Doro

   

   

   Hard rock | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. A Whiter Shade of Pale
   2. Save My Soul ●
   3. World Gone Wild
   4. Mission of Mercy
   5. Angels with Dirty Faces
   6. Beyond the Trees
   7. Hard Times
   8. Hellraiser
   9. I Am What I Am
   10. Cry Wolf
   11. Under the Gun
   12. River of Tears
   13. Bis auf Blut

7. 24

   Trash

   Alice Cooper

   

   

   Glam metal

   Tracks:

   1. Poison ●
   2. Spark in the Dark
   3. House of Fire
   4. Why Trust You
   5. Only My Heart Talkin'
   6. Bed of Nails
   7. This Maniac's in Love with You
   8. Trash
   9. Hell Is Living Without You
   10. I'm Your Gun

8. 23

   Bleach

   Nirvana

   

   

   Alternative metal

   Tracks:

   1. Blew
   2. Floyd the Barber
   3. About a Girl ●
   4. School
   5. Love Buzz
   6. Paper Cuts
   7. Negative Creep
   8. Scoff
   9. Swap Meet
   10. Mr. Moustache
   11. Sifting

9. 22

   Extreme Aggression

   Kreator

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Extreme Aggression
   2. No Reason ro Exist
   3. Love Us of Hate Us
   4. Stream of Consciousness ●
   5. Some Pain Will Last
   6. Betrayer
   7. Don't Trust
   8. Bringer of Torture
   9. Fatal Energy

10. 21

    No More Color

    Coroner

    

    

    Thrash metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Die by My Hand
    2. No Need to Be Human
    3. Read My Scars
    4. D.O.A.
    5. Mistress of Deception ●
    6. Tunnel of Pain
    7. Why It Hurts
    8. Last Entertainment

11. 20

    Control and Resistance

    Watchtower

    

    

    Progressive metal | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Instruments of Random Murder
    2. The Eldritch
    3. Mayday in Kiev
    4. The Fall of Reason
    5. Control and Resistance ●
    6. Hidden Instincts
    7. Life Cycles
    8. Dangerous Toys

12. 19

    Doolittle

    Pixies

    

    

    Alternative rock | Art punk

    Tracks:

    1. Debaser ●
    2. Tame
    3. Wave of Mutilation
    4. I Bleed
    5. Here Comes Your Man
    6. Dead
    7. Monkey Gone to Heaven
    8. Mr. Grieves
    9. Crackity Jones
    10. La La Love You
    11. No. 13 Baby
    12. There Goes My Gun
    13. Hey
    14. Silver
    15. Gouge Away

13. 18

    Fabulous Disaster

    Exodus

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Last Act of Defiance
    2. Fabulous Disaster
    3. The Toxic Waltz ●
    4. Low Rider
    5. Cajun Hell
    6. Like Father, Like Son
    7. Corruption
    8. Verbal Razors
    9. Open Season

14. 17

    Consuming Impulse

    Pestilence

    

    

    Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dehydrated
    2. The Process of Suffocation
    3. Suspended Animation
    4. The Trauma
    5. Chronic Infection
    6. Out of the Body ●
    7. Echoes of Death
    8. Deify thy Master
    9. Proliferous Souls
    10. Reduced to Ashes

15. 16

    Freedom

    Neil Young

    

    

    Roots rock

    Tracks:

    1. Rockin' in the Free World (Acoustic)
    2. Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)
    3. Don't Cry
    4. Hangin' on a Limb
    5. Eldorado
    6. The Ways of Love
    7. Someday
    8. On Broadway
    9. Wrecking Ball
    10. No More
    11. Too Far Gone
    12. Rockin' in the Free World (Electric) ●

16. 15

    Mother's Milk

    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    

    

    Funk metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Good Time Boys ●
    2. Higher Ground
    3. Subway to Venus
    4. Magic Johnson
    5. Nobody Weird Like Me
    6. Knock Me Down
    7. Taste the Pain
    8. Stone Cold Bush
    9. Fire
    10. Pretty Little Ditty
    11. Punk Rock Classic
    12. Sexy Mexican Maid
    13. Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky

17. 14

    Gutter Ballet

    Savatage

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Of Rage and War
    2. Gutter Ballet ●
    3. Temptation Revelation
    4. When the Crowds Are Gone
    5. Silk and Steel
    6. Hounds
    7. The Unholy
    8. Mentally Yours
    9. Summer's Rain
    10. Thorazine Shuffle

18. 13

    Alice in Hell

    Annihilator

    

    

    Thrash metal | Speed metal

    Tracks:

    1. Crystal Ann
    2. Alison Hell ●
    3. W.T.Y.D.
    4. Wicked Mystic
    5. Burns Like a Buzzsaw Blade
    6. Word Salad
    7. Schizos (Are Never Alone) — Parts I & II
    8. Ligeia
    9. Human Insecticide

19. 12

    The Years of Decay

    Overkill

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Time to Kill
    2. Elimination
    3. I Hate
    4. Nothing to Die for
    5. Playing with Spiders / Skullcrusher
    6. Birth of Tension
    7. Who Tends the Fire
    8. The Years of Decay ●
    9. E.vil N.ever D.ies

20. 11

    Dr. Feelgood

    Mötley Crüe

    

    

    Glam metal | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. T.n.T. (Terror 'n Tinseltown)
    2. Dr. Feelgood
    3. Slice of Your Pie
    4. Rattlesnake Shake
    5. Kickstart My Heart ●
    6. Without You
    7. Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)
    8. Sticky Sweet
    9. She Goes Down
    10. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
    11. Time for Change

21. 10

    Full Moon Fever

    Tom Petty

    

    

    Roots rock | Pop rock

    Tracks:

    1. Free Fallin'
    2. I Won't Back Down
    3. Love Is a Long Road
    4. A Face in the Crowd
    5. Runnin' Down a Dream
    6. Feel a Whole Lot Better
    7. Yer So Bad ●
    8. Depending on You
    9. The Apartment Song
    10. Alright for Now
    11. A Mind with a Heart of Its Own
    12. Zombie Zoo

22. 9

    Agent Orange

    Sodom

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Agent Orange ●
    2. Tired and Red
    3. Incest
    4. Remember the Fallen
    5. Magic Dragon
    6. Exhibition Bout
    7. Ausgebombt
    8. Baptism of Fire
    9. Don't Walk Away

23. 8

    Altars of Madness

    Morbid Angel

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Immortal Rites ●
    2. Suffocation
    3. Visions from the Dark Side
    4. Maze of Torment
    5. Chapel of Ghouls
    6. Bleed for the Devil
    7. Damnation
    8. Blasphemy
    9. Evil Spells

24. 7

    Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

    King's X

    

    

    Progressive metal | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Out of the Silent Planet ●
    2. Over My Head
    3. Summerland
    4. Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something
    5. The Difference (in the Garden of St. Anne's-on-the-Hill)
    6. I'll Never Be the Same
    7. Mission
    8. Fall on Me
    9. Pleiades
    10. Don't Believe It (It's Easier Said Than Done)
    11. Send a Message
    12. The Burning Down

25. 6

    Louder Than Love

    Soundgarden

    

    

    Alternative metal | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ugly Truth
    2. Hands All Over
    3. Gun
    4. Power Trip
    5. Get on the Snake
    6. Full on Kevin's Mom
    7. Loud Love ●
    8. I Awake
    9. No Wrong No Right
    10. Uncovered
    11. Big Dumb Sex
    12. Full on (reprise)

26. 5

    Practice What You Preach

    Testament

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Practice What You Preach ●
    2. Perilous Nation
    3. Envy Life
    4. Time Is Coming
    5. Blessed in Contempt
    6. Greenhouse Effect
    7. Sins of Omission
    8. The Ballad
    9. Nightmare (Coming Back to You)
    10. Confusion Fusion

27. 4

    Skid Row

    Skid Row

    

    

    Hard rock | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Big Guns
    2. Sweet Little Sister
    3. Can't Stand the Heartache
    4. Piece of Me
    5. 18 and Life
    6. Rattlesnake Shake
    7. Youth Gone Wild
    8. Here I Am
    9. Makin' a Mess
    10. I Remember You
    11. Midnight / Tornado ●

28. 3

    Beneath the Remains

    Sepultura

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Beneath the Remains ●
    2. Inner Self
    3. Stronger Than Hate
    4. Mass Hypnosis
    5. Sarcastic Existence
    6. Slaves of Pain
    7. Lobotomy
    8. Hungry
    9. Primitive Future

29. 2

    The Headless Children

    W.A.S.P.

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Heretic (The Lost Child)
    2. The Real Me
    3. The Headless Children ●
    4. Thunderhead
    5. Mean Man
    6. The Neutron Bomber
    7. Mephisto Waltz
    8. Forever Free
    9. Maneater
    10. Rebel in the F.D.G.

30. 1

    The Real Thing

    Faith No More

    

    

    Funk metal | alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. From out of Nowhere
    2. Epic
    3. Falling to Pieces
    4. Surprise! You're Dead
    5. Zombie Eaters ●
    6. The Real Thing
    7. Underwater Love
    8. The Morning After
    9. Woodpecker from Mars
    10. Edge of the World