Best Alternative Rock Albums of 1989


01
The Cure
Disintegration

4.52
3072 votes
02
Pixies
Doolittle

4.43
6488 votes
03
King's X
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

4.23
231 votes
04
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses

4.17
2220 votes
05
The Blue Nile
Hats

4.14
356 votes
06
My Dad Is Dead
The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get

4.13
19 votes
07
Peter Murphy
Deep

4.12
66 votes
08
Breathless
Chasing Promises

4.11
22 votes
09
The Wonder Stuff
Hup

4.11
18 votes
10
Faith No More
The Real Thing

4.1
2020 votes
11
Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets

4.04
26 votes
12
The Cult
Sonic Temple

4.03
225 votes
13
Pop Will Eat Itself
This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!

4.02
27 votes
14
The Durutti Column
Vini Reilly

4.01
22 votes
15
Bob Mould
Workbook

4
78 votes
16
Galaxie 500
On Fire

3.99
820 votes
17
The Field Mice
Sensitive

3.97
16 votes
18
Noir Desir
Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)

3.97
30 votes
19
All About Eve
Scarlet and Other Stories

3.97
15 votes
20
Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine

3.96
2784 votes
21
The Wedding Present
Bizarro

3.96
100 votes
22
Buffalo Tom
Buffalo Tom

3.94
18 votes
23
The Tragically Hip
Up To Here

3.93
69 votes
24
Treepeople
Guilt Regret Embarrassment

3.9
62 votes
25
Spacemen 3
Playing With Fire

3.88
115 votes
26
Band of Susans
Love Agenda

3.88
25 votes
27
Mudhoney
Boiled Beef and Rotting Teeth

3.82
22 votes
28
Loop
Fade Out

3.81
39 votes
29
Mudhoney
Mudhoney

3.81
350 votes
30
The Telescopes
Taste

3.79
28 votes
31
Lush
Scar

3.77
65 votes
32
Alice Donut
Bucketfulls of Sickness and Horror in an

3.75
14 votes
33
Dead Moon
Unknown Passage

3.74
36 votes
34
Nirvana
Blew

3.71
300 votes
35
Felt (UK)
Me and a Monkey on the Moon

3.71
34 votes
36
The Field Mice
Snowball

3.69
59 votes
37
Another Sunny Day
You Should All Be Murdered (Three Songs)

3.69
16 votes
38
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mother's Milk

3.68
1539 votes
39
Nirvana
Bleach

3.67
7924 votes
40
Mother Love Bone
Shine

3.67
120 votes
41
The Frogs
It's Only Right and Natural

3.66
19 votes
42
The Beautiful South
Welcome To The Beautiful South

3.65
22 votes
43
The Pastels
Sittin' Pretty

3.65
26 votes
44
Flipper's Guitar
Three Cheers for Our Side

3.65
20 votes
45
Thinking Fellers Local 282
Tangle

3.65
17 votes
46
The Sugarcubes
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!

3.63
58 votes
47
Beat Happening
Black Candy

3.63
138 votes
48
fIREHOSE
fROMOHIO

3.62
37 votes
49
Screaming Trees
Buzz Factory

3.6
70 votes
50
Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco

3.6
50 votes
51
Prefab Sprout
Protest Songs

3.6
44 votes
52
10,000 Maniacs
Blind Man's Zoo

3.58
18 votes
53
The Ocean Blue
The Ocean Blue

3.58
26 votes
54
Camper Van Beethoven
Key Lime Pie

3.56
64 votes
55
TAD
God's Balls

3.54
69 votes
56
Soundgarden
Louder Than Love

3.53
1850 votes
57
The Vaselines
Dum-Dum

3.53
51 votes
58
A.R. Kane
"i"

3.52
23 votes
59
The Darling Buds
Pop Said...

3.5
18 votes
60
The Boo Radleys
Ichabod And I

3.5
15 votes
61
The Lemonheads
Lick

3.48
42 votes
62
Green Day
1,000 Hours

3.46
116 votes
63
Kitchens Of Distinction
Love is Hell

3.44
18 votes
64
The Offspring
The Offspring

3.42
560 votes
65
The Smithereens
11

3.41
17 votes
66
L7
L7

3.4
60 votes
67
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Automatic

3.39
177 votes
68
Sebadoh
The Freed Man

3.37
123 votes
69
Gin Blossoms
Dusted

3.36
18 votes
70
Lycia
Wake

3.36
18 votes
71
Pavement
Slay Tracks (1933-1969)

3.36
42 votes
72
Slint
Tweez

3.34
537 votes
73
Guided by Voices
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia

3.26
84 votes
74
Samiam
Samiam

3.21
19 votes
75
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Bread & Circus

3.18
14 votes
76
Throwing Muses
Hunkpapa

3.15
26 votes
77
Bark Psychosis
All Different Things

3.15
13 votes
78
Yo La Tengo
President Yo La Tengo

3.03
132 votes



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