Best Alternative Rock Albums of 1989


01
The Cure
Disintegration

4.52
3068 votes
02
Pixies
Doolittle

4.43
6484 votes
03
The Wonder Stuff
Hup

4.29
14 votes
04
King's X
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

4.24
229 votes
05
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses

4.17
2218 votes
06
The Blue Nile
Hats

4.16
352 votes
07
Peter Murphy
Deep

4.14
64 votes
08
Breathless
Chasing Promises

4.11
22 votes
09
My Dad Is Dead
The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get

4.11
18 votes
10
Faith No More
The Real Thing

4.1
2017 votes
11
Buffalo Tom
Buffalo Tom

4.06
16 votes
12
Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets

4.04
26 votes
13
The Durutti Column
Vini Reilly

4.01
22 votes
14
Bob Mould
Workbook

4
78 votes
15
Galaxie 500
On Fire

3.99
816 votes
16
The Field Mice
Sensitive

3.97
16 votes
17
Noir Desir
Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)

3.97
30 votes
18
All About Eve
Scarlet and Other Stories

3.97
15 votes
19
Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine

3.96
2780 votes
20
The Wedding Present
Bizarro

3.96
100 votes
21
Urban Dance Squad
Mental Floss for the Globe

3.96
24 votes
22
The Tragically Hip
Up To Here

3.93
69 votes
23
Treepeople
Guilt Regret Embarrassment

3.9
62 votes
24
Band of Susans
Love Agenda

3.9
24 votes
25
Spacemen 3
Playing With Fire

3.88
115 votes
26
Barry Adamson
Moss Side Story

3.86
21 votes
27
Mudhoney
Boiled Beef and Rotting Teeth

3.82
22 votes
28
Mudhoney
Mudhoney

3.81
346 votes
29
Loop
Fade Out

3.81
38 votes
30
The Telescopes
Taste

3.8
27 votes
31
Lush
Scar

3.79
64 votes
32
Alice Donut
Bucketfulls of Sickness and Horror in an

3.75
14 votes
33
Dead Moon
Unknown Passage

3.71
35 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
1535 votes
39
Nirvana
Bleach

3.67
7922 votes
40
Mother Love Bone
Shine

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

3.66
19 votes
42
The Pastels
Sittin' Pretty

3.65
26 votes
43
Thinking Fellers Local 282
Tangle

3.65
17 votes
44
fIREHOSE
fROMOHIO

3.64
35 votes
45
The Beautiful South
Welcome To The Beautiful South

3.64
21 votes
46
The Sugarcubes
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!

3.63
58 votes
47
Beat Happening
Black Candy

3.63
138 votes
48
The Ocean Blue
The Ocean Blue

3.63
24 votes
49
Screaming Trees
Buzz Factory

3.6
70 votes
50
Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco

3.6
50 votes
51
Prefab Sprout
Protest Songs

3.59
42 votes
52
10,000 Maniacs
Blind Man's Zoo

3.58
36 votes
53
Camper Van Beethoven
Key Lime Pie

3.56
64 votes
54
TAD
God's Balls

3.54
69 votes
55
Soundgarden
Louder Than Love

3.53
1846 votes
56
The Vaselines
Dum-Dum

3.53
51 votes
57
A.R. Kane
"i"

3.52
23 votes
58
The Darling Buds
Pop Said...

3.5
18 votes
59
The Boo Radleys
Ichabod And I

3.5
15 votes
60
The Lemonheads
Lick

3.48
42 votes
61
Green Day
1,000 Hours

3.46
116 votes
62
The Offspring
The Offspring

3.42
561 votes
63
Kitchens Of Distinction
Love is Hell

3.41
17 votes
64
The Smithereens
11

3.41
17 votes
65
L7
L7

3.4
60 votes
66
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Automatic

3.39
177 votes
67
Sebadoh
The Freed Man

3.37
123 votes
68
Gin Blossoms
Dusted

3.36
18 votes
69
Pavement
Slay Tracks (1933-1969)

3.36
42 votes
70
Slint
Tweez

3.34
537 votes
71
Guided by Voices
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia

3.26
84 votes
72
Lenny Kravitz
Let Love Rule

3.25
66 votes
73
Samiam
Samiam

3.21
19 votes
74
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Bread & Circus

3.18
14 votes
75
Throwing Muses
Hunkpapa

3.15
26 votes
76
Bark Psychosis
All Different Things

3.15
13 votes
77
Yo La Tengo
President Yo La Tengo

3.03
132 votes



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