Best Alternative Rock Albums of 1989


01
The Cure
Disintegration

4.52
3070 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

4.23
230 votes
05
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses

4.17
2220 votes
06
The Blue Nile
Hats

4.15
352 votes
07
Peter Murphy
Deep

4.12
65 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
2019 votes
11
Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets

4.04
26 votes
12
The Durutti Column
Vini Reilly

4.01
22 votes
13
Bob Mould
Workbook

4
78 votes
14
Galaxie 500
On Fire

3.99
818 votes
15
The Field Mice
Sensitive

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

3.97
30 votes
17
All About Eve
Scarlet and Other Stories

3.97
15 votes
18
Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine

3.96
2780 votes
19
The Wedding Present
Bizarro

3.96
100 votes
20
Urban Dance Squad
Mental Floss for the Globe

3.96
24 votes
21
The Tragically Hip
Up To Here

3.93
69 votes
22
Treepeople
Guilt Regret Embarrassment

3.9
62 votes
23
Spacemen 3
Playing With Fire

3.88
115 votes
24
Band of Susans
Love Agenda

3.88
25 votes
25
Barry Adamson
Moss Side Story

3.86
21 votes
26
Mudhoney
Boiled Beef and Rotting Teeth

3.82
22 votes
27
Loop
Fade Out

3.81
38 votes
28
Mudhoney
Mudhoney

3.81
348 votes
29
The Telescopes
Taste

3.79
28 votes
30
Lush
Scar

3.78
65 votes
31
Alice Donut
Bucketfulls of Sickness and Horror in an

3.75
14 votes
32
Dead Moon
Unknown Passage

3.71
35 votes
33
Nirvana
Blew

3.71
300 votes
34
Felt (UK)
Me and a Monkey on the Moon

3.71
34 votes
35
The Field Mice
Snowball

3.69
59 votes
36
Another Sunny Day
You Should All Be Murdered (Three Songs)

3.69
16 votes
37
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mother's Milk

3.68
1536 votes
38
Nirvana
Bleach

3.67
7920 votes
39
Mother Love Bone
Shine

3.67
118 votes
40
The Frogs
It's Only Right and Natural

3.66
19 votes
41
The Pastels
Sittin' Pretty

3.65
26 votes
42
Flipper's Guitar
Three Cheers for Our Side

3.65
20 votes
43
Thinking Fellers Local 282
Tangle

3.65
17 votes
44
The Beautiful South
Welcome To The Beautiful South

3.64
21 votes
45
The Sugarcubes
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!

3.63
58 votes
46
Beat Happening
Black Candy

3.63
138 votes
47
fIREHOSE
fROMOHIO

3.61
36 votes
48
Screaming Trees
Buzz Factory

3.6
70 votes
49
Prefab Sprout
Protest Songs

3.6
43 votes
50
Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco

3.6
50 votes
51
10,000 Maniacs
Blind Man's Zoo

3.58
18 votes
52
The Ocean Blue
The Ocean Blue

3.58
26 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
34 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
Samiam
Samiam

3.21
19 votes
73
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Bread & Circus

3.18
14 votes
74
Throwing Muses
Hunkpapa

3.15
26 votes
75
Bark Psychosis
All Different Things

3.15
13 votes
76
Yo La Tengo
President Yo La Tengo

3.03
132 votes



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