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
Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets

4.04
26 votes
12
Pop Will Eat Itself
This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!

4.02
27 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
The Tragically Hip
Up To Here

3.93
69 votes
22
Treepeople
Guilt Regret Embarrassment

3.9
62 votes
23
Band of Susans
Love Agenda

3.9
24 votes
24
Spacemen 3
Playing With Fire

3.88
115 votes
25
Barry Adamson
Moss Side Story

3.86
21 votes
26
Mudhoney
Boiled Beef and Rotting Teeth

3.82
22 votes
27
Mudhoney
Mudhoney

3.81
346 votes
28
Loop
Fade Out

3.81
38 votes
29
The Telescopes
Taste

3.8
27 votes
30
Lush
Scar

3.79
64 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
1535 votes
38
Nirvana
Bleach

3.67
7922 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
Thinking Fellers Local 282
Tangle

3.65
17 votes
43
fIREHOSE
fROMOHIO

3.64
35 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
The Ocean Blue
The Ocean Blue

3.63
24 votes
48
Screaming Trees
Buzz Factory

3.6
70 votes
49
Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco

3.6
50 votes
50
Prefab Sprout
Protest Songs

3.59
42 votes
51
10,000 Maniacs
Blind Man's Zoo

3.58
36 votes
52
Camper Van Beethoven
Key Lime Pie

3.56
64 votes
53
TAD
God's Balls

3.54
69 votes
54
Soundgarden
Louder Than Love

3.53
1846 votes
55
The Vaselines
Dum-Dum

3.53
51 votes
56
A.R. Kane
"i"

3.52
23 votes
57
The Darling Buds
Pop Said...

3.5
18 votes
58
The Boo Radleys
Ichabod And I

3.5
15 votes
59
The Lemonheads
Lick

3.48
42 votes
60
Green Day
1,000 Hours

3.46
116 votes
61
The Offspring
The Offspring

3.42
561 votes
62
Kitchens Of Distinction
Love is Hell

3.41
17 votes
63
The Smithereens
11

3.41
17 votes
64
L7
L7

3.4
60 votes
65
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Automatic

3.39
177 votes
66
Sebadoh
The Freed Man

3.37
123 votes
67
Gin Blossoms
Dusted

3.36
18 votes
68
Pavement
Slay Tracks (1933-1969)

3.36
42 votes
69
Slint
Tweez

3.34
537 votes
70
Guided by Voices
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia

3.26
84 votes
71
Lenny Kravitz
Let Love Rule

3.25
66 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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