Urban75 Album of the Year 1990

[killer b]

Fuck me, do you know this Spandex ? Savage industrial techno

 

[ska invita]

Fuck me, do you know this Spandex ? Savage industrial techno

keyword: HOLLAND

(dalek voice + sex groans spoil it for me, otherwise.... )

 

[Spandex]

Fuck me, do you know this Spandex ? Savage industrial techno

No, never heard that. They're not wrong that there was no mixing or editing afterwards

 

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This is a beaut - The Bobby Konders Project ‎– Cool Calm & Collective

 

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N.A.D. - Dawn of a New Age, Tony Thorpe (Moody Boys, 400 Blows) and Mustafa Ali (Epoch 90)

 

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No Smoke - International Smoke Signal

 

[Spandex]

Enough cool albums for a moment. I genuinely love the Betty Boo record. It's got the big singles, and the other tracks are great too.

 

[killer b]

One of the early casualties of the coronavirus lockdown was the cancellation of the Dead C residency at Cafe Oto, which many people in my orbit were getting super excited about.

This is their album from 1990, Trapdoor Fucking Exit, which is ultra-low-fi noise rock recorded in a bucket. Pretty good.

 

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Enough cool albums for a moment. I genuinely love the Betty Boo record. It's got the big singles, and the other tracks are great too.

I must admit I quite like Street Tuff by Rebel MC too.

 

[Spandex]

Oh yeah, breakbeat business!

 

[ska invita]

I must admit I quite like Street Tuff by Rebel MC too.

To be fair to Rebel MC, Street Tuff was pretty lame (sorry ii), but at the same time in 1990 he was absolutely inventing jungle - this is about the most jungle a proto-jungle tune that came out in 1990


he smashed 1991 too

 

[killer b]

This is a fucking great year guys. This kiwi post-punk album is fantastic - Peter Jefferies. ' Kinda like John Cale vs Wire ' according to someone on ratemymusic. fair enough description.

 

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To be fair to Rebel MC, Street Tuff was pretty lame (sorry ii), but at the same time in 1990 he was absolutely inventing jungle - this is about the most jungle a proto-jungle tune that came out in 1990

he smashed 1991 too

I remember him MCing at Raindance round that time too.

 

[The39thStep]

The Sound of North Hulme , Manchester 1990 :

 

[ska invita]

people rate this
ive never heard it

Bang The Party - Back To Prison

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[killer b]

Oh yeah, the Dream 2 Science LP - a really accomplished deep & tough house album from the guy behind Nucleus (of Jam on Revenge, Automan, etc fame)

 

[Spandex]

I'd stopped listening to metal by 1990, so I only recently found out that AC/DC released their best track that year:

Thunderstruck


The rest of the album, The Razor's Edge, is just another AC/DC album, but that track is amazing.

 

[The39thStep]

and not forgetting the infuriating talent of Nicky Lockett

 

[The39thStep]

New Fast Automatic Daffodils , never really part of Madchester than heavens but a good little band from Tameside I think. The singers a teacher now.

 

[killer b]

Dwarves - Blood, Guts and Pussy is a great album - 12 tracks of sleazy high octane hardcore punk in a little over 13 minutes. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.

 

[killer b]

Fernanda Abreu's SLA Radical Dance Disco Club is everything the title suggests it is - infectious brazilian electro-funk pop music.

 

[killer b]

Terminal Cheesecake's Angels in Pigtails - low slung super heavy psychedelic rock music



Ruins' Stonehenge - weird time signatures, fast changes, sometimes hectic and heavy, sometimes groovy as fuck, all in the same song.

 

[killer b]

Frederic Rzewski released an album of him playing his greatest work The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, 36 Piano variations on the Chilean rebel anthem El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido. This video isn't the same performance I don't think, but I don't imagine it'll be much different.

 

[killer b]

Jeff Mills' pre-Underground Resistance EBM band, Final Cut released Deep In 2 The Cut.

 

[AverageJoe]

A few from my not filtered list. All were massive in their own right I was 20, I had wide, varied and eclectic tastes.

Sinead O'Connor - I do not want what I Haven't Got
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Ride - Nowhere
Enigma - MCMXC
Carter USM - 101 Damnations
Ween - godweensatan
Pixies - Bossanova
Dread Zeppelin - Un Led Ed
Depeche Mode - Violator
Sonic Youth - Goo
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Buffalo Tom - Birdbrain
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Extreme - Pornograffiti

This is literally just a peek of my record collection in 1990 and I've not included any mentioned above, nor searched out for any of my more unusual records. Each of the above bought something new to the table in some way.

And if you don't like, what I'm saying, get the funk out

 

[ska invita]

i really liked that Jane's Addiction album - has some funk to it

 

[Spandex]

808 State - Utd. State 90

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This is the US release of their 1989 album.

The only 1990 808 State album was:

Adamski - Liveandirect

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This is the Polish cassette release of his 1989 album.

His 1990 album was the much poppier:

Which gave him his massive hit:

 

[The39thStep]

Kalima - ex Swamp Children who produced some interesting jazz/Latin stuff including 1990s album Feeling Fine, a good all round consistent album if you like that genre. . At one time had half of A Certain Ration playing with them. Very much against the stream of music in Manchester and ended up moving to London to join the acid dance scene.

 

[killer b]

I was surprised to find the Candyflip album (them of Strawberry Fields fame) was mostly quite favourably reviewed, so I checked it out - it's actually pretty good - kind of like the Pet Shop Boys on E. Skip the shit beatles cover tho (track 2)

 

[The39thStep]

If The Big Lebowski was a stoners version of Raymond Chandlers Big Sleep then its musical equivalent would have been Dread Zepplins valiant interpretation of Led Zepplin's catalogue on their album Un-Led-Ed. Elvis sings cod reggae versions of classic's like Your Time Is Going To Come. Coulda been a contender.