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A few expressed interest in the best of 2015 thread to look at rating the excellent year of 1989.

 

Here is a short of (just) 96 albums which I felt were worthy of rating.

 

I havent done it yet as I balked at the challenge as there were so many great albums which I could see scoring over 85% that it was ridiculous and virtually impossible.

 

Anyway here it is - the asterix denotes an album which could (and I mean could) make my top 20 - I love each and every album with an asterix - each one is a classic imo............although looking at the ones without an asterix, you wonder and realise the enormity of the task!

 

Cheers

 

  1. Aerosmith Pump
  2. Alexa Alexa
  3. Alien Alien *
  4. The Almighty Blood, Fire and Love
  5. Angelica Angelica
  6. Babylon A.D. Babylon A.D. *
  7. Bad English Bad English *
  8. Bad Habit After Hours
  9. Badlands Badlands
  10. Bang Tango Psycho Cafe *
  11. Robin Beck Trouble or Nothin *
  12. Blue Murder Blue Murder
  13. Michael Bolton Soul Provider
  14. Bonfire Point Blank *
  15. Kate Bush – The Sensual World
  16. Cats In Boots Kicked and Klawed
  17. Cher Heart of Stone
  18. Alice Cooper Trash
  19. The Creek Storm the Gate
  20. The Cult Sonic Temple
  21. Da Vinci Back in Business
  22. Dalton Injection
  23. The Dan Reed Network Slam
  24. Danger Danger Danger Danger *
  25. Dangerous Toys Dangerous Toys
  26. De Mont Body Language
  27. Dirty Looks Turn of the Screw
  28. Distance Under the One Sky
  29. Diving for Pearls Diving for Pearls *
  30. Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
  31. Drive She Said Drive She Said
  32. Enuff Z'Nuff Enuff Z'Nuff
  33. Extreme Extreme
  34. Fifth Angel – Time Will Tell
  35. FM Tough it Out *
  36. Faith No More The Real Thing
  37. Fiona Heart Like a Gun
  38. GUN Taking on the World
  39. Giant Last of the Runaways *
  40. Great White Twice Shy
  41. Icon Right Between the Eyes
  42. Steve Jones Fire and Gasoline
  43. KISS Hot In The Shade
  44. Tim Karr Rubbin' Me the Right Way
  45. Kill for Thrills Commercial Suicide
  46. Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule
  47. L.A. Guns Cocked and Loaded
  48. Law and Order Guilty of Innocence
  49. Leatherwolf Street Ready
  50. Lillian Axe Love and War
  51. Little Angels Don't Prey For Me
  52. Steve Lukather Lukather
  53. Magnum No Secrets
  54. Benny Mardones Benny Mardones
  55. Marillion – Seasons End
  56. Richard Marx Repeat Offender
  57. Mastedon It's a Jungle Out There *
  58. Melidian Lost in the Wild *
  59. Donnie Miller One of the Boys
  60. Michael Monroe Not Fakin' It
  61. Michael Morales Michael Morales
  62. Motley Crue – Dr Feelgood
  63. Mr. Big Mr. Big
  64. Pandora's Box Original Sin
  65. Pink Cream 69 Pink Cream 69
  66. Pretty Boy Floyd Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz
  67. Raging Slab Raging Slab
  68. Saga The Beginner's Guide To Throwing Shapes
  69. Saraya Saraya
  70. Neal Schon Late Nite
  71. Shark Island Law of the Order *
  72. Signal Loud and Clear *
  73. Silent Rage Don't Touch Me There *
  74. Skagarack A Slice Of Heaven
  75. Skid Row Skid Row *
  76. Stage Dolls Stage Dolls
  77. Starship Love Among The Cannibals
  78. Strangeways Walk in the Fire *
  79. Swedish Erotica Swedish Erotica
  80. TNT Intuition
  81. Tangier Four Winds
  82. Tesla The Great Radio Controversy *
  83. Tigertailz - Bezerk
  84. Tora Tora Surprise Attack
  85. Transit Dirty Pleasures
  86. Treat Organized Crime *
  87. Vain No Respect *
  88. Victory Culture Killed the Native
  89. Walk On Fire Blind Faith
  90. Warp Drive Gimme Gimme
  91. Whitesnake Slip Of The Tongue
  92. Winter Rose Winter Rose
  93. Work Force Work Force
  94. The Works From Out of Nowhere
  95. World Trade World Trade
  96. XYZ XYZ

 

 

 

 

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another reference from HH main site

 

2112 Alterando las Divisiones
44 Magnum Still Alive
8084 Love and War
9th Street The Prayer
A.S.A.P. Silver and Gold
Lee Aaron Bodyrock
Accept Eat the Heat
Action Dou
Aerosmith Pump
After Hours After Hours
Air Pavilion Cutting Air (Act 1)
Air Pavilion Kaizoku
Airkraft Airkraft
Alakran Vagabundear
The Alarm The Change
Alexa Alexa
Alien Alien
Allies Long Way From Paradise
The Almighty Blood, Fire and Love
Ambush Ambush
American Angel American Angel
Angel Edge Revisited
Angelica Angelica
Angels From Angel City Beyond Salvation
Atlanta Rhythm Section Truth in a Structured Form
Autograf Stone Land
The Awful Truth Awful Truth
Awol On The Edge
Axminster Axminster
BB Steal Heartbeat Away
Babylon A.D. Babylon A.D.
Backstreet Girls Party On Elm Street
Bad English Bad English
Bad Habit After Hours
Bad Sister Heartbreaker
Badger Fierce Rock 'n Roll
Badlands Badlands
Balaam and the Angel Days of Madness
Ballard Standing In The Shadows
Bam Bam Boys Bam Bam Boys
Bang Tango Live Injection
Bang Tango Psycho Cafe
Banshee Race Against Time
Baron Rojo Obstinato
Barracuda Open Fire
Beau Nasty Dirty, But Well Dressed
Robin Beck Trouble or Nothin
Bellicose Love On Ice
Pat Benatar Best Shots
Big Big Sun Stop The World
Bigstorm Living In Exile
Billy And The Sluts Bats From Jack In The Box
Stephen Bishop Bowling In Paris
Bitch's Brue We Might Not Be American...
Bitch A Rose By Any Other Name
Bitch Be My Slave / Damnation Alley
Bite the Bullet Bite the Bullet
Blonde on Blonde Labyrinth of Love
Bloodgood Out of the Darkness
Blue Blud The Big Noise
Blue Murder Blue Murder
Bogart Co Dance On
Michael Bolton Soul Provider
Bonfire Point Blank
Jodi Bongiovi Jodi Bongiovi
Bonham The Disregard of Timekeeping
Bride Silence Is Madness
Bridge 2 Far Bridge 2 Far
Britny Fox Boys In Heat
Broadcast Best of Broadcast
Bronx Zoo Lustfull Thinking
Mick Brosnan Co-Colo
The Burns Sisters Endangered Species
Jon Butcher Pictures From the Front
CETi Czarna Roza
The Call Let the Day Begin
Cats In Boots Kicked and Klawed
The Chasers Something's Gotta Give
Cheezboy Cheezboy
Cher Heart of Stone
China Sign in the Sky
Choirboys Big Bad Noise
Circus of Power Still Alive...
Clevelend 53:54
Clouseau Hoezo
John Cody Ripped Jeans
Compilations High Plains Rock - Vol. 1
Compilations Hot Night In The City
Compilations Stairway To Heaven/Highway To Hell
Compilations Street Survivors
Compilations The Chrysalis No Shit Hard Rock CD Sampler
Compilations The Earthquake Album
Compilations The Very Best Heavy Metal From Europe
Compilations Ultimate Metal
Alice Cooper Prince of Darkness
Alice Cooper The Beast of Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper Trash
Craaft Craaft (U.S.)
Cracked Actor Cracked Actor
Crash Pony Rough Ride
The Creek Storm the Gate
Crisis Party Rude Awakening
Crossbones Crossbones
Crossection Before the Dawn
Cindy Cruse The Edge
Cry Action Wanted Man
Cry Before Dawn Witness For The World
Cry Wolf Cry Wolf
Rick Cua Midnight Sun
The Cult Sonic Temple
Cutting Crew The Scattering
Czakan State Of Confusion
D.A.D. No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims
D.O.X Through the Fire
Da Vinci Back in Business
Dalton Injection
The Dan Reed Network Slam
Dance With a Stranger Fool's Paradise
Danger Danger Danger Danger
Dangerous Toys Dangerous Toys
Dare Force Firepower
Dave Kusworth and the Bounty Hunters Threads - A Tear Stained Scar
David and the Giants R U Gonna Stand Up
De Mont Body Language
DeGarmo and Key The Pledge
Deadringer Electrocution of the Heart
Paul Dean Hard Core
Delta Rebels Down in the Dirt
Diamond Rexx Rated Rexx
Dirty Blonde Passion
Dirty Looks Turn of the Screw
Dirty Side Dirty Side
Artie Dison Forgiving Eyes
Distance Under the One Sky
Diving for Pearls Diving for Pearls
Doc Holliday Song For The Outlaw - Live
The Dogs D'Amour Errol Flynn
The Dogs D'Amour Graveyard Of Empty Bottles
Domain Before The Storm
Lisa Dominique Rock N Roll Lady
Doro Force Majeure
Downtown Downtown
Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
Dreams Dreams
Drive She Said Drive She Said
Bryan Duncan Strong Medicine
EZO Fire Fire
The Eddie St. James Project Out Of Nowhere
Elektradrive Due
Enuff Z'Nuff Enuff Z'Nuff
Escape Running in the Night
Evenrude One Size Fits All
Extreme Extreme
Eye It Might Rain
FM Tough it Out
Fahrenheit Talking 'Bout Love
Fair Exchange Fair Exchange
Faith No More The Real Thing
Faster Pussycat Wake Me When It's Over
Fastway On Target
Fetchin Bones Monster
Fifth Angel Time Will Tell
Fingerprints Time Is All We Need
Fiona Heart Like a Gun
Fisc Handle With Care
Flame Blaze
Flies on Fire Flies on Fire
Force Force
Four Horsemen Four Horsemen
Ace Frehley Trouble Walkin'
The Front The Front
Frontrunner Without Reason
GNP Safety Zone
GUN Taking on the World
Terry Gann If You're Listenin'
The Georgia Satellites In The Land Of Salvation and Sin
The Georgia Satellites Let It Rock
Giant Last of the Runaways
Girlschool Take a Bite
Gladstone Hardwork
Glorious Bankrobbers Dynamite Sex Doze
Glory Danger in This Game
Gorky Park Gorky Park
Lou Gramm Long Hard Look
Grand Prix Treasure Hunting
Great White Live at the Marquee Official Bootleg
Great White Twice Shy
Gringos Locos Punch Drunk
Guardian First Watch
Sammy Hagar Red Hot!
Stuart Hamm Kings Of Sleep
The Hangmen The Hangmen
Harlot Room With a View
Jimmy Harnen Can't Fight the Midnight
Corey Hart Young Man Running
Robert Hart Cries and Whispers
Havana Black Indian Warrior
Beau Heart Invitation
Heaven Take Me Back
Heavy Pettin Big Bang
Heist High Heel Heaven
Helix Over 60 Minutes With Helix
Hero Liv'n Lov'n and Die'n
Higher Power Cast A Light
Hiroshima Hiroshima
Hit The Ground Runnin' Sudden Impact
Louise Hoffsten Yeah Yeah
Honeymoon Suite The Singles
Horse London Horse London
Horsepower Virginity
Hot Boy Barely Legal
Hotel Hunger This is Where the Fun Starts
Howe II High Gear
Gary Hughes Big Bad Wolf
Hush The First Time
IQ Are You Sitting Comfortably
IRA IRA
Icon Right Between the Eyes
Immaculate Mary Through the Eyes of Youth
The Innocent Eye To Eye
Insight Reaching Out
Intice Taste the Night
It Bites Eat Me in St. Louis
Jaf Entrar en Vos
Jailhouse Alive in a Mad World
Jet Red Jet Red
Joal Joal
Johnny Yen Amok
Don Johnson Let It Roll
Mick Jones Mick Jones
Steve Jones Fire and Gasoline
The Joneses Tits and Champagne
Junkyard Junkyard
KISS Hot In The Shade
Kamikaze Victima Del Rock
Karl Kanga Fuel Injected Dreams
Tim Karr Rubbin' Me the Right Way
Keel Larger Than Live
Kill for Thrills Commercial Suicide
King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Kingdom Come In Your Face
Klimax From the Hip
Richie Kotzen Richie Kotzen
Krokus Stayed Awake All Night
Kryst the Conqueror Deliver Us From Evil
L.A. Guns Cocked and Loaded
L.O.U.D. Stand On The Rock
Lady Sabre Enchanted
Last Of The Teenage Idols Satellite Head Gone Soft
Dag Lauvland 1 Step Closer
Law and Order Guilty of Innocence
Leatherwolf Street Ready
Leather Shock Waves
Lee Z Primetime
Lenny Wolf's Germany Lenny Wolf's Germany
Leonard The Dog Day By Day
Les Lolitas Hara Kiri / Fusée D'amour
Lessdress Dumblondes
Leviticus Knights of Heaven
Liaison Liaison
Liar Nothing But The Truth
Lillian Axe Love and War
Lions and Ghosts Wild Garden
Lion Trouble in Angel City
Little America Fairgrounds
Little Angels Big Bad World
Little Angels Don't Prey For Me
Little Caesar Name Your Poison
Little Kings Head First
Lizzy Borden Master of Disguise
Lord Tracy Deaf Gods of Babylon
Los Guarros Prostitucion y Vagancia
Loudness Soldier Of Fortune
Loverboy Big Ones
Steve Lukather Lukather
Lynn Allen Panorama Park
Lynyrd Skynyrd Skynyrd's Innyrds - Their Greatest Hits
Lynzee Lynzee
Mach 1 Mach 1
Magnum No Secrets
Magnum Invasion: Magnum Live
Yngwie Malmsteen Trial By Fire: Live in Leningrad
Mammoth Mammoth
Guy Mann-Dude Sleight of Hand
Manzano Turn Me On
Marchello Destiny
Benny Mardones Benny Mardones
J.C. Mark On the Mark
Marshall Law Marshall Law
Richard Marx Repeat Offender
Alex Masi Attack of the Neon Shark
Mass Voices in the Night
Mastedon It's a Jungle Out There
Lars Eric Mattsson No Surrender
The Max Shadows In The Shade
Maximum Just for Kicks
Mazeran Mazeran
The McAuley Schenker Group Save Yourself
Dugan McNeill In The Velvet Night
Meat Loaf Prime Cuts
Melidian Lost in the Wild
Mercy Rule Overruled
Merzy Merzy
Messano Messano
Michael Thompson Band How Long
Donnie Miller One of the Boys
Mindless Missin' Pieces
Misslead Gentle Persuasion
Kim Mitchell Rockland
Molly Hatchet Lightning Strikes Twice
Mona Liza Overdrive Vive La Ka Bum
Eddie Money Greatest Hits: Sound Of Money
Michael Monroe Not Fakin' It
Michael Morales Michael Morales
Mother's Finest Looks Could Kill
Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood
Mr. Big Mr. Big
Alannah Myles Alannah Myles
Nasty Idols Gigolos On Parole
Nasty Off Your Rocker
Nazareth Snakes 'N' Ladders
Neo A4 The Hard Way
Night Ranger Greatest Hits
Nitro O.F.R.
No Respect No Respect
No Shame Good Girls Don't Last
Noize Toys Fallin' In Lust...Again
The Now Overnight Stay
O'dette O'Dette
Ozzy Osbourne Best Of Ozz
The Outfield Voices of Babylon
John Palumbo Victim of the Nightlife
Pandance Pandance
Pandora's Box Original Sin
The Pandoras Live - Nymphomania
Paradox Paradox
Paul Raymond Project Under the Rising Sun
Peer Günt Years On The Road
Axel Rudi Pell Wild Obsession
Petra Petra Means Rock
Petra Petra Praise-The Rock Cries Out
Phantom Blue Phantom Blue
Pierce Pierce
Pink Cream 69 Pink Cream 69
Pretty Boy Floyd Bullets and Lipstik
Pretty Boy Floyd Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz
Pretty Boy Floyd Rock and Roll Is Gonna Set the Night on Fire
Princess Pang Princess Pang
Quade Rock In Motion
Queen The Miracle
Trevor Rabin Can't Look Away
Rage n' Rox Rage n' Rox
Rage of Angels Rage of Angels
Raging Slab Raging Slab
Kevin Raleigh Delusions of Grandeur
Raquel Raquel
Rated X Demos
The Reach Under The Same Sky
Red Rider The Symphony Sessions
Red Siren All Is Forgiven
Regatta Regatta
Return Straight Down the Line
Riff Mission Love
Ringleader If Licks Could Kill
Roadmaster Live Plus 5
Kenny Rogers Jr. Yes - No - Maybe
Ron E. Kayfield's Saints and Sinners Ron E. Kayfield's Saints and Sinners
Rosanna's Raiders Clothed In Fire
Roy Last Group Comin And A'Goin
Roy Last Group Rainchild
Royal Court of China Geared and Primed
Ruggeri Project Mutant Kind
Rush Presto
Russian Roulette First Shot
Sacred Warrior Master's Command
Saga The Beginner's Guide To Throwing Shapes
Sangre Azul El Silencio De La Noche
Blues Saraceno Never Look Back
Saraya Saraya
Joe Satriani Flying in a Blue Dream
Savatage Gutter Ballet
Saxon Rock 'n' Roll Gypsies
Scarlet Red Don't Dance With Danger
Scarlet Red Alert
Neal Schon Late Nite
Schoolboy Crush Electric Playground
Scorpions Best of Rockers 'N Ballads
Sea Hags Sea Hags
See No Evil See No Evil
Sha-Boom Dancing In The Fire: The Remix Album
Bernie Shanahan Bernie Shanahan
Shark Island Alive at the Whiskey
Shark Island Law of the Order
Billy Sheehan The Talas Years
Shell and The Ocean Turn Blue
Shok Paris Concrete Killers
Shooting Star Touch Me Tonight - The Best of Shooting Star
Shotgun Messiah Shotgun Messiah
Shout In Your Face
Show Ya Outerlimits
Signal Loud and Clear
Silent Knight Silent Knight
Silent Rage Don't Touch Me There
Skagarack A Slice Of Heaven
Grzegorz Skawinski Skawinski
Skid Row Skid Row
Slave Raider Bigger, Badder and Bolder
Slick Moon Stay The Night
John Sloman Disappearances Can Be Deceptive...
Smash L.A. Law 'N' Authority
Soundtracks A Nightmare on Elmstreet 5
Soundtracks Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Soundtracks Dream a Little Dream
Soundtracks Kickboxer
Soundtracks Say Anything
Soundtracks Shocker - The Music - A Shocking Sampler
Soundtracks Shocker
Soundtracks Sons of Steel... the Songs
Soundtracks Speed Zone
Soundtracks The Karate Kid III
Spanky Lee Spanky Lee
Splash Spring Break
Rick Springfield Greatest Hits
Squealer Squealer's Mark
Billy Squier Hear and Now
Stage Dolls Stage Dolls
The Stand The Stand
Starship Love Among The Cannibals
Starz Live in Action
Status Quo Perfect Remedy
Steel Breeze Cry Thunder
Steelwings Steelwings
The Steve Morse Band High Tension Wires
Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys
Bjorn Stigsson Together With Friends
Stormwave Deadly Trace
Stormwitch Eye of the Storm
Straightway Black Or White
Stranger No Rules
Strangeways Walk in the Fire
Streetheart Over 60 Minutes With....
Henry Lee Summer I've Got Everything
Surprises Longing For The Daylight
Swedish Erotica Swedish Erotica
Sweet Teaze Do It Till It Hurtz
TNT Intuition
Tangier Four Winds
Tattooed Love Boys Bleeding Hearts and Needle Marks
Taz Cold Shoulder
Terra Rosa Honesty
Tesla The Great Radio Controversy
The Big F The Big F
The Thieves Seduced By Money
Steve Thomson Steve Thomson
Thunderhead Behind the Eight-Ball
Time Gallery Time Gallery
Tindrum How 'Bout This
Tintenfish Evolution
Tokio Rose Paradise Lost
Tokyo Blade No Remorse
Tora Tora Surprise Attack
Torino Rock It
Trans Am Fasten Seatbelts
Transit Dirty Pleasures
Trash Broadway Trash Broadway
Trash Gang I Cyguard
Treat Organized Crime
Treat Treat
Triple X Hands and Knees
Triumph Classics
Trooper The Last Of The Gypsies
The Truth Jump
Ultranite I Want My Own Planet
The Unknown Big Dreams
Uriah Heep Raging Silence
Vain No Respect
Vamp The Rich Don't Rock
Vanadium Seventheaven
Vengeance Arabia
Vera Cruz Hot Games
Verity Rock Solid
Victory Culture Killed the Native
Greg X. Volz No Room in the Middle
Voodoo X Vol.1 The Awakening
Vow Wow Helter Skelter
Vow Wow Vibe
W.A.S.P. The Headless Children
Wa Wa Nee Blush
Walk On Fire Blind Faith
Matthew Ward Toward Eternity
Warp Drive Gimme Gimme
John Warren Private Motion
Watchmen Generation
Wee B Toyz You've Been Warned
West Out of the Ashes
White Heart Freedom
White Heat We Never Heard of You Either
White Lion Big Game
Whitecross Triumphant Return
Whitesnake Slip Of The Tongue
Wild August Wild August
Danny Wilde Danny Wilde
Wilder Violent Passions
Winter Rose Winter Rose
Wolfsbane Live Fast Die Fast
Wolvz Down and Dirty
Joseph Lee Wood Joseph Lee Wood
Work Force Work Force
The Works From Out of Nowhere
World Trade World Trade
Wraith Naked Aggression
Wrathchild Delerium
X-Sinner Get It
XYZ XYZ
Xenon America's New Design
Y and T Anthology
YLD Fool's Paradise
Young Gun Bite The Bullet
Yves Choir By Prescription Only
Zaffire Rock-N-Roll Business
David Zaffiro The Other Side
Zar Live Your Life Forever
Zaza Just Get It!!!
Zed Yago Pilgrimage
Zion Thunder From the Mountain

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and this is from brutalmetal site

 

Accept Eat the Heat
Accuser Who Dominates Who
Acid Reign The Fear
Agony Column God, Guns, and Guts
Airdash Hospital Hallucinations Take One
Alias Metal To Infinity
Amulance Feel the Pain
Annihilator Alice In Hell
Anthrax Penikufesin
Anvil Live In Concert
Armageddon The Money Mask
Atheist Piece of Time
Autopsy Severed Survival
Barren Cross State of Control
Believer Extraction From Mortality
Black Sabbath Headless Cross
Blind Guardian Follow the Blind
Blood Impulse to Destroy
Bolt Thrower Realm Of Chaos
Candlemass Tales of Creation
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness
Celtic Frost Vanity/Nemesis
Cities Annihilation Absolute
Cloven Hoof A Sultan's Ransom
Compilations Best of Metal Massacre
Compilations Mower Liberation Front / Quack 'Em All
Coroner No More Color
Creature Way to Paradise
D.R.I. Thrash Zone
DBC Universe
Damien Stop This War
Danzig Danzig II - Lucifuge
Dark Angel Leave Scars
Darkness Conclusion and Revival
Dead On Dead On
Defiance Product Of Society
Deliverance Deliverance
Demon Taking The World By Storm
Destruction Live Without Sense
Devastation Signs Of Life
Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
Entombed Left Hand Path
Epidemic The Truth of What Will Be
Evildead Annihilation Of Civilization
Exodus Fabulous Disaster
Faith Or Fear Punishment Area
Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry
Forbidden Raw Evil: Live at the Dynamo
Forced Entry Uncertain Future
Green Jello Triple Live Mother Goose at Budokan
Grinder Dead End
Guillotine Bring Down the Curtain
Heir Apparent One Small Voice
Hell's Kitchen If You Can't Take the Heat...
Helloween I Want Out - Live
Helloween Live In The U.K.
Helstar Nosferatu
Intruder A Higher Form Of Killing
King Diamond Conspiracy
Kreator Extreme Aggression
Laaz Rockit Annihilation Principle
Lizzy Borden Master of Disguise
Malice Crazy In The Night
Mandator Perfect Progeny
Mania Changing Times
Meliah Rage Live Kill
Metal Church Blessing in Disguise
Metallica Creeping Death/Jump in the Fire
Midas Touch Presage of Disaster
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness
Morgana Lady Winter
Mortal Sin Face of Despair
Motorhead Live - Blitzkreig on Birmingham '77
Nuclear Assault Handle With Care
Obituary Slowly We Rot
Omen Teeth of the Hydra (Best of)
Onslaught In Search Of Sanity
Overkill The Years Of Decay
Paranoia The Many Faces Of
Pariah Blaze of Obscurity
Pestilence Consuming Impulse
Powermad Absolute Power
Rage Secrets In A Weird World
Realm Endless War
Reverend Reverend
Rigor Mortis Freaks
Risk Hell's Animals
Royal Air Force Leading The Riot
Running Wild Death or Glory
Sabbat Dreamweaver - Reflection of Our Yesterday
Sarcofago Rotting
Savatage Gutter Ballet
Saxon Rock 'n' Roll Gypsies
Sepultura Beneath the Remains
Sodom Agent Orange
Sodom Ausgebombt
Soundtracks Leatherface - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
Stormwitch Eye of the Storm
Stratovarius Fright Night
Tankard Hair Of The Dog - The Very Best Of Tankard
Testament Practice What You Preach
Titan Force Titan Force
Tokyo Blade No Remorse
Toxik Think This
UDO Mean Machine
Urban Dance Squad Mental Floss for the Globe
Venom Prime Evil
Viper Theatre of Fate
Voivod Nothingface
Warlord Best of Warlord
Watchtower Control and Resistance
Whiplash Insult to Injury
White Zombie Make The Die Slowly
Wrathchild America Climbin' The Walls
Wrecking Crew ...Hello World...
Xentrix Shattered Existence

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Kate Bush? Now I'm as big a Kate Bush fan as they come but I'd never have thought to suggest her as HH material.

 

Ha. That's the first thing that stood out for me, too.

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Love and war would be up there for me. Can't wait to dissect this and thanks for the brutal metal reference nighttrain. 89 at a glance seems better than 88 and 87. Let's see 86, 85 etc. Some of my favourites are from the mid-early 80s before the labels started taking over and making everything samey.

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Love and war would be up there for me. Can't wait to dissect this and thanks for the brutal metal reference nighttrain. 89 at a glance seems better than 88 and 87. Let's see 86, 85 etc. Some of my favourites are from the mid-early 80s before the labels started taking over and making everything samey.

I can give you a dissected list from any year 1980 to 2000.

 

If you want

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Again, I'm a long way off a proper response to this, but this is what I've rated thus far:

 

1. Robin Beck - Trouble Or Nothin' - 1989 - 92

2. FM - Tough It Out - 1989 - 87
3. Skid Row - Skid Row - 1989 - 85
4. Bad English - Bad English - 1989 - 84
5. TNT - Intuition - 1989 - 83
6. Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich - 1989 - 83
7. Babylon A.D. - Babylon A.D. - 1989 - 81
8. 220 Volt - Eye To Eye - 1989 - 81
9. Great White - … Twice Shy - 1989 - 80
10. Bam Bam Boys - Bam Bam Boys - 1989 - 80
11. American Angel - American Angel - 1989 - 80
12. Lee Aaron - Bodyrock - 1989 - 79
13. Beau Nasty - Dirty, But Well Dressed - 1989 - 79
14. Jimmy Harnen - Can't Fight The Midnight - 1989 - 78
15. Demont - Body Language - 1989 - 78
16. Aviator - II (Unreleased Demos) - 1989 - 77
17. Alexa - Alexa - 1989 - 76
18. Deadringer - Electrocution Of The Heart - 1989 - 76
19. Angelica - Angelica - 1989 - 75
20. 8084 - Love And War - 1989 - 74
21. D.A.D - No Fuel Left For The Pilgrims - 1989 - 72
22. EZO - Fire Fire - 1989 - 72
23. Bad Sister - Heartbreaker - 1989 - 71
24. Banshee - Race Against Time - 1989 - 71
25. Bang Tango - Psycho Café - 1989 - 71
26. Accept - Eat The Heat - 1989 - 70
27. Barracuda - Open Fire - 1989 - 70
28. Czakan - State Of Confusion - 1989 - 70
29. Frontrunner - Without Reason - 1989 - 70
30. Elektradrive - Due - 1989 - 69
31. Doro - Force Majeure - 1989 - 69
32. Ginger Roxx - Caught In The Act - 1989 - 67
33. Barren Cross - State Of Control - 1989 - 67
34. Aerosmith - Pump - 1989 - 66
35. Crash Pony - Rough Ride - 1989 - 66
36. Eklypce - Passion After Midnight - 1989 - 64
37. Ace Frehley - Trouble Walkin' - 1989 - 64
38. Axxis - Kingdom Of The Night - 1989 - 63
39. Airkraft - Airkraft - 1989 - 62
40. Shout - In Your Face - 1989 - 62
41. Diamond Rexx - Rated Rexx - 1989 - 59
42. Beau Heart - Invitation - 1989 - 53
43. Fair Exchange - Fair Exchange - 1989 - 46
44. Nitro - OFR - 1989 - 37
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So there was a shit album released in 1989 lol! Nitro - not heard it but it must be shite ;-)

 

Oh, there were plenty. Fear not that. The one thing I'm finding is that if you delve deep enough, there were just as many poor albums from back then as there are these days. A few more better ones, I doubt not... but the rubbish was always present. All of those last 4 albums are terrible. Jeez Diamond Rexx sucked.

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The Bad English disc is very frustrating too. Without 'Ready When You Are,' 'Lay Down' and 'Rocking Horse' it's an easy 90%+ disc. With those 3 scraps of shit the score of this album is dragged to a place where one part of me feels like it doesn't belong, and the other part of me thinks... well, dudes, it's your fault. Why'd you put these 3 pieces of shit on such a masterpiece?

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As before, a kind of 'top 10', plus others ...

 

W.A.S.P.: The Headless Children

A.S.A.P.: Silver and Gold

Tesla: The Great Radio Controversy

The Outfield: Voices of Babylon

Michael Monroe: Not Fakin' It
Skid Row: Skid Row

Dangerous Toys: Dangerous Toys
Dirty Looks: Turn of the Screw
Swedish Erotica: Swedish Erotica

D.A.D.: No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims

Aerosmith: Pump
Alice Cooper: Trash
The Cult: Sonic Temple
Danger Danger: Danger Danger
Junkyard: Junkyard
Alannah Myles: Alannah Myles
Vain: No Respect
Black Sabbath: Headless Cross
Helloween: Live In The U.K.
Sabbat: Dreamweaver - Reflection of Our Yesterday

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This one was tough with a lot of releases very close to the top 10.....

 

 

 

Babylon A.D. - S/T

Bonfire - Point Blank

D.A.D. - No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims

Dalton - Injection

Danger Danger -S/T

Evenrude - One Size Fits All

Giant - Last of the Runaways

Mastedon - It's a Jungle Out There

Silent Rage - Don't Touch Me There

Swedish Erotica - S/T

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Fantastic year..Here's mine

 

 

 

Kim Mitchell - Rockland

Steve Lukather - Lukather

Strangeways - Walk in the Fire

FM - Tough it Out

The Dan Reed Network - Slam

Drive, She Said - Drive, She Said

Giant - Last of the Runaways

Alice Cooper - Trash

Benny Mardones - Benny Mardones

Signal - Loud and Clear

 

 

Robin Beck - Trouble or Nothin

It Bites - Eat Me in St. Louis

Diving for Pearls - Diving for Pearls

Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles

Stage Dolls - Stage Dolls

Alexa - S/T

Bad Habit - After Hours

Alien - Alien

Bad English - Bad English

GNP - Safety Zone

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1989 is really when the bulk of my collection begins. Narrowing this down to ten was difficult. Most of the albums I own from this year are, I feel, essential. Extreme would have to take top spot for me. But I love Lion, too. And Giant. And Treat. And Babylon A.D.. And Savatage. And Tesla. And Danger Danger. And Gorky Park. And Bad English.

 

Babylon A.D. - Babylon A.D.
Bad English - Bad English
Danger Danger - Danger Danger
Extreme - Extreme
Gorky Park - Gorky Park
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Giant - Last of the Runaways
Treat - Organized Crime
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
Lion - Trouble In Angel City
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Couldn't get down to 10. Here are the 40 I think are essential from this year.

 

Aerosmith Pump
Bad English Bad English
Badlands Badlands
Blue Blud The Big Noise
Blue Murder Blue Murder
Bonham The Disregard of Timekeeping
Britny Fox Boys In Heat
Cats In Boots Kicked and Klawed
The Cult Sonic Temple
D.A.D. No Fuel Left for the Pilgrims
Dirty Looks Turn of the Screw
Enuff Z'Nuff Enuff Z'Nuff
GUN Taking on the World
The Georgia Satellites In The Land Of Salvation and Sin
Giant Last of the Runaways
Great White Twice Shy
Havana Black Indian Warrior
Icon Right Between the Eyes
It Bites Eat Me in St. Louis
Junkyard Junkyard
King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
L.A. Guns Cocked and Loaded
Law and Order Guilty of Innocence
Little Angels Don't Prey For Me
Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood
Mr. Big Mr. Big
Alannah Myles Alannah Myles
Pandora's Box Original Sin
Princess Pang Princess Pang
Trevor Rabin Can't Look Away
Royal Court of China Geared and Primed
Sea Hags Sea Hags
Shark Island Law of the Order
Shotgun Messiah Shotgun Messiah
Skid Row Skid Row
Tattooed Love Boys Bleeding Hearts and Needle Marks
Tesla The Great Radio Controversy
Tora Tora Surprise Attack
Vain No Respect
Walk On Fire Blind Faith

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Tattooed Love Boys Bleeding Hearts and Needle Marks

 

 

Garry Mielle now runs a hairdressing salon not far from where I live ... he STILL looks like he's in 1989 :)

 

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Tattooed Love Boys Bleeding Hearts and Needle Marks

 

 

Garry Mielle now runs a hairdressing salon not far from where I live ... he STILL looks like he's in 1989 :)

 

 

 

Does he still smell of petals ?? lol

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Tattooed Love Boys Bleeding Hearts and Needle Marks

 

 

Garry Mielle now runs a hairdressing salon not far from where I live ... he STILL looks like he's in 1989 :)

 

 

 

Does he still smell of petals ?? lol

 

 

And is he aware of the fact that his band sucked dog balls? ;)

 

This'll be a good year to review. I assume that Bonfire and Treat will battle it out for my top spot, and I look forward to seeing the victor. I'm guessing it might just be Bonfire.

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I like Organised Crime, but in 1989 it will struggle to make my top 10 I reckon.

 

Point Blank is a classic however - easily Bonfire's finest moment and probably the longest most consistent album ever. I would say it would be challenging for top spot.

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