My favourite albums from 1989

1. 31

   Masters of Reality

   Masters of Reality

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Theme for the Scientist of the Invisible
   2. Domino
   3. The Blue Garden ●
   4. Gettin' High
   5. The Candy Song
   6. Magical Spell
   7. The Eyes of Texas
   8. Sleep Walkin'
   9. Lookin' to Get Rite
   10. John Brown
   11. Kill the King

   Genres

   • Stoner rock
   • Hard rock

2. 30

   Realm of Chaos

   Bolt Thrower

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Intro
   2. Eternal War
   3. Through the Eye of Terror ●
   4. Dark Millenium
   5. All That Remains
   6. Lost Souls Domain
   7. Plague Bearer
   8. World Eater
   9. Drowned in Torment
   10. Realm of Chaos
   11. Outro

   Genres

   • Death metal
   • Grindcore

3. 29

   Nothingface

   Voivod

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Intro / The Unknown Knows
   2. Nothingface
   3. Astronomy Domine
   4. Missing Sequences
   5. X-Ray Mirror
   6. Inner Combustion
   7. Pre-Ignition ●
   8. Into My Hypercube
   9. Sub-Effect

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Thrash metal

4. 28

   Death or Glory

   Running Wild

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Riding the Storm ●
   2. Renegade
   3. Evilution
   4. Running Blood
   5. Highland Glory (the Eternal Fight)
   6. Marooned
   7. Bad to the Bone
   8. Tortuga Bay
   9. Death or Glory
   10. Battle of Waterloo

   Genres

   • Power metal
   • Heavy metal
   • Pirate metal

5. 27

   Severed Survival

   Autopsy

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Charred Remains
   2. Servoce for a Vacant Coffin
   3. Disembowel ●
   4. Gasping for Air
   5. Ridden with Disease
   6. Pagan Saviour
   7. Impending Dread
   8. Severed Survival
   9. Critical Madness
   10. Embalmed
   11. Stillborn

   Genres

   • Death metal

6. 26

   13 Songs

   Fugazi

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Waiting Room
   2. Bulldog Front
   3. Bad Mouth
   4. Give Me the Cure ●
   5. Suggestion
   6. Glue Man
   7. Margin Walker
   8. And the Same
   9. Burning Too
   10. Provisional
   11. Lockdown
   12. Promises

   Genres

   • Post-hardcore

7. 25

   Force Majeure

   Doro

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. A Whiter Shade of Pale
   2. Save My Soul ●
   3. World Gone Wild
   4. Mission of Mercy
   5. Angels with Dirty Faces
   6. Beyond the Trees
   7. Hard Times
   8. Hellraiser
   9. I Am What I Am
   10. Cry Wolf
   11. Under the Gun
   12. River of Tears
   13. Bis auf Blut

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Heavy metal

8. 24

   Trash

   Alice Cooper

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Poison ●
   2. Spark in the Dark
   3. House of Fire
   4. Why Trust You
   5. Only My Heart Talkin'
   6. Bed of Nails
   7. This Maniac's in Love with You
   8. Trash
   9. Hell Is Living Without You
   10. I'm Your Gun

   Genres

   • Glam metal

9. 23

   Bleach

   Nirvana

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Blew
   2. Floyd the Barber
   3. About a Girl ●
   4. School
   5. Love Buzz
   6. Paper Cuts
   7. Negative Creep
   8. Scoff
   9. Swap Meet
   10. Mr. Moustache
   11. Sifting

   Genres

   • Alternative metal

10. 22

    Extreme Aggression

    Kreator

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Extreme Aggression
    2. No Reason ro Exist
    3. Love Us of Hate Us
    4. Stream of Consciousness ●
    5. Some Pain Will Last
    6. Betrayer
    7. Don't Trust
    8. Bringer of Torture
    9. Fatal Energy

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

11. 21

    No More Color

    Coroner

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Die by My Hand
    2. No Need to Be Human
    3. Read My Scars
    4. D.O.A.
    5. Mistress of Deception ●
    6. Tunnel of Pain
    7. Why It Hurts
    8. Last Entertainment

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Progressive metal

12. 20

    Control and Resistance

    Watchtower

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Instruments of Random Murder
    2. The Eldritch
    3. Mayday in Kiev
    4. The Fall of Reason
    5. Control and Resistance ●
    6. Hidden Instincts
    7. Life Cycles
    8. Dangerous Toys

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Jazz fusion

13. 19

    Doolittle

    Pixies

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Debaser ●
    2. Tame
    3. Wave of Mutilation
    4. I Bleed
    5. Here Comes Your Man
    6. Dead
    7. Monkey Gone to Heaven
    8. Mr. Grieves
    9. Crackity Jones
    10. La La Love You
    11. No. 13 Baby
    12. There Goes My Gun
    13. Hey
    14. Silver
    15. Gouge Away

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Art punk

14. 18

    Fabulous Disaster

    Exodus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Last Act of Defiance
    2. Fabulous Disaster
    3. The Toxic Waltz ●
    4. Low Rider
    5. Cajun Hell
    6. Like Father, Like Son
    7. Corruption
    8. Verbal Razors
    9. Open Season

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

15. 17

    Consuming Impulse

    Pestilence

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Dehydrated
    2. The Process of Suffocation
    3. Suspended Animation
    4. The Trauma
    5. Chronic Infection
    6. Out of the Body ●
    7. Echoes of Death
    8. Deify thy Master
    9. Proliferous Souls
    10. Reduced to Ashes

    Genres

    • Technical death metal

16. 16

    Freedom

    Neil Young

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Rockin' in the Free World (Acoustic)
    2. Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)
    3. Don't Cry
    4. Hangin' on a Limb
    5. Eldorado
    6. The Ways of Love
    7. Someday
    8. On Broadway
    9. Wrecking Ball
    10. No More
    11. Too Far Gone
    12. Rockin' in the Free World (Electric) ●

    Genres

    • Roots rock

17. 15

    Mother's Milk

    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Good Time Boys ●
    2. Higher Ground
    3. Subway to Venus
    4. Magic Johnson
    5. Nobody Weird Like Me
    6. Knock Me Down
    7. Taste the Pain
    8. Stone Cold Bush
    9. Fire
    10. Pretty Little Ditty
    11. Punk Rock Classic
    12. Sexy Mexican Maid
    13. Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky

    Genres

    • Funk metal
    • Alternative metal

18. 14

    Gutter Ballet

    Savatage

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Of Rage and War
    2. Gutter Ballet ●
    3. Temptation Revelation
    4. When the Crowds Are Gone
    5. Silk and Steel
    6. Hounds
    7. The Unholy
    8. Mentally Yours
    9. Summer's Rain
    10. Thorazine Shuffle

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

19. 13

    Alice in Hell

    Annihilator

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Crystal Ann
    2. Alison Hell ●
    3. W.T.Y.D.
    4. Wicked Mystic
    5. Burns Like a Buzzsaw Blade
    6. Word Salad
    7. Schizos (Are Never Alone) — Parts I & II
    8. Ligeia
    9. Human Insecticide

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Speed metal

20. 12

    The Years of Decay

    Overkill

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Time to Kill
    2. Elimination
    3. I Hate
    4. Nothing to Die for
    5. Playing with Spiders / Skullcrusher
    6. Birth of Tension
    7. Who Tends the Fire
    8. The Years of Decay ●
    9. E.vil N.ever D.ies

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

21. 11

    Dr. Feelgood

    Mötley Crüe

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. T.n.T. (Terror 'n Tinseltown)
    2. Dr. Feelgood
    3. Slice of Your Pie
    4. Rattlesnake Shake
    5. Kickstart My Heart ●
    6. Without You
    7. Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)
    8. Sticky Sweet
    9. She Goes Down
    10. Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)
    11. Time for Change

    Genres

    • Glam metal
    • heavy metal

22. 10

    Full Moon Fever

    Tom Petty

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Free Fallin'
    2. I Won't Back Down
    3. Love Is a Long Road
    4. A Face in the Crowd
    5. Runnin' Down a Dream
    6. Feel a Whole Lot Better
    7. Yer So Bad ●
    8. Depending on You
    9. The Apartment Song
    10. Alright for Now
    11. A Mind with a Heart of Its Own
    12. Zombie Zoo

    Genres

    • Roots rock
    • Pop rock

23. 9

    Agent Orange

    Sodom

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Agent Orange ●
    2. Tired and Red
    3. Incest
    4. Remember the Fallen
    5. Magic Dragon
    6. Exhibition Bout
    7. Ausgebombt
    8. Baptism of Fire
    9. Don't Walk Away

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

24. 8

    Altars of Madness

    Morbid Angel

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Immortal Rites ●
    2. Suffocation
    3. Visions from the Dark Side
    4. Maze of Torment
    5. Chapel of Ghouls
    6. Bleed for the Devil
    7. Damnation
    8. Blasphemy
    9. Evil Spells

    Genres

    • Death metal

25. 7

    Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

    King's X

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Out of the Silent Planet ●
    2. Over My Head
    3. Summerland
    4. Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something
    5. The Difference (in the Garden of St. Anne's-on-the-Hill)
    6. I'll Never Be the Same
    7. Mission
    8. Fall on Me
    9. Pleiades
    10. Don't Believe It (It's Easier Said Than Done)
    11. Send a Message
    12. The Burning Down

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • hard rock

26. 6

    Louder Than Love

    Soundgarden

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ugly Truth
    2. Hands All Over
    3. Gun
    4. Power Trip
    5. Get on the Snake
    6. Full on Kevin's Mom
    7. Loud Love ●
    8. I Awake
    9. No Wrong No Right
    10. Uncovered
    11. Big Dumb Sex
    12. Full on (reprise)

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • heavy metal

27. 5

    Practice What You Preach

    Testament

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Practice What You Preach ●
    2. Perilous Nation
    3. Envy Life
    4. Time Is Coming
    5. Blessed in Contempt
    6. Greenhouse Effect
    7. Sins of Omission
    8. The Ballad
    9. Nightmare (Coming Back to You)
    10. Confusion Fusion

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

28. 4

    Skid Row

    Skid Row

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Big Guns
    2. Sweet Little Sister
    3. Can't Stand the Heartache
    4. Piece of Me
    5. 18 and Life
    6. Rattlesnake Shake
    7. Youth Gone Wild
    8. Here I Am
    9. Makin' a Mess
    10. I Remember You
    11. Midnight / Tornado ●

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • heavy metal

29. 3

    Beneath the Remains

    Sepultura

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Beneath the Remains ●
    2. Inner Self
    3. Stronger Than Hate
    4. Mass Hypnosis
    5. Sarcastic Existence
    6. Slaves of Pain
    7. Lobotomy
    8. Hungry
    9. Primitive Future

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

30. 2

    The Headless Children

    W.A.S.P.

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Heretic (The Lost Child)
    2. The Real Me
    3. The Headless Children ●
    4. Thunderhead
    5. Mean Man
    6. The Neutron Bomber
    7. Mephisto Waltz
    8. Forever Free
    9. Maneater
    10. Rebel in the F.D.G.

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

31. 1

    The Real Thing

    Faith No More

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. From out of Nowhere
    2. Epic
    3. Falling to Pieces
    4. Surprise! You're Dead
    5. Zombie Eaters ●
    6. The Real Thing
    7. Underwater Love
    8. The Morning After
    9. Woodpecker from Mars
    10. Edge of the World

    Genres

    • Funk metal
    • alternative rock