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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989.
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989.

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January 14 - Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
releases ????? ? ????
????? ? ????

????? ? ???? is an album of rock 'n' roll oldies by Paul McCartney originally released in 1988 exclusively in the Soviet Union. With the addition of an extra track, the album would see international release in 1991....
(Back in the USSR) exclusively in the USSR
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
. Bootleg
Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an sound recording and/or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority....
copies sell for as much as $
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
1,000 in the United States.
January 23 - James Brown is sentenced in Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, USA to six years in jail in connection with a police chase through two different states.
January 25 - Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
files for divorce from Sean Penn
Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn is an United States film actor. He is also a filmmaker and political activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Awa...
after three-and-a-half years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
February - Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
joins Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
as the only singers to ever simultaneously have two top 5 albums on the Billboard Charts
Billboard charts

The Billboard charts are music sales, airplay and digital ranking reports distributed to the general public by Billboard magazine. Billboard is considered the foremost authority worldwide in these song sales, airplay, digital reports, or Record chart....
.
February 12 - Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim (musician)

Herbert Khaury , better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an United States singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice ....
launches an unsuccessful campaign to be elected mayor of New York City, USA.
February 17 - Whitesnake
Whitesnake

Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
's David Coverdale
David Coverdale

David Coverdale is an England rock vocalist most famous for his work with the English hard rock band Deep Purple, and his later band Whitesnake....
marries Tawny Kitaen
Tawny Kitaen

Julie "Tawny" Kitaen is an United States actor and media personality in Southern California. She became famous in the 1980s for appearing in several Heavy metal music music videos, most notably Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again", where she appeared in 1987 with her future husband, David Coverdale, to whom she was married from 1989-1991....
March 21 - Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
's "Like a Prayer
Like a Prayer (song)

"Like a Prayer" is the first single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 4th studio album, Like a Prayer. It was released on February 28, 1989 by Sire Records....
" music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
, taped in late December 1988 attracts criticism for its use of Catholic
Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
iconography and for the use of cross burning imagery, but also garnered praise for its interpretation of discrimination
Discrimination

Discrimination toward or against a person or group is the treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit. It is usually associated with prejudice....
, rape
Rape

Rape, also referred to as sexual assault, is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with or sexual penetration of another person without that person's consent....
, and faith
Faith

Faith is the confident belief in the truth of or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. It is also used for a belief, characteristically without proof....
. Pepsi
Pepsi

Pepsi is a Carbonation that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in retail stores, restaurants, cinemas and from vending machines....
drops Madonna as a spokesperson out of fear the video will cause religious groups to boycott
Boycott

A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of protest, usually of politics reasons....
the company.
April 9 - The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
' Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman

Bill Wyman is the former bass guitarist for the England rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings....
announces that he will marry 19-year-old Mandy Smith
Mandy Smith

Amanda Louise Smith is an England dance-pop singer, former Model and Actor....
, his girlfriend for six years.
April 28 - Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi

John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. , better known as Jon Bon Jovi, is an United States musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead singer and founder of Bon Jovi....
marries his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
, USA.
May 1 - California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA jewellery store employees called the police reporting a suspicious person hanging around their store. The person turned out to be Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
shopping in disguise.
July 9 - All four original members of The Monkees
The Monkees

The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
reunite in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, USA, for a concert performance at the Universal Amphitheater. The following day the quartet attend an induction ceremony at the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
, where they receive a star.
July 23 - Former Beatle
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
forms his own band named Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band

To date, Ringo Starr has toured with ten versions of his All-Starr Band, where "everybody on stage is a star in their own right." The band has consistently toured for almost two decades, and, in similar fashion to Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, rotates its lineup depending on the musicians' projects at a given time....
.
August 11–August 12 - The Moscow Music Peace Festival
Moscow Music Peace Festival

The Moscow Music Peace Festival was a one-time gathering of high-profile hard rock acts who put on a concert for the people in Moscow, Soviet Union on 12 and 13 August 1989 in music to promote world peace and establish international cooperation in fighting the drug war in Russia ....
is held in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
. The event is put together by Doc McGhee
Doc McGhee

"Doc" McGhee is an United States Music management, best known for working with Kiss , Bon Jovi and M?tley Cr?e. The latter two groups experienced their rise to stardom under his management....
and the Make a Wish Foundation and headline acts include Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
, Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
, Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe

M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
, Skid Row
Skid Row (heavy metal band)

Skid Row is an United States Heavy metal music band, formed in 1986 in Toms River, New Jersey. They are named after Phil Lynott and Gary Moore's Skid Row ....
, Cinderella
Cinderella (band)

Cinderella is an United States rock music band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation....
, and the Scorpions
Scorpions (band)

Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
.
August 31 - The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
open their Steel Wheels
Steel Wheels

Steel Wheels is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1989. Heralded as a major comeback upon its release, the project is notable for the patching up of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' relationship, a reversion to a more classic style of music and the launching of the band's biggest world tour at the time....
North American tour in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
, USA.
September 14 - Madonna is granted a divorce from Sean Penn.

Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker OBE is an England rock /blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty human voice and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles....
, The Bee Gees, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
, Chicago
Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
, Donna Summer
Donna Summer

Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
, The Doobie Brothers
The Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
& Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
all had their last Top 10 hits this year.
December 23 - Ice Cube
Ice Cube

O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube is an United States of America rapper, actor, screenwriter, and film producer.He began his career as a member of the rap group N.W.A along with group leader Eazy-E, and later launched a successful solo career in music and Film....
leaves N.W.A.
N.W.A.

N.W.A was a Compton, California, California-based hip hop music group widely considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap sub-genre. Active from 1986 to 1991, the group endured controversy due to the explicit nature of their lyrics....
.

Bands formed

See Musical groups established in 1989

Bands disbanded

The Bangles
The Bangles

The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
(reformed in 2000)
Circle Jerks
Circle Jerks

The Circle Jerks are an American punk band, formed circa 1979 in Hermosa Beach, California. It was formed by Black Flag 's original singer, Keith Morris, and future Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson....
(reformed in 1994)
Goûts de Luxe
Goûts de Luxe

Go?ts de Luxe was a France group from Brest, founded by Jacques le Honsec and Jean-?ric Montfort....
The Monkees
The Monkees

The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
New Edition
New Edition

New Edition is an United States R&B/Pop group formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1978, that was most popular during the 1980s. Their success led to the creation of late-1980s and 1990s boy bands like New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men....
(reformed in 1996)
Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy (band)

Operation Ivy was an influential Ska punk band formed in Albany, California. The band consisted of frontman Jesse Michaels , Tim Armstrong , Matt Freeman , and Dave Mello ....
Partenaire Particulier
Partenaire Particulier

Partenaire particulier was a France trio, then a duo of Pop music, electronic, and new wave music from Bordeaux which was very successful in France in the mid-1980s....
Wall of Voodoo
Wall of Voodoo

Wall of Voodoo was a Rock music musical ensemble from Los Angeles, California best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone....

Bands reformed

Cluster
Cluster (band)

Cluster is a Germany experimental music musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic music and ambient music....
Luv'
Luv'

Luv' is a Netherlands pop girl group which scored a string of successful hit records in a large part of Continental Europe and also South Africa and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
The Plasmatics

Albums released

All releases are an LP

LP album

January - March

Date		Album	Artist	Notes
J A N U A R Y	9	A Show of Hands A Show of Hands *A Show of Hands* is a live album by Canada rock music band Rush , released in 1989 in music. The band released a A Show of Hands , originally on VHS and laserdisc in 1989....	Rush Rush (band) Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....	Live album Live album A live album – commonly contrasted with a studio album – is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances. Live albums may be recorded at a single concert, or combine recordings made at multiple concerts....
	10	New York New York (album) *New York* is a 1989 album by Lou Reed. It was received very warmly as a return to the style of The Velvet Underground, the group which Reed founded in the 1960s and whose legacy had grown in stature during the 1980s as it was carried on by any number of alternative rock acts....	Lou Reed Lou Reed Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
	13	Fabulous Disaster Fabulous Disaster *Fabulous Disaster* is the third album by Exodus , released in 1989 . In 1999, Century media remastered and reissued the band's first three albums in Europe only....	Exodus Exodus (band) Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in San Francisco, California by guitarist Gary Holt , current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and singer/drummer Tom Hunting....
	14	????? ? ???? ????? ? ???? *????? ? ????* is an album of rock 'n' roll oldies by Paul McCartney originally released in 1988 exclusively in the Soviet Union. With the addition of an extra track, the album would see international release in 1991....	Paul McCartney Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....	Live; exclusive USSR Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR.... release
	23	Oh Yes I Can Oh Yes I Can Oh Yes I Can is the second solo album by Crosby, Stills & Nash member David Crosby. It was released in 1989 , 18 years on from his previous solo release If I Could Only Remember My Name....	David Crosby David Crosby David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an United States guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young which is sometimes augmented with Neil Young, and CPR ....
	24	Electric Youth Electric Youth *Electric Youth* is the second album by Debbie Gibson, released 1989 in music on Atlantic Records. It is the most successful album of her career, staying at the top of the Billboard 200 chart for five weeks, and reaching Number 8 on the UK album chart....	Debbie Gibson
	24	Skid Row Skid Row (album) *Skid Row* is the debut album from the USA Heavy metal band Skid Row , released on January 24, 1989. The album is RIAA Certification 5x Platinum by the RIAA....	Skid Row Skid Row (heavy metal band) Skid Row is an United States Heavy metal music band, formed in 1986 in Toms River, New Jersey. They are named after Phil Lynott and Gary Moore's Skid Row ....
	25	Touch Touch (Sarah McLachlan album) *Touch* is the debut album by Sarah McLachlan which was released in 1988 and then re-released in 1989.The album was originally released in 1988 by Nettwerk....	Sarah McLachlan Sarah McLachlan Sarah Ann McLachlan, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada musician, singer and songwriter.She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range....	Arista Records Arista Records Arista Records is an United States record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Records.... re-release
	25	After the War After the War *After The War* is an album by Irish people blues-rock guitarist Gary Moore, released in 1989 . Like Moore's prior album Wild Frontier, this album contains elements of his Celtic music roots....	Gary Moore Gary Moore Gary Moore is a Northern Irish guitarist. In a career dating back to the 1960s, he has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the Blues-rock band Skid Row , as well as having a successful solo career....
	30	Dylan & The Dead Dylan & The Dead *Dylan & the Dead* is a collaborative live album by Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, released in 1989 by Columbia Records. It was recorded in 1987, during a successful stadium tour of the same name....	Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead	Live album
	30	Technique Technique (album) *Technique* is the fifth original album by New Order, released in 1989. Partly recorded on the island of Ibiza, it incorporates Balearic beat and acid house influences into the group's electropop sound....	New Order New Order New Order are an English alternative rock/electronic band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris . New Order was formed in the wake of the demise of their previous group Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis....
	?	Loc'ed After Dark	Tone Loc Tone Loc Tone Loc is the stage name of Anthony Terrell Smith , a Grammy Award nominated United States rapper and actor, best known for his deep, gravelly human voice and his million selling hit singles, "Wild Thing " and "Funky Cold Medina"....
F E B R U A R Y	1	Don't Tell a Soul Don't Tell a Soul *Don't Tell a Soul* is an album released in 1989 by The Replacements.The album was a stylistic change from their previous albums. Where Tim and Pleased To Meet Me could be classified as alternative punk, this album was more of a straight up rock album....	The Replacements The Replacements The Replacements were an American rock music band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1979. The band was composed of guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars for most of their career....
	1	The Great Radio Controversy The Great Radio Controversy *The Great Radio Controversy* is the second album by American rock band Tesla , released in 1989. Songs combine typical '80s metal with some blues-influenced elements, as well as the occasional love ballad....	Tesla Tesla (band) Tesla is an United States hard rock band formed in Sacramento, California, California in 1984, and have sold over 16 million albums in the United States as of 2008....
	6	Beyond the Blue Neon Beyond the Blue Neon *Beyond the Blue Neon* is George Strait's 9th original studio album and 12th overall. It was released by MCA Records in 1989. It is certified RIAA certification by the RIAA....	George Strait George Strait George Harvey Strait is a Grammy Award -winning United States country music singer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend....
	7	Mystery Girl Mystery Girl *Mystery Girl* is the last record album made by Roy Orbison, posthumously released on the Virgin Records label in 1989. The album reached #5 on the Billboard 200....	Roy Orbison Roy Orbison Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
	7	As Nasty As They Wanna Be As Nasty As They Wanna Be *As Nasty As They Wanna Be* is 2 Live Crew's third album which was released in 1989. This album became their largest seller, going 2x Platinum....	2 Live Crew 2 Live Crew 2 Live Crew is a hip hop music group from Miami, Florida. They caused considerable controversy with the sexual themes in their work, particularly on their 1989 album As Nasty As They Wanna Be....
	14	Spike Spike (Elvis Costello album) *Spike* is an album by the United Kingdom musician Elvis Costello released in 1989 on Warner Brothers records, his first album for the label....	Elvis Costello Elvis Costello Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
	15	Fabulous Disaster Fabulous Disaster *Fabulous Disaster* is the third album by Exodus , released in 1989 . In 1999, Century media remastered and reissued the band's first three albums in Europe only....	Exodus Exodus (band) Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in San Francisco, California by guitarist Gary Holt , current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and singer/drummer Tom Hunting....
	20	The Raw and the Cooked The Raw and the Cooked (album) *The Raw & the Cooked* is the second album by Fine Young Cannibals. A remixed version was also released as The Raw and the Remix. Selling over two million copies, The Raw & the Cooked included two US number one songs "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing "....	Fine Young Cannibals Fine Young Cannibals Fine Young Cannibals were a United Kingdom band formed in Birmingham, England in 1984, by guitarist David Steele and bassist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift....
	22	Blessing in Disguise Blessing in Disguise (Metal Church album) *Blessing in Disguise* is an album by United States heavy metal music band Metal Church, released as a gramophone record in the summer of 1989; the Compact Disc followed in 1990....	Metal Church Metal Church Metal Church is an United States heavy metal music band from Aberdeen, Washington. They formed as Shrapnel in 1981, their first album was released in 1984, and the band's most recent work, This Present Wasteland, was released in 2008 in heavy metal music....
	27	Oranges & Lemons	XTC XTC XTC were a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. Though the band enjoyed some significant chart success , they are more known for their long-standing critical success than for making hit records....
	28	Indigo Girls Indigo Girls (album) *Indigo Girls* is the second studio album by Indigo Girls. It was released in 1989 on Epic Records.The album received excellent critical reviews, and went gold after six months and eventually went platinum....	Indigo Girls Indigo Girls Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor....
	?	Force Majeure Force majeure *Force Majeure* is a common clause in contracts which essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, Strike action, riot, crime, or an event described by the legal term "act of God" , prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their...	Doro Doro (band) Doro Pesch is a female vocalist, formerly of the German Heavy metal music band Warlock and one of the few female singers of the 1980s heavy metal scene, which was primarily a male-dominated genre of music....
	?	Jed Jed (album) *Jed* is a rock and roll album by the Goo Goo Dolls. It marks the first studio album in which John Rzeznik sung vocals for some of the tracks....	Goo Goo Dolls Goo Goo Dolls The Goo Goo Dolls is a rock band that formed in 1987 in Buffalo, New York by John Rzeznik and Robby Takac., the band has sold more than 9 million records in the US alone....
M A R C H	7	Girl You Know It's True Girl You Know It's True *Girl You Know It's True* is a 1989 album that was the U.S. debut of pop group Milli Vanilli.In 1989, the majority of songs from Milli Vanilli's Europe-only release All or Nothing were repackaged and retitled Girl You Know It's True for release in the United States and Canada on the Arista Records label....	Milli Vanilli Milli Vanilli Milli Vanilli was a pop music/dance music project formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The group's debut album achieved high sales internationally which earned them a Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990....	U.S. version of All or Nothing All or Nothing (Milli Vanilli album) *All or Nothing* was the first album by the pop duo Milli Vanilli, released in Europe on the BMG label in November 1988. After 1990, a disclaimer sticker was added to explicitly show the lead vocal talents....
	11	101 101 (album) *101* is a live album and documentary film by Depeche Mode released in 1989 chronicling the band's 1988 Music for the Masses U.S. tour and their final show at the Pasadena, California Rose Bowl ....	Depeche Mode Depeche Mode Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....	Live double album
	14	3 Feet High and Rising 3 Feet High and Rising *3 Feet High and Rising* is the influential debut album from American hip hop music trio De La Soul, released in 1989.The album marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties....	De La Soul De La Soul De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
		Extreme Extreme (album) *Extreme* is the first studio album of Boston funk-metal band Extreme , released on March 14 1989. Despite being released on a major label, the album did not sell very well and produced two singles: "Kid Ego" and the radio-only "Play With Me"....	Extreme Extreme (band) Extreme is an American Rock music band that reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Among some of Extreme's musical influences are Queen and Van Halen; The band have described their music as 'Funky Metal'....	Debut
		Spell Spell (album) *Spell* is the debut album by former Wham! and George Michael bassist, Deon Estus.The album contained the hit single, "Heaven Help Me", which featured backing vocalist by Michael, and reached number 5 on the U.S....	Deon Estus Deon Estus Deon Estus is an United States bass guitar and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michael's bassist on all of the latter's subsequent projects....
		Yellow Moon Yellow Moon *Yellow Moon* is a 1989 album by The Neville Brothers. It features their biggest hit "Yellow Moon"....	The Neville Brothers The Neville Brothers The Neville Brothers, an R&B, Soul music and Jazz group, was formed in 1976 in New Orleans, LA....
	21	Like a Prayer Like a Prayer *Like a Prayer* is the fourth studio album by United States singer-songwriter Madonna , released on March 21, 1989 by Sire Records. The RIAA certified it RIAA certification on July 16 1997, recognizing four million shipments in the U.S....	Madonna Madonna (entertainer) Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
	21	Nick of Time Nick of Time (album) *Nick of Time* is a blues rock album by Bonnie Raitt, released on March 21, 1989.Nick of Time topped the Billboard 200 chart, selling five million copies, and won Grammy Awards of 1990, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year....	Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Raitt Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
	22	Make Them Die Slowly Make Them Die Slowly (album) *Make Them Die Slowly* is the second album by White Zombie released in 1989. It is presumably named after the 1981 cannibal film Cannibal Ferox, which was originally released in the US as Make Them Die Slowly....	White Zombie
	28	Alannah Myles Alannah Myles (album) *Alannah Myles* was the self-titled debut album released by Alannah Myles on January 1, 1989....	Alannah Myles Alannah Myles Alannah Myles is a Canada singer-songwriter. In 1989, she released her self-titled debut album, Alannah Myles . In 1990 "Black Velvet ," a single taken from that album, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and was also a hit in four other countries, including her native Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and the United King...
	28	Larger than Life Larger than Life (album) *Larger than Life* is the second album by United States pop music singer Jody Watley, released in 1989 ....	Jody Watley Jody Watley Jody Watley is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label owner.Watley has sold over twenty million albums and singles worldwide....

April - June

Release		Album	Artist	Notes
A P R I L	1	Stuck in Wonderamaland Stuck in Wonderamaland *Stuck in Wonderamaland* is the third album by the alternative rock group Dramarama , released in April 1989....	Dramarama Dramarama Dramarama may refer to:* Dramarama , an alternative rock band* Dramarama , a 1980s British television series* Dramarama , a 2006 film that was to star Lindsay Lohan but was unreleased...

	4	The Breathtaking Blue The Breathtaking Blue The Breathtaking Blue is an album released by the German band Alphaville in 1989. A companion video, Songlines was released in 1990. Unfortunately, the experimental jazz feeling of the album has effected the band's reputation and The Breathtaking Blue is regarded as the band's weakest album....	Alphaville Alphaville (band) Alphaville is a Germany synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold , Bernhard Lloyd , and Frank Mertens ....

	10	Sonic Temple Sonic Temple *Sonic Temple* is the fourth album by the The Cult, released in 1989. It features some of the band's most popular songs, "Fire Woman", "Sun King", "Edie " and "Sweet Soul Sister"....	The Cult The Cult The Cult are an England Rock music band which gained a dedicated following in their native Britain with mid-1980s singles like "She Sells Sanctuary" before breaking into the American metal market in the late '80s with "Love Removal Machine"....

	12	Garth Brooks Garth Brooks (album) *Garth Brooks* was the self-titled, debut album of United States country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on Wednesday, April 12, 1989....	Garth Brooks Garth Brooks Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989; it peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart....

	15	The Headless Children The Headless Children *The Headless Children* was the fourth studio album by American heavy metal music band W.A.S.P. , released by Capitol Records in 1989.The cover shows a string of historical figures, prominently featuring a picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald....	W.A.S.P.

	16	Spanking Machine Spanking Machine *Spanking Machine* is the first album recorded by Babes in Toyland . It was produced by Jack Endino, and released 16 April 1989 by Twin/Tone Records....	Babes in Toyland Babes in Toyland (band) Babes in Toyland was an American punk rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987. Between 1989 and 1995 the band recorded three studio albums, and were associated with grunge music....

	18	...Twice Shy ...Twice Shy *...Twice Shy* is a double platinum album by Great White. It was released in 1989 and contained the biggest hits of their career, "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "The Angel Song", which reached #5 and #30 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively....	Great White Great White Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"....
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	Doolittle Doolittle (album) *Doolittle* is the second studio album from the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 1989 on 4AD. The album's offbeat and dark subject material, featuring references to surrealism, The Bible violence, torture and death, contrasts with the clean production sound achieved by the then newly hired producer Gil Norton....	Pixies

	21	Blue Blood Blue Blood (album) *Blue Blood* is an album released by X Japan on April 21, 1989. It contains re-recordings of tracks from the band's debut album Vanishing Vision, "Kurenai" and "Unfinished" and leans more towards symphonic rock than its predecessor ....	X Japan X Japan is a Japan band founded in 1982 by Toshi and Yoshiki . Originally named X , the group achieved its breakthrough success in 1989 with the release of their second album Blue Blood ....

	24	Headless Cross Headless Cross *Headless Cross* is the fourteenth album by heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, released in 1989 in music.This is the band's second album to feature singer Tony Martin and the first to feature drummer Cozy Powell....	Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....

25	Blue Murder Blue Murder (album) *Blue Murder* is an album by the group Blue Murder , released in 1989....	Blue Murder Blue Murder Blue Murder were a melodic heavy metal band from England, founded by ex-Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes. Upon Sykes' firing from Whitesnake, he set out to create a similar sounding bluesy hard rock band....
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Full Moon Fever Full Moon Fever *Full Moon Fever* is the first solo album by Tom Petty, though it features contributions from several members of his backing band, the Heartbreakers, along with fellow members of the Traveling Wilburys....	Tom Petty Tom Petty Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....
?	Follow the Blind Follow the Blind *Follow the Blind* is the second full-length album from the Germany metal music band Blind Guardian, released in 1989. Kai Hansen of Gamma Ray and ex-Helloween sings in the song Valhalla....	Blind Guardian Blind Guardian Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...

	1,000 Hours 1,000 Hours *1,000 Hours* is the first release from United Statesn punk rock band Green Day and the first of several releases for the independent record label Lookout! Records, the label that nurtured the band's development in their early years before their signing with a major label in 1993....	Green Day Green Day Green Day is an American Rock music trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tr? Cool for the majority of its existence....

	City Streets City Streets (album) *City Streets* is an album by United States singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1989. It was the first album Carole King had released in 6 years and reached No....	Carole King Carole King Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....

	Kite Kite (Kirsty MacColl album) *Kite* is the third album by Kirsty MacColl, released in 1989.The album contains 15 tracks, including "Innocence", "Fifteen Minutes" and a cover of The Kinks' "Days"....	Kirsty MacColl Kirsty MacColl Kirsty Anna MacColl was an England singer-songwriter....

Club Classics Vol. I Club Classics Vol. I *Club Classics Vol. One* is a 1989 album by the United Kingdom group Soul II Soul. The album was released to great critical acclaim following three top 20 singles - "Fairplay", "Keep on Movin' " and "Back To Life" ....	Soul II Soul Soul II Soul Soul II Soul is a 2-time Grammy winning act that emerged at the end of the 1980s from London. The group initially attracted attention as a sound system , playing records at house and street parties ....	UK
The Black Swan The Black Swan (The Triffids album) *The Black Swan* is an album by The Triffids, released in April 1989 and reached No. 59 on the Australian Album Charts. The album was originally conceived as a double album....	The Triffids The Triffids The Triffids were an Australian rock band who achieved some international success in the 1980s. Formed in Perth, Western Australia in the late 1970s and disbanded in 1989, their best known songs are "Wide Open Road " and "Bury Me Deep in Love"....
Raging Silence Raging Silence *Raging Silence* is the 17th album by British progressive rock group Uriah Heep . It marked the studio debut of Canadian vocalist Bernie Shaw....	Uriah Heep Uriah Heep (band) Uriah Heep are an English people rock music band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice , a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
Slippery When Ill Slippery When Ill *Slippery When Ill* is the second album by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band The Vandals, released jointly in 1989 by Restless Records and Sticky Fingers Records....	The Vandals The Vandals The Vandals are an United States rock music rock band established in 1980 in Huntington Beach, California. Forming as part of the List of musicians in the second wave of punk music of American punk rock, the band has released ten full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured the world extensively, including performances on the...
M A Y	2	Killin' Time	Clint Black Clint Black Clint Patrick Black is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight Number One singles on the U.S....

		Raw Like Sushi Raw Like Sushi *Raw Like Sushi* is the debut album of rapper Neneh Cherry, released May 2, 1989 on Virgin Records.An early version of "Buffalo Stance" appeared on the B-side of the Morgan McVey single "Looking Good Diving"....	Neneh Cherry Neneh Cherry Neneh Cherry is a two-time Grammy Award-nominated and MTV Europe Music Awards-winning Sweden singer-songwriter and rapping. Cherry is also an occasional disc jockey and broadcasting....

		Disintegration Disintegration *Disintegration* is the eighth studio album by English alternative rock band The Cure, released in May 1989 by Fiction Records. The record marks a return to the introspective and gloomy gothic rock style the band had established in the early 1980s....	The Cure The Cure The Cure are an English Rock music band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member....

	The Stone Roses (album) The Stone Roses (album) *The Stone Roses* is the debut album by England alternative rock band The Stone Roses, released on 2 May 1989. The album is consistently rated highly in "best ever" album lists and tops charts of the best British albums....	The Stone Roses The Stone Roses The Stone Roses were an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1984. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s....

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	Through the Storm	Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....

	8	Junta Junta (album) *Junta* is Phish third studio venture, recorded and released in 1988 but not officially hitting stores until May 8, 1989. The album was later released on October 26, 1992 by Elektra Records....	Phish Phish eruses4\|the band\|deceptive internet practices\|Phishing}}Phish is an United States band noted for their musical improvisation, extended jam sessions, exploration of music between genres, and their "fiercely loyal fans." Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the band's four members performed together for over 20 years until their hia...	sold at concerts in 1988
	9	Dangerous Toys Dangerous Toys (album) Dangerous Toys is the debut album by Texas hard rock band Dangerous Toys, released in 1989. It includes the singles "Teasin' Pleasin'" and "Scared," the former covered by Shadows Fall on Fallout from the War, the latter a tribute to Alice Cooper....	Dangerous Toys Dangerous Toys Dangerous Toys was an Austin, Texas-based glam metal band with a rough sound and often humorous lyrics. Founded in 1987, Dangerous Toys put out four full-length albums and one live album before unofficially disbanding at the turn of the millennium....

		A Night to Remember A Night to Remember (album) *A Night to Remember* is popular 1980s icon and singer Cyndi Lauper's third album ....	Cyndi Lauper Cyndi Lauper Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....

	Big Daddy Big Daddy (album) *Big Daddy* is the tenth studio album by John Mellencamp, released in 1989 by Mercury Records. It was his last album to be released under the name John Cougar Mellencamp, a combination of his real name and his original stage name of Johnny Cougar....	John Mellencamp John Mellencamp John Mellencamp, previously known by the stage names John Cougar and John Cougar Mellencamp, is a Grammy-winning United States rock music singer-songwriter, musician, artist and occasional actor....

	Kaleidoscope World Kaleidoscope World (Swing Out Sister album) Kaleidoscope World is the second album by the British band Swing Out Sister. It was released in 1989 in music and features the singles "Where In The World?" , "You On My Mind" , "Forever Blue" , and "Waiting Game"....	Swing Out Sister Swing Out Sister Swing Out Sister is a British "sophisti-pop" group best known worldwide for their 1986 song "Breakout ". Other hits include "Twilight World", "Waiting Game" and a remake of "Am I the Same Girl?" Though their album sales in the U.S....

	11	The Other Side of the Mirror	Stevie Nicks Stevie Nicks Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and has sold nearly 120 million albums....

	12	Altars of Madness Altars of Madness *Altars of Madness* is Morbid Angel's debut album and is a milestone in the history of death metal. The remastered version includes several remixed versions of songs from the album....	Morbid Angel Morbid Angel Morbid Angel is an United States death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death , Possessed , Obituary , Massacre , Deicide , Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards, separating it from the thrash metal genre completely....	Debut.
	13	I Enjoy Being a Girl	Phranc Phranc Phranc is an United States singer-songwriter whose career has spanned several decades....

	16	Blind Man's Zoo Blind Man's Zoo *Blind Man's Zoo* 10,000 Maniacs' fourth album, released in 1989. The LP version of the album was pressed on high quality audiophile vinyl....	10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs 10,000 Maniacs was a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career....
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	The Warmer Side of Cool The Warmer Side of Cool *The Warmer Side of Cool* is Wang Chung's fifth studio album and fourth on Geffen Records. Released in May 1989, the album was a commercial disappointment....	Wang Chung Wang Chung (band) Wang Chung are a UK New Wave music musical group.The group found their greatest success in the North America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1984 and 1987 ....

	17	Cycles	The Doobie Brothers The Doobie Brothers The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
19	Avalon Sunset Avalon Sunset *Avalon Sunset* is an album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1989 The January 29, 2008 reissued and remastered version of the album contains an alternative take of "Whenever God Shines His Light" and a version of "When the Saints Go Marching In" with additional lyrics by Morrison....	Van Morrison Van Morrison George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....	UK
21	A Peacetime Boom	The Boom The Boom The Boom is a Japanese rock band. Its members are Kazufumi Miyazawa , Kobayashi Takashi , Yamakawa Hiromasa , and Tochigi Takao .History...
22	The Miracle	Queen Queen (band) Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
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Tin Machine Tin Machine (album) *Tin Machine* is the debut album of Tin Machine originally released by EMI in 1989. The group was the latest venture of David Bowie, inspired by sessions with guitarist Reeves Gabrels....	Tin Machine Tin Machine Tin Machine was a hard rock rock band formed in 1988, famous for being fronted by singer David Bowie.The group recorded two studio albums before dissolving in 1992, when Bowie returned to his solo career....
23	Badlands Badlands (album) *Badlands* was the first album by the band of the Badlands . This album featured Ray Gillen and Eric Singer, who previously played together in Black Sabbath....	Badlands Badlands (band) Badlands was a short-lived rock band founded by former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee and former Black Sabbath members Ray Gillen and Eric Singer....
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Brain Drain Brain Drain (album) *Brain Drain* is the eleventh studio album by the American punk band the Ramones. Released on May 23, 1989 in music, it is the last release to feature bass player Dee Dee Ramone, and the last studio album on Sire Records....	Ramones Ramones The Ramones were an American Rock music band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with "Ramone", though none of them were actually related....
26	Eat the Heat Eat the Heat *Eat the Heat* is a 1989 release by German heavy metal music band Accept.It was recorded at Dierks-Studios, in Cologne, from September 1988 to January 1989....	Accept
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Ghostbusters II Soundtrack Ghostbusters II *Ghostbusters II* is the 1989 in film sequel to Ghostbusters produced and directed by Ivan Reitman. The science fiction film comedy film is about the further adventures of a group of parapsychology and their organization which combats paranormal activities ....	Various Artists	Soundtrack
2300 Jackson Street 2300 Jackson Street *2300 Jackson Street* was the final album released by United States band The Jacksons. For most of this album, Jermaine Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Randy Jackson , and Tito Jackson comprised The Jacksons....	Jacksons
30	White Limozeen White Limozeen *White Limozeen* is a Dolly Parton album, released in May 1989, that returned the singer to the country music fold, after the critical and commercial failure of 1987's Rainbow ....	Dolly Parton Dolly Parton Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
?	Barry Manilow Barry Manilow (album) *Barry Manilow* is the sixth self-titled album released by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow. Manilow released a total of six eponymous albums in his career: Barry Manilow , Barry Manilow II, Barry , Manilow , and this album with the same title as his first....	Barry Manilow Barry Manilow Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....

	Repeat Offender	Richard Marx Richard Marx Richard Noel Marx is an adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever ", and "Hazard "....

	Nearly Human Nearly Human *Nearly Human* is a 1989 album by Todd Rundgren, and his second for Warner Bros. Records. Finishing off a fine run of work during the 1980s, this album is considered one of Rundgren's best by many of his fans, the songs having aged well in the intervening years....	Todd Rundgren Todd Rundgren Todd Harry Rundgren , is an United States musician, singer-songwriter and record producer....
Beneath the Remains Beneath the Remains *Beneath the Remains* is the third studio album by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura, released in 1989. It was their first release through Roadrunner Records....	Sepultura Sepultura Sepultura is a Brazilian Heavy metal music band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal and thrash metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and their later experiments melding hardcore punk and industrial music with extreme metal provided a blueprint for the groove metal gen...
Another Place and Time Another Place and Time *Another Place and Time* is an album by United States singer Donna Summer, released in 1989 in music. Originally a huge star during the disco era in the 1970s, Summer had experimented with different styles of music during the 1980s and had released several albums with Geffen Records with varied results....	Donna Summer Donna Summer Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
J U N E	5	Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ *Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ* is a musical Sound recording released in 1989 by Peter Gabriel. It is his second soundtrack and eighth album overall....	Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
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	Flowers in the Dirt Flowers in the Dirt *Flowers in the Dirt* is Paul McCartney's comeback album, released in 1989. It was considered a major return upon release for McCartney due to the fact that he was embarking on his first world tour since the Wings Over the World tour jaunt back in 1975/1976....	Paul McCartney Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....

	6	World in Motion World in Motion (album) *World in Motion* is the ninth album by United States singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1989 ....	Jackson Browne Jackson Browne Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
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	In Step In Step *In Step* is a blues-rock album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released in 1989. The title In Step can be seen as referring to Vaughan's new-found sobriety, following the years of drug and alcohol use that eventually led Vaughan into rehabilitation....	Stevie Ray Vaughan Stevie Ray Vaughan Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan was an United States blues-rock guitarist, whose broad appeal made him an influential electric blues guitarist. To date, a total of 18 albums of Vaughan's work have been released.... and Double Trouble

	13	What You Don't Know What You Don't Know (album) What You Don't Know is the second album of Expos? , released in 1989. It appears both in CD and cassette versions. The remixes of "What You Don't Know" and "When I Looked at Him" are available only on CD....	Exposé Exposé (band) Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
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	Big Game Big Game (album) *Big Game* is the third studio album by the hard rock band White Lion. It was released on August 10, 1989 by Atlantic Records, reaching #19 on The Billboard 200 album chart....	White Lion White Lion White Lion is an United States/Denmark glam metal band that formed in New York City in 1983 by Denmark vocalist Mike Tramp and United States guitarist Vito Bratta....

	14	Slowly We Rot Slowly We Rot *Slowly We Rot* is a 1989 album by United States death metal band Obituary . It was their debut album and is considered by many to be their heaviest, fastest and most brutal in general....	Obituary Obituary (band) Sorry, no overview for this topic

	15	Bleach Bleach (album) *Bleach* is the debut album by the American grunge music band Nirvana . It was released on June 15, 1989 through the independent record label Sub Pop....	Nirvana Nirvana (band) Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
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	The Offspring The Offspring (album) *The Offspring* is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was released on 15 June 1989 on Nemesis Records as vinyl-only, and was not released on Compact disc until 21 November 1995 on Nitro Records/Epitaph Records, with a new album cover but otherwise identical....	The Offspring The Offspring The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....	Debut; re-released in 1995
	19	Soul Provider Soul Provider *Soul Provider* is an album released by Michael Bolton in June, 1989 on the Columbia Records label. This was the album that turned Michael Bolton into a superstar....	Michael Bolton Michael Bolton Michael Bolton , is an United States singer-songwriter and a former heavy metal music singer, best known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals....

		Heart of Stone	Cher Cher Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....

	Extreme Aggression Extreme Aggression *Extreme Aggression* is the fourth studio album by Germany thrash metal band Kreator released in 1989. While the band had already gained a sizeable following in the US due to their 1987 tour with crossover thrash band Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, this album introduced many American fans to Kreator, primarily through heavy rotation of the "Betray...	Kreator Kreator Kreator are a Germany thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. They started their career in 1982, under the name Tormentor. They originally played thrash metal with Venom influences....

	Mr. Big Mr. Big (album) *Mr. Big* is the self-titled debut album by the band Mr. Big ....	Mr. Big Mr. Big (band) Mr. Big is an United States Hard rock supergroup . Formed in 1988, Mr. Big is particularly popular in Japan. Mr. Big are probably best known for their 1991 rock hit, "Green-Tinted Sixties Mind", as well as their 1992 acoustic Billboard Hot 100...

	20	The Joke's on You The Joke's on You *The Joke's on You* is the second album by Excel , released in 1989. It should not be confused with the band's song with the same name, which appeared on their debut album Split Image....	Excel Excel (band) Excel is a now-defunct punk rock/Heavy metal music fusion band from Venice, California. The band formed in 1983 under the name Chaotic Noise. After or when former drummer Evan Warech left the band, they changed their name to Excel in 1985....

		The Real Thing The Real Thing (Faith No More album) *The Real Thing* is the third studio album by United States Rock music quintet Faith No More, first released through Slash Records on June 20, 1989....	Faith No More Faith No More Faith No More is an American alternative metal band who formed in San Francisco, California, and were active between 1984 and 1998. Faith No More combined elements of heavy metal music, funk music, progressive rock, hip hop music, hardcore punk, thrash metal, and jazz, among many others, and have been hailed as an influential rock band....

	Batman Batman (album) *Batman* is a soundtrack album for the 1989 film Batman by musical artist Prince . As a Warner Bros. stablemate, Prince's involvement in the soundtrack was designed to leverage the media company's contract-bound talent as well as fulfill the artist's need for a commercial revival....	Prince Prince (musician) Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
21	Looking for Freedom Looking for Freedom *Looking for Freedom* was released on 21 June 1989 and is an album from David Hasselhoff. It contained many memorable songs, including David Hasselhoff's biggest hit , "Looking for Freedom."...	David Hasselhoff David Hasselhoff David Michael Hasselhoff is an United States actor and singer. He is best known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s U.S....
26	All or Nothing: The U.S. Remix album	Milli Vanilli Milli Vanilli Milli Vanilli was a pop music/dance music project formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The group's debut album achieved high sales internationally which earned them a Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990....	Remix
27	Cosmic Thing Cosmic Thing *Cosmic Thing* is the fifth studio album by New Wave music band The B-52's, released in 1989 in music. It contains the singles "Love Shack" and "Roam", which remain two of their most popular tunes....	The B-52's The B-52's The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....

	Danger Danger Danger Danger (album) *Danger Danger* is the debut album of the band of the Danger Danger....	Danger Danger Danger Danger Danger Danger is a glam metal band formed in 1987 in Queens, New York. Despite enjoying moderate success in the United States with their debut album Danger Danger , the band vanished from the radar due to legal problems and changes in its line-up....

	The End of the Innocence The End of the Innocence *The End of the Innocence* is the third album by Don Henley, released in 1989 . It is his best selling album, selling over 6 million copies in the United States, peaking at #8....	Don Henley Don Henley Donald Hugh " Don " Henley is an United States rock music singing, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful Grammy Award-winning solo career....
Heart Shaped World Heart Shaped World *Heart Shaped World* is the breakthrough album by Chris Isaak released in 1989, featuring the Top 10 hit "Wicked Game"....	Chris Isaak Chris Isaak Christopher Joseph Isaak is an United States rock music musician and occasional actor....
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska Gretchen Goes to Nebraska *Gretchen Goes To Nebraska* is the second album by Heavy metal music/hard rock trio King's X. It is a concept album, based around a short story written by drummer Jerry Gaskill....	King's X King's X King's X are an American hard rock band noted by music critics and fans for their sophisticated sound that combines progressive metal, grunge, funk and soul with vocal arrangements influenced by gospel, blues, and British Invasion pop groups....
?	Bad English Bad English (album) *Bad English* is the self-titled Platinum album debut album by American rock band Supergroup Bad English, released in 1989.The band scored two huge hits on the Billboard Hot 100 including the #1 hit "When I See You Smile" and #5 hit "Price of Love"....	Bad English Bad English Bad English was an United States rock band Supergroup formed in 1988, reuniting keyboardist Jonathan Cain with singer John Waite and bassist Ricky Phillips, his former bandmates in The Babys....

	Seminal Live Seminal Live *Seminal Live* is a 1989 album by British rock band The Fall , recorded partly in the studio and partly at live performances in 1988. The album was the last to be released by the group through Beggars Banquet Records, and as such is often seen as a "contractual obligation" album....	The Fall	Live
	Margin Walker Margin Walker *Margin Walker* is the second Extended play by the United States punk band Fugazi . It was originally released in June 1989 on vinyl and again in the same year on the compilation release 13 Songs along with the debut Extended play Fugazi ....	Fugazi Fugazi (band) Fugazi is an United States punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band's continual members were guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty....	EP
	Magnum Cum Louder Magnum Cum Louder *Magnum Cum Louder* was iconic Australian Rock music group Hoodoo Gurus' fourth album, the first with their new label, RCA Records having been dropped by Elektra Records following disappointing sales in the United States....	Hoodoo Gurus Hoodoo Gurus Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner and later joined by Richard Grossman , Mark Kingsmill , and Brad Shepherd ....

	Two Highways	Alison Krauss & Union Station Alison Krauss Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
Automatic Automatic (Gary Numan album) *Automatic* is a 1989 album released by Sharpe + Numan . The album was an attempt to recapture their success of their collaboration single "Change Your Mind", which reached number 17 in the United Kingdom charts in 1985....	Gary Numan Gary Numan Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars "....
Workin' Overtime Workin' Overtime *Workin' Overtime* is a 1989 album released by United States soul music singer Diana Ross, released on the Motown label. It was Ross' first Motown album since 1980's Diana after Ross left the label for a then-record breaking $20 million deal with RCA Records....	Diana Ross Diana Ross Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....

July - September

Release		Album	Artist	Notes
J U L Y	10	Earth Moving Earth Moving *Earth Moving* is the 12th vinyl record by Mike Oldfield, released in 1989 in music....	Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield is an England multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk music, ethnic or world music, European classical music, electronic music, New Age music and more recently dance music....

	11	Cuts Both Ways Cuts Both Ways *Cuts Both Ways* is the first studio album credited to Gloria Estefan as a solo artist, but is the twelfth overall for her and her band the Miami Sound Machine, released in 1989 ; on the spine label of the album's vinyl LP format, it credits Estefan and the band, just like its predecessor album, Let it Loose....	Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....	US
	11	Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich is the debut studio album by United States glam metal band Warrant , released in 1989.The album was highly successful, spawning the hit singles "Heaven " , "Down Boys " and "Sometimes She Cries" ....	Warrant Warrant (American band) Warrant is an United States glam metal band from Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that experienced success in the 1980s and early 1990s with two multi-platinum albums....

	12	Blood, Sweat and No Tears Blood, Sweat and No Tears *Blood, Sweat and No Tears* is the first full-length album by the hardcore punk band Sick of it All, released on July 12, 1989. It became a cult favorite among die-hard Sick of It All fans, as well as a classic from the golden age of the late 1980s hardcore punk scene....	Sick of It All Sick of It All Sick of It All is a New York hardcore band formed by brothers Lou Koller and Pete Koller , Armand Majidi and Rich Capriano in 1986....

	18	UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff *UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff* , sometimes referred to simply as *UHF, is the soundtrack to the comedy cult film UHF* , by "Weird Al" Yankovic....	"Weird Al" Yankovic "Weird Al" Yankovic Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian and satire. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts....	Soundtrack
	25	Paul's Boutique Paul's Boutique *Paul's Boutique* is the second studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released July 25, 1989 on Capitol Records. Featuring production by the Dust Brothers, the recording sessions for the album took place at Mario G's Studio in Los Angeles and The Opium Den in Brooklyn, New York from 1988 to 1989, after which the recordings un...	The Beastie Boys
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Trash Trash (album) *Trash* is a studio album released by heavy metal singer Alice Cooper in 1989.The album featured "Poison", Cooper's first top ten hit since his single "You And Me" in 1977....	Alice Cooper Alice Cooper Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
?	Penikufesin EP	Anthrax Anthrax (band) Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....	EP
?	Tender Lover Tender Lover *Tender Lover* is the second album by R&B singer, Babyface. It contained his debut Top 10 hit, "It's No Crime", which reached #7 on the U.S. Hot 100 and later single "Whip Appeal", which reached #6 in the same chart....	Babyface
A U G U S T	1	One One (Bee Gees album) *One* is the Bee Gees' sixteenth studio album, released in April 1989 . After the European success of their previous album, E.S.P. , the Gibb brothers began to work on the One album in early 1988....	Bee Gees Bee Gees The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....

	2	The Cinderella Theory The Cinderella Theory *The Cinderella Theory* is a 1989 album by George Clinton . The album was released on Paisley Park Records three years after his previous studio effort, R&B Skeletons in the Closet, which was his last album for Capitol Records....	George Clinton George Clinton (funk musician) George Clinton is an United States musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the musical bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and is a solo funk artist as of 1981....

	4	Practice What You Preach	Testament Testament (band) Testament is an American thrash metal band from San Francisco, formed in 1983. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one Top 50 album to its credit in the UK....

	14	Now That's What I Call Music 15 Now That's What I Call Music 15 (U.K. series) *Now That's What I Call Music 15* or *Now 15* was released in 1989. The album is the 15th edition of the Now That's What I Call Music series.... (UK series)	Various Artists

	16	Perfect Symmetry Perfect Symmetry Perfect Symmetry was an album by Fates Warning released in 1989. It was the first album with Mark Zonder on drums. The album has been re-released as a special edition remaster in June 2008 with a bonus disc of studio demos and a DVD featuring live performances from the 1989-90 Perfect Symmetry world tour ....	Fates Warning Fates Warning Fates Warning is a progressive metal band, formed in 1983 by John Arch, Jim Matheos, Victor Arduini, Joe DiBiase, and Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States...
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	Mother's Milk Mother's Milk *Mother's Milk* is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 29, 1989 on EMI. After the death of guitarist Hillel Slovak and subsequent departure of drummer Jack Irons, vocalist Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea regrouped with the addition of guitarist John Frusciante and drummer Cha...	Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....

	17	The Death of a Dictionary The Death of a Dictionary *The Death of a Dictionary* is the debut album by alternative rock band Public Affection, the name used by the band Live before they settled on their current name....	Public Affection	band changed name to Live Live (band) Live is an United States alternative rock/post-grunge band from York, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, comprising Edward Kowalczyk , Chad Taylor , Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Gracey ....
	21	Rock Island Rock Island (album) *Rock Island* is an album by the United Kingdom Rock music group Jethro Tull , released in 1989.The album continued the hard rock direction the band took on the previous effort, Crest of a Knave....	Jethro Tull Jethro Tull (band) Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
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	Conspiracy	King Diamond King Diamond King Diamond is a Grammy Award nominated heavy metal music musician. As a vocalist, he is known for his use of falsetto, mixed with mid-range vocals in most of his music....

22	After 7 After 7 (album) *After 7* is the self-titled debut album by After 7. The album spawned two #1 R&B hits, "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop ". They also reached #7 and #6, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100....	After 7 After 7 After 7 is an R&B group founded in 1988 by brothers Melvin Edmonds and Kevon Edmonds, and Keith Mitchell. The Edmonds brothers are the siblings of popular pop music and R&B singer-songwriter-Record producer Babyface ....

	Enuff Z'nuff Enuff Z'nuff (album) *Enuff Z'nuff* is the debut studio album by Enuff Z'nuff. The albums' first single, "New Thing," as well as the follow-up track "Fly High Michelle," had both received steady radio airplay and MTV exposure....	Enuff Z'nuff Enuff Z'nuff Enuff Z'nuff is an United States power pop band from Blue Island, Illinois , founded by Donnie Vie and Chip Z'nuff ....
Cocked & Loaded Cocked & Loaded *Cocked & Loaded* is the second full-length album from the band L.A. Guns, and their first to reach gold certification. The album features guest appearances by Cheap Trick members Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen....	L.A. Guns L.A. Guns L.A. Guns is an American rock band whose music is frequently associated with the L.A. glam metal scene which grew up around the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, in particular the sleaze rock subgenre....
28	Adeva!	Adeva Adeva Adeva is a female African American house music and R&B artist from Paterson, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States, the youngest of six children....
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Still Cruisin' Still Cruisin' Still Cruisin' is the twenty-third studio album by The Beach Boys, their thirty-fifth official album , and their last release of the 1980s. It is also the last album of new material released during a brief return to Capitol Records....	The Beach Boys The Beach Boys The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
29	Sleeping with the Past Sleeping with the Past *Sleeping with the Past* is the twenty-second studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1989. It is his best-selling album in Denmark and is dedicated to Bernie Taupin....	Elton John Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....	US
29	Steel Wheels Steel Wheels *Steel Wheels* is an album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1989. Heralded as a major comeback upon its release, the project is notable for the patching up of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' relationship, a reversion to a more classic style of music and the launching of the band's biggest world tour at the time....	The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
30	Escape from Havana Escape from Havana *Escape from Havana* is the debut album by rapper, Mellow Man Ace. Released in 1989. The album also features the popular single, "Mentirosa," which reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100....	Mellow Man Ace Mellow Man Ace Ulpiano Sergio Reyes is a Cuban American rapper known as Mellow Man Ace and original member of the rap group, Cypress Hill.Born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and raised in South Gate, California, California, Reyes is best known for the song "Mentirosa" ....	Debut
30	Up To Here Up to Here *Up to Here* is the first full-length album by Canada rock and roll musical band The Tragically Hip.It was released in 1989, and made the band almost instantly famous in Canada; although it was also released in the United States, there was little reaction to it there....	The Tragically Hip The Tragically Hip The Tragically Hip is a Canada Rock music Musical ensemble from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay ....
S E P T E M B E R	1	Dr. Feelgood Dr. Feelgood (album) *Dr. Feelgood* is the fifth album by Hard rock band M?tley Cr?e, released on September 1, 1989....	Mötley Crüe Mötley Crüe M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....

	4	Love and Rockets Love and Rockets (album) Love and Rockets is the fourth album by the Great Britain band Love and Rockets , released in 1989 on Beggar's Banquet Records.Love and Rockets dismissed Earth, Sun, Moons folk music sound in favour of a stronger rock & roll sound....	Love and Rockets Love and Rockets (band) Love and Rockets are an alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist, Peter Murphy , had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983....

	5	Alice in Hell Alice in Hell *Alice in Hell* is the first album by the band Annihilator , released in 1989 in music....	Annihilator Annihilator (band) Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1984. They debuted with the critically-acclaimed album, Alice in Hell in 1989....

		Megatop Phoenix Megatop Phoenix *Megatop Phoenix* is the fourth and last studio album by the original line-up of Big Audio Dynamite, released in 1989. It was produced by Mick Jones and Bill Price ....	Big Audio Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite were a British musical group formed in 1984 by the ex-guitarist and singer of The Clash, Mick Jones . The group were noted for their effective mixture of varied musical styles, incorporating elements of punk rock, dance music, hip-hop, reggae, and funk....

		Key Lime Pie Key Lime Pie *Key Lime Pie* is a 1989 album by Camper Van Beethoven, also known as CVB. It was the band's final album before breaking up in 1990, although the band has reunited and released new material in recent years....	Camper Van Beethoven Camper Van Beethoven Camper Van Beethoven is an American alternative rock group. An eclectic band even by the standards of 1980s underground music, Camper Van Beethoven mixed elements of Pop music, ska, world music, punk rock, Folk music, country music, and acid rock....

		Mick Jones Mick Jones (album) *Mick Jones* is singer-songwriter Mick Jones 's self-titled debut/studio album, released in 1989 in music. Jones is one of the original members of the group Foreigner ....	Mick Jones Mick Jones (Foreigner) Mick Jones is an England guitarist, songwriter and record producer, best known as the founding member of the Rock music Musical ensemble Foreigner ....

	S&M Airlines S&M Airlines *S&M Airlines* is the second album by NOFX, released on September 5, 1989. A music video was made for the title track....	NOFX NOFX NOFX is an United States punk rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California , in 1983.The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin....

	Louder Than Love Louder than Love *Louder Than Love* is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Soundgarden, released on September 5, 1989 through A&M Records....	Soundgarden Soundgarden Soundgarden was an American Rock music band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto....

	Stone Cold Rhymin' Stone Cold Rhymin' Stone Cold Rhymin' is the debut album by rapping Young MC. It was originally released in 1989 on Delicious Vinyl and was later re-issued by Rhino Records....	Young MC Young MC Marvin Young better known by his stage name Young MC is a British born, American Rapping. He is best known for his 1989 Chart-topper "Bust a Move "....

	6	Wake Me When It's Over Wake Me When It's Over Wake Me When It's Over is Faster Pussycat's second album, moving from the glam rock sound of their first album to a blues-influenced sound.After the recording of this album, drummer Mark Michals was fired because of heroin possession, and drummer Frankie Banali was hired for a concert tour....	Faster Pussycat Faster Pussycat Faster Pussycat is an United States hard rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986.The group was most successful during the late 1980s with their albums Faster Pussycat and 1989 gold album Wake Me When It's Over that sold 500,000 copies....

	11	We Too Are One We Too Are One *We Too Are One* is the eighth album by the British pop music duo Eurythmics, released in 1989 in music. It would be the duo's last studio release for a decade until 1999's Peace ....	Eurythmics Eurythmics Eurythmics are a United Kingdom musical duet, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous awards, and have undertaken several successful world tours....	UK
	11	Results	Liza Minnelli Liza Minnelli Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....

	12	Pump Pump (album) *Pump* is the tenth studio album by United States hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001....	Aerosmith Aerosmith Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....

	13	Foreign Affair Foreign Affair *Foreign Affair* is the seventh solo album by Tina Turner, released on Capitol Records in 1989. Although the album did not perform as well as Private Dancer and Break Every Rule in the U.S., it was a world-wide hit, selling over 6 million copies....	Tina Turner Tina Turner Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....

	14	Quickness Quickness *Quickness* is the fourth full-length studio album by hardcore punk pioneers Bad Brains. At the time of its release, it was the best selling Bad Brains album and also featured an MTV video for the lead-off track "Soul Craft" directed by Paul Rachman who later went on to produce and direct the feature documentary American Hardcore....	Bad Brains Bad Brains Bad Brains are an American hardcore punk/roots reggae band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as being among the pioneers of the genre, though the band's members objected to the term "hardcore" to describe their music....

	17	Soldier of Fortune Soldier of Fortune (album) *Soldier of Fortune* is Japan heavy metal music band Loudness ' 13th Album, and their first with United states of America vocalist Mike Vescera....	Loudness Loudness (band) is a Japanese Heavy metal music band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed in the United States, releasing seven albums ...

18	Allroy's Revenge Allroy's Revenge *Allroy's Revenge* is the second album by the California pop punk band All , released in 1989 on Cruz Records. It was the first release with their second lead singer, Scott Reynolds....	ALL ALL (band) All is an American punk band from Fort Collins, Colorado, formed by Descendents members Bill Stevenson , Karl Alvarez, and Stephen Egerton ....

	Oh Mercy Oh Mercy *Oh Mercy* is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 26th studio album, released in 1989 by Columbia Records.Produced by Daniel Lanois, critics hailed the record as a triumph for Dylan, after a string of poorly-reviewed albums....	Bob Dylan
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814	Janet Jackson Janet Jackson Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....	US
19	Sound + Vision	David Bowie David Bowie David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....	Box Set
	Let Love Rule Let Love Rule *Let Love Rule* is the debut album of United States rock music musician Lenny Kravitz, released on September 19, 1989 in music by Virgin Records America....	Lenny Kravitz Lenny Kravitz Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is a popular United States singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arrangement whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock music, soul music, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic rock, traditional music and ballad ....

Merry, Merry Christmas Merry, Merry Christmas *Merry, Merry Christmas* is the third album by Pop music act New Kids on the Block, released in the United States by Columbia Records on September 19, 1989 ....	New Kids on the Block New Kids on the Block New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....	Christmas
25	Seasons End Seasons End (album) *Seasons End* was the first album recorded by Marillion after the split with Fish in late 1988. The band started to audition singers while writing the new album, and they eventually chose Steve Hogarth, former keyboard player and singer in The Europeans ....	Marillion Marillion Marillion are a United Kingdom Rock group. Formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1979, their recorded studio output comprises fifteen albums and is generally regarded as comprising two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original vocalist & frontman Fish in late 1988 after their first four albums, and the subsequent arr...
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Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week! Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week! *Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!* was the second album released by the Icelandic alternative rock and roll-pop music band The Sugarcubes. The album was released in October 1989....	The Sugarcubes The Sugarcubes The Sugarcubes were an Icelandic alternative rock musical band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992. They received critical and popular acclaim internationally....
26	Def, Dumb and Blonde Def, Dumb and Blonde Def, Dumb and Blonde was the third solo album by Deborah Harry, which saw Harry reverting from "Debbie" to "Deborah" for her professional name. Released in October 1989, it was produced by a variety of producers including Mike Chapman, who had previously produced the last four Blondie albums....	Deborah Harry Debbie Harry Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the punk rock/New Wave music band Blondie ....	US
	Flying Cowboys Flying Cowboys *Flying Cowboys* is an album by Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1989 and produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan....	Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones is a two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including Rhythm and blues, blues, pop music, soul music, and jazz standard ....

	Big Trash Big Trash *Big Trash* is the seventh album by the British pop group the Thompson Twins. Released in 1989, it was the first release by the band on the Red Eye/Warner Brothers record label....	Thompson Twins Thompson Twins The Thompson Twins were a Great Britain Pop music group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the United States and around the globe....
No Holdin' Back No Holdin' Back *No Holdin' Back* is the title of American country music singer Randy Travis's fifth album. It was released on September 26, 1989 by Warner Bros....	Randy Travis Randy Travis Randy Travis is a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance- and Dove Award-winning United States country music singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which sixteen have reached Number On...
27	The Seeds of Love The Seeds of Love *The Seeds of Love* is the third album by the British band Tears for Fears, and was released in 1989. The album entered the UK album chart at no.1 and peaked at no.8 in the US....	Tears for Fears Tears for Fears Tears for Fears are an England pop rock band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the Mod -influenced Graduate , they were initially associated with the New Wave music synthesizer bands of the early 1980s, but later branched out into mainstream rock and pop which led to...
?	Brave and Crazy Brave and Crazy *Brave and Crazy* is the second album by singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, released in 1989 ....	Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge Melissa Lou Etheridge is an Academy Award-winning and two-time Grammy Award-winning United States rock music singer-songwriter and musician....
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Automatic Automatic (The Jesus and Mary Chain album) *Automatic* is the third album by Scotland alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. The Mary Chain on this record is basically the core duo of brothers William and Jim Reid, with a drum machine providing percussion, and even a synthesizer filling in on bass guitar....	The Jesus and Mary Chain The Jesus and Mary Chain The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid ....

October - December

Release		Album	Artist	Notes
O C T O B E R	2	Freedom	Neil Young Neil Young Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....

	3	Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind *Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind* is a Grammy award winning, Triple Platinum certified 1989 Music album by United States of America singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt featuring American Soul music singer Aaron Neville....	Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career.... featuring Aaron Neville Aaron Neville Aaron Neville is an United States soul music and Rhythm and blues singer. He made his debut in 1966 with the hit single "Tell It Like It Is", a Number One hit on the Billboard R&B charts....
	3	Runaway Horses Runaway Horses (album) *Runaway Horses* is the third studio album by American singer Belinda Carlisle, released in the United States on October 17 1989 by MCA Records....	Belinda Carlisle Belinda Carlisle Belinda Jo Carlisle is an United States singer. Carlisle has enjoyed success twice during her career, first as lead singer and founding member of the seminal, all-female band New Wave music band The Go-Go's, then as a successful international solo artist....
	7	UAIOE UAIOE *UAIOE* is Industrial rock group KMFDM's fourth album, released in 1989 in music. The album features a reggae vocalist , who does not appear on any other KMFDM material....	KMFDM KMFDM KMFDM is a Germany industrial rock/industrial metal band led by founding member Sascha Konietzko. They have sold over 2 million records worldwide....

	9	Hats Hats (album) *Hats* is the second album from Glasgow, Scotland adult alternative/pop music group The Blue Nile, released in 1989 .Lush and evocative, this album is considered by many music critics as the band's most enduring work, and one of the best pop albums released in the 1980s....	The Blue Nile The Blue Nile The Blue Nile is an Adult album alternative/pop music band from Glasgow, Scotland. The music of The Blue Nile is built heavily on synthesizers and electronic instrumentation and percussion, although later works have featured Steel-string acoustic guitar more prominently....
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	Enjoy Yourself Enjoy Yourself (Kylie Minogue album) *Enjoy Yourself* is the second album by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by PWL on 9 October 1989, and received mixed reviews....	Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....

	10	The Biz Never Sleeps	Biz Markie Biz Markie Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name Biz Markie, is a rapper, disc jockey, and comedian, best known for the single "Just a Friend"....

		Thrash Zone Thrash Zone *Thrash Zone* is the fifth album by the United States crossover thrash band Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, which was released in 1989. It continues the thrash metal style of the previous album, 4 of a Kind....	D.R.I. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles Dirty Rotten Imbeciles are a crossover thrash band that formed in 1982.The band never gained any mainstream audience, but were an influence on their contemporaries ? most notably Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, and Stormtroopers of Death ? alongside whom they are considered the early pioneers of the sound that would later be...

	The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say *The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say* is the third album by Ice-T.Released in 1989 in music, the album has an uncharacteristically gritty sound, featuring some of the darkest musical scores Ice-T has ever released....	Ice T Ice T Tracy Marrow , better known by his stage name Ice-T, is a Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award winning rapper, actor, and author. He is credited with helping to pioneer gangsta rap, a sub-genre of hip hop music, in the late 1980s....

	13	Trouble Walkin' Trouble Walkin' Trouble Walkin is the third and, to date, last full-length solo album released by Ace Frehley. It featured guest performances by former Kiss drummer Peter Criss, as well as Skid Row members Sebastian Bach, Rachel Bolan and Dave Sabo....	Ace Frehley Ace Frehley Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an United States guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock music band Kiss . He took on the persona of 'Space Ace' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics....

		The Years of Decay The Years of Decay *The Years of Decay* is the fourth studio album by thrash metal band Overkill , released in 1989 under the label Megaforce Records . The Years of Decay featured one of the bands best known songs "Elimination", which had a popular music video....	Overkill Overkill (band) Overkill is an United States thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been recording since 1984, releasing 14 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "cover version" album....

	Nothingface Nothingface (album) *Nothingface* is the fifth album by Canadian thrash metal/progressive metal band Voivod . It was released by Mechanic/MCA Records on October 13, 1989....	Voivod Voivod (band) Voivod are a Canada Heavy metal music band from Jonqui?re, Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Their musical style has changed several times since the band's origin in the early 1980s....

	16	Wild! Wild! Erasure's 1989 album *Wild!* is their fourth full-length studio album and is generally considered the "official" follow-up to their 1988 breakthrough The Innocents ....	Erasure Erasure Erasure are an England synthpop Duet formed by songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell in 1985. It was the third successful pop group co-formed by Clarke ....

	17	The Sensual World The Sensual World *The Sensual World* is the sixth studio album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was released in October 1989 and peaked at no.2 in the UK album charts....	Kate Bush Kate Bush Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....

		Steady On	Shawn Colvin Shawn Colvin Shawn Colvin is a Grammy Award-winning United States singing, songwriter and musician....

		And in This Corner…	DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince is a hip hop music group that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The vocalist, Will Smith , met DJ Jazzy Jeff while trying to make a name for himself in West Philadelphia's local hip hop scene....

Storm Front Storm Front (album) *Storm Front* is the eleventh studio album by Billy Joel and his first to be recorded digitally. Released in 1989. . The album featured one of Joel's three #1 hits, "We Didn't Start the Fire", a fast-paced song mentioning some of the major historical events that took place in his time....		Billy Joel Billy Joel William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....

Hot in the Shade Hot in the Shade Hot in the Shade is a Kiss album released in 1989. It was certified Music recording sales certification on December 20, 1989 by the RIAA. It is the first Kiss studio album since 1981's Music From "The Elder" to feature three members singing lead on the album....	Kiss KISS (band) Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
11 11 (The Smithereens album) 11 is the third official album by the The Smithereens. It was released on October 18, 1989 . The album cover apparently inspired the movie poster for the remake of Ocean's Eleven ....	The Smithereens The Smithereens The Smithereens are a rock band from Carteret, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The group, formed in 1980, has consisted of Pat DiNizio , Jim Babjak , Mike Mesaros , and Dennis Diken until 2006, when Mike left the band....
Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu *Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...D?j? Vu* is a compilation album by the United States Thrash metal/Crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies....	Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies is an American hardcore punk and Heavy metal music band. They were formed in Venice, Los Angeles, California, in 1981 by the leader and only permanent member, singer Mike Muir....	Compilation
Trial by Fire: Live In Leningrad Trial by Fire (album) *Trial By Fire* is a live album released by Yngwie J. Malmsteen in October 1989. Three of the tracks are instrumental rock and many are strongly influenced by 1970s progressive rock and heavy metal music, such as Deep Purple's Machine Head or Emerson Lake and Palmer's Tarkus....	Yngwie Malmsteen	Live
20	Pretty Hate Machine Pretty Hate Machine *Pretty Hate Machine* is the debut album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released in 1989 by TVT Records. The album was out of print from around 1997 to 2005 due to Reznor's much publicized falling out with the original publishing label of the album, TVT Records....	Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock music group, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. As its main Producer , singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction....
24	Trouble Walkin' Trouble Walkin' Trouble Walkin is the third and, to date, last full-length solo album released by Ace Frehley. It featured guest performances by former Kiss drummer Peter Criss, as well as Skid Row members Sebastian Bach, Rachel Bolan and Dave Sabo....	Ace Frehley Ace Frehley Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an United States guitarist best known as an original member and lead guitarist for the rock music band Kiss . He took on the persona of 'Space Ace' when the band adopted costumes and theatrics....
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Long Hard Look	Lou Gramm Lou Gramm Lou Gramm is an United States Rock music Singer and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist for the rock band Foreigner . He also had a successful solo career....
26	Zig Zag Zig Zag (The Hooters album) *Zig Zag* is the fourth studio album by American rock band The Hooters and was released in 1989....	The Hooters The Hooters The Hooters are an United States rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By combining a mix of rock and roll, ska and folk music, The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid 1980s due to heavy radio and MTV airplay of several songs including "Day By Day," "And We Danced" and "Where Do The Children Go."...
30	Flying in a Blue Dream Flying in a Blue Dream *Flying in a Blue Dream* is a 1989 album by instrumental rock solo artist Joe Satriani. It is his third studio album .Album information...	Joe Satriani Joe Satriani Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
31	Can't Fight Fate	Taylor Dayne Taylor Dayne Taylor Dayne is an United States Popular music vocalist, song-writer, dance music artist, and actress. Dayne's first seven singles hit the U.S....
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Built to Last Built to Last *Built to Last* is the thirteenth and final studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between February 1 and October 20, 1989 and originally released on October 31, 1989....	The Grateful Dead
?	Speaking of Dreams Speaking of Dreams *Speaking of Dreams* was a 1989 album by Joan Baez that mixed personal compositions like the title song with political statements like "China", which was inspired by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989....	Joan Baez Joan Baez Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
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13 Songs 13 Songs *13 Songs* is a compilation of all the songs from the American punk band Fugazi 's first two Extended play. It was released in September 1989....	Fugazi Fugazi (band) Fugazi is an United States punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band's continual members were guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty....	Compilation
N O V E M B E R	2	No Control No Control (Bad Religion album) *No Control* is the fourth album by Bad Religion, which was released on November 2, 1989 on Epitaph Records. It was the follow-up to the band's highly acclaimed reunion album Suffer ....	Bad Religion Bad Religion Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....

	6	Boomerang Boomerang (The Creatures album) *Boomerang* is the second album to be released by United Kingdom duo the Creatures. The album was recorded in Andalusia, Spain. One of the most languorous songs of this album, ?Killing Time,? was covered live by Jeff Buckley a few years later....	The Creatures The Creatures The Creatures were an musical act formed in 1981 as a side-project for Siouxsie & the Banshees members Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie . They recorded music more based on percussion....

	7	Best Shots Best Shots (album) *Best Shots* is Pat Benatar's seventh album, a compilation, released in 1989. It peaked at #67 on the U.S. Billboard 200, two years after the album peaked at #6 in the UK....	Pat Benatar Pat Benatar Pat Benatar is a four-time Grammy Award-winning United States singer best known for hit songs like "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"....	Greatest Hits
		Journeyman Journeyman (album) *Journeyman* is an album by blues/Rock and roll musician Eric Clapton, released in 1989 in music.The album has an electronic sound, mostly influenced by the 80's rock scene, but it also had blues songs like "Before You Accuse Me", "Running On Faith" and "Hard Times"....	Eric Clapton Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...

		All Hail the Queen All Hail the Queen *All Hail the Queen* is the debut album by alternative hip hop artist Queen Latifah, released in November 1989 on Tommy Boy Records. The album was unusually successful for a hip hop record at the time, buoyed by the single "Wrath of My Madness"....	Queen Latifah Queen Latifah Dana Elaine Owens , better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American Rapping, Singing, CoverGirl and actress. Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe Award award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nominat...

	Slip of the Tongue Slip of the Tongue *Slip of the Tongue* is an album by the Rock music band Whitesnake, released in 1989. This is the band's ninth studio album overall. It features guitar virtuoso Steve Vai on guitars....	Whitesnake Whitesnake Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....	US
	13	Me and a Monkey on the Moon Me and a Monkey on the Moon *Me and a Monkey on the Moon* is the tenth and final album by United Kingdom alternative rock band Felt , released in 1989....	Felt Felt (band) Felt were a 1980s United Kingdom alternative rock band, named after the way Tom Verlaine enunciated the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus", and led by Lawrence Hayward ....

	14	The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste *The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste* is the fourth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry , released in 1989 through Sire Records/Warner Bros....	Ministry Ministry (band) Ministry was an United States industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s....
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	Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads *Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads* is an official compilation album of 1980s hits by the German rock band Scorpions , released in 1989 on the Mercury Records label....	Scorpions Scorpions (band) Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....	Compilation
	17	The Incredible Base The Incredible Base *The Incredible Base* is the second album by Rob Base. It was released in 1989 by Profile Records and featured production from Rob Base and William Hamilton....	Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock is a Hip hop music duet from Harlem, New York who are best known for their chart-topper "It Takes Two ." The duo consists of Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock ....

	20	...But Seriously ...But Seriously *...But Seriously* is the fourth full-length studio album by Phil Collins. It was recorded at The Farm, Surrey, England, and at A & M Studios, Los Angeles, USA....	Phil Collins Phil Collins Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
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Rabies Rabies (album) *Rabies* is a 1989 album by Skinny Puppy. It was released on Compact Disc, cassette tape, and LP album by Nettwerk in Canada, licensed for release on the same formats to Capitol Records in the United States, and released on CD only by Nettwerk in Europe....	Skinny Puppy Skinny Puppy Skinny Puppy is a Canada band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982 in music. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key while he was in the new wave band , Nivek Ogre soon joined as vocalist and Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project....
21	Back on the Block Back on the Block *Back on the Block* is a 1989 in music Grammy Award-winning studio album produced by the United States music impresario, Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter Quincy Jones....	Quincy Jones Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....

	Kenny G Live Kenny G Live *Kenny G Live* is the first live album by Saxophone Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records in 1989 in music, and peaked at number 2 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and number 16 on the Billboard 200....	Kenny G Kenny G Kenneth Gorelick , better known by his stage name Kenny G, is a Grammy winning American saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986....	Live
Presto Presto (album) *Presto* is the thirteenth studio album by the Canada rock music band Rush , released in 1989 . The album was recorded at Le Studio in Morin Heights and at McClear Place in Toronto, Ontario....	Rush Rush (band) Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
28	Pump Up the Jam: The Album Pump Up the Jam: The Album *Pump Up the Jam: The Album* is Technotronic's major-label debut album. It was released on November 28, 1989. When it was found out that model Felly lip-synched to vocals actually performed by Belgian hip-house emcee Ya Kid K, the artwork was changed....	Technotronic Technotronic Technotronic was a studio-based Belgian music project formed by Jo Bogaert in 1988, who had already made his musical mark in the beginning of the 1980s as a part of a cover band and as a solo artist under various new beat projects, including The Acts of Madmen and Nux Nemo. Together with Ya Kid K , he produced the hit single "Pump Up...
?	Neither Fish Nor Flesh (A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction) Neither Fish Nor Flesh *Neither Fish Nor Flesh* is Sananda Maitreya's second album, released in 1989 on Columbia Records. Coming off the heels of his highly success debut album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, suffice to say this album was highly anticipated....	Terence Trent D'Arby
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A Black & White Night Live A Black & White Night Live *A Black & White Night Live* is a Roy Orbison music album made posthumously by Virgin Records from the HBO television broadcast, "Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night"....	Roy Orbison Roy Orbison Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades.... and Friends	Live
D E C E M B E R	1	Gutter Ballet Gutter Ballet *Gutter Ballet* is the sixth album produced by the progressive metal band Savatage. This was the second album created under the direction of producer Paul O'Neill and was initially released in 1989....	Savatage Savatage Savatage is a progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon Oliva and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Although they were known mainly as a progressive metal band, their origins could be attributed to classic Heavy metal music, as expressed by their debut album, Sirens ....
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	Change the Weather Change the Weather *Change the Weather* is the second album released by Underworld , in 1989....	Underworld Underworld (band) Underworld is an English electronic music group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1980. The band is perhaps best known for "Born Slippy .NUXX", a track made popular in the hit 1996 Danny Boyle film Trainspotting ....

	2	Now That's What I Call Music 16 Now That's What I Call Music 16 (U.K. series) *Now That's What I Call Music 16* or *Now 16* was released in 1989. The album is the 16th edition of the Now That's What I Call Music series.... (UK series)	Various Artists

11	Monty Python Sings Monty Python Sings *Monty Python Sings* is a comedy album of songs written by the Monty Python team.The song "Oliver Cromwell" was never released prior to this album....	Monty Python Monty Python Monty Python is a group of six comedians who created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969....	Compilation
15	Consuming Impulse Consuming Impulse *Consuming Impulse* is the second album by the Netherlands death metal band Pestilence . It received high regards from death metal fans as soon as it was released....	Pestilence Pestilence (band) Pestilence is a death metal band from the Netherlands founded in 1986. Later they incorporated more jazz and jazz fusion elements into their music....
?	Surprise Surprise (Better Than Ezra album) *Surprise* is Better Than Ezra's first album. The album was released, on cassette only, in December 1989 on Swell Records....	Better Than Ezra Better Than Ezra Better Than Ezra is an United States of America alternative rock trio based in New Orleans, Louisiana....	cassette only

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5643 Song EP (EP)
5643 Song EP

5643 Song EP is a vinyl 7" by the band Anal Cunt, recorded and released in 1989....
- Anal Cunt
Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt is an United States grindcore band, originating in Newton, Massachusetts. They have been categorized as grindcore, noisecore, and Hardcore punk....
88 Song E.P. (EP)
88 Song E.P.

88 Song EP is the first EP release of grindcore band Anal Cunt, released in 1988. It was reissued on Fudgeworthy Records in 1997 with a pink cover on colored vinyl....
- Anal Cunt
Different - Thomas Anders
Thomas Anders

Thomas Anders is a Germany singer, composer and record producer. Anders was the lead singer of Germany's popular pop-duo Modern Talking, which was produced by Dieter Bohlen in 1984?1987 and in 1998?2003....
Return of the Ugly
Return of the Ugly

Return of the Ugly is the sixth studio album by Bad Manners, released in 1989 . It was the band's first release on an independant label....
- Bad Manners
Bad Manners

Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
Anthology
Anthology (Bad Manners album)

Anthology is a compilation album by Bad Manners, released in 1989.Track listing# "Bonanza Ska"# "Skinhead Love Affair"# "Big Five"...
- Bad Manners
Psycho Café
Psycho Café

Psycho Caf? is the first full length album from the band Bang Tango. It was released in 1989....
- Bang Tango
Bang Tango

Bang Tango is an United States funk metal hard rock and glam metal band....
Mr. Music Head
Mr. Music Head

Mr. Music Head is the first album on Atlantic Records by Adrian Belew, released in April 1989....
- Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew

Adrian Belew is an United States guitarist and singer perhaps best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock group King Crimson, which he joined in 1981....
I Can See You
I Can See You

I Can See You is an EP released by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag in 1989 on SST Records. It was released three years after their breakup and is their last studio recording....
- Black Flag
Black Flag (band)

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes....
Realm of Chaos - Slaves to Darkness - Bolt Thrower
Bolt Thrower (band)

Bolt Thrower are an England death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988....
Dig? - Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford

William Scott Bruford , better known as Bill Bruford, is an England drummer who is recognised for his forceful, highly precise, polyrhythmic style....
Rite Time
Rite Time

Rite Time is Can 's twelfth and last album, considered a reunion album because of the time elapsed since the band's previous album, Can , which had been released in 1979....
- Can
Can (band)

Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can incorporated strong minimalism and world music influences....
Christ: The Bootleg
Christ: The Bootleg

Christ: The Bootleg is a live album by Crass, released in 1989. Although a Bootleg recording, it was released in 1997 by Allied Recordings with the permission of the band, and then reissued by No Idea Records after Allied closed its doors....
- Crass
Crass

Crass were an English punk band, formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, lifestylism, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularized the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism....
Best Wishes
Best Wishes

Best Wishes is the second album by New York hardcore band, Cro-Mags. It was released in 1989 on Profile Records and was subsequently re-released on Another Planet ? along with their debut album, The Age Of Quarrel, on the same disc....
- Cro-Mags
Cro-Mags

The Cro-Mags were a hardcore punk band from New York City. The band, which had a strong cult following, released many records, their first two considered the most influential....
Live ED - Étienne Daho
Étienne Daho

?tienne Daho is a France singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981....
Waking Hours
Waking Hours

Waking Hours is the second studio album by Del Amitri, released in July 1989. It reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart and featured one of the band's most famous songs, "Nothing Ever Happens", which reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart....
- Del Amitri
Del Amitri

Del Amitri is a Scottish pop music-rock music guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1980. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advert in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him....
Tragedy Again
Tragedy Again

Tragedy Again is D.I.'s fourth full-length studio album, which was released in 1989.Overall, this album is considerably more straight-forward and as stronger as the band's anticipated but disappointing 1988 album What Good Is Grief to a God?....
- D.I.
D.I.

D.I. is a Southern California Punk rock band featuring ex-The Adolescents and Social Distortion drummer Casey Royer on vocals. Royer formed the group after he and former Social Distortion original member Rikk Agnew , left the original Mike Ness crew....
DC Talk
DC Talk

DC Talk is the first studio album released from DC Talk. This is the most hip hop oriented of all of their albums....
- dc Talk
DC Talk

DC Talk is the first studio album released from DC Talk. This is the most hip hop oriented of all of their albums....
Breakin' Through the BS - Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
Living Legend - Bo Diddley
Rasta Souvenir - Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango

Manu Dibango is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk and traditional Cameroonian music....
Sumiran Karle (Bhajan) - Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta
Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta

Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta is an inevitable name in the divine world of Rabindra Sangeet since the 90's. She is an M.A. from, Rabindra Bharati University took her lesson in classical music from her father Shri Pabitra Dasgupta and Rabindra Sangeet from Smt....
Just Like Heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
All That Jazz
All That Jazz (album)

All That Jazz is a 1989 in music studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.This album is notable as Fitzgerald's last studio recording....
- Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
On Fire - Galaxie 500
Galaxie 500

Galaxie 500 was an United States indie rock trio that formed in 1987 and split up in 1991 after releasing three albums....
Hallelujah
Hallelujah (Happy Mondays album)

Hallelujah was a 7-track EP by Madchester band Happy Mondays released in 1989 and featuring a number of remixes by Paul Oakenfold....
- Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays

Happy Mondays are a British alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the musical group's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass guitar, lead guitarist Mark Day , keyboardist Paul Davis , and drummer Gary Whelan ....
Desert Wind - Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza

Ofra Haza was a popular Israelis singer, actress and international recording artist.Of Yemenite Jews ancestry, Haza was born the youngest of nine children in the poor Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikvah ....
Modern - Hijokaidan
Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan is a Japanese noise music and free improvisation group with a revolving lineup that has ranged from two members to as many as fourteen in its early days....
The Healer
The Healer (album)

The Healer is a blues album by John Lee Hooker, released in 1989. The album features collaborations with Bonnie Raitt and Carlos Santana, among others....
- John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
Enter the Realm
Enter the Realm

Enter the Realm is an independently-released EP Audio cassette by Iced Earth. It was released in 1989 and re-released in 2001 as part of the Dark Genesis box set....
- Iced Earth
Iced Earth

Iced Earth is an United States Heavy metal music band from Tampa, Florida, Florida that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, opera, speed metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
(demo EP)
At Peace - Jade Warrior
Jade Warrior (band)

Jade Warrior are a British music group that were formed in 1970, evolving out of the band July. The founding members were Tony Duhig , Jon Field and Glyn Havard ....
Jaya - Jaya
Jaya

Jaya is a Filipino people soul music singer of African American parentage....
Bulletproof Heart
Bulletproof Heart

Bulletproof Heart is the ninth studio album by Grace Jones and was released in 1989. Singles from the album were "Love on Top of Love" and "Amado Mio" ....
- Grace Jones
Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican?United States singer, Model , and actor....
West Textures
West Textures

West Textures is an album by Texas-based Folk music singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, released in the United States in 1989 . It is notable for the track "The Road Goes On Forever " which has become one of Keen's signature songs and has been covered by other bands including the country Supergroup The Highwaymen ....
- Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen

Robert Earl Keen, Junior is a United States singer-songwriter. He is popular with traditional country music fans, folk music fans, the college radio crowd and alt-country fans....
Mother Nature's Kitchen
Mother Natures Kitchen

Mother Nature's Kitchen is the debut album from the Scottish singer/song writer Kevin McDermott with his band Kevin McDermott Orchestra....
- Kevin McDermott
Kevin McDermott

Kevin McDermott is a Scottish Singer/Songwriter who, with his group The Kevin McDermott Orchestra , has released several albums over the past two decades....
Night of Rage - Kraut
Kraut (band)

Kraut was a New York band who started playing in 1981. Their very first performance was opening for the Clash at Bonds in NYC . Members Include: Davey Gunner , Doug Holland Don Cowan , and Johnny Feedback , and Ryk Oakley, producer....
Western Shadows - Carole Laure
Carole Laure

Carole Laure is an actress and singer from the province of Quebec in Canada....
Piretos tou erota - Vicky Leandros
Vicky Leandros

Vicky Leandros is a Greeks singer with a long international career.She is the daughter of singer, musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou ....
Godhead
Godhead (album)

Godhead was Lowlife 's third album, released in 1989 in Scotland on Nightshift Records, an independent music record label. The LP had been recorded at Pet Sounds Studios in Glasgow, Scotland....
- Lowlife
Lowlife (band)

Lowlife was a Scotland alternative rock/dream pop Musical ensemble, active from 1985 to 1997. Although the group never obtained mainstream popularity, they developed a cult following that continues to this day....
Powertrip - Ludichrist
Ludichrist

Ludichrist was an United States of America hardcore punk/speed metal band formed in the 1980s in New York. Their musical style broke from traditional New York hardcore roots by adding aspects of rock music, Heavy metal music and jazz, like extended guitar solos and musical interludes....
(final album)
Drowning in Limbo - Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch is an United States singer, poet, writer, and actress....
No More Blues - Susannah McCorkle
Susannah McCorkle

Susannah McCorkle was an United States jazz singer much admired for her direct, unadorned singing style and quiet intensity.McCorkle was born in Berkeley, California....
Ozma
Ozma (album)

Ozma is a rock album by the Melvins. The album was released in 1989 through Boner Records."Love Thing" is a cover version of the Kiss song "Love Theme ", "Creepy Smell" includes the intro to the song "Living In Sin" from Gene Simmons ....
- Melvins
Devil's Night Out
Devil's Night Out

Devil's Night Out is a debut album by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was first released in 1989 by Taang! Records. It is regarded as the first ska-core album....
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American third wave ska band from Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.Formed in 1983, the Bosstones are credited with the creation of the ska-core genre, a form of music that mixes elements of third wave ska and hardcore punk....
Complete Discography
Complete Discography

Complete Discography is a 1989 compilation album released by the American hardcore punk band Minor Threat on the band's own Dischord Records....
- Minor Threat
Minor Threat

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene....
Post-Mersh Vol. 3
Post-Mersh Vol. 3

Post Mersh 3 is the 1989 compilation release by the punk band the Minutemen . It contains the EP's Paranoid Time , Bean-Spill , and Tour-Spiel , the 1981 Joy single, and The Politics of Time ....
- Minutemen
Minutemen (band)

The Minutemen were an United States punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California, California in 1980. Comprising guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, the Minutemen recorded four albums and eight extended play before Boon's unexpected death in December 1985....
All Aboard the Mind Train - The Modern Art
The Modern Art

The Modern Art was a psychedelic rock band formed by Gary Ramon in the 1980s. It had a loose lineup that never played gigs but did see the release of two studio albums and a number of self-produced cassettes....
Face of Despair - Mortal Sin
Mortal sin

Mortal sin, according to the beliefs of Roman Catholicism, and some Protestant denominations, is a sin that, unless confessed and absolved , condemns a person's soul to Hell after death....
Shine
Shine (Mother Love Bone album)

Shine is the debut Extended play by the American Rock music band Mother Love Bone. It was released in 1989 through Stardog/Mercury Records....
- Mother Love Bone
Mother Love Bone

Mother Love Bone was an American Rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. The band was active from 1988 to 1990. Frontman Andrew Wood's personality and compositions helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning late 1980s/early 1990s Seattle music scene....
Snakes 'n' Ladders
Snakes 'N' Ladders

Snakes 'N' Ladders is a 1989 album by hard rock band Nazareth . It was released on Vertigo Records....
- Nazareth
Nazareth (band)

Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
Helter Stupid
Helter Stupid

Helter Stupid is Negativland's second album on SST Records, 1989 in music. It was Negativland's first attempt at a concept album....
- Negativland
Negativland

Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song....
Once We Were Scum, Now We Are God - No
No (band)

No were an Australian band, active during the late 1980s. They blended electronic music with nihilism punk rock, in a similar fashion to New York's Suicide ....
Wrong
Wrong (album)

Wrong is the fourth full-length album by the Canada punk rock band NoMeansNo.The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal called it the band's best album, and rated the album as a 10 out of 10, stating, "Wrong was the mightiest merger between the hateful aggression of punk and the discipline of heavy metal."...
- NoMeansNo
Nomeansno

NoMeansNo is a punk rock music group originally from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and now located in Vancouver, British Columbia.The band has never had, nor have they seemed to pursue, strong mainstream success, but they do have a devoted underground culture following in North America and Europe....
Get Yer Jujus Out - Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey
Ebenezer Obey

Ebenezer Obe , nicknamed the "Chief Commander," is a Nigerian music....
& His Inter-Reformers Band
Energy
Energy (album)

Energy is the only full album released by the hardcore punk/ska punk band Operation Ivy . It has been cited as one of the most important albums of the ska punk genre....
- Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy (band)

Operation Ivy was an influential Ska punk band formed in Albany, California. The band consisted of frontman Jesse Michaels , Tim Armstrong , Matt Freeman , and Dave Mello ....
Sittin' Pretty
Sittin' Pretty

Sittin' Pretty is an album by the Scottish band The Pastels, released in 1989. The first track, "Nothing to Be Done" was featured in the soundtrack of 1998's The Acid House of Irvine Welsh' novel "The Acid House"....
- The Pastels
The Pastels

The Pastels are a group from Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.Their early records for labels like Whaam!, Creation , Rough Trade Records, and Glass Records, had a raw and immediate sound, melodic and amateur, which seemed at odds with the time....
A Word from the Wise
A Word from the Wise

A Word from the Wise is a self-released Extended play by Pennywise . It was originally released in 1989 as a Gramophone record release and again in 1992, on the compilation album A Word from the Wise/Wildcard, along with the second Extended play Wildcard ....
- Pennywise
Pennywise (band)

Pennywise is an American punk rock band that was formed in 1988, and is named after the It from the Stephen King novel, It .Between their 1991 Pennywise debut and 2005's The Fuse, Pennywise had released an album every two years on Epitaph Records, a label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz....
(EP)
Record Collectors - Poison Idea
Poison Idea

Poison Idea was an United States hardcore punk band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. As their career progressed the band began to incorporate overt influences from hard rock....
Suck on This
Suck on This

Suck on This is a live album by the band Primus , released in 1989 and re-issued on April 23, 2002 along with Frizzle Fry.The album was recorded live at the Berkeley Square in Berkeley, California, California on February 25 and March 51989, before they recorded their first studio album in December of the same year....
- Primus
Primus (band)

Primus is an United States Rock music band currently composed of singer and bass guitar Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander....
(live debut)
Fight The Power...Live!
Fight the Power...Live!

Fight the Power... Live! is a live video by Public Enemy released in 1989....
- Public Enemy (live, released on VHS)
The Good News and The Bad News - The Rainmakers
The Rainmakers (KC band)

The Rainmakers were a Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri-based original Rock music Band , fronted by Bob Walkenhorst, which had a small string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the United States and Europe, especially Norway....
The Road to Hell
The Road to Hell

The Road to Hell is a 1989 album by Chris Rea, and is one of Rea's most famous albums. The second part of the two part title track, "The Road to Hell ," is also one of Rea's most famous songs....
- Chris Rea
Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea is a singer-songwriter from Middlesbrough, England, recognisable for his distinctive, raspy voice. Rea has sold over 30 million albums worldwide....
Blow
Blow (Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album)

Blow was Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's fourth album, released in 1989. It would be their final LP on major label Beggars Banquet Records off-shoot Situation Two in the UK; in the US it was released via Beggars Banquet/RCA....
- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry is a rock and roll band that was formed in Leeds, England in early 1981....
The Symphony Sessions
The Symphony Sessions

The Symphony Sessions was a live album released in 1989 by Red Rider. It was the band's seventh and final album.The album was recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton....
- Red Rider
Red Rider

Red Rider was a Canada Rock music band popular in the 1980s. While the band achieved great success in Canada, in the United States, the band never had a song in the Top 40....
Riders go Commercial
Riders go Commercial

Riders go Commercial is a studio recording released by the Western music band Riders in the Sky in 1989. It contains spoken comedy skits, commericial satires and six songs....
- Riders in the Sky
Riders in the Sky

Riders In The Sky is a Western swing and comedy group which began performing in 1977; their style also appeals to children, and they are sometimes considered a children's music....
Something Inside So Strong Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
Hard Volume
Hard Volume

Hard Volume is the second album by the Rollins Band. It was released in 1989 and reissued with new tracks in 1999. The original CD release contained a 32 minute jam on the Velvet Underground outtake "Move Right In" entitled "Joy Riding With Frank." The track was recorded live in Linz, Austria during the 1988 tour....
- Rollins Band
Rollins Band

Rollins Band was an American rock group led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins.They are best-known for the songs "Low Self Opinion" and "Liar ", which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the early 1990s....
The Later Years - Roxy Music
Roxy Music

Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson ....
Samiam - Samiam
Samiam

Samiam is a band from El Sobrante, California formed in 1988 after the breakup of the 924 Gilman Street mainstay Isocracy . They have a sound akin to Jawbreaker , Hot Water Music, Seaweed and As Friends Rust....
Early Music - Santana
Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
Buzz Factory
Buzz Factory

Buzz Factory was the 4th full length album by Seattle band Screaming Trees and their final record released through SST Records released in 1989....
- Screaming Trees
Screaming Trees

Screaming Trees was an American Rock music band formed in Ellensburg, Washington in 1985 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bass player Van Conner and drummer Mark Pickerel....
Century Flower - Shelleyan Orphan
Shelleyan Orphan

Shelleyan Orphan was a Great Britain alternative music group of the 1980s and early 1990s.In 1980, Caroline Crawley and Jemaur Tayle met in Bournemouth, England, where they discovered a mutual appreciation of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley....
The Complete Sham 69 Live
The Complete Sham 69 Live

The Complete Sham 69 Live is a live album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1989 ....
- Sham 69
Sham 69

Sham 69 are an England punk rock band that formed in Hersham in 1975.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres....
Bound by the Beauty
Bound by the Beauty

Bound By the Beauty is a 1989 album by Jane Siberry.Following her controversial 1987/1988 outing The Walking, Bound By the Beauty was a return to Siberry's trademark quirky but accessible brand of pop music....
- Jane Siberry
Street Fighting Years
Street Fighting Years

Street Fighting Years is an album by Simple Minds, released in 1989 in music. It was a major stylistic departure from the previous album, 1985's Once Upon a Time , and contained the band's most overtly political lyrics....
- Simple Minds
Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a rock music band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and critically praised work....
Cyborgs Revisited
Cyborgs Revisited

Cyborgs Revisited is an album by Simply Saucer, released in 1989 on Mole Sound Records and Cargo Records. It was compiled from various archival recordings by the band, who had only ever released one 7" single before breaking up in 1979....
- Simply Saucer
Simply Saucer

Simply Saucer was a Canada rock band, active in the 1970s. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Ontario, the band consisted of guitarist and vocalist Edgar Breau, keyboardist John LaPlante , bass guitarist Kevin Christoff and drummer Neil DeMarchant....
Tweez
Tweez

Tweez is the debut album by United States indie rock group Slint. Originally released on small independent record label Jennifer Hartman Records in 1989 , it was subsequently re-issued on Touch and Go Records....
- Slint
Slint

Slint was a Rock music band consisting of Brian McMahan , David Pajo , Britt Walford , Todd Brashear and Ethan Buckler . They formed in Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky, United States in 1986 from the remains of Squirrel Bait....
Agent Orange
Agent Orange (album)

Agent Orange is the third album by German thrash metal band Sodom , their last with guitarist Frank Blackfire. The lyrical content delves deeply into mainman's Tom Angelripper's fascination with the Vietnam War, sporting a song dedicated to the ground assault aircraft AC-47 as well as the herbicide-inspired title-track....
- Sodom
Sodom (band)

Sodom is a Germany thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1982.Along with Kreator and Destruction , Sodom are considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal....
Heart Like a Sky
Heart Like a Sky

Heart Like a Sky is a studio album by Spandau Ballet. It was released in 1989 by Reformation Records. Not released in the United States of America, and mostly ignored in the United Kingdom, the work, which was the group's last album before disbanding, only achieved commercial success in Italy....
- Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet are a popular United Kingdom band famous in the 1980s. Initially inspired by the New Romantic fashion, they quickly steered in to a mixture of funk, jazz, soul and synthpop, then eventually mellowed into a mainstream pop music act....
Nights Like This - Stacey Q.
Love Among the Cannibals
Love Among the Cannibals

Love Among the Cannibals is an album released in 1989 in music by rock band Jefferson Starship. It was the first album after Grace Slick's departure from the band, and their last studio release....
- Starship
Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
Surprise - Syd Straw
Syd Straw

Syd Straw is an American rock singer and songwriter. The daughter of actor Jack Straw , she began her career singing backup for Pat Benatar, then took her distinct voice to the indie/alternative scene and joined the Golden Palominos ....
Modernism: A New Decade
Modernism: A New Decade

Modernism: A New Decade is an album by the band The Style Council. It represented a departure from the band's core genre of pop music, to a new one; deep house, which was then being referred to as "garage" music by the UK press....
- The Style Council
The Style Council

The Style Council were an England musical group formed in 1983 by ex-The Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot. The permanent lineup grew to include drummer Steve White and Weller's then-wife, vocalist Dee C....
(final album)
Special - The Temptations
The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
A Bead to a Small Mouth - Various Artists
Absolute - Various Artists
Dum-Dum - The Vaselines
The Vaselines

The Vaselines are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. Formed in 1986, the band was originally made up of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, but later added James Seenan and Eugene's brother Charlie Kelly on bass and drums respectively from the band Secession ....
Some Disenchanted Evening
Some Disenchanted Evening

Some Disenchanted Evening is an album released by The Verlaines in 1989 by recording label, Flying Nun Records....
- The Verlaines
The Verlaines

'The Verlaines' are a rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand notable for combining rock passion with classical compositional ideas. The Verlaines were formed in 1981 by Graeme Downes, Craig Easton, Anita Pillai, Phillip Higham and Greg Kerr; the band went through multiple line-ups before going on an extended hiatus after their 1997 album Over Th...
3
3 (Violent Femmes album)

3 is the fourth album by Violent Femmes, released in early 1989. There are two theories held by fans of the band regarding the record's title: Perhaps, after the dismal reception of their actual third album, they wanted this record to be publicly perceived as their third....
- Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes

The Violent Femmes, formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1980, are an American alternative rock band, noted for laying the groundwork for folk punk....
Liberation - Bunny Wailer
Bunny Wailer

Bunny Wailer, also known as Bunny Livingston , is a singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh....
Prime 5
Prime 5

Prime 5 is a recording by Ween. It was released in 1989. It is a sort of greatest hits compiltation, comprising tracks from their first four releases: The Crucial Squeegie Lip, Axis: Bold as Boognish, Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death and The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD excerpts ....
- Ween
Ween

Ween is an alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class....
Niki Nana
Niki Nana

Niki Nana, is Yanni's fifth album, released on the Private Music label in 1989, . It peaked at #2 on Billboard Magazine "Top New Age Albums" chart in the same year....
- Yanni
Yanni

Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
Broadway the Hard Way
Broadway the Hard Way

Broadway the Hard Way is a Frank Zappa live album recorded at various performances along his 1988 world tour. It was first released as a 9-track vinyl through Zappa's mail order label Barking Pumpkin in October 1988, and subsequently as a 17-track CD through Rykodisc in 1989....
- Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 is a double compact disc collection of live recordings by Frank Zappa, spanning from December 10, 1971 to December 23, 1984....
- Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....

Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1989.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
Like a Prayer
Like a Prayer (song)

"Like a Prayer" is the first single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 4th studio album, Like a Prayer. It was released on February 28, 1989 by Sire Records....
1989 UK 1 - Mar 1989, US BB 1 - Mar 1989, US CashBox 1 of 1989, Sweden 1 - Mar 1989, Switzerland 1 - Mar 1989, Norway 1 - Mar 1989, Poland 1 - Apr 1989, Éire 1 - Mar 1989, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Apr 1989, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Sep 1989, Holland 2 - Mar 1989, Austria 2 - Apr 1989, Australia 2 of 1989, Germany 2 - Mar 1989, France 4 - Mar 1989, Italy 5 of 1989, POP 5 of 1989, RYM 13 of 1989, US BB 14 of 1989, Scrobulate 33 of pop, Europe 49 of the 1980s, Germany 96 of the 1980s, OzNet 161, Rolling Stone 300, Acclaimed 629
2 The Bangles
The Bangles

The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
Eternal Flame
Eternal Flame (song)

"Eternal Flame" is a song by The Bangles, which became a hit single in 1989, peaking at number one in the charts in six countries; including: Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States....
1989 UK 1 - Feb 1989, US BB 1 - Feb 1989, Holland 1 - Mar 1989, Sweden 1 - Apr 1989, Norway 1 - May 1989, Australia 1 of 1989, Éire 1 - Apr 1989, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Oct 1989, Switzerland 2 - May 1989, Austria 3 - May 1989, Germany 5 - May 1989, US CashBox 7 of 1989, France 10 - Feb 1989, US BB 11 of 1989, POP 25 of 1989, Europe 27 of the 1980s, Scrobulate 70 of 80s, RYM 73 of 1989, OzNet 141, Germany 196 of the 1980s
3 Phil Collins
Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
Another Day in Paradise
Another Day in Paradise

"Another Day in Paradise" is a song by Phil Collins, released as the first single from his number-one album, ...But Seriously . Written to bring attention to the problem of homelessness, the song was a substantial departure from the dance music-pop music of his previous album, No Jacket Required ....
1989 US BB 1 - Nov 1989, Sweden 1 - Nov 1989, Switzerland 1 - Nov 1989, Norway 1 - Nov 1989, Poland 1 - Nov 1989, Germany 1 - Jan 1990, Grammy in 1990, UK 2 - Nov 1989, Holland 2 - Oct 1989, Austria 2 - Dec 1989, Italy 3 of 1990, France 9 - Nov 1989, POP 21 of 1989, Europe 60 of the 1980s, Scrobulate 67 of ballad, RYM 133 of 1989, Germany 195 of the 1990s, OzNet 214
4 Roxette
Roxette

Roxette is a Sweden pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle.This duo achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their hit singles "The Look", "Listen To Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride "....
The Look
The Look

This article is about the Roxette song. For the band, see The Look ."The Look", written by Per Gessle and performed by Roxette, was released as a single in early 1989 from the album Look Sharp! ....
1989 US BB 1 - Feb 1989, Sweden 1 - Jan 1989, Switzerland 1 - Apr 1989, Norway 1 - Mar 1989, Germany 1 - Apr 1989, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Nov 1989, Holland 2 - Mar 1989, Austria 2 - May 1989, Australia 3 of 1989, France 4 - Apr 1989, US CashBox 6 of 1989, UK 7 - Apr 1989, Poland 8 - Apr 1989, Italy 9 of 1989, US BB 21 of 1989, Germany 30 of the 1980s, POP 39 of 1989, RYM 94 of 1989, OzNet 567
5 The B-52's
The B-52's

The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
Love Shack
Love Shack

"Love Shack" is a single by rock music band The B-52's. Originally released in 1989 in music from their album Cosmic Thing, the single was the band's biggest hit song and first million-copy seller....
1989 US BB 1 of 1989, Éire 1 - Mar 1990, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks Jan 1990, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Mar 1990, POP 1 of 1989, UK 2 - Mar 1990, KROQ 2 of 1989, US BB 3 - Sep 1989, Party 3 of 2007, France 4 - Oct 1989, Australia 16 of 1990, Holland 18 - Dec 1989, Sweden 20 - Mar 1990, RYM 37 of 1989, Scrobulate 61 of 80s, TheQ 238, Rolling Stone 243, RIAA 243, OzNet 311, WXPN 498, Acclaimed 662

Top hits

"All She Wants Is
All She Wants Is

"All She Wants Is" is the eighteenth Single from Duran Duran, and the second single from the Big Thing album. It was released in December 1988, and reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States....
" - Duran Duran
Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
"Another Day in Paradise
Another Day in Paradise

"Another Day in Paradise" is a song by Phil Collins, released as the first single from his number-one album, ...But Seriously . Written to bring attention to the problem of homelessness, the song was a substantial departure from the dance music-pop music of his previous album, No Jacket Required ....
" - Phil Collins
Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
"Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
Back to Life

Background"Back to Life " is a song by British R&B band Soul II Soul. It appeared on their debut album Club Classics Vol. I, and was released as its second single....
" - Soul II Soul
Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul is a 2-time Grammy winning act that emerged at the end of the 1980s from London. The group initially attracted attention as a sound system , playing records at house and street parties ....
"Lay Your Hands on Me
Lay Your Hands on Me

"Lay Your Hands on Me" is a song written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora and recorded by the United States rock music band Bon Jovi. It was released in 1989 as the fourth Single from the band's 1988 in music album New Jersey ....
" - Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
"Bat Attack '89" - Crime Fighters Inc.
"Batdance
Batdance

"Batdance" is a song by Prince , from the 1989 in music Batman Helped by Batman 's popularity, the song reached number one in the U.S., becoming Prince's fourth number-one single, and first since 1986's "Kiss ." On August 5, 1989, it knocked Martika's "Toy Soldiers " out of the top spot, but was quickly replaced by Richard Marx's "Right Her...
" - Prince
"Beds Are Burning
Beds Are Burning

"Beds Are Burning" is a 1987 hit single by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, the first track from their album Diesel and Dust. This song was the second song from the album to be released as a single."...
" - Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
(Released in 1987)
"Black Velvet
Black Velvet (song)

"Black Velvet" is a rock and roll song written by Canada musicians David Tyson and Christopher Ward . First recorded by Canadian singer Alannah Myles in 1989, it became a number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1990 and reached number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, as well as number one in Canada and number two in the UK S...
" - Alannah Myles
Alannah Myles

Alannah Myles is a Canada singer-songwriter. In 1989, she released her self-titled debut album, Alannah Myles . In 1990 "Black Velvet ," a single taken from that album, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and was also a hit in four other countries, including her native Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and the United King...
"Blame It on the Rain
Blame It on the Rain

"Blame It on the Rain" is a song recorded by Milli Vanilli and written by hitmaker Diane Warren. It was their last Billboard Hot 100 number one hit before their scandal broke out....
" - Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli

Milli Vanilli was a pop music/dance music project formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The group's debut album achieved high sales internationally which earned them a Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990....
"Buffalo Stance
Buffalo Stance

"Buffalo Stance" is a song by Neneh Cherry....
" - Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry

Neneh Cherry is a two-time Grammy Award-nominated and MTV Europe Music Awards-winning Sweden singer-songwriter and rapping. Cherry is also an occasional disc jockey and broadcasting....
"Cartoon" - Soul Asylum
Soul Asylum

Soul Asylum is an United States alternative rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1983 in music.The band formed in 1981 under the name Loud Fast Rules, with the original line-up consisting of Dan Murphy, Dave Pirner, Karl Mueller and Pat Morley ....
"Chained to the Wheel" - Black Sorrows
"Cherish
Cherish (Madonna song)

"Cherish" was the third single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 4th studio album Like a Prayer and was released on August 1, 1989 by Sire Records....
" - Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
"Compulsory Hero" - 1927
1927 (band)

1927 was an Australian pop music/rock music band formed in Melbourne in 1987 with James Barton on drum kit, Bill Frost on bass guitar, his brother Garry Frost on guitar and keyboard instrument, and Eric Weideman on vocals, guitar and keyboards....
"Cry in Shame" - Johnny Diesel & The Injectors
Johnny Diesel

Johnny Diesel is an Australian musician. He has recorded nine albums under either this name, his birth name of Mark Lizotte or the epithet Diesel....
"Do You Believe in Shame?
Do You Believe In Shame

"Do You Believe In Shame?" is the nineteenth Single by Duran Duran. Released 10 April, 1989 it was the third and final single from the Big Thing album....
" - Duran Duran
Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
"Don't Ask Me Why
Don't Ask Me Why

"Don't Ask Me Why" is a song recorded by pop music duo Eurythmics. It was written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart....
" - Eurythmics
Eurythmics

Eurythmics are a United Kingdom musical duet, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous awards, and have undertaken several successful world tours....
"Don't Know Much
Don't Know Much

"Don't Know Much" is a song written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Tom Snow and made famous when performed as a duet by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville on Ronstadt's 1989 album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind....
" - Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville
"Don't Wanna Lose You
Don't Wanna Lose You

"Don't Wanna Lose You" is a song written and recorded by Gloria Estefan. It was released in 1989 as the first Single from the album Cuts Both Ways and reached number one in the U.S., where it became her second number-one single on the U.S....
" - Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
"Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Feelgood (song)

"Dr. Feelgood" is a song by the United States heavy metal band M?tley Cr?e. It is the Dr. Feelgood of their 1989 in music album. Although it is the title track, some LP records do not include this track, like the Korean edition....
" - Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe

M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
"Drama!
Drama!

"Drama!" is the first single released by Erasure from their fourth studio album Wild!. It was issued by Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records in the U.S....
" - Erasure
Erasure

Erasure are an England synthpop Duet formed by songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell in 1985. It was the third successful pop group co-formed by Clarke ....
"Eternal Flame
Eternal Flame (song)

"Eternal Flame" is a song by The Bangles, which became a hit single in 1989, peaking at number one in the charts in six countries; including: Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States....
" - The Bangles
The Bangles

The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
(released in Late 1988)
"With Every Beat of My Heart
With Every Beat of My Heart

"With Every Beat of My Heart" is a song by Taylor Dayne, the lead single from her second album Can't Fight Fate. Along with a new more soulful sound came a complete make over....
" - Taylor Dayne
Taylor Dayne

Taylor Dayne is an United States Popular music vocalist, song-writer, dance music artist, and actress. Dayne's first seven singles hit the U.S....
"Express Yourself" - Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
"Eyes of a Stranger" - Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche

Queensr?che is an United States heavy metal music / progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington. The band has released ten studio albums and several smaller releases including Extended plays and DVDs and continues to tour and record....
"Forever
Forever (KISS song)

"Forever" is a Kiss song from the Hot in the Shade album. It peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the band's first American Top 40 single since "I Was Made For Lovin' You" reached number 11 in 1979....
" - Kiss
KISS (band)

Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
"Funky Cold Medina
Funky Cold Medina

"Funky Cold Medina" is a hip hop music song written by Young MC and performed by Tone Loc. It was the second single from Tone Loc's debut album Loc-ed After Dark ....
" - Tone Loc
Tone Loc

Tone Loc is the stage name of Anthony Terrell Smith , a Grammy Award nominated United States rapper and actor, best known for his deep, gravelly human voice and his million selling hit singles, "Wild Thing " and "Funky Cold Medina"....
"Get On Your Feet
Get on Your Feet

"Get On Your Feet" is a single by Gloria Estefan. It was released in 1989 in U.S., Japan and UK and in 1990 in Europe as the second single from the album Cuts Both Ways....
" - Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan

Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
"Hand on Your Heart
Hand on Your Heart

"Hand on Your Heart" is a pop music–dance music song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman....
" - Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
"Hangin' Tough
Hangin' Tough (song)

"Hangin' Tough" is a 1989 single from New Kids on the Block. The fourth single from the group's Hangin' Tough of the same name, it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart on September 9, 1989....
" - New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block

New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
"Heaven Help Me" - Deon Estus
Deon Estus

Deon Estus is an United States bass guitar and singer, best known as the bass player of Wham! and as George Michael's bassist on all of the latter's subsequent projects....
"Heavy Metal" - Judas Priest
Judas Priest

Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
"High
High (David Hallyday song)

"High" is a 1988 song recorded by France artist David Hallyday. It was the second of the four Single s from his debut studio album True Cool....
" - David Hallyday
David Hallyday

David Hallyday is a French singer/songwriter and European GT-series racer. He is son of the French singer Sylvie Vartan and most famously the son of Johnny Hallyday....
"I Drove All Night" - Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an Music of the United States Grammy- and Emmy award winning singer-songwriter and actress. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual, and became the first artist to have four top-five singles released from one album....
"I Feel the Earth Move" - Martika
Martika

Marta Marrero , better known by her stage name Martika is an United States Pop music singer and actor....
"I'll Be There for You
I'll Be There for You (Bon Jovi song)

"I'll Be There for You" is a Billboard Hot 100 number-one single written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora and performed by United States rock music band Bon Jovi....
" - Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
"If I Could" - 1927
1927 (band)

1927 was an Australian pop music/rock music band formed in Melbourne in 1987 with James Barton on drum kit, Bill Frost on bass guitar, his brother Garry Frost on guitar and keyboard instrument, and Eric Weideman on vocals, guitar and keyboards....
"If I Could Turn Back Time
If I Could Turn Back Time

"If I Could Turn Back Time" is a song written by Diane Warren and was released on June 1 1989 as the second United States and first European Single release from American singer/actress Cher's twentieth album Heart of Stone by Geffen Records....
" - Cher
Cher

Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
"If Only I Could
If Only I Could

"If Only I Could" is the debut single from artist Sydney Youngblood and became his biggest hit. Released as a single from his album Feeling Free in 1989, the song was composed by Claus Zundel, a producer of multi-million selling projects Sacred Spirit and B-Tribe....
" - Sydney Youngblood
Sydney Youngblood

Sydney Youngblood is an United States born Germany singer, who had several successful dance/funk hit record during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
"If Tomorrow Never Comes
If Tomorrow Never Comes

"If Tomorrow Never Comes" is a song by United States country music artist Garth Brooks. Written by Brooks and Kent Blazy, it was released on his self-titled 1989 debut album Garth Brooks and also appears on The Hits , The Limited Series and Double Live ....
" - Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989; it peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart....
"Im Nin'Alu
Im Nin'Alu

"Im Nin'alu" is a Hebrew poem by the 17th century's Yemenite Rabbi Shalom Shabazi , which has later been put to music, and was sung by Israelis Yemenite singer Ofra Haza and others....
" - Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza

Ofra Haza was a popular Israelis singer, actress and international recording artist.Of Yemenite Jews ancestry, Haza was born the youngest of nine children in the poor Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikvah ....
"Janie's Got a Gun
Janie's Got a Gun

"Janie's Got a Gun" is a song performed by United States hard rock band Aerosmith and written by Steven Tyler and Tom Hamilton . It was released as the second single from Pump in 1989....
"- Aerosmith
Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
"Johnny, Johnny Come Home
Johnny, Johnny Come Home

"Johnny, Johnny Come Home" is a 1989 song recorded by Norway band Avalanche . It was their debut single and can be considered as its signature song....
" - Avalanche
Avalanche (band)

Avalanche is the name of a Norway disco and dance group founded in 1987, composed of Kjetil Rosnes and Kristi Johansen . The two musicians are former members of a band named Helpless....
"Kickstart My Heart
Kickstart My Heart

"Kickstart My Heart" is a song by the United States rock band M?tley Cr?e, originally released on their 1989 album, Dr. Feelgood . The song was written by Nikki Sixx about his famous overdose in which he was declared clinically dead before being revived by two adrenaline shots to the heart....
" - Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe

M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
"Killin' Time
Killin' Time

Killin' Time is the 1989 debut album by western swing -country music singer-songwriter Clint Black. The album, buoyed by the chart topper success of its first four singles, was a huge hit upon its release, and established Black as one of the biggest new stars in country music....
" - Clint Black
Clint Black

Clint Patrick Black is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight Number One singles on the U.S....
"Lambada
Lambada (Kaoma song)

"Lambada" is a 1989 song recorded by the France pop group Kaoma with the Brazilian vocalist Loalwa Braz. The video features the Brazilian children duet Chico and Roberta....
" - Kaoma
Kaoma

Kaoma was a pop group made up in France of former members of the band Tour? Kunda: Chyco Dru , Jacky Arconte , Jean-Claude Bonaventure , Michel Abihssira , Fania , and Braz Loalwa , Chico and Roberta ....
"Leave a Light On" - Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Jo Carlisle is an United States singer. Carlisle has enjoyed success twice during her career, first as lead singer and founding member of the seminal, all-female band New Wave music band The Go-Go's, then as a successful international solo artist....
"Like a Prayer
Like a Prayer (song)

"Like a Prayer" is the first single by United States singer-songwriter Madonna from her 4th studio album, Like a Prayer. It was released on February 28, 1989 by Sire Records....
" - Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
(released in Late 1988)
"Lily Was Here
Lily Was Here

"Lily Was Here" is a single, released in November 1989, from the soundtrack of the Dutch movie De Kassi?re.The main theme of the film was about Lily, who was the lead character in the movie and played by Marion van Thijn ....
" - Dave Stewart
David A. Stewart

David Allan Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart is an England born British musician and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics....
& Candy Dulfer
Candy Dulfer

Candy Dulfer is a Netherlands smooth jazz alto saxophone. She started to play saxophone at the age of six. She has had her own band, Funky Stuff, since she was fourteen....
"Listen to Your Heart
Listen to Your Heart

"Listen to Your Heart" was the third single issued in the United States from Sweden pop duo Roxette's 1988 album Look Sharp! It was written by Per Gessle and Mats M.P....
" - Roxette
Roxette

Roxette is a Sweden pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle.This duo achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their hit singles "The Look", "Listen To Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride "....
"Lost in Your Eyes
Lost in Your Eyes

"Lost In Your Eyes" is the sixth single from United States singer-songwriter-actress Debbie Gibson, and the first from her second album Electric Youth ....
" - Debbie Gibson
"Love in an Elevator
Love in an Elevator

"Love in an Elevator" is a song performed by United States hard rock band Aerosmith, and written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry . It was released in 1989 as the first single from their commercially and critically successful album Pump ....
" - Aerosmith
Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
"Love Shack
Love Shack

"Love Shack" is a single by rock music band The B-52's. Originally released in 1989 in music from their album Cosmic Thing, the single was the band's biggest hit song and first million-copy seller....
"- The B-52's
The B-52's

The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
"Make Me Smile" - Nick Barker & The Reptiles
"Me, Myself and I
Me Myself and I (De La Soul song)

"Me Myself and I" is a single by De La Soul, released in 1989.It established the group's characteristic style of combining hip hop with humor and social commentary....
" - De La Soul
De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
"Miss You Much
Miss You Much

"Miss You Much" is the lead single from United States contemporary R&B/pop music singer Janet Jackson's fourth studio album, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 ....
" - Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
"Monsters of Rock" - Judas Priest
Judas Priest

Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
"My Brave Face" - Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
"Once Bitten, Twice Shy" - Great White
Great White

Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"....
"One
One (Bee Gees song)

"One" was the second international single from The Bee Gees' album One . This was the song that returned the Bee Gees back to American radio and would turn out to be their biggest US hit of the 1980s....
" - Bee Gees
Bee Gees

The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
"Open Letter (To a Landlord)" - Living Colour
Living Colour

Living Colour is an American funk metal band from New York City, formed in 1983. A prominent all-African American band of that movement, which also included Jane's Addiction, Faith No More, Primus , and 24-7 Spyz in the late 1980s, Living Colour rose to fame with their debut album Vivid in 1988....
"Orange Crush
Orange Crush (song)

"Orange Crush" is a song by the United States alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released as the first single from the band's sixth studio album, Green , in 1988....
" - R.E.M (released in 1988)
"Personal Jesus
Personal Jesus

"Personal Jesus" is Depeche Mode's twenty-third United Kingdom single, released on August 29, 1989, and the first single from the album Violator ....
" - Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
"Poison
Poison (Alice Cooper song)

Poison is a song by artist Alice Cooper co-written and produced by Desmond Child, released worldwide as a single in 1989 and is featured on his 18th studio album Trash ....
" - Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
"Pour toi Arménie
Pour toi Arménie

"Pour toi Arm?nie" is a 1989 song written and composed by Charles Aznavour, and recorded by a group of France singers who were popular at the time....
" - Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world....
and other artists
"Rendez-vous chaque soir" - Dalida
Dalida

Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
(inédit)
"Ride On Time
Ride on Time

"Ride on Time" is a 1989 in music song recorded by band Black Box . It was later released on their debut LP Dreamland . The song achieved a great success in many countries, such as UK and Ireland where it was a number-one hit....
" - Black Box
Black box

Black box may mean:...
"Right Here Waiting
Right Here Waiting

"Right Here Waiting" is a ballad recorded by Richard Marx on his second album, Repeat Offender. "Right Here Waiting" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100....
" - Richard Marx
Richard Marx

Richard Noel Marx is an adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever ", and "Hazard "....
"Ring My Bell
Ring My Bell

"Ring My Bell" is a pop music disco music song by Anita Ward. Released in 1979, the song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100, Ward's only major hit....
" - Collette
Collette Roberts

Collette Roberts, who sang under the stage name Collette, was a New Zealand-born, Australian model turned pop star during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
"Roam
ROAM

Real-time optimally adapting mesh , is a continuous Level of detail algorithm that optimizes terrain Polygon meshes. On modern computers, sometimes it is more effective to send a small amount of unneeded polygons to the Graphics processing unit, rather than burden the central processing unit with LOD calculations—making algorithms like...
" - The B-52's
The B-52's

The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
"Rock On
Rock On

Rock On may refer to:Songs* Rock On , covered by Def Leppard, Michael Damian, and the Smashing Pumpkins* Rock On , a song by Montana* "Rock On!", a song by Gary Glitter on the album Glitter ...
" - Michael Damian
Michael Damian

Michael Damian Weir is an American actor, singer and producer, known mainly for his role as singer Danny Romalotti on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, which he played from 1980 to 1998....
"Rock 'N' Roll Music" - Mental As Anything
Mental As Anything

Mental As Anything are an Australia New Wave ?rock music band who, since the late 1970s have released numerous albums and singles and have produced many innovative music videos....
"Round & Round" - New Order
New Order

New Order are an English alternative rock/electronic band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris . New Order was formed in the wake of the demise of their previous group Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis....
"Runnin' Down a Dream
Runnin' Down a Dream

"Runnin' Down a Dream" is a song by Tom Petty, released in 1989 on his first solo album Full Moon Fever....
" -Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

This article is about the Rock band. For information on the eponymous debut album see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is an United States Rock music band, formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench and known for hit singles such as "American Girl ", "Breakdown " and "Mary Jane's Last Da...
"Say Goodbye" - Indecent Obsession
"She Drives Me Crazy
She Drives Me Crazy

"She Drives Me Crazy" is a song recorded by the Fine Young Cannibals, included on their 1989 album The Raw and the Cooked . The song peaked at #5 in the band's native United Kingdom in January 1989 before hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S....
" - Fine Young Cannibals
Fine Young Cannibals

Fine Young Cannibals were a United Kingdom band formed in Birmingham, England in 1984, by guitarist David Steele and bassist Andy Cox , and singer Roland Gift....
"She Has to Be Loved" - Jenny Morris
"Sometime to Return" - Soul Asylum
Soul Asylum

Soul Asylum is an United States alternative rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota in 1983 in music.The band formed in 1981 under the name Loud Fast Rules, with the original line-up consisting of Dan Murphy, Dave Pirner, Karl Mueller and Pat Morley ....
"Soul Revival" - Johnny Disel & The Injectors
"Stand
Stand (song)

"Stand" is a song by R.E.M. released as the second single from Green in 1989. The song quickly rose up the charts, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming R.E.M.'s second top 10 hit in the United States, also reaching #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts....
" - R.E.M. (released in 1988)
"Stop!
Stop! (Sam Brown song)

"Stop!" is a song by England singer Sam Brown , which was later covered by English contemporary R&B singer Jamelia.The single was originally released in 1988, missing the United Kingdom top forty and peaking at number fifty-two....
" - Sam Brown
"Straight Up
Straight Up (song)

"Straight Up" is a 1989 hit single by American singer Paula Abdul, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and brought her widespread public attention....
" - Paula Abdul
Paula Abdul

Paula Julie Abdul is an United States Pop music singer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.In the 1980s, Abdul rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a pop music-Contemporary R&B singer with a string of hits in...
"Stuck on You" - Paul Norton
"Talk It Over" - Grayson Hugh
"Tell Me Why" - Exposé
Exposé (band)

Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
"The Arms Of Orion"-Prince & Sheena Easton
"The Best
The Best (song)

"The Best" a.k.a. "Simply The Best" is a song written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight. The song was originally released in 1988 by Bonnie Tyler on the album Hide Your Heart a.k.a....
" - Tina Turner
Tina Turner

Tina Turner is an United States singer and actress whose career has spanned over 50 years and who has won numerous awards. Her achievements in the Rock genre have led to her being referred to as "The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll"....
"The Crack-Up" - The Black Sorrows
"The Dance
The Dance (Garth Brooks song)

"The Dance" is a 1989 song recorded by country singer Garth Brooks.The song, written by Brooks' friend, Tony Arata, was a key track on his self-titled debut album Garth Brooks and a #1 chart hit....
" - Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989; it peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart....
"The Look
The Look

This article is about the Roxette song. For the band, see The Look ."The Look", written by Per Gessle and performed by Roxette, was released as a single in early 1989 from the album Look Sharp! ....
" - Roxette
Roxette

Roxette is a Sweden pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle.This duo achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their hit singles "The Look", "Listen To Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride "....
"The World Seems Difficult" - Mental As Anything
Mental As Anything

Mental As Anything are an Australia New Wave ?rock music band who, since the late 1970s have released numerous albums and singles and have produced many innovative music videos....
"Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers (song)

"Toy Soldiers" is a song by Martika appearing on her Martika in 1989 as a ballad. The single was a number-one hit in the United States....
" - Martika
Martika

Marta Marrero , better known by her stage name Martika is an United States Pop music singer and actor....
"Tucker's Daughter" - Ian Moss
Ian Moss

Ian Moss is an Australian rock music musician, best known as the lead guitarist and occasional singer with Cold Chisel. In that group's initial ten year career, Moss recorded eight albums, three of which were #1 national hits....
"Un soir qu'on oublie pas" - Dalida
Dalida

Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
(inédit)
"Veronica
Veronica (song)

"Veronica" is a single from Elvis Costello's 1989 album Spike , co-written by Costello with Paul McCartney. The song "Veronica" was co-produced by T-Bone Burnett and Kevin Killen, and features Paul McCartney on his trademark H?fner Bass guitar....
" - Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
"What I Am" - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians is a rock band that originated in Texas in the mid-1980s. The band is best known for their 1988 hit "What I Am" from the album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars....
(released in 1988)
"What You Don't Know" - Exposé
Exposé (band)

Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
"When I Looked At Him" - Exposé
Exposé (band)

Expos? is an United States vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and just like label mate Taylor Dayne, its first seven singles reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1988 #1 hit "Seasons Change." The...
"When I See You Smile
When I See You Smile

"When I See You Smile" is a U.S. number one hit for the group Bad English from their self-titled debut album and was written and recorded by Diane Warren on May 27, 1988 in California....
" - Bad English
Bad English

Bad English was an United States rock band Supergroup formed in 1988, reuniting keyboardist Jonathan Cain with singer John Waite and bassist Ricky Phillips, his former bandmates in The Babys....
"Where Are You Now?" by Jimmy Harnen w/ Synch
Jimmy Harnen

Jimmy Harnen is an adult contemporary singer, songwriter and drummer. He sang lead vocals for pop band Synch's 1989 Top Ten hit "Where Are You Now?"...
"We Didn't Start the Fire
We Didn't Start the Fire

"We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel that makes reference to a catalog of headline events during his lifetime, from March 1949 to 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front ....
" - Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
"Wild Thing" - Sam Kinson
"Winning It All"- The Outfield
"Wild Thing
Wild Thing (Tone Loc song)

"Wild Thing" is the name of rapper Tone Loc's 1989 hit single from the album Loc-ed After Dark. The title is a reference to the phrase "doin' the wild thing," a euphemism for sex, unlike The Troggs' hit song, "Wild Thing", in which the "wild thing" was a girl....
" - Tone Loc
Tone Loc

Tone Loc is the stage name of Anthony Terrell Smith , a Grammy Award nominated United States rapper and actor, best known for his deep, gravelly human voice and his million selling hit singles, "Wild Thing " and "Funky Cold Medina"....
"This Woman's Work (song)
This Woman's Work (song)

"This Woman's Work" is a song written and performed by the British singer Kate Bush. It was originally featured on the soundtrack of the United States film She's Having a Baby ....
" - Kate Bush
Kate Bush

Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
"You Got It
You Got It

"You Got It" is a song and single from Roy Orbison's 1989 in music album, Mystery Girl. The song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, as well as #3 on the UK Singles Chart, in the spring of 1989....
" - Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
"You Got It (The Right Stuff)
You Got It (The Right Stuff)

"You Got It " is a 1988 in music single from New Kids on the Block. The second single from the group's second album Hangin' Tough, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in early 1989, while topping the UK charts in November 1989....
" - New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block

New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
(released in 1988)
"Young Years" - Dragon
Dragon (band)

Dragon is a popular New Zealand/Australian rock band, they were formed in Auckland, New Zealand in January 1972 and relocated to Sydney, Australia in May 1975....
"You'll Never Know" - 1927
1927 (band)

1927 was an Australian pop music/rock music band formed in Melbourne in 1987 with James Barton on drum kit, Bill Frost on bass guitar, his brother Garry Frost on guitar and keyboard instrument, and Eric Weideman on vocals, guitar and keyboards....
"You'll Never Stop Me Loving You
You'll Never Stop Me Loving You

"You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" is a debut single by Sonia Evans.Written and produced by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, it was the first and only number one single for the Liverpudlian singer....
" - Sonia
Sonia Evans

Sonia Evans , better known as just Sonia, is an England popular music singer from Skelmersdale, West Lancashire, who was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s....

Most Critically Acclaimed Songs of 1989

This info is taken from Acclaimedmusic.net

1. "Fight the Power", Public Enemy
2. "Fools Gold", The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses were an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1984. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
3. "Monkey Gone to Heaven", Pixies
4. "Like a Prayer", Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
5. "Debaser", Pixies
6. "Rockin' in the Free World", Neil Young
Neil Young

Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
7. "Back to Life", Soul II Soul
Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul is a 2-time Grammy winning act that emerged at the end of the 1980s from London. The group initially attracted attention as a sound system , playing records at house and street parties ....
8. "Personal Jesus", Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
9. "Epic", Faith No More
Faith No More

Faith No More is an American alternative metal band who formed in San Francisco, California, and were active between 1984 and 1998. Faith No More combined elements of heavy metal music, funk music, progressive rock, hip hop music, hardcore punk, thrash metal, and jazz, among many others, and have been hailed as an influential rock band....
10. "Me Myself and I", De La Soul
De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....

Published popular music

"Kiss the Girl" m. Alan Menken
Alan Menken

Alan Menken is an United States musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman , Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz ....
, w. Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman

Howard Ashman was an United States playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974....
, from The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)

The Little Mermaid is a 1989 in film animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation with a pencil test beginning on September 23, 1988 and its first release on November 17, 1989 distributed by Walt Disney Pictures....
"Part of Your World" m. Alan Menken
Alan Menken

Alan Menken is an United States musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman , Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz ....
, w. Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman

Howard Ashman was an United States playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974....
, from The Little Mermaid
"Under the Sea" m. Alan Menken
Alan Menken

Alan Menken is an United States musical theatre and film composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman , Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz ....
, w. Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman

Howard Ashman was an United States playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974....
, from The Little Mermaid
"We Didn't Start the Fire" w.m. Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
"You Got It" w.m. Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
, Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne

Jeffrey Lynne is a two-time Ivor Novello Awards recipient and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist and record producer who gained fame as the leader of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys....
& Tom Petty
Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty is an United Statesn singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a member of Mudcrutch....

Classical music

Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter

Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize for Music-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States....
- Three Occasions for Orchestra (1986-9); Violin Concerto
Einar Englund - Wind Quintet
John McCabe
John McCabe (composer)

John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist....
- String Quartet No. 5
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Einojuhani Rautavaara

Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finland composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius....
- Piano Concerto No. 2
Robert Simpson
Robert Simpson (composer)

File:72 Brian session.jpgRobert Simpson was an England composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music , and for his writings on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius....
- String Quartet No. 13; Vortex for Brass Band
John Tavener
John Tavener

Sir John Tavener is a United Kingdom composer,British honours systemed in 2000 for his services to music....
- The Protecting Veil
The Protecting Veil

The Protecting Veil is a musical composition for cello and string section by United Kingdom composer John Tavener. Completed in 1988, the work was at first a suggestion from cellist Steven Isserlis and subsequently commissioned by the BBC for the 1989 Proms season....
I Nyoman Windha - Puspanjali

Opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

Conrad Cummings
Conrad Cummings

Conrad Cummings is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His compositions include works for orchestra, as well as operatic and chamber works....
- Photo-Op
Anthony Davis
Anthony Davis (composer)

Anthony Davis , better known as Tony Davis, is an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music....
- Under the Double Moon
Alexander Vustin
Alexander Vustin

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, also Voustin or Wustin is a Russian composer....
- Devil in Love
Devil in Love

The Devil in Love is an opera in three acts by the Russian people composer Alexander Vustin . The Russian language libretto was written by Vladimir Khachaturov after the novel The Devil in Love by Jacques Cazotte ....
(not performed)

Musical theater

Aspects of Love
Aspects of Love

Aspects of Love is a musical theatre with a book and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart . It is most famous for losing the most money on Broadway....
(Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an England composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of the renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
) - London production
City of Angels
City of Angels (musical)

City of Angels is a musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart. The musical weaves together two plots, the "real" world of a writer trying to turn his book into a screenplay, and the "reel" world of the fictional film....
Broadway production
Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel (musical)

Grand Hotel is a musical theater with a book by Luther Davis and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest , with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston....
Broadway production
Gypsy
Gypsy: A Musical Fable

Gypsy is a 1959 musical theatre with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is usually referred to as simply Gypsy....
(Jule Styne
Jule Styne

Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
and Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
) - Broadway revival
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 in film Romance film musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of four sisters living in St....
Broadway production
Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon

Miss Saigon is a West End theatre musical theatre by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr....
(Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg

Claude-Michel Sch?nberg is a French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the librettist Alain Boublil....
and Alain Boublil
Alain Boublil

Alain Boublil is a librettist, born in Tunisia in 1941, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg.These include:...
) - London production
Pacific Overtures
Pacific Overtures

Pacific Overtures is a 1976 Musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a libretto by John Weidman, and additional material by Hugh Wheeler, set in 1853 Japan....
(Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
and John Weidman
John Weidman

John Weidman is an United States libretto. He is the son of librettist and novelist Jerome Weidman.He has written the book for many stage musicals, starting with the musical Pacific Overtures, collaborating with Stephen Sondheim, Take Flight with David Shire, Richard Maltby,Jr., and currently for the musical Road Show, again wi...
) - London production

Musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
s

101
101

Events...
-Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode is an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andrew Fletcher and Vince Clarke ....
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid (1989 film)

The Little Mermaid is a 1989 in film animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation with a pencil test beginning on September 23, 1988 and its first release on November 17, 1989 distributed by Walt Disney Pictures....
— animated
Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of Motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways....
feature film
Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film made for initial Film distributor in Movie theater and being the "main attraction" of the screening ....

Births

January 13 - Triinu Kivilaan
Triinu Kivilaan

Triinu Kivilaan is an Estonian vocalist and former model, best-known as a former member of the popular girl group Vanilla Ninja. She had been modelling for several years when she replaced Maarja Kivi in the group in 2004, having met the other members of the group a year earlier....
, singer and model
January 25 - Yasmien Kurdi
Yasmien Kurdi

Yasmien Yuson Kurdi is a Filipino people singer and actress. She was one of the Final Four in the first season of StarStruck, a reality show talent search show of GMA Network in the Philippines, but she lost to Jennylyn Mercado and finished as first runner up....
, singer and actress
February 22 - Anna Sundstrand
Anna Sundstrand

Anna Maria Carolina Sundstrand is a Sweden singer and model. She was a member of the Swedish pop group Play from the group's formation in 2001 when she was 12 until their breakup in 2005....
, singer and model
March 1 - Sonya Kitchell
Sonya Kitchell

Sonya D. Kitchell is an United States jazz singer-songwriter. She released her album Words Came Back to Me on 4 April 2006.She previously released an EP Cold Day in 2005....
, jazz singer-songwriter
March 25 - Alyson Michalka
Alyson Michalka

Alyson Renae Michalka, often credited as Aly, is an United States Actor, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. She is perhaps best known for her role as Keely Teslow in the List of Disney Channel series, Phil of the Future and as Taylor Callum in the List of Disney Channel Original Movies Cow Belles....
, singer-songwriter and actress
April 8 - Hitomi Takahashi
Hitomi Takahashi (singer)

is a J-Rock/J-pop singer from Miyagi Prefecture in Japan. After being selected as finalist in the Sony Music SD audition, which contained about 20,000 applicants, Hitomi entered the music scene in 2005 with her single "Bokutachi no Yukue "....
, singer
April 19 - Fiona MacGillivray
Fiona MacGillivray

Fiona MacGillivray is the lead singer of the Celtic music group The Cottars. She has toured with the band extensively through North America, Europe and Japan....
, vocalist
May 5 - Chris Brown, singer and actor
May 28 - Asuca Hayashi
Asuca Hayashi

, born May 28, 1989, is a singer who debuted at the age of 13 in January 2003 in Japan in Taiwan....
, singer

May 30 - Kevin Covais
Kevin Covais

Kevin Patrick Covais is a American Idol American Idol finalist from Levittown, New York, New York. He was the second finalist eliminated from the competition on March 22, 2006, making him the eleventh-place finalist....
, American Idol finalist
June 13 - Lisa Tucker
Lisa Tucker (singer)

Lisa Gabrielle Tucker is an United States singer, musical theater and television actress who was the tenth-place finalist on the American Idol of American Idol....
, singer
June 14 - Lucy Hale
Lucy Hale

Lucy Kate Hale is an American actress and singer.Hale appeared on the reality show American Juniors in 2003. She was part of the vocal quintet formed with the top 5 finishers....
, actress and singer
June 18 - Renee Olstead
Renee Olstead

Renee Olstead is a Norwegian - American actress and singer. Active since childhood as an actress, she appeared in the TV sitcom Still Standing as Lauren Miller, and several bit parts in various TV shows and movies....
, actress and jazz singer
July 13 - Sayumi Michishige
Sayumi Michishige

is a sixth generation member of the J-pop group Morning Musume.She joined Morning Musume in 2003 along with Eri Kamei, Miki Fujimoto and Reina Tanaka, which all made their debuts with Morning Musume in the group's nineteenth single, Shabondama....
(Morning Musume
Morning Musume

is an all-girl J-pop group from Japan. They are sometimes also referred to as . Their act revolves around singing and dancing to generally upbeat melodies....
)
August 15

Belinda Peregrin
Belinda Peregrín

Belinda Peregr?n Sch?ll is an award-winning, two-time Latin Grammy nominated Mexico singer, songwriter, and actress. She is best known for her dual role playing identical twins Mariana Cant? and Silvana Del Valle in popular Mexican children's telenovela, C?mplices Al Rescate....
, singer, songwriter and actress
Joe Jonas
Joe Jonas

Joseph Adam "Joe" Jonas shares the lead singer role with his younger brother Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers, a pop-rock band made up of him and his two brothers, Nick Jonas and Kevin Jonas....
, vocalist

August 19 - Lil' Romeo, entertainer
September 1 - Bill and Tom Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel
Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel [] is a German band founded in Magdeburg, Germany in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Sch?fer and bassist Georg Listing....
September 10 - Sanjaya Malakar
Sanjaya Malakar

Sanjaya Joseph Malakar was a finalist on the American Idol of American Idol. Malakar gained national attention on American Idol, advancing to 7th place with public votes despite being badly received by the show's judges ....
, American Idol finalist
October 1 - Brie Larson
Brie Larson

Brie Larson is an United States actress and pop rock singing/songwriter. In 2003, Larson was one of the main characters in the Disney Channel TV movie Right on Track....
, actress and singer-songwriter
November 2 - Katelyn Tarver
Katelyn Tarver

Katelyn Tarver is an United States singer/songwriter, who is a native of Glennville, Georgia, Georgia . She came to fame in the early 2000s, as an American Idol spinoff American Juniors finalist and released her debut album Wonderful Crazy in 2005 by an independent record label, TC Music....
, singer-songwriter
November 11 - Reina Tanaka
Reina Tanaka

is one of the sixth generation members of the J-pop group Morning Musume. Her professional first name is spelled in hiragana to differ her from the Japanese actress Rena Tanaka whose name is the same in kanji because their first names can be pronounced both as "Reina" and "Rena" and who is similarly from Fukuoka Prefecture....
(Morning Musume)
December 13 - Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is an United States country-pop music singer-songwriter. In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw ", which peaked at number six on the Billboard country charts....
, country pop singer
December 22 - Jordin Sparks
Jordin Sparks

Jordin Brianna Sparks is an American Pop music/contemporary R&B singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and plus-size model. She rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol, which led to her reception of an American Music Award and 51st Grammy Awards nominations in 2008....
, singer and songwriter

Deaths

January 20 - Beatrice Lillie
Beatrice Lillie

Bea Lillie was a comic actress. She was born as Beatrice Gladys Lillie in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Following her marriage in 1920 to Sir Robert Peel, she was known in private life as Lady Peel....
, 94, Canadian actress and singer

February 5 - Joe Raposo
Joe Raposo

Joseph Guilherme Raposo Jr., Order of Infante D. Henrique was a Portugal-United States composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the Sesame Street Theme, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C i...
, composer and lyricist, Bein' Green
Bein' Green

"Bein' Green" is a popular song originally written by Joe Raposo in 1970 for the first season of the children's show, Sesame Street and it was performed by Kermit the Frog ....
February 6 - King Tubby
King Tubby

King Tubby was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of Dub music in the 1960s and 1970s....
Jamaican DJ and composer, father of dub reggae (gun shot wounds)
February 14 - Vincent Crane
Vincent Crane

Vincent Crane was a self-taught pianist, who studied theory and composition at Trinity College of Music. He graduation in 1964....
(The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a psychedelic rock album by Arthur Brown and his band Crazy World of Arthur Brown , released in 1968 ....
)
February 23 - Florencio Morales Ramos
Florencio Morales Ramos

Florencio "Flor" Morales Ramos , much more better known as Ramito, was a famous Puerto Rico singer, trovador, and composer who was a native of Caguas, Puerto Rico....
, singer and composer
March 19 - Alan Civil
Alan Civil

Alan Civil OBE was a England horn player.Civil began to play the horn at a young age, and joined an army band while still in his teens. He studied the instrument under Aubrey Brain, father of Dennis Brain....
, 59, horn player
March 20 - Archie Bleyer
Archie Bleyer

Archie Bleyer was an American Arranger and Bandleader.He was born in the Corona, Queens section of the New York, New York borough of Queens. He began playing the piano when he was only seven years old....
, US arranger and bandleader
April 26 - Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
, 77, US actress and singer
May 10 - Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw

Woody Herman Shaw II was a jazz trumpeter and composer....
, 44, jazz musician (kidney failure)
May 30 - Zinka Milanov
Zinka Milanov

Zinka Milanov n?e Zinka Kunc was a Croatian-born operatic Voice type.Born in Zagreb, she studied with the Wagnerian soprano Milka Ternina and her assistant Marija Kostrencic....
, operatic soprano
June 14 - Pete de Freitas
Pete de Freitas

Pete Louis Vincent de Freitas was a musician and Record producer, best known as a drummer with Echo & the Bunnymen.In 1961, de Freitas was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and educated by the Benedictines at Downside School....
, 27, drummer with Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of singer Ian McCulloch , guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine....
(motorcycle accident)
June 24 - Hibari Misora
Hibari Misora

was an award winning Japanese enka singer, actress, and Living National Treasure . She is often regarded as being one of the greatest singers of all time, and was the first woman in Japan to receive the , which was awarded for her notable contributions to the music industry....
, 52, Japanese enka singer (hepatitis)
July 5 - Ernesto Halffter
Ernesto Halffter

Ernesto Halffter was a Spain composer and Conducting. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter.Halffter was part of the Grupo de los Ocho , which formed a sub-set of the Generation of '27....
, 84, Spanish composer and conductor
July 16 - Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conducting, one of the most renowned 20th-century conductors. His obituary in The New York Times described him as "probably the world's best-known conductor and one of the most powerful figures in classical music." Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic for thirty-five years....
, 81, conductor
August 1 - John Ogdon
John Ogdon

John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music between 1953 and 1957, where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and Peter Maxwell D...
, 52, pianist (diabetes-related)
August 2 - Luiz Gonzaga
Luiz Gonzaga

Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento was a very prominent Brazil folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet. Born in the countryside of Pernambuco , he is considered to be responsible for the promotion of northeastern music throughout the rest of the country....
, 76, Brazilian musician
August 21 - Raul Seixas
Raul Seixas

Raul Santos Seixas , was a Brazilian rock music composer, singer, songwriter and Record producer. He was born in Salvador, Brazil , Brazil, and died of a myocardial infarction in S?o Paulo....
, 44, singer and songwriter (diabetes-related)
August 25 - Gunnar Berg, Danish composer
September 14 - Perez Prado
Perez Prado

D?maso P?rez Prado was a Cubans bandleader and composer. He is commonly referred to as the "King of the Mambo"....
, 72, Cuban bandleader and composer
September 15 - Jan DeGaetani
Jan DeGaetani

Jan DeGaetani was an United States mezzo-soprano known for her performances of Contemporary classical music vocal compositions.Educated at The Juilliard School with Sergius Kagen, DeGaetani was best known for her wide range, precise pitch, clear tone, and command of extended techniques that made her voice perfectly suited to the demanding...
, 56, mezzo-soprano (leukemia)
September 22 - Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
, 101, composer, lyricist
September 30 - Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic from Kansas City, Missouri. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music....
, 92, composer
October 17 - Morteza Hannaneh
Morteza Hannaneh

Morteza Hannaneh ? was a Persian people composer and horn player. He studied Horn at the Tehran Conservatory of Music and basic composition with Parviz Mahmoud, founder of Tehran Symphony Orchestra....
, 66, composer
October 19 - Alan Murphy
Alan Murphy

Alan Murphy was an England rock session guitarist, best remembered for his collaborations with Kate Bush and Go West . In 1988 he joined the group Level 42 as a full time band member and played with them until his death in 1989....
, 35, guitarist, member of Level 42
Level 42

Level 42 is an England pop rock and jazz-funk music band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high-calibre musicianship - especially that of Mark King , whose percussive Slapping guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits....
and Go West
Go West (band)

Go West is an England pop music duet , formed in 1982, by Peter Cox ; and Richard Drummie . While they have had many successful singles in their native England, they are generally best known in United States for their hit song "King of Wishful Thinking" and "Faithful ."...
(AIDS-related)
October 22 - Ewan MacColl
Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl was an United Kingdom folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer. He was the father of singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl....
, 74, folk singer
October 31 - Conrad Beck
Conrad Beck

Conrad Beck was a Switzerland composer.Beck was the son of a pastor. His stay in Paris between 1924 and 1933 proved crucial to his artistic development, where he studied with Jacques Ibert and also made contact with Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Albert Roussel....
, 88, Swiss composer
November 5 - Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz

Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz ; ) was a Russian American pianist. His technique, use of Timbre and the excitement of his playing are legendary....
, 86, pianist
November 15 - Alejo Duran
Alejo Duran

Gilberto Alejandro Dur?n Diaz, known to all as Alejo Dur?n or "El Negro Grande" was a Colombian people vallenato traditional composer, singer and accordionist....
, 80, composer of vallenato
Vallenato

Vallenato, along with cumbia, is presently a popular folk music of Colombia. It primarily comes from the Caribbean Region . Vallenato literally means "born in the valley"....
s
December - Billy Lyall
Billy Lyall

Billy Lyall was a Scotland musician.Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Lyall was a keyboard instrument player and vocalist with Pilot and an early member of the Bay City Rollers....
, 46, keyboardist of Pilot
Pilot (band)

Pilot was a pop rock group formed in 1973 in Edinburgh, Scotland by former Bay City Rollers members David Paton and Billy Lyall. This was prior to the Bay City Rollers 'hitting the big time'....
, Bay City Rollers
Bay City Rollers

The Bay City Rollers were a Scotland pop/rock band of the 1970s. Their youthful, clean-cut image, distinct styling featuring tartan-trimmed outfits, and cheery, sing-along pop hits helped the group become among the most popular musical acts of their time....
(AIDS-related)
December 6 - Sammy Fain
Sammy Fain

Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
, 87, US composer
December 26 - Sir Lennox Berkeley
Lennox Berkeley

Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an England composer....
, 86, composer

Awards

The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in the are...
: Dion, Otis Redding
Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
, The Temptations
The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
and Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
Grammy Awards of 1989
Grammy Awards of 1989

The 31st Grammy Awards were held in 1989. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year....
Country Music Association
Country Music Association

The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre....
Awards
Eurovision Song Contest 1989
Eurovision Song Contest 1989

The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 was the 34th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 6 May 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Switzerland gained the hosting rights after Celine Dion's victory in Dublin the previous year....

Charts

Hot 100 number-one hits of 1989 (United States)

1989 in music

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Classical music

Opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

Musical theater

Musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
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1989 in music

Events

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Bands reformed

Albums released

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Release Date Unknown

Biggest hit singles

Top hits

Most Critically Acclaimed Songs of 1989

Published popular music

Classical music

OperaOperaOpera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

Musical theater

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Births

Deaths

Awards

Charts

See also

External links

Opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

Musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
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