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Both the American "Golden Age of Hip Hop" and the Acid House/ Rave revolution in European popular music happened in the years, 1987-1992. Indeed, this six-year stretch was a revolutionary time for popular music. Within the Rock world, there occurred, first, the movement, in the U. S., of Indie Rock from the fringes of the industry toward the mainstream. Concentrated however unfortunately in the Grunge scene of Seattle, nonetheless this "Alternative" moment brought new attention to a vast "underground" of American Rock, fortified by the peak commercial success and artistic maturity of veteran post-Punk/ early Indie artists like the Cure, R. E. M., Sonic Youth, Depeche Mode, Morrisssey, the Fall, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, et al. (many of these acts from the U. K., where there had not been such a stark divide between a conservative Rock mainstream and the Indie masses). Second, Heavy Metal, increasingly global in scale, continued to subdivide and conquer, the Thrash/ Death/ Doom/ Black/ Stoner/ Power/ Grindcore/ Progressive/ whatever artists pushing against any boundaries in the way of its sonic extremes. Nonetheless, due to the rise of Hip Hop and House/Techno, popular music by the end of the decade was no longer constrained by the limits of what we could call the Rock Era; the commercial success of Hip Hop and the growth of "Electronica," even more global and more genre-happy than Metal, made this so.

For the Nineties, 82 tracks are listed, 441 albums. The totals through 1999 are 2081 tracks, 2588 albums.

← 1990 →

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Wikipedia 1990 in Music

forty-nine albums

Alice Donut - Mule

Beats International - Let Them Eat Bingo

The Blake Babies - Sunburn

The Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger

Bongwater - The Power of Pussy

Vic Chesnutt - Little

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Codeine - Frigid Stars L. P.

Death Angel - Act III

Deicide

Depeche Mode - Violator

Entombed - Left Hand Path

The Fall - Extricate

The Flaming Lips - In a Priest Driven Ambulance

Fugazi - Repeater

The Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches

Robyn Hitchcock - Eye

James - Gold Mother

Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

Jellyfish - Bellybutton

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Justine - (Suite)

K. M. F. D. M. - Naïve

Alison Krauss - I've Got That Old Feeling

Laughing Hyenas - Life of Crime

L7 - Smell the Magic

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Pale Saints - The Comforts of Madness

Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

The Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

The Pixies - Bossanova

Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback

Psychic T. V. - Towards thee Infinite Beat

Redd Kross - Third Eye

Lou Reed/ John Cale - Songs for Drella

Ride - Nowhere

Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives

Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Social Distortion

Sonic Youth - Goo

Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics

The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic

They Might Be Giants - Flood

Tony! Toni! Toné! - The Revival

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory

Richard Youngs - Advent

seventeen singles and deep cuts

Alice in Chains - 'Man in the Box', Facelift

Bad Religion - '21st Century (Digital Boy)', Against the Grain; new version, Stranger than Fiction [1994]

The Beautiful South - 'A Little Time', Choke

Garth Brooks - 'Friends in Low Places', No Fences

Mariah Carey - 'Vision of Love', Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey - 'Someday', Mariah Carey

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 'The Ship Song', The Good Son

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 'The Good Son', The Good Son

C and C Music Factory - 'Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)', Gonna Make You Sweat

Concrete Blonde - 'Joey', Bloodletting

Deee-Lite - 'Groove Is in the Heart', World Clique

The Inspiral Carpets - 'This Is How It Feels', Life

Madonna - 'Vogue', I'm Breathless: Music from and Inspired by the Film Dick Tracy

George Michael - 'Freedom! '90', Listen without Prejudice Vol. 1

Michael Martin Murphey - 'Cowboy Logic', Cowboy Songs

The Posies - 'Golden Blunders', Dear 23

The Scorpions - 'Wind of Change', Crazy World

twenty-one archival and compilation albums

Ruth Brown - Miss Rhythm: Greatest Hits and More

Crispy Ambulance - Comprising: The Plateau Phase, Live on a Hot August Night, Sexus

Sleepy John Estes - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 1: 24 September 1929 to 2 August 1937

Sleepy John Estes - Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 2: 2 August 1937 to 24 September 1941

The Fall - 458489 A Sides

The Flatlanders - More a Legend than a Band

Son House and the Great Delta Blues Singers

Lonnie Johnson - Steppin' on the Blues

Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings

Josef K - The Only Fun in Town/ Sorry for Laughing

Led Zeppelin

Little Richard - The Specialty Sessions

Lush - Gala

Morrissey - Bona Drag

Rick Nelson - Legacy

Roy Orbison - The Legendary Roy Orbison

Carl Perkins - The Classic Carl Perkins

Hank Snow - I'm Movin' On and Other Great Country Hits

Frank Stokes - Memphis Rounder: The Complete Victor Recordings in Chronological Order (1928-1929)

The Walker Brothers - After the Lights Go Out: The Best of 1965-1967