Best artists of 1989
The last summer before sampling got fenced in. The collage records made this year cannot legally be made again, which gives them an accidental permanence nobody planned. Alternative rock, meanwhile, quietly produced two or three albums it would spend the nineties trying to match.
Everyone who released an album in 1989, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.
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