Best songs 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.
Songs from the albums of 1989, ordered by their own ratings rather than the record's.
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One great song, one bad album
Tracks carry their own ratings here, so a record you would never play front to back can still have a song worth defending.
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