![]() ![]() As ever, this is not some hoary retelling of The Canon™, nor is it a beardier-than-thou list for contrarians and Discogs gollums. It’s a decade of strange combinations, of unlikely correspondences and (to reference one album on the rundown) chance meetings – some disastrous, some very auspicious indeed.Īs with previous lists, we’ve sought to represent the period in all its diversity. More than anything, though, this was popular music’s Cambrian period: a melting pot from which vital new forms (hip-hop, house, post-punk) would already be emerging by the end of the decade. ![]() Prog gazed upwards, New Age looked inwards, metal plumbed the depths – and the Germans released a lot of great records. Electronic music left the academies and the novelty charts and started to infect rock and pop wholesale. Looking at the evidence, it’s hard to argue: this is the decade that brought us fusion’s high noon, ten summers of disco, the rise of the dub cosmonauts, ambient’s first stirrings, and the viperous bite of punk. ![]() “Ah”, said a wise old former FACT staffer about this list, “possibly the best decade of them all?” Like this? Check out FACT’s rundowns of the 100 Best Albums of the 1990s and the 100 Best Albums of the 1980s. ![]()
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