JF's Favourite Albums of the Pre-1990's
    
Listed on this page are our favourite 100+ albums prior to 1990. From the world-renowned classics ("Pet Sounds", "Revolver", "Never Mind the Bollocks", etc.) to the lesser-known personal treasures in our collection ("Shake Some Action", "They Could Have Been Bigger Than the Beatles", "Echoes", etc.), these are the records that continue to rock our universe!!
The artists that appear the most in our list are all pretty much the music-geek's usual suspects: The Beach Boys (7), The Beatles (6), Bob Dylan (6), Neil Young (5), The Byrds (4), The Smiths (4), Big Star (3), Jonathan Richman/The Modern Lovers (3), Lou Reed (3), Nick Drake (3), The Go-Betweens (3), The Kinks (3) & The Velvet Underground (3).
The List...
Syd Barrett - Barrett (1970)
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs (1970)
The Beach Boys - 20/20 (1969)
The Beach Boys - Friends (1968)
The Beach Boys - Love You (1977)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile (1967)
The Beach Boys - Sunflower (1970)
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (1971)
Beat Happening - Jamboree (1988)
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
The Beatles - Revolver (1966)
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965)
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
The Beatles - The Beatles (1968)
Big Star - #1 Record (1972)
Big Star - Radio City (1974)
Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers (1975)
Norman Blake - Back Home in Sulphur Springs (1971)
David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (1979)
The Byrds - Fifth Dimension (1966)
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (1968)
The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday (1967)
John Cale - Paris 1919 (1973)
John Cale - Vintage Violence (1971)
Gene Clark - Echoes (1967)
Leonard Cohen - The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968)
The Cure - Disintegration (1989)
Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark (1968)
Dillard & Clark - Through the Morning, Through the Night (1969)
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (1987)
Donovan - Fairytale (1965)
Donovan - A Gift from a Flower to a Garden (1967)
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (1970)
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home (1965)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (1969)
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
England's Glory - Legendary Lost Album (1973)
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (1973)
The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action (1976)
The Flatlanders - More a Legend Than a Band (1972; 1990 Release)
The Flying Burrito Bros - The Gilded Palace of Sin (1968)
The Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane (1988)
The Go Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (1986)
The Go Betweens - Tallulah (1987)
The Grateful Dead - American Beauty (1970)
Lee Hazlewood - Requiem for an Almost Lady (1971)
Robyn Hitchcock - Fegmania! (1985)
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains (1984)
The Holy Modal Rounders - The Holy Modal Rounders Vol. 1 (1964)
The Holy Modal Rounders - The Holy Modal Rounders Vol. 2 (1964)
International Submarine Band - Safe at Home (1967)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands (1987)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
Daniel Johnston - Continued Story (1985)
Daniel Johnston - Yip/Jump Music (1983)
The Kinks - Face to Face (1966)
The Kinks - Something Else (1968)
The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society (1969)
Love - Forever Changes (1968)
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1976)
Morrissey - Viva Hate (1988)
Nico - Chelsea Girl (1967)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Anymore (1965)
The Only Ones Even - Serpents Shine (1979)
The Only Ones - The Only Ones (1978)
Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (1968)
Gram Parsons - G.P. (1972)
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel (1973)
The Pastels - Suck on the Pastels (1988)
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (1983)
The Ramones - Leave Home (1977)
The Ramones - The Ramones (1976)
Lou Reed - Berlin (1973)
Lou Reed - New York (1989)
Lou Reed - Transformer (1972)
R.E.M. - Green (1988)
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (1977)
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers (1977)
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet (1968)
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs (1987)
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come (1987)
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986)
The Smiths - The Smiths (1984)
Skip Spence - Oar (1968)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
Television Personalities - …And Don't the Kids Just Love It (1980)
Television Personalities - They Could Have Been Bigger Than the Beatles (1982)
T.Rex - Electric Warrior (1971)
Townes Van Zandt - High, Low and In Between (1972)
Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972)
The Vaselines - The Way of the Vaselines (1987 89; Compilation 1992)
The Velvet Underground - Loaded (1970)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969)
The Violent Femmes - The Violent Femmes (1983)
Tom Waits - Small Change (1976)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One (1967)
The Who - A Quick One (1966)
The Who - The Who Sell Out (1967)
Lucinda Williams - Happy Woman Blues (1980)
Wire - Pink Flag (1977)
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (1970)
Neil Young - Comes a Time (1978)
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (1969)
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
Neil Young - Zuma (1975)
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (1968)
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