1990 in music

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Albums released

• Livin' Like Hustlers - Above the Law (debut)
• The Razor's Edge - AC/DC
• Facelift - Alice in Chains
• Never, Neverland - Annihilator
• Persistence of Time - Anthrax
• Holy Water - Bad Company
• Against the Grain - Bad Religion
• Hammerheart - Bathory
• Megatop Phoenix - Big Audio Dynamite
• Gling-Gló - Björk
• Shake Your Money Maker - The Black Crowes
• Ichabod and I - The Boo Radleys
• Changesbowie - David Bowie
• No Fences - Garth Brooks
• Eaten Back To Life - Cannibal Corpse
• Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
• Vanity/Nemesis - Celtic Frost
• Heaven Or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
• Mixed Up - The Cure
• Some Gave All - Billy Ray Cyrus
• ...But Seriously - Phil Collins
• Pyst - Datblygu
• Spiritual Healing - Death
• Deicide - Deicide
• Violator - Depeche Mode
• Tattooed Millionaire - Bruce Dickinson (debut solo album)
• Unison - Céline Dion (English-language debut)
• Rising - Donovan
• The Classics Live - Donovan
• Blood Guts & Pussy - The Dwarves
• Left Hand Path - Entombed
• The Massacre - The Exploited
• The Real Thing - Faith No More
• Firehouse - Firehouse
• 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours - Green Day
• Slappy - Green Day
• Iced Earth - Iced Earth (debut)
• Released in Europe only.
• No Prayer for the Dying - Iron Maiden
• Sudden Stop - Colin James
• Ritual de lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction
• Waiting for Cousteau - Jean-Michel Jarre
• Live at Hammersmith '84 - Jethro Tull
• (A recording made in 1984 and released in 1990)
• Neighbourhood Threat - Johnny Crash (one and only album)
• Ah Via Musicom - Eric Johnson
• Painkiller - Judas Priest
• Faith Hope Love - King's X
• Chill Out - The KLF
• The La's - The La's
• Rhythm of Love - Lava
• Time's Up - Living Colour
• Wicked Sensation - Lynch Mob
• Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em - MC Hammer
• Rust In Peace - Megadeth
• The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste - Ministry
• Apple - Mother Love Bone
• Deep - Peter Murphy
• Brother's Keeper - The Neville Brothers
• The Good Son - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Cause of Death - Obituary
• Baghdad - The Offspring
• Cowboys from Hell - Pantera
• Bossanova - Pixies
• Wildcard/A Word From the Wise - Pennywise (compilation of their self-released EPs)
• Frizzle Fry - Primus
• Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
• Empire - Queensrÿche
• Play - Ride
• Love Is Strange - Kenny Rogers
• Chronicles - Rush
• Here Comes Trouble - Scatterbrain
• School of Fish - School of Fish (debut)
• Vision Thing - The Sisters of Mercy
• Fist Sized Chunks - Skin Yard
• Too Dark Park - Skinny Puppy
• Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
• Stick It to Ya - Slaughter
• Sons of Kyuss - Sons of Kyuss
• Originally recorded by Kyuss' original name of the same title.
• Up for Grabs - Spin Doctors
• Other Way Out - Sun Dial (debut)
• Five Man Acoustical Jam - Tesla
• Souls of Black - Testament
• Flood - They Might Be Giants
• New Inside - Tiffany
• Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
• No Depression - Uncle Tupelo
• Passion and Warfare - Steve Vai
• To the Extreme - Vanilla Ice
• Best of '81-'85 - Y&T
• Ten - Y&T
• If There Was a Way - Dwight Yoakam
• ' - Ween
• Edge Of The Century - Styx