The year in music
Best Songs of 1989
Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”, Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power”, the Stone Roses’ first album, the Cure’s “Disintegration”, and Nirvana’s “Bleach”.

Play 1989
36 songs

Personal Jesus
Depeche Mode

Kingston Town
UB40

Express Yourself
Madonna

Like a Prayer
Madonna

Steamy Windows
Tina Turner

The Best
Tina Turner

Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That
Dolly Parton

Rhythm Nation
Janet Jackson

We Didn't Start the Fire
Billy Joel

Head Like a Hole
Nine Inch Nails

Janie's Got a Gun
Aerosmith

Poison
Alice Cooper

Rockin' in the Free World
Neil Young

Debaser
Pixies

Gouge Away
Pixies

Here Comes Your Man
Pixies

I'll Be You
The Replacements

If I Could Turn Back Time
Cher

Just Like Heaven
Dinosaur Jr.

Monkey Gone to Heaven
Pixies

The Way You Do the Things You Do
UB40

Wave of Mutilation
Pixies

A Strange Kind of Love
Peter Murphy

Cuts You Up
Peter Murphy

Another Day in Paradise
Phil Collins

Chime
Orbital

Fight the Power
Public Enemy

Shake Your Rump
Beastie Boys

Along Came Betty
Benny Golson

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Willie Nelson

Heaven
Warrant

Love Shack
The B-52’s

She Bangs the Drums
The Stone Roses

Back to Life
Soul II Soul

Can’t Be Sure
The Sundays

French Kiss
Lil Louis
1989 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 36 songs first released in 1989. Rock, Alternative Rock and Pop lead the year. Pixies, Madonna and Peter Murphy are among the voices of 1989.
Artists of 1989
- Pixies5
- Madonna2
- Peter Murphy2
- Tina Turner2
- UB402
- Aerosmith
- Alice Cooper
- Beastie Boys
- Benny Golson
- Billy Joel
- Cher
- Depeche Mode
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Dolly Parton
- Janet Jackson
- Lil Louis
- Neil Young
- Nine Inch Nails
- Orbital
- Phil Collins
- Public Enemy
- Soul II Soul
- The B-52’s
- The Replacements
The sound of 1989
- Rock80s
- Alternative Rock80s
- Pop80s
- Indie Rock80s
- Pop Rock80s
- Hard Rock80s
- Soft Rock80s
- Dance-Pop80s
- Hip-Hop80s
- New Wave80s