Which of the following is your favourite album?

gone for goo - or for the one great track they ever made, really. 1990 was the absolute nadir of my interest in music. even after all this time i still only have 2 others to mention : the La's and the Loop Orchestra's Suspense. both heard in recent years, mind you. oh, i forgot about 'reading writing arithmetic' by the sundays - now THAT'S a great record.

The year I left my parent's house and started a new life in a new town. I listened to that Chills record a lot that year, still my favorite as a whole by them. It's a bit overtly romantic maybe, but the tunes are so gorgeous it still moves me when I play it. Wonderful artwork, too.

Swagger really swaggers, doesn't it? Like Submarine Bells, my introduction to a band. I love the way most of the songs segue into each other, in particular the transition from "Weightless" into "...And Stones". "What it is" , "Anti-pretty": an album without filler.

Bossanova, the Pixies at their most "mature"? Whatever that means. They sound really focussed, knowing exactly what they are doing. Their most accomplished effort, I think. Their most polished surely, but somehow I prefer them without that sandpaper finish.

Songs for Drella. I just bought this on cd last week, have had it on tape since it came out but hadn't heard it in 10 years I think. An album you shouldn't play too often, I feel. Still great, though.

Goo sounded so rigid when I first heard it. Haven't heard it since, I think.

My favorite album from that year is the Breeders Pod: tight, rugged yet extremely elegant. Others I enjoyed: Dead Moon - Thirteen Off My Hook; Mark Lanegan - The Winding Sheet; My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (surprised you left that one out); the La's; Thin White Rope - Sack Full of Silver and another that I learned about a lot later: Loop - A Gilded Eternity.