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HUMO

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Flemish independent magazine for radio & TV

Best albums of the year

1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
2006 | 2007 | 2008

 

See Also: Studio Brussels ~ OFFICIAL FLEMISH PUBLIC RADIO STATION
Many Thanks to Patrick Defevere [patrickdefevere@pandora.be] for sending these lists.

 

Humo albums of the year

1983

1) Punch the clock ELVIS COSTELLO
2) Speaking in tongues TALKING HEADS
3) Swordfishtrombones TOM WAITS
4) Synchronicity THE POLICE
5) Thriller MICHAEL JACKSON
6) Riding with the King JOHN HIATT
7) Mike's murder JOE JACKSON
8) Mummer XTC
9) Hearts and bones PAUL SIMON
Proof through the night T-BONE BURNETT


1984

1) Goodbye cruel world ELVIS COSTELLO
2) Born in the U.S.A. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
3) Love Wars WOMACK & WOMACK
4) Caribbean Sunset JOHN CALE
5) Rattlesnakes LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS
6) Purple Rain PRINCE
=) The big express XTC
8) Diamond Life SADE
9) Brilliant Trees DAVID SYLVIAN
10) Big Chill (Soundtrack)
Cover TOM VERLAINE
From her to eternity NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS


1985

1) Steve Mc Queen PREFAB SPROUT
=) The dream of the blue turtles STING
=) Rain Dogs TOM WAITS
4) Live at the Harlem Square Club SAM COOKE
5) Words of the Shaman DAVID SYLVIAN
6) Love in bright landscapes THE TRIFFIDS
7) The firstborn is dead NICK CAVE
=) Meat is murder THE SMITHS
9) Little Creatures TALKING HEADS
10) In the world MICRODISNEY
=) Let's stay together AL GREEN


1986

1) King of America THE COSTELLO SHOW
2) Graceland PAUL SIMON
3) No guru, no method, no teacher VAN MORRISON
4) Your funeral, my trial NICK CAVE
5) The queen is dead THE SMITHS
6) Born Sandy Devotional THE TRIFFIDS
7) Baby, the stars shine bright EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
8) So PETER GABRIEL
9) Blood & Chocolate ELVIS COSTELLO
10) Kicking against the pricks NICK CAVE


1987

1) Sign of the times PRINCE
2) Bring the family JOHN HIATT
3) Strangeways here we come THE SMITHS
4) Frank's wild years TOM WAITS
5) Poetic Champions Compose VAN MORRISON
6) By the light of the moon LOS LOBOS
7) Robbie Robertson ROBBIE ROBERTSON
8) Secrets of the beehive DAVID SYLVIAN
9) Tunnel of love BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
10) Nothing like the sun STING


1988

1) Rattle & Hum U2
2) Lovesexy PRINCE
3) Slow turning JOHN HIATT
=) Viva hate MORRISSEY
5) Tender prey NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
6) Temple of low men CROWDED HOUSE
7) Naked TALKINGS HEADS
8) This note's for you NEIL YOUNG & THE BLUE NOTES
9) Land of dreams RANDY NEWMAN
=) Rank THE SMITHS


1989

01. Lou Reed - New York
02. Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule
03. Pixies - Doolittle
04. XTC - Oranges & lemons
05. Elvis Costello - Spike
06. Neil Young - Freedom
07. Bob Dylan - Oh mercy
08. Tin Machine - Tin Machine
09. B-52's - Cosmic thing
10. K.T. Oslin - This woman
11. American Music Club - United Kingdom
12. De La Soul - 3 feet high and rising
13. Wendy & Lisa - Fruit at the bottom
14. Rodney Crowell - Collection
15. Rolling Stones - Steel wheels


 
1990

01. Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs for 'Drella'
02. Neil Young - Ragged glory
03. Replacements - All shook down
04. Pixies - Bossanova
05. Morrissey - Bona drag
06. Paul Mc Cartney - Tripping the live fantastic
07. Sundays - Reading, writing and arithmetic
08. La's - La's
09. Prefab Sprout - Jordan, the comeback
10. Green - White soul
11. Los Lobos - In the neighborhood
12. Wendy & Lisa -Eroica
13. Robert Johnson - The complete recordings
14. Blow Monkeys - Springtime for the world
15. Romans - Trigger happy


1991

01. R.E.M. - Out of time
02. U2 - Achtung baby
03. Nirvana - Never mind
04. Van Morrison - Hymns to the silence
05. Prince - Small club, second show (live bootleg)
06. Pixies - Trompe le monde
07. Elvis Costello - Mighty like a rose
08. Ice T - O.G. - Original Gangster
09. Tin Machine - Tin Machine 2
10. Temple of The Dog - Temple of The Dog
11. Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example
12. Alice Donut - Revenge fantasies of the impotent
13. Nova Mob - The last days of Pompei
14. Crowded House - Woodface
15. American Music Club - Everclear


 1992

01. Sugar - Copper blue
02. Buffalo Tom - Let me come over
03. Neil Young - Harvest moon
04. Tragically Hip - Fully completely
05. John Lee Hooker - Boom boom
06. Tom Waits - Bone machine
07. Elvis Presley - The complete fifties masters
08. Galliano - In pursuit of the thirteenth note
09. Talking Heads - Sand in the vaseline
10. Wallflowers - Wallflowers
11. B-52's - Good stuff
12. Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Compagnon
13. Prince & The New Power Generation - Love symbol
14. Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue
15. Los Lobos - Kiko


1993

01. Buffalo Tom - Big red letter day
02. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese dream
03. John Hiatt - Perfectly good guitar
04. Nirvana - In utero
05. Masters of Reality - Sunrise of the sufferbus
06. David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The first day
07. Sugar - Beaster
08. Beatles - 1962-1966 & 1967-1970
09. David Bowie - Black tie, white noise
10. World Party - Bang!
11. Henry Rollins - The boxed life
12. Waterboys - Dream harder
13. Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
14. Lemonheads - Come on feel
15. Cocteau Twins - Four calender cafe


1994

01. Neil Young - Sleeps with angels
02. Pavement - Crooked rain, crooked rain
03. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
04. Soundgarden - Superunknown
05. Fatima Mansions - Lost in the former West
06. dEUS - Worst case scenario
07. Elvis Costello - Brutal youth
08. David Sylvian - Damage
09. Live - Throwing copper
10. Tragically Hip - Day for night
11. Shane Mac Gowan - The snake
12. Joni Mitchell - Turbulent indigo
13. R.E.M. - Monster
14. Van Morrison - A night in San Francisco
15. Sugar - File under : easy listening


1995

01. Scott Walker - Tilt
02. Jayhawks - Tomorrow the green grass
03. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness
04. Neil Young - Mirror ball
05. Therapy? - Infernal love
06. Bruce Springsteen - The ghost of Tom Joad
07. Catherine Wheel - Happy days
08. Pavement - Wowee zowee
09. The Symbol (Prince) - Hallowed by the name (bootleg - Vorst Nationaal)
10. Bjork - Post
11. The Symbol (Prince) - Paradiso (bootleg - Amsterdam)
12. Oasis - (What's the story) Morning glory?
13. Radiohead - The bends
14. The Symbol (Prince) - The gold experience
15. Passengers - Original soundtracks 1


1996

01. dEUS - In a bar, under the sea
02. R.E.M. - New adventures in hi-fi
03. Eels - Beautiful freak
04. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
05. Counting Crows - Recovering the satellites
06. Beck - Odelay
07. Pearl Jam - No code
08. Nirvana - From the muddy banks of the Wiskkah
09. T.A.F.K.A.P. - Emancipation
10. Beatles - Anthology 2
11. Me'shell Ndege'ocello - Peace beyond passion
12. Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come find yourself
13. Genius - Liquid swords
14. Cocteau Twins - Milk and kisses
15. Evil Superstars - Love is okay


 1997

01. Radiohead - OK computer
02. U2 - Pop
03. Ry Cooder - Buena Vista Social Club
04. Bob Dylan - Time out of mind
05. Brad - Interiors
06. Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang forever
07. Pavement - Brighten the corners
08. Primal Scream - Echo dek
09. Jayhawks - Sound of lies
10. David Bowie - Earthling
11. Portishead - Portishead
12. Pieter-Jan De Smet - August
13. Various - The songs of Jimmie Rodgers - A tribute
14. Paul Weller - Heavy soul
15. Roni Size & Reprazent - New forms


1998

01. R.E.M. - Up
02. Soulwax - Much against everyone's advice
03. Fun Lovin' Criminals - 100% Colombian
04. Portishead - Roseland NYC live
05. Pearl Jam - Yield
06. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
07. Mercury Rev - Deserter's song
08. Jeff Buckley - Sketches for my sweetheart, the drunk
09. Madonna - Ray of light
10. Lauryn Hill - The miseducation of Lauryn Hill
11. The Artist - New power soul
12. Pearl Jam - Live on two legs
13. Joni Mitchell - Taming the tiger
14. Beck - Mutations
15. Bob Dylan - Live 1966 : The Royal Albert Hall Concert


1999


1. Deus / The Ideal Crash
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers / Californication
3. Bonnie Prince Billy / I See A Darkness
4. Xtc / Apple Venus Vol. 1
5. Moby / Play
6. Randy Newman / Bad Love
7. Spain / She Haunts My Dreams
8. Mogwai / Come On Die Young
9. Folk Implosion / One Part Lullaby
10. Blur / 13
11. Beck / Midnite Vultures
12. Death In Vegas / The Contino Sessions
13. Peter Wolf / Fool’s Parade
14. Ben Harper / Burn To Shine
15. Los Lobos / This Time



 2000

1. Eels - Daisies of the galaxy
2. PJ Harvey - Stories from the city, stories from the sea
3. Einstürzende Neubauten - Silence is sexy
4. The Gourds - Bolsa de agua
5. Johnny Dowd - Temporary shelter
6. U2 - All that you can't leave behind
7. Hooverphonic - The magnificent tree
8. Grandaddy - The sophtware slump
9. Badly Drawn Boy - The hour of bewilderbeast
10. Eminem - The Marshall Masters LP
11. David Poe - David Poe
12. Richard Ashcroft - Alone with everybody
13. Primal Scream - Exterminator
14. The Apples in Stereo - The discovery of a world inside the moone
15. Joni Mitchell - Both sides now



2001

1) No more shall we part NICK CAVE
2) Is this it THE STROKES
3) White blood cells THE WHITE STRIPES
4) It's a wonderful life SPARKLEHORSE
5) All is dream MERCURY REV
6) Souljacker EELS
7) Love and Theft BOB DYLAN
=) Regeneration DIVINE COMEDY
=) Things we lost in the fire LOW
=) The Argument FUGAZI
=) No such place JIM WHITE


2002

1) Yankee hotel foxtrot WILCO
2) Sea change BECK
3) Songs for the deaf QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
4) Original pirate material THE STREETS
5) Human conditions RICHARD ASHCROFT
6) The man comes around JOHNNY CASH
7) Candy comfort NEEKA
8) Have you fed the fish? BADLY DRAWN BOY
9) The Eminem Show EMINEM
=) They threw us all in trench and stuck a monument on top LIARS
=) Travelogue JONI MITCHELL


2003

1) Elephant THE WHITE STRIPES
2) Room on Fire THE STROKES
3) Speakerboxxx/The Love below OUTKAST
4) Sumday GRANDADDY
5) Love Is Hell, pt. 1 & 2 RYAN ADAMS
=) Keep on Your Mean Side THE KILLS
7) Boy in da Corner DIZZEE RASCAL
8) Dear Catastrophe Waitress BELLE & SEBASTIAN
9) Admiral Freebee ADMIRAL FREEBEE
10) De-loused in the Comatorium THE MARS VOLTA


2004

1) A ghost is born WILCO
2) Bubblegum MARK LANEGAN BAND
3) Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
4) A grand dont't come for free THE STREETS
5) In de fik FLIP KOWLIER
6) How to dismantle an atomic bomb U2
7) The Libertines THE LIBERTINES
8) Franz Ferdinand FRANZ FERDINAND
=) Antics INTERPOL
10) Real gone TOM WAITS
=) Perpetuum Mobile EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN
=) Morrissey, you are the quarry MORRISSEY
=) French Bazaar ARNO
=) Chutes too narrow THE SHINS

2005

1) Come on feel the Illinoise SUFJAN STEVENS
2) 'Z' MY MORNING JACKET
3) Funeral ARCADE FIRE
4) I am a bird now ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS
5) LCD Soundsystem LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
6) Get behind me Satan THE WHITE STRIPES
7) Arular M.I.A.
8) Ruby Blue ROISIN MURPHY
9) You could have it so much better FRANZ FERDINAND
10) Songs ADMIRAL FREEBEE



HUMO 2006

1) American V: A hundred highways JOHNNY CASH
2) Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not ARCTIC MONKEYS
3) Broken Boy Soldiers THE RACONTEURS
4) Silent Shout THE KNIFE
5) Jarvis JARVIS COCKER
6) So this is goodbye JUNIOR BOYS
7) Modern Times BOB DYLAN
8) The Greatest CAT POWER
9) Let it roll WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY
10) The Drift SCOTT WALKER
11) St. Elswhere GNARLS BARKLEY
12) The Warning HOT CHIP
13) Wild Dreams of New Beginnings ADMIRAL FREEBEE
14) Ballad of the Broken Seas ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN
15) Gulag Orkestar BEIRUT
16) Return to Cookie Mountain TV ON THE RADIO
17) Orphans TOM WAITS
18) Sno Angel Like You HOWE GELB
19) Derdang Derdang ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
20) Keys to the World RICHARD ASHCROFT

HUMO 2007

1) The Flying Club Cup BEIRUT
2) Sky Blue Sky WILCO
3) Kala M.I.A.
4) 23 BLONDE REDHEAD
5) Standing in the Way of Control GOSSIP
6) Icky Thump THE WHITE STRIPES
7) Favourite Worst Nightmare ARCTIC MONKEYS
8) Robbers & Cowards COLD WAR KIDS
9) Sound of Silver LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
10) Grinderman GRINDERMAN
11) In Rainbows RADIOHEAD
12) Pride PHOSPHORESCENT
13) Untrue BURIAL
14) Era Vulgaris QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
15) Back to Black AMY WINEHOUSE
16) 360° MINTZKOV
17) Yes, U DEVASTATIONS
18) Overpowered ROISIN MURPHY
19) Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga SPOON
20) Comicopera ROBERT WYATT

HUMO 2008

1) Fleet Foxes FLEET FOXES
2) Oracular Spectacular MGMT
3) The Age of the Understatement THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
4) Santogold SANTOGOLD
5) Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
6) Jukebox CAT POWER
7) Crystal Castles CRYSTAL CASTLES
8) Third PORTISHEAD
9) For Emma, Forever Ago BON IVER
10) Conor Oberst CONOR OBERST
       The Seldom Seen Kid ELBOW
       Evil Urges MY MORNING JACKET
13) Antidotes FOALS
       Forth THE VERVE
       Pilgrim Road WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY
       Street Horrsing FUCK BUTTONS
       Brighter Than Creation's Dark DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
18) Hercules and Love Affair HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR
       Welcome to the Blue House TIM VANHAMEL
       Dear Science TV ON THE RADIO
      Temporary People JOSEPH ARTHUR & THE LONELY ASTRONAUTS
      All We Could Do Was Sing PORT O' BRIEN
     'EP' CRYSTAL ANTLERS


 
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