1990 LPs Of The Year

"As though anybody gave a tinker's cuss, I decided that my favourite LP of 1990 was the LP by Babes In Toyland, 'Spanking Machine', which was just that much ahead of the Fall LP, which in turn was that much ahead of the Mav Cacherel LP." (John Peel, 29 December 1990)

Of the three albums mentioned by Peel as his favourites of 1990, Discogs suggests that those by Babes In Toyland and Mav Cacherel were actually first released in 1989 - although show playlists indicate these are the records that he meant.

Copies of both the Cacheral and Babes In Toyland LPs were later found when details of Peel's record collection were first made public via TheSpace website in 2012. The DJ gave his maximum three stars to four of the six tracks on the Cacheral album; the other two received a still more than respectable two stars.

Record Of The Year

 * Babes In Toyland: Spanking Machine (Southern)

Followed By

 * Fall: Extricate (Cog Sinister)
 * Mav Cacharel (et le Groupe Kebo): Mav Cacharel Et Le Groupe Kebo (Gefraco)