Editing 1990 in music (section)

===October–December===
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!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="67" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''O<br />C<br />T<br />O<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="8" align="center" |1
| ''[[No Prayer for the Dying]]'' || [[Iron Maiden]] ||-
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| ''Dr. Adamski's Musical Pharmacy'' || [[Adamski]] ||-
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| ''[[Better Off Dead (album)|Better Off Dead]]'' || [[Sodom (band)|Sodom]] ||-
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| ''[[Hell's Ditch]]'' || [[The Pogues]] || –
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| ''[[Dannii (album)|Dannii]]'' || [[Dannii Minogue]] ||-
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| ''[[Go West Young Man (Michael W. Smith album)|Go West Young Man]]'' || [[Michael W. Smith]] ||-
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| ''[[The La's (album)|The La's]]'' || [[The La's]] ||-
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| ''[[Exitos de Gloria Estefan]]'' || [[Gloria Estefan]] || Compilation
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| rowspan="4" align="center" |2
| ''[[Crawdaddy (album)|Crawdaddy]]'' || [[Darling Buds]] || US
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| ''[[Jordan: The Comeback]]'' || [[Prefab Sprout]] || US
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| ''[[New Inside]]'' || [[Tiffany Darwish|Tiffany]] ||-
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| ''[[Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary]]'' || Various Artists || Compilation
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| rowspan="2" align="center" |5
| ''[[This Is Our Music (Galaxie 500 album)|This Is Our Music]]'' || [[Galaxie 500]] ||-
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| ''[[Wrong Way Up]]'' || [[Brian Eno]] and [[John Cale]] ||-
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| rowspan="4" align="center" |8
| ''[[Enlightenment (Van Morrison album)|Enlightenment]]'' || [[Van Morrison]] || UK
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| ''[[Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band (album)|Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band]]'' || [[Ringo Starr]] || Live
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| ''Themes – Volume 1: March 79 – April 82'' || [[Simple Minds]] || Box set
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| ''Themes – Volume 3: September 85 – June 87'' || [[Simple Minds]] || Box set
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| rowspan="7" align="center" |9
| ''[[Change of Season]]'' || [[Hall & Oates]] ||-
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| ''[[Edge of the Century]]'' || [[Styx (band)|Styx]] ||-
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| ''FUN '90'' || [[Mekons]] || EP
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| ''[[Girls Girls Girls (Elvis Costello album)|Girls, Girls, Girls]]'' || [[Elvis Costello]] || Compilation
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| ''[[Seasons in the Abyss]]'' || [[Slayer]] ||-
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| ''[[Shooting Straight in the Dark]]'' || [[Mary Chapin Carpenter]] ||-
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| ''[[Souls of Black]]'' || [[Testament (band)|Testament]] ||-
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| rowspan="5" align="center" |15
| ''[[Led Zeppelin Remasters|Remasters]]'' || [[Led Zeppelin]] || Compilation
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| ''[[The Rhythm of the Saints]]'' || [[Paul Simon]] ||-
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| ''[[Bona Drag]]'' || [[Morrissey]] || Compilation
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| ''Themes – Volume 4: February 89 – May 90'' || [[Simple Minds]] || Box set
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| ''[[Nowhere (album)|Nowhere]]'' || [[Ride (band)|Ride]] ||-
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| rowspan="9" align="center" |16
| ''[[Back from Hell]]'' || [[Run-DMC|Run-D.M.C.]] ||-
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| ''[[Brand New Dance (album)|Brand New Dance]]'' || [[Emmylou Harris]] ||-
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| ''[[Hack (album)|Hack]]'' || [[Information Society (band)|Information Society]] ||-
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| ''[[Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982–1983]]'' || [[10,000 Maniacs]] || Compilation
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| ''[[Hindu Love Gods (album)|Hindu Love Gods]]'' || [[Hindu Love Gods (band)|Hindu Love Gods]] ||-
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| ''[[Hold Me Up]]'' || [[Goo Goo Dolls]] ||-
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| ''[[Private Times...and the Whole 9!]]'' || [[Al B. Sure!]] ||-
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| ''[[Recycler (ZZ Top album)|Recycler]]'' || [[ZZ Top]] ||-
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| ''[[The Geto Boys (album)|The Geto Boys]]'' || [[Geto Boys]] || Remix
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| rowspan="7" align="center" |22
| ''[[Slaves & Masters]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] ||-
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| ''[[Behaviour (Pet Shop Boys album)|Behaviour]]'' || [[Pet Shop Boys]] ||-
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| ''[[Heart Still Beating]]'' || [[Roxy Music]] || Live
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| ''[[Vision Thing (album)|Vision Thing]]'' || [[The Sisters of Mercy]] ||-
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| ''[[The Greatest Hits, So Far]]'' || [[Public Image Ltd.]] || Compilation
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| ''[[Cure for Sanity]]'' || [[Pop Will Eat Itself]] ||-
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| ''[[Kool-Aid (album)|Kool-Aid]]'' || [[Big Audio Dynamite II]] ||-
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| rowspan="6" align="center" |23
| ''458489'' || [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]] || US; compilation
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| ''[[Billy's Live Bait]]'' || [[Gear Daddies]] ||-
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| ''[[Circle Slide]]'' || [[The Choir (alternative rock band)|The Choir]] ||-
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| ''[[Faith Hope Love]]'' || [[King's X]] ||-
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| ''[[Life (Inspiral Carpets album)|Life]]'' || [[Inspiral Carpets]] || US
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| ''[[Some Friendly]]'' || [[The Charlatans (English band)|The Charlatans]] || US
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| rowspan="3" align="center" |29
| ''[[Led Zeppelin Boxed Set|Led Zeppelin]]'' || [[Led Zeppelin]] || Boxed Set
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| ''[[Choke (album)|Choke]]'' || [[The Beautiful South]] || UK
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| ''[[Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3]]'' || [[Traveling Wilburys]] ||-
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| rowspan="9" align="center" |30
| ''[[Down to Earth (Monie Love album)|Down To Earth]]'' || [[Monie Love]] ||- 
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| ''[[Ghost of a Dog]]'' || [[Edie Brickell & New Bohemians]] ||-
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| ''[[If There Was a Way]]'' || [[Dwight Yoakam]] ||-
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| ''[[Interiors (Rosanne Cash album)|Interiors]]'' || [[Rosanne Cash]] ||-
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| ''[[Lennon (album)|Lennon]]'' || [[John Lennon]] || Box set
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| ''[[Red Hot + Blue]]'' || Various Artists || [[Cole Porter]] tribute
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| ''[[Taste of Chocolate]]'' || [[Big Daddy Kane]] ||-
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| ''[[This Christmas (Patti LaBelle album)|This Christmas]]'' || [[Patti LaBelle]] || Christmas
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| ''[[Too Dark Park]]'' || [[Skinny Puppy]] ||-
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| align="center" |31
| ''Raygun... Naked Raygun'' || [[Naked Raygun]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" align="center" |?
| ''[[Up from the Ashes (Don Dokken album)|Up from the Ashes]]'' || [[Don Dokken]] ||-
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| ''[[Gling-Gló]]'' || [[Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar]] ||-
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| rowspan="42" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''N<br />O<br />V<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="7" align="center" |5
| ''[[Don't Explain (Robert Palmer album)|Don't Explain]]'' || [[Robert Palmer]] || UK
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| ''[[Mixed Up (The Cure album)|Mixed Up]]'' || [[The Cure]] || UK; Remix album
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| ''[[Serious Hits... Live!]]'' || [[Phil Collins]] || Live
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| ''[[Tripping the Live Fantastic]]'' || [[Paul McCartney]] || Live
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| ''[[Reverberation (album)|Reverberation]]'' || [[Echo and the Bunnymen]] ||-
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| ''[[Refugees of the Heart]]'' || [[Steve Winwood]] ||-
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| ''[[Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches]]'' || [[Happy Mondays]] ||-
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| rowspan="11" align="center" |6
| ''[[Birdbrain (album)|Birdbrain]]'' || [[Buffalo Tom]] ||-
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| ''[[A Brief History of the Twentieth Century]]'' || [[Gang of Four (band)|Gang of Four]] || Compilation
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| ''[[Cake (album)|Cake]]'' || [[The Trash Can Sinatras]] || US
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| ''[[Coma of Souls]]'' || [[Kreator]] ||-
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| ''[[Crazy World (Scorpions album)|Crazy World]]'' || [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] ||-
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| ''The Dancing Years'' || [[Shriekback]] ||-
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| ''[[I'm Your Baby Tonight]]'' || [[Whitney Houston]] ||-
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| ''[[Put Yourself in My Shoes]]'' || [[Clint Black]] ||-
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| ''Somewhere Soon'' || [[The High]] || US
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| ''[[Stick It Live]]'' || [[Slaughter (band)|Slaughter]] || Live EP
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| ''Syntonic'' || [[Kon Kan]] || US
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| style="text-align:center;"|7
|''[[Risky (album)|Risky]]''
|[[B'z]]
| –
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| rowspan="1" align="center" |8
| ''[[To Be Continued (Elton John album)|To Be Continued]]'' || [[Elton John]] || Box set + 4 new tracks
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| rowspan="2" align="center" |12
| ''[[Ven Conmigo (album)|Ven Conmigo]]'' || [[Selena]] ||-
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| ''[[Rhythm of Love (Kylie Minogue album)|Rhythm of Love]]'' || [[Kylie Minogue]] ||-
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| rowspan="7" align="center" |13
| ''[[Mermaids (soundtrack)|Mermaids soundtrack]]'' || Various Artists || US; soundtrack
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| ''[[Anything Is Possible (Debbie Gibson album)|Anything Is Possible]]'' || [[Debbie Gibson]] ||-
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| ''[[Blast the Human Flower]]'' || [[Danielle Dax]] || US
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| ''[[Five Man Acoustical Jam]]'' || [[Tesla (band)|Tesla]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Gala (album)|Gala]]'' || [[Lush (band)|Lush]] || US
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| ''[[The Immaculate Collection]]'' || [[Madonna]] || Greatest hits + 2 new tracks
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| ''Standards'' || [[The Alarm]] || US; Compilation
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| align="center" |15
| ''[[Naïve (album)|Naïve]]'' || [[KMFDM]] ||-
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| align="center" |16
| ''[[GodWeenSatan: The Oneness]]'' || [[Ween]] || Debut
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| align="center" |19
| ''[[Shaking the Tree]]'' || [[Peter Gabriel]] || Compilation
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| rowspan="4" align="center" |20
| ''[[Casino (Blue Rodeo album)|Casino]]'' || [[Blue Rodeo]] ||-
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| ''[[Ferociously Stoned]]'' || [[Cherry Poppin' Daddies]] || Debut
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| ''[[Heartbreak Station]]'' || [[Cinderella (band)|Cinderella]] ||-
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| ''This Is a Collective'' || [[Consolidated (band)|Consolidated]] || EP
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| align="center" |23
| ''[[Against the Grain (Bad Religion album)|Against the Grain]]'' || [[Bad Religion]] ||-
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| align="center" |26
| ''[[A Social Grace]]'' || [[Psychotic Waltz]] ||-
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| rowspan="4" align="center" |27
| ''[[Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast]]'' || [[Kid Rock]] || Debut
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| ''[[Ralph Tresvant (album)|Ralph Tresvant]]'' || [[Ralph Tresvant]] || Solo debut
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| ''[[Rising (Donovan album)|Rising]]'' || [[Donovan]] || Live
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| ''[[Now! That's What I Call Music 18 (U.K. series)|Now! That's What I Call Music 18]]'' || Various Artists || UK; compilation
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| align="center" |3
| ''[[MCMXC a.D.]]'' || [[Enigma (German band)|Enigma]] || Debut
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| rowspan="4" align="center" |4
| ''[[Grains of Sand (album)|Grains of Sand]]'' || [[The Mission UK]] || US
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| ''[[Home Alone (soundtrack)|Home Alone]]'' || [[John Williams]] || Soundtrack
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| ''[[One for All (Brand Nubian album)|One for All]]'' || [[Brand Nubian]] ||-
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| ''[[The Simpsons Sing the Blues]]'' || [[The Simpsons]] || Debut
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| align="center" |10
| ''[[Live at Hammersmith '84]]'' || [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] || Live
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| rowspan="3" align="center" |11
| ''[[Devo's Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Devo]] || Compilation
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| ''[[Devo's Greatest Misses]]'' || Devo || Compilation
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| ''[[The Raw and the Remix]]'' || [[Fine Young Cannibals]] || Remixes and alternate versions
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| rowspan="3" align="center" |18
| ''[[Gonna Make You Sweat]]'' || [[C+C Music Factory]] ||-
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| ''[[Business as Usual (EPMD album)|Business as Usual]]'' || [[EPMD]] ||-
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| ''[[99% (Meat Beat Manifesto album)|99%]]'' || [[Meat Beat Manifesto]] ||-
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| ''[[Obey the Time]]'' || [[The Durutti Column]] ||-
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