Please list all great albums released in 1987 kthnxbye

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I'll start it off with my personal favourite from that year:

1. Swans - Children Of God

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

LOCK THREAD: BEGINNING AND END OF TIME

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i know its a cliche for me, but its been a while

2. One thousand Years of Trouble : Age of Chance

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

3. The JAMs - 1987 (What the Fuck is Going On?)

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

3. Public Enemy - Yo Bum Rush the show

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

5. Pet Shop Boys - Actually.

My God 1987 was awesome.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

6. Schooly D - Saturday Night! The Album

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

7. Culturcide - Tacky Souvenirs Of Pre-Revolutionary America

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

8. Happy Mondays - Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

9. Prince - Sign o' the Times (can't do CND symbolb)

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Re. Squirrel & G-Man: original pressing with "Desmond" track.

10. "The Sonic Youth" - Sister

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I love that it says The Sonic Youth on that ablum. My favourite SY record.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

was it genuinely a great year, or is this just indicative of our respecive ages ? i personally believe it was a great year, but then i would i guess.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

It's tricky, that's true. I was 18 for most of that year so obv there's a nostalgia bias. But the 10 albums listed up there are pretty undeniable in any year.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

11. actually - pet shop boys

xpost - agree - this list is basically my listening for 1987 summised,

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I already listed Akshully bud.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ! i missed that and read the declaration only.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep, I was 23 and lived through it and it was glorious. Gave AR Kane's "Lollita" E.P. a spin the other evening and was still dazzled in wonderment, thinking "no one is doing stuff even remotely like this now." And the Monitor chaps in Melody Maker were writing their best stuff (esp. Reynolds).

Let's see if we can't make it up to 20 at least:

11. LL Cool J - Bigger And Deffer (Cut Creator the Jimmy Page of hip hop!)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

12. Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full.

13. Laibach - Opus Dei.

14. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come.

15. Salt 'n Pepa - Hot, Cool & Vicious.

16. 3 Mustaphas 3 - Shopping.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Oi, one at a time, greedy guts! ;-)

(blimey - 3 Mustaphas 3)

17. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

18. Wire - The Ideal Copy

19. McCarthy - I Am a Wallet

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh! and 20. The Wedding Present - George Best

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

21. Big Black - Songs About Fucking

and we haven't included 22. Lee Perry - Time Boom X De Devil Dead

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

23. The Triffids - Calenture
24. The Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Wouldn't have put them in a 20, but they warrant inclusion in a 30:

25. Microdisney - Crooked Mile.

26. Madhouse - Madhouse.

27. Yello - One Second.

28. Bhundu Boys - Tsvimbodzemoto.

29. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years.

30. Sly & Robbie - Rhythm Killers.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

31. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I kinda like Darklands, but it is essentially Psychocandy without the good bits.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link

32. REM - Document.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

33. Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs And Stories

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

34. Julian Cope - My Nation Underground

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

35. Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm, JC kind of lost me between Fried and Peggy Suicide.

36. The Young Gods - The Young Gods (MM's Album Of The Year!)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

37. Salif Keita - Soro.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think My Nation Underground is Top 10 stuff, but at least half of it is worth the inclusion. Peggy Suicide is the same, its highs are fantastic but when it drags it draaaaaaaaags.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

38. Ornette Coleman - In All Languages

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

38. Coil - Horse Rotorvator (there was a promo cassette in 1986, but the album proper was released in 1987) (quite possibly my favourite album ever, but I'd hate to have to choose just one)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm very fond of

40. Wet Wet Wet - Popped In Souled Out

although last week I was thinking of starting a thread about Bands Who Are Way Inferior to the Bands They Copped Their Name From with WWW and Deacon Blue at the front of my mind.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

41. Mark Stewart - Mark Stewart (third and best Maffia album and OFFICIAL BEGINNING OF TRIP HOP)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Although most of us didn't hear it until 1988:
42. Prince - The Black Album.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

43. Pixies - Come On Pilgrim (if it counts)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Best Pixies album by far.

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

44. Arthur Russell - World Of Echo

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

45. 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

46. Pussy Galore - Right Now!

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

47. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

48. George Michael - Faith

― Domino Man (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

49. Najma (Akhtar) - Qareeb

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

God, that's a wonderful album; I must dig that out and play it.

50. Well-Known ILX Regular - The Poison Boyfriend

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

51. Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death - Dead Kennedys
(ok it was a comp but I didn't have half of the stuff on it beforehand)

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of which:

52. No More Cocoons - Jello Biafra

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

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86. Legendary Pink Dots - Any Day Now
87. The Hafler Trio - A Thirsty Fish
88. The Fall - The Frenz Experiment

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, we're numbering them then, aren't we?

89. Gore - Mean Man's Dream
90. V/A - Smack My Crack
91. Einstürzende Neubauten - Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala
92. Scratch Acid - Beserker
93. Jandek - Blue Corpse
94. Sun City Girls - Horse Cock Phepner
95. Scientists - Human Jukebox
96. Diamanda Galas - The Saint of the Pit
97. Drunks with Guns - s/t
98. Skin - Blood, Women, Roses
99. Halo of Flies - Four From the Bottom

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Frenz Experiment was released in early '88 and Saint Of The Pit in Oct '06 AS YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN TOLD

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I WILL NOT LISTEN

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

If I can call you Principal Carlin, this thread really will be like 1987.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

My office at nine tomorrow morning sharp, with a potato peeler.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

100. Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather
101. 10,000 Maniacs - In my tribe
102. Danny Wilson - Meet...

Didn't Guns N'Roses release an album that year?

I loved Alan Rankine's single ''The Sandman'' but never heard the album it came from.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, GNR put out Appetite For Destruction. But since neither Chuck nor Alex In NYC are on the sandbox it remains unnominated...

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

We've already had In My Tribe but indeed no AFD.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

GNR reminded me of this lil' devil..

102. The Cult - Electric

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Appetite for Destruction
by Robert Christgau

It's a mug's game
to deny the technical facility
claimed by one-upping crits
and young victims
of testosterone poisoning --

not only does Axl
cruise
where other "hard rock" singers
strive,

but he has a knack for
believability,
which in this genre
is the most technical matter
of all.

When he melds scream and croon
on the big-beat ballad,
you understand why
some confused young thing
in an uplift bra
is sure
it's love

sweet love.

But Axl is a sucker for dark romantic
abstractions --
he doesn't love Night Train, he loves
alcoholism.

And once that
sweet child o' his
proves her devotion
by sucking his cock
for the portacam,
the evil slut
is ready for

"See me
hit you
you fall
down."

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Another entry in teh Xgau Poetry Series.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

103 David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive
104 Throwing Muses: The Fat Skier

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

102. The Cult - Electric

The beginning of the end for me but still great in parts. I like how Astbury refuses to pronounce the final word of every line on the entire record: (e.g. Love Removal Macheeeyaaayeehaaa, Wild Flowaaayeeehaaa and Li'l Devayeahaaaaa)

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

No love for Never Let Me Down?

― G. Samsa (G. Samsa), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

A little.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost

Don't forget "baybeee, baybeee, baybeee.....(repeat ad infinitum)"

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

105. Fishbone In Your Face

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, if we need to number them:

106 Hysteria
107 Symphony No 6
108 Nous Autres
109 Xas

110 REDD KROSS - NEUROTICA
111 The Frantics - Boot to the Head

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't believe Hysteria wasn't mentioned earlier, not even by me!

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Famous Blue Raincoat might be the worst album I ever paid for (even if it was only 33 cents).

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Union Carbide Productions, In The Air Tonight
Sonny Sharrock, Guitar
Uncle Sam, Heaven Or Hollywood
Steaming Coils, Never Creak

― Monty Von Bygone (Monty Von Bygone), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

(That last one should please Brad Laner, if he still posts here.)

― Monty Von Bygone (Monty Von Bygone), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

116. Michael Jackson, Bad (FFS, people)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

sandbox is 87.6% less poptimistic than real ilm

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

A terrible vintage when compared to the golden age of 1080-84. But it did at least include "Psonic Sunspot" and
117. "Romancing In The Dark" - Freiheit

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

118. The Leather Nun - Steel Construction

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc:

80. Level 42 - Running In The Family (possibly mark s' number one of all eighties albums)

-- Marcello Carlin

Interesting that we've got this far with no mention of Th* J*sh** Tr** or B*d...

-- Marcello Carlin

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

A terrible vintage when compared to the golden age of 1080-84.

Geir bigs up the Gregorian Chants!

― My Mind is Opener than Yours (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

119 Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
120 Minutemen - Ballot Result
121 Yo La Tengo - New Wave Hot Dogs
122 Game Theory - Lolita Nation
123 The Mekons - Honky Tonkin'
124 Big Dipper - Heavens
125 The Chills - Brave Words
126 Killdozer - Little Baby Buntin'
127 American Music Club - Engine
128 Happy Flowers - My Skin Covers My Body
129 Laughing Hyenas - Merry Go Round
130 The Wailing Ultimate

Guess I was listening to a lot of college radio back then.

― dad a (dad a), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

most of my faves are listed above, however there are these albums to note:

[highlight of each week was buying Melody Maker and Sounds on wednesday morning]

131 Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
132 Lowlife - Dimeundo
133 The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
134 That Petrol Emotion - Babble [purchased on my 17th birthday, on the day of it's release]
135 Marillion - Clutching at Straws
136 Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
137 Sinead O'Connor - The Lion & The Cobra [as hinted by mike]
138 The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
139 Jane Siberry - The Walking
140 Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
141 Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
142 Rush - Hold Your Fire
143 Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
144 The Durutti Column - The Guitar And Other Machines
145 The Shamen - Drop
146 Xmal Deutschland - Viva
147 The Blue Aeroplanes - Spitting Out Miracles
148 Thrashing Doves - Bedrock Vice
149 Slab! - Descension
150 David Torn - Cloud About Mercury

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

151 - lonely as the eyesore - 4ad comp
http://www.4ad.com/year/1987/releases/lonely-is-an-eyesore-3/

video - Frontier by Dead Can Dance
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vFnf0fIYhOk

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a little curious about HYF. "Force Ten," "Time Stands Still," and "Turn the Page" are really good but "Mission" is a little too mushy for me. How are the album tracks?

Angel Dust is the only FNM album I have. I should get some more.

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

152 Frankie Ruiz - Voy Pa Encima

― Kali Pachanguero (RSLaRue), Thursday, 30 November 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

A terrible vintage when compared to the golden age of 1080-84.
Geir bigs up the Gregorian Chants!

;)

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Thursday, 30 November 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

how did ILM get through 136 before getting music for the masses up there? glad to see jane siberry too.

i'm happy to vouch for suzanne vega, solitude standing as well as the grapes of wrath, treehouse.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 30 November 2006 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link

153 Verlaines, Bird-dog.

― Mike Lynch (scriblerus), Thursday, 30 November 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i was released in 1987, not sure if that counts

― Louis Jagger (Scourage), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you an album?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i was released in 1987

What was your sentence, and for what kind of crime?

― Geir Hongro (geirhong), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

15 years' hard labour, faulty rear light on bicycle.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Kinda surprised no one's mentioned Gluey Porch Treatments by The Melvins. I'm not a big Melvins fans but it's often bandied about as a sludge masterpiece.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

154. MC Shy-D - Gotta Be Tough
155. Gregory D & Mannie Fresh - Bustdown
156. Gucci Crew II - So Def, So Fresh, So Stupid
157. Ice T - Rhyme Pays
158. MC A.D.E. - Just Sumthin' to Do
159. NWA & The Posse
160. Motherfucking Basia Bitch - Motherfucking Time & Motherfucking Tide

― PappaWheelie III (PappaWheelie III), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Interesting that we've got this far with no mention of Th* J*sh** Tr** or B*d

Ah, I see. I'd done a ctrl-F on "bad" and "jackson."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

161. SWA - XCIII
162. Ut - In Gut's House
163. Live Skull - Dusted
164. David Thomas and the Wooden Birds - Blame the Messenger

― tim ellison (tim ellison), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

there's debate, even when I interviewed the group, as if 2 Live Crew's 2nd album was 87 or 88...so, uh, ???

Either way, it was the first to sampple the Amen break

― PappaWheelie III (PappaWheelie III), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

165. The WOlfhounds - Unseen Ripples From A Pebble

― svend (svend), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

166. Pulp - Freaks

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 2 December 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

167. Gore - Peel Sessions

Unreleased, rare as fuck, here it is:

http://www.yousendit.com/download/mpYrOy8%2FBId5TA%3D%3D

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

168. the smiths - the world won't listen (it's not a proper album i know but it was my first lp by them and is still my fave smiths album and my fave album of 1987)

― alex in mainhattan (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

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