1987- Some Might Say The Best Year in Music

Posted on 6/25/25 at 2:52 pm

Posted by STigers

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Posted on 6/25/25 at 2:52 pm

I Say That!!
It Was The Best Year of New Albums

Top 100 Albums of 1987:
According to Slicing Up Eyeballs' Best of the '80s Poll
Slicing Up Eyeballs celebrates the legacy of '80s college, modern, alternative and indie rock

11. The Cult, Electric
12. Sinead O’Connor, The Lion and the Cobra
13. Love and Rockets, Earth, Sun, Moon
14. Pet Shop Boys, Actually
15. Midnight Oil, Diesel and Dust
16. Hüsker Dü, Warehouse: Songs and Stories
17. Siouxsie and the Banshees, Through the Looking Glass
18. Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction
19. 10,000 Maniacs, In My Tribe
20. Dinosaur Jr, You’re Living All Over Me
21. Sonic Youth, Sister
22. Erasure, The Circus
23. Dead Can Dance, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
24. Prince, Sign O the Times
25. The Housemartins, The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
26. Front 242, Official Version
27. Nitzer Ebb, That Total Age
28. The Psychedelic Furs, Midnight to Midnight
29. Public Image Ltd., Happy?
30. Sting, …Nothing Like the Sun
31. Terence Trent D’Arby, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby
32. Tom Waits, Frank’s Wild Years
33. Big Black, Songs About fricking
34. Bryan Ferry, Bête Noire
35. David Sylvian, Secrets of the Beehive
36. Skinny Puppy, Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
37. The Dukes of Stratosphear, Psonic Psunspot
38. Suzanne Vega, Solitude Standing
39. Butthole Surfers, Locust Abortion Technician
40. Julian Cope, Saint Julian
41. Eurythmics, Savage
42. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Mainstream
43. Eric B. and Rakim, Paid in Full
44. Hoodoo Gurus, Blow Your Cool!
45. Spacemen 3, The Perfect Prescription
46. Wire, The Ideal Copy
47. The Go-Betweens, Tallulah (TIE)
47. Oingo Boingo, Boi-ngo (TIE)
49. Public Enemy, Yo! Bum Rush the Show
50. The Wedding Present, George Best
51. X, See How We Are
52. Fields of the Nephilim, Dawnrazor
53. Dead or Alive, Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (TIE)
53. fIREHOSE, If’n (TIE)
55. Faith No More, Introduce Yourself
56. Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
57. The Alarm, Eye of the Hurricane
58. David Bowie, Never Let Me Down
59. Guadalcanal Diary, 2×4
60. The Grapes of Wrath, Treehouse
61. Icehouse, Man of Colours
62. Aztec Camera, Love (TIE)
62. Warren Zevon, Sentimental Hygiene (TIE)
64. Game Theory, Lolita Nation
65. The Dead Milkmen, Bucky Fellini
66. Cabaret Voltaire, Code
67. Descendents, All
68. Swans, Children of God
69. Men Without Hats, Pop Goes the World(TIE)
69. Squeeze, Babylon and On (TIE)
71. The Connells, Boylan Heights
72. Ramones, Halfway to Sanity
73. The dB’s, The Sound of Music (TIE)
73. Happy Mondays, Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) (TIE)
75. ABC, Alphabet City
76. Art of Noise, In No Sense? Nonsense!
77. Close Lobsters, Foxheads Stalk the Land(TIE)
77. Gene Loves Jezebel, The House of Dolls(TIE)
79. That Petrol Emotion, Babble
80. The Lemonheads, Hate Your Friends
81. The Bolshoi, Lindy’s Party
82. Einstürzende Neubauten, Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala
83. Pop Will Eat Itself, Box Frenzy (TIE)
83. Deacon Blue, Raintown (TIE)
85. The Chills, Brave Words
86. Flesh For Lulu, Long Live the New Flesh(TIE)
86. The Gun Club, Mother Juno (TIE)
86. Indigo Girls, Strange Fire (TIE)
89. The Communards, Red
90. The Bats, Daddy’s Highway
91. Marc Almond, Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters
92. Yello, One Second
93. Loop, Heaven’s End
94. Pulp, Freaks
95. The Style Council, The Cost of Loving(TIE)
95. Laibach, Opus Dei (TIE)
97. Opal, Happy Nightmare Baby
98. Screaming Blue Messiahs, Bikini Red
99. Dumptruck, For the Country
100. The Flaming Lips, Oh My Gawd!!!