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sixty albums:

Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse

Anthrax - Sprepading the Disease

Big Audio Dynamite - This Is Big Audio Dynamite

Black Flag - In My Head

Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love

The Butthole Surfers - Psychic, Powerless... Another Man's Sac

Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

Colourbox

Corrosion of Conformity - Animosity

The Cult - Love

The Cure - The Head on the Door

The Descendents - I Don't Want to Grow Up

Dinosaur

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch

Exodus - Bonded by Blood

The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace

Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls

Green on Red - Gas Food Lodging

Half Man Half Biscuit - Back in the D.H.S.S.

Emmylou Harris - The Ballad of Sally Rose

Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania!

Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising

Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig

The Jazz Butcher - Sex and Travel

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Killdozer - Snake Boy

Killing Joke - Night Time

The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

The Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun

The Mekons - Fear and Whisky

John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow

The Minutemen - 3-Way Tie (For Last)

New Order - Low-Life

Robert Palmer - Riptide

Phranc - Folksinger

The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

Possessed - Seven Churches

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

Prince and the Revolution - Around the World in a Day

R. E. M. - Fables of the Reconstruction

The Repacements - Tim

Saccharine Trust - Worldbroken

Savage Republic - Ceremonial

Scream - This Side Up

Shriekback - Oil and Gold

The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always

Slayer - Hell Awaits

The Smiths - Meat Is Murder

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles

The Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English or Die

Nikki Sudden and David Kusworth/ Jacobites - Robespierre's Velvet Basement

Talking Heads - Little Creatures

Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair

The Volcano Suns - The Bright Orange Years

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

The Waterboys - This Is the Sea

forty-two singles and deep cuts

A-Ha - 'Take On Me', Hunting High and Low

Baltimora - 'Tarzan Boy', Living in the Background

Cameo - 'Single Life', Single Life

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 'Tupelo', The Firstborn Is Dead

Cherrelle with Alexander O'Neal - 'Saturday Love', High Priority

Alex Chilton - Feudalist Tarts [E. P.]

Phil Collins - 'Sussudio', No Jacket Required

Dead or Alive - 'You Spin Me Around (Like a Record)', Youthquake

DeBarge - 'Rhythm of the Night', Rhythm of the Night; [Various artists] Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

John Fogerty - 'Centerfield', Centerfield

Aretha Franklin - 'Freeway of Love', Who's Zoomin' Who?

Glenn Frey - 'You Belong to the City', Miami Vice: Music from the Television Series

Heart - 'These Dreams', Heart

Don Henley - 'Boys of Summer', Building the Perfect Beast

The Highwaymen - 'Highwayman', Highwayman

Whitney Houston - 'Saving All My Love for You', Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston - 'The Greatest Love of All', Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston - 'How Will I Know', Whitney Houston

INXS - 'What You Need', Listen Like Thieves

Isley-Jasper-Isley - 'Caravan of Love', Caravan of Love

Grace Jones - 'Slave to the Rhythm', Slave to the Rhythm

Katrina and the Waves - 'Walking on Sunshine', Katrina and the Waves

Huey Lewis and the News - 'The Power of Love', [Various artists] Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Back to the Future

Madonna - 'Into the Groove'

The Membranes - Death to Trad Rock [E. P.]

Miami Sound Machine - 'Conga', Primitive Love

Mike and the Mechanics - 'Silent Running', Mike + the Mechanics

Mr. Mister - 'Broken Wings', Welcome to the Real World

Mötley Crüe - 'Smokin' in the Boys Room', Theatre of Pain

John Parr - 'St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)', [Various artists] St. Elmo's Fire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Pet Shop Boys - 'Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)'; new version, Please [1986]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'Don't Come Around Here No More', Southern Accents

The Power Station - 'Some Like It Hot', The Power Station

The RAH Band - 'Clouds across the Moon', Mystery

The Ramones - 'Bonzo Goes to Bitburg' ['(My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down) Bonzo Goes to Bitburg'], Animal Boy [1986]

Simple Minds - 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', [Various artists] The Breakfast Club: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Simply Red - 'Holding Back the Years', Picture Book

Squirrel Bait [E. P.]

Starship - 'We Built This City', Knee Deep in the Hoopla

'Til Tuesday - 'Voices Carry', Voices Carry

Stevie Wonder - 'Part-Time Lover', In Square Circle

Yello - 'Oh Yeah', Stella

two archival and compilation albums

Go-Go Crankin'

Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club