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sixty-five albums

Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm

Bad Brains - I against I

Anita Baker - Rapture

The Bangles - Different Light

Big Audio Dynamite - No. 10, Upping St.

Big Black - Atomizer

Bon Jovi - Slippery when Wet

Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry

The Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse

Camper Van Beethoven - II & III

Camper Van Beethoven

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Kicking against the Pricks

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral... My Trial

Coil - Horse Rotorvator

The Costello Show Featuring the Attractions and Confederates - King of America

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood and Chocolate

The Cro-Mags - The Age of Quarrel

Death Angel - Darkness Descends

Steve Earle - Guitar Town

The Fall - Bend Sinister

Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian

The Feelies - The Good Earth

Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word

Furniture - The Wrong People

Peter Gabriel - So

Diamanda Galás - The Divine Punishment

Diamanda Galás - Saint of the Pit

Game Theory - The Big Shot Chronicles

Gang Green - Another Wasted Night

The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express

Nanci Griffith - The Last of the True Believers

Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

The Leaving Trains - Kill Tunes

Love and Rockets - Express

Lyres - Lyres Lyres

Madonna - True Blue

Manilla Road - The Deluge

Mecca Normal

Megadeth - Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?

The Mekons - The Edge of the World

Metallica - Master of Puppets

New Order - Brotherhood

Prince - Parade: Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon

R. E. M. - Lifes Rich Pageant

Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling

Saccharine Trust - We Became Snakes

Saint Vitus - Born Too Late

The Shop Assistants

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It

Paul Simon - Graceland

Slayer - Reign in Blood

The Smithereens - Especially for You

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Sonic Youth - Evol

Soul Asylum - Made to Be Broken

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Live/ 1975-1985

Sun City Girls - Grotto of Miracles

Swans - Holy Money

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring

That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill

Throwing Muses

Randy Travis - Storms of Life

The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional

XTC - Skylarking

thirty-one songs

Bananarama - 'Venus', True Confessions

Berlin - 'Take My Breath Away', Count Three and Play, [Various artists] Top Gun: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Cameo - 'Word Up', Word Up!

Crowded House - 'Don't Dream It's Over', Crowded House

Crowded House - 'Something So Strong', Crowded House

Cutting Crew - '(I Just) Died in Your Arms', Broadcast

Chris De Burgh - 'Lady in Red', Into the Light

Europe - 'The Final Countdown', The Final Countdown

Aretha Franklin and George Michael -'I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)', [Aretha Franklin] Aretha

Genesis - 'Invisible Touch', Invisible Touch

Bruce Hornsby and the Range - 'The Way It Is', The Way It Is

The Housemartins - 'Happy Hour', London 0 Hull 4

The Housemartins - 'Caravan of Love'

Janet Jackson - 'Nasty', Control

Kenny Loggins - 'Danger Zone', [Various artists] Top Gun: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Eddie Money - 'Take Me Home Tonight', Can't Hold Back

The Moody Blues - 'In Your Wildest Dreams', The Other Side of Life

New Order - 'Shellshock', [Various artists] Pretty in Pink Original Motion Picture Soundtrack; Substance [1987]

New Order - 'State of the Nation', Substance

Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark - 'If You Leave', [Various artists] Pretty in Pink: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Ozzy Osbourne - 'Shot in the Dark', Ultimate Sin

The Outfield - 'Your Love', Play Deep

The Pet Shop Boys - 'Love Comes Quickly', Please

Poison - 'Talk Dirty to Me', Look What the Cat Dragged In

Pussy Galore - Groovy Hate Fuck [E. P.]

Linda Ronstadt/ James Ingram - 'Somewhere Out There', [Various artists] An American Tail: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Smiths - 'Panic'

Stacey Q - 'Two of Hearts', Better Than Heaven

Talking Heads - 'Wild Wild Life', True Stories

Timbuk 3 - 'The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades', Greetings from Timbuk 3

Wang Chung - 'Everybody Have Fun Tonight', Mosaic

five archival and compilation albums

C86

Big Black - The Hammer Party [C. D. version]

The Chills - Kaleidoscope World

The Clean - Compilation

Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.