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1987

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sixty-one albums

Anthrax - Among the Living

Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark

The Bats - Daddy's Highway

Big Dipper - Heavens

Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

Rosanne Cash - King's Record Shop

The Cult - Electric

The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters

Death - Scream Bloody Gore

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses

Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living all over Me

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - Crossover

Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night

Game Theory - Lolita Nation

Government Issue - You

Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I

John Hiatt - Bring the Family

Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Element of Light

Hugo Largo - Drum

Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories

INXS - Kick

Michael Jackson - Bad

King Diamond - Abigail

Laibach - Opus Dei

Live Skull - Dusted

Love and Rockets - Earth, Sun, Moon

Lyle Lovett - Pontiac

John Cougar Mellencamp - Lonesome Jubilee

The Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments

George Michael - Faith

Napalm Death - Scum

Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra

Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay

Overkill - Taking Over

Tav Falco's Panther Burns - The World We Knew

Dolly Parton/ Linda Ronstadt/ Emmylou Harris - Trio

The Pastels - Up for a Bit with the Pastels

Lee "Scratch" Perry and Dub Syndicate - Time Boom X de Devil Dead

The Pet Shop Boys - Actually

Prince - Sign "O" the Times

Redd Kross - Neurotica

R. E. M. - Document

The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me

The Silos - Cuba

The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland

Sly and Robbie - Rhythm Killers

The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come

Sonic Youth - Sister

Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription

Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun

Swans - Children of God

Keith Sweat - Make It Last Forever

U2 - The Joshua Tree

Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing

Voivod - Killing Technology

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene

Whitesnake


twenty-three singles and deep cuts

Aerosmith - 'Dude (Looks like a Lady)', Permanent Vacation

Rick Astley - 'Never Going to Give You Up', Whenever You Need Somebody

The Bangles - 'Hazy Shade of Winter', [Various artists] Less than Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Eric Carmen - 'Hungry Eyes', [Various artists] Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from the Vestron Motion Picture

Terence Trent D'Arby - 'Wishing Well', The Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby

Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - 'Rhythm Is Gonna Get You', Let It Loose

The Grateful Dead - 'Touch of Grey', In the Dark

George Harrison - 'Got My Mind Set on You', Cloud Nine

George Harrison - 'When We Was Fab', Cloud Nine

Heart - 'Alone', Bad Animals

Whitney Houston - 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)', Whitney

Whitney Houston - 'Didn't We Almost Have It All', Whitney

Los Lobos - 'La Bamba', [Various artists] La Bamba: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Bill Medley/ Jennifer Warnes - '(I've Had) The Time of My Life', [Various artists] Dirty Dancing: Original Soundtrack from the Vestron Motion Picture

Midnight Oil - 'Beds Are Burning', Diesel and Dust

Mötley Crüe - 'Girls, Girls, Girls', Girls, Girls, Girls

New Order - 'True Faith', Substance [1987]

The Pet Shop Boys - 'Always on My Mind', Introspective [1988]

Soundgarden - Screaming Life [E. P.]

Spacemen 3 - 'Transparent Radiation', Transparent Radiation

Starship - 'Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now', No Protection

Was (Not Was) - 'Walk the Dinosaur', What Up, Dog?

World Party - 'Ship of Fools', Private Revolution


seven archival and compilation albums

The Bats - Compiletely Bats

Roky Erickson and the Aliens - The Evil One

The Minutemen - Post-Mersh Vol. 1

The Minutemen - Post-Mersh Vol. 2

The Minutemen - Post-Mersh Vol. 3

The Smiths - Louder than Bombs

The Tall Dwarfs - Hello Cruel World