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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