Fair enough!
― pomenitul, Friday, 31 May 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
I'm going with SISTER - favourite album from a favourite band. 100% excellence
― . (Michael B), Friday, 31 May 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
I dont know why I included "Warehouse songs and stories", not even Du fans like that one. I was never a fan of it apart from 4 or 5 songs tbh.
― . (Michael B), Friday, 31 May 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
steppong out of this one, can't decide between Prince and Sister
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 31 May 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Sign O’ the Times, yep.Not on the list: Keith Sweat’s debut Make It Last Forever. Indestructible classic.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 31 May 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
prince
― flappy bird, Friday, 31 May 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
I would've went for Redd Kross - Neurotica if it had been there.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 31 May 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
I guess those first Chicago House compilations deserve an extremely honourable mention as well.Thinking especially of The House Sound of Chicago, Volume 2 - Chicago Trax on Trax/London Records (Volume 1 was released in 1986) and Jackmaster Volume 1 on Westside Records.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 31 May 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
Pleased To Meet Me over Sign O' the Times, mainly for sentimental reasons; the former was my intro to the 'Mats and still my fave of their records. I didn't get either until the mid-90s (ditto Tunnel of Love) though.
Otherwise, we're finally at a time where I actually would have heard some of these when they were new-ish: Bad, Faith, Kick and The Joshua Tree are monster albums that also got a lot of play on my parents' stereo, in my dad's car and on my bulky, yellow Sports walkman. My mom wouldn't let me have Appetite for Destruction.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Friday, 31 May 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
I want to run
― brimstead, Friday, 31 May 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
prince, the bats, or eric b and rakim
― k3vin k., Friday, 31 May 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
hearsay no question
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 May 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Tempted to vote for Document even though it's one of the weaker IRS albums. First REM album I ever owned.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
The hardest choice for me so far...Brave Words or The Walking. Went with the former but only just!
― yugi ex, Friday, 31 May 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
not the best of all years. i'd have gone for the world won't listen but as it isn't here i take their last album strangeways. it is quite an amazing and mysterious album, not their best but better than their first.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
Ooh I'd love to hear those Chicago House comps
― . (Michael B), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
i would like to protest that picture
1987 was a shit year but it deserves better than that
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apocrypha time
the apostles - equinox screamscandle tribe - nothing but a feelin'the chemistry set - s/tchin-chin - stop! your cryingthe chrysanthemums - is that a fish on your shoulder or are you just pleased to see me?Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna - l'orfeodanny thompson - whateverdoctor nerve - armed observationeric lou root - don't worrygame theory - lolita nation (critical omission)the gibson bros. - big pine boogieh.e.x. - the power house tapeshanan bulubulu - '87 concerthugo largo - drumkatsumi horii project - hot is coolkazue sawai - eye to eyelenny pickett with the borneo horns - s/tmahlathini - the lion of sowetona-mi - vol. 08negativland - escape from noisepoison - into the abysssein chit tl - new arrangements for hsaing ensembleshelleyan orphan - helleborinesort sol - the violent bear it awaysquirrel bait - skag heaven (another critical omission)sri maharani ghazal muar - tudung periukthe steppes - drop of the creaturesteve fisk - 448 deathless daysunseen terror - human errorut - early life livevalentin clastrier - grands maitres de la vielle a roueyasuaki shimizu - music for commercialsyvonne chaka chaka - i'm burning upzag and the coloured beads - sawtooth gripmaster
i am as usual extremely weak on '80s albums
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
Finally, a poll where the absolute best option I had was David Sylvian. I do love the INXS and Depeche Mode albums listed, though.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 1 June 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
David Sylvian. That is all.
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 1 June 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link
I don’t think any of these albums is above 8/10 for me... kind of a transitional year. Probably David Sylvian, Tom Waits or J&MC
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 1 June 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
1987 is my least favorite year of the decade, music-wise.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 1 June 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
Isn’t TheWalking ’88?
There are plenty of sources that state either 87 or 88
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 1 June 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
Yo! Bum Rush the Show seemed shockingly avant garde at the time, it was an amazing debut album.
Sister also felt like something from another world and it is still one of my favorite albums of all time
― Dan S, Saturday, 1 June 2019 04:37 (four years ago) link
would like to protest that picture
1987 is the peak of the yuppie boom. "Wall Street" is released that year too.
― . (Michael B), Saturday, 1 June 2019 08:15 (four years ago) link
Great list, but it’s Pet Shop Boys for me by a country mile
― the article don, Saturday, 1 June 2019 09:11 (four years ago) link
Lots of solid-if-not-necessarily-their-best sort of records by lifelong favourites, but Paid In Full was where my juvenile brain all of sudden 'got' rap, and it sounded like the future. So that, despite a couple of meh tracks.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Saturday, 1 June 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
Didn't think this was the Young Gods album I'd be voting for but there it is.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link
Ooh I'd love to hear those Chicago House compsNone of these comps (i.e. the first three volumes of The House Sound of Chicago, Jackmaster 1 and the first three editions of the Jack Trax series, when we’re talking ‘87) have survived in this form into the streaming age as far as I can tell. You’d have to check Discogs for the track listings. Lots (the majority I’d guess) of the individual tracks are on Spotify of course, but there’s plenty that aren’t. These compilations were everything to/for me in 1987, quite literally, cause I wouldn’t hear this music in the wild until the next year (bar “Love Can’t Turn Around” and “Jack Your Body”, as these were bonafide pop hits). Basically, 1987 was one of those Ground Zero years for me, when a new type of music blows your mind and all but takes over your life. (Last seen in these parts in 2012, when I encountered Ghanaian azonto and then discovered all kinds of other African pop in its wake).
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
surprised at how easily this is "the walking" for me, which i hadn't heard until last year but is incredible
― ufo, Saturday, 1 June 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
Sometimes you kick, sometimes you get kicked.
(Also love Darklands, Tallulah, Sister, Actually and Sign "☮︎" the Times)
― dorsalstop, Saturday, 1 June 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
Document is my favorite REM album-I just think it's the most consistent and I'm a huge fan of side 2.Still tempted to vote for Kick anyway
― campreverb, Saturday, 1 June 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
relatively sure the walking is ‘87
i should’ve voted for it bc it’s perfect but my mind locked right onto the best alexander o’neal album
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
also this is the year i was born, diss its music at your own peril
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
i will sternly correct you!!!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 June 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
glad you said that-this album is unloved retrospectively, I remember it being widely loved at the time.at least among the contingent that stuck with them through WB
― campreverb, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
easy : age of chance - 1000 years of trouble.
oh, bugger, cant vote for it.umm has to be prince then I guess.
― mark e, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
My opinion is the opposite of Tarfumes's: I generally really like the Mould songs and skip a lot of the Hart songs. "Ice Cold Ice" and "Friend You've Got to Fall" are up there with their best imo.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
“Ice Cold Ice” is definitely a highlight, but for me “She Floated Away” (the tension/timing of which was amplified to near-unbearable levels live), “She’s A Woman (And Now He Is A Man),” and “You Can Live At Home” are peak Grant...which is to say, peak Hüsker Dü.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
she floated away is one of my favourite songs as is ice cold ice.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
― . (Michael B)
so put a picture of michael douglas or some shit on there, there's yuppies and then there's eternal fucking evil, it's like putting a picture of hitler on your poll of the best songs of 1923 (yeah i went there EDGY)
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
spacemen 3 or melvins or depeche mode
― big gym sw0les (crüt), Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
I'm legit shocked you left out Hugo Largo but still found room for Come on Pilgrim
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 2 June 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
Anyways voting Sign O' the Times just over Blind Idiot God & Pilgrim (as a stand-in for The Purple Tape, which I've actually just realized is prob my legit favourite album of 1987)
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 2 June 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
'm legit shocked you left out Hugo Largo but still found room for Come on Pilgrim
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, June 2, 2019 1:13 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Drum" by Hugo Largo is '88 according to Wikipedia!
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 2 June 2019 06:42 (four years ago) link
I like a few more on here, but it will be one of these:
Dinosaur Jr – Youre Living All Over MeEric B & Rakim – Paid In FullPixies – Come on PilgrimPrince – Sign O’ the TimesPublic Enemy –Yo! Bum Rush The ShowSonic Youth – SisterThe Cure – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 2 June 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
No “Savage” by Eurythmics?
I voted Sylvian (obv), but 2nd place would be them.
― Max Florian, Sunday, 2 June 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
― Max Florian, Sunday, 2 June 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
on the face of it 1986 seemed lots better than 1987 but yeah house, and it’s also the last of the italo disco peak years, neither of which feel at home in an album poll.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
Going with Bathory because Sonic Youth will do well regardless.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
wait wasnt Poison Into The Abyss already in the 1986 poll?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
xxp along those lines '87 was perhaps the best ever year for freestyle; I would happily listen to Expose's first album all the way through, but more generally it's all about the singles
― Josefa, Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Ha, I love that Expose to bits. My little sister had that stuff. But big yawn, I'm voting Prince.
― Every Day Is Talk Like a Pirate day. 'Cos RRRRRRR (I M Losted), Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
― Siegbran
nabozo mentioned it - with lower-profile releases sometimes it's a matter of assigning a year more or less at random - i'm going by rym, which has it as an '87 release recorded on dec 20-21, 1986
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Sunday, 2 June 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Other albums I would have considered for only to eventually choose Prince:
Erasure - The CircusEurythmics - SavageGuided by Voices - Devil Between My ToesSuzanne Vega - Solitude StandingThe Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 2 June 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
*voting for
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 2 June 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
Thin White Rope
― Duke, Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
Lotsa love for the Pixies, Sinead, Swans, and Tom Waits, but this goes to Songs About Fucking, the industrial rock album that surpasses any of its imitators.
― despondently sipping tomato soup (Sanpaku), Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
FUCK YES. Secrets of the Beehive is a fucking masterpiece and a half. So was Brilliant Trees but I found another album on the 1984 list I ended up preferring over that one.
― Dee the (Summer-Hating) Lurker (deethelurker), Monday, 3 June 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
Voted Celtic Frost. Into the Pandemonium is actually my favorite Celtic Frost album which puts me in a minority - I think Chuck Eddy agrees with me.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 3 June 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
I went on a road trip to one of the first three lollapaloozas and the discman adapter broke which meant we spent four days and hundreds of miles listening to the two tapes in the car - document and appetite for destruction. I’d probably pick one of those
― joygoat, Monday, 3 June 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
U2, INXS, The Cure, The Smiths, The Replacements were my over-played ones. My 1.5-years younger sister had the Prince, MJ & Def Leppard albums in heavy rotation.
The Replacements slightly over The Cure. "The Ledge", "Can't Hardly Wait", "Never Mind", "Skyway" (!!), "Nightclub Jitters"...
"The words I thought I brought I left behind, so never mind..."
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
Voted for Actually just ahead of Secrets Of The Beehive and Sign O’ The Times.
― kitchen person, Monday, 3 June 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 6 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
I find myself still playing 'Sister' more than anything else from '87 I guess.Schizophrenia, Tuff Gnarl, Pacific Coast Highway, and Kotton Krown are among my favorite Sonic Youth's
I think the CURE is a close second. As great as the Prince album is, and I love it when I hear it, I don'tseem to reach for it as much nowadays. I'll play 1999 and Purple Rain more.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
Looking at this list I can tell my interest in pop music was waning by 1987. I didn't/don't own many of these. Think I'm opting for Thin White Rope.
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Impossible to POO but voted Swans.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
The opposite is true for me. After the disaster area that was the 1986 list, this is a breath of fresh air.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
yeah it's Lolita Nation
― imago, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
Man this year sucked. That said, went with Eric B and Rakim
― octobeard, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
A quick glance at the list suggested a weaker year but when I counted it turned out I own 25 of these on vinyl. Go figure. “And the sun comesLike a god into our roomAll perfect light and promises”
― dorsalstop, Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
yeesh no way this is not one of the hardest things i've voted for on here.
went with the mondays because they were unimpeachable at that point. what a record!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
Hearsay obv
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
1987 is better represented by its pop hits than its critically acclaimed albums.
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 6 June 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
Paid in Full over Sign o' the Times. Paid in Full is my favourite rap album.
― jmm, Thursday, 6 June 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
results are not bad, and there were a lot of votes!
― Dan S, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
I knew before even clicking on this that it was gonna be Prince.― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, May 31, 2019 4:29 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, May 31, 2019 4:29 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 7 June 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
Man, I even love half the albums that got no votes.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
yes, all of these were left out Pixies - Come on PilgrimHusker Du - Warehouse Songs and StoriesThe Jesus and Mary Chain - DarklandsBruce Springsteen - Tunnel of LoveThe Go-Betweens - Tallulah
― Dan S, Friday, 7 June 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
Not entirely unhappy with the number of people who went for Secrets of the Beehive; compared to how the rest of the voting went, that was a rousing endorsement of the album. <3
― Dee the (Summer-Hating) Lurker (deethelurker), Friday, 7 June 2019 01:54 (four years ago) link
Voting for the stunning Beehive was a very obvious choice for me here, although not even half as obvious as my vote for Gone To Earth in the preceding poll.
― Valentijn, Friday, 7 June 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link
Meanwhile, Pazz & Jop!.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
Why did no-one vote for "Tunnel of Love" in this poll? SHAME ON YOU ILM
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 12:00 (four years ago) link
WTF is Blind Idiot God?
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
Missed this poll at the time, but would have voted for The Young Gods without a second's hesitation.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
i love blind idiot god! would've voted for dinosaur jr, thin white rope or the go-betweens though
― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link