The Best Singles of 1987

Top 50

1. Rebel Without A Pause - PUBLIC ENEMY
2. Shine On - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
3. The One I Love - R.E.M.
4. Hit The North - THE FALL
5. Paid In Full - ERIC B & RAKIM
6. Birthday - THE SUGARCUBES
7. Chains Changed EP - THROWING MUSES
8. Headache EP - BIG BLACK
9. Blessing and Curse EP - BAND OF SUSANS
10. My Favourite Dress - THE WEDDING PRESENT
11. Could You Be the One? - HÜSKER DÜ
12. Crawl Babies - THE PASTELS
13. Right Here - THE GO-BETWEENS
14. Big Decision - THAT PETROL EMOTION
15. Sign 'O' The Times - PRINCE
16. Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
17. True Faith - NEW ORDER
18. Just Like Heaven - THE CURE
19. Girlfriend In A Coma - THE SMITHS
20. Bury Me Deep In Love - THE TRIFFIDS
21. Lollita EP - A.R. KANE
22. Son Of A Gun - THE VASELINES
23. April Skies - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
24. You're Gonna Get Yours - PUBLIC ENEMY
25. I Wanna Live - RAMONES
26. Alex Chilton - THE REPLACEMENTS
27. New Mind - SWANS
28. There’s A Ghost In My House - THE FALL
29. Preposterous Tales - I, LUDICROUS
30. Anyone Can Make a Mistake - THE WEDDING PRESENT
31. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - THE SMITHS
32. I Know You Got Soul - ERIC B & RAKIM
33. Poetry - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
34. Never And Always - THE THREE JOHNS
35. Sally Cinnamon - THE STONE ROSES
36. Big Hollow Man - DANIELLE DAX
37. Trampolene - JULIAN COPE
38. Birth School Work Death - THE GODFATHERS
39. Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
40. Clarkesville - GREEN ON RED
41. My Favourite Room - LIME SPIDERS
42. Night of the Many Deaths - THE TRILOBITES
43. My Pal - GOD
44. No Sleep Till Brooklyn - BEASTIE BOYS
45. Push It - SALT 'N' PEPA
46. Happy Birthday (Yet Another) - THE BAMBI SLAM
47. Unbearable - THE WONDER STUFF
48. 24 Hour Party People - HAPPY MONDAYS
49. Sheila Take a Bow - THE SMITHS
50. It Didn't Matter - THE STYLE COUNCIL

The Best Albums Of 1987

Top 50

1. Songs about fucking - BIG BLACK
2. Sister - SONIC YOUTH
3. Warehouse: songs and stories - HUSKER DU
4. Document - R.E.M.
5. Mirage - MEAT PUPPETS
6. Yo! Bum rush the show - PUBLIC ENEMY
7. Tallulah - THE GO-BETWEENS
8. Saturday night! The Album - SCHOOLY D
9. Babble - THAT PETROL EMOTION
10. Calenture - THE TRIFFIDS
11. Frequency and urgency - SALEM 66
12. Mother Juno - THE GUN CLUB
13. Inky bloaters - DANIELLE DAX
14. You’re living all over me - DINOSAUR JR.
15. Even if and especially when - SCREAMING TREES
16. George Best - THE WEDDING PRESENT
17. Criminal minded - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
18. The Young Gods - THE YOUNG GODS
19. Locust abortion technician - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
20. Your funeral, my trial - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
21. Strangeways, here we come - THE SMITHS
22. Before our time - 13 ENGINES
23. Paid in full - ERIC B & RAKIM
24. Bigger and deffer - LL COOL J
25. Pleased to meet me - THE REPLACEMENTS
26. Come on pilgrim - PIXIES
27. Follow blind - WIPERS
28. Half way to sanity - RAMONES
29. Saint Julian - JULIAN COPE
30. Ragin’ full on - FIREHOSE
31. Licensed to ill - BEASTIE BOYS
32. Sign of the times - PRINCE
33. In my tribe - 10000 MANIACS
34. Snake handler - DIVINE HORSEMAN
35. The cave comes alive - LIME SPIDERS
36. Children of God - SWANS
37. Engine - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB
38. Spitting out miracles - THE BLUE AEROPLANES
39. Secrets of the beehive - DAVID SYLVIAN
40. The Joshua tree - U2
41. The ideal copy - WIRE
42. Right now! - PUSSY GALORE
43. The ice machine - BREAKING CIRCUS
44. Salon - PLASTICLAND
45. Happy nightmare baby - OPAL
46. Up for a bit with the Pastels - THE PASTELS
47. Brave words - THE CHILLS
48. Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me - THE CURE
49. Code - CABARET VOLTAIRE
50. Mark Stewart - MARK STEWART

Also recommended:

The fat skier - THROWING MUSES, Moonhead - THIN WHITE ROPE, Neurotica - REDD KROSS, Testify! - THEE FOURGIVEN, Heaven’s end - LOOP, Darklands - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Within the realm of a dying sun - DEAD CAN DANCE, Rhythm killers - SLY & ROBBIE, Trouble over here, trouble over there - TROUBLE FUNK, Squirrel and G-Man twenty four hour party people plastic face carnt smile (white out) - HAPPY MONDAYS, Crush collision / 10000 years of trouble - AGE OF CHANCE, Box frenzy - POP WILL EAT ITSELF, Hot animal machine - HENRY ROLLINS, Life time - ROLLINS BAND, The killer inside me - GREEN ON RED, Two fisted tales - THE LONG RYDERS, Played - BODINES, Sea hunt - PLAN 9, Six days of sound - LORD JOHN, Too many cowboys - THE EX, Fleshtones vs. Reality - THE FLESHTONES, New wave hot dogs - YO LA TENGO, Fuck - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Foxheads stalk this land - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS, Me, grandma, Iliko and Hilarian - THE DEADLY HUME, Box office bomb - DRAMARAMA, Whisper tames the lion - DRIVIN’ N’ CRYIN’, Texas Instruments - TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Tapping the source - LAZY COWGIRLS, Come to your senses - TO DAMASCUS, 40 miles from nowhere - NAKED PREY, Daddy's highway - THE BATS, At first sight violets are blue - THE STEMS, Book of hours - GREEN PAJAMAS, Oh my Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips - THE FLAMING LIPS, Hate your friends - THE LEMONHEADS, Kingdom day - THE DROOGS, Roman beach party - THE CELIBATE RIFLES, Cosmic Psychos - COSMIC PSYCHOS, Hardware - THE NOMADS, The perfect prescription - SPACEMEN 3, Mayflower - THE WEATHER PROPHETS, Sonic flower groove - PRIMAL SCREAM, Off to heaven - REVOLVING PAINT DREAM, Dirtdish - WISEBLOOD, In the air tonight - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Flying Color - FLYING COLOR, I am a wallet - McCARTHY, The girl who runs the beat hotel - BIFF BANG POW!, The poison boyfriend - MOMUS, Danse macabre / A cabinet of curiosities - PAUL ROLAND, Overdose - THE MIRACLE WORKERS, Surprise surprise surprise - MIRACLE LEGION, Mute lament - 100th MONKEY, For the country - DUMPTRUCK, Remember - CHEEPSKATES, Prayer for the halcyon fear - TINY LIGHTS, Ego tripping at the gates of hell - LOUIS TILLETT, Mother fist and her five daughters - MARC ALMOND, Franks wild years - TOM WAITS, Strange weather - MARIANNE FAITHFULL, Solitude standing - SUZANNE VEGA, Through the looking glass - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Echo & the Bunnymen - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, Flash light - TOM VERLAINE, Bird dog - THE VERLAINES, Blow your cool - HOODOO GURUS, The Mekons honky tonkin' - MEKONS, Gluey porch treatments - MELVINS, Skag heaven - SQUIRREL BAIT, In gut's house - UT, Dustbowl - HEAD OF DAVID, Riposte - SLOVENLY, Skin Yard - SKIN YARD, Taint pluribus taint unum - COWS, Don't open til doomsday - THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS, Drop of the creature - THE STEPPES, A cuppa tea and a lie down - ABLE TASMANS, More tales from the city - THE BAND OF HOLY JOY, Soro - SALIF KEITA, Rhyme pays - ICE T, Lethal - UTFO, Down by law - MC SHAN, Civilization and its discotheques - THE FIBONACCIS, Hang-ten! - THE SOUP DRAGONS, Poem of the river - FELT, Psonic psunspot - THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR, The guitar and other machines - THE DURUTTI COLUMN, Fuent auf der nach oben offenen richterskala - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Get lost (don't lie) - THESE IMMORTAL SOULS, Honeymoon in red - LYDIA LUNCH, Jackamo - ANNIE ANXIETY BANDEZ, Tacky souvenirs of pre-revolutionary America - CULTURCIDE, Never mind the ballots - CHUMBAWAMBA, Back again in the D.H.S.S. - HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT, Inner marshland - THE BEVIS FROND, Catfish eyes... and tales - THE VIETNAM VETERANS, Reunion wilderness - THE RAILWAY CHILDREN, Crooked mile - MICRODISNEY, Mainstream - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS, The people who grinned themselves to death - THE HOUSEMARTINS, Freaks - PULP, War, famine, death, pestilence and Miss Timberlake - THE DEEP FREEZE MICE, Bucky Fellini - THE DEAD MILKMEN, Plays the devil's music - LUBRICATED GOAT, Locos por el Sexo - TRAGIC MULATTO, Steel construction - LEATHER NUN, The men who loved music - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Cuba - THE SILOS, Monkey on a chain gang - HOUSE OF FREAKS, 2 x 4 - GUADALCANAL DIARY, The pursuit of happiness - THE BEAT FARMERS, Outside looking in - BODEANS, Echelons - FOR AGAINST, Lolita nation - GAME THEORY, I'll call you sometime - VIV AKAULDREN, Scum - NAPALM DEATH, Πάρτυ στον 13ο όροφο - ΤΡΥΠΕΣ, In the Dutch mountains - THE NITS, Music for the masses - DEPECHE MODE, Actually - PET SHOP BOYS, Hopeless cases - ANNE CLARK, Official version - FRONT 242, Floodland - THE SISTERS OF MERCY, Earth Sun Moon - LOVE AND ROCKETS, The uplift mofo party plan - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Electric - THE CULT, Diesel and dust - MIDNIGHT OIL, Tunnel of love - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Dreams of reason produce monsters - MICK KARN, The cost of loving - THE STYLE COUNCIL, One second - YELLO, How ya like me now - KOOL MOE DEE, Mana fiesta - PERSONAL EFFECTS,Viva - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND, Palace of swords reversed - THE FALL, Substance 1987 - NEW ORDER, The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE, Hit by hit - THE GODFATHERS, Give me convenience or give me death - DEAD KENNEDYS, Wasted...again - BLACK FLAG, Greatest hits-Destroyed by fire - THE FLESH EATERS, Eight Crepuscule tracks - CABARET VOLTAIRE