The Best Singles of 1989

Top 50

1. Monkey Gone To Heaven - PIXIES
2. Blues From a Gun - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
3. Fools Gold - THE STONE ROSES
4. Kennedy - THE WEDDING PRESENT
5. Blew - NIRVANA
6. Just Like Heaven - DINOSAUR JR.
7. Dizzy / Santa Claus - THROWING MUSES
8. Cab It Up / Dead Beat Descendant - THE FALL
9. Fight the Power - PUBLIC ENEMY
10. Me, Myself And I - DE LA SOUL
11. Come Home - JAMES
12. She Bangs The Drums - THE STONE ROSES
13. Madchester Rave On EP - HAPPY MONDAYS
14. Don’t Let Me Down - THE WONDER STUFF
15. Joe - INSPIRAL CARPETS
16. The Third Time We Opened The Capsule - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTIONS
17. Pop Song '89 - R.E.M.
18. Touch Me I'm Sick / Halloween - SONIC YOUTH / MUDHONEY
19. This Gift - MUDHONEY
20. Tom Verlaine - THE FAMILY CAT
21. Barging Into The Presence Of God EP - PALE SAINTS
22. I Don't Know Why I Love You - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
23. Blood From a Stone - THE HEART THROBS
24. Love Goes On! - THE GO-BETWEENS
25. Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
26. Veronica - ELVIS COSTELLO
27. Can't Be Sure - THE SUNDAYS
28. Regina - THE SUGARCUBES
29. Sensitive - THE FIELD MICE
30. Waiting for the Winter - THE POPGUNS
31. Here Comes Your Man / Into the White - PIXIES
32. Head On - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
33. She Gives Me Love - THE GODFATHERS
34. Last Cigarette - DRAMARAMA
35. God Is A Bullet - CONCRETE BLONDE
36. Everybody Moves - DIED PRETTY
37. Luka - THE LEMONHEADS
38. Ana Ng - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
39. Sheriff Fatman - CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE
40. Round And Round - NEW ORDER
41. Pacific State - 808 STATE
42. One of Our Girls Has Gone Missing - A.C. MARIAS
43. White Knuckle Ride - DANIELLE DAX
44. Never - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
45. The Last of the Famous International Playboys - MORRISSEY
46. Fascination Street - THE CURE
47. Pet Sematary - RAMONES
48. Pictures of Matchstick Men / Jack Ruby - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
49. Ivy Ivy Ivy - PRIMAL SCREAM
50. Paradise - BIRDLAND

The Best Singles of 1988

Top 50

1. Teenage Riot - SONIC YOUTH
2. The Mercy Seat - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
3. Freak Scene - DINOSAUR JR.
4. You Made Me Realise - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
5. Bring the Noise - PUBLIC ENEMY
6. Coldsweat - THE SUGARCUBES
7. Gigantic - PIXIES
8. Christine - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
9. Streets of Your Town - THE GO-BETWEENS
10. Wrote for Luck - HAPPY MONDAYS
11. Sidewalkin' - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
12. Feed Me with Your Kiss - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
13. Destroy the Heart - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
14. Victoria - THE FALL
15. Touch Me I'm Sick - MUDHONEY
16. Love Buzz - NIRVANA
17. Revolution - SPACEMEN 3
18. Orange Crush - R.E.M.
19. Everyday Is Like Sunday - MORRISSEY
20. Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now? - THE WEDDING PRESENT
21. Deus - THE SUGARCUBES
22. Red Sun EP - THIN WHITE ROPE
23. Mountain Song - JANE'S ADDICTION
24. Silver Rocket - SONIC YOUTH
25. Deanna - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
26. Biting My Nails - RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE
27. Follow the Leader - ERIC B &RAKIM
28. My Philosophy - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
29. Colors - ICE-T
30. Blind - TALKING HEADS
31. Sometimes, Almost Always EP - fIREHOSE
32. 2541 - GRANT HART
33. Finest Worksong - R.E.M.
34. Talkin' All That Jazz - STETSASONIC
35. Strictly Business - E.P.M.D.
36. Elephant Stone - THE STONE ROSES
37. Crash - THE PRIMITIVES
38. Dying for It / Molly's Lips - THE VASELINES
39. Nobody's Twisting Your Arm - THE WEDDING PRESENT
40. Suedehead - MORRISSEY
41. What's the Matter Here - 10,000 MANIACS
42. Fisherman's Blues - THE WATERBOYS
43. Plane Crash EP - INSPIRAL CARPETS
44. Give Give Give Me More More More - THE WONDER STUFF
45. Def Con One - POP WILL EAT ITSELF
46. Kidney Bingos - WIRE
47. 'Cause I Said So - THE GODFATHERS
48. Headin' South - THE NEW CHRISTS
49. Punk Rock Girl - THE DEAD MILKMEN
50. Clear Blue Sky / Distant Relatives - MEGA CITY FOUR

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 Singles of 1986

Top 50

1. Mr Pharmacist - THE FALL
2. World Shut Your Mouth - JULIAN COPE
3. Wide Open Road - THE TRIFFIDS
4. Into the Groovey - CICCONE YOUTH
5. Bigmouth Strikes Again - THE SMITHS
6. I Want You - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
7. Fall on Me - R.E.M.
8. Take the Skinheads Bowling - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
9. Saturday Night - SCHOOLLY D
10. Panic - THE SMITHS
11. Some Candy Talking - JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
12. Flower - SONIC YOUTH
13. Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely - HUSKER DU
14. Spring Rain - THE GO-BETWEENS
15. River Of Love - THE SPIKES
16. Walk This Way - RUN DMC
17. (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) - BEASTIE BOYS
18. Bizarre Love Triangle - NEW ORDER
19. Truck Train Tractor - THE PASTELS
20. Tokyo Storm Warning - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
21. Once More - THE WEDDING PRESENT
22. I Love My Leather Jacket - THE CHILLS
23. If You Were A Priest - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
24. Bad News Travel Fast - THE FUZZTONES
25. Living To Late - THE FALL
26. Starpower - SONIC YOUTH
27. Brave Captain - fIREHOSE
28. Somebody Put Something in My Drink - RAMONES
29. 51st State - NEW MODEL ARMY
30. Born Out of Time - THE NEW CHRISTS
31. This Damn Nation - THE GODFATHERS
32. Like an Angel - THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS
33. Infected - THE THE
34. Kaw-Liga - THE RESIDENTS
35. Mind At The End Of The Tether - TACKHEAD
36. South Bronx - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
37. Kiss - PRINCE
38. Word Up - CAMEO
39. Eric B. Is President - ERIC B. & RAKIM
40. Bassline - MANTRONIX
41. Kiss - AGE OF CHANCE
42. A Screw - SWANS
43. 1936: The Spanish Revolution - THE EX
44. Therese - THE BODINES
45. Almost Prayed - THE WEATHER PROPHETS
46. Driving Away from Home (Jim's Tune) - IT'S IMMATERIAL
47. Sledgehammer - PETER GABRIEL
48. Graceland - PAUL SIMON
49. Greetings to the New Brunette - BILLY BRAGG
50. Don't Get Me Wrong - THE PRETENDERS

The Best Singles of 1985

Top 50

1. How Soon Is Now? - THE SMITHS
2. Cruiser's Creek / L.A. - THE FALL
3. Tupelo - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
4. Never Understand - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
5. The Perfect Kiss - NEW ORDER
6. Walls Come Tumbling Down - THE STYLE COUNCIL
7. Fields Of Glass EP - THE TRIFFIDS
8. Love & Desperation - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
9. Looking For Lewis and Clark - THE LONG RYDERS
10. Makes No Sense At All - HUSKER DU
11. Yu Gung - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
12. King of Rock - RUN DMC
13. Cities in Dust - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
14. Driver 8 - R.E.M.
15. Heaven - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
16. In Between Days - THE CURE
17. Just Like Honey - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
18. Chance - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY
19. Death of the European - THE THREE JOHNS
20. Up The Hill and Down the Slope - THE LOFT
21. The Boy with the Thorn in His Side - THE SMITHS
22. You Trip Me Up - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
23. Kick Over the Statues! - REDSKINS
24. Like A Curse - THE NEW CHRISTS
25. She's Wicked - THE FUZZTONES
26. V2 - THAT PETROL EMOTION
27. America - PRINCE
28. Road to Nowhere - TALKING HEADS
29. Bring on the Dancing Horses - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
30. Rollin' Dany / Couldn't Get Ahead - THE FALL
31. Go Out and Get 'Em Boy! - THE WEDDING PRESENT
32. No Rest - NEW MODEL ARMY
33. Salad Days - MINOR THREAT
34. Out of Control - LIME SPIDERS
35. Date with a Vampyre - THE SCREAMING TRIBESMEN
36. Time Ain't Nothing - GREEN ON RED
37. Between the Wars - BILLY BRAGG
38. Sunspots - JULIAN COPE
39. Move Me - THE WOODENTOPS
40. Raspberry Beret - PRINCE
41. Rock the Bells - LL COOL J
42. Needle to the Groove - MANTRONIX
43. I Want You - CABARET VOLTAIRE
44. No Time to Cry - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
45. When All's Well - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
46. The Whole of the Moon - THE WATERBOYS
47. Don't You (Forget About Me) - SIMPLE MINDS
48. She Sells Sanctuary - THE CULT
49. Sequenz - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
50. All Fall Down - PRIMAL SCREAM

The Best Singles of 1984

Top 50

1. Upside Down - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
2. Death Valley '69 - SONIC YOUTH
3. What Difference Does It Make? - THE SMITHS
4. Dirty - HARD CORPS
5. Do The Square Thing - THE THREE JOHNS
6. Oh! Brother - THE FALL
7. Pink Frost - THE CHILLS
8. Racer-X - BIG BLACK
9. C.R.E.E.P. - THE FALL
10. The Killing Moon - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
11. Our Darkness - ANNE CLARK
12. Shout To The Top - THE STYLE COUNCIL
13. Still Ill - THE SMITHS
14. Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.
15. Slave Girl - LIME SPIDERS
16. Psycho - BEASTS OF BOURBON
17. Eight Miles High - HUSKER DU
18. Eighties - KILLING JOKE
19. Call For Escape Route EP - THE FALL
20. World Destruction - TIME ZONE
21. Middle of the Road - PRETENDERS
22. The Greatness and Perfection of Love - JULIAN COPE
23. Walk Into The Sun - THE MARCH VIOLETS
24. Pearly Dewdrops' Drops - COCTEAU TWINS
25. Close (To The Edit) - THE ART OF NOISE
26. Calamity Crush - FOETUS-ART-TERRORISM
27. Sensoria - CABARET VOLTAIRE
28. Keep On Keeping On - THE REDSKINS
29. I Will Dare - THE REPLACEMENTS
30. Celebrated Summer / New Day Rising - HUSKER DU
31. Bad News Travels Fast - THE FUZZTONES
32. Change Is Gonna Come - DROOGS
33. Medicine Show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
34. Like a Curse - THE NEW CHRISTS
35. Walk Away / Poison Door - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
36. Thieves Like Us - NEW ORDER
37. I Wanna Be Loved - ELVIS COSTELLO
38. When Doves Cry - PRINCE
39. Dancing In The Dark - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
40. I Want You Back - HOODOO GURUS
41. In The Ghetto - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
42. Fell From The Sun - KENDRA SMITH & DAVID ROBACK & KEITH MITCHEL
43. Come Back - THE MIGHTY WAH!
44. Let's Go Crazy - PRINCE
45. Rock Box - RUN-D.M.C.
46. Unity - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & JAMES BROWN
47. The Lebanon - THE HUMAN LEAGUE
48. Michael Caine - MADNESS
49. You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) - JOE JACKSON
50. Bachelor Kisses - THE GO-BETWEENS

The Best Singles of 1983

Top 50

1. Blue Monday - NEW ORDER
2. Hand in glove - THE SMITHS
3. She's in parties - BAUHAUS
4. Gone daddy gone - VIOLENT FEMMES
5. Cattle and cane - THE GO-BETWEENS
6. This charming man - THE SMITHS
7. The man whose head expanded - THE FALL
8. A.W.O.L. - THE THREE JOHNS
9. Temple of love - SISTERS OF MERCY
10. Oblivious - AZTEC CAMERA
11. The cutter - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
12. Let's all go (to the fire dances) - KILLING JOKE
13. Mutiny EP - BIRTHDAY PARTY
14. Kicker conspiracy - THE FALL
15. Burning down the house - TALKING HEADS
16. Money-Go-Round (Parts 1+2) - THE STYLE COUNCIL
17. Every day I write the book - ELVIS COSTELLO
18. New Year’s Day - U2
19. Looking for the perfect beat - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE
20. This is not a love song - P.I.L.
21. The walk - THE CURE
22. Just fascination - CABARET VOLTAIRE
23. Snake dance - THE MARCH VIOLETS
24. I want to help you Ann - LYRES
25. Another state of mind - SOCIAL DISTORTION
26. Bad seed EP - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
27. Marquis cha-cha - THE FALL
28. Lean on me - THE REDSKINS
29. Great expectations - NEW MODEL ARMY
30. Mexican radio - WALL OF VOODOO
31. Tomorrow's (just another day) - MADNESS
32. Palm of my hand - THE PALE FOUNTAINS
33. Talk about the passion - R.E.M.
34. Sunday bloody Sunday - U2
35. Waterfront - SIMPLE MINDS
36. Let them all talk - ELVIS COSTELLO
37. Speak like a child - THE STYLE COUNCIL
38. Beat box - THE ART OF NOISE
39. White lines (Don't don't do it) - GRANDMASTER FLASH & MELLE MEL
40. It's like that - RUN-D.M.C.
41. Hip-Hop-Bommi-Bop - THE INCREADIBLE T.H. SCRATCHERS STARRING FREDDY LOVE
42. Long hot summer - THE STYLE COUNCIL
43. Sugar hiccup - COCTEAU TWINS
44. Song to the siren - THIS MORTAL COIL
45. Dear prudence - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
46. The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE
47. October (love song) - CHRIS AND COSEY
48. Change - TEARS FOR FEARS
49. Relax - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
50. New gold dream (81-82-83-84) - SIMPLE MINDS

The Best Singles of 1982

Top 50

1. Town called malice - THE JAM
2. Slowdive - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
3. The message - GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE
4. Planet rock - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE
5. Let's go to bed - THE CURE
6. Temptation - NEW ORDER
7. I melt with you - MODERN ENGLISH
8. Love my way - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
9. Alice - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
10. I love a man in uniform - GANG OF FOUR
11. Know your rights - THE CLASH
12. Back on the chain gang - PRETENDERS
13. The back of love - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
14. Melt! - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
15. The hanging garden - THE CURE
16. Life in the gladhouse - MODERN ENGLISH
17. Look, know - THE FALL
18. Fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
19. Rolling moon - THE CHILLS
20. Senses working overtime - XTC
21. Beat surrender - THE JAM
22. Never say never - ROMEO VOID
23. ESG Says Dance to the Beat of Moody - ESG
24. Knife slits water - A CERTAIN RATIO
25. Empire song - KILLING JOKE
26. Ziggy Stardust - BAUHAUS
27. Mad world - TEARS FOR FEARS
28. Come on Eileen - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
29. Our house - MADNESS
30. Annie get your gun - SQUEEZE
31. Pillar to post - AZTEC CAMERA
32. The story of the blues - WAH!
33. Shipbuilding - ROBERT WYATT
34. Man out of time - ELVIS COSTELLO
35. Blue spark - X
36. In a free land - HUSKER DU
37. 1945 - SOCIAL DISTORTION
38. Bleed for me - DEAD KENNEDYS
39. Incubus Succubus - XMAL DEUTSCHLAND
40. Dancing / True love - ZOUNDS
41. Rock the Casbah - THE CLASH
42. Shock the monkey - PETER GABRIEL
43. Promised you a miracle - SIMPLE MINDS
44. In shreds - THE CHAMELEONS
45. Felicity - ORANGE JUICE
46. Steppin' out - JOE JACKSON
47. Situation - YAZOO
48. Let me go! - HEAVEN 17
49. Poison arrow - ABC
50. Buffalo gals - MALCOLM MCLAREN

The Best Singles of 1981

Top 50

1. Sex beat / Ghost on the highway - THE GUN CLUB
2. Spellbound - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
3. Once in a lifetime - TALKING HEADS
4. That's entertainment - THE JAM
5. Ghost town - THE SPECIALS
6. Radio free Europe - R.E.M.
7. Goo Goo muck - THE CRAMPS
8. Romeo - WIPERS
9. Lie dream of a casino soul - THE FALL
10. What we all want - GANG OF FOUR
11. Ceremony - NEW ORDER
12. Reward - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
13. Don't you want me - THE HUMAN LEAGUE
14. The Jezebel spirit - BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE
15. Flowers of romance - P.I.L.
16. Primary - THE CURE
17. Kick in the eye - BAUHAUS
18. Follow the leaders - KILLING JOKE
19. Too drunk to fuck - THE DEAD KENNEDYS
20. Release the bats - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
21. Demystification - ZOUNDS
22. You're no good - ESG
23. Things that go boom in the night - BUSH TETRAS
24. Pretty in pink - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
25. Love song - SIMPLE MINDS
26. Tainted love - SOFT CELL
27. Rapture - BLONDIE
28. We want the airwaves - RAMONES
29. The magnificent seven - THE CLASH
30. Inconvenience - THE AU PAIRS
31. The art of parties - JAPAN
32. The gospel comes to New Guinea - 23 SKIDOO
33. Computer love / The Model - KRAFTWERK
34. Der Mussolini - DAF
35. (We don't need this) Fascist groove thang - HEAVEN 17
36. O Superman - LAURIE ANDERSON
37. Papa's got a brand new Pigbag - PIGBAG
38. It must be love - MADNESS
39. One in ten - UB40
40. From a whisper to a scream - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
41. Only the stones remain - THE SOFT BOYS
42. The river - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
43. Gloria - U2
44. Respectable street - XTC
45. A promise - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
46. Your turn, my turn - THE GO-BETWEENS
47. Calcutta - THE NAMES
48. The fish needs a bike - BLURT
49. Sex bomb - FLIPPER
50. Six pack - BLACK FLAG

The Best Singles of 1980

Top 50

1. Going underground - THE JAM
2. Love will tear us apart - JOY DIVISION
3. Totally wired - THE FALL
4. A forest - THE CURE
5. Rescue - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
6. Treason - TEARDROP EXPLODES
7. Mr. Jones - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
8. Garbageman - THE CRAMPS
9. Seven minutes to midnight - WAH! HEAT
10. Christine - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
11. It’s obvious - THE AU PAIRS
12. Holiday in Cambodia - DEAD KENNEDYS
13. Alien boy - WIPERS
14. Wardance - KILLING JOKE
15. How I wrote 'Elastic Man' - THE FALL
16. The great curve - TALKING HEADS
17. Start! - THE JAM
18. Precious - PRETENDERS
19. Atomic - BLONDIE
20. Too many creeps - BUSH TETRAS
21. Israel - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
22. Atmosphere - JOY DIVISION
23. The puppet - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
24. Gathering dust - MODERN ENGLISH
25. Mr. Clarinet - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
26. Dark entries - BAUHAUS
27. Let's build a car - SWELL MAPS
28. I wanna destroy you - THE SOFT BOYS
29. Bankrobber - THE CLASH
30. Call me - BLONDIE
31. Ashes to ashes - DAVID BOWIE
32. Whip it - DEVO
33. My girl - MADNESS
34. Another nail in my heart - SQUEEZE
35. Shack up - A CERTAIN RATIO
36. Changeling - SIMPLE MINDS
37. Enola Gay - ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
38. Private Idaho - THE B-52's
39. You - DELTA 5
40. Final day - YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS
41. A song from under the floorboards - MAGAZINE
42. I can't stand up for falling down - ELVIS COSTELLO
43. White girl - X
44. Ha ha ha - FLIPPER
45. Amoeba - ADOLESCENTS
46. I wanna be sedated - RAMONES
47. I will follow - U2
48. Too much too young - THE SPECIALS
49. Geno - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
50. Dog eat dog - ADAM AND THE ANTS

The Best Albums Of The '80s

Top 100

1. Daydream nation - SONIC YOUTH
2. Perverted by language - THE FALL
3. Surfer Rosa - PIXIES
4. It takes a nation of millions to hold us back - PUBLIC ENEMY
5. Songs about fucking - BIG BLACK
6. Zen arcade - HUSKER DU
7. Document - R.E.M.
8. Meat is murder - THE SMITHS
9. The gift - THE JAM
10. Remain in light - TALKING HEADS
11. Closer - JOY DIVISION
12. Psychocandy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
13. This nation’s saving grace - THE FALL
14. Sister - SONIC YOUTH
15. Fire dances - KILLING JOKE
16. Juju - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
17. Blood and chocolate - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
18. Life’s too good - THE SUGARCUBES
19. Bug - DINOSAUR JR.
20. Automatic - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
21. The Smiths - THE SMITHS
22. The days of wine and roses - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
23. Over the edge - WIPERS
24. Violent Femmes - VIOLENT FEMMES
25. Sound affects - THE JAM
26. Crocodiles - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
27. Playing with a different sex - THE AU PAIRS
28. The fire of love - THE GUN CLUB
29. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
30. Meat Puppets II - MEAT PUPPETS
31. Before Hollywood - THE GO-BETWEENS
32. From her to eternity - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
33. Gas, food, lodging - GREEN ON RED
34. Murmur - R.E.M.
35. The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
36. Bummed - HAPPY MONDAYS
37. The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
38. Valley of rain - GIANT SAND
39. In the Spanish cave - THIN WHITE ROPE
40. My invisible lantern - SCREAMING TREES
41. Isn’t anything - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
42. Raising hell - RUN DMC
43. I - A.R. KANE
44. Our favourite shop - THE STYLE COUNCIL
45. 3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
46. Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
47. Atom drum bop - THE THREE JOHNS
48. The wonderful and frightening world of... - THE FALL
49. Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables - DEAD KENNEDYS
50. Los Angeles - X
51. Pornography - THE CURE
52. Power, corruption and lies - NEW ORDER
53. Doolittle - PIXIES
54. House tornado - THROWING MUSES
55. Warehouse: songs and stories - HUSKER DU
56. Mirage - MEAT PUPPETS
57. Yo! Bum rush the show - PUBLIC ENEMY
58. Criminal minded - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
59. Hex enduction hour - THE FALL
60. The Queen is dead - THE SMITHS
61. The flowers of romance - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
62. Burning from the inside - BAUHAUS
63. Crazy rhythms - THE FEELIES
64. Is this real? - WIPERS
65. Damaged - BLACK FLAG
66. Double nickels on the dime - MINUTEMEN
67. Mommy’s little monster - SOCIAL DISTORTION
68. Let it be - THE REPLACEMENTS
69. Green - R.E.M.
70. Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
71. Bleach - NIRVANA
72. Atomizer - BIG BLACK
73. New day rising - HUSKER DU
74. Living in darkness - AGENT ORANGE
75. Psychedelic jungle - THE CRAMPS
76. Miami - THE GUN CLUB
77. Tallulah - THE GO-BETWEENS
78. Calenture - THE TRIFFIDS
79. The firstborn is dead - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
80. Evol - SONIC YOUTH
81. Grotesque (after the Gramme) - THE FALL
82. Kilimanjaro - THE TEARDROP EXPLODES
83. Charm world - YO
84. Life’s rich pageant - R.E.M.
85. A kiss in the dreamhouse - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
86. The Psychedelic Furs - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
87. The Pretenders - THE PRETENDERS
88. Saturday night! The Album - SCHOOLLY D
89. Paid in full - ERIC B & RAKIM
90. Monsters - MEAT PUPPETS
91. Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
92. Desperate fires - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
93. Babble - THAT PETROL EMOTION
94. Garlands - COCTEAU TWINS
95. After the snow - MODERN ENGLISH
96. Wild weed - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
97. Native sons - THE LONG RYDERS
98. Bedtime for democracy - DEAD KENNEDYS
99. Vs - MISSION OF BURMA
100. Hex breaker - THE FLESHTONES

The 2nd hundred:

Desire - TUXEEDO MOON, Dare - HUMAN LEAGUE, World shut your mouth - JULIAN COPE, Killing Joke - KILLING JOKE, Youth of America - WIPERS, You’re living all over me - DINOSAUR JR., Even if and especially when - SCREAMING TREES, Treeless plain - THE TRIFFIDS, Get happy - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS, Underwater moonlight - THE SOFT BOYS, Solid gold - GANG OF 4, Bend sinister - THE FALL, 17 seconds - THE CURE, Kaleidoscope - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, Tocsin - X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND, First and last and always - THE SISTERS OF MERCY, Junkyard - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, Lysergic emanations - THE FUZZTONES, Exploring the axis - THIN WHITE ROPE, Medicine show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE, Hallowed ground - VIOLENT FEMMES, Sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash - THE REPLACEMENTS, Up on the sun - MEAT PUPPETS, Fables of the reconstruction - R.E.M., Low life - NEW ORDER, The crackdown - CABARET VOLTAIRE, Around the world in a day - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION, Black sea - XTC, Once in a blue moon - YO, Hunkpapa - THROWING MUSES, Frequency and urgency - SALEM 66, Mother Juno - THE GUN CLUB, Inky bloaters - DANIELLE DAX, George Best - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Hup - THE WONDER STUFF, The Young Gods - THE YOUNG GODS, Locust abortion technician - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Your funeral, my trial - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Frenz experiment - THE FALL, I am kurious oranj - THE FALL, By all means necessary - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, The love songs - GIANT SAND, Hope against hope - BAND OF SUSANS, Tender prey - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Our beloved revolutionary sweetheart - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, Prairie school freakout - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM, Lick - THE LEMONHEADS, Let’s play domination - WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES, Power - ICE T, Licensed to ill - BEASTIE BOYS, Nothing’s shocking - JANE’S ADDICTION, Before our time - 13 ENGINES, Gravity talks - GREEN ON RED, Ghost stories - THE DREAM SYNDICATE, Buzz factory - SCREAMING TREES, Ragin’ full on - FIREHOSE, Huevos - MEAT PUPPETS, Born sandy devotional - THE TRIFFIDS, Heaven up here - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, Fried - JULIAN COPE, Headache rhetoric - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS, Sittin’ pretty - THE PASTELS, Bizzaro - THE WEDDING PRESENT, The eight legged groove machine - THE WONDER STUFF, In the flat field - BAUHAUS, Songs the lord taught us - THE CRAMPS, The covenant, the sword and the arm of the lord - CABARET VOLTAIRE, Strangeways, here we come - THE SMITHS, 69 - A.R. KANE, Slates - THE FALL, Superfuzz bigmuff - MUDHONEY, The Las Vegas story - THE GUN CLUB, Reckoning - R.E.M., The world by storm - THE THREE JOHNS, Neither Washington nor Moscow - REDSKINS, Land of the lost - WIPERS, Under a blue marlin - NAKED PREY, Ballad of a thin line man - GIANT SAND, Manic pop thrill - THAT PETROL EMOTION, Jane from occupied Europe - SWELL MAPS, Freedom of choice - DEVO, Porcupine - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, High land hard rain - AZTEC CAMERA, War - U2, My life in the bush of ghosts - DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO, What’s this for…! - KILLING JOKE, Talk talk talk - PSYCHEDELIC FURS, Wild gift - X, Living eyes - RADIO BIRDMAN, Sandinista - THE CLASH, Trust - ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS, Free dirt - DIED PRETTY, Devil’s river - DIVINE HORSEMAN, Ride the tiger - YO LA TENGO, Sons and fascination - SIMPLE MINDS, Frankenchrist - DEAD KENNEDYS, Flip your wig - HUSKER DU, Generic - FLIPPER, Sonic Youth - SONIC YOUTH

The Best Albums Of 1989

Top 50

1. Automatic - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
2. I - A.R. KANE
3. Monsters - MEAT PUPPETS
4. 3 feet high and rising - DE LA SOUL
5. The Stone Roses - THE STONE ROSES
6. Doolittle - PIXIES
7. Byram lake blues - 13 ENGINES
8. Mudhoney - MUDHONEY
9. Straight outta Compton - N.W.A.
10. Hup - THE WONDER STUFF
11. Lick - THE LEMONHEADS
12. Hunkpapa - THROWING MUSES
13. Buzz factory - SCREAMING TREES
14. Bleach - NIRVANA
15. Buffalo Tom - BUFFALO TOM
16. Headache rhetoric - THE CLOSE LOBSTERS
17. Bizzaro - THE WEDDING PRESENT
18. Sittin’ pretty - THE PASTELS
19. Love is hell - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION
20. Don’t stop the night - MOMUS
21. Technique - NEW ORDER
22. Dubrovnik blues - THE DUBROVNIKS
23. Love agenda - BAND OF SUSANS
24. L’eau rouge - THE YOUNG GODS
25. Spike - ELVIS COSTELLO
26. Key lime pie - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
27. Cataract - THE WALKABOUTS
28. Scar - LUSH
29. When in Rome, kill me - CUD
30. Sell me a god - EAT
31. Up - THE PERFECT DISASTER
32. Rock’n’roll - THE MEKONS
33. The whitey album - CICCONE YOUTH
34. The Iceberg / Freedom of speech...just watch what you say - ICE T
35. Talking to God - PORCELAIN BUS
36. Distemper - THE NEW CHRISTS
37. Intolerance - GRANT HART
38. One of our girls (has gone missing) - A.C. MARIAS
39. Oranges and lemons - XTC
40. Black swan - THE TRIFFIDS
41. Blind ear - THE CELIBATE RIFLES
42. Fromohio - FIREHOSE
43. More songs about love and hate - THE GODFATHERS
44. Lincoln - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
45. Tranzophobia - MEGA CITY 4
46. Brain drain - RAMONES
47. This is the day...this is the hour...this is this - POP WILL EAT ITSELF
48. Workbook - BOB MOULD
49. Candleland - IAN McCULLOCH
50. Groove - NICKY SUDDEN & THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Also recommended:

Dum-Dum - THE VASELINES, Margin walker - FUGAZI, Go the hack - COSMIC PSYCHOS, A warning to the curious - I, LUDICROUS, Tell ’em we ’re surfin’ - THE FAMILY CAT, Fade out - LOOP, Playing with fire - SPACEMEN 3, Taste - THE TELESCOPES, Free - CONCRETE BLONDE, Queen Elvis - ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS, Boomerang - THE CREATURES, Blind man’s zoo - 10000 MANIACS, Sonic Temple and the court of Babylon - BRIAN RITCHIE, Lately I keep scissors - BARBARA MANNING, The taller you are, the shorter you get - MY DAD IS DEAD, 3 - VIOLENT FEMMES, Pop said - DARLING BUDS, Snowball - FIELD MICE, Meglamania - BIRDHOUSE, The circle - WIPERS, Transportation D. Vices - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Awakening - THE LAST, Chris Cacavas - CHRIS CACAVAS & JUNKYARD LOVE, I pass for human - STONE BY STONE, Beelzebubba - THE DEAD MILKMEN, Primal Scream - PRIMAL SCREAM, The Acid House album - BIFF BANG POW!, It’s beginning to and back again - WIRE, Here today, tomorrow next week - THE SUGARCUBES, Paul's boutique - BEASTIE BOYS, Am I black enough for you? - SCHOOLLY D, Ghetto music: The blueprint of hip hop - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS, Unfinished business - EPMD, Friendly as a hand grenade - TACKHEAD, Disintegration - THE CURE, Tweez - SLINT, United Kingdom - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, On fire - GALAXIE 500, In heat - FUZZTONES, Unknown passage - DEAD MOON, Dial M for Motherfucker - PUSSY GALORE, Positraction - LIVE SKULL, Wrong - NOMEANSNO, Thermos - BAILTER SPACE, The law of things - THE BATS, Labyrinth - THE MOFFS, Some disenchanted evening - THE VERLAINES, Hail - STRAITJACKET FITS, The size of food - JPS EXPERIENCE, Lyceum - THE ORCHIDS, The honey tangle - ADULT NET, Earwig - BLAKE BABIES, Black candy - BEAT HAPPENING, President Yo La Tengo - YO LA TENGO, Telepathic surgery - THE FLAMING LIPS, The freed man - SEBADOH, Too much sleep - BONGWATER, Financially dissatisfied, philosophically trying - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Hard volume - ROLLINS BAND, God's balls - TAD, Umber - BITCH MAGNET, Understand? - NAKED RAYGUN, Roadmouth - FLUID, Witch doctor - SIDEWINTERS, Failure - THE POSIES, Against nature - THE FATIMA MANSIONS, We shoot for the moon - SLOVENLY, Rock 'n' roll - THE CYNICS, Ego tripping at the gates of hell - LOUIS TILLETT, Moss side story - BARRY ADAMSON, Hope and despair - EDWYN COLLINS, Floating into the night - JULEE CRUISE, Haus der luge - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, The king and eye - RESIDENTS, The burning world - SWANS, Mother's milk - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, The real thing - FAITH NO MORE, Pretty hate machine - NINE INCH NAILS, The mind is a terrible thing to taste - MINISTRY, No control - BAD RELIGION, Love is a battlefield of wounded hearts - THE HARD-ONS, Mystery road - DRIVIN' N CRYIN', Just because you can't see it... doesn't mean it isn't there... - KIM SALMON & THE SURREALISTS, Enquire within - THE STEPPES, Scenes from the dreams of angels - OUTSKIRTS OF INFINITY, Headcoats down! - THEE HEADCOATS, Live'r than God - THEE HYPNOTICS, Griller - UT, Tantilla - HOUSE OF FREAKS, Manic, magic, majestic - THE BAND OF HOLY JOY, End of the century party - GARY CLAIL, As nasty as they wanna be - 2 LIVE CREW, No one can do it better - THE D.O.C., Road to the riches - KOOL G RAP & DJ POLO, Grip It! On that other level - GETO BOYS, It's a Big Daddy thing - BIG DADDY KANE, Club classics Vol.1 - SOUL II SOUL, 33 45 78 - STEREO MC’S, Liquidizer - JESUS JONES, What's that noise? - COLDCUT, Mind bomb - THE THE, The enraged will inherit the earth - McCARTHY, This one's for the ladies - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Magnum cum louder - HOODOO GURUS, Don't tell a soul - THE REPLACEMENTS, Cloudland - PERE UBU, New York - LOU REED, Freedom - NEIL YOUNG, Oh mercy - BOB DYLAN, Full moon fever - TOM PETTY, Avalon sunset - VAN MORRISON, Yellow moon - NEVILLE BROTHERS, Indigo Girls - INDIGO GIRLS, Raw like sushi - NENEH CHERRY, Maria McKee - MARIA McKEE, The sensual world - KATE BUSH, Each man kills the thing he loves - GAVIN FRIDAY, Customs - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Εν πλω - ΕΝ ΠΛΩ, Laying down law - THE WRECKERY, Blow - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, Scratch the surface - THE JASMINE MINKS, The singular adventures of the Style Council - THE STYLE COUNCIL, Once round the fair - THE LOFT, Giant Sandwich - GIANT SAND, Seminal live - THE FALL

The Best Albums Of 1988

Top 50

1. Daydream Nation - SONIC YOUTH
2. Surfer Rosa - PIXIES
3. Life’s too good - THE SUGARCUBES
4. Bug - DINOSAUR JR.
5. The House of Love - THE HOUSE OF LOVE
6. In the Spanish Cave - THIN WHITE ROPE
7. Green - R.E.M.
8. It takes a nation of millions to hold us back - PUBLIC ENEMY
9. Bummed - HAPPY MONDAYS
10. My invisible lantern - SCREAMING TREES
11. House Tornado - THROWING MUSES
12. I am Kurious Oranj / Frenz Experiment - THE FALL
13. By all means necessary - BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS
14. Isn’t anything - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
15. The love songs / Storm - GIANT SAND
16. Hope against hope - BAND OF SUSANS
17. Tender prey - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
18. The eight legged groove machine - THE WONDER STUFF
19. Let’s play domination - WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES
20. 69 - A.R. KANE
21. Our beloved revolutionary sweetheart - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
22. Hairway to Steven - BUTTHOLE SURFERS
23. Ghost stories - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
24. Huevos - MEAT PUPPETS
25. Power - ICE T
26. Naked - TALKING HEADS
27. Judges, juries and horsemen - WEATHER PROPHETS
28. Follow the leader - ERIC B & RAKIM
29. If’n - FIREHOSE
30. Prairie school freakout - ELEVENTH DREAM DAY
31. Superfuzz bigmuff - MUDHONEY
32. Nothing’s shocking - JANE’S ADDICTION
33. Prison bound - SOCIAL DISTORTION
34. Everybody’s got to - ED KUEPPER
35. Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch - SENATOR FLUX
36. Strictly business - E.P.M.D.
37. Sugarshit sharp - PUSSY GALORE
38. Lonely Mr. Happy - THE DEADLY HUME
39. Lost - DIED PRETTY
40. Heavens - BIG DIPPER
41. Kool and deadly - JUST ICE
42. A bell is a cup until it is struck - WIRE
43. The tenement year - PERE UBU
44. Birth, school, work, death - THE GODFATHERS
45. Two nuns and a pack mule - RAPEMAN
46. Straight out the jungle - JUNGLE BROTHERS
47. The Bambi Slam - THE BAMBI SLAM
48. Hardly not even - RUN WESTY RUN
49. Only life - THE FEELIES
50. 16 Lover’s lane - THE GO-BETWEENS

Also recommended:

Things - THINGS, Trouble from providence - SACRED COWBOYS, National treasures, natural disasters - SALEM 66, Viva hate - MORRISSEY, Peepshow - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Blue bell knoll - COCTEAU TWINS, Ultra Vivid scene - ULTRA VIVID SCENE, Wooden foot cops on the highway - THE WOODENTOPS, My nation underground - JULIAN COPE, Fisherman’s blues - THE WATERBOYS, Globe of frogs - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS, End of the millennium psychosis blues - THAT PETROL EMOTION, Lovely - THE PRIMITIVES, Tender pervert - MOMUS, It wings above - CHEEPSKATES, Salvation guaranteed - THEE FOURGIVEN, Confession - THE LAST, The death of everything - THE THREE JOHNS, World without end - THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS, Kiss ass godhead - MEMBRANES, Volatile - LIME SPIDERS, You must be certain of the devil - DIAMANDA GALAS, Front by front - FRONT 242, Stewdio - THE STEPPES, Strip-mine - JAMES, Animal necessity - JET BLACK BERRIES, Let’s skip the details - MY DAD IS DEAD, Craps - BIG DIPPER, In the air tonight - UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS, Sour mash - THE BEASTS OF BOURBON, Jamboree - BEAT HAPPENING, Today - GALAXIE 500, California - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, See beautiful rattlesnake gardens - THE WALKABOUTS, Masters of Reality - MASTERS OF REALITY, Still brothers - PORCELAIN BUS, Smoker’s paradise - BREAKING CIRCUS, Jettison - NAKED RAYGUN, Creator - THE LEMONHEADS, L7 - L7, Rehab doll - GREEN RIVER, In the graveyard - DEAD MOON, Pink sun quartz blasting - HOLLOWMEN, Royal Trux - ROYAL TRUX, They - KING MISSILE, Double bummer - BONGWATER, Charmed life - HALF JAPANESE, In Gut's house - UT, Donut comes alive - ALICE DONUT, Small parts isolated and destroyed - NOMEANSNO, Hail - STRAITJACKET FITS, Tanker - BAILTER SPACE, Love songs - JPS EXPERIENCE, Asylum road - THE PERFECT DISASTER, A way of life - SUICIDE, The Beatnigs - THE BEATNIGS, Tackhead tape time - TACKHEAD SOUND SYSTEM, Critical beatdown - ULTRAMAGNETIC MC's, In full gear - STETSASONIC, Smoke some kill - SCHOOLLY D, Eazy-duz-it - EAZY E, Long live the Kane - BIG DADDY KANE, He’s the DJ, I’m the rapper - DJ JAZZY JEFF AND THE FRESH PRINCE, The great adventures of Slick Rick - SLICK RICK, Tougher than leather - RUN DMC, A Salt with a deadly Pepa, - SALT ’N’ PEPA, Bullet from a gun - DEREK B, Lovesexy - PRINCE, If I should fall from grace with God - THE POGUES, Modern Lovers ’88 - JONATHAN RICHMAN AND THE MODERN LOVERS, Green thoughts - THE SMITHEREENS, A promise is a promise - LYRES, Heatwave - LAST DRIVE, Overdose - MIRACLE WORKERS, Inner mission - BLACKLIGHT CHAMELEONS, Down in earthquake town - RUSS TOLMAN, Make my day - MINERS OF MUSO, Shellak the Bozac - LIQUID HIPPOS, It’s like everything else - I LUDICROUS, The innocents - PARACHUTE MEN, Let it bee - VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE, Keep to the beat - HUXTONE CREEPERS, STP not LSD - ANGRY SAMOANS, How about some more - VIPERS, Cuacha - SIDEWINDERS, Twelve flights up - THE CYNICS, Baby - TROTSKI ICEPICK, Holden interview - TACTICS, Thaw - FOETUS INTERRUPTUS, Love is forever - BIFF BANG POW!, Triptych / The auntie Winnie album - THE BEVIS FROND, Sun tunnels - THE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, Sister Double Happiness - SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS, Hang time / Say what you will, Clarence...Karl sold the truck / Clam dip and other delights - SOUL ASYLUM, Suffer - BAD RELIGION, The land of rape and honey - MINISTRY, ...And justice for all - METALLICA, From enslavement to obliteration - NAPALM DEATH, A fierce pancake - STUMP, So good it hurts - MEKONS, Based on a true story - THE DEL LORDS, Lucinda Williams - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, The trinity session - COWBOY JUNKIES, Workers playtime - BILLY BRAGG, Starfish - THE CHURCH, The serpent's egg - DEAD CAN DANCE, Jamahiriya Democratique et Populaire de Sauvage - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Aural guerrilla - THE EX, Dickcheese - THE HARD-ONS, Move something - 2 LIVE CREW, It takes two - ROB BASE & DJ EZ ROCK, Goin' off - BIZ MARKIE, Life is... Too Short - TOO SHORT, Pure righteousness - LAKIM SHABAZZ, Unity - SHINEHEAD, To the batmobile let's go - THE TODD TERRY PROJECT, Bird wood cage - THE WOLFGANG PRESS, The pictorial Jackson review - FELT, The stars we are - MARC ALMOND, Copy cats - JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN, Nothing wrong - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, This is our art - THE SOUP DRAGONS, Somebody up there likes me - THE BRILLIANT CORNERS, December - FOR AGAINST, Totally lost - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Love junk - THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, Tracy Chapman - TRACY CHAPMAN, Short sharp shocked - MICHELLE SHOCKED, Irish heartbeat - VAN MORRISON & THE CHIEFTAINS, Friendloverplane - THE BLUE AEROPLANES, Tommy 1985-1987 - THE WEDDING PRESENT, Barbed wire kisses - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Substance 1977-1980 - JOY DIVISION, Ramones mania - RAMONES, Rank - THE SMITHS

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

The Best Albums Of 1986

Top 50

1. Blood and chocolate - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
2. Life’s rich pageant - R.E.M.
3. Once in a blue moon - YO
4. Desperate fires - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
5. Bedtime for democracy - DEAD KENNEDYS
6. Bend sinister - THE FALL
7. Raising hell - RUN DMC
8. The Queen is dead - THE SMITHS
9. Throwing Muses - THROWING MUSES
10. Atomizer - BIG BLACK
11. Evol - SONIC YOUTH
12. The world by storm - THE THREE JOHNS
13. Neither Washington nor Moscow - REDSKINS
14. Land of the lost - WIPERS
15. Candy apple grey - HUSKER DU
16. Out of the grey - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
17. Ballad of a thin line man - GIANT SAND
18. Born sandy devotional / In the pines - THE TRIFFIDS
19. Manic pop thrill - THAT PETROL EMOTION
20. Under a blue marlin - NAKED PREY
21. The good earth - THE FEELIES
22. Liberty belle and the black diamond express - THE GO-BETWEENS
23. Devil’s river - DIVINE HORSEMAN
24. Free dirt - DIED PRETTY
25. Out my way - MEAT PUPPETS
26. A date with Elvis - THE CRAMPS
27. Ride the tiger - YO LA TENGO
28. Music from Elba - ANTIETAM
29. Happy head - THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS
30. Tinderbox - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
31. The blind leading the naked - VIOLENT FEMMES
32. Word up - CAMEO
33. Telephone free landslide victory - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
34. All rise - NAKED RAYGUN
35. The ghost of Cain - NEW MODEL ARMY
36. Album - P.I.L.
37. The King of America - THE COSTELLO SHOW
38. Infected - THE THE
39. Brotherhood - NEW ORDER
40. Graceland - PAUL SIMON
41. So - PETER GABRIEL
42. Talking with the taxman about poetry - BILLY BRAGG
43. Giant - THE WOODENTOPS
44. Outside my window - THE THINGS
45. All-night lotus party - VOLCANO SUNS
46. Underworld shakedown - THE LAST DRIVE
47. Too cool to live too smart to die - DEJA VOODOO
48. Songs of love and fury - MEMBRANES
49. Grenade - THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX
50. Stars and Hank forever - THE RESIDENTS

Also recommended:

Kicking against the pricks - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, Enjoy The Creeps - THE CREEPS, Schooly D - SCHOOLY D, Life’s hard and then you die - IT’S IMMATERIAL, Contenders - EASTERHOUSE, Rooms of the magnificent - ED KUEPPER, Tolerance - THE BLUE AEROPLANES, Element of light - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS, Sound of confusion - SPACEMEN 3, Hear it is - THE FLAMING LIPS, Rembrandt pussyhorse - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Kill tunes - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Clairvoyance - SCREAMING TREES, The restless stranger - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, Positively Dumptruck - DUMPTRUCK, Second and last - CHEEPSKATES, Lyres Lyres - LYRES, Blue train station - THE CYNICS, Hallelujah all the way home - VERLAINES, The turgid miasma of existence - CELIBATE RIFLES, Thinking of empire - SLOVENLY, ...And he's not gonna take it anymore - MY DAD IS DEAD, Made to be broken / While you were out - SOUL ASYLUM, Mending wall - ANGST, Inner limits - CRAWLING WALL, Swimming with sharks - GET SMART, Stop pretending - THE PANDORAS, Shop Assistants - SHOP ASSISTANTS, Stutter - JAMES, Skylarking - XTC, Gone to earth - DAVID SYLVIAN, Forever breathes the lonely word - FELT, Diesel river - THE WEATHER PROPHETS, Texas - JACOBITES, Monster walks the winter lake - DAVID THOMAS, Holy money - SWANS, Paint your wagon - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, Force - A CERTAIN RATIO, Parade - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION, Hot, cool, vicious - SALT ’N PEPA, Back to the old school - JUST ICE, Music madness - MANTRONIX, Skeezer pleaser - UTFO, On fire - STETSASONIC, Is what we are - 2 LIVE CREW, Oh my God! - DOUG E. FRESH & THE GET FRESH CREW, Back in black - WHODINI, Say what? - TROUBLE FUNK, R & B skeletons in the closet - GEORGE CLINTON, Planet rock: The album - AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOULSONIC FORCE, Electric cafe - KRAFTWERK, Ship of fools - TUXEDO MOON, Home of the brave - LAURIE ANDERSON, Victorialand - COCTEAU TWINS, Filigree & shadow - THIS MORTAL COIL, Big world - JOE JACKSON, Get close - THE PRETENDERS, True stories - TALKING HEADS, Animal boy - RAMONES, Blah blah blah - IGGY POP, Concrete Blonde - CONCRETE BLONDE, Big plans for everybody - LET’S ACTIVE, Sex and love and hope and dreams - BODEANS, Scarred but smarter - DRIVIN' N’ CRYIN', The Backlight Chameleons - THE BACKLIGHT CHAMELEONS, Trudge - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, Cloud one - LIVE SKULL, Sex mad - NOMEANSNO, Weird love - THE SCIENTISTS, Rivers of corn - THE ZIMMERMEN, The edge of the world - MEKONS, I am John's pancreas - A WITNESS, Step on it - BOGSHED, Acropolis now - THEE MIGHTY CAESARS, Miasma - THE BEVIS FROND, Brighter than a thousand suns - KILLING JOKE, Black celebration - DEPECHE MODE, Horse rotorvator - COIL, Master of puppets - METALLICA, Reign in blood - SLAYER, The divine punishment / Saint of the pit - DIAMANDA GALAS, Gods own medicine - THE MISSION, Express - LOVE AND ROCKETS, Circus Maximus - MOMUS, Anna Domino - ANNA DOMINO, The no comprendo - LES RITA MITSOUKO, Different light - BANGLES, Guitars, Cadillacs, etc., etc. - DWIGHT YOAKAM, Guitar town - STEVE EARLE, Georgia Satellites - GEORGIA SATELLITES, Johnny comes marching home - THE DEL LORDS, Van go - THE BEAT FARMERS, Still standing - JASON & THE SCORCHERS, It's time for... - JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS, They Might Be Giants - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, London 0 Hull 4 - THE HOUSEMARTINS, Jamboree - GUADALCANAL DIARY, Heyday - THE CHURCH, Big shot chronicles - GAME THEORY, Aristocracie - PHILLIP BOA AND THE VOODOOCLUB, Standing up straight - THE WOLFGANG PRESS, Medusa - CLAN OF XYMOX, Room of lights - CRIME & THE CITY SOLUTION, The moon looked down & laughed - VIRGIN PRUNES, Commercial suicide - COLIN NEWMAN, Off the beaten track - AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE, In the good old country way - THE NIGHTINGALES, Strange times - THE CHAMELEONS, Especially for you - THE SMITHEREENS, Something weird - THE STOMACHMOUTHS, I against I - BAD BRAINS, Eat your paisley - THE DEAD MILKMEN, Smell my finger - THE HARD-ONS, Pictures of starving children sell records - CHUMBAWAMBA, The unacceptable face of freedom - TEST DEPT., Twitch - MINISTRY, Mind: The perpetual intercourse - SKINNY PUPPY, Mafu cage - THE NEON JUDGEMENT, Virus meadow - AND ALSO THE TREES, The wrong people - FURNITURE, What's in a word? - THE BRILLIANT CORNERS, Revenge - T.S.O.L., Can I say - DAG NASTY, October file - DIE KREUZEN, Burning in water - MOVING TARGETS, LP - HEAD OF DAVID, How green is the valley - THE MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG, Henk - THE NITS, The big heat - STAN RIDGWAY, Rapture - ANITA BAKER, Rough & rugged - SHINEHEAD, Gift - THE SISTERHOOD, In visible silence - THE ART OF NOISE, Utter Madness - MADNESS, The world won’t listen - THE SMITHS, Kaleidoscope world - THE CHILLS, The hammer party - BIG BLACK, Ballot result - MINUTEMEN

The Best Albums Of 1985

Top 50

1. Meat is murder - THE SMITHS
2. Psychocandy - THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
3. This nation’s saving grace - THE FALL
4. Our favourite shop - THE STYLE COUNCIL
5. Gas, food, lodging / No free lunch - GREEN ON RED
6. New day rising / Flip your wig - HUSKER DU
7. Wild weed - JEFFREY LEE PIERCE
8. Charm world - YO
9. Valley of rain - GIANT SAND
10. The firstborn is dead - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
11. Frankenchrist - DEAD KENNEDYS
12. First and last and always - THE SISTERS OF MERCY
13. Lysergic emanations - THE FUZZTONES
14. Exploring the axis - THIN WHITE ROPE
15. Up on the sun - MEAT PUPPETS
16. Fables of the reconstruction - R.E.M.
17. Low life - NEW ORDER
18. The covenant, the sword and the arm of the lord - CABARET VOLTAIRE
19. Around the world in a day - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
20. State of our union - THE LONG RYDERS
21. Sundown on Venus - THE JET BLACK BERRIES
22. The head on the door - THE CURE
23. Colourbox - COLOURBOX
24. King of rock - RUN DMC
25. Bad moon rising - SONIC YOUTH
26. 3 way tie (for last) - MINUTEMEN
27. Stone cold world - THE DROOGS
28. The lost weekend - DANNY & DUSTY
29. 28th day - 28TH DAY
30. Wonder wonderful wonderland - PLASTICLAND
31. Keep your cool and read the rules - PLAN 9
32. Straight ahead - GREG SAGE
33. Antietam - ANTIETAM
34. Tim - THE REPLACEMENTS
35. Crashing dream - RAIN PARADE
36. Fegmania! - ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE EGYPTIANS
37. Ghosts of an ideal wife - LAUGHING CLOWNS
38. Stella - YELLO
39. The album - MANTRONIX
40. Language barrier - SLY AND ROBBIE
41. Once upon a time - SIMPLE MINDS
42. This is the sea - THE WATERBOYS
43. Little creatures - TALKING HEADS
44. Slave girl - LIME SPIDERS
45. Succumb - TO DAMASCUS
46. Love - THE CULT
47. A secret wish - PROPAGANDA
48. Love not money - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
49. Ain’t love grant - X
50. No rest for the wicked - NEW MODEL ARMY

Also recommended:

Dinosaur - DINOSAUR JR., Run better run - CHEEPSKATES, Electrical storm - ED KUEPPER, Τρύπες - ΤΡΥΠΕΣ, When in Rome do as the Vandals - THE VANDALS, Six sharp cuts - SPIKES, Night of a thousand candles - THE MEN THEY COULDN’T HANG, Beat Happening - BEAT HAPPENING, As the veneer of democracy starts to fade - MARK STEWART, Halber mensch - EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, Robespierre’s velvet basement - JACOBITES, Tales of the new west - THE BEAT FARMERS, Underwater - CRIPPLED PILGRIMS, Cinema verite - DRAMARAMA, The bright orange years - VOLCANO SUNS, Lite life - ANGST, Translate slowly - ZEITGEIST, There are eight million stories… - JUNE BRIDES, Rockin' and romance - JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS, Oil and gold - SHRIEKBACK, Radio - LL COOL J, Raindogs - TOM WAITS, Rum sodomy and the lush - THE POGUES, The clock comes down the stairs - MICRODISNEY, Not born beautiful - SHOCK HEADED PETERS, Nail - SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL, Talk about the weather - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, New beginnings - PINK INDUSTRY, Night time - KILLING JOKE, Loose nut - BLACK FLAG, The Lazy Cowgirls - THE LAZY COWGIRLS, Boston, Mass. - THE DEL FUEGOS, Lost & found - JASON & THE SCORCHERS, Wishing chair - 10000 MANIACS, Lone Justice - LONE JUSTICE, Prayer for the halcyon fear - TINY LIGHTS, Town + Country - THE RAVE-UPS, Pass the paintbrush, honey.. - BIFF BANG POW!, Sex and travel - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, Inside out - THE MIRACLE WORKERS, Stop! - THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS, Mars needs guitars! - HOODOO GURUS, Hallelujah all the way home - THE VERLAINES, You get what you deserve - SCIENTISTS, Greed - SWANS, Bringing home the bait - LIVE SKULL, Fear and whiskey - MEKONS, Gift of noise - MEMBRANES, Back in the D.H.S.S. - HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT, Pokkeherrie - THE EX, Rites of Spring - RITES OF SPRING, The difference is…- MOOD SIX, Energized - BLUE MURDER, Spleen and ideal - DEAD CAN DANCE, Ceremonial - SAVAGE REPUBLIC, 25 o’ clock - THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHERE, Old rottenhat - ROBERT WYATT, Hounds of love - KATE BUSH, Steve McQueen - PREFAB SPROUT, Centerfield - JOHN FOGERTY, Paris, Texas - RY COODER, Songs from the big chair - TEARS FOR FEARS, Virgins and Philistines - THE COLOURFIELD, Suzanne Vega - SUZANNE VEGA, Boys and girls - BRYAN FERRY, Easy pieces - LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS, Don't stand me down - DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS, Mad not mad - MADNESS, Cupid & psyche 85 - SCRITTI POLITTI, Working nights - WORKING WEEK, Pressure points - ANNE CLARK, Holy wars - TUXEDOMOON, Ignite the seven cannons - FELT, Perhaps - ASSOCIATES, Groovy decoy - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, What does anything mean? Basically - THE CHAMELEONS, Asylum - THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, Raging souls - MINIMAL COMPACT, Maximizing the audience - WIM MERTENS, Just south of heaven - CRIME & THE CITY SOLUTION, Seventh dream of teenage heaven - LOVE AND ROCKETS, Alive - THE LEATHER NUN, Phantasmagoria - THE DAMNED, Real nighttime - GAME THEORY, The evening visits... and stays for years - THE APARTMENTS, More places forever - DAVID THOMAS, Topsy turvy - YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Past, present and future - WATERMELON MEN, Odditties - THE CLEAN, That's the long and the short of it - TALL DWARVES, City slab horror - SEVERED HEADS, Ashes - CHRISTIAN DEATH, Clan of Xymox - CLAN OF XYMOX, Here comes everybody - THE WAKE, Seven days in Sammystown - WALL OF VOODOO, Dead man's party - OINGO BOINGO, Big lizard in my backyard - THE DEAD MILKMEN, I don't want to grow up - DESCENDENTS, The Crucifucks - THE CRUCIFUCKS, Walk together, rock together - 7 SECONDS, Fly on a wire - THE EFFIGIES, More beer - FEAR, Freaky styley - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, The way to go out - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, Green peas - THE VIETNAM VETERANS, Flesh on flesh - THE SNAKE CORPS, Shoulder to shoulder - TEST DEPT. & SOUTH WALES STRIKING MINERS CHOIR, Philister - PHILIP BOA AND THE VOODOO CLUB, Fancy meeting God! - MARC RILEY WITH THE CREEPERS, Hip priest and Kamerads - THE FALL, Live - WIPERS, Beyond the sunset - RAIN PARADE