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

The Best Albums Of 1984

Top 50

1. Zen Arcade - HUSKER DU
2. The wonderful and frightening world of... - THE FALL
3. The Smiths - THE SMITHS
4. Atom drum bop - THE THREE JOHNS
5. Tocsin - X-MAL DEUTSCHLAND
6. From her to eternity - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
7. Medicine show - THE DREAM SYNDICATE
8. Meat Puppets II - MEAT PUPPETS
9. Native sons - THE LONG RYDERS
10. Hallowed ground - VIOLENT FEMMES
11. Let it be - THE REPLACEMENTS
12. Double nickels on the dime - MINUTEMEN
13. The Las Vegas story - THE GUN CLUB
14. Reckoning - R.E.M.
15. World shut your mouth / Fried - JULIAN COPE
16. Learning to crawl - THE PRETENDERS
17. Sparkle in the rain - SIMPLE MINDS
18. Vengeance - NEW MODEL ARMY
19. Joined up writing - ANNE CLARK
20. Micro-phonies - CABARET VOLTAIRE
21. Ricochet days - MODERN ENGLISH
22. Ocean rain - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
23. Natural history - THE MARCH VIOLETS
24. Brilliant trees - DAVID SYLVIAN
25. The waking hour - DALIS CAR
26. A word to the wise guy - THE MIGHTY WAH!
27. Treasure - COCTEAU TWINS
28. Cover - TOM VERLAINE
29. Born in the USA - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
30. Purple rain - PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
31. Raining pleasure - THE TRIFFIDS
32. Spring hill fair - THE GO-BETWEENS
33. The axeman's jazz - THE BEASTS OF BOURBON
34. Good tidings - YO
35. On fyre - LYRES
36. Explosions in the glass palace - RAIN PARADE
37. Time stands still - CHRIS D & DIVINE HORSEMAN
38. Drifters - TRUE WEST
39. Goodbye cruel world - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
40. Cafe blue - THE STYLE COUNCIL
41. Body and soul - JOE JACKSON
42. Instincts - ROMEO VOID
43. Fervor - JASON AND THE SCORCHERS
44. Hole - SCRAPING FOETUS OFF THE WHEEL
45. This is what you want...this is what you get - P.I.L.
46. The top - THE CURE
47. Mirror moves - THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
48. Keep moving - MADNESS
49. Hysteria - HUMAN LEAGUE
50. How men are - HEAVEN 17

Also recommended:

Urban gamelan - 23 SKIDOO, Knowledge, power, truth and sex / Jam science - SHRIEKBACK, (Who’s afraid of ?) The Art Of Noise! - THE ART OF NOISE, Slow to fade - RED GUITARS, Law of nature - LAUGHING CLOWNS, I often dream of trains - ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Jesus egg that wept - DANIELLE DAX, It’ll end in tears - THIS MORTAL COIL, Jedda by the sea - 17 PYGMIES, November's heat - CERTAIN GENERAL, The longest day - DEL FUEGOS, Frontier days - DEL LORDS, Way down blue highway - THE LEAVING TRAINS, Naked Prey - NAKED PREY, Head down hand out - CRIPPLED PILGRIMS, Color appreciation / Plasticland - PLASTICLAND, Plan 9 - PLAN 9, Stoneage Romeos - HOODOO GURUS, Rainy Day - RAINY DAY, Colored heaven - THE THINGS, Psychic...Powerless...Another man's sac - BUTTHOLE SURFERS, Slip it in - BLACK FLAG, Too tough to die - RAMONES, Teen babes from Monsanto - REDD KROSS, Gone fishin' - FLIPPER, Cop - SWANS, Throb throb - NAKED RAYGUN, The Celibate Rifles - THE CELIBATE RIFLES, Outta the nest! - THE VIPERS, It's about time - THE PANDORAS, Cemetery - DEJA VOODOO, Action reaction - GET SMART!, Change today? - T.S.O.L., Cypress - LET’S ACTIVE, Blood On The Saddle - BLOOD ON THE SADDLE, The fabulous sounds of the Pacific Northwest - THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, Painting smiles on a dead man - THE LAST, Moving - THE RAINCOATS, Hyaena - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, Red roses for me - THE POGUES, Brewing up with Billy Bragg - BILLY BRAGG, The painted word - TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, Pop - TONES ON TAILS, Run DMC - RUN DMC, Escape - WHODINI, In the studio - SPECIAL A.K.A., Love wars - WOMACK AND WOMACK, Poet 2 - BOBBY WOMACK, Shango funk theology - SHANGO, No motive - 3 TEENS KILL 4, Soul possession - ANNIE ANXIETY, If I kissed her, I’d have to kill her first - 400 BLOWS, Mister Heartbreak - LAURIE ANDERSON, The big express - XTC, Pacific street - THE PALE FOUNTAINS, The Orange Juice / Texas fever - ORANGE JUICE, Splendor of fear / The strange idols pattern and other short stories - FELT, Dreamtime - THE CULT, The unforgettable fire - U2, A pagan place - THE WATERBOYS, Everybody is fantastic - MICRODISNEY, Eden - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, All over the place - BANGLES, Rattlesnakes - LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS, Walking in the shadow of the big man - GUADALCANAL DIARY, How will the wolf survive? - LOS LOBOS, Stampede - THE METEORS, The bushes scream while my daddy prunes - THE VERY THINGS, Bullets for you - BLURT, Deadly weapons - MINIMAL COMPACT, Night air - BLAINE L. REININGER, This last night in Sodom - SOFT CELL, Dead Can Dance - DEAD CAN DANCE, Some great reward - DEPECHE MODE, Welcome to the pleasuredome - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD, The age of consent - BRONSKI BEAT, The Icicle Works - THE ICICLE WORKS, In limbo - LYDIA LUNCH, Diamanda Galas - DIAMANDA GALAS, Catastrophe ballet - CHRISTIAN DEATH, Scatology - COIL, And Also The Trees - AND ALSO THE TREES, Gardens - NEW MATH, The lovers / The tower - THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, From the hip - SECTION 25, The jaws of life - HUNTERS & COLLECTORS, Like this - THE DB'S, Die Kreuzen - DIE KREUZEN, A scandal in Bohemia - THE JAZZ BUTCHER, Beating the retreat - TEST DEPT., The fucking cunts treat us like pricks - FLUX OF PINK INDIANS, From the cradle to the grave - SUBHUMANS, Crawfish for the notary - THE VIETNAM VETERANS, Rhyme & reason - MISSING PERSONS, Knife - AZTEC CAMERA, Swoon - PREFAB SPROUT, A walk across the rooftops - THE BLUE NILE, Red sails in the sunset - MIDNIGHT OIL, Climate of the hunter - SCOTT WALKER, George and James - THE RESIDENTS, The love songs - PETER HAMILL, Caribbean sunset - JOHN CALE, New sensations - LOU REED, The magazine - RICKIE LEE JONES, Diamond life - SADE, Bananarama - BANANARAMA, Into the gap - THOMPSON TWINS, The Treacherous Three - THE TREACHEROUS THREE, Hatful of hollow - THE SMITHS, Ten bloody marys and ten how’s your fathers - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS, Exorcising ghosts - JAPAN, At the Palace - GANG OF 4