Best albums of 1987

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Ok, loads of goodies this time.. but let's make Floodland top 10, shall we? :)

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A difficult year; ended up picking:

Front 242
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Loop
Opal
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Skinny Puppy
Spacemen 3

And left it at that; there's lots of other classic stuff from that year but I guess it didn't meet the criteria ;) :lol:
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Sign of the Times! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

87 was a bit of a vintage year
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Screaming Blue Messiahs! yowzer.
Floodland and Document are the two that stand out to me.
Not a bad year.
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Waits, Wire, Swans, Spaceman 3, TSOM, PIL, Neubauten, Big Black.
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Some good albums that year. Apart from the obvious I went for the Happy Mondays debut album. An under-rated classic IMO.
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Hardest choice yet. I'd used my ten choices before I even got to TSOM alphabetically and had to go back. Floodland just made it in for me. The Young Gods debut head and shoulders above everything else but I wonder if it'll even make the top 100. And the Lime Spiders - had totally forgotten about them !
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Except the Masterpiece, also i voted for Dead Can Dance and INXS and some more :notworthy:
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Good to be able to vote for an Icicle Works album.

Plus the obvious choice of course..... ;D
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Young Gods, Sisters, Neph, Gun Club, Lee Perry & Dub Syndicate, Durutti Column, Dinosaur Jr, DCD, Big Black & Front 242 made it, but had to drop a handful of brilliant albums that should have made it also (Sonic Youth, Prince, Tuxedomoon, etc)

That really was a good year!
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Some fantastic stuff there

Bodines, Julian Cope, Faith No More, FOTN, Lloyd Cole, Mondays, PIL, Railway Children, SoM, TPE

Could have picked another ten tbh!
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Band of holy joy, dcd, triffids, jamc, marc almond, einsturzende neubauten , sad lovers and giants, gun club,

there arent any bands of that level around these days,
everything is just so easily forgetable.
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Sisters definitely, also Mick Karn, David Syvian, Sinead O'Connor, Siouxie, The Psychedelic Furs, Skinny Puppy, Laibach, and a few more ...

Hhm, someone should have voted for Cabaret Voltaire, though ... :?
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Dammit, that was a good year, wasn't it? :notworthy:
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