Top 47 Music Albums of 1987
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- Chart updated: 11/03/2025 23:45
- (Created: 07/23/2017 10:12).
- Chart size: 47 albums.
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Best indie rock indie pop jangle pop album of the year
Best UK album of the year [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best UK album of the year [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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5,738
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Best jangle pop alternative rock album of the year
Best USA album of the year
"What we want and what we need
Has been confused been confused"
One of the first albums I ever bought (my memory's timeline is a unreliable - I have about ten albums that might have been first) and the start of my R.E.M. becoming one of my favourite bands.
10/10 tracks: The Finest Worksong, The One I Love, and It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) but I love every song! [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best USA album of the year
"What we want and what we need
Has been confused been confused"
One of the first albums I ever bought (my memory's timeline is a unreliable - I have about ten albums that might have been first) and the start of my R.E.M. becoming one of my favourite bands.
10/10 tracks: The Finest Worksong, The One I Love, and It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) but I love every song! [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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4,606
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Best indie rock alternative rock EP of the year
[First added to this chart: 08/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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2,040
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Best post-punk album of the year
"Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!"
I love albums that make me feel, and lose myself in the music, and this does that. Throughout sometimes the feelings are uncomfortable, screaming, itching, squealing, like in Torture, Snakepit (the jungle sounds in this are amazing - I am there in the jungle), and Shiver and Shake. Sometimes they are sweet and lovely, like in Catch (the most perfect pop song ever), Just Like Heaven, and Perfect Girl. This is a great combination of The Cure's best gothic rock, and near perfect pop, and a hint of whats to come in Disintegration, One More Time, and A Thousand Hours. The first album I ever bought as soon as it came out.
10/10 songs: Catch, How Beautiful You Are, The Kiss [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
"Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!"
I love albums that make me feel, and lose myself in the music, and this does that. Throughout sometimes the feelings are uncomfortable, screaming, itching, squealing, like in Torture, Snakepit (the jungle sounds in this are amazing - I am there in the jungle), and Shiver and Shake. Sometimes they are sweet and lovely, like in Catch (the most perfect pop song ever), Just Like Heaven, and Perfect Girl. This is a great combination of The Cure's best gothic rock, and near perfect pop, and a hint of whats to come in Disintegration, One More Time, and A Thousand Hours. The first album I ever bought as soon as it came out.
10/10 songs: Catch, How Beautiful You Are, The Kiss [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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2,685
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Best post-punk alternative rock album of the year
"As sure as life means nothing
And all things end in nothing
And heaven I think
Is too close to hell"
I was obsessed with Psychocandy when it came out and I knew it had great melodic songs under that noise so when this album was released I loved that they had stripped away the feedback and proved to everyone they were great songwriters and not cashing in on a gimmick. Admittedly I was going through a bit of a gothic phase at the time (musically speaking) so the dark tone, deep vocals, and overall gloominess made this an album I adored for a long time.
10/10 songs: April Skies, & Happy When It Rains. I love Cherry Came Too and Darklands as well. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
"As sure as life means nothing
And all things end in nothing
And heaven I think
Is too close to hell"
I was obsessed with Psychocandy when it came out and I knew it had great melodic songs under that noise so when this album was released I loved that they had stripped away the feedback and proved to everyone they were great songwriters and not cashing in on a gimmick. Admittedly I was going through a bit of a gothic phase at the time (musically speaking) so the dark tone, deep vocals, and overall gloominess made this an album I adored for a long time.
10/10 songs: April Skies, & Happy When It Rains. I love Cherry Came Too and Darklands as well. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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2,097
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Best synthpop album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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3,656
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Best hardcore punk compilation album of the year
"Is my cock big enough
Is my brain small enough
For you to make me a star"
Yes it's a compilation but most of the songs aren't available elsewhere and what great songs most of them are. It provides a bit more variety than other Dead Kennedys albums, from short and fast (Short Songs), politically charged (California Uber Alles), atmospherically evil (The Prey), and even a couple of examples of spoken word - a path Jello Biafra would later go down and I had the privilege to see him perform live once - albeit to some minimal music (Night Of The Living Rednecks) and the stull timely and applicable to today, prescient Kinky Sex Makes The World Go Around. Not to mention my personal favourite of theirs Holiday In Camvodia. The 1-2-3 start of Police Truck, Too Drunk To Fuck, and California Uber Alles is a powerful start to the album. This was the DK album that I listened to the most and am more likely to put on today. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
"Is my cock big enough
Is my brain small enough
For you to make me a star"
Yes it's a compilation but most of the songs aren't available elsewhere and what great songs most of them are. It provides a bit more variety than other Dead Kennedys albums, from short and fast (Short Songs), politically charged (California Uber Alles), atmospherically evil (The Prey), and even a couple of examples of spoken word - a path Jello Biafra would later go down and I had the privilege to see him perform live once - albeit to some minimal music (Night Of The Living Rednecks) and the stull timely and applicable to today, prescient Kinky Sex Makes The World Go Around. Not to mention my personal favourite of theirs Holiday In Camvodia. The 1-2-3 start of Police Truck, Too Drunk To Fuck, and California Uber Alles is a powerful start to the album. This was the DK album that I listened to the most and am more likely to put on today. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
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Best jangle pop compilation album of the year
I owned The World Won't Listen so it gets priority here... [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
I owned The World Won't Listen so it gets priority here... [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
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...but I'm not really playing favourites with which compilation is better...they are both great...
[First added to this chart: 11/27/2019]
Year of Release:
1987
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2,424
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Best funk rock pop rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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8,761
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Top 47 Music Albums of 1987 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Smiths | 3 | 6% | |
| The Dukes Of Stratosphear | 2 | 4% | |
| Big Black | 2 | 4% | |
| The Fall | 1 | 2% | |
| The Wedding Present | 1 | 2% | |
| Opal | 1 | 2% | |
| The Cult | 1 | 2% | |
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