Top 44 Music Albums of 1987 by 
Purplepash 
- Chart updated: 04/17/2024 10:45
- (Created: 07/23/2017 10:12).
- Chart size: 44 albums.
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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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4,774
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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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2,097
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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 funk rock pop rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
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9,258
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Best paisley underground album of the year
[First added to this chart: 12/14/2019]
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Best experimental rock noise rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 03/13/2018]
Year of Release:
1987
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612
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Best alternative rock noise rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 12/28/2018]
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1987
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3,495
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Best post-hardcore noise rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
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1987
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1,327
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Best live album of the year
[First added to this chart: 09/05/2017]
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Best noise rock compilation album of the year
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Top 44 Music Albums of 1987 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Smiths | 3 | 7% | |
| The Dukes Of Stratosphear | 2 | 5% | |
| Big Black | 2 | 5% | |
| Close Lobsters | 1 | 2% | |
| Spacemen 3 | 1 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 1 | 2% | |
| Midnight Oil | 1 | 2% | |
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Top 44 Music Albums of 1987 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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 Up 1 from 16th to 15thLocust Abortion Technician by Butthole Surfers |
| Up 1 from 15th to 14th Happy Nightmare Baby by Opal |
| Up 1 from 14th to 13th The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death by The Housemartins |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 5 from 11th to 16th Substance 1987 by New Order |
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