Top 53 Music Albums of 1987
by 
Romanelli 
- Chart updated: 12/07/2025 19:45
- (Created: 04/12/2012 03:00).
- Chart size: 53 albums.
There are 2 comments for this chart from BestEverAlbums.com members and Top 53 Music Albums of 1987 has an average rating of 85 out of 100 (from 3 votes). Please log in or register to leave a comment or assign a rating.
View the complete list of 57,000 charts on BestEverAlbums.com from The Charts page.
Buy album
- #Sponsored
[First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
Rank Score:
18,323
Rank in 1987:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Buy album
- #Sponsored
Produced by Tony Brown & Lyle Lovett. His second album is still his best. What an enormous talent this guy is, and on Pontiac he let it all out. He's not quite country, and he's not quite folk, and he's really nowhere in between. Tracks like "If I Had A Boat", "L.A. County", and "She's Hot To Go" are beautiful, amazing pieces of work. This album has a lot of love in it, and it shows in every track. Underrated for sure, Lyle Lovett's gifts are all here on one album. Truly beautiful.
[First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
Buy album
- #Sponsored
1987-GEFFEN
Produced By MIKE CLINK
1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. It's So Easy
3. Nightrain
4. Out Ta Get Me
5. Mr. Brownstone
6. Paradise City
7. My Michelle
8. Think About You
9. Sweet Child O' Mine
10. You're Crazy
11. Anything Goes
12. Rocket Queen
The debut album from Guns N' Roses is important in many ways. It's one of the better American hard rock albums of all time, it marked the beginning of the end of hair metal (no one was able to even come close to this album, so it peaked early), and it introduced us to one of rock's most annoying personalities in Axl Rose. Guns N' Roses went on to be a non prolific soap opera with a blown out voice and a revolving personnel door, but for one album, they were at the top of the entire game.
Appetite is lead by the stunning sound of Slash's guitar and some great songs. Axl had yet to become the whiny caricature of the coming years...he was a scary, out of control monster of a frontman (despite the Davy Jones dance). From the opening notes of "Welcome To The Jungle", the 80's were changed. Great songs like "Paradise City", "Sweet Child O' Mine", "It's So Easy", and "Rocket Queen" make this a classic. By the next year, they were unplugged, had no new material, and a singer without a voice. But in 1987-88, this was the album to have, and the 80's were rocking as they were intended to do...at least for this one, great album. [First added to this chart: 05/10/2012]
Produced By MIKE CLINK
1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. It's So Easy
3. Nightrain
4. Out Ta Get Me
5. Mr. Brownstone
6. Paradise City
7. My Michelle
8. Think About You
9. Sweet Child O' Mine
10. You're Crazy
11. Anything Goes
12. Rocket Queen
The debut album from Guns N' Roses is important in many ways. It's one of the better American hard rock albums of all time, it marked the beginning of the end of hair metal (no one was able to even come close to this album, so it peaked early), and it introduced us to one of rock's most annoying personalities in Axl Rose. Guns N' Roses went on to be a non prolific soap opera with a blown out voice and a revolving personnel door, but for one album, they were at the top of the entire game.
Appetite is lead by the stunning sound of Slash's guitar and some great songs. Axl had yet to become the whiny caricature of the coming years...he was a scary, out of control monster of a frontman (despite the Davy Jones dance). From the opening notes of "Welcome To The Jungle", the 80's were changed. Great songs like "Paradise City", "Sweet Child O' Mine", "It's So Easy", and "Rocket Queen" make this a classic. By the next year, they were unplugged, had no new material, and a singer without a voice. But in 1987-88, this was the album to have, and the 80's were rocking as they were intended to do...at least for this one, great album. [First added to this chart: 05/10/2012]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
Rank Score:
11,221
Rank in 1987:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Buy album
- #Sponsored
1987-ATLANTIC
Produced By CHRIS THOMAS
1. Guns In The Sky
2. New Sensation
3. Devil Inside
4. Need You Tonight
5. Mediate
6. The Loved One
7. Wild Life
8. Never Tear us Apart
9. Mystify
10. Kick
11. Calling All Nations
12. Tiny Daggers
1987 was the year of INXS, Michael Hutchence, Kick, and that video where the guy keeps flipping over the signs with the words on them. Everywhere you turned, there was another hit single from this album, and rightfully so. It was the perfect sound for 1987, and the tunes were catchy as hell. You could seriously make a case for playing every track here on the radio. This was pop rock at its height. And the songs really did keep coming. And coming.
INXS has, unfortunately, not aged very well. You can still hear the hits and why they were hits, but the music sounds more dated every year. But this is a great time capsule piece, and was really one of the better successful albums as a whole of its time. [First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
Produced By CHRIS THOMAS
1. Guns In The Sky
2. New Sensation
3. Devil Inside
4. Need You Tonight
5. Mediate
6. The Loved One
7. Wild Life
8. Never Tear us Apart
9. Mystify
10. Kick
11. Calling All Nations
12. Tiny Daggers
1987 was the year of INXS, Michael Hutchence, Kick, and that video where the guy keeps flipping over the signs with the words on them. Everywhere you turned, there was another hit single from this album, and rightfully so. It was the perfect sound for 1987, and the tunes were catchy as hell. You could seriously make a case for playing every track here on the radio. This was pop rock at its height. And the songs really did keep coming. And coming.
INXS has, unfortunately, not aged very well. You can still hear the hits and why they were hits, but the music sounds more dated every year. But this is a great time capsule piece, and was really one of the better successful albums as a whole of its time. [First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
Rank Score:
2,784
Rank in 1987:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Buy album
- #Sponsored
[First added to this chart: 03/17/2023]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
Rank Score:
1,404
Rank in 1987:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Buy album
- #Sponsored
1987-WARNER BROTHERS
Produced By BOB MOULD & GRANT HART
1. These Important Years
2. Charity, Chastity, Prudence, And Hope
3. Standing In The Rain
4. Back From Somewhere
5. Ice Cold Ice
6. You're A Soldier
7. Could You Be The One?
8. Too Much Spice
9. Friend, You've Got To Fall
10. Visionary
11. She Floated Away
12. Bed Of Nails
13. Tell You Why Tomorrow
14. It's Not Peculiar
15. Actual Condition
16. No Reservations
17. Turn It Around
18. She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man)
19. Up In The Air
20. You Can Live At Home
Warehouse is the 7th and final album from Minnesota's indie rock heroes Husker Du. A trio with 2 main songwriters, Bob Mould and Grant Hart, they were one of the first underground bands to get a major record deal, but they are better known for their internal fighting, which led to the breakup. Mould had famously told Hart, "You will never have more than 45% of the writing credits on any album". They broke up on tour for this album, with Hart having drug problems. Mould went on to form Sugar.
As for Warehouse, it's a double album which should have been pared down to a single. It's more polished than their previous work, which works well in spots but not so much in others. "Could You Be The One" and "Ice Cold Ice" are the standouts. They had grown in their approach by this time, but the in-fighting is as palpable as it is on the White Album. Not the best farewell album, but still worth a listen...just keep the remote handy to change tracks. [First added to this chart: 08/06/2012]
Produced By BOB MOULD & GRANT HART
1. These Important Years
2. Charity, Chastity, Prudence, And Hope
3. Standing In The Rain
4. Back From Somewhere
5. Ice Cold Ice
6. You're A Soldier
7. Could You Be The One?
8. Too Much Spice
9. Friend, You've Got To Fall
10. Visionary
11. She Floated Away
12. Bed Of Nails
13. Tell You Why Tomorrow
14. It's Not Peculiar
15. Actual Condition
16. No Reservations
17. Turn It Around
18. She's A Woman (And Now He Is A Man)
19. Up In The Air
20. You Can Live At Home
Warehouse is the 7th and final album from Minnesota's indie rock heroes Husker Du. A trio with 2 main songwriters, Bob Mould and Grant Hart, they were one of the first underground bands to get a major record deal, but they are better known for their internal fighting, which led to the breakup. Mould had famously told Hart, "You will never have more than 45% of the writing credits on any album". They broke up on tour for this album, with Hart having drug problems. Mould went on to form Sugar.
As for Warehouse, it's a double album which should have been pared down to a single. It's more polished than their previous work, which works well in spots but not so much in others. "Could You Be The One" and "Ice Cold Ice" are the standouts. They had grown in their approach by this time, but the in-fighting is as palpable as it is on the White Album. Not the best farewell album, but still worth a listen...just keep the remote handy to change tracks. [First added to this chart: 08/06/2012]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
Rank Score:
959
Rank in 1987:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Buy album
- #Sponsored
[First added to this chart: 09/16/2018]
Buy album
- #Sponsored
1987 – BLANCO Y NEGRO
Produced By WILLIAM REID, BILL PRICE & JOHN LODER
1. Darklands
2. Deep One Perfect Morning
3. Happy When It Rains
4. Down On Me
5. Nine Million Rainy Days
6. April Skies
7. Fall
8. Cherry Came Too
9. On The Wall
10. About You
In 1985, The Jesus And Mary Chain changed the course of British music with their stunning debut album, Psychocandy. It was a dark, loud and sonically mesmerizing album, and it stood out amazingly in the midst of the eighties. The band had always (and always have had) problems keeping the drummer spot filled (they have had twelve different drummers to date) , so when they went into the studio to record the follow up to Psychocandy, they decided to just use a drum machine and make a more intimate acoustic album. The resulting album, Darklands, is a thing of beauty, and set the course they would follow for the rest of their careers. Darklands is just that…it’s dark. But it’s also got a certain warmth to it, which makes it a lot more relatable than their debut album.
The Chain is led by the Reid brothers, William and Jim. In the synth laden atmosphere of the late eighties, this album is all guitar, and it’s beautiful. The title track is a stunning introduction to the new sound of the band. “April Skies” is wonderful, and “Happy When It Rains” is one of their very best songs. They have never matched the quality of their first two albums, so the ones to own from this band are definitely Psychocandy and Darklands (although 1994’s Stoned And Dethroned comes close). It’s rare when such downward gazing music like this sounds so melodic and grooves like this, which is what makes this album more special. Maybe someday they will duplicate this sound…if they are able to, we will all be in for quite a treat. [First added to this chart: 09/23/2019]
Produced By WILLIAM REID, BILL PRICE & JOHN LODER
1. Darklands
2. Deep One Perfect Morning
3. Happy When It Rains
4. Down On Me
5. Nine Million Rainy Days
6. April Skies
7. Fall
8. Cherry Came Too
9. On The Wall
10. About You
In 1985, The Jesus And Mary Chain changed the course of British music with their stunning debut album, Psychocandy. It was a dark, loud and sonically mesmerizing album, and it stood out amazingly in the midst of the eighties. The band had always (and always have had) problems keeping the drummer spot filled (they have had twelve different drummers to date) , so when they went into the studio to record the follow up to Psychocandy, they decided to just use a drum machine and make a more intimate acoustic album. The resulting album, Darklands, is a thing of beauty, and set the course they would follow for the rest of their careers. Darklands is just that…it’s dark. But it’s also got a certain warmth to it, which makes it a lot more relatable than their debut album.
The Chain is led by the Reid brothers, William and Jim. In the synth laden atmosphere of the late eighties, this album is all guitar, and it’s beautiful. The title track is a stunning introduction to the new sound of the band. “April Skies” is wonderful, and “Happy When It Rains” is one of their very best songs. They have never matched the quality of their first two albums, so the ones to own from this band are definitely Psychocandy and Darklands (although 1994’s Stoned And Dethroned comes close). It’s rare when such downward gazing music like this sounds so melodic and grooves like this, which is what makes this album more special. Maybe someday they will duplicate this sound…if they are able to, we will all be in for quite a treat. [First added to this chart: 09/23/2019]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
Rank Score:
2,096
Rank in 1987:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Buy album
- #Sponsored
[First added to this chart: 04/13/2012]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
Rank Score:
4,602
Rank in 1987:
Rank in 1980s:
Overall Rank:
Average Rating:
Comments:
Buy album
- #Sponsored
[First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
Total albums: 53. Page 1 of 6
Don't agree with this chart? Create your own from the My Charts page!
Top 53 Music Albums of 1987 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|||
| Anthrax | 2 | 4% | |
| Ladysmith Black Mambazo | 1 | 2% | |
| U2 | 1 | 2% | |
| King Sunny Adé | 1 | 2% | |
| Ozzy Osbourne | 1 | 2% | |
| Michael Jackson | 1 | 2% | |
| The Smiths | 1 | 2% | |
| Show all | |||
Top 53 Music Albums of 1987 chart changes
There have been no changes to this chart.Top 53 Music Albums of 1987 similarity to your chart(s)
Not a member? Registering is quick, easy and FREE!
Why register?
- Join a passionate community of over 50,000 music fans.
- Create & share your own charts.
- Have your say in the overall rankings.
- Post comments in the forums and vote on polls.
- Comment on or rate any album, artist, track or chart.
- Discover new music & improve your music collection.
- Customise the overall chart using a variety of different filters & metrics.
- Create a wishlist of albums.
- Help maintain the BEA database.
- Earn member points and gain access to increasing levels of functionality!
- ... And lots more!
Register now - it only takes a moment!
Romanelli has created 71 other 1987 year charts - click here to explore them all.
Top 53 Music Albums of 1987 ratings
Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.
N.B. The average rating for this chart will not be reliable as it has been rated very few times.
Showing all 3 ratings for this chart.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 11/08/2014 21:28 |  jonatas90 | 33 | 68/100 |
| ! | 01/15/2013 04:26 | guigs13 | 237 | 88/100 |
| ! | 11/02/2012 00:53 | strawberryfields | 273 | 95/100 |
Top 53 Music Albums of 1987 favourites
Top 53 Music Albums of 1987 comments
Showing all 2 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First |
Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)
From Romanelli 10/12/2013 17:04 | #88316
Romanelli 10/12/2013 17:04 | #88316
Dude...Hysteria is awful.
Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
From guigs13 01/15/2013 04:26 | #61556
Nice chart :)
Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
Your feedback for Top 53 Music Albums of 1987
Let us know what you think of this chart by adding a comment or assigning a rating below!
If you enjoy our site, please consider supporting us by sparing a few seconds to disable your ad blocker.
A lot of hard work happens in the background to keep BEA running, and it's especially difficult to do this when we can't pay our hosting fees :(
We work very hard to ensure our site is as fast (and FREE!) as possible, and we respect your privacy.
A lot of hard work happens in the background to keep BEA running, and it's especially difficult to do this when we can't pay our hosting fees :(
We work very hard to ensure our site is as fast (and FREE!) as possible, and we respect your privacy.
| Email Address | |
|---|---|
| Forgotten passwords and other site notifications are sent to the email address saved on your profile. If you've changed your email address recently, please remember to update it on your profile page. (If you can't remember your password, and your email address is out of date, please contact us for assistance getting back into your account). |
