Paul Simon's Graceland won 1986. Let's see who wins 1987 after our slight break. Billboard chart-topping albums of 1987: Bruce Springsteen - Live/1975-85 (cont. from '86) Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (cont. from '86) U2 - The Joshua Tree Whitney Houston - Whitney Los Lobos - La Bamba Michael Jackson - Bad Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love Soundtrack - Dirty Dancing Billboard chart-topping singles of 1987: The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian (cont. from '86) Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down Billy Vera - At this Moment Madonna - Open Your Heart Billy Joel - Livin on a Prayer Huey Lewis and the News - Jacob's Ladder Club Nouveau - Lean on Me Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting for Me Cutting Crew - I Just Died in Your Arms U2 - With or Without You Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin On Atlantic Starr - Always Lisa Lisa - Head to Toe Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody Heart - Alone Bob Seger - Shakedown U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Madonna - Who's That Girl Los Lobos - La Bamba Michael Jackson - I Just Can't Stop Loving You Whitney Houston - Didn't We Almost Have it All Whitesnake - Here We Go Again Lisa Lisa - Lost in Emotion Michael Jackson - Bad Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now Billy Idol - Mony Mony Jennifer Warnes - I've Had the Time of My Life Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth George Michael - Faith What are your top three albums for 1987? We will keep a running tally and eventually have some sort of bracket. For me it would be: 1. U2 - The Joshua Tree 2. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me 3. INXS - Kick What are some of the forgotten gems from the year? What is overrated? What did you discover at a young age and what did you discover later? YEARS IN MUSIC • forum.chorus.fm
good year rest of the top 10: 4. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love 5. R.E.M. - Document 6. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 7. Descendents - All 8. The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me 9. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands 10. Dag Nasty - Wig Out at Denko's honorable mentions: 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death Dwight Yoakam - Hillbilly Deluxe Embrace - Embrace George Harrison - Cloud 9 George Strait - Ocean Front Property Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs and Stories Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come Sonic Youth - Sister Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough) Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene stuff to check out: Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark Bruce Willis - The Return of Bruno Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician The Cult - Electric Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses Echo and the Bunnymen - Echo and the Bunnymen Emmylou Harris - Angel Band Ice T - Rhyme Pays LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer Michael Jackson - Bad Prince - Sign o’ the Times Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show Rollins Band - Life Time Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass Vince Gill - The Way Back Home Whitney Houston - Whitney
1. Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full 2. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 3. The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
off the top of my head, this is the strongest year of the 80s so far for me. might be forgetting something, but the top 9 here rule
1. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come 2. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 3. Michael Jackson - Bad Doing these threads shows me how much more I've explored older films than music, haha.
1. Prince - Sign "O" the Times 2. Joe Cocker - Unchain My Heart 3. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love Excruciating cuts: Rush - Hold Your Fire Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night Others I love: Michael Jackson - Bad Various Artists - Dirty Dancing Soundtrack U2 - The Joshua Tree Lyle Lovett - Pontiac Whitesnake - Whitesnake Def Leppard - Hysteria John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee Heart - Bad Animals Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygeine Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent d'Arby Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Sting - ...Nothing Like the Sun Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt - Trio Whitney Houston - Whitney INXS - Kick Randy Travis - Always and Forever George Michael - Faith Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Shaka Zulu Good ones: Gregg Allman - I'm No Angel X - See How We Are The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Prince - The Black Album Psychedelic Furs - Midnight to Midnight Dan Fogelberg - Exiles Richard Marx - Richard Marx Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) Roger - Unlimited Dwight Yoakam - Hillbilly Deluxe Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - Let It Loose Public Enemy - Yo Bum Rush the Show Not a fan: Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded Targets for listening: Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses Timothy B. Schmidt - Timothy B. Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come Yes - Big Generator Anthrax - Among the Living Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician The Cult - Electric Dinosaur, Jr. - You're Living All Over Me Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs and Stories The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands Laibach - Opus Dei Napalm Death - Scum Pet Shop Boys - Actually Astor Piazzolla & Gary Burton - The New Tango R.E.M. - Document The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland Sonic Youth - Sister The Triffids - Calenture New Order - Substance The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs Grateful Dead - In the Dark Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave John Hiatt - Bring the Family Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years Stevie Wonder - Characters Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay Roseanne Cash - King's Record Shop Sly and Robbie - Rhythm Killers Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust George Harrison - Cloud Nine Carly Simon - Coming Around Again
1. Sonic Youth - Sister 2. Big Black - Songs about Fucking 3. Whitney Houston - Whitney Sister is another regular installment in Sonic Youth's consistent brilliant run over the next ten years or so. A consistently creative and inventive band, pushing their sound on each album. Big Black's crass Songs about Fucking is them at their best and most direct, a drum machine, rapid fire songs and Steve Albini's "edgy" lyrics. Whitney is my favourite Whitney Houston album, and anything that opens with "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" is an album worth hearing. Honourable mentions; The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me: An obligatory slightly bloated double album, but some absolute top tier poppy Cure tracks like "Just Like Heaven" and "Why Can't I Be You?". Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs and Stories: The final Husker album, and not as good a double album as Zen Arcade, but shows they didn't go out with a whimper and were still a fantastic band up until the end. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years: Waits' sort of bluesy cabaret album, featuring the track from the opening titles of The Wire, "Way Down in the Hole". Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love: Took me a while to warm up to this album, and while I do think it's probably the end of Bruce's marvellous run from 1973 until now, it's great in it's own regard, an insular, inward facing album, without most of the E Street Band. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show: Public Enemy's debut, and a fantastic introduction to their bombastic and furiously aggressive music. Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me: A scuzzy distorted grunge record, that's Dinosaur Jr and possibly even the early grunge scene at it's absolute best.
not his music obviously but he was the MVP of the eagles show. just incredible versions of glenn and randy's songs
That doesn't surprise me. For a man who must have more money than God at this point (9 albums at varying multipliers of platinum has to make you bank) he loves to collaborate. He's been working with The Time Jumpers. He produced Ashley Monroe's early stuff. He shows up at guitar festivals to jam. Dude just loves to make music, even if he isn’t the star, and it’s super endearing.
I wish I could cancel the rest of my work meetings for the week and dive into '87. I am looking over my playlist and really looking forward to a lot of these. Also - maybe a small petition to stretch these out to two weeks every time, since we are getting into the years where most of us were alive / formative years, lots more to listen to, etc? Just a thought - don't want to kill the convo and drag things out if there's no interest, but it could give each of us some more time for discovery while we lead our presumably busy lives lol
i would also prefer a week, personally. i don’t feel like the extra week would lead to me listening more to the year-specific stuff. it would probably just lead to me forgetting about the following year more often haha
also the threads aren’t going anywhere. i’m not completely finishing my targets every week, so i plan on coming back to this in years in the future
I listened to The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death by The Housemartins, which I thought was an excellent album title. I thought this was excellent, hugely reminiscent of The Smiths, with the vocalist really sounding like Morrissey on occasions, with that same kind of jangle-y guitar lines that Johnny Marr did. It's not just a tribute or a knock-off though, they're very soulful, and there's plenty of stuff like Simon and Garfunkel in here. Really enjoyed this, will certainly be back for more.
yes!!!! Great, oft-forgotten record. it's from '86, but their album London 0 Hull 4 is just as good. Check that one out next! The video for "Happy Hour" is a little slice of brilliance too. this vid almost reminds me of a British vampire weekend in their personal style. (Not necessarily musically) Enjoy!!
1. U2 - The Joshua Tree 2. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love 3. Prince - Sign 'O' the Times I recently ranked "Where the Streets Have No Name" as my second favorite song of all time, after only "Thunder Road." It's part of, for my money, the greatest opening salvo to an album ever. On the basis of the first three songs alone, The Joshua Tree would be a classic. But it's also got "Running to Stand Still," and "In God's Country," and "Red Hill Mining Town," and "One Tree Hill." Seeing the whole thing live front to back a few years ago was a life-affirming experience. One of my top 10 albums ever. Tunnel of Love was, until a year ago, the album I would have pointed to as Springsteen's most heartbreaking. It's a fascinating swerve away from the populist maximalism of Born in the U.S.A. to something so much more introspective and personal. You still have fantastic pop songs ("Tougher Than the Rest," "All That Heaven Will Allow," "Tunnel of Love"), but you also get the loneliest music Springsteen ever made (the four-song suite at the end, from "Brilliant Disguise" to "Valentine's Day"). This is far from my most played Bruce album, just because it's so raw and pained. But man, when I'm in the right mood, there's not much that hits harder than "One Step Up." Sign 'O' the Times is just a staggering display of stratospheric talent and boundless artistry. Purple Rain is tighter and more immediate, but some days, I think this might be my favorite Prince album. The way he stretches out and just explores all these different genres and influences is fascinating to hear, and really rewards repeat listens. The last four songs, especially, are such knockouts.