Melody Maker EOY List 1987 vs NME EOY List 1987?

No Perfect Prescription!!?!

fuck em both says I

Surprised by this:
Albums I really have no idea what they are (though I could probably guess, in a couple instances):
27. Calenture - The triffids
But would love to hear Xhuck’s guesses at all of those!

MM also deserves to be penalized for leaving out the Pet Shop Boys. (Was Tennant a former Sounds guy, or what?)

Absolutely not, Sounds always had a more male/meathead/aggro noise aspect to it, and Tennant was in the shiny clean, conceptual world of Smash Hits. Garry Bushell was probably home at Sounds during Tennant’s journo days, no? That says a lot.

I was always told I'd love sounds, but i hate bushell and I hate OI. so im not so sure.

I only ever bought Sounds once. I'm pretty sure it was the very last issue.

The NME list is more representitive of *my* 1987.

Late 80s, Sounds were really strong on US indie and post punk along with yer standard Anglo-indie. John Robb, Keith Cameron and Ralph Traitor (AKA Jeremy Gluck from the Barracudas IIRC) were the major cheerleaders there and I used to buy it every week pretty much for the info I got out of their articles. Also big on Grebo and metal and the whole grottier end of UK rock, which I wasn't really into so much.

I think if not for Sounds, I would never have known who Expando Brain were, so I have them to thank for that alone.

Okay, another thing here that I don't remember from back in the day is this album on the NME list by someone or some band named Dan called "An Attitude Hits". I looked it up and apparently it's on the same label as Thatcher on Acid, who I read about back in the day but never heard. I've heard a few tracks by Thatcher on Acid on myspace now and I love it. Also seeking out the Dan album. There's not much more I love in this world than picking over the scraps of what I missed from this era because I studied the British indie press pretty extensively back then and bought what records I could get and did the very best I could as an avid British-press-reading American at the time. Nice to know there are some things I missed that are easily available now! :)

Check out the label's roster here. I seem to recall buying a Blyth Power record at some point but it didn't appeal to me. Don't have any special recollection of the other records on that label, except that I think We Are Going To Eat You was a big deal for awhile, according to one of my penpals at the time or whatever. That's the way it was in the old days, I'd get folks from the UK to send me cassettes overseas of stuff.

This is years before my time but Dan I understand as being sort of from that same quasi-hippy semi-anarcho punk scene as the Subhumans (UK), Culture Shock, maybe Oi Polloi or someone like that - wouldn't have expected them to be on a music paper EOY list but like I say, not my era

I think if not for Sounds, I would never have known who Expando Brain were, so I have them to thank for that alone.

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Sounds had a hand in releasing http://www.discogs.com/release/748151 which I guess is a pretty good snapshot of a time when hardcore was sort of burned out and US punk was quite non-restrictive. I really like the DJ Lebowitz and Stikky songs on this

Any list from 1987 that includes David Sylvian's Secrets Of The Beehive gets my vote.

Couldn't find any Expando Brain on slsk, though, strangely.

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Yeah, I was pretty surprised to see the Dan album on that list too. Mencap's OTM about where they're coming from. Didn't have that particular album, but I got the one after it (Mother With Child And Bunny) which was fairly decent female-fronted grotbag hippy punk stuff, with a mixture of thee olde shouty buzzsaw post-hardcore punk rock and some strummy acoustic songs too. If it helps to give it a bit more context, that one came out on on Workers Playtime records who put out a lot of the Snuff records, and Anhrefn too IIRC.

http://uk82.150m.com/pics/dan.jpg

Yeah Dan were part of that late 80s post-anarcho scene along with Thatcher On Acid and that kind of thing.

* Stupids - Van Stupid
The Stupids were a great US-style HC thrash band (who just reformed).

Think they're touring with the Hard Ons too, just like in the days of yore.

BTW Expando Brain were a Boston band who sounded like this: http://www.myspace.com/expandobrain

Kind of like the Feelies having a funny turn or something. Steve Smith went on to be in Salem 66 who were a bit hit and miss, but the entire Expando Brain discography (okay, just one album and one 7" that I know of) was 100% genius the whole way through. Maybe they were a bit like a noisier and much more ramshackle Big Dipper?

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Terrible innit when you dont even notice results of your own poll years ago

All these 2000s polls have ruined my brain. I forgot that NME used to be into good music.