Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1987!!

wait wasnt Poison Into The Abyss already in the 1986 poll?

― Siegbran

nabozo mentioned it - with lower-profile releases sometimes it's a matter of assigning a year more or less at random - i'm going by rym, which has it as an '87 release recorded on dec 20-21, 1986

Other albums I would have considered for only to eventually choose Prince:

Erasure - The Circus
Eurythmics - Savage
Guided by Voices - Devil Between My Toes
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
The Dukes of Stratosphear - Psonic Psunspot

*voting for

Thin White Rope

Lotsa love for the Pixies, Sinead, Swans, and Tom Waits, but this goes to Songs About Fucking, the industrial rock album that surpasses any of its imitators.

David Sylvian. That is all.

FUCK YES. Secrets of the Beehive is a fucking masterpiece and a half. So was Brilliant Trees but I found another album on the 1984 list I ended up preferring over that one.

Voted Celtic Frost. Into the Pandemonium is actually my favorite Celtic Frost album which puts me in a minority - I think Chuck Eddy agrees with me.

I went on a road trip to one of the first three lollapaloozas and the discman adapter broke which meant we spent four days and hundreds of miles listening to the two tapes in the car - document and appetite for destruction. I’d probably pick one of those

U2, INXS, The Cure, The Smiths, The Replacements were my over-played ones. My 1.5-years younger sister had the Prince, MJ & Def Leppard albums in heavy rotation.

The Replacements slightly over The Cure. "The Ledge", "Can't Hardly Wait", "Never Mind", "Skyway" (!!), "Nightclub Jitters"...

"The words I thought I brought I left behind, so never mind..."

Voted for Actually just ahead of Secrets Of The Beehive and Sign O’ The Times.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I find myself still playing 'Sister' more than anything else from '87 I guess.
Schizophrenia, Tuff Gnarl, Pacific Coast Highway, and Kotton Krown are among my favorite Sonic Youth's

I think the CURE is a close second. As great as the Prince album is, and I love it when I hear it, I don't
seem to reach for it as much nowadays. I'll play 1999 and Purple Rain more.

Looking at this list I can tell my interest in pop music was waning by 1987. I didn't/don't own many of these. Think I'm opting for Thin White Rope.

Impossible to POO but voted Swans.

The opposite is true for me. After the disaster area that was the 1986 list, this is a breath of fresh air.

yeah it's Lolita Nation

Man this year sucked. That said, went with Eric B and Rakim

A quick glance at the list suggested a weaker year but when I counted it turned out I own 25 of these on vinyl. Go figure.

“And the sun comes
Like a god into our room
All perfect light and promises”

yeesh no way this is not one of the hardest things i've voted for on here.

went with the mondays because they were unimpeachable at that point. what a record!

Hearsay obv

1987 is better represented by its pop hits than its critically acclaimed albums.

Paid in Full over Sign o' the Times. Paid in Full is my favourite rap album.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

results are not bad, and there were a lot of votes!

I knew before even clicking on this that it was gonna be Prince.

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, May 31, 2019 4:29 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, I even love half the albums that got no votes.

yes, all of these were left out

Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
Husker Du - Warehouse Songs and Stories
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah

Not entirely unhappy with the number of people who went for Secrets of the Beehive; compared to how the rest of the voting went, that was a rousing endorsement of the album. <3

Voting for the stunning Beehive was a very obvious choice for me here, although not even half as obvious as my vote for Gone To Earth in the preceding poll.

Meanwhile, Pazz & Jop!.

Why did no-one vote for "Tunnel of Love" in this poll? SHAME ON YOU ILM

WTF is Blind Idiot God?

Missed this poll at the time, but would have voted for The Young Gods without a second's hesitation.

i love blind idiot god! would've voted for dinosaur jr, thin white rope or the go-betweens though