BEST ALBUMS OF THE Eighties

Best Albums Of The Eighties

selected by piero scaruffi

1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989

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1980

Bruce Springsteen: River (CBS)
Cramps: Songs The Lord Taught Us (Illegal)
Feelies: Crazy Rhythms (Stiff)
Soft Boys: Underwater Moonlight (Armageddon)
Colin Newman: A-Z (BeggarsBanquet)
Pere Ubu: Art Of Walking (Rough Trade)
Tuxedomoon: Half Mute (Ralph)
Pop Group: For How Much Longer (Rough Trade)
X: LA (Slash)
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (CherryRed)
7/10
Talking Heads: Remain In Light (Sire)
Birthday Party (MissingLink)
Killing Joke: self-titled (EG)
Lydia Lunch: Queen Of Siam (Ze)
Durutti Column: Return Of (Factory)
Polyrock: self-titled (RCA)
Clock Dva: White Souls (Industrial)
Crass: Stations Of The Crass (Crass)
Joy Division: Closer (Factory)
Flying Lizards: self-titled (Virgin)
Echo And The Bunnymen: Crocodiles (Korova)
Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth (RoughTrade)
Clash: Sandinista (CBS)
Alan Vega & Martin Rev (Ze)
Throbbing Gristle: Heathen Earth (Industrial)
Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage (CBS)
Love Of Life Orchestra: Geneve (Lust)
Captain Beefheart: Doc At Radar Station (Virgin)
Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro (Polydor)
MX-80 Sound: Out Of The Tunnel (Ralph)
Lemon Kittens: We Buy A Hammer For Daddy (UnitedDiaries)
Fred Frith: Gravity (Ralph)
Alan Stivell: Symphonie Celtique (CBS)
Aqsaq Maboul: Un peu de l' Amour des bandits (AtemCrammed)
U2: Boy (Island)
Martha & The Muffins: Metromusic (DinDisc)
Michael Hurley: Snockgrass (Rounder)
Rhythm Devils: Apocalypse Now Session (Passport)
Daryl Hall: Sacred Songs (RCA)
Peter Gabriel: self-titled 1980 (Charisma)
AC/DC: Back In Black (Atlantic)
Alan Vega: self-titled (Ze)
Police: Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M)
MX80Sound: Out Of The Tunnel (Ralph)
Barnes And Barnes: Voobaha (Rhino)
Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Virgin)
Bill Bruford: Bruford Tapes (EditionsEG)
Iron Maiden: self-titled (Harvest)
Human Sexual Response: Figure 14 (Eat)
Roky Erickson: & The Aliens (CBS)
Jackson Browne: Hold Out (Asylum)
Ramones: End Of The Century (Sire)
Black Sabbath: Heaven And Hell
Rush: Permanent Waves (Mercury)
Half Japanese: 1/2 Gentlemen Not Beasts (Armageddon)
John Martyn: Grace And Danger (Island)
T-Bone Burnette: Truth Decay (Takoma)
Willie Nile: self-titled (Arista)
Idiot Savant: Shakers In A Tantrum Landscape (Artifacts)
Confusional Quartet: Confusional Quartet
6.5/10
XTC: Black Sea (Virgin)
Jah Wobble: Betrayal (Virgin)
Psychedelic Furs: self-titled (CBS)
Suburbs: In Combo (Twin Tone)
Nuns: self-titled (PoshBoy)
Bauhaus: In The Flat Field (4AD)
Glaxo Babies: Nine Minutes To The Disco (Heartbeat)
Metabolist: Hansten Clork (Dromm)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: self-titled (Dindisc)
Ultravox: Vienna (Chrysalis)
Yello: Solid Pleasure (Ralph)
Buggles: The Age Of Plastic (Island)
Snatch: self-titled (Fetish)
Squeeze: Argybargy (A&M)
Joe King Carrasco And The Crowns (Hannibal)
Dark Day: Exterminating Angel (Lust)
TV Personalities: And Don't The Kids Just Love It (Rough Trade)
Pete Townshend: Empty Glass (Atlantic)
Robin Lee Crutchfield: Exterminating Angel (Lust)
John Gavanti: self-titled (Hyrax)
Nina Hagen: Unbehagen (CBS)
Renaldo And The Loaf: Songs For Swinging Larvae (Ralph)
Snakefinger: Greener Postures (Ralph)
Zantees: Out For Kicks (Bomp)
Sound: Jeopardy (Korova)
Comsat Angels: Waiting For A Miracle (Polydor)
Monochrome Set: Strange Boutique (Dindisc)
Pylon: Gyrate (DB)
Pretenders: self-titled (Real)
Martin Rev: self-titled (Infidelity)
Romantics (Nemperor)
Stiff Little Fingers: Nobody's Heroes (Chrysalis)
Grace Jones: Warm Leatherette (Island)
Visage: self-titled (Polydor)
Steve Winwood: Arc Of A Diver (Island)
Michael Schenker Group: self-titled (Chrysalis)
Damned: Black Album (IRS)
New Musik: From A To B (GTO)
Defunkt: self-titled (Hannibal)
Rubber City Rebels: self-titled (Capitol)

1981

Gun Club: Fire Of Love (Ruby)
8/10
Rip Rig Panic: God (Virgin)
Public Image Ltd: Flowers Of Romance (Virgin)
Deuter: Silence Is The Answer (Kuckuck)
Fleshtones: Roman Gods (IRS)
Black Flag: Damaged (SST)
7/10
Einsturzende Neubauten: Kollaps (Zick Zack)
Birthday Party: Prayers On Fire (4AD)
Raybeats: Guitar Beat (DontFallOffTheMountain)
Factrix: Scheintot (Adolescent)
Material: Memory Serves (Elektra)
Art Zoyd: Generations Sans Futur (Atem)
Fred Frith: Speechless (Ralph)
Minutemen: The Punch Line (SST)
Suburbs: Credit In Heaven (Twin Tone)
Jody Harris & Robert Quine: Escape (Lust)
Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates (WB)
Penguin Cafe` Orchestra: self-titled (EGRecords)
Psychedelic Furs: Talk Talk Talk (CBS)
Slava Ranko: Arctic Hysteria (Adolescent)
Lounge Lizards: self-titled (EG)
Chuck Vrtacek: Victory Through Grace (Leisure Time)
DB's: Stands For Decibels (Albion)
Swollen Monkeys: After Birth Of The Cool (Cachalot)
Was Not Was: self-titled (Ze)
Alan Vega: Collision Drive (Celluloid)
DNA: A Taste Of (AmericanClave)
A Certain Ratio: To Each (Factory)
Blasters: self-titled (Slash)
Raincoats: Moving (RoughTrade)
Saccharine Trust: Paganicons (SST)
King Crimson: Discipline (EG)
Clock Dva: Thirst (Fetish)
David Byrne & Brian Eno: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (Sire)
Cabaret Voltaire: Red Mecca (RoughTrade)
Flesh Eaters: A Minute to Pray A Second to Die (SRR)
Leo Kottke: Guitar Music (Chrysalis)
Half Japanese: Loud (Armageddon)
Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is (Barking Pumpkin)
Bush Tetras: Rituals (Stiff)
Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime (WB)
Dead Boys: Night Of The Living (Bomp)
Adolescents: self-titled (Frontier)
Nico: Drama Of Exile (ROIR)
Raincoats: Odyshape (RoughTrade)
Residents: Mark Of The Mole (Ralph)
August Darnel: Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places (Ze)
Bauhaus: Mask (Beggars Banquet)
X: Wild Gift (Slash)
This Heat: Deceit (Rough Trade)
Norman Salant: Saxophone Demonstrations (Alive)
J.Geils Band: Freeze-Frame (EMI)
Agent Orange: Living In Darkness (Posh Boy)
Kid Creole And The Coconuts: Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places (Ze)
Plimsouls: self-titled (Geffen)
Dr John: Plays Mac Rebennack (Clean Cuts)
Robyn Hitchcock: Black Snake Diamond (Armageddon)
Venom: Black Metal
Go-Go's: Beauty And The Beast (IRS)
6.5/10
Replacements: Sorry Ma (Twin Tone)
However: Sudden Dusk (RandomRadar)
Church: Of Skin And Heart (Parlophone)
Matt Johnson: Burning Blue Soul (4AD)
Space Negros: Have A Lousy Xmas (Jingle Jungle)
Oingo Boingo: Only A Lad (A&M)
BPeople: self-titled (Faulty Product)
Negativland: Points (Seeland)
Altered Images: Happy Birthday (Portrait)
Colin Newman: Singing Fish (4AD)
Japan: Tin Drum (Virgin)
Human League: Dare (Virgin)
Circle Jerks: Group Sex (Frontier)
T.S.O.L.: Dance with Me (PoshBoy)
Plasmatics: Beyond The Valley of 1984 (Stiff)
Nurse With Wound: Insect And Individual Silenced (UD)
Joan Jett: Bad Reputation (Boardwalk)
Soft Cell: Non Stop Erotic Cabaret (SomeBizarre)
John Foxx: The Garden (Metalbeat)
Stevie Nicks: Belladonna (Modern)
Wah: Nah=Poo (Eternal)
Comateens: self-titled (Cachalot)
Barracudas: Drop Out (Closer)
Boyd Rice: self-titled (Mute)
Safety Last: self-titled (Twin Tone)
Neville Brothers: Fiyo On The Bayou (A&M)
Big Boys: Where's My Towel (Wasted Talent)
Phil Collins: Face Value (Virgin)
Billy Idol: self-titled (Chrysalis)
Ludus: Seduction (New Hormones)
Jane & Jeff Hudson: World Trade (Lust)
Human Switchboard: Who's Landing In My Hangar (Faulty Products)
Dan Fogelberg: Innocent Age (Epic)
Garland Jeffreys: Rock And roll Adult (Epic)
Polyrock: Changing Hearts (RCA)
Indoor Life (FrenchCelluloid)
Duran Duran: self-titled (EMI)
Josef K: The Only Fun In Town (Postcard)
Siouxsee Sioux: Juju (Polydor)
DMZ: Relics (Bomp)
Stray Cats: self-titled (Arista)
Alley Cats: Nightmare City (Time Coast)
Spandau Ballet: Journeys To Glory (Chrysalis)
Eyeless In Gaza: Photographs As Memories (Cherry Red)
David Lindley: El Rayo X (Asylum)
Blurt: In Berlin (Ruby)
Black Uhuru: Red (Mango)
Whodini: self-titled (Jive)
Juice Newton: Juice (RCA)
Panther Burns: Behind The Magnolia Curtain (Rough Trade)
U.K. Decay: For Madmen Only (Fresh)

1982

Dream Syndicate: Days Of Wine And Roses (JackRuby)
David Thomas: The Sound Of The Sand (RoughTrade)
Fear: The Record (Slash)
Misfits: Walk Among Us (Ruby)
Mission Of Burma: VS (AceOfHeart)
Flipper: Generic Album (Subterranean)
Art Zoyd: Phase IV
Legal Weapon: Death Of Innocence (Arsenal)
Richard Thompson: Shoot Out The Lights (Hannibal)
7/10
Waitresses: Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful (WB)
Muffins: 185 (RandomRadar)
Styrenes: Girl Crazy (Mustard)
Gun Club: Miami (Animal)
Minutemen: What Makes A Man Start Fires (SST)
Rip Rig Panic: I Am Cold (Virgin)
Annette Peacock: Sky-skating (Ironic)
Lydia Lunch: Agony Is The Ecstasy (4AD)
Sonic Youth: self-titled (Neutral)
Virgin Prunes: If I Die I Die (RoughTrade)
Massacre: Killing Time (Celluloid)
Tuxedomoon: Suite En Sous-sol (Expanded)
Tom Verlaine: Words From The Front (WB)
Factrix: California Babylon (Subterranean)
Savage Republic: Tragic Figures (Independent Project)
Negative Trend: We Don't Pay We Riot (Subterranean)
Bola Sete: Shambhala Moon (Dancing Cat)
Cure: Pornography (Fiction)
Robert Wyatt: Animals Film (RoughTrade)
Dark Day: Window (Plexus)
Mickey Hart: Yamantaka (Rolling Thunder)
Captain Beefheart: Ice Cream For Crow (Virgin)
Nervous Gender: Music from Hell (Subterranean)
Etron Fou Leloublan: Poumons Gonfles (TurboMusic)
Virgin Prunes: Heresie (InvitationAuSuicide)
Zero Boys: Vicious Circle (Nimrod)
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska (CBS)
James Chance: Sax Maniac (Animal)
Wall Of Voodoo: Call Of The West (IRS)
Lydia Lunch: 13.13 (Ruby)
Adrian Belew: Lone Rhino (Island)
Birthday Party: Junkyard (4AD)
Asia: self-titled (Giffen)
Bob Seger: Nite Tonite (Capitol)
Prince: 1999 (WB)
Grandmaster Flash: Message (Sugar Hill)
John Cougar Mellencamp: American Fool (Riva)
G.B.H.: City Baby Attacked By Rats (Clay)
Dead Kennedys: Plastic Surgery Disasters (AlternativeTentacles)
Fall: Hex Enduction Hour (Kamera)
Conrad Schnitzler: Control (Dys)
XTC: English Settlement (Virgin)
GBH: City Baby Attacked By Rats (Clay)
Chris And Cosey: Trance (Rough Trade)
Nurse With Wound: Homotopy To Marie (UD)
Clash: Combat Rock (CBS)
National Health: D.S. Al Coda (Lounging)
John Cale: Music For A New Society (Ze)
Donald Fagen: Nightfly (Warner)
Die Form: Die Puppe (Bain Total)
Lou Reed: Blue Mask (RCA)
Malaria: Emotion (Crepuscule)
DB's: Repercussion (Albion)
Hanoi Rocks: Oriental Beat
Nanci Griffith: Poet In My Window (Philo)
Work: Slow Crimes (Woof)
X: Under The Big Black Sun (Elektra)
Manowar: Battle Hymns (Liberty)
Stickmen: This Is The Master Brew (1982)
Toto: IV (Columbia)
John Coughar Mellencamp: American Fool (Riva)
Descendents: Milo Goes To College (New Alliance)
Bongos: Drums Along the Hudson (PVC)
Voice Farm: World We Live In (Optional)
Y Pants (Neutral)
NoMeansNo: Mama (Wrong)
Toiling Midgets: Sea Of Unrest
Marshall Crenshaw: self-titled (WB)
6.5/10
Christian Death: Only Theatre Of Pain (Frontier)
Bad Religion: Into The Unknown (Epitaph)
Legal Weapon: Your Weapon (Arsenal)
Phil Manzanera: Primitive Guitars (Island)
Lords Of New Church: self-titled (IRS)
Soft Verdict: Vergessen (DisqueDuCrepuscule)
SPK: Leichenschrei (Thermidor)
Cocteau Twins: Garlands (4AD)
Legendary Pink Dots: Brighter Now (In Phaze)
Psychic TV: Force The Hand Of Chance (SomeBizarre)
Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (Virgin)
Angry Samoans: Back From Samoa (Bad Trip)
Thomas Dolby: Golden Age Of Wireless (Capitol)
Judy Nylon: Pal Judy (OnUSound)
Church: The Blurred Crusade (Parlophone)
Front 242: Geography (RRE)
Hunters And Collectors: self-titled (White Label)
Scritti Politti: Songs To Remember (Rough Trade)
Michael Jackson: Thriller (Epic)
Work: Slow Crimes (Woof)
Steve Piccolo: Domestic Exiles (MASO)
Pigbag: Dr Heckle & Mr. Jive (YRec)
Black Sheep: Animal Sounds (MCCB)
Morells: Shake And Push (Borrowed)
Tommy Keene: Strange Alliance (Avenue)
New Math: They Walk Among Us (415)
Rank And File: Sundown (Slash)
New Race: First And Last (Statik)
Kraut: An Adjustment To Society (Cabbage)
Joan Jett: I Love Rock And Roll (Boardwalk)
George Clinton: Computer Games (Capitol)
Trio: self-titled (Mobile Suit)
Liliput: Liliput (Rough Trade)
Blue Orchids: Greatest Hits (RoughTrade)
Lora Logic: Pedigree Charm (RoughTRade)
Rank And File: Sundown(Slash)
Chris And Cosey: Heartbeat (RoughTrade)
Love Tractor: self-titled (DB)
Box: Secrets Out (GoDisc)
Dexy's Midnight Runners: Too-Rye-Ay (Mercury)
Certain General: Holiday Of Love (Labor)
Neats: Monkey's Head (Ace Of Hearts)
Eek-A-Mouse: Wa-Do-Dem (Greensleeves)
Dire Straits: Love Over Gold (Vertigo)
TV Personalities: They Could Have Been Bigger (Whaam)
Robert Plant: Pictures At 11 (Swansong)
This Time: What Time Is It? (WB)
Del Byzanteen: Lies To Live By (DontFallOff)
Red Cross: Born Innocent (Smoke 7)
MDC: Millions Of Dead Cops (R Radical)
Real Kids: Outta Place (Star)
Trouble Funk: Drop The Bomb (Sugar Hill)
Weekend: Variete` (Rough Trade)
Culture Club: Kissing To Be Clever (Virgin)
EU: Future Funk (Galaxy)
Yellowman: Mister Yellowman (Greensleeves)

1983

Mark Stewart: Learning To Cope With Cowardice (RoughTrade)
Jane Siberry: No Borders Here (Open Air)
Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels (4AD)
Einsturzende Neubauten: Zeichnungen Das Patienten (PVC)
Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (Island)
Metallica: Kill 'Em All (Megaforce)
Sonic Youth: Confusion Is Sex (Neutral)
R.E.M.: Murmur (IRS)
Bad Brains: Rock For light (PVC)
Violent Femmes: self-titled (Slash)
7/10
David Thomas: Variations On A Theme (RoughTrade)
Swans: Filth (Neutral)
Minor Threat: Out Of Step (Dischord)
Fleshtones: Hexbreaker (IRS)
Golden Palominos: self-titled (Celluloid)
New Order: Power Corruption And Lies (Factory)
Birthday Party: Mutiny (Mute)
Clock DVA: Advantage (Polydor)
Virginia Astley: From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (Virgin)
Alan Vega: Saturn Strip (Ze)
Slickee Boys: Cybernetic Dreams Of Pi (Twin/Tone)
Blasters: Non Fiction (WB)
John Greaves & Peter Blegvad: Kew Rhone (Europa)
Jah Wobble: Bedroom Album (Lago)
Bob Wasserman: Solo (Rounder)
Rip Rig Panic: Attitude (Virgin)
Pere Ubu: Song Of The Bailing Man (RoughTrade)
Lindsay Cooper: Gold Diggers (SyncPulse)
Replacements: Hootenanny (Twin Tone)
Cassiber: Man Or Monkey (Riskant)
Meat Puppet: II (SST)
Univers Zero: Ceux Du Dehors (Recommended)
Go-Betweens: Before Hollywood (RoughTrade)
Allan Holdsworth: Metal Fatigue (Enigma)
Chris Knox: Songs For Cleaning Guppies (Flying Nun)
Mofungo: Out Of Line (Zoar)
Bill Laswell: Baselines (Elektra)
23 Skidoo: The Culling Is Coming (Operation Twilight)
Alien Sex Fiend: Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain (Anagram)
Embarrassment: Death Travels West (Fresh Sounds)
Suicidal Tendencies: self-titled (Frontier)
The The: Soul Mining (SomeBizarre)
Green On Red: Gravity Talks (Slash)
Rain Parade: Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (Enigma)
17 Pigmies: Hatikva (Resistance)
Micronotz: Smash (Fresh Sounds)
Social Distortion: Mommy's Little Monster (13th Floor)
John Hiatt: Riding With The King (Geffen)
Subhumans: The Day The Country Died (Spiderleg)
Blue Nile: A Walk Across The Rooftops (Linn)
Rudimentary Peni: Death Church (Corpus Christi)
Cabaret Voltaire: Crackdown (Some Bizarre)
Richard Thompson: Hand Of Kindness (Hannibal)
Lou Reed: Legendary Hearts (RCA)
Zoviet France: Mohnomishe (Red Rhino)
Shonen Knife: Burning Farm (Zero)
ZZ Top: Eliminator (WB)
Ex: Blueprints For A Blackout (Big Brother)
Danielle Dax: Pop Eyes (Initial)
Cartoon: Music From Left Field (12-Tone Productions)
Hunters And Collectors: The Fireman's Curse (White Label)
Def Leppard: Pyromania (Virgin)
D.R.I.: Dirty Rotten (R-Radical)
Exciter: Heavy Metal Maniac (Shrapnel)
Men And Volts: Hootersville (Eat)
Three O'Clock: Sixteen Tambourines (Frontier)
Wipers: Over The Edge (Brain Eater)
Paolo Conte: Paolo Conte
6.5/10
Van Halen: 1984 (WB)
Necros: Tangled Up (Restless)
Shriekback: Care (Y)
X: More Fun In The New World (Elektra)
Ben Watt: North Marine Drive (CherryRed)
Stephan Weisser: Elemental Music (Subterranean)
Marillion: Script For A Jester's Tear (EMI)
Adrian Belew: Twang Bar King (Island)
Chris Stamey: It`s A Wonderful Life (DB)
Velvet Monkeys: Future (Fountain Of Youth)
Richard Kirk: Time High Fiction (Doublevision)
Marc Almond: Untitled (Some Bizarre)
10,000 Maniacs: Secrets Of The I Ching (Christian Burial)
SS Decontrol: Give It Away (Xclaim)
Nurse With Wound: Ostranenie 1913 (Third Mind)
Wolfgang Press: The Burden Of Mules (4AD)
Killing Joke: Fire Dances (EG)
U2: War (Island)
Was Not Was: Born To Laugh At Tornadoes (Ze)
Plimsouls: Everywhere At Once (Geffen)
Tears For Fears: Hurting (Poligram)
Nocturnal Emissions: Drowning In A sea Of Bliss (Sterile)
Bananarama: Deep Sea Skiving (Rama)
Arkansaw Men (Alterboys)
Katrina And The Waves: Walking On Sunshine (Attic)
Will Sergeant: Themes For Grind (Satisfied)
Slicky Boys: Cybernetic Dreams Of Pi (TwinTone)
Aztec Camera: High Land Hard Rain (RoughTRade)
LeRoi Brothers: Check This Action (Amazing)
Dumptruck: D Is For Dumptruck (Incas)
Shockabilly: Earth VS (RoughTrade)
Dome: Will You Speak to This World (Uniton)
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Flood (Epic)
Hanoi Rocks: Back To Mystery City
Let's Active: Cypress (IRS)
Police: Synchronicity (A&M)
Madonna: self-titled (Sire)
Wire Train: In A Chamber (415)
Renaldo And The Loaf: Arabic Yodeling (Ralph)
Bryan Adams: Cuts Like A Knife (A&M)
Meatmen: We're The Meatmen (Touch And Go)
Midnight Oil: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 (Columbia)
Phosphenes: self-titled (Coyote)
45 Grave: Sleep In Safety (Enigma)
Paul Marotta: Agit-prop Piano (DoSpeak)
Phosphenes (Coyote)
Big Country: The Crossing (Mercury)
Triffids: Treeless Plain (Hot)
Unclaimed (Hysteria)
Kommunity FK: The Vision And The Voice (Independent Project)
Ronnie James Dio: Holy Diver (Vertigo)
Severed Heads: Since The Accident (Ink)
Yaz: You And Me Both (Sire)
Accept: Restless & Wild (Portrait)
Heaven 17: Luxury Gap (Arista)
Sex Gang Children: Song And Legend (Illuminated)
Thompson Twins: Quick Step & Side Kicks (Arista)
Quiet Riot: Metal Health (Pasha)
Greg Kihn: Kihnspiracy (Beserkley)

1984

Husker Du: Zen Arcade (SST)
Minutemen: Double Nickels On The Dime (SST)
Nick Cave: From Her To Eternity (Mute)
Replacement: Let It Be (Zippo)
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic: Magnetic Flip (AceOfHearts)
Julian Cope: World Shut Your Mouth (Mercury)
Foetus: Hole (SelfImmolation)
7/10
Metallica: Ride The Lightning (Elektra)
Eberhard Schoener: Sky Music - Mountain Music (Celestial Harmonies)
Cocteau Twins: Treasure (4AD)
Saccharine Trust: Surviving You (SST)
Rhythm And Noise: Contents under notice (Ralph)
Ambitious Lovers: Envy (Eg-Jem)
Meat Puppets: Up On The Sun (SST)
Current 93: Nature Unveiled (Laylah)
Bruce Springsteen: Born In The USA (CBS)
Pretenders: Learning to Crawl (A&M)
Killdozer: Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys (TouchAndGo)
Zoogz Rift: Ipecac (Azra)
Agnostic Front: Victim In Pain (RatCage)
Del-Lords: Frontier Days (Enigma)
Robert Quine & Fred Maher: Basic (EG)
Die Kreuzen: self-titled (TouchAndGo)
Plasticland: self-titled (Pink Dust)
Violent Femmes: Halloweed Ground (Slash)
Young Fresh Fellows: The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific (Frontier)
Chuck Vrtacek: Monkey On A Hard Roll (Leisure Time)
Frightwig: Cat Faboo Farm (AlternativeTentacles)
Lydia Lunch: In Limbo (DoubleVision)
Penguin Cafe` Orchestra: Broadcasting From Home (EGRecords)
Gun Club: Las Vegas Story (Animal)
News From Babel: Work Resumed (Recommended)
Christian Death: Catastrophe Ballett (InvitationAuSuicide)
Univers Zero: Uzed (Recommended)
Prince: Purple Rain (WB)
Scott Walker: Climate of Hunter (Virgin)
Rum DMC: self-titled (Profile)
Nurse With Wound: Sylvie And Babs High-Thigh Companion (Laylah)
Orthotonics: Wake Up You Must Remember (Generic)
23 Skidoo: Urban Gamelan (Illuminated)
Cars: Heartbeat (Elektra)
Ry Cooder: Paris Texas (WB)
Michael Hurley: Blue Navigator (Rounder)
Billy Bragg: Brewing Up (Go Disc)
Jane Siberry: The Speckless Spy (Duke Street)
Jonathan Richman: Sings (Sire)
Echo & Bunnymen: Ocean Rain (Korova)
Test Dept: Beating The Retreat (SomeBizarre)
Throbbing Gristle: In The Shadow Of The Sun (Illuminated)
Black Flag: Slip It In (SST)
Dream Syndicate: Medicine Show (A&M)
Dead Can Dance: self-titled (4AD)
DB's: Like This (Bearsville)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: self-titled (Enigma)
Art Of Noise: Who's Afraid (ZTT)
Scratch Acid: self-titled (RabidCat)
Flipper: Gone Fishin' (Subterranean)
17 Pygmies: Jedda By The Sea (Resistance)
Zoogz Rift: Amputees In Limbo (Snout)
Los Lobos: How Will The Wolf Survive (Slash)
Rising Force: self-titled (Polydor)
Del Fuegos: Longest Day (Slash)
Beasts Of Bourbon: The Axeman's Jazz (Green)
David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (Virgin)
New Model Army: Vengeance (Abstract)
True West: Drifters (PVC)
6.5/10
Sun City Girls: self-titled (Placebo)
Lyres: On Fyre (AceOfHeart)
Half Japanese: Sing No Evil (iridescence)
Coil: Scatology (Force & Form)
Zoviet France: Eostre (Red Rhino)
Honeymoon Killers: From Mars (Fur)
Current 93: Maldoror Is Dead (Laylah)
Hafler Trio: Bang-an Open Letter (DoubleVision)
Tripod Jimmie: Long Walk Off A Short Pier (DoSpeak)
Pandoras: It's About Time (Rhino)
Ultravox: Lament (Chrysalis)
Felt: The Strange Idols Pattern (Cherry Red)
Hunters And Collectors: The Jaws Of Life (Slash)
Minimal Man: Safari (CDPresents)
Three Johns: Atom Drum Bop (Abstract)
Long Ryders: Native Sons (Frontier)
Voivod: War And Pain (Metal Blade)
Cult: Dreamtime (BeggarsBanquet)
Blood And The Saddle: self-titled (NewAlliance)
Blue Aeroplanes: Bop Art (Abstract)
Smiths: self-titled (RoughTrade)
Tim Hodgkinson: Fluvial (Woof)
Hoodoo Gurus: Stoneage Romeo (BigTime)
G.B.H.: City Baby's Revenge (Relativity)
No Means No: Mama (No Means No)
Tina Turner: Private Dancer (Capitol)
Celibate Rifles: self-titled (Hot)
Little Steven: Voice Of America (EMI)
Huey Lewis: Sports (Chrisalys)
Everything But The Girl: Eden (BlancoYNegro)
Steve Vai: Flex-able (Urantia)
Joan Jett: Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth (1984)
Alien Sex Fiend: Acid Bath (Epitaph)
Playgroup: Epic Sound Battles Cpt. 2 (On-U)
Prefab Sprout: Swoon (Kitchenware)
Outta Place: We're Outta Place (Midnight)
V-Effect: Stop Those Songs (RoughTRade)
Twisted Sister: Stay Hungry (Atlantic)
Pointer Sisters: Break Out (Planet)
Plan 9: Dealing With The Dead (Midnight)
Leaving Trains: Well Down Blue Highway (Bemisbrain)
Home And Garden: History And Geography (Bizart)
Don King (Doublevision)
VanDyke Parks: Jump (WB)
Steve Brown: Music For Solo Piano (Another Side)
Lenny Kaye: I've Got A Right (Giorno)
Trypes: Explorers Hold (Coyote)
Bryan Adams: Reckless (A&M)
Guadalcanal Diary: Walking In The Shadow (Elektra)
Romeo Void: Istincts (415)
Norman Salant: Sax Talk (CD)
Effigies: Firever Grounded (Enigma)
Madonna: Like A Virgin (Sire)
Fat Boys: self-titled (Sutra)
Depeche Mode: Some Great Reward (Mute)
Youssou N'Dour: Immigres (Earthworks)
Ratt: Out Of The Cellar (Atlantic)
Sade: Diamond Life (Epic)
Vipers: Outta The Nest (PVC)
Reducers: self-titled (Rave On)
Bangles: All Over The Place (Columbia)
Style Council: Cafe` Bleu (Polydor)
Carmel: The Drum Is Everything (WB)
Samhain: Initium (Plan 9)
Barrence Whitfield: And The Savages (Mamou)
Wham: Make It Big (Epic)
King Sunny Ade: Aura (Mango)
New Edition: self-titled (MCA)
Amy Grant: Age To Age (Myrrh)
Don Henley: Building The Perfect Beast (Geffen)
Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual (Portrait)
Time: Ice Cream Castle (WB)
Thompson Twins: Into The Gap (Arista)

1985

Foetus: Nail (SomeBizarre)
Butthole Surfers: Psychic Powerless (TouchAndGo)
8/10
Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising (Homestead)
Swans: Cop (KCC)
Nick Cave: The Firstborn Is Dead (Homestead)
Husker Du: New Day Rising (SST)
Fetchin Bones: Cabin Flounder (DB)
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs (Island)
Replacements: Tim (Sire)
Feedtime: self-titled (Aberrant)
Dead Can Dance: Spleen And Ideal (4AD)
Tiny Lights: Prayer For The Halcyon Fear (Gaia)
Camper VanBeethoven: Telephone Free Landslide Victory (Independent)
7/10
David Thomas: More Places Forever (TwinTone)
Honeymoon Killers: Love American Style (Fur)
Jesus And Mary Chain: Psychocandy (BlancoYNegro)
Chuck Vrtacek: Learning To Be Silent (Cordelia)
Lazy Cowgirls: self-titled (Restless)
Husker Du: Flip Your Wig (SST)
Black Flag: Process Of Weeding Out (SST)
Camper VanBeethoven: II & III (PitchATent)
Antietam: self-titled (Homestead)
Ordinaires: self-titled (Dossier)
Love & Rockets: The Seventh Dream Of A Teenage Heaven (Beggars Banquet)
Killdozer: Snakeboy (TouchAndGo)
Annette Peacock: I Have No Feelings (Ironic)
CCCP: Affinità - Divergenze
Nico: Camera Obscura (BeggarsBanquet)
Golden Palominos: Visions Of Excess (Celluloid)
Mark Stewart: As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts to Fade (Stumm24)
Robyn Hitchcock & Egyptians: Fegmania (Midnight)
Current 93: Dogs Blood Rising (Laylah)
Residents: Census Taker (Episode)
The Scene Is Now: Burn All Your Records (Lost)
Rhythm And Noise: Chasms Accord (Ralph)
Big Audio Dynamite: This Is (Columbia)
Laibach: Nova Akropola (Cherry Red)
New Order: Low Life (Factory)
Longshoremen: Grr Huh Yeah (Subterranean)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley (Enigma)
Joni Mitchell: Dog Eat Dog(Geffen)
Dinosaur J.R.: self-titled (SST)
David Sylvain: Alchemy (Virgin)
Savage Republic: Cerimonial (Independent Project)
Kommunity FK: Close One Sad Eye (Independent Project)
Eugene Chadbourne: Collected symphonies (Parachute)
Membranes: Gift Of Life (Creation)
Black Flag: Loose Nut (SST)
Vangelis: The Mask (Polydor)
Giant Sand: Valley Of Rain (Enigma)
Michael Brook: Hybrid (Editions EG)
John Cougar: Scarecrow (Riva)
Julian Cope: Fried (Mercury)
Heart: self-titled (Capitol)
Anthrax: Spreading The Disease (Megaforce)
Rites Of Spring: self-titled (Dischord)
Naked Raygun: Throb Throb (Homestead)
Chris Isaak: Silvertone (Warner Bros)
Rat At Rat R: Rock & Roll Is Dead (Neutral)
Band Of Outsiders: Everything Takes Forever (L'Invitation Au Suicide)
Rave-Ups: Town + Country (Fun Stuff)
Rum DMC: King Of Rock (Profile)
Windbreakers: Terminal (Homestead)
Phranc: Folksinger (Rhino)
Sting: The Dream Of The Blue Turtle (A&M)
Corrosion Of Conformity: Animosity (Metal Blade)
Suzanne Vega: self-titled (A&M)
6.5/10
Megadeth: Killing Is My Business (Combat)
Mofungo: Fredrick Douglass (Twin Tone)
Green On Red: Gas Food And Lodging (Slash)
Legendary Pink Dots: Asylum (Play It Again Sam)
Plasticland: Wonder Wonderful Wonderland (Pink Dust)
Three O'Clock: Arrive Without Traveling (IRS)
Slovenly: After The Original Style (New Alliance)
Agitpop: Feast Of The Sunfish (Community 3)
Live Skull: Bringing Home The Bait (Homestead)
Controlled Bleeding: Knees And Bones (Psychout)
Volcano Suns: Bright Orange Years (Homestead)
Christian Death: Ashes (L'Invitation)
Talking Heads: Little Creatures (Sire)
Faith No More (We Care A Lot) (Mordam)
Descendents: I Don't Want To Grow Up (New Alliance)
Skinny Puppy: Bites (Nettwerk)
Sisters Of Mercy: First And Last And Always (Merciful)
Dead Kennedys: Frankenchrist (AlternativeTentacles)
Robbie Krieger (Cafe)
Executive Slacks: Nausea (Fundamental)
Beat Happening: self-titled (K)
Jason And The Scorchers: Lost And Found (EMI)
Daniel Johnston: Respect (Stress)
Tex And Horseheads (Bemibrains)
Balaam And The Angel: World Of Light (Chapter22)
Jefferson Starship: Knee Deep In The Hoopla (RCA)
Pontiac Brothers: Big Black River (Lolita)
Fuzztones: Lysergic Emanation (ABC)
Hoodoo Gurus: Mars Needs Guitars (BigTime)
Mekons: Fear And Whiskey (Sin)
Thin White Rope: Exploring The Axes (Frontier)
10,000 Maniacs: Wishing Chair (Elektra)
Pogues: Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Stiff)
Miracle Workers: Inside Out (Voxx)
Don Dixon: Most Of The Girls Like To Dance (Enigma)
Cult: Love (BeggarsBanquet)
Scritti Politti: Cupid And Psyche (WB)
Motley Crue: Theatre Of Pain (Elektra)
Beat Farmers: Tales Of The New West (Rhino)
Bongos: Beat Hotel (Fetish)
Chamaleons: What Does Anything Mean (Statik)
Tom Petty: Southern Accents (MCA)
Savatage: Power Of The Night (Atlantic)
Laughing Clowns: History Of Rock 'n` Roll Volume One (Hat)
Simply Red: Picture Book (Elektra)
Tell Tale Hearts (Voxx)
Tail Gators: Swamp Rock (Wrestler)
Yard Trauma: Must've been Something (Dionysus)
October Faction: self-titled (SST)
Chesterfield Kings: Stop (Mirror)
Dire Straits: Brothers In Arms (Vertigo)
Lone Justice: self-titled (Geffen)
Slickee Boys: Uh Oh No Breaks (Twin/Tone)
Jules Shear: The Eternal Return (EMI)
Bangles: Different Light (Columbia)
Lloyd Cole: Rattlesnakes (Polydor)
Phil Collins: No Jacket Required (Virgin)
Whitney Houston: self-titled (Arista)
Style Council: Our Favorite Shop (Polydor)
John Fogerty: Centerfield (WB)
Jazz Butcher: Sex And Travel (Glass)
Zoogz Rift: Interim Resurgence (Snout)
Waterboys: This Is The Sea (Chrysalis)
UTFO: self-titled (Select)
L.L. Cool J: Radio (Def Jam)
John Coughar Mellencamp: Scarecrow (Riva)
Full Force: self-titled (Columbia)
Poison Girls: Songs Of Praise (CD Presents)

1986

Big Black: Atomizer (Homestead)
Stan Ridgway: Big Heat (IRS)
Death Of Samantha: Strungout On Jargon (Homestead)
Butthole Surfers: Rembrandt Pussyhorse(TouchAndGo)
Metallica: Master Of Puppets (Elektra)
David Thomas: Monster Walks The Winter Lake (TwinTone)
7/10
UT: Conviction (Out)
Squirrel Bait: Skag Heaven (Homestead)
Swans: Holy Money (PVC)
Univers Zero: Heatwave (Recommended)
Flaming Lips: Hear It Is (Pink Dust)
Feelies: Good Earth (Coyote)
Green: self-titled (Gang Green)
Yo La Tengo: Ride The Tiger (Coyote)
They Might Be Giants: self-titled (Bar)
Camper VanBeethoven: self-titled (PitchATent)
David + David: Boomtown (A&M)
Del-Lords: Johnny Comes Marching Home (Enigma)
High Rise: High Rise II (PSF)
fIREHOSE: Ragin' Full On (SST)
Agitpop: Back At The Plain Of Jars (Community 3)
Swans: Greed (PVC)
Husker Du: Candy Apple Grey (Warner)
Ministry: Twitch (Sire)
Pandoras: Stop Pretending (Rhino)
Crime And The City Solution: Room Of Lights (Mute)
BoDeans: Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams (Slash)
Ritual Tension: I Live Here (Sacrifice)
Moving Targets: Burning In Water (Taang)
Smiths: Queen Is Dead (Sire)
Woodentops: Giant (RoughTrade)
Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique (1989)
Paul Simon: Graceland (CBS)
Soul Asylum: Made To Be Broken (TwinTone)
EIEIO: Land Of Opportunity (Frontier)
Peter Case: self-titled (Geffen)
Club Foot Orchestra: Wild Beasts (Ralph)
Keith Leblanc: Major Malfunction (World)
Felt: Forever Breathes The Lonely Word (Creation)
Sonic Youth: Evol (SST)
Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses (4AD)
Mr T Experience: Everybody's Entitled To Their Own Opinion (Disorder)
Bad Brains: I Against I (SST)
Cramps: A Date With Elvis (NewRose)
Dream Syndicate: Out Of The Grey (A&M)
Gut Bank: The Dark Ages (Coyote)
Frank Zappa: Jazz From Hell (BarkingPumpkin)
Agnostic Front: Cause For Alarm (Combat Core)
Aliex Sex Fiend: It (Plague)
Dr Nerve: Out To Bomb Fresh Kings (Punos)
Tall Dwarfs: Throw A Sickie (Flying Nun)
Adrenalin O.D.: Humungousfungusamongus (Buy Our)
Peter Gabriel: So (Charisma)
Genesis: Invisible Touch (Charisma)
Sun City Girls: Grotto Of Miracles (Placebo)
Megadeth: Peace Sells (Capitol)
Van Morrison: No Guru No Method No Teacher (WB)
Tripod Jimmie: A Warning To All Strangers (All Ball)
Wild Seeds: Brave Clean + Reverent (Jungle)
Lyres: Lyres Lyres (AceOfHeart)
LMNOP: Elemen Opee Elpee (Baby Sue)
My Dad Is Dead: self-titled (St Valentine)
Poison: Look What The Cat Dragged In (Enigma)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Illustrated Music Encyclopedia (Virgin)
Robert Wyatt: Old Rotten Hat (RoughTrade)
Slayer: Reign In Blood (Def Jam)
Talk Talk: Colour Of Spring (EMI)
Richard Thompson: Daring Adventures (Polydor)
Helloween: Walls Of Jericho (Noise),
Rum DMC: Raising Hell (Profile)
MDC: Smoke Signals (R Radical)
XTC: Skylarking (Virgin)
Church: Heyday (WB)
Controlled Bleeding: Headcrack (Sterile)
Schoolly D: self-titled (SchoollyD)
Voivod: Killing Technology (Combat)
Billy Bragg: Talking With The Taxman About Poetry (Go Discs)
Afrika Bambaataa: Planet Rock (Tommy Boy)
No Trend: Tritonian Nash-Vegas Polyester Complex
Zoviet France: Misfits, Loony Tunes And Squalid Criminals (Charrm)
Shonen Knife: Pretty Little Baka Guy (Zero)
PFS: Illustrative Problems (Cuneiform)
Ludichrist: Immaculate Deception (Combat Core)
Absolute Grey: What Remains (Midnight)
Crumbsuckers: Life Of Dreams (Combat Core)
Motorhead: Orgasmatron
6.5/10
Nuclear Assault: Game Over (Combat)
Cocteau Twins: Victorialand (4AD)
Antietam: Music From Elba (Homestead)
Anna Domino: self-titled (Crepuscule)
Scratch Acid: Just Keep Eating (Rabid Cat)
Died Pretty: Free Dirt (Citadel)
Frightwig: Kill Kill (Caroline)
Violent Femmes: The Blind Leading The Naked (Slash)
Didjits: Fizzjob (Bam Bam)
Die Kreuzen: October File (TouchAndGo)
Giant Sand: Ballad Of A Thin Line Man (Zippo)
Honeymoon Killers: Let It Breed (Fur)
Momus: Circus Maximus (Cherry Red)
Dwarves: Horror Stories (Voxx)
Timbuk 3: Greetings (IRS)
Joe Satriani: Not Of This Earth (Relativity)
Agent Orange: This Is The Voice (Enigma)
Dos (New Alliance)
Cro-mags: Age Of Quarrel (Rock Hotel)
Soul Asylum: While You Were Out (TwinTone)
In The Nursery: Twins (Wax Trax)
True Believers: self-titled (Rounder)
Swimming Pool Q's: Blue Tomorrow (A&M)
Shriekback: Big Night Music (Island)
Hafler Trio: Seven Hours Sleep (Laylah)
Mission: God's Own Medicine (Mercury)
Talkind Heads: True Stories (Sire)
Public Image Ltd: Album (Virgin)
Gone (SST)
Housemartins: London 0 Hull 4 (GoDiscs)
That Petrol Emotion: Manic Pop Thrill (Demon)
Madonna: True Blue (Sire)
Royal Crescent Mob: Land Of Sugar (Play It Again Sam)
Breathless: Glass Bead Game (TenorVossa)
Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet (Mercury)
Cinderella: Night Songs (Mercury)
Europe: Final Countdown (Epic)
Cynics: Blue Train Station (Get Hip)
Pontiac Brothers: Fiesta En La Biblioteca (Frontier)
Nerves: self-titled (Offence)
Dash Dip Rock: self-titled (688)
Effigies: Ink (Enigma)
Pet Shop Boys: Please (EMI)
World Party: Private Revolution (Chrysalis)
Screaming Blue Messiah: Gun-Shy (Elektra)
Kurtis Blow: Kingdom Blow (Mercury)
No Direction: Becoming Obsession (No Direction)
Skinyard: self-titled (C/Z)
Dag Nasty: Can I Say (Dischord)
Micronotz: 40 Fingers (Homestead)
Ben Vaughn: The Many Moods (Restless)
Trotsky Icepick: Poison Summer (Old Scratch)
Fuzzbox: Bostin' Steve Austin (Vindaloo)
Treat Her Right: self-titled (Soul Selects)
Magnolias: Concrete Pillbox (Twin Tone)
Beat Rodeo: Home In The Heart Of The Beat (IRS)
Crowded House: self-titled (Capitol)
Georgia Satellites: self-titled (Elektra)
Lyle Lovett: self-titled (MCA)
New Kids On The Block: self-titled (Columbia)
Janet Jackson: Control (A&M)
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry: Paint Your Wagon (Red Rhino)
James: Stutter (BlancoyNegro)

1987

Swans: Children Of God (Product)
Henry Rollins: Hot Animal Machine (Texas Hotel)
Unrest: Tink Of Southeast (Teen Beat)
Blind Idiot God: self-titled (SST)
Guns And Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen)
Sonic Youth: Sister (SST)
Public Enemy: Yo Bum Rush The Show (DefJam)
Flaming Lips: Oh My Gawd (Restless)
Hugo Largo: Drum (Relativity)
Dinosaur Jr: You're Living All Over Me (SST)
Faith No More: Introduce Yourself (Slash)
7/10
American Music Club: Engine (Grifter)
Jane Siberry: The Walking (Duke Street)
Bel Canto: White-Out Conditions (Crammed Disc)
Pussy Galore: Right Now (Caroline)
Missing Foundation: Missing Foundation (Purge)
Einsturzende Neubauten: Fuenf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala (Some Bizarre)
Tom Waits: Frank's Wild Years (Island)
Zoogz Rift: Water (SST)
Tom Verlaine: Flashlight (WB)
Catheads: Hubba (Restless)
Butthole Surfers: Locus Abortion Technician (TouchAndGo)
Replacement: Pleased To Meet Me (Sire)
Tragic Mulatto: Locos Por El Sexo (Alternative Tentacles)
Fetchin Bones: Galaxy 500 (Capitol)
Lazy Cowgirls: Tapping The Source (Bomp)
Larry Fast: Metropolitan Suite (Audion)
Young Fresh Fellows: The Men Who Loved Music (Frontier)
Redd Kross: Neurotica (Smoke 7)
Alter Natives: Hold Your Tongue (SST)
Peter Jefferies & Jono Lonie: At Swim Two Birds (Flying Nun)
Green: Elaine MacKenzie (Pravda)
Nick Cave: Your Funeral (Homestead)
Live Skull: Dusted (Homestead)
Sinead O'Connor: The Lion And The Cobra (Chrysalis)
Smithereens: Especially For You (Enigma)
Howard Rowland: Honeymoon In Red (DutchEast)
Lubricated Goat: Plays The Devil's Music (Black Eye)
Prince: Sign Of The Times (WB)
Husker Du: Warehouse (Warner)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Signs Of Life (EGRecords)
David Sylvian: Secrets Of The Beehive (Virgin)
Carney, Hild & Kramer: Happiness Finally Comes To Them (Shimmy)
Ophelias: self-titled (Strange Weekend)
B.A.L.L.: Period (Another American Lie)
Young Gods: self-titled (Project)
Sisters Of Mercy: Floodland (Elektra)
Saints: All Fools Day (Polydor)
Fastbacks: And His Orchestra (Popllama)
Nurse With Wound: Spiral Insana (Torso)
U2: Joshua Tree (Island)
David Thomas: Blame The Messenger (TwinTone)
Mark Stewart (Mute)
These Immortal Souls: Get Lost (SST)
Robbie Robertson: Robbie Robertson (Geffen)
Das Damen: Jupiter Eye (SST)
Union Carbide Productions: In The Air Tonight (Radium 226.05)
Original Sins: Big Soul (Bar None)
Screaming Trees: Even If And Especially When (SST)
Death In June: Brown Book (NER)
Tackhead: Sound System (Nettwerk)
Julian Cope: Saint Julian (Island)
Loop: Heaven's End (Head)
Chris Isaak: self-titled (Warner Bros)
Aerosmith: Permanent Vacation (Geffen)
Celtic Frost: Into The Pandemonium (Noise)
Fleshtones: vs Reality (Emerge)
Verlaines: Bird-Dog (Flying Nun)
Game Theory: Lolita Nation (Rational)
White Zombie: Soul Crusher (Silent Explosion)
John Hiatt: Bring The Family (A&M)
R.E.M.: Document (IRS)
Pianosaurus: Groovy Neighborhood (Rounder)
Coil: Horse Rotorvator (Some Bizarre)
Spacemen 3: Perfect Prescription (Glass)
Joe Satriani: Surfing With The Alien (Relativity)
Wedding Present: George Best (Reception)
Legendary Pink Dots: Any Day Now (Play It Again Sam)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Neo Geo (Virgin)
10,000 Maniacs: In My Tribe (Elektra)
Sex Clark Five: Strum Und Drum (Records To Russia)
Gang Green: You Got It (Roadracer)
Lemonheads: Hate Your Friends (Taang)
Phantom Tollbooth: One-Way Conversation (Homestead)
Eric B. & Rakim: Paid In Full (1987)
6.5/10
King Snake Roost: From Barbarism To Christian Manhood (Aberrant)
Napalm Death: Scum (Earache)
Donner Party: I (Cryptovision)
Big Black: Songs About Fucking (Touch And Go)
Universal Congress Of: self-titled (SST)
fIREHOSE: If'n (SST)
Nitzer Ebb: That Total Age (Mute)
Prong: Primitive Origins (Mr Bear)
Meat Puppets: Mirage (SST)
Raging Slab: Assmaster (Buy Our)
Danielle Dax: Inky Bloaters (Awesome)
Sun City Girls: Horse Cock Phepner (Placebo)
Suicidal Tendencies: Join The Army (Caroline)
Front Line Assembly: Initial Command (KK)
Screeching Weasel: self-titled (Underdog)
Melvins: Gluey Porch Treatments (Alchemy)
Paul Roland: Danse Macabre (Bam Caruso)
Opal: Happy Nightmare Baby (SST)
Plasticland: Salon (Pink Dust)
Long Ryders: Two-Fisted Tales (Island)
Suzanne Vega: Solitude Standing (A&M)
Concrete Blonde: self-titled (IRS)
Swing Out Sister: It's Better To Travel (Mercury)
Fields Of Nephilim: Dawnrazor (Beggars Banquet)
Cure: Kiss Me (Fiction)
Saqqara Dogs: Thirst (Pathfinder)
27 Various: Hi (Susstones)
Bill Bruford: Earthworks (EditionsEG)
Pastels: Up For A Bit (Glass)
Bleine Reininger: Instrumentals 1982-86 (Interior Music)
Don Dixon: Romeo And Juilliard (Enigma)
Chris Stamey: It`s Alright (Coyote)
False Prophets: Implosion (Alternative Tentacles)
Bears: self-titled (Primitive Man)
Roger Miller: Big Industry (Ace Of Hearts)
Electric Peace: Medieval Mosquito (Barred)
Silos: Cuba (Record Collect)
Carmaig Deforest: I Shall Be Released (Good Foot)
Downy Mildew: Boomtree (Texas Hotel)
Thelonious Monster: Next Saturday Afternoon (Relativity)
Indigo Girls: Strange Fire (Indigo)
For Against: Echelons (independent Project)
No Means No: Sex Mad (Alternative Tentacles)
Outskirts Of Infinity: Lord Of The Dark Skies (Woronzow)
Screaming Blue Messiah: Bikini Red (Elektra)
Shamen: Drop (Moksha)
John Cougar: The Lonesome Jubilee (Mercury)
Def Leppard: Hysteria (Virgin)
King Diamond: Abigail (Roadrunner)
K.D. Lang: Angel With A Lariat (Sire)
Roger Waters: Radio KAOS (Harvest)
Brian Brain: Time Flies When You're Having Toast (Moving Target)
Artie Traum: Cayenne (Rounder)
Eric B. & Rakim: Paid In Full (4th & B'way)
Viv Akauldren: I'll Call You Sometime (Akashic)
Midnight Oil: Diesel And Dust (Columbia)
Dave Alvin: Romeo's Escape (Epic)
INXS: Kick (Atlantic)
NWA: And The Posse (Ruthless)

1988

Pixies: Surfer Rosa (4AD)
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (Blast First)
Red Temple Spirits: Dancing To Restore An Eclipsed Moon (Nate Starkman & Son)
Ministry: The Land Of Rape And Honey (Sire)
Foetus: Thaw (Some Bizarre)
Peter Frohmader: Through Time And Mistery (GEMA)
My Bloody Valentine: Isn't Anything (Creation)
Mary Margaret O'Hara: Miss America (Virgin)
Missing Foundation: 1933 (Purge)
American Music Club: California (Grifter)
Talk Talk: Spirit Of Eden (EMI)
King Snake Roost: Things That Play Themselves (Aberrant)
Djam Karet: Reflections From The Firepool (HC Productions)
7/10
Nick Cave: Tender Prey (Mute)
Band Of Susans: Hope Against Hope (Furthur)
Godflesh: Godflesh (Silverfish)
Rollins Band: Life Time (Texas Hotel)
Zoogz Rift: Nonentity (SST)
Rudimentary Peni: Cacophony (Outer Himalayan)
In The Nursery: Koda (Wax Trax)
Unrest: Malcom X Park (Caroline)
Death Of Samantha: Where The Women Wear The Glory (Homestead)
Enya: Watermark (Geffen)
Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking (Warner Bros)
Pain Teens: self-titled (Anomie)
Bongwater: Double Bummer (Shimmy-Disc)
Lubricated Goat: Paddock Of Love (Black Eye)
Crime And The City Solution: Shine (Mute)
Royal Trux: self-titled (Royal LP)
Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam)
Cocteau Twins: Blue Bell Knoll (4AD)
Dead Can Dance: The Serpent's Egg (4AD)
Die Kreuzen: Century Days (Touch & Go)
Spacemen 3: Playing With Fire (Fire)
Metallica: And Justice For All (Elektra)
Soundgarden: Ultramega OK (SST)
Lard: The Power Of Lard (Alternative Tentacles)
Chuck Vrtacek: When Heaven Comes To Town (Recommended)
The Scene Is Now: Tonight We Ride (Lost)
Mofungo: Bugged (SST)
Galaxie 500: Today (Aurora)
Naked Raygun: Jettison (Caroline)
They Might Be Giants: Lincoln (Bar None)
Didjits: Hey Judester (Touch And Go)
Savage Republic: Jamahiriya (Fundamental)
Tiny Lights: Hazel's Wreath (Gaia)
Universal Congress Of: Prosperous And Qualified (SST)
Annette Peacock: Abstract-Contact (Ironic)
Eleventh Dream Day: Prairie School Freakout (Amoeba)
L7 (Epitaph)
F/I: Space Mantra (RRRecords)
Danzig: Danzig (Def American)
Pere Ubu: Tenement Of The Year (Fontana)
Lou Reed: New York (Sire)
Dead C: Trapdoor Fucking Exit (Precious Metal)
Tracey Chapman: self-titled (Elektra)
Bill Nelson: Chance Encounters (Cocteau)
Smithereens: Green Thoughts (Enigma)
King Missile: They (Shimmy Disc)
Catheads: Submarine (Restless)
Bill Laswell: Hear No Evil (Virgin)
Ambitious Lovers: Greed (Virgin)
Butthole Surfers: Hairway To Steven (Touch And Go)
Donner Party: II (Pict-A-Tent)
Soul Asylum: Hang Time (Twin Tone)
Living Colour: Vivid (Epic)
Prong: Force Fed (Spigot)
Camper VanBeethoven: Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (Virgin)
Green River: Rehab Doll (SubPop)
Flour (Touch & Go)
Death: Leprosy (Combat)
Dinosaur Jr: Bug (SST)
Bad Religion: Suffer (Epitaph)
Wolfgang Press: Bird Wood Cage (4AD)
Napalm Death: From Enslavement To Obliteration (Earache)
Primitives: Lovely (RCA)
Feedtime: Shovel (Aberrant)
Feelies: Only Life (Coyote)
Front Line Assembly: State Of Mind (Dossier)
Cassandra Complex: Theomania (Play It Again Sam)
Queensryche: Operation: Mindcrime (EMI)
Helios Creed: Superior Catholic Fingers (Subterranean)
Bob Neuwirth: Back to the Front (Gold Castle)
Lucinda Williams: self-titled (Rough Trade)
Giant Sand: Storm (What Goes On)
Miriodor: self-titled (Wayside)
Das Damen: Triskaidekaphobe (SST)
Black Sun Ensemble (Restless)
Souled American: Fe (Rough Trade)
Black Sun Ensemble: Lambent Flame (Reckless)
Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked (Mercury)
Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Sessions (BMG)
Fishbone: Truth And Soul (Columbia)
Bevis Frond: Tryptich (Woronzow)
Julian Cope: My Nation Underground (Island)
Ed Hall: Albert (Boner)
A R Kane: Sixty Nine (Rough Trade)
REM: Green
John Hiatt: Slow Turning (A&M)
Roy Loney: The Scientific Bombs Away (Aim)
Sugarcubes: Life's Too Good (One Little Indian)
Richard Thompson: Amnesia (Capitol)
Vaselines: Dum Dum (53rd & 3rd)
Phish: Junta (Elektra)
Carcass: Reek Of Putrefaction (earache)
Membranes: Kiss Ass Godhead (Homestead)
Bats: Daddy's Highway (Flying Nun)
Roger Miller: No Man Is Hurting Me (Forced Exposure)
Rum DMC: Tougher Than Leather (Profile)
Beatnigs: Self-titled (Alternative Tentacles)
Lyle Lovett: Pontiac (MCA)
Nuclear Assault: Survive (Relativity)
Hafler Trio: Inoutof (Soleilmoon)
Arcane Device: Engines Of Myth
Sadus: Illusions (Sadus)
6.5/10
Beasts Of Bourbon: Sour Mash (Red Eye)
Suicidal Tendencies: How Will I Laugh Tomorrow (Epic)
Masters Of Reality: self-titled (Def American)
Let's Active: Every Dog Has His Day (IRS)
Dream Syndicate: Ghost Stories (A&M)
Loop: Fade Out (Chapter 22)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult: I See Good Spirits (Wax Trax)
Pontiac Brothers: Johnson (Frontier)
Front 242: Front By Front (Was Trax)
Skinny Puppy: VIVIsectVI (Nettwerk)
Zoogz Rift: Murdering Hell's Happy Cretins (SST)
Zoviet France: Shouting At The Ground (Red Rhino)
Fields Of Nephilim: Nephilim (Beggars Banquet)
Die Haut: Headless Body In Topless Bar (What'sSoFunny)
William Orbit: Strange Cargo (IRS)
Tony Childs: Union (A&M)
Melissa Etheridge: self-titled (Island)
Ultra Vivid Scene: self-titled (Rough Trade)
Edie Brickell: Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars (Geffen)
All: Allroy Sez (Cruz)
Steppes: Stewdio (Vozz)
Giant Sand: Love Songs (Homestead)
Ciccone Youth: The Whitey Album (Blast First)
'Til Tuesday: Everything's Different Now (Epic)
Warrant: Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (Columbia)
Steve Earle: Copperhead Road (MCA)
Walkabouts: See Beautiful Rattlesnake Gardens (PopLlama)
Straitjacket Fits: Hail (Flying Nun)
Skinyard: Hallowed Ground (C/Z)
Dag Nasty: Field Day (Giant)
Workdogs: Roberta (Okra)
Gories: House Rockin' (New Rose)
Peter Principle: Tone Poems (Crammed)
Balancing Act: Three Squares And A Roof (Primitive Man)
Melted Americans (MAd Hatter)
Bonedaddys: A-Koo-De-A (Chamaleon)
World Domination Enterprise: Let's Play Domination (Caroline)
Wonder Stuff: Eight Legged Groove Machine (Polydor)
NWA: Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless)
AC/DC: Blow Up Your Video (Atlantic)
Jeff Healey: See The Light (Arista)
Gibson Brothers: Big Pine Boogie (Okra)
Stetsasonic: In Full Gear (Tommy Boy)
New Christs: Divine Rites (Citadel)
Bobby Brown: Don't Be Cruel (MCA)
Yngwie Malmsteen: Odyssey (Polydor)
Head Of David: Dustbowl (Blast First)
EPMD: Strictly Business (Fresh)
Hypnolovewheel: Turn Turn Burn (Fabian)
Texas Instruments: Sun Tunnels (Rabid Cat)
Youth of Today: We're Not In This Alone (Caroline)
Everything But The Girl: Idlewind (BlancoYNegro)
Weathermen: Black Album (Play It Again Sam)
Hothouse Flowers: People (Polydor)
House Of Love: self-titled (Creation)
Fine Young Cannibals: The Raw And The Cooked (IRS)
Bomb The Bass: Into The Dragon (Rhythm King)
Was Not Was: What Up Dog (Chrysalis)
Gipsy Kings: self-titled (Elektra)
Stuart Hamm: Radio Free Albemuth (Relativity)
Afghan Whigs: Big Top Halloween (Ultrasuede)
Ice-T: Power (Sire)
M.C. Hammer: Let's Get Started (Capitol)
Mc Lyte: Lyte As A Rock (First Priority)
Patty Loveless: Honky Tonk Angel (MCA)
Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God (Pogue Mahone)
Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince: He's The D.J. I'm The Rapper (Jive)

1989

Peter Gabriel: Passion (Geffen)
8/10
Pandora's Box: Original Sin (Virgin)
Flaming Lips: Telepathic Surgery (Restless)
Bitch Magnet: Umber (Communion)
Dogbowl: Tit (Shimmy Disc)
Godflesh: Streetcleaner (Earache)
Rapeman: Two Nuns And A Pack Mule (Touch And Go)
Laughing Hyenas: You Can't Pray A Lie (Touch And Go)
Green: White Soul (Megadisc)
Galaxie 500: On Fire (Rough Trade)
Band Of Susans: Love Agenda (Blast First)
Savage Republic: Customs (Fundamental)
Stone Roses: self-titled (Silvertone)
7/10
Original Sins: Hardest Way (Psonik)
Pixies: Doolittle (4AD)
Bad Religion: No Control (Epitaph)
My Dad Is Dead: The Taller You Are (Homestead)
Hugo Largo: Mettle (Relativity)
Tackhead: Friendly As A Hand Grenade (TVT)
American Music Club: United Kingdom (Demon)
Bob Mould: Workbook (Virgin)
Blake Babies: Earwig (Mammoth)
Ministry: The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste (Sire)
Pussy Galore: Dial M (Caroline)
Ozric Tentacles: Pungent Effluent (Demi Monde)
Slint: Tweez (Jennifer Hartman)
Red Temple Spirits: If Tomorrow I Were Leaving For Lhasa (Nate Starkman & Son)
Melvins: Ozma (Boner)
Jane Siberry: Bound By The Beauty (Duke Street)
Cure: Disintegration (Fiction)
Bob Wiseman: In Her Dream (Atlantic)
Rickie Lee Jones: Flying Cowboys (WB)
Blackgirls: Procedure (Mammoth)
Phantom 309: A Sinister Alphabet (Tupelo)
Creamers: Love Honor And Obey (Sympathy For The Record)
Bongwater: Too Much Sleep (Shimmy-Disc)
Terminal Cheesecake: Johnny Town Mouse (Wiiija)
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic: Faultline (Ace Of Hearts)
Ordinaires: One (Bar None)
Fushitsusha (PSF 3-4)
Steel Pole Bath Tub: Butterfly Love (Boner)
Bel Canto: Birds Of Passage (Nettwerk)
Helios Creed: Last Laugh (Amphetamine Reptile)
Vulgar Boatmen: You And Your Sister (WB)
Barbara Manning: Lately I Keep Scissors (Heyday)
Bob Dylan: Oh Mercy (CBS)
Tragic Mulatto: Hot Man Pussy (Alternative Tentacles)
Mudhoney: self-titled (SubPop)
Gibson Brothers: Dedicated Fool (Homestead)
Big F: self-titled (Fff)
Eleventh Dream Day: Beet (Atlantic)
Young Gods: L'Eau Rouge (Play It Again Sam)
Pere Ubu: Cloudland (Fontana)
Slovenly: We Shoot For The Moon (SST)
Big Audio Dynamite: Megatop Phoenix (Columbia)
Smithereens: 11 (Enigma)
Death Of Samantha: Come All Ye Faithless (Homestead)
Fetchin Bones: Monster (Capitol)
The The: Mind Bomb (Epic)
Michael Shrieve: Big Picture (Fortuna)
Tom Petty: Full Moon Fever (MCA)
Blind Idiot God: Undertow (Enemy)
Naked Raygun: Understand (Caroline)
Cro-Mags: Best Wishes (Profile)
Moving Targets: Brave Noise (Taang)
Angkor Wat: When Obscenities Become Reality (Death)
Einsturzende Neubauten: Haus Der Luege
Bastro: Diablo Guapo (Homestead)
Nicky Skopelitis: Next To Nothing (Virgin)
Volcano Suns: Thing Of Beauty (SST)
Fish & Roses: We Are Happy To Serve You (Homestead)
No Means No: Wrong (Alternative Tentacles)
Camper VanBeethoven: Key Lime Pie (Virgin)
Flaming Lips: In A Priest Driven Ambulance (Restless)
Walkabouts: Cataract (SubPop)
Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine (TVT)
Faith No More: Real Thing (Slash)
Nirvana: Bleach (SubPop)
Eric Andersen: Ghosts Upon The Road (Gold Castle)
Matthew Sweet: Earth (A&M)
Cows: Daddy Has A Tail (Amphetamine Reptile)
God Bullies: Plastic Eye Miracle (Glitterhouse)
Brian Adamson: Moss Side Story (Mute)
Daniel Johnston: Yip/Jump Music (Stress)
Sepultura: Beneath The Remains (Roadrunner)
Screeching Weasel: Boogadaboogadaboogada (Roadkill)
Keith Leblanc: Stranger Than Fiction (Nettwerk)
Lounge Lizards: Voice Of Chunk (Lagarto)
Jesus And Mary Chain: Automatic (BlancoYnero)
Boredoms: Soul Discharge (Shimmy-Disc)
Soundgarden: Louder Than Love (SST)
Neville Brothers: Yellow Moon (A&M)
Freakwater: self-titled (Amoeba)
De La Soul: 3 Feet High And Rising (Tommy)
808 State: 808-90 (ZTT)
Material: Seven Souls (Virgin)
Meat Beat Manifesto: Storm The Studio (Wax Trax)
Voivod: Nothingface (Combat)
Neil Young: Freedom (Reprise)
Union Carbide Productions: Financially Dissatisfied (Radium 226.05)
Skinny Puppy: Rabies (Nettwerk)
Lycia: Wake (Lycium)
Coldcut: What's That Noise (Tommy Boy)
Rodney Crowell: Keys To The Highway (Columbia)
Carcass: Symphonies Of Sickness (Earache)
Shoes: Stolen Wishes (Black Vinyl)
Inner City: Paradise (Virgin)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Tangle (Thwart)
Operation Ivy: Energy (Lookout)
God Bullies: Mamawombwomb (Amphetamine Reptile)
Bolt Thrower: Realm Of Chaos (Earache)
King's X: Gretchen Goes To Nebraska (Megaforce)
Happy Mondays: Bummed (Elektra)
Daniel Lanois: Acadie (Opal)
Caetano Veloso: Estrangeiro (1989)
6.5/10
Swans: Burning World (Uni)
Feedtime: Suction (Aberrant)
Cavedogs: Joyrides For Shut-Ins (Enigma)
Sneetches: Sometimes That's All We Have (Alias)
Soulside: Hot Bodi-Gram (Dischord)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk (EMI)
Die Warzau: Disco Rigido (Fiction)
Meat Puppets: Monsters (SST)
Treat Her Right: Tied To The Tracks (RCA)
Bullet Lavolta: Gift (Taang)
Faster Pussycat: Wake Me When It's Over (Elektra)
Glass Eye: Hello Young Lovers (Bar None)
Bullet Lavolta: Gift (Taang)
Primitives: Pure (RCA)
LMNOP: Numbles (New Rose)
Glass Eye: Hello Young Lovers (Bar None)
Peter Himmelman: Synesthesia (Island)
Jesus Jones: Liquidizer (Food)
Hunters And Collectors: Ghost Nation (Atlantic)
Fatima Mansions: Against Nature (Kitchenware)
Peter Himmelman: Synesthesia (Island)
Poi Dog Pondering: self-titled (Texas Hotel)
Poster Children: Flower Power (Limited Potential)
Renegade Soundwave: Soundclash (Mute)
Lenny Kravitz: Let Love Rule (Virgin)
Urban Dance Squad: Mental Floss For The Globe (Ariola)
Sarah McLachlan: Touch (Arista)
Numb: Christmeister (Onslot)
Treponem Pal: self-titled (Roadracer)
Cheater Slicks: On Your Knees (Gawdawful)
Clock Dva: Buried Dreams (Wax Trax)
Thee Hypnotics: Live'r Than God (Situation Two)
Mike Hudson: A Monster And The Devil (Tinnitus)
Chris Isaak: Heart Shaped World (Warner Bros)
Telescopes: Taste (WhatGoesOn)
New Christs: Distemperer (Citadel)
Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi (Virgin)
Grant Hart: Intolerance (SST)
Soul II Soul: Keep On Movin' (Virgin)
Andy Summers: Golden Wire (Private)
Tears Of Fears: The Seeds Of Love (Mercury)
Technotronic: Pump Up The Jam (SBK)
Peter Case: The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neotraditionalist Guitar (Geffen)
Das Damen: Mousetrap (Twin Tone)
Indigo Girls: self-titled (Epic)
10,000 Maniacs: Blind Man's Zoo (Elektra)
Chemical People: Ten-Fold Hate (Cruz)
Traveling Wilburys: Volume One (WB)
Big F: self-titled (Geffen)
Clint Black: Killin' Time (RCA)
Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music (Jive)
Pop Will Eat Itself: This Is The Day (RCA)
Gorilla Biscuits: Start Today (Revelation)
Madonna: Like A Prayer (Sire)
Pogues: Peace And Love (Pogue Mahone)
Underworld: Change The Weather (Sire)
Front Line Assembly: Gashed Senses And Crossfire (Third Mind)
3 Mustaphas 3: Heart Of Uncle (Rykodisc)
Blue Nile: Hats (Linn)
John Wesley Harding: Here Comes The Groom (Sire)
Stuart Hamm: King Of Sleep (Relativity)
New Christs: Distemper (Citadel)
Noise Unit: Grinding Into Emptiness (Antler Subway)
Kitchens Of Distinction: Love Is Hell (One Little Indian)
Jungle Brothers: Done By The Forces Of Nature (WB)
Junkyard: self-titled (Geffen)
Lee Scratch Perry & Mad Professor: Mystic Warrior (RAS)
Ian McCulloch: Candleland (Sire)
Queen Latifah: All Hail The Queen (Tommy Boy)
Sick Of It All: Blood Sweat And No Tears (In-Effect)
Gorilla Biscuits: Start Today (Revelation)
Frogs: It's Only Right And Natural (Homestead)
3rd Bass: The Cactus Album (Def Jam)
2 Live Crew: As Nasty As They Wanna Be (Luke Skywalker)
Motley Crue: Dr Feelgood (Elektra)
Bad Sister (Cold Chillin')
SNFU: Better Than A Stick In The Eye (Cargo)
Lightning Seeds: Cloudcuckooland (Ghetto)
Young MC: Stone Cold Rhymin' (Delicious Vinyl)
Cud: When In Rome Kill Me (Imaginary)
24-7 Spyz: Harder Than You (Columbia)
Gaye Bykers On Acid: Stewed To The Gills (Caroline)
2 Nice Girls: self-titled (Rough Trade)
Kirsty MacColl: Kite (Virgin)