9/10
- Gun Club: Fire Of Love (Ruby)
- Jon Hassell: Dream Theory In Malaya (EG)
8/10
- David Thomas: The Sound Of The Sand (RoughTrade)
- 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)
7.5/10
- Fred Frith: Speechless (Ralph)
- Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates (WB)
7/10
- Einsturzende Neubauten: Kollaps (Zick Zack)
- Birthday Party: Prayers On Fire (4AD)
- Raybeats: Guitar Beat (DontFallOffTheMountain)
- Factrix: Scheintot (Adolescent)
- Material: Memory Serves (Elektra)
- Minutemen: The Punch Line (SST)
- Suburbs: Credit In Heaven (Twin Tone)
- Jody Harris & Robert Quine: Escape (Lust)
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Penguin Cafe Orchestra (EGRecords)
- Psychedelic Furs: Talk Talk Talk (CBS)
- Slava Ranko: Arctic Hysteria (Adolescent)
- Lounge Lizards: Lounge Lizards (EG)
- DB's: Stands For Decibels (Albion)
- Swollen Monkeys: After Birth Of The Cool (Cachalot)
- Was Not Was: Was Not Was (Ze)
- Alan Vega: Collision Drive (Celluloid)
- A Certain Ratio: To Each (Factory)
- Blasters: Blasters (Slash)
- 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)
- Half Japanese: Loud (Armageddon)
- Tom Verlaine: Dreamtime (WB)
- Adolescents: The Adolescents (Frontier)
- Residents: Mark Of The Mole (Ralph)
- Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places (Ze)
- Bauhaus: Mask (Beggars Banquet)
- X: Wild Gift (Slash)
- This Heat: Deceit (Rough Trade)
- J.Geils Band: Freeze-Frame (EMI)
- Agent Orange: Living In Darkness (Posh Boy)
- Plimsouls: Plimsouls (Geffen)
- Nervous Gender: Music from Hell (Subterranean)
- Dr John: Plays Mac Rebennack (Clean Cuts)
- Robyn Hitchcock: Black Snake Diamond (Armageddon)
- Go-Go's: Beauty And The Beast (IRS)
- Univers Zero: Ceux Du Dehors (Recommended)
- Jean-Michel Jarre: Les Chants Magnetiques (Disques Dreyfus)
- Jim Steinman: Bad For Good (Epic)
- Marcus Allen: Petals (Rising Sun)
- Michael Jones: Michael's Music (Narada)
- Nick Mason: Fictitious Sports (EMI)
- Peter Michael Hamel: Bardo (Kuckuck)
- Stephan Micus: Koan (ECM)
- Steve Douglas: Rainbow Suite (Bel Tree)
- Throbbing Gristle: Mission Of Dead Souls (Fetish)
- Virgin Prunes: A New Form Of Beauty (Rough Trade)
- Von Lmo: Future Language (Strazar)
- William Aura: Lovely Day (Higher Octave)
- Stray Cats: Stray Cats (Arista)
6.5/10
- Chuck Vrtacek: Victory Through Grace (Leisure Time)
- Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is (Barking Pumpkin)
- Nico: Drama Of Exile (ROIR)
- August Darnel: Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places (Ze)
- 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)
EPs:
- DNA: A Taste Of DNA (AmericanClave) , 8/10
- Harold Budd: The Serpent/Children Of The Hills (Cantil), 7.5/10
- Bush Tetras: Rituals (Stiff), 7/10
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