GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1987

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1 9 8 7

Obviously make sure to hit up RYM yourself and search your favourite genres.

The deadline is indefinite. This being the year of my birth, I expect record turnout, and frankly, I will not close this until that goal is reached!

The rules:
- submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.

GNMD = General Non-Metal Discussion, so NO UNAMBIGUOUSLY METAL ALBUMS are to be included in anybody's list.

 

[Slammed]

As usual these wont make a huge dent in the top ten

1. Jimmy Barnes - Freight Train Heart
2. Icehouse - Man of Colours
3. Hoodoo Gurus - Blow Your Cool!
4. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
6. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls - Under the Sun
7. John Schumann – Etched in Blue
8. Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
9. Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
10. Noiseworks – Noiseworks

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I imagine we've got GNR covered.

Gonna take some work for me to get to a full list, but my top 3 are pretty nailed down.

1. Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
2. Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
3. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
4. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
5. Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
6. Grateful Dead - In the Dark
7. Swans - Children of God
8. U2 - The Joshua Tree
9. Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
10. Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy soundtrack

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. ヤプーズ [Yapoos] - ヤプーズ計画 (Yapoos Keikaku)
2. Scratch Acid - Berserker
3. きどりっこ [Kidorikko] - 流行通信簿 (Ryukou Tsushinbo)
4. Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Shelleyan Orphan - Helleborine
6. Fibonaccis - Civilization and Its Discotheques
7. Marillion - Clutching at Straws
8. Blind Idiot God - Blind Idiot God
9. Robert Turman - Way Down
10. Ur Kaos - Ur Kaos
Controlled Bleeding - Music From the Scourging Ground
Swans - Children of God
Embrace - Embrace
The Young Gods - The Young Gods

Approximately like that, close enough. Lots of stuff I haven't heard as always; the Smiths only just clicked for me last week and I could imagine Strangeways eventually earning a top 10 spot, for example. Lots of amazing music overall.

 

[Bloopy]

1. Anti-Nowhere League - The Perfect Crime
2. The Wreckery - Here at Pains Insistence
3. Cosmic Psychos - Cosmic Psychos
4. The Macc Lads - Bitter, Fit Crack
5. Einstürzende Neubauten - Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala
6. Laibach - Opus Dei
7. Toy Dolls - Bare Faced Cheek
8. Swans - Children of God
9. The Cult - Electric
10. SPK - Digitalis Ambigua, Gold and Poison

Cool that these Swans and Anti-Nowhere League albums came out in the same year as I've compared them before. Kinda get a similar vibe from bits of them here and there.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1. Dead Can Dance- Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
2. Swans- Children of God
3. Sisters of Mercy- Floodlands
4. Cure- Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
5. Prince- Sign o the Times
6. Smiths- Strangeways Here We Come
7. Sonic Youth- Sister
8. Marillion- Clutching at Straws
9. Depeche Mode- Music for the Masses
10. REM- Document

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Townes Van Zandt - At My Window
2. Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
3. Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
4. Jane Siberry - The Walking
5. Gene Clark & Carla Olson - So Rebellious a Lover
6. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
7. Dwight Yoakam - Hillbilly Deluxe
8. Siouxsie and The Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
9. Swans - Children of God
10. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

1. Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Phantom of the Opera
2. Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
3. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
4. Various Artists - The Lost Boys
5. Swans - Children of God
6. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
7. Christopher Young - Hellraiser
8. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
9. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
10. Echo & the Bunneymen - Echo & the Bunneymen

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1. Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Phantom of the Opera
2. Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
3. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
4. Various Artists - The Lost Boys
5. Swans - Children of God
6. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
7. Christopher Young - Hellraiser
8. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
9. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
10. Echo & the Bunneymen - Echo & the Bunneymen

How do you dance when your legs aren't moving?

 

[challenge_everything]

Peter Garrett inspired a generation of Aussie men to overcome their insecurity of being crap at dancing

 

[Slammed]

At least he didn't inspire them to follow his lead into politics.

 

[CiG]

Or make mediocre music oh wait.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Top Ten

1. Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
2. Swans - Children of God
3. The Young Gods - The Young Gods
4. Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
5. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
6. Laibach - Krst pod Triglavom: Baptism
7. Laibach - Opus Dei
8. Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years
9. Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
10. Ramleh - Hole in the Heart

Honourable Mention

• Sonic Youth - Sister
• Big Black - Songs About Fucking

 

[CiG]

Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

<3

 

[Bloopy]

The deadline is indefinite. This being the year of my birth, I expect record turnout, and frankly, I will not close this until that goal is reached!

Hop to it, you plebs!

 

[Burkhard]

1. Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
2. Kari Bremnes - Mitt ville hjerte
3. Jingo de Lunch - Perpetuum Mobile
4. France Gall - Babacar
5. Latin Quarter - Mick & Caroline

One of those years in which I listened nearly exclusively to metal. The first two albums are the only ones I still listen to.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

We must have more numbers.

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@no country for old wainds

 

[CiG]

rip

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

That is not dead which can eternal lie.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i mean, i will probably do this if you leave it open long enough.