We hope that you enjoyed our huge feature on The Best Albums of 1987. If you happened to miss it, please click here.
There were so many great releases that didn't get included in the Best Albums of 1987 feature - since we limited ourselves to the Top 15. In this post you will find 15 more albums that Sarah and I selected that didn't make an appearance on any of our lists. A track from each album is added to the playlist at the bottom - and we threw in 60 extra songs that we thoroughly enjoy. We hope you do too! So without further delay, here are our Honorable Mentions for 1987.
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The Alarm - Eye of the Hurricane
David Bowie - Never Let Me Down
The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) - Psonic Psunspot
Erasure - The Circus
Erasure - Two Ring Circus
Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
Gene Loves Jezebel - The House of Dolls
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah
Lions & Ghosts - Velvet Kiss, Lick of the Lime
New Order - Substance
Pop Will Eat Itself - Box Frenzy
Primal Scream - Sonic Flower Groove
Redd Kross - Neurotica
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
The Toasters - Skaboom!
Alison Moyet - 'Is This Love?' from Raindancing
Aztec Camera - 'Somewhere in My Heart' from Love
The Bats - 'Block of Wood' from Daddy's Highway
The Bolshoi - 'T.V. Man' from Lindy's Party
Christian Death - 'Golden Age' from The Scriptures
Close Lobsters - 'Just Too Bloody Stupid' from Foxheads Stalk This Land
The Communards - 'Never Can Say Goodbye' from Red
The Connells - 'Scotty's Lament' from Boylan Heights
The Cult - 'Love Removal Machine' from Electric
The dB's - 'Think Too Hard' from The Sound of Music
Deacon Blue - 'Dignity' from Raintown
Dead Can Dance - 'Dawn of the Iconoclast' from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
The Dead Milkmen - 'Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything)' from Bucky Fellini
Dead or Alive - 'Brand New Lover' from Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
Descendents - 'Pep Talk' from All
Dinosaur Jr. - 'Just Like Heaven' from You're Living All Over Me
Dumptruck - 'Going Nowhere' from For the Country
Eric B & Rakim - 'I Know You Got Soul' from Paid in Full
Eurythmics - 'Shame' from Savage
Faith No More - 'We Care A Lot' from Introduce Yourself
fIREHOSE - 'Windmilling' from If'n
Flesh for Lulu - 'Postcards from Paradise' from Long Live the New Flesh
For Against - 'Forget Who You Are' from Echelons
Guadalcanal Diary - 'Litany (Life Goes On)' from 2X4
The Gun Club - 'The Breaking Hands' from Mother Juno
Guns 'N Roses - 'Sweet Child o' Mine' from Appetite for Destruction
Happy Mondays - 'Twenty Four Hour Party People' from Squirrel and G-Man...
Hoodoo Gurus - 'What's My Scene' from Blow Your Cool!
Husker Du - 'Could You Be the One?' from Warehouse: Songs and Stories
INXS w/ Jimmy Barnes - 'Good Times' from The Lost Boys Soundtrack
Julian Cope - 'World Shut Your Mouth' from Saint Julian
Laibach - 'Opus Dei' from Opus Dei
The Lemonheads - 'Don't Tell Yourself' from Hate Your Friends
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - 'Jennifer She Said' from Mainstream
Loop - 'Straight to Your Heart' from Heaven's End
Marc Almond w/ The Winning Sinners - 'Ruby Red' from Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters
Midnight Oil - 'Bullroarer' from Diesel and Dust
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - 'Elvis is Everywhere' from Bo-Day-Shus!!!
Oingo Boingo - 'We Close Our Eyes' from Boi-ngo
Pixies - 'Caribou' from Come On Pilgrim
The Proclaimers - 'Letter from America' from This is the Story
Public Enemy - 'Public Enemy No. 1' from Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Ramones - 'I Wanna Live' from Halfway to Sanity
Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Funky Crime' from The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
The Replacements - 'Alex Chilton' from Pleased to Meet Me
Screaming Trees - 'Other Days and Different Planets' from Even If and Especially When
The Silencers - 'Painted Moon' from A Letter from St Paul
Soundgarden - 'Hunted Down' from Screaming Life EP
Squeeze - 'Hourglass' from Babylon and On
Steve Earle & The Dukes - 'The Rain Came Down' from Exit 0
Suzanne Vega - 'Luka' from Solitude Standing
Swans - 'Blackmail' from Children of God
That Petrol Emotion - 'Big Decision' from Babble
Throwing Muses - 'A Feeling' from the Just Say Yes compilation
Tom Waits - 'Way Down in the Hole' from Franks Wild Years
The Triffids - 'A Trick of the Light' from Calenture
Wolfgang Press - 'Cut the Tree' from the Lonely is an Eyesore compilation
X - '4th of July' from See How We Are
Yello - 'The Rhythm Divine' from One Second
The Young Gods - 'Did You Miss Me' from The Young Gods
If you're a vinyl enthusiast, check out our feature on the Spin Clean Vinyl Record Cleaning Machine (click image below)
