It's the last Thursday and Friday of the month so, here's my top pick of songs from the year 1987. Tomorrow it will be the top albums, but today it is the top singles. And I don't use whether or not it was released as a single as a criteria just any song I liked enough. And there were plenty this year. A couple of Bay Area bands are on here. I really liked the Endmen. But also a couple of big name international hits. For some reason, I listened to the Throbbing Gristle track a lot this year. In other countries it may have been released in a different year, but for me this was the time. When I found out it was based on a real event, that just made it all the worse/better. It's a long song, but worthit. Lots of variety on here. Negativland from Concord, California was so good live, but their recordings were good too. The covers on here were also definitely good.
Top Pick 1987
Top Pick 1987
01 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Who Do You Love
02 Negativland - Perfect Scrambled Eggs
03 Throbbing Gristle - Very Friendly
04 Big Black - The Model
05 Nitzer Ebb - Murderous
06 The Endmen - Letter From Constance
07 ABC - When Smokey Sings
08 Pop Will Eat Itself - Beaver Patrol
09 Camper Van Beethoven - Photograph
10 Young Fresh Fellows - Amy Grant
11 The Multicoloured Shades - Teen Sex Tranfusion
12 Eric B And Rakim - Paid In Full (7 Minutes Of Madness Coldcut Remix)
13 REM - It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
14 Terence Trent D'arby - Wishing Well
15 That Petrol Emotion - Big Decision
16 INXS - Need You Tonight
17 M.A.R.R.S. - Pump up the Volume
18 Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
19 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
20 Pixies - Vamos
I don't remember any of that bar INXS and the Pet Shop Boys. We had very different 1987s, obviously!
ReplyDeleteThat's the best part of these kind of lists, you get to see stuff you never heard!
DeleteTop picks from my 1987 memories
ReplyDeleteThis is one from 1987 but I do not clearly remember when exactly I heard it first. I studied in Nijmegen and at that time a new guy started working at the recordstore and he had all kinds of crazy new music called Acid, house, techno. And I am sure he introduced me to Phuture - Acid Tracks
Other things that year
Eton Crop - Parafin Brain
The Chesterfields - Ask Johnny Dee
Electro Hippies - Sheep (best song of the year)
Public Enemy #1 EP
and even if you don't want christmas in this list: The Pogues with Kirsty MacCall - Fairytale of New York is a 1987 song
I do like the Pogues song, though. And now I have to go listen to Electro Hippies! What a great band name.
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