Tom redd wasteland 33/1/2023 ![]() ![]() (By the way, neither list is truly ordered in terms of preference.) Whenever "What Have I Done to Deserve This," "Vanishing Girl," and "Midnight Blue" are playing, I swear there never was a better single than what's playing right now. Heady stuff, but as I assemble my own 1987 lists - which, by their nature, are incomplete there's only so much you can fit in on these things and you're bound to forget something - I find myself drawn to the singles, particularly the three that I've placed near the top of my list. brought the noise a year before Public Enemy did, John Hiatt went roots rock with the help of Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe, and Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson followed up on career-defining blockbusters. cracked the Top 10, the year the Smiths and Hüsker Dü broke up, hip-hop turned into an album-oriented art form, Guns N' Roses had their debut LP and the Pixies had their debut EP, Prince delivered his fourth or fifth masterpiece (maybe even his sixth, if The Black Album is added into the equation), Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. It was the year U2 turned into superstars and R.E.M. The Smiths - "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"īutthole Surfers - Locust Abortion TechnicianĬamper Van Beethoven - Vampire Can Mating Ovenġ987 was one of the pivotal years of the '80s. ![]() ![]() "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield - "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" ![]() Twisted Sister - "Wake Up the Sleeping Giant"Įcho & the Bunnymen - Echo & the Bunnymenīiz Markie - "Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz"Ĭutting Crew - "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" Guadalcanal Diary - "Litany (Life Goes On)" Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball The Two Coreys may have been safe in Santa Carla fighting off Kiefer Sutherland and his lame, bloodsucking friends, but it was just a matter of time before they became Lost Boys themselves. Even metal revolted, spewing out soon-to-be classics from Anthrax, King Diamond, Helloween, and Death - Metallica even made an EP of punk covers. '80s excess was alive and well - George Michael still had Faith (as did his many female fans) - but its inevitable backlash ripped open a hole in the underground, releasing bands like U2, R.E.M., the Cult, the Smiths, Sonic Youth, the Cure, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Replacements, and the Pixies into the mainstream, generously sowing the seeds for the '90s alternative rock movement. Reagan and Gorbachev's Cold War had been replaced by a lesser feud between Roger Waters ( Radio K.A.O.S.) and David Gilmour's version of Pink Floyd ( A Momentary Lapse of Reason), and hair metal had peaked (both literally and figuratively) with huge albums from Europe, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Aerosmith, Whitesnake, and Guns N' Roses. 1987 was bad (ask Michael Jackson), but somewhere between all of the gated drums, punk icons morphing into sleazy, populist lounge singers (Buster Poindexter), and vanity albums from Don Johnson and Bruce Willis, something was happening. ![]()
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