8/10
- Mark Stewart: Learning To Cope With Cowardice (RoughTrade)
- Jane Siberry: No Borders Here (Open Air)
- Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels (4AD)
- Einsturzende Neubauten: Zeichnungen Des Patienten (PVC)
- Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (Island)
- Metallica: Kill 'Em All (Megaforce)
- Bad Brains: Rock For light (PVC)
- Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes (Slash)
- Jon Hassell: Aka-Darbari-Java Magic Realism (Eg)
- Peter Michael Hamel: Transition (Kuckuck)
- Swans: Filth (Neutral)
7.5/10
- R.E.M.: Murmur (IRS)
- Sonic Youth: Confusion Is Sex (Neutral)
- David Thomas: Variations On A Theme (RoughTrade)
- Golden Palominos: Golden Palominos (Celluloid)
- Virginia Astley: From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (Virgin)
- Klaus Schulze: Audentity (Brain)
7/10
- Minor Threat: Out Of Step (Dischord)
- Fleshtones: Hexbreaker (IRS)
- New Order: Power Corruption And Lies (Factory)
- Clock DVA: Advantage (Polydor)
- Slickee Boys: Cybernetic Dreams Of Pi (Twin/Tone)
- Blasters: Non Fiction (WB)
- Jah Wobble: Bedroom Album (Lago)
- Rob Wasserman: Solo (Rounder)
- Rip Rig Panic: Attitude (Virgin)
- Pere Ubu: Song Of The Bailing Man (RoughTrade)
- Lindsay Cooper: Gold Diggers (SyncPulse)
- Replacements: Hootenanny (Twin Tone)
- Cassiber: Man Or Monkey (Riskant)
- Meat Puppets: Meat Puppets II (SST)
- Go-Betweens: Before Hollywood (RoughTrade)
- Mofungo: Out Of Line (Zoar)
- Bill Laswell: Baselines (Elektra)
- 23 Skidoo: The Culling Is Coming (Operation Twilight)
- Alien Sex Fiend: Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain (Anagram)
- Embarrassment: Death Travels West (Fresh Sounds)
- Suicidal Tendencies: Suicidal Tendencies (Frontier)
- The The: Soul Mining (SomeBizarre)
- Green On Red: Gravity Talks (Slash)
- Rain Parade: Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (Enigma)
- Social Distortion: Mommy's Little Monster (13th Floor)
- Subhumans: The Day The Country Died (Spiderleg)
- Blue Nile: A Walk Across The Rooftops (Linn)
- Rudimentary Peni: Death Church (Corpus Christi)
- Richard Thompson: Hand Of Kindness (Hannibal)
- Lou Reed: Legendary Hearts (RCA)
- Zoviet France: Mohnomishe (Red Rhino)
- ZZ Top: Eliminator (WB)
- Danielle Dax: Pop Eyes (Initial)
- Cartoon: Music From Left Field (12-Tone Productions)
- Hunters And Collectors: The Fireman's Curse (White Label)
- Def Leppard: Pyromania (Virgin)
- D.R.I.: Dirty Rotten (R-Radical)
- Exciter: Heavy Metal Maniac (Shrapnel)
- Men & Volts: Hootersville (Eat)
- Three O'Clock: Sixteen Tambourines (Frontier)
- Wipers: Over The Edge (Brain Eater)
- Ono: Machines That Kill People (Thermidor)
- Daniel Johnston: Yip/Jump Music (Stress)
- Frank Zappa: Zappa (Barking Pumpkin)
- Arthur Russell: Tower of Meaning (Chatam Square)
- Mark Isham: Vapor Drawings (Windham Hill)
- Mercyful Fate: Melissa (Roadrunner)
- Michael Stearns: Lyra Sound Constellation (Continuum Montage)
- Newtown Neurotics: Beggars Can Be Choosers (Razor)
- Van Morrison: Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart (Mercury)
- Velvet Monkeys: Future (Fountain Of Youth)
6.5/10
- Alan Vega: Saturn Strip (Ze)
- John Greaves & Peter Blegvad: Kew Rhone (Europa)
- Univers Zero: Ceux Du Dehors (Recommended)
- Chris Knox: Songs For Cleaning Guppies (Flying Nun)
- John Hiatt: Riding With The King (Geffen)
- Cabaret Voltaire: Crackdown (Some Bizarre)
- Shonen Knife: Burning Farm (Zero)
- Ex: Blueprints For A Blackout (Big Brother)
- Van Halen: 1984 (WB)
- Necros: Tangled Up (Restless)
- Shriekback: Care (Y)
- X: More Fun In The New World (Elektra)
- Ben Watt: North Marine Drive (CherryRed)
- Stephan Weisser: Elemental Music (Subterranean)
- Marillion: Script For A Jester's Tear (EMI)
- Adrian Belew: Twang Bar King (Island)
- Chris Stamey: It`s A Wonderful Life (DB)
- Velvet Monkeys: Future (Fountain Of Youth)
- Richard Kirk: Time High Fiction (Doublevision)
- Marc Almond: Untitled (Some Bizarre)
- 10,000 Maniacs: Secrets Of The I Ching (Christian Burial)
- SS Decontrol: Give It Away (Xclaim)
- Nurse With Wound: Ostranenie 1913 (Third Mind)
- Wolfgang Press: The Burden Of Mules (4AD)
- Killing Joke: Fire Dances (EG)
- U2: War (Island)
- Was Not Was: Born To Laugh At Tornadoes (Ze)
- Plimsouls: Everywhere At Once (Geffen)
- Tears For Fears: Hurting (Poligram)
- Nocturnal Emissions: Drowning In A sea Of Bliss (Sterile)
- Bananarama: Deep Sea Skiving (Rama)
- Arkansaw Men (Alterboys)
- Katrina And The Waves: Walking On Sunshine (Attic)
- Will Sergeant: Themes For Grind (Satisfied)
- Slicky Boys: Cybernetic Dreams Of Pi (TwinTone)
- Aztec Camera: High Land Hard Rain (RoughTRade)
- LeRoi Brothers: Check This Action (Amazing)
- Dumptruck: D Is For Dumptruck (Incas)
- Shockabilly: Earth VS (RoughTrade)
- Dome: Will You Speak to This World (Uniton)
- Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Flood (Epic)
- Hanoi Rocks: Back To Mystery City
- Let's Active: Cypress (IRS)
- Police: Synchronicity (A&M)
- Madonna: self-titled (Sire)
- Wire Train: In A Chamber (415)
- Renaldo And The Loaf: Arabic Yodeling (Ralph)
- Bryan Adams: Cuts Like A Knife (A&M)
- Meatmen: We're The Meatmen (Touch And Go)
- Midnight Oil: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 (Columbia)
- Phosphenes: self-titled (Coyote)
- 45 Grave: Sleep In Safety (Enigma)
- Paul Marotta: Agit-prop Piano (DoSpeak)
- Phosphenes (Coyote)
- Big Country: The Crossing (Mercury)
- Triffids: Treeless Plain (Hot)
- Unclaimed (Hysteria)
- Kommunity FK: The Vision And The Voice (Independent Project)
- Ronnie James Dio: Holy Diver (Vertigo)
- Severed Heads: Since The Accident (Ink)
- Yaz: You And Me Both (Sire)
- Accept: Restless & Wild (Portrait)
- Heaven 17: Luxury Gap (Arista)
- Sex Gang Children: Song And Legend (Illuminated)
- Thompson Twins: Quick Step & Side Kicks (Arista)
- Quiet Riot: Metal Health (Pasha)
- Greg Kihn: Kihnspiracy (Beserkley)
EPs and minis:
- Butthole Surfers: Butthole Surfers (Alternative Tentacles), 8/10
- Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic: Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic (Ace Of Hearts), 7.5/10
- Birthday Party: The Bad Seed (4AD), 7.5/10
- Birthday Party: Mutiny (Mute), 7/10
- 17 Pigmies: Hatikva (Resistance), 7/10
- Micronotz: Smash (Fresh Sounds), 7/10
- Big Black: Lungs (Ruthless), 7/10
- Billy Bragg: Life's a Riot with Spy Vs Spy (Utility), 7/10
- Husker Du: Metal Circus (Reflex), 7/10
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