9/10
- Husker Du: Zen Arcade (SST)
- Minutemen: Double Nickels On The Dime (SST)
- Butthole Surfers: Psychic Powerless (TouchAndGo)
- Diamanda Galas: Diamanda Galas (Metalanguage)
8.5/10
- Nick Cave: From Her To Eternity (Mute)
8/10
- Replacement: Let It Be (Zippo)
- Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic: Magnetic Flip (AceOfHearts)
- Julian Cope: World Shut Your Mouth (Mercury)
- Foetus: Hole (SelfImmolation)
- Swans: Cop (KCC)
- Steve Roach: Structures From Silence (Fortuna)
7.5/10
- Saccharine Trust: Surviving You (SST)
- Metallica: Ride The Lightning (Elektra)
- Eberhard Schoener: Sky Music - Mountain Music (Celestial Harmonies)
- Cocteau Twins: Treasure (4AD)
- Rhythm And Noise: Contents under notice (Ralph)
- Current 93: Nature Unveiled (Laylah)
- Dream Syndicate: Medicine Show (A&M)
- Julian Cope: Fried (Mercury)
- Stomu Yamash'ta: Sea And Sky (Victor)
7/10
- Ambitious Lovers: Envy (Eg-Jem)
- Bruce Springsteen: Born In The USA (CBS)
- Pretenders: Learning to Crawl (A&M)
- Killdozer: Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite (TouchAndGo)
- Zoogz Rift: Ipecac (Azra)
- Del-Lords: Frontier Days (Enigma)
- Die Kreuzen: Die Kreuzen (TouchAndGo)
- Plasticland: Plasticland (Pink Dust)
- Violent Femmes: Hallowed Ground (Slash)
- Young Fresh Fellows: The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific (Frontier)
- Chuck Vrtacek: Monkey On A Hard Roll (Leisure Time)
- Frightwig: Cat Farm Faboo (AlternativeTentacles)
- Lydia Lunch: In Limbo (DoubleVision)
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Broadcasting From Home (EGRecords)
- Gun Club: Las Vegas Story (Animal)
- News From Babel: Work Resumed On The Tower (Recommended)
- Univers Zero: Uzed (Recommended)
- Prince: Purple Rain (WB)
- Run-DMC: Run-DMC (Profile)
- Orthotonics: Wake Up You Must Remember (Generic)
- 23 Skidoo: Urban Gamelan (Illuminated)
- Cars: Heartbeat City (Elektra)
- Ry Cooder: Paris Texas (WB)
- Jane Siberry: The Speckless Spy (Duke Street)
- Echo & Bunnymen: Ocean Rain (Korova)
- Test Dept: Beating The Retreat (SomeBizarre)
- Throbbing Gristle: In The Shadow Of The Sun (Illuminated)
- Black Flag: Slip It In (SST)
- Dead Can Dance: Dead Can Dance (4AD)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers (Enigma)
- Art Of Noise: Who's Afraid Of (ZTT)
- Flipper: Gone Fishin' (Subterranean)
- Los Lobos: How Will The Wolf Survive (Slash)
- Del Fuegos: Longest Day (Slash)
- Beasts Of Bourbon: The Axeman's Jazz (Green)
- David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (Virgin)
- New Model Army: Vengeance (Abstract)
- Raincoats: Moving (RoughTrade)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Ongakuzukan/Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia (Virgin)
- Frank Zappa: Perfect Stranger - Director: Pierre Boulez
- Harold Budd: Abandoned Cities (Cantil)
- Deuter: Nirvana Road (Kuckuck)
- Kevin Braheny: Perelandra (Hearts Of Space)
- Manuel Gottsching: E2-E4 (Deutsche Astrophon)
- Michael Hedges: Aerial Boundaries (Windham Hill)
- Paolo Conte: Paolo Conte (CGD)
- Fabrizio De André: Creuza De Ma
- Smiths: The Smiths (RoughTrade)
- Hoodoo Gurus: Stoneage Romeo (BigTime)
- Samhain: Initium (Plan 9)
6.5/10
- Robert Quine & Fred Maher: Basic (EG)
- Christian Death: Catastrophe Ballett (InvitationAuSuicide)
- Scott Walker: Climate of Hunter (Virgin)
- Michael Hurley: Blue Navigator (Rounder)
- Billy Bragg: Brewing Up (Go Disc)
- Jonathan Richman: Sings (Sire)
- DB's: Like This (Bearsville)
- Scratch Acid: self-titled (RabidCat)
- 17 Pygmies: Jedda By The Sea (Resistance)
- Rising Force: self-titled (Polydor)
- True West: Drifters (PVC)
- Sun City Girls: self-titled (Placebo)
- Lyres: On Fyre (AceOfHeart)
- Half Japanese: Sing No Evil (iridescence)
- Coil: Scatology (Force & Form)
- Zoviet France: Eostre (Red Rhino)
- Honeymoon Killers: From Mars (Fur)
- Current 93: Maldoror Is Dead (Laylah)
- Hafler Trio: Bang-an Open Letter (DoubleVision)
- Tripod Jimmie: Long Walk Off A Short Pier (DoSpeak)
- Pandoras: It's About Time (Rhino)
- Ultravox: Lament (Chrysalis)
- Felt: The Strange Idols Pattern (Cherry Red)
- Hunters And Collectors: The Jaws Of Life (Slash)
- Minimal Man: Safari (CDPresents)
- Three Johns: Atom Drum Bop (Abstract)
- Long Ryders: Native Sons (Frontier)
- Voivod: War And Pain (Metal Blade)
- Cult: Dreamtime (BeggarsBanquet)
- Blood And The Saddle: self-titled (NewAlliance)
- Blue Aeroplanes: Bop Art (Abstract)
- Smiths: self-titled (RoughTrade)
- Tim Hodgkinson: Fluvial (Woof)
- Hoodoo Gurus: Stoneage Romeo (BigTime)
- G.B.H.: City Baby's Revenge (Relativity)
- No Means No: Mama (No Means No)
- Tina Turner: Private Dancer (Capitol)
- Celibate Rifles: self-titled (Hot)
- Little Steven: Voice Of America (EMI)
- Huey Lewis: Sports (Chrisalys)
- Everything But The Girl: Eden (BlancoYNegro)
- Steve Vai: Flex-able (Urantia)
- Joan Jett: Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth (1984)
- Alien Sex Fiend: Acid Bath (Epitaph)
- Playgroup: Epic Sound Battles Cpt. 2 (On-U)
- Prefab Sprout: Swoon (Kitchenware)
- Outta Place: We're Outta Place (Midnight)
- V-Effect: Stop Those Songs (RoughTRade)
- Twisted Sister: Stay Hungry (Atlantic)
- Pointer Sisters: Break Out (Planet)
- Plan 9: Dealing With The Dead (Midnight)
- Leaving Trains: Well Down Blue Highway (Bemisbrain)
- Home And Garden: History And Geography (Bizart)
- Don King (Doublevision)
- VanDyke Parks: Jump (WB)
- Steve Brown: Music For Solo Piano (Another Side)
- Lenny Kaye: I've Got A Right (Giorno)
- Trypes: Explorers Hold (Coyote)
- Bryan Adams: Reckless (A&M)
- Guadalcanal Diary: Walking In The Shadow (Elektra)
- Romeo Void: Istincts (415)
- Norman Salant: Sax Talk (CD)
- Effigies: Firever Grounded (Enigma)
- Madonna: Like A Virgin (Sire)
- Fat Boys: self-titled (Sutra)
- Depeche Mode: Some Great Reward (Mute)
- Youssou N'Dour: Immigres (Earthworks)
- Ratt: Out Of The Cellar (Atlantic)
- Sade: Diamond Life (Epic)
- Vipers: Outta The Nest (PVC)
- Reducers: self-titled (Rave On)
- Bangles: All Over The Place (Columbia)
- Style Council: Cafe` Bleu (Polydor)
- Carmel: The Drum Is Everything (WB)
- Samhain: Initium (Plan 9)
- Barrence Whitfield: And The Savages (Mamou)
- Wham: Make It Big (Epic)
- King Sunny Ade: Aura (Mango)
- New Edition: self-titled (MCA)
- Amy Grant: Age To Age (Myrrh)
- Don Henley: Building The Perfect Beast (Geffen)
- Cyndi Lauper: She's So Unusual (Portrait)
- Time: Ice Cream Castle (WB)
- Thompson Twins: Into The Gap (Arista)
EPs and minis:
- Tragic Mulatto: Judo For The Blind (Alternative Tentacles), 7.5/10
- Big Black: Bulldozer (Ruthless), 7/10
- Danielle Dax: Jesus Egg That Wept (Awesome), 7/10
- Dead Can Dance: Garden Of The Arcane Delights (4AD), 7/10
- Felt: Splendour Of Fear (Cherry Red), 7/10
- Flaming Lips: Flaming Lips (LSD), 7/10
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