1987 - THE YEAR © ℗®™ Part 8 - Which album from this list of 1987 releases do you consider to be the best?

[treeduck]

1987, here's the choices... Edited April 18, 2020 by treeduck

[stoopid]

Appetite is/was one of the most important albums of the entire decade, setting the tone for 'acceptable' radio for decades that followed. Truly revolutionary album for the music industry.

 

There's a lot of awesome albums on this list. Maybe the hardest year of the decade.

[Rick N. Backer]

This one was the easiest by far. Hysteria, Girls x 3 and 1987 are all great albums.

 

But they're not as good as Appetite, and none of the others on this list even belongs in the same sentence with it.

[IbanezJem]

Finally, we`re getting to the years that I started to buy some of these records around the time they were released :dweez: Has to be Surfing With The Alien! Still blowing my mind after 33 years. Appetite isn`t my favourite GNR record but sure, it made it big impact then and it`s still great today.

[Nova Carmina]

So many really great records here (Triumph, Motorhead, Gary Moore, Anthrax!), but while I might wish I had some well-considered contrarian view, it's got to be Appetite for Destruction.

 

GnR gets downgraded in my recollection because of what an asshat Axl turned out to be, but that album is everything you want in hard rock.

[Maverick]

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

[Texas King]

It has to be Appetite.

 

But when it comes to metal, I love Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1.

[Stormtron]

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

[treeduck]

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

I had a momentary lapse of memory.

[J2112YYZ]

Among The Living

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Between Anthrax and U2 for me. Seeing as Anthrax are consistently underrated, I gave it to them.

[driventotheedge]

Axl Pose

 

That said, Appetite is one of hard rock's best albums ever imo.

[cygnify]

In 1987, I saw Rush 4 times, Pink Floyd, Yes, Aerosmith (front row), Guns and Roses (front row; featuring a near riot and the worst. live. sound. ever. Axl sounded like a frog!) Whitesnake twice, Heart (front row), Robert Plant (front row), Def Leppard (front row) among many others - my girlfriend's grandmother was a sponsor for a large concert venue near my hometown (Saratoga Perf Art Center) and we got comped front row seats for any show she didn't want (in other words, every rock show!)

 

As for the albums - lots of those I would have picked at the time, but didn't age well for me or weren't my favorites by those artists, so they may have been good, but a bit of a letdown (Pink Fraud!) No denying Appetite - huge influence, packed with good songs. However, I was well on my way to prog-snobdom - firmly immersed in classic Yes, Crimson, Kansas, Rush, Genesis. I was beginning to move out of my metal-phase of Maiden, Metallica, etc. So, my personal favorite from this year would be Marillion Clutching at Straws.

[Mithrandir]

Hysteria. One of the greatest pop/rock albums ever.

[The Cat 3]

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[custom55]

[Todem]

Whitesnake in a landslide for me.

 

That album is a monster to this day.

 

I loved The Joshua Tree as well.....great record (but not my fav from them.....that came in 1991).

 

Lot’s of good music here. GNR, Def Leppard makes their triumphant return. But Whitesnake's record is so freaking good. Just so damn good to this very day.

Edited April 17, 2020 by Todem

[tangy]

Appetite.

[1-0-0-1-0-0-1]

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

 

That one comes in second for me. Appetite wins easily.

[pjbear05]

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

^^^Yep, this^^^!

[blueschica]

Appetite For Destruction. It was such a great sound after some of the other 80's stuff. It was a struggle between that and U2's Joshua Tree, though.

[JohnnyBlaze]

Somewhat of a toss up between U2 and Satriani. Chose U2 because I can listen to Joshua Tree several times within a month whereas once a month of Surfing with the Alien is enough to satisfy.

[goose]

After a dismal '85 and '86, '87 saw rock come back with a vengeance.

 

Joshua Tree, Hysteria, Girls Girls Girls...great comeback album like Permanent Vacation, Crest of a Knave, Whitesnake.

 

 

But Appetite for Destruction changed everything. It put a stake in the heart of the 80s glam-metal vampire and brought straight ahead heavy guitar tone back to the mainstream. Fashion-wise, it opened the door for Grunge.

 

The easy winner, and I don't even like GnR.

[JohnnyBlaze]

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

^^^Yep, this^^^!

 

I’m not seeing that option. Otherwise, I would’ve voted that way

[treeduck]

Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

^^^Yep, this^^^!

 

I’m not seeing that option. Otherwise, I would’ve voted that way

It's not in. I could edit it?