New Order - Low-Life (English synth pop / post punk)
The Cure - The Head On The Door (English alternative rock / post punk)
Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun (American psychedelic rock / alternative rock)
Descendents - I Don’t Want To Grow Up (American punk rock)
Butthole Surfers - Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis (American hardcore punk / psychedelic rock, EP)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (Scottish noise pop / alternative rock, debut album)
Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea (Scottish dream pop / ethereal wave, the first of three EPs released in the same year)
“Weird Al” Yankovic - Dare To Be Stupid (American song parody / comedy music)
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (English art pop)
Cocteau Twins - Tiny Dynamine (Scottish dream pop / ethereal wave, the second of three EPs released in the same year)
The Power Station - The Power Station (English/American funk rock, supergroup featuring Robert Palmer and members of Duran Duran and Chic)
Arcadia - So Red The Rose (English pop / art rock, spinoff of Duran Duran featuring three-fifths of that group, guest appearances include Grace Jones, Sting, David Gimour and Herbie Hancock)
Minor Threat - Salad Days (American hardcore punk, EP the band’s last release)
Ministry - All Day / Every Day (Is Halloween) (American synth pop, 12” single)
Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory (American alternative rock, debut album)
The Dead Milikmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard (American punk rock / comedy rock, debut album)
Cocteau Twins - Echoes In A Shallow Bay (Scottish dream pop / ethereal wave, the third of three EPs released in the same year)
The Fall - This Nation’s Saving Grace (English post punk)
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease (American thrash metal, their first album with vocalist Joey Belladonna)
Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles (English jazz rock, debut solo album for Police frontman)
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! (American thrash metal, debut album for band formed by former Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine)
Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English Or Die (American crossover thrash, debut album for band featuring members of Anthrax)
Corrosion Of Conformity - Animosity (American crossover thrash / hardcore punk)
Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain (American glam metal)
Slayer - Hell Awaits (American thrash metal)
Possessed - Seven Churches (American thrash metal / death metal, debut album, arguably the first death metal album, featuring future Primus guitarist Larry Lalonde)
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal (English neoclassical / goth rock)
Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (English goth rock / post punk, single)
A-ha - Hunting High And Low (Norwegian synth pop, debut album)
Peter Gabriel - Birdie (English ambient music, soundtrack to the film of the same name)
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction (American alternative rock / folk rock)
The Velvet Underground - VU (American proto-punk / art rock, outtake compilation / “lost album” recorded between 1968 and 1969)
Run-DMC - King of Rock (American hip hop)
LL Cool J - Radio (American hip hop, debut album)
Mantronix - The Album (American electro / hip hop, debut album)
Faith No More - We Care A Lot (American funk metal / post punk, debut album)
Killing Joke - Night Time (English post punk / gothic rock)
The Damned - Phantasmagoria (English gothic rock)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (American experimental rock / Americana)
Black Flag - Loose Nut (American hardcore punk / heavy metal)
Black Flag - The Process of Weeding Out (American punk jazz / instrumental rock, EP)
Misfits - Legacy of Brutality (American horror punk, compilation of non-album singles and previously unreleased early songs)
The Replacements - Tim (American alternative rock / punk rock, first major label album and last album by the original lineup of the band)
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising (American post-hardcore / alternative rock)
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig (American power pop / punk rock)
Black Flag - In My Head (American post-hardcore / heavy metal, their last album before breaking up in 1986)
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist (American punk rock)
John Fogerty - Centerfield (American rock and roll / heartland rock, solo album by Creedence Clearwater Revival vocalist where he played all instruments)
The Cult - Love (English hard rock / gothic rock)
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash (English celtic punk / folk punk, produced by Elvis Costello)
The Highwaymen - Highwayman (American country music, debut album for supergroup of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson)
Beat Happening - Beat Happening (American indie rock / jangle pop, debut, expanded 1990 reissue of a 1985 EP)
AC/DC - Fly On The Wall (Australian hard rock / heavy metal)
Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors (American hard rock)
Talking Heads - Little Creatures (American new wave / pop rock)
The Residents - The Big Bubble (American art rock, concept album portraying the music of a fictional band within their “Mole Trilogy” albums)
U2 - Wide Awake In America (Irish rock, half live and half studio EP, featuring two performances of songs from their 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire and two B-Sides from the era)
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Southern Accents (American heartland rock / southern rock)
They Might Be Giants - 1985 Demo (American alternative rock, demo tape mostly featuring songs that would be re-recorded or remixed for future albums)
Simple Minds - Once Upon A Time (Scottish arena rock)
Various Artists - The Breakfast Club Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Soundtrack to the 1985 dramedy film including Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”)
Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon (English ambient music, album consisting of one 60 minute piece of music)
Skinny Puppy - Bites (Canadian industrial, expanded 1993 reissue of their debut full length album)
Rush - Power Windows (Canadian art pop / progressive rock)
White Zombie - Gods On Voodoo Moon (American noise rock / horror punk, debut EP)
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion (Swiss black metal / doom metal, first full length album)
Dinosaur Jr - Dinosaur (American alternative rock / cowpunk, debut album, originally released when the band were known as Dinosaur)
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (American noise rock / experimental rock)
Tears For Fears - Songs from the Big Chair (English new wave / progressive pop)
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man’s Party (American new wave / ska)
Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers of Prevention (American experimental rock / electronic music / sound collage, including a piece using excerpts from the PMRC hearings which Frank Zappa himself took part in)
Rites of Spring - Rites Of Spring (American post-hardcore/emo featuring future Fugazi members Guy Picciotto and Brendan Canty and produced by Ian MacKaye, their only full length album)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley (American funk rock / funk punk, produced by Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton)
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (English alternative rock)
Daniel Johnston - Continued Story (American indie rock / folk,, his first album to include songs recorded in a professional studio with a backing band (The Texas Instruments))
Todd Rundgren - A Cappella (American art rock / a cappella, recorded entirely with the artist’s own voice)
DRI (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) - Dealing With It! (American hardcore punk / crossover thrash)
Mekons - Fear and Whiskey (English alternative rock / alternative country)
The Clash - Cut The Crap (English punk rock / new wave, their final studio album, featuring a new lineup of the band with Joe Strummer as the sole founding member)
The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically (English post-punk / gothic rock)
Heart - Heart (American hard rock / pop rock)
Prince and The Revolution - Around the World In A Day (American psychedelic funk / pop rock)
Half Man Half Biscuit - Back In The DHSS (English post-punk, debut album)
Dexys Midnight Runners - Don’t Stand Me Down (English blue-eyed soul / new wave)
‘Til Tuesday - Voices Carry (American new wave / rock, debut album for band featuring Aimee Mann)
Revolting Cocks - No Devotion (Belgian / American industrial dance, debut single for group featuring members of Ministry and Front 242)
Exodus - Bonded By Blood (American thrash metal, debut album)
Whiplash - Power and Pain (American thrash metal, debut album)
Dio - Sacred Heart (American heavy metal)
Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox (Dutch gothic rock / darkwave, debut album)
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 (English art pop / sophisti-pop)
Fine Young Cannibals - Fine Young Cannibals (English pop-rock, debut album)
Marillon - Misplaced Childhood (English progressive rock / neo-prog)
Top 10:
- Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
- Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
- The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
- The Pogues - Rum Sodomy And The Lash
- Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
- Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
- REM - Fables of the Reconstruction
- The Replacements - Tim
- Husker Du - New Day Rising
- The Cure - The Head On The Door
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