The Top Albums from 1987

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	26	Prince	Sign 'O' the Times		Listen
2	36	U2	The Joshua Tree		Listen
3	62	Guns N' Roses	Appetite for Destruction		Listen
4	248	Sonic Youth	Sister		Listen
5	302	R.E.M.	Document
6	334	Eric B. & Rakim	Paid in Full		Listen
7	471	Public Enemy	Yo! Bum Rush the Show		Listen
8	492	Boogie Down Productions	Criminal Minded		Listen
9	511	Hüsker Dü	Warehouse: Songs and Stories		Listen
10	562	The Smiths	Strangeways, Here We Come		Listen
11	589	Def Leppard	Hysteria		Listen
12	611	Dinosaur Jr.	You're Living All Over Me		Listen
13	618	Bruce Springsteen	Tunnel of Love		Listen
14	641	George Michael	Faith		Listen
15	666	John Hiatt	Bring the Family		Listen
16	718	Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares	Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares		Listen
17	744	Midnight Oil	Diesel and Dust		Listen
18	813	Pet Shop Boys	Pet Shop Boys, Actually		Listen
19	838	Big Black	Songs about Fucking		Listen
20	840	The Replacements	Pleased to Meet Me		Listen
21	859	Salif Keita	Soro		Listen
22	926	Sinéad O'Connor	The Lion and the Cobra		Listen
23	933	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Darklands
24	986	Depeche Mode	Music for the Masses		Listen
25	1018	Spacemen 3	Perfect Prescription		Listen
26	1213	Terence Trent D'Arby	Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby		Listen
27	1226	Napalm Death	Scum		Listen
28	1238	Robbie Robertson	Robbie Robertson		Listen
29	1316	Lyle Lovett	Pontiac
30	1385	Butthole Surfers	Locust Abortion Technician		Listen
31	1387	INXS	Kick		Listen
32	1408	The Cult	Electric
33	1464	Tom Waits	Frank's Wild Years		Listen
34	1508	The Cure	Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me		Listen
35	1525	Swans	Children of God		Listen
36	1613	John Cougar Mellencamp	The Lonesome Jubilee		Listen
37	1616	Michael Jackson	Bad		Listen
38	1737	David Sylvian	Secrets of the Beehive		Listen
39	1788	10,000 Maniacs	In My Tribe		Listen
40	1856	Pixies	Come On Pilgrim
41	1860	The Sisters of Mercy	Floodland		Listen
42	1889	Sting	Nothing Like the Sun		Listen
43	1969	Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris	Trio		Listen
44	1981	Van Morrison	Poetic Champions Compose		Listen
45	2058	Joe Satriani	Surfing with the Alien		Listen
46	2062	John Zorn	Spillane		Listen
47	2085	Whitesnake	Whitesnake/1987		Listen
48	2090	LL Cool J	Bigger and Deffer		Listen
49	2092	The Bats	Daddy's Highway		Listen
50	2202	Sly and Robbie	Rhythm Killers		Listen
51	2226	Aerosmith	Permanent Vacation		Listen
52	2267	Anthrax	Among the Living		Listen
53	2298	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	Shaka Zulu		Listen
54	2511	Los Lobos	By the Light of the Moon		Listen
55	2529	Dead Can Dance	Within the Realm of a Dying Sun		Listen
56	2567	Chris Isaak	Chris Isaak		Listen
57	2681	The Wedding Present	George Best		Listen
58	2952	Negativland	Escape from Noise		Listen
59	2972	The Pastels	Up for a Bit with The Pastels
60	2981	The Housemartins	The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Laibach	Opus Dei		Listen
		That Petrol Emotion	Babble		Listen
		Wynton Marsalis	Live at Blues Alley		Listen
		Deacon Blue	Raintown
		Alexander O'Neal	Hearsay		Listen
		Lee Perry	Time Boom x De Devil Dead		Listen
		Suzanne Vega	Solitude Standing		Listen
		Abdel Aziz el Mubarak	Abdel Aziz el Mubarak		Listen
		Randy Travis	Always & Forever		Listen
		Willy DeVille	Miracle