Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1987

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1987

Listing for 313 records from 1987 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Culture: *Two Sevens Clash* [Shanachie] Prince: *Sign o' the Times* [Paisley Park] Sonny Rollins: *G-Man* [Milestone]
A	Angry Samoans: *Gimme Samoa: 31 Garbage-Pit Hits* [PVC] Black Flag: *Wasted Again* [SST] Ornette Coleman: *In All Languages* [Caravan of Dreams] Ian Dury & the Blockheads: *Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll* [Demon] The Go-Betweens: *Tallulah* [Big Time] The Jimi Hendrix Experience: *Live at Winterland* [Rykodisc] New Order: *Substance* [Qwest] Pretenders: *The Singles* [Sire] R.E.M.: *Document* [I.R.S.] The Sonny Sharrock Band: *Seize the Rainbow* [Enemy] Sly and Robbie: *Rhythm Killers* [Island] Sonic Youth: *Sister* [SST] Bruce Springsteen: *Tunnel of Love* [Columbia]
A-	Age of Chance: *Crush Collision* [Virgin EP] Aztec Camera: *Love* [Sire] David Behrman: *Leapday Night* [Lovely Music] Big Black: *Songs About Fucking* [Touch and Go] Black Uhuru: *Positive* [RAS] Camper Van Beethoven: *Vampire Can Mating Oven* [Pitch-a-Tent EP] Johnny Cash: *Columbia Records 1958-1986* [Columbia] Rosanne Cash: *King's Record Shop* [Columbia] Marshall Chapman: *Dirty Linen* [Tall Girl] Stella Chiweshe: *Ambuya?* [GlobeStyle] The Cucumbers: *The Cucumbers* [Profile] Culture: *Culture at Work* [Shanachie] Dramarama: *Box Office Bomb* [Questionmark] Marianne Faithfull: *Strange Weather* [Island] Fat Boys: *The Best Part of the Fat Boys* [Sutra] A Flock of Seagulls: *The Best of a Flock of Seagulls* [Jive] Rosie Flores: *Rosie Flores* [Reprise] French Frith Kaiser Thompson: *Live, Love, Larf and Loaf* [Rhino] Great Plains: *Sum Things Up* [Homestead] Al Green: *Soul Survivor* [A&M] The Housemartins: *The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death* [Elektra] Hüsker Dü: *Warehouse: Songs and Stories* [Warner Bros.] Ronald Shannon Jackson: *When Colors Play* [Caravan of Dreams] Kid Creole and the Coconuts: *I, Too, Have Seen the Woods* [Sire] Kool Moe Dee: *How Ya Like Me Now* [Jive] Kool Moe Dee: *Kool Moe Dee* [Jive] Ladysmith Black Mambazo: *Shaka Zulu* [Warner Bros.] Los Lobos: *By the Light of the Moon* [Slash] Madonna: *You Can Dance* [Sire] Reba McEntire: *Greatest Hits* [MCA] Meat Puppets: *Huevos* [SST] The Mekons: *New York* [ROIR] John Cougar Mellencamp: *The Lonesome Jubilee* [Mercury] Minutemen: *Ballot Result* [SST] Motorhead: *Rock 'n' Roll* [GWR/Profile] Sinéad O'Connor: *The Lion and the Cobra* [Chrysalis] Pet Shop Boys: *Actually* [EMI-Manhattan] Professor Longhair: *Houseparty New Orleans Style* [Rounder] The Replacements: *Pleased to Meet Me* [Sire] Tom Robinson: *The Collection 1977-87* [EMI] Ray Stevens: *Greatest Hits Vol. 2* [MCA] That Petrol Emotion: *Babble* [Polydor] Henry Threadgill Sextett: *You Know the Number* [Novus] Tom Verlaine: *Flash Light* [I.R.S.] Bunny Wailer: *Rootsman Skanking* [Shanachie] Stevie Wonder: *Characters* [Motown] Warren Zevon: *Sentimental Hygiene* [Virgin] *Reggae Dance Hall Classics* [Sleeping Bag] *The Tanzania Sound* [Original Music] *A Very Special Christmas* [A&M]
B+	King Sunny Ade: *The Return of the Juju King* [Mercury] Aerosmith: *Classics Live II* [Columbia] Age of Chance: *One Thousand Years of Trouble* [Virgin] Dave Alvin: *Romeo's Escape* [Epic] John Anderson: *Blue Skies Again* [MCA] Angry Samoans: *Yesterday Started Tomorrow* [PVC EP] Chuck Berry: *Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll* [MCA] Black Britain: *Obvious* [Virgin] Alpha Blondy: *Apartheid Is Nazism* [Shanachie] Boogie Down Productions: *Criminal Minded* [B Boy] Jean-Paul Bourelly: *Jungle Cowboy* [JMT] Charles Brown: *One More for the Road* [Blue Side] Johnny Cash: *Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town* [Mercury] Alex Chilton: *High Priest* [Big Time] Colorblind James Experience: *Colorblind James Experience* [Earring] Ry Cooder: *Get Rhythm* [Warner Bros.] Mary Coughlan: *Tired and Emotional* [Green Linnet/Mystery] The Cult: *Electric* [Sire] Culture Club: *This Time: The First Four Years -- Twelve Worldwide Hits* [Epic/Virgin] Terence Trent D'Arby: *Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby* [Columbia] The Dead Milkmen: *Bucky Fellini* [Enigma] Carmaig DeForest: *I Shall Be Released* [Good Foot] Depeche Mode: *Music for the Masses* [Sire] Dinosaur Jr.: *You're Living All Over Me* [SST] D.O.A.: *True (North) Strong and Free* [Profile] The Donner Party: *The Donner Party* [Cryptovision] The Dukes of Stratosfear: *Psonic Psunspot* [Geffen] Bobby Durham: *Where I Grew Up* [HighTone] Sheila E.: *Sheila E.* [Paisley Park] Earth, Wind & Fire: *Touch the World* [Columbia] Joe Ely: *Lord of the Highway* [HighTone] Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine: *Let It Loose* [Epic] Eurythmics: *Savage* [RCA Victor] The Fastbacks: *. . . And His Orchestra* [PopLlama] Fishbone: *It's a Wonderful Life (We Gonna Have a Good Time)* [Columbia EP] Fleetwood Mac: *Tango in the Night* [Warner Bros.] David Frishberg: *Can't Take You Nowhere* [Fantasy] Spoonie Gee: *The Godfather of Rap* [Tuff City] Girlschool: *Nightmare at Maple Cross* [GWR/Profile] Peter Gordon: *Brooklyn* [FM] Half Japanese: *Music to Strip By* [50 Skadillion Watts] Jon Hassell: *The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound* [Intuition/Capitol] Billy Idol: *Vital Idol* [Chrysalis] Michael Jackson: *Bad* [Epic] Michael Jackson: *The Original Soul of Michael Jackson* [Motown] The Jesus and Mary Chain: *Darklands* [Warner Bros.] Kanda Bongo Man: *Amour Fou/Crazy Love* [Carthage] Kassav': *Kassav' #5* [Celluloid] Gladys Knight & the Pips: *All Our Love* [MCA] Last Exit: *The Noise of Trouble (Live in Tokyo)* [Enemy] The Lounge Lizards: *No Pain for Cakes* [Island] Lynyrd Skynyrd: *Legend* [MCA] Mahlathini: *The Lion of Soweto* [Earthworks/Virgin] Sam Mangwana: *Aladji* [Syllart] Mel McDaniel: *Greatest Hits* [Capitol] The McGuires: *Start Breathing* [Righteous] The Mekons: *Honky Tonkin'* [Twin/Tone] George Michael: *Faith* [Columbia] Midnight Oil: *Diesel and Dust* [Columbia] The Million Dollar Quartet: *The Million Dollar Quartet* [S] Mofungo: *End of the World, Part 2* [Lost] Van Morrison: *Poetic Champions Compose* [Mercury] Roy Nathanson, Curtis Fowlkes and the Jazz Passengers: *Broken Night/Red Light* [Disques de Crepuscle] Negativland: *Escape from Noise* [SST] The Neville Brothers: *Uptown* [Capitol] Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper: *Bo-Day-Shus!!* [Enigma] N.T.U. Small Tigers: *Mususkungibulala Wethu* [Kaya] Alexander O'Neal: *Hearsay* [Tabu] Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris: *Trio* [Warner Bros.] Peter and the Test Tube Babies: *Peter and the Test Tube Babies* [Profile] Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: *Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)* [MCA] Buster Poindexter: *Buster Poindexter* [RCA Victor] Power Tools: *Strange Meeting* [Antilles] Public Enemy: *Yo! Bum Rush the Show* [Def Jam] A.C. Reed: *I'm in the Wrong Business* [Alligator] Royal Crescent Mob: *Omerta* [Moving Target] The Screaming Blue Messiahs: *Bikini Red* [Elektra] Shirati Jazz: *Benga Beat* [Carthage] Shoes: *Best* [Black Vinyl] The Silos: *Cuba* [Record Collect] Sister Breeze: *Riddym Ravings* [ROIR] The Smiths: *Louder Than Bombs* [Sire] Soul Asylum: *While You Were Out* [Twin/Tone] Thelonious Monster: *Next Saturday Afternoon* [Relativity] T La Rock: *Lyrical King* [Fresh] Moe Tucker: *Moejadkatebarry* [50 Skadillion Watts EP] UTFO: *Lethal* [Select] Loudon Wainwright III: *More Love Songs* [Rounder] Barrence Whitfield and the Savages: *Ow! Ow! Ow!* [Rounder] Victoria Williams: *Happy Come Home* [Geffen] The Windbreakers: *A Different Sort . . .* [DB] Young Fresh Fellows: *The Men Who Loved Music* [Frontier] *Christmas Rap* [Profile] *Homeland* [Rounder] *Mbube! Zulu Men's Singing Competition* [Rounder] *Reggae Dance Party* [RAS] *Sounds of Soweto* [Capitol] *South African Trade Union Worker Choirs* [Rounder] *Take Cover* [Shanachie] *The Wailing Ultimate* [Homestead] *La Bamba* [Slash] *Less Than Zero* [Def Jam]
B	Joey Arias: *Arias on Holiday* [Flaming Pie EP] Eric B. & Rakim: *Paid in Full* [4th & Broadway] Rubén Blades y Seis del Solar: *Agua de Luna* [Elektra] Boyoyo Boys: *Back in Town* [Rounder] Bruce Cockburn: *Waiting for a Miracle* [Gold Castle] The Cover Girls: *Show Me* [Fever] Crazy Backwards Alphabet: *Crazy Backwards Alphabet* [SST] Marshall Crenshaw: *Mary Jean & Nine Others* [Warner Bros.] The Cure: *Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me* [Elektra] The dB's: *The Sound of Music* [I.R.S.] The Doctor's Children: *King Buffalo* [Restless] Steve Earle: *Early Tracks* [Epic] Steve Earle & the Dukes: *Exit 0* [MCA] Faster Pussycat: *Faster Pussycat* [Elektra] Fat Boys: *Crushin'* [Tin Pan Apple/Polydor] Firehose: *If'n* [SST] The Furies: *Fun Around the World* [Infrasonic] Nanci Griffith: *Lone Star State of Minid* [MCA] Ted Hawkins: *Happy Hour* [Rounder] The Horseflies: *Human Fly* [Rounder] Ice-T: *Rhyme Pays* [Sire] The Iguanas: *Reptiles, Lust and Dogs* [Midnight] Chris Isaak: *Chris Isaak* [Warner Bros.] Ism: *Nightmare at Noon* [Raw Power EP] Elton John: *Elton John's Greatest Hits, Volume III, 1979-1987* [Geffen] The Johnnys: *Highlights of a Dangerous Life* [Enigma] Evan Johns and the H-Bombs: *Evan Johns and the H-Bombs* [Jungle] Just Desserts: *Sentimental War* [Earhorn] Salif Keita: *Soro* [Mango] Madhouse: 8 [Paisley Park] Mel McDaniel: *Just Can't Sit Down Music* [Capitol] NRBQ: *God Bless Us All* [Rounder] The Obvious: *Home* [I Wanna EP] Roy Orbison: *In Dreams: The Greatest Hits* [Virgin] K.T. Oslin: *80's Ladies* [RCA Victor] The Psychedelic Furs: *Midnight to Midnight* [Columbia] Public Image Ltd.: *Happy?* [Virgin] Pussy Galore: *Right Now!* [Caroline] Smokey Robinson: *One Heartbeat* [Motown] Schoolly-D: *The Further Adventures of Schoolly-D* [Rykodisc] Schoolly-D: *Saturday Night* [Jive] Scrawl: *Plus, Also, Too--* [No Other] Marvin Sease: *Marvin Sease* [London] Simply Red: *Men and Women* [Elektra] The Smiths: *Strangeways, Here We Come* [Sire] Spot 1019: *Spot 1019* [Pitch-a-Tent] Chris Stamey: *It's Alright* [A&M] Chuck Stanley: *The Finer Things in Life* [Columbia] Sting: *. . . Nothing Like the Sun* [A&M] George Strait: *Greatest Hits, Volume Two* [MCA] Keith Sweat: *Make It Last Forever* [Elektra/Vintertainment] Jamaaladeen Tacuma: *Music World* [Gramavision] Tiffany: *Tiffany* [MCA] Randy Travis: *Always and Forever* [Warner Bros.] Trouble Funk: *Trouble Over Here/Trouble Over There* [Island] UB40: *UB40 CCCP--Live in Moscow* [A&M] U2: *The Joshua Tree* [Island] Ricky Van Shelton: *Wild-Eyed Dream* [Columbia] Ben Vaughn Combo: *Beautiful Thing* [Restless] Bunny Wailer: *Rule Dance Hall* [Shanachie] Tom Waits: *Franks Wild Years* [Island] Steve Wariner: *Greatest Hits* [MCA] Roger Waters: *Radio KAOS* [Columbia] Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks: *It Came from Nashville* [Landslide] X: *See How We Are* [Elektra] Neil Young & Crazy Horse: *Life* [Geffen]
B-	Anthrax: *I'm the Man* [Island EP] Art of Noise: *In No Sense? Nonsense!* [Chrysalis] The Boomtown Rats: *Greatest Hits* [Columbia] Joe "King" Carrasco y las Coronas: *Bandido Rock* [Rounder] Club Nouveau: *Life, Love and Pain* [Warner Bros.] Exposé: *Exposure* [Arista] Front 242: *Official Version* [Wax Trax] The Golden Palominos: *Blast of Silence* [Celluloid] Guns N' Roses: *Appetite for Destruction* [Geffen] Merle Haggard: *Chill Factor* [Epic] George Harrison: *Cloud Nine* [Dark Horse] John Hiatt: *Bring the Family* [A&M] Mick Jagger: *Primitive Cool* [Columbia] George Jones: *Super Hits* [Epic] George Jones: *Too Wild Too Long* [Epic] Lyle Lovett: *Pontiac* [Curb] Hugh Masekela With Kalahari: *Tomorrow* [Warner Bros.] Megadeth: *So Far, So Good . . . So What!* [Capitol] The Miracle Legion: *Surprise Surprise Surprise* [Rough Trade] New Model Army: *New Model Army* [Capitol EP] Bob Pfeifer: *After Words* [Passport] Redd Kross: *Neurotica* [Big Time] Patty Smyth: *Never Enough* [Columbia] Split Enz: *History Never Repeats (The Best of Split Enz)* [A&M] Bruce Springsteen: *Chimes of Freedom* [Columbia EP] Squeeze: *Babylon and On* [A&M] The Sugarcubes: *Life's Too Good* [Elektra] 10,000 Maniacs: *In My Tribe* [Elektra] James Blood Ulmer: *America -- Do You Remember the Love?* [Blue Note] Volcano Suns: *Bumper Crop* [Homestead] Whodini: *Open Sesame* [Jive] Wire: *The Ideal Copy* [Enigma] Peter Wolf: *Come as You Are* [EMI America] Tammy Wynette: *Anniversary: Twenty Years of Hits* [Epic] Dwight Yoakam: *Hillbilly Deluxe* [Reprise] Young Fresh Fellows: *Refreshments* [Frontier EP] *Out of Our Idiot* [Demon]
C+	Bryan Adams: *Into the Fire* [A&M] Aerosmith: *Permanent Vacation* [Geffen] Blotto: *I Wanna Be a Lifeguard* [Performance] David Bowie: *Never Let Me Down* [EMI America] Dana Dane: *Dana Dane With Fame* [Profile] Bryan Ferry: *Bête Noire* [Reprise/EG] Debbie Gibson: *Out of the Blue* [Atlantic] Grateful Dead: *In the Dark* [Arista] Green on Red: *The Killer Inside Me* [Mercury] Whitney Houston: *Whitney* [Arista] Joe Jackson: *Will Power* [A&M] Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam: *Spanish Fly* [Columbia] L.L. Cool J: *Bigger and Deffer* [Def Jam] Paul McCartney: *All the Best* [Capitol] Meat Puppets: *Mirage* [SST] Ray Parker Jr.: *After Dark* [Geffen] Ramones: *Halfway to Sanity* [Sire] R.E.M.: *Dead Letter Office* [I.R.S.] Robbie Robertson: *Robbie Robertson* [Geffen] Rose Royce: *The Best of Rose Royce* [Omni] Joe Satriani: *Surfing With the Alien* [Relativity] The Sisters of Mercy: *Floodland* [Elektra] 38 Special: *Flashback* [A&M] David Thomas and the Wooden Birds: *Blame the Messenger* [Twin/Tone] Frank Tovey: *The Fad Gadget Singles* [Sire] Suzanne Vega: *Solitude Standing* [A&M] Jody Watley: *Jody Watley* [MCA] Hank Williams Jr.: *Wild Streak* [Warner/Curb] Steve Winwood: *Chronicles* [Island] *Back to the Beach* [Columbia]
C	Def Leppard: *Hysteria* [Mercury] Heart: *Bad Animals* [Capitol] The Judds: *Heart Land* [RCA Victor] Little Steven: *Freedom No Compromise* [Manhattan] Pink Floyd: *A Momentary Lapse of Reason* [Columbia]
C-	Cutting Crew: *Broadcast* [Virgin] The Doors: *Live at the Hollywood Bowl* [Elektra EP] *Who's That Girl* [Sire]
D+	Rick Astley: *Whenever You Need Somebody* [RCA Victor] Whitesnake: *Whitesnake* [Geffen] White Zombie: *Soul-Crusher* [Caroline]
D	*Dirty Dancing* [RCA Victor]

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