Music in 1987

By Patrick Mondout

Three of the biggest acts of the decade had the best albums of their careers in 1987: First there were the Irish rockers U2 with their Grammy winning The Joshua Tree, then there was Prince with his sprawling masterpiece Sign of the Times, and finally there was the then-heterosexual (or so he know claims) George Michael with Faith. One of the best debut albums from an artist in the Awesome80s - or any other decade for that matter - came in the form of Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby. Other commercial successes included Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love, INXS's Kick, Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and Michael Jackson's followup to 1982's Thriller, Bad.

Here are some of the albums you may have been listening to in 1987:

Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love

Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Debbie Gibson - Out Of The Blue

Deborah Allen - Telepathy

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full

George Michael - Faith

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

INXS - Kick

Jill Jones

Jody Watley

John Hiatt - Bring The Family

Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Shaka Zulu

Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton - Trio

Los Lobos - By The Light Of The Moon

Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather

Michael Jackson - Bad

Morris Day - Daydreaming

New Order - Substance: The Singles 1980-1987

Pet Shop Boys - Actually

Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse of Reason

Prince - Sign of the Times

R.E.M. - Document

Randy Travis - Randy Travis

Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me

Rosanne Cash - King's Record Shop

Stevie Wonder - Characters

Taja Sevelle

Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline...

Tiffany

U2 - The Joshua Tree

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