In 1987, the U.S. stock market crashed, Margaret Thatcher was re-elected, and the search for Nessie came up empty, but it wasn’t a shabby year for music. In our survey of ’87 we’ll hear from The Replacements, The Dead Milkmen, Dinosaur Jr., The Cure, The Go-Betweens, The Wedding Present, Miracle Legion, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The House of Love, the Pixies, Sonic Youth, and The Smiths; plus we’ll try to jog your memory with cuts from The Bambi Slam, Opal, Das Damen, Flying Color, The Celibate Rifles, The Crucifucks, The Bodines, The Leather Nun, The Creepers, and The Silencers.

Playlist

1. The Wedding Present — What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?
2. Lemonheads — Uhhh
3. The Celibate Rifles — I Still See You
4. Pixies — Nimrod’s Son
5. The Leather Nun — Jesus Came Driving Along
6. Flying Color — Farewell Song
7. Miracle Legion — Mr. Mingo
8. The Jesus And Mary Chain — Cherry Came Too
9. The Bambi Slam — Bamp-Bamp
10. Das Damen — Gray Isn’t Black
11. The Shamen — Something About You
12. The Creepers — Liquorice Flavour
13. Half Japanese — Ouija Board Summons Satan
14. The Dead Milkmen — Surfin’ Cow
15. Echo & The Bunnymen — New Direction
16. Close Lobsters — Sewer Pipe Dream
17. The Chills — Brave Words
18. Opal — Revelation
19. Sonic Youth — (I Got A) Catholic Block
20. Front 242 — Quite Unusual
21. Nitzer Ebb — Violent Playground
22. Big Black — The Model
23. The Smiths — London
24. The Bevis Frond — Termination Station Grey
25. Dinosaur Jr. — Little Fury Things
26. The House Of Love — Shine On
27. Midnight Oil — Dreamworld
28. Dumptruck — 50 Miles
29. R.E.M. — Disturbance At The Heron House
30. Dag Nasty — Wig Out At Denkos
31. The Crucifucks — Laws Against Laughing
32. Husker Du — Could You Be The One?
33. Cosmic Psychos — Going Down
34. The Replacements — The Ledge
35. The Cure — One More Time
36. The Silencers — I See Red
37. Big Dipper — When Men Were Trains
38. The Housemartins — Bow Down
39. The Bodines — Slip Slide
40. The Bats — Round And Down
41. The Go-Betweens — Cut It Out