Post #168769 by boutiki on Wed, Jun 29, 2005 4:33 PM

1985 Wasn't too shabby either. Plus I was in college and had a late night show on the University radio station– so most of these are still in our record collection:

Tom Waits: Rain Dogs
R.E.M.: Fables of the Reconstruction  
Talking Heads: Little Creatures   
Camper Van Beethoven: Telephone Free Landslide Victory  
The Replacements: Tim   
The Smiths: Meat is Murder
Hüsker Dü: New Day Rising   
The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy   
The Pogues: Rum, Sodomy And The Lash   
Minutemen: 3-Way Tie for Last
The Cure: The Head On The Door   
Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising
New Order: Low-Life      
Meat Puppets : Up On the Sun
Big Audio Dynamite: This Is Big Audio Dynamite   
The Waterboys: This Is The Sea   
The Fall: This Nation's Saving Grace  
The Cult: Love     
The Sisters of Mercy: First and Last and Always     
Hüsker Dü: Flip Your Wig   
Butthole Surfers: Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac   
Ry Cooder:Paris, Texas [OST]   
The Chameleons: What Does Anything Mean? Basically   
Suzanne Vega: Suzanne Vega   
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love   
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms     
The Church: Heyday   
Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal   
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Firstborn is Dead   
Einstürzende Neubauten: Halber Mensch   
D.R.I.: Dealing With It      
Hoodoo Gurus: Mars Needs Guitars!   
Sting: The Dream of the Blue Turtles   
Sam Cooke: Live At The Harlem Square Club,    John Cougar Mellencamp: Scarecrow   
The Mekons: Fear and Whiskey   
Yello: Stella   
John Fogerty: Centerfield   
Killing Joke: Night Time   
The Dead Milkmen: Big Lizard in My Backyard   
Bryan Ferry: Boys and Girls   
Oingo Boingo: Dead Man's Party   
Dead Kennedys: Frankenchrist   
Shriekback: Oil and Gold      
INXS: Listen Like Thieves   
Beat Farmers:Tales of the New West   
Love and Rockets: Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven   
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians: Fegmania!   
Richard Thompson : Across A Crowded Room   
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley   
Peter Gabriel: Birdy - Music From The Film   
Simply Red: Picture Book   
Jason & The Scorchers: Lost & Found   
Tom Petty: Southern Accents   
Skinny Puppy: Bites   
The Descendents: I Don't Want to Grow Up   

Ah, the days before college radio was co-opted and sold as "alternative".

-Duke