Hi again, Henrik. Well, fortunately the purchase of the Rockdelux lists is coming to an end. Staples has kindly send to me the complete Rockdelux lists (except the best albums of 1986 published in Rockdelux 26, that is almost impossible to find). Thank you so much, Staples.

The best albums of 1987 in Rockdelux were published in RDL 37 (January 1988):
1. PRINCE “Sign ‘O’ the Times”
2. TOM WAITS “Frank’s Wild Years”
3. TOM VERLAINE “Flash Light”
4. THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN “Darklands”
5. SONIC YOUTH “Sister”
6. TERENCE TRENT D’ARBY “Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby”
7. THE SMITHS “Strangeways, Here We Come”
8. R.E.M. “Document”
9. THAT PETROL EMOTION “Babble”
10. SUZANNE VEGA “Solitude Standing”
11. SLY & ROBBIE “Rhythm Killers”
12. CHRIS ISAAK “Chris Isaak”
13. HÜSKER DÜ “Warehouse: Songs and Stories”
14. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Tunnel of Love”
15. VAN MORRISON “Poetic Champions Compose”
16. SWANS “Children of God”
17. PUBLIC ENEMY “Yo! Bum Rush the Show”
18. THE WEDDING PRESENT “George Best”
19. THE LOUNGE LIZARDS “No Pain for Cakes”
20. WISEBLOOD “Dirtdish”
21. ORNETTE COLEMAN “In All Languages”
22. THE HOUSEMARTINS “The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death”
23. ERIC B. & RAKIM “Paid in Full”
24. HOLGER CZUKAY “Rome Remains Rome”
25. JOHN LURIE “Down By Law”
26. JULIAN COPE “Saint Julian”
27. BIG BLACK “Songs About Fucking”
28. LYNN WHITE “That’s How Strong My Love Is”
29. ALEX CHILTON “High Priest”
30. DWIGHT YOAKAM “Hillbilly Deluxe”
31. MATHILDE SANTING “Out of This Dream”
32. DANIELLE DAX “Inky Bloaters”
33. THE GO-BETWEENS “Tallulah”
34. L.L. COOL J “Bigger and Deffer”
35. LESTER BOWIE’S BRASS FANTASY “Twilight Dreams”
36. JOHN HIATT “Bring the Family”
37. U2 “The Joshua Tree”
38. MARIANNE FAITHFULL “Strange Weather”
39. MICHAEL JACKSON “Bad”
40. ALEXANDER O’NEILL “Hearsay”
41. RENALDO AND THE LOAF “The Elbow Is Taboo”
42. CHUCK BROWN AND THE SOUL SEARCHERS “Live’87”
43. BHUNDU BOYS “True Jit”
44. NEIL YOUNG “Life”
45. 10.000 MANIACS “In My Tribe”
46. THROWING MUSES “The Fat Skier”
47. HAPPY MONDAYS “Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)
48. DEXTER GORDON “The Other Side of Round Midnight”
49. ROBBIE ROBERTSON “Robbie Robertson”
50. WARREN ZEVON “Sentimental Hygiene”

And the best songs of 1987:
1. SUZANNE VEGA “Luka”
2. THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN “Darklands”
3. TERENCE TRENT D’ARBY “If You Let Me Stay”
4. PRINCE “Sign ‘O’ the Times”
5. JULIAN COPE “Trampolene”
6. SLY & ROBBIE “Boops (Here to Go)”
7. THAT PETROL EMOTION “Big Decision”
8. BOBBY WOMACK “Living in a Box”
9. THE BEATMASTERS & THE COOKIE CREW “Rok da House”
10. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Walk Like a Man”
11. TOM WAITS “Cold Cold Ground”
12. M/A/R/R/S “Pump Up the Volume”
13. THE CHESTERFIELDS “Ask Johnny Dee”
14. THE GODFATHERS “Love Is Dead”
15. NEW ORDER “True Faith”
16. PUBLIC ENEMY “Sophisticated Bitch”
17. HÜSKER DÜ “You Can Live at Home”
18. THE GO-BETWEENS “Right Here”
19. R.E.M. “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
20. L.L. COOL J “I Need Love”
21. BARRY WHITE “Sho’ You Right”
22. PET SHOP BOYS “What Have I Done to Deserve This”
23. THE HOUSEMARTINS “Bow Down”
24. THE CHRISTIANS “Forgotten Town”
25. THE BLOW MONKEYS “It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way”
26. THE STRANGLERS “Always the Sun”
27. DIANA ROSS “Mr. Lee”
28. THE WEATHER PROPHETS “Can’t Keep My Mind off You”
29. DEPECHE MODE “Never Let Me Down Again”
30. FAT BOYS & THE BEASTIE BOYS “Wipe Out”
31. THE SMITHS “Girlfriend in a Coma”
32. LOS LOBOS “La Bamba”
33. FRONT 242 “Agressiva”
34. LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS “My Bag”
35. THE STYLE COUNCIL “It Didn´t Matter”
36. U2 “With or Without You”
37. THE CURE “Why Can’t I Be You?”
38. THE KANG GANG “Motortown”
39. MICHAEL JACKSON “Smooth Criminal”
40. CHRIS ISAAK “Blue Hotel”
41. SIMPLY RED “The Right Thing”
42. LISA LISA AND CULT JAM “Head to Toe”
43. THE FALL “Sleep Debt Snatchers”
44. CARMEL “I Do I Do”
45. THE WEDDING PRESENT “My Favourite Dress”
46. STEVIE WONDER “Skeletons”
47. BRYAN FERRY “The Right Stuff”
48. THE SOUP DRAGONS “Head Gone Astray”
49. THREE WISE MEN “Refresh Yourself”
50. MADONNA “Who’s That Girl”

The best albums of 1988 in Rockdelux were published in RDL 48 (January 1989):
1. PUBLIC ENEMY “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”
2. PIXIES “Surfer Rosa”
3. PRINCE “Lovesexy”
4. R.E.M. “Green”
5. PERE UBU “The Tenement Year”
6. TALKING HEADS “Naked”
7. SONIC YOUTH “Daydream Nation”
8. TRACY CHAPMAN “Tracy Chapman”
9. ERIC B. & RAKIM “Follow the Leader”
10. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS “Tender Prey”
11. JAMES BROWN & FULL FORCE “I’m Real”
12. MORRISSEY “Viva Hate”
13. LEONARD COHEN “I’m Your Man”
14. DEFUNKT “In America”
15. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & FAMILY “The Light”
16. THE POGUES “If I Should Fall from Grace with God”
17. PATTI SMITH “Dream of Life”
18. JOHN ZORN “Spillane”
19. THE SUGARCUBES “Life’s Too Good”
20. BRIAN WILSON “Brian Wilson”
21. THE BEATNIGS “The Beatnigs”
22. MICHELLE SHOCKED “Short Sharp Shocked”
23. PET SHOP BOYS “Introspective”
24. ANITA BAKER “Giving You the Best That I Got”
25. DINOSAUR JR. “Bug”
26. ORNETTE COLEMAN & PRIME TIME “Virgin Beauty”
27. BILLY BRAGG “Worker Playtimes”
28. LIVING COLOUR “Vivid”
29. RANDY NEWMAN “Land of Dreams”
30. THAT PETROL EMOTION “End of the Millennium Psychosis Blues”
31. DIAMANDA GALAS “You Must Be Certain of the Devil”
32. GRAHAM PARKER “The Mona Lisa’s Sister”
33. NEIL YOUNG & THE BLUENOTES “This Note’s for You”
34. BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS “By All Means Necessary”
35. PREFAB SPROUT “From Langley Park to Memphis”
36. A.R. KANE “69”
37. MORY KANTE “Akwaba Beach”
38. VAN MORRISON & THE CHIEFTAINS “Irish Heartbeat”
39. SCRITTI POLITTI “Provision”
40. NANCI GRIFFITH “Little Love Affairs”
41. BAND OF SUSANS “Hope Against Hope”
42. RUN D.M.C. “Tougher Than Leather”
43. RANDY TRAVIS “Old 8x10”
44. FOETUS INTERRUPTUS “Thaw”
45. THE WOODENTOPS “Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway”
46. BUTTHOLE SURFERS “Hairway to Steven”
47. WOMACK & WOMACK “Conscience”
48. GARY CLAIL’S TACKHEAD SOUND SYSTEM “Tackhead Tape Time”
49. SHINEHEAD “Unity”
50. THE FEELIES “Only Life”
51. LUTHER VANDROSS “Any Love”
52. CHEB KHALED & SAFY BOUTELLA “Kutché”
53. THE PROCLAIMERS “Sunshine on Leith”
54. K.D. LANG “Shadowland”
55. JULIAN COPE “My Nation Underground”
56. FELT “The Pictorial Jackson Review”
57. JOE STRUMMER “Walker”
58. STETSASONIC “In Full Gear”
59. JONATHAN RICHMAN AND THE MODERN LOVERS “Modern Lovers 88”
60. FISHBONE “Truth and Soul”

And the best songs of 1988:
1. PRINCE “Alphabet Street”
2. PATTI SMITH “People Have the Power”
3. LEONARD COHEN “First We Take Manhattan”
4. THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN “Sidewalking”
5. R.E.M. “World Leader Pretend”
6. THE HOUSE OF LOVE “Christine”
7. THE PRIMITIVES “Crash”
8. BOMB THE BASS “Beat Dis”
9. THE SUGARCUBES “Birthday”
10. THAT PETROL EMOTION “Groove Check”
11. ERIC B. & RAKIM “Follow the Leader”
12. JOYCE SIMS “Come into My Life”
13. THE GODFATHERS “Birth, School, Work, Death”
14. PREFAB SPROUT “Cars & Girls”
15. GIPSY KINGS “Bamboleo”
16. THE POGUES “Fairytale of New York”
17. MORY CANTÉ “Yé Ké Yé Ké”
18. AFRICA BAMBAATAA & UB40 “Reckless”
19. PET SHOP BOYS “Domino Dancing”
20. THE WOODENTOPS “Stop This Car”
21. L.L. COOL J “Going Back to Cali”
22. THE WEATHER PROPHETS “Hollow Heart”
23. IGGY POP “Cold Metal”
24. BOBBY MCFERRIN “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
25. U2 “Desire”
26. MORRISSEY “Suedehead”
27. TALKING HEADS “Mr. Jones”
28. ANITA BAKER “Giving You the Best That I Got”
29. RUN D.M.C. “Run’s House”
30. TIMBUK 3 “Easy”
31. THE CHURCH “Under the Milky Way”
32. THE FALL “Victoria”
33. FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION “Perfect”
34. THREE WIZE MEN “Cruising For a Bruising”
35. RUBÉN BLADES “Letters to the Vatican”
36. THE STYLE COUNCIL “Life at the Top People’s Health Farm”
37. PREFAB SPROUT “The King of Rock’n’Roll”
38. JAMES BROWN & FULL FORCE “I’m Real”
39. WAS (NOT WAS) “Spy the House of Love”
40. MICA PARIS “My One Temptation”

It's good to see Prince get some major love! I also am happy to see Strangeways, Here We Come place well.

Thousand thanks, Honorio!!!

look at that little usually ignored track rounding out the top 50!

Honorio, nothing is impossible- track down those 1986 lists- I have the faith!

Thanks for posting.

It is cool to see it make the list, but I like "Causin' a Commotion" AND "The Look of Love" better!

the only notable list Iv'e seen it part of is Q's Ultimate Music Collection (and, in that new Songs & Artists book). Who's That Girl now has a few year-end lists to its credit, plus the Q citation. Both often are overlooked- notice their lack of inclusion on Immaculate Collection, which likely doesn't help their case, either.

i think "whos that girl" and "causing a commotion" arent usually cited because most people recognize them for the rehashes of "la isla bonita" and "into the groove," respectively, that they are. was there anything good on that soundtrack?

Nice to see That Petrol Emotion, Tom Verlaine’s Flashlight (his best solo album, I reckon), Pere Ubu and Julian Cope all receiving just acknowledgments. The biggest oversight off the top of my head - where is the Go-Betweens’ 16 Lovers Lane on the 88 list? The Fall’s Frenz Experiment could have found a home on there as well, particularly since they found room for that fairly lame Joe Strummer album.

both opbviously are Spanish-sounding/influenced. Both are good dotties, though Bonita probably has endured more. Commotion is fun, but isn't nearly as strong as Into the Groove.

Look of Love is a nice ballad from the soundtrack; the other Madonna track on the soundtrack- Can't Stop- is fun, but completely throwaway.