50 There's A Ghost In My House The Fall
49 Sweat Loaf Butthole Surfers
48 The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death Housemartins
47 Little Fury Dinosaur Jr.
46 In A Jar Dinosaur Jr.
45 Shatner The Wedding Present
44 Standing In The Rain Hüsker Dü
43 New Sensation INXS
42 Lips Like Sugar Echo and the Bunnymen
41 Where the Streets Have No Name U2
40 Strings of Life Rythim Is Rythim
39 Pour Some Sugar on Me Def Leppard
38 My Favourite Dress The Wedding Present
37 If I Was Your Girlfriend Prince
36 Here I Go Again Whitesnake
35 Critizise Alexander O'Neal
34 Need You Tonight INXS
33 Death of A Disco Dancer The Smiths
32 It's a Sin Pet Shop Boys
31 Faith George Michael
30 Hit The North The Fall
29 Somewhere In My Heart Aztec Camera
28 Nimrod's Son Pixies
27 Never Let Me Down Again Depeche Mode
26 Shine On The House of Love
25 It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M.
24 I Know You Got Soul Eric B. & Rakim
23 Bring the Noise Public Enemy
22 April Skies The Jesus and Mary Chain
21 I Won't Share You The Smiths
20 Darklands The Jesus and Mary Chain
19 What Have I Done to Deserve This Pet Shop Boys Feat. Dusty Springfield
18 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me The Smiths
17 1963 New Order
16 Just Like Heaven The Cure
15 Rebel Without a Pause Public Enemy
14 Big Decision That Petrol Emotion
13 Paid in Full Eric B. & Rakim
12 Walking With Jesus Spaceman 3
11 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2
10 True Faith New Order
9 Bullet the Blue Sky U2
8 Pump Up the Volume M/A/R/R/S
7 Starfish + Coffee Prince
6 Shoplifters of The World Unite The Smiths
5 Caribou Pixies
4 Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft The Wedding Present
3 Dear God XTC
2 Sign 'O' the Times Prince
1 Birthday The Sugarcubes

Stephan, how are the final album and song lists progressing? Just curious.

We've lost Stephan since the day he discovered the joys of student life.
Hey Stephan where are you ? We miss you !
What's her name ?

Which one?

I haven't left you, I still try to read most of the forum.. just haven't had much time to post. I have however drastically improved my collating skills and am now done with the songs list. Albums will be done tomorrow and then I'll post both. Once again, sorry for the extremely long delay.

Half a month late, but as some people like to put it: better late than never. I haven't had time to check for exact titles of the albums and whether or not all were made in 1987.. but so be it. Anyway, here we go:

Albums:
1) Prince - Sign 'O' The Times
2) U2 - The Joshua Tree
3) R.E.M. - Document
4) Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
5) The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
6) Sonic Youth - Sister
7) Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
9) The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
10) Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full

Songs:
1) Prince - Sign 'O' The Times
2) Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
3) The Cure - Just Like Heaven
4) U2 - With Or Without You
5) R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
6) Public Enemy - Bring The Noise
7) Sugarcubes - Birthday
R.E.M. - The One I Love
9) XTC - Dear God
10) New Order - True Faith

Complete list can be found here: . Please report any mistakes I might have made.

Thanks Stephan. Great work (like always but this time in an adverse situation). But I’ve found two mistakes:
- The Joshua Tree listed twice, but since you duplicated the points it doesn’t affect to the final position.
- The points that Greg gave to “Alex Chilton” by The Replacements are counted in a separate entry, and if you sum them in the correct entry “Alex Chilton” displaces “True Faith” and enters into the Top 10 (shit, I shouldn’t have said that, I like both songs but I prefer the New Order one).

I knew that Greg thing would come back to bite me in the ass. He's got his albums in a different format than his songs and I didn't notice that in time.

Thanks, edited.

Thanks, Stephan - great lists, as always.

Hate to even bother mentioning this, since it has no impact on anything, but the Pixies' "Holiday Song" is listed twice, once as "The Holiday Song".

sorry stephan!

(thanks honorio!)

Thanks, Stephan, and welcome back from not being away

Prince wins, no real surprises in the top 10's.

Then 2 further corrections for the albums, that don't really make a difference to the end result, but anyway:
- The Lonesome Jubilee from John (Cougar) Mellencamp has 3entries in the list, all together good for 37+7+1=45 points.
- Sting has two entries, good for 10+18=28 points

No big surprises, a lot of 'last good album from big 80's bands that is not as critically acclaimed as their earlier stuff' for me to consider whether or not to get.

I already have Warehouse, based on Tim I probably wouldn't like Pleased To Meet Me, so that only leaves Strangeways.

Also Tunnel of Love, which I am ambivalent about because I love Nebraska but am not as big on his arena sounding stuff.

Great work, Stephan!

So, Alex Chilton made the top 10?

instead of a lame "No, but Paul Westerberg did" joke:

yeah, John, in case you haven't noticed yourself by now, according to Stephan's updated spreadsheet "he" is. hoo. ray.

I'm in love with that song!