The Eagles remain atop the list, and it looks like they might be there for a while.


You should check out the 1986 results on the results thread if you haven’t done so yet.

Post your ballots on the 1987 voting thread.


HALL OF ACCLAIM: TOP 100 CANDIDATES FOR 1987 ELECTION

Only releases through December 31, 1986 included.

1986 releases indicated with an asterisk.

1. THE EAGLES
ALBUMS: The Eagles (2837); Desperado (1004); One of These Nights (2218); Hotel California (86).
SONGS: Take It Easy (2176); Desperado (1176); One of These Nights (1039); Take It to the Limit (2740); New Kid in Town (2513); Hotel California (43).

2. GRATEFUL DEAD
ALBUMS: Anthem of the Sun (2397); Live/Dead (347); Aoxomoxoa (1818); Workingman’s Dead (357); American Beauty (305).
SONGS: Dark Star (684); Uncle John’s Band (1217); Box of Rain (651).

3. T. REX
ALBUMS: Electric Warrior (182); The Slider (695).
SONGS: Get It On (Bang a Gong) (110); Jeepster (2240); Telegram Sam (603); Children of the Revolution (569); 20th Century Boy (570).

4. PAUL SIMON
ALBUMS: Paul Simon (664); There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (818); Still Crazy After All These Years (867); Graceland (66)*.
SONGS: Kodachrome (2610); 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (1381); You Can Call Me Al (2134)*; Graceland (1003)*.

5. RUN-D.M.C.
ALBUMS: Run-D.M.C. (668); King of Rock (2983); Raising Hell (185)*.
SONGS: It’s Like That (628); Sucker MC’s (955); Rock Box (1092); My Adidas (1528)*; Peter Piper (2191)*; Walk This Way (88)*.

6. THE SPECIALS
ALBUMS: The Specials (186); More Specials (1669); In the Studio (1672).
SONGS: Gangsters (579); A Message to You Rudy (1368); Too Much Too Young (2580); Ghost Town (90); Free Nelson Mandela (609).

7. ROD STEWART
ALBUMS: The Rod Stewart Album (2085); Gasoline Alley (816); Every Picture Tells a Story (154); Never a Dull Moment (1621); Atlantic Crossing (2621); A Night on the Town (2819).
SONGS: Maggie May (107); You Wear It Well (1867); Tonight’s the Night (1520); Da Ya Think I’m Sexy (2284).

8. CREAM
ALBUMS: Fresh Cream (1129); Disraeli Gears (183); Wheels of Fire (428).
SONGS: I Feel Free (1560); Sunshine of Your Love (461); White Room (2395); Crossroads (1296); Badge (1711).

9. RANDY NEWMAN
ALBUMS: 12 Songs (336); Sail Away (384); Good Old Boys (424); Little Criminals (1021); Trouble in Paradise (2865).
SONG: Sail Away (701).

10. CROSBY, STILLS, NASH (& YOUNG)
ALBUMS: Crosby, Stills and Nash (315); Dèjá Vu (151); Four-Way Street (1287).
SONGS: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (1331); Helpless (1552); Ohio (547).

11. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
ALBUMS: Surrealistic Pillow (164); After Bathing at Baxter’s (1277); Crown of Creation (2083); Volunteers (926).
SONGS: Somebody to Love (476); White Rabbit (223).

12. DEEP PURPLE
ALBUMS: In Rock (348); Machine Head (242); Made in Japan (407).
SONGS: Highway Star (2098); Smoke on the Water (509).

13. GRANDMASTER FLASH
ALBUM: The Message (915).
SONGS: The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (257); The Message (15); White Lines (Don’t Do It) (309).

14. PETER GABRIEL
ALBUMS: Peter Gabriel (I) (2584); Peter Gabriel (III) (451); Peter Gabriel (IV)/Security (1352); So (204)*.
SONGS: Solsbury Hill (1676); Games Without Frontiers (1183); Biko (1486); Sledgehammer (897)*; In Your Eyes (1889)*.

15. JANIS JOPLIN/BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY
ALBUMS: Cheap Thrills (227); Pearl (193).
SONGS: Piece of My Heart (753); Me and Bobby McGee (372).

16. SONNY ROLLINS
ALBUMS: Tenor Madness (1049); Saxophone Colossus (332); Way Out West (904); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (965); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (1088); The Bridge (1133).
SONG: St. Thomas (2627).

17. HÜSKER DÜ
ALBUMS: Zen Arcade (199); New Day Rising (438); Flip Your Wig (1038); Candy Apple Grey (1206)*.
SONGS: Eight Miles High (2226); Makes No Sense at All (1248); Sorry Somehow (2434)*.

18. KATE BUSH
ALBUMS: The Kick Inside (539); The Dreaming (1517); Hounds of Love (224).
SONGS: Wuthering Heights (550); Running Up That Hill (433); Hounds of Love (2509).

19. ORNETTE COLEMAN
ALBUMS: Something Else!!! (1843); The Shape of Jazz to Come (293); Change of the Century (763); Free Jazz (473); This Is Our Music (1674); At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1 (1586).
SONGS: none.

20. KING CRIMSON
ALBUMS: In the Court of the Crimson King (135); Islands (2717); Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1579); Red (562); Discipline (1224).
SONG: 21st Century Schizoid Man (1102).

21. DEREK AND THE DOMINOS
ALBUM: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (69).
SONG: Layla (47).

22. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
ALBUM: Psychocandy (80).
SONGS: Never Understand (526); You Trip Me Up (1169); Just Like Honey (546); Some Candy Talking (1315)*.

23. AEROSMITH
ALBUMS: Toys in the Attic (337); Rocks (349).
SONGS: Dream On (443); Sweet Emotion (2060); Walk This Way (340).

24. LOVE
ALBUMS: Love (2529); Da Capo (1700); Forever Changes (50).
SONG: Alone Again Or (221).

25. CAROLE KING
ALBUM: Tapestry (59).
SONGS: Home Again (2507); It’s Too Late (349); I Feel the Earth Move (1344); You’ve Got a Friend (997).

26. JACKSON BROWNE
ALBUMS: Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using) (1509); For Everyman (1763); Late for the Sky (333); The Pretender (724); Running on Empty (736).
SONGS: Late for the Sky (1659); Running on Empty (1639).

27. CAN
ALBUMS: Monster Movie (1529); Tago Mago (258); Ege Bamyasi (684); Future Days (631); Soon Over Babaluma (1661).
SONGS: none.

28. LYNYRD SKYNYRD
ALBUMS: (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd) (576); Second Helping (626), Street Survivors (1272).
SONGS: Free Bird (258); Sweet Home Alabama (418).

29. PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.
ALBUMS: Public Image (1664); Metal Box/Second Edition (188); Album (2418)*.
SONGS: Public Image (369); Death Disco (1647); This Is Not a Love Song (1517); Rise (841)*.

30. HERBIE HANCOCK
ALBUMS: Takin’ Off (1503); Empyrean Isles (1500); Maiden Voyage (459); Mwandishi (1748); Sextant (2238); Head Hunters (524).
SONG: Rockit (868).

31. THE BEE GEES
ALBUM: Saturday Night Fever (121).
SONGS: To Love Somebody (1718); Jive Talkin’ (2521); Stayin’ Alive (98); Night Fever (2065).

32. TIM BUCKLEY
ALBUMS: Goodbye and Hello (1171); Happy Sad (440); Blue Afternoon (2172); Starsailor (557); Greetings from L.A. (1202).
SONG: Song to the Siren (869).

33. SANTANA
ALBUMS: Santana (1256); Abraxas (168), III (2454); Caravanserai (1411); Lotus (2655).
SONGS: Black Magic Woman (722); Oye Como Va (1353).

34. IGGY POP
ALBUMS: The Idiot (600); Lust for Life (210).
SONGS: The Passenger (1199); Lust for Life (339).

35. VAN HALEN
ALBUMS: Van Halen (276); 1984 (803); 5150 (2423)*.
SONGS: Runnin’ with the Devil (1953); Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love (2424); Jump (161).

36. MOTÖRHEAD
ALBUMS: Overkill (968); Ace of Spades (558); No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith (492).
SONG: Ace of Spades (215).

37. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
ALBUMS: Idlewild South (2941); At Fillmore East (101); Eat a Peach (1446); Brothers and Sisters (1852).
SONGS: Whipping Post (1384); Ramblin’ Man (1374); Jessica (1567).

38. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: A Girl Called Dusty (2878); Dusty in Memphis (95).
SONGS: I Only Want to Be with You (2959); You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (1103); Son of a Preacher Man (205).

39. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
ALBUMS: Crocodiles (728); Heaven Up Here (1182); Porcupine (1991); Ocean Rain (527).
SONGS: Rescue (2177); The Cutter (1066); The Killing Moon (758); Bring On the Dancing Horses (2293).

40. JIMMY CLIFF
ALBUM: The Harder They Come (194).
SONGS: Many Rivers to Cross (167); Vietnam (2105); The Harder They Come (429).

41. WIRE
ALBUMS: Pink Flag (235); Chairs Missing (479); 154 (702).
SONGS: Three Girl Rhumba (2672); Blessed State (2657).

42. XTC
ALBUMS: Drums and Wires (952); Black Sea (1764); English Settlement (987); Skylarking (412)*.
SONGS: Making Plans for Nigel (1032); Senses Working Overtime (1539); Dear God (1561)*.

43. METALLICA
ALBUMS: Kill ‘Em All (693); Ride the Lightning (1031); Master of Puppets (169)*.
SONG: Master of Puppets (1235)*.

44. ABBA
ALBUM: Arrival (629).
SONGS: Waterloo (697); S.O.S. (1346); Dancing Queen (116); Knowing Me Knowing You (1335); The Winner Takes It All (1332).

45. THE FOUR TOPS
ALBUMS: Second Album (2673); Reach Out (1462).
SONGS: Baby I Need Your Loving (845); I Can’t Help Myself (1466); It’s the Same Old Song (1642); Reach Out (I’ll Be There) (36); Standing in the Shadows of Love (1626); Bernadette (2692).

46. DIRE STRAITS
ALBUMS: Dire Straits (431); Making Movies (1241); Brothers in Arms (549).
SONG: Sultans of Swing (413); Money for Nothing (2248).

47. BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: Buffalo Springfield (1459); Buffalo Springfield Again (326).
SONGS: For What It’s Worth (99); Expecting to Fly (1115).

48. NICO
ALBUMS: The Velvet Underground & Nico (4); Chelsea Girl (2511); The Marble Index (1402); Desertshore (2571).
SONGS: All Tomorrow’s Parties (1305); Femme Fatale (2075); These Days (1145).

49. STAN GETZ
ALBUMS: Hamp & Getz (2194); Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (2742); Focus (1668); Jazz Samba (804); Getz/Gilberto (372); Stan Getz and Bill Evans (2501).
SONGS: The Girl from Ipanema (553); Corcovado (2516).

50. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
ALBUMS: Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (309); Too-Rye-Ay (1058); Don’t Stand Me Down (1549).
SONGS: Geno (822); Come On Eileen (608).

51. THE HUMAN LEAGUE
ALBUM: Dare! (207)
SONGS: Being Boiled (1463); Love Action (1515); Don’t You Want Me (181); Human (2121)*.

52. MC5
ALBUMS: Kick Out the Jams (212); Back in the USA (624).
SONG: Kick Out the Jams (368).

53. FAIRPORT CONVENTION
ALBUMS: Fairport Convention (2508); What We Did on Our Holidays (2391); Unhalfbricking (498); Liege and Lief (399).
SONGS: Who Knows Where the Time Goes (401); A Sailor’s Life (2490).

54. NEW YORK DOLLS
ALBUMS: New York Dolls (139); Too Much Too Soon (844).
SONG: Personality Crisis (577).

55. BILL EVANS
ALBUMS: Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1659); Portrait in Jazz (1707); Explorations (2281); Sunday at the Village Vanguard (455); Waltz for Debby (475); Undercurrent (2208).
SONG: Waltz for Debby (2760).

56. COUNT BASIE
ALBUMS: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (1268); April in Paris (975); At Newport (1439); The Atomic Mr. Basie (594).
SONGS: One O’Clock Jump (911); Lester Leaps In (2346); April in Paris (1338).

57. BUZZCOCKS
ALBUMS: Another Music in a Different Kitchen (550); Love Bites (2667).
SONGS: Breakdown (987); Orgasm Addict (922); What Do I Get? (1125); Ever Fallen in Love? (193)

58. RICHARD AND LINDA THOMPSON
ALBUMS: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (313); Shoot Out the Lights (320).
SONGS: Calvary Cross (2782); I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1832); Wall of Death (1360).

59. DONNA SUMMER
ALBUMS: Bad Girls (1099); The Wanderer (2884).
SONGS: Love to Love You Baby (830); I Feel Love (148); Hot Stuff (792); Bad Girls (1014); She Works Hard for the Money (2282).

60. GANG OF FOUR
ALBUMS: Entertainment! (163); Solid Gold (1505).
SONGS: Damaged Goods (895); At Home He’s a Tourist (1370); Anthrax (1928); To Hell with Poverty (2855); I Love a Man in Uniform (2948).

61. TODD RUNDGREN
ALBUMS: Something/Anything? (262); A Wizard, a True Star (658); Todd (2206).
SONG: I Saw the Light (704).

62. ALICE COOPER
ALBUMS: Love It to Death (1379); Killer (957); School’s Out (1298); Billion Dollar Babies (1246).
SONGS: I’m Eighteen (1386); School’s Out (396).

63. THIN LIZZY
ALBUMS: Jailbreak (725); Live and Dangerous (340).
SONGS: Whiskey in the Jar (1579); The Boys Are Back in Town (460).

64. JOHN CALE
ALBUMS: The Academy in Peril (2538); Paris 1919 (370); Fear (1513); Slow Dazzle (2567); Music for a New Society (687).
SONG: Andalucia (1245).

65. TRAFFIC
ALBUMS: Mr. Fantasy (488); Traffic (966); John Barleycorn Must Die (504); The Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys (2557).
SONGS: Paper Sun (2926); Dear Mr. Fantasy (2225).

66. DIZZY GILLESPIE
ALBUMS: Bird & Diz (1548); Jazz at Massey Hall (494); Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge (1526); Groovin’ High (1463); At Newport (2176); Gillespiana (2221).
SONGS: Groovin’ High (2795); A Night in Tunisia (2603); Manteca (1219).

67. IKE AND TINA TURNER
ALBUM: River Deep Mountain High (893).
SONGS: A Fool in Love (2646); It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (2085); River Deep Mountain High (22).

68. ISAAC HAYES
ALBUMS: Hot Buttered Soul (358); Shaft (1152).
SONGS: Walk On By (2664); By the Time I Get to Phoenix (1975); Theme from Shaft (247).

69. THE RONETTES
ALBUM: Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica (1414).
SONGS: Be My Baby (13); Baby, I Love You (2524); Walking in the Rain (2576).

70. THE ISLEY BROTHERS
ALBUM: 3+3 (903).
SONGS: Shout (Parts 1 and 2) (237); Twist and Shout (1038); This Old Heart of Mine (1502); It’s Your Thing (999); That Lady (1302).

71. GENESIS
ALBUMS: Foxtrot (895); Selling England by the Pound (707); The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (406); A Trick of the Tail (2791).
SONG: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (2414).

72. YES
ALBUMS: The Yes Album (873); Fragile (544); Close to the Edge (615); Tales from Topographic Dreams (2769).
SONG: Owner of a Lonely Heart (1854).

73. BEASTIE BOYS
ALBUM: Licensed to Ill (173)*.
SONGS: Rock Hard (2944); It’s the New Style (2526)*; Paul Revere (2884)*; Fight for Your Right (To Party) (242)*.

74. LITTLE FEAT
ALBUMS: Sailin’ Shoes (466); Dixie Chicken (517); Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (1313); Waiting for Columbus (2310).
SONGS: Willin’ (2547); Dixie Chicken (2974).

75. THE DRIFTERS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Money Honey (972); There Goes My Baby (277); Save the Last Dance for Me (694); Up on the Roof (896); On Broadway (938); Under the Boardwalk (1512).

76. MOTT THE HOOPLE
ALBUMS: All the Young Dudes (981); Mott (526); The Hoople (2818).
SONG: All the Young Dudes (203).

77. PAUL McCARTNEY
ALBUMS: Ram (1388); Band on the Run (386).
SONGS: Maybe I’m Amazed (840); Live and Let Die (1643); Band on the Run (2972); Jet (963).

78. CHEAP TRICK
ALBUMS: Cheap Trick (2305); In Color (1530); Heaven Tonight (1491); At Budokan (641).
SONGS: I Want You to Want Me (1284); Surrender (562).

79. ROBERT WYATT
ALBUM: Rock Bottom (231).
SONGS: Sea Song (557); Shipbuilding (718).

80. B.B. KING
ALBUMS: Singin’ the Blues (2412); Live at the Regal (248); Live in Cook County Jail (1959).
SONGS: Sweet Little Angel (2833); The Thrill Is Gone (398).

81. JONATHAN RICHMAN/THE MODERN LOVERS
ALBUMS: The Modern Lovers (203); Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers (2792).
SONG: Roadrunner (248).

82. DEVO
ALBUM: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo (361).
SONGS: Jocko Homo (1334); (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (850); Whip It (537).

83. THE ANIMALS
ALBUMS: The Animals (2909); Animalisms (2330); Animalism (2549).
SONGS: House of the Rising Sun (61); Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (1380); We Gotta Get Out of This Place (846).

84. ERIC DOLPHY
ALBUMS: Outward Bound (1961); Out There (1792); Live at the Five Spot, Vol. 1 (1780); Far Cry (2438); Iron Man (2308); Out to Lunch (287).
SONGS: none.

85. THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Little Latin Lupe Lu (2713); You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (24); Unchained Melody (827).

86. THE O’JAYS
ALBUMS: Back Stabbers (708); Ship Ahoy (1822).
SONGS: Back Stabbers (519); Love Train (573); I Love Music (1628).

87. VIOLENT FEMMES
ALBUM: Violent Femmes (290).
SONGS: Blister in the Sun (183); Kiss Off (2924).

88. MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Heatwave (665); Dancing in the Street (58); Nowhere to Run (1063).

89. KISS
ALBUMS: Alive! (572); Destroyer (751).
SONGS: Rock ‘n’ Roll All Nite (805); Detroit Rock City (1431).

90. PERE UBU
ALBUMS: The Modern Dance (223); Dub Housing (762).
SONGS: Final Solution (2917); Non-Alignment Pact (2755).

91. DION
ALBUM: Born to Be with You (1868).
SONGS: I Wonder Why (833); A Teenager in Love (762); Runaround Sue (315); The Wanderer (1460); Abraham, Martin and John (1684).

92. SUICIDE
ALBUM: Suicide (225); Alan Vega/Martin Rev – Suicide (2033).
SONGS: Frankie Teardrop (990); Dream Baby Dream (1572).

93. THE JACKSON 5
ALBUMS: Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 (2365); ABC (2931); Destiny (2602); Triumph (2942).
SONGS: I Want You Back (32); The Love You Save (2036); I’ll Be There (2306).

94. THE KINGSMEN
ALBUMS: none.
SONG: Louie Louie (11).

95. ART BLAKEY
ALBUMS: A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1203); A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (2254); A Night in Tunisia (1789); Moanin’ (745); Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1475); Free for All (2070).
SONGS: none.

96. TOM PETTY
ALBUMS: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1162); Damn the Torpedoes (470).
SONGS: Breakdown (2329); American Girl (1074); Refugee (1202).

97. THE FALL
ALBUMS: Live at the Witch Trials (1933); Dragnet (2046); Grotesque (After the Gramme) (2553); Hex Enduction Hour (2018); The Wonderful and Frightening World of…The Fall (2245); This Nation’s Saving Grace (468).
SONGS: Totally Wired (1979); Cruiser’s Creek (1907).

98. ABC
ALBUM: The Lexicon of Love (334).
SONGS: Tears Are Not Enough (2519); Poison Arrow (1299); The Look of Love (457).

99. THE CRYSTALS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: He’s a Rebel (325); He’s Sure the Boy I Love (2637); Da Doo Ron Ron (163); Then He Kissed Me (1026).

100. JAMES TAYLOR
ALBUM: Sweet Baby James (351); JT (2743).
SONGS: Fire and Rain (269); You’ve Got a Friend (2363).

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MOVING UP: Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Hüsker Dü, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Public Image Ltd., Van Halen, The Human League.

NEW TO THE LIST: Run-D.M.C., XTC, Metallica, Beastie Boys.

FELL OFF THE LIST: nobody.

ACTION IN THE NEXT 100: Nick Cave, Billy Bragg, Bon Jovi, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force, Bad Brains, Janet Jackson, Slayer.