A Reminder That 1987 Was An Incredible Year For Music

From the photo below, I choose Def Leppard's Hysteria. Yes, this means I'm passing on both Aerosmith and Guns n' Roses, but for me, no other album captures 80s metal more than Hysteria. Which album do you choose?

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Year 1987
You can only choose one album which one are you picking pic.twitter.com/WdZFXewehp

— 🎸 Rock History 🎸 (@historyrock_) January 29, 2022

Comments

[Gogmagog]

My top five (of those albums listed ... )

1. Appetite For Destruction
2. Whitesnake
3. Once Bitten
4. Back For The Attack
5. Pride

Honorable mentions:
Keeper Of The Seven Keys ... Kiske gets no love when we're talking about the truly great vocalists, and he can still bring it. He was only 18 when Helloween started recording this!

Love Is For Suckers, if only for "Hot Love"

Frehley's Comet, if only because of the awesome Russ Ballard cover, "Into The Night"

Notably not listed:

Surfing With The Alien -- Satriani
Personally, I'd list that over most of these albums

[Jack T. Ripper]

To have to choose one ☝🏿 is incredibly difficult.
I played Twisted Sisters Love is for Suckers cassette so much it completely disintegrated.

[Kixchix]

WHAT______A______YEAR!! Junior Yae into Senior year. Lotsa shenanigans and these albums ARE the soundtrack. Appetite, snake, Hysteria for me. Each have memories that are decadent, touching and rock n roll.

[Endo]

GnR for the best overall album, but that Faster Pussycat album had everything I needed as a 12 year old at that time. The look, the logo, the sleaziness of the sound, lyrics and Taime's vocals. Got it all!

[EddieLongHair]

AFD. No question.

[oper8n]

The "only choose one" or two or however many lists are pointless, as we all know you can choose however many you want.
At Christmas dinner, my wife asked everyone to go around the table and choose a highlight for the year. My cousin's family started and by the time it rolled around to my turn, everybody else's choices reminded me of how great life is, and I rattled off a dozen highlights.
Therefor, I choose all the albums pictured. They all had some great songs on them.
🤘

[Topher Hauer]

So many great ones. But I'll go with the bluesy sleaze of Girls, Girls, Girls. It's just so damn...hard rock!

[Him]

So you did post previously TGCH! My apologies (see previous post, posted above paradoxically . . . I explain myself in that post). You had me chuckling though. "Bluesy Sleaze"? When I think of MC, I occasionally think of sleaze (often not even related to their music). But I rarely think of anything bluesy. Perhaps it is just me. No. It is.

Lists like this are fun. I enjoy making them. I enjoy reading about them. Gogmagog, I appreciate you raising the praise for _Love is for Suckers_. And "Hot Love" is a great track. But so is "Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant)." Also love your nod to Frehley. That album is of its time. Back in the day, that video was pretty, well, dramatic!

Dokken. Only positive song about love? Check.

KISS and "Crazy Nights"? Pure cheese ghost-written to be catchy? Check.

White Lion. Bratta and Tramp? Nuff sed.

Dio. Fumes and decline, but still a powerhouse. "Sunset Superman" and "All the Fools Sailed Away" stand out. Goldy does his best on this one.

Of course everyone is going to sit around the campfires that Lep and Roses created. There is a reason for that. Like I said, I enjoy lists. Personalities come out when people stake a claim to their choices. So, too, memories.

I'd add to this list:

The Cult, _Electric_.
Anthrax, _Among the Living_ (even if I don't much care for them).

And I would also mention Public Enemy, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Depeche Mode, and Hüsker Dü (among others). This was a good year for music.