1987 in music

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Albums released

• Compilation - Accept
• Into the Fire - Bryan Adams
• Classics Live II - Aerosmith
• Permanent Vacation - Aerosmith
• Among The Living - Anthrax
• I'm The Man EP - Anthrax
• Strength of Steel - Anvil
• Raising Fear - Armored Saint
• Eternal Idol - Black Sabbath
• Terror Rising EP - Lizzy Borden
• Visual Lies - Lizzy Borden
• Speed Metal Symphony - Cacophony
• Heaven on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
• Raise Your Fist and Yell - Alice Cooper
• Best Before 1984 - Crass
• Electric - The Cult
• Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - The Cure
• The Best Of Dalida, Vol. 2 - Dalida (compilation)
• Never Let Me Down - David Bowie
• Hysteria - Def Leppard
• Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
• You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
• Dream Evil - Dio
• Back For the Attack - Dokken
• The Circus - Erasure
• Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim
• White Fields - The Escape Club (debut)
• Death Before Dishonour - The Exploited
• Introduce Yourself - Faith No More
• Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
• Tango in the Night - Fleetwood Mac
• Frehley's Comet - Frehley's Comet
• Official Version - Front 242
• Funhouse - Funhouse
• Once Bitten - Great White
• Rock You To Hell - Grim Reaper (final album)
• 2X4 - Guadalcanal Diary
• Appetite for Destruction - Guns n' Roses (debut)
• I Never Said Goodbye - Sammy Hagar
• Music to Strip By - Half Japanese
• Wild in the Streets - Helix
• Bring the Family - John Hiatt
• Get Close To My Love - Jennifer Holliday
• ' - Hüsker Dü (final album)
• Rhyme Pays - Ice-T (debut)
• A More Perfect Union - Icon
• Kick - INXS
• Bad - Michael Jackson
• Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction
• Crest of a Knave - Jethro Tull
• Priest... Live! - Judas Priest
• Keel - Keel
• Abigail - King Diamond
• Crazy Nights - KISS
• 1987 (What the Fuck is Going On?) - KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front)/The Jams. Subsequently destroyed after copyright infringement claim
• Shaka Zulu - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• Trio - Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton
• Running in the Family - Level 42
• Bigger and Deffer - LL Cool J
• By the Light of the Moon - Los Lobos
• Ready or Not - solo debut album of Foreigner lead vocalist Lou Gramm
• Hurricane Eyes - Loudness
• Immaculate Deception - Ludichrist
• Strange Weather - Marianne Faithfull
• Deathcrush - Mayhem
• Perfect Timing - McAuley-Schenker Group (first release after Robin McAuley joined and they changed their name)
• Huevos - Meat Puppets
• (The $5.98 EP) Garage Days Re-Revisited - Metallica
• Master of Puppets - Metallica
• Faith - George Michael
• Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil
• Stereoland - The Modern Art
• Pool It! - The Monkees
• Girls, Girls, Girls - Mötley Crüe
• Rock N' Roll - Motörhead
• Escape From Noise - Negativland
• ' - Roy Orbison
• Tribute - Ozzy Osbourne
• Taking Over - Overkill
• Power Metal - Pantera
• Trio (album) - Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
• Actually - Pet Shop Boys
• A Momentary Lapse of Reason - Pink Floyd
• Come On Pilgrim - Pixies (debut)
• Sign O' the Times - Prince
• Yo! Bum Rush the Show - Public Enemy
• Halfway to Sanity - The Ramones
• Randy Travis - Randy Travis
• Document - R.E.M.
• Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements
• Kane Roberts - Kane Roberts (former Alice Cooper guitarist's solo debut)
• I Prefer The Moonlight - Kenny Rogers
• King's Record Shop - Rosanne Cash
• Hold Your Fire - Rush (band)
• Surfing With the Alien - Joe Satriani
• Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage
• Floodland - The Sisters of Mercy
• Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate - Skinny Puppy
• The World Won't Listen - The Smiths (February, compilation)
• Louder than Bombs - The Smiths (March (U.S.)/May (U.K.), compilation)
• Strangeways, Here We Come - The Smiths (September, final studio album)
• The Perfect Prescription - Spaceman 3
• Sister - Sonic Youth
• Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen
• All Systems Go - Donna Summer
• Make It Last Forever - Keith Sweat
• New Again - TexAns
• Tiffany - Tiffany
• Introducing the Hardline... - Terence Trent D'Arby
• Bridge of Spies - T'Pau
• Love Is for Suckers - Twisted Sister (final album)
• The Joshua Tree - U2
• To the Power of 3 - 3
• Calm Before The Storm - Venom
• Live...in The Raw - W.A.S.P.
• Live...Animal EP W.A.S.P.
• Triumph And Agony - Warlock (final album)
• Whitecross - Whitecross
• Pride - White Lion (2nd album, major label (Atlantic Records) debut)
• Whitesnake - Whitesnake
• Characters - Stevie Wonder
• Contagious - Y&T
• 3.V - Zebra
• Tattooed Beat Messiah - Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction