Il chitarrista Bill Frisell (nato a Baltimore nel 1951, ma cresciuto a Denver) è in qualche modo un nostalgico all'interno della musica improvvisata degli anni '90: cresciuto nell'era di Jim Hall e Jimi Hendrix, non può fare a meno delle innovazioni tecniche da questi prodotte, ma resta affezionato soprattutto alle musichette umili e popolane del folklore urbano, alle elegie che lo accompagnano dai tempi di Rambler e Lonesome. Nella più fiera tradizione della transavanguardia rock Frisell eredita la felice fantasia degli artisti di mosaici e di murales, ma con il genio deformante dei pittori cubisti.
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Nato in Maryland ma cresciuto in Colorado, e allievo di Jim Hall, Bill Frisell (1951) si fa le ossa nel trio di Paul Motian, con il quale incide sei album.
Frisell's solo debut album, In Line (ECM, 1983), highlights his guitar style, that borrows both from the steel guitar and from Hendrix's distortions. It also introduces an introverted poet of music. His roots are quite traditional: the quiet melodic excursions of Start and Godson Song (that frame the collection at the beginning and at the end) are redolent of many folk and church motifs. But he revisits his roots in a futuristic and surreal way, pushing it into an unmarked and unguarded psychological territory. Throughout is almost new-age music, a sequence of delicate and hypnotic patterns that achieve an almost spiritual quality. The dual-personality Smile On You has two flows of sound, one bluesy and one dreamy, one side antagonizing but also inspiring the other. The impressionistic watercolor of In Line juxtaposes a subdued repetitive pattern and rapid-fire chords in an exotic language. The celestial glissando of Beach, the album's standout, creates a cosmic vision of whirling nebulae and supernatural beings; ambient music for astronauts.
Il suo virtuosismo risalta anche dai duetti alle chitarre più svariate con Vernon Reid di Smash & Scatteration (Minor Music, 1985 - Ryko, 1986), in particolare quelli pervasi dalle atmosfere degli anni ruggenti (Size 10 1/2 Sneaks, Last Nights Of Paris). L'uso del sintetizzatore non è invece quasi mai felice (Burden of Dreams sembra una satira delle fughe di Bach), e gli esperimenti più astratti (Fr Fr Frisell e la lunga Black Light) si perdono in quisquilie che fanno sembrare Robert Fripp un Beethoven della chitarra.
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Con la storica collaborazione con Tim Berne su Theoretically (Empire, 1984 - Minor Music, 1986), Frisell si afferma definitivamente come una delle chitarre più creative dell'era.
Ma le composizioni di Rambler (ECM, 1985) per tuba (Bob Stewart) e tromba (Kenny Wheeler), che solo saltuariamente indulgono in temi di jazz-rock convenzionale (Tone, Resistor, e soprattutto Strange Meeting), sembrano rifarsi più alle bande marcianti (Music I Heard), alle orchestrine dei caffè (il tango struggente di Rambler 'cantato' in coppia dalla slide di Frisell e dalla tromba di Wheeler), ai combo dei Sixties (la melodia nostalgica di When We Go) e alle colonne sonore del cinema (la suspence gotica di Wizard Of Odds) che al jazz d'avanguardia. La formazione, completata da Paul Motian alla batteria, lo spinge lontano dalle atmosfere evanescenti di In Line ed esalta l'intricata qualita' polifonica delle sue composizioni. Primo compiuto saggio della sua romantica trasgressione, questo disco segna l'inizio di una delle carriere più geniali del nuovo jazz.
Fifa 14 button data setup file free download. Greeley Colorado Mine is Power Tools Strange Meeting. From the first two songs to the sweet, wordless-ballad, 'A Song is not Enough', to the melancholic final cover 'Unchained Melody' with Ronald Shannon Jackson, I have probably listened to this album or parts of it over 200 times (is that possible?). The heavy-metal jazz trio Power Tools, with Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums and Melvin Gibbs on bass, that debuted on Strange Meeting (january 1987), highlighted Frisell's vast vocabulary of guitar techniques and ambient cacophony.
Frisell si afferma dapprima come il Ry Cooder del nuovo jazz, appena più umoristico e dissonante, decisamente meno calligrafico. Nell'album Lookout For Hope (ECM, 1988), con Hank Roberts al cello e Joey Baron alla batteria, infatti, sfilano brani come il valzer-reggae ubriaco Little Brother Bobby, il country and western da camera Handdog, il surf caraibico alla Penguin Cafe Orchestra di Alien Prints e soprattutto la romantica ballata tex-mex Lonesome, che continua l'epica alla Morricone di Rambler. Fra le perle del disco si contano anche pastiche indecifrabili come Lookout For Hope e Remedios The Beauty, nei quali si colgono citazioni folk e rock ma come deformate e disgregate da un labirinto di specchi. Lo stile chitarristico è maturato in un singolare 'surf-jazz' che prende inflessioni dal rock strumentale degli anni '50 e '60 e ne stravolge la semantica in appassionati assoli improvvisati, in grovigli inestricabili di accordi gettati alla rinfusa. I suoi duetti con il violoncellista Hank Roberts e il bassista Kermit Driscoll trasformano l'ensemble in una string band poli-etnica. Joey Baron, un fuoriclasse della batteria, non meno 'scapigliato' dei compagni, completa il quartetto più creativo del nuovo jazz.
Alla carriera 'seria' del quartetto, Frisell alterna però un'attività semi-clandestina di 'heavy metal jazz' nel trio Power Tools formato con Ronald Shannon Jackson e Melvin Gibbs, esorditi con Strange Meeting (Island Antilles, 1987). Strange Meeting e Wadmalaw Island marchiano a fuoco quell'esperienza con le distorsioni 'ambientali' di Frisell, pronipoti della psichedelia e cugine della new age (come dimostra anche la soave melodia cubista di When We Go). I tocchi leziosi, le manfrine atonali, i twang onirici, i timbri provocanti fanno del chitarrista un intrattenitore impareggiabile, anche quando indulge in glissando paradossali (Unscientific American, The President's Nap) e in cacofonie dispersive (Wolf In Sheep's Clothing), capace di innalzare a musica d'atmosfera persino spaventose aberrazioni come Howard Beach Memoirs.
Le sette vite di Frisell ne comprendono anche una con John Scofield e Peter Erskine nel quartetto Bass Desires di Marc Johnson e una a far da spalla a jazzisti estetizzanti come Jan Garbarek e Eberhard Weber.
Il compositore giunge a maturazione con Before We Were Born (Elektra, 1989), sul quale Frisell alterna deliri tecno-abrasivi, come nella title-track (con Arto Lindsay alla chitarra, Baron alla batteria e Peter Scherer alle tastiere, un quartetto che è una contraddizione in termini), a lunghe, esilaranti jam-collage di vaudeville, musica da circo, swing da balera, blues-rock, dissonanze clownesche, ragtime e bandismi zappiani, come Some Songs And Dance (con Julius Hemphill al sax e Doug Wieselman al sax, oltre ai soliti Baron e Roberts), toccando vertici di assurdità nelle pirotecniche variazioni su tema western di Hard Plains Drifter (con John Zorn alla regia), che passano da un bluegrass mozzafiato a un feroce heavy-metal, da una sonata per violoncello a un blues strascicato, da una serenata hawaiana a un baccanale dissonante, e nella non meno demenziale e cacofonica Lone Ranger, con un assolo vomitevole a ritmo industriale. Al di là delle trame rocambolesche e dell'approccio metalinguistico, Frisell viene accomunato a Thelonious Monk per lo humour affabile delle sue melodie e gli inciampi bizzarri dei suoi ritmi. Sia come sia, abbandonato il languido bozzettismo dei dischi precedenti, Frisell si volge ad affreschi di portata michelangiolesca (Hard Plains Drifter e Some Songs And Dance) nei quali decenni di musica sfrecciano rapidamente come in un coma sonoro.
Consumer Guide Index by Year: 1987
Listing for 313 records from 1987 (selected by release date), sorted by grade. Tableau for mac.
| A+ | - Culture:Two Sevens Clash[Shanachie]
- Prince:Sign o' the Times[Paisley Park]
- Sonny Rollins:G-Man[Milestone]
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| A | - Angry Samoans:Gimme Samoa: 31 Garbage-Pit Hits[PVC]
- Black Flag:Wasted Again[SST]
- Ornette Coleman:In All Languages[Caravan of Dreams]
- Ian Dury & the Blockheads:Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll[Demon]
- The Go-Betweens:Tallulah[Big Time]
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience:Live at Winterland[Rykodisc]
- New Order:Substance[Qwest]
- Pretenders:The Singles[Sire]
- R.E.M.:Document[I.R.S.]
- The Sonny Sharrock Band:Seize the Rainbow[Enemy]
- Sly and Robbie:Rhythm Killers[Island]
- Sonic Youth:Sister[SST]
- Bruce Springsteen:Tunnel of Love[Columbia]
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| A- | - Age of Chance:Crush Collision[Virgin EP]
- Aztec Camera:Love[Sire]
- David Behrman:Leapday Night[Lovely Music]
- Big Black:Songs About Fucking[Touch and Go]
- Black Uhuru:Positive[RAS]
- Camper Van Beethoven:Vampire Can Mating Oven[Pitch-a-Tent EP]
- Johnny Cash:Columbia Records 1958-1986[Columbia]
- Rosanne Cash:King's Record Shop[Columbia]
- Marshall Chapman:Dirty Linen[Tall Girl]
- Stella Chiweshe:Ambuya?[GlobeStyle]
- The Cucumbers:The Cucumbers[Profile]
- Culture:Culture at Work[Shanachie]
- Dramarama:Box Office Bomb[Questionmark]
- Marianne Faithfull:Strange Weather[Island]
- Fat Boys:The Best Part of the Fat Boys[Sutra]
- A Flock of Seagulls:The Best of a Flock of Seagulls[Jive]
- Rosie Flores:Rosie Flores[Reprise]
- French Frith Kaiser Thompson:Live, Love, Larf and Loaf[Rhino]
- Great Plains:Sum Things Up[Homestead]
- Al Green:Soul Survivor[A&M]
- The Housemartins:The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death[Elektra]
- Hüsker Dü:Warehouse: Songs and Stories[Warner Bros.]
- Ronald Shannon Jackson:When Colors Play[Caravan of Dreams]
- Kid Creole and the Coconuts:I, Too, Have Seen the Woods[Sire]
- Kool Moe Dee:How Ya Like Me Now[Jive]
- Kool Moe Dee:Kool Moe Dee[Jive]
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo:Shaka Zulu[Warner Bros.]
- Los Lobos:By the Light of the Moon[Slash]
- Madonna:You Can Dance[Sire]
- Reba McEntire:Greatest Hits[MCA]
- Meat Puppets:Huevos[SST]
- The Mekons:New York[ROIR]
- John Cougar Mellencamp:The Lonesome Jubilee[Mercury]
- Minutemen:Ballot Result[SST]
- Motorhead:Rock 'n' Roll[GWR/Profile]
- Sinéad O'Connor:The Lion and the Cobra[Chrysalis]
- Pet Shop Boys:Actually[EMI-Manhattan]
- Professor Longhair:Houseparty New Orleans Style[Rounder]
- The Replacements:Pleased to Meet Me[Sire]
- Tom Robinson:The Collection 1977-87[EMI]
- Ray Stevens:Greatest Hits Vol. 2[MCA]
- That Petrol Emotion:Babble[Polydor]
- Henry Threadgill Sextett:You Know the Number[Novus]
- Tom Verlaine:Flash Light[I.R.S.]
- Bunny Wailer:Rootsman Skanking[Shanachie]
- Stevie Wonder:Characters[Motown]
- Warren Zevon:Sentimental Hygiene[Virgin]
- Reggae Dance Hall Classics[Sleeping Bag]
- The Tanzania Sound[Original Music]
- A Very Special Christmas[A&M]
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| B+ | - King Sunny Ade:The Return of the Juju King[Mercury]
- Aerosmith:Classics Live II[Columbia]
- Age of Chance:One Thousand Years of Trouble[Virgin]
- Dave Alvin:Romeo's Escape[Epic]
- John Anderson:Blue Skies Again[MCA]
- Angry Samoans:Yesterday Started Tomorrow[PVC EP]
- Chuck Berry:Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll[MCA]
- Black Britain:Obvious[Virgin]
- Alpha Blondy:Apartheid Is Nazism[Shanachie]
- Boogie Down Productions:Criminal Minded[B Boy]
- Jean-Paul Bourelly:Jungle Cowboy[JMT]
- Charles Brown:One More for the Road[Blue Side]
- Johnny Cash:Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town[Mercury]
- Alex Chilton:High Priest[Big Time]
- Colorblind James Experience:Colorblind James Experience[Earring]
- Ry Cooder:Get Rhythm[Warner Bros.]
- Mary Coughlan:Tired and Emotional[Green Linnet/Mystery]
- The Cult:Electric[Sire]
- Culture Club:This Time: The First Four Years -- Twelve Worldwide Hits[Epic/Virgin]
- Terence Trent D'Arby:Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby[Columbia]
- The Dead Milkmen:Bucky Fellini[Enigma]
- Carmaig DeForest:I Shall Be Released[Good Foot]
- Depeche Mode:Music for the Masses[Sire]
- Dinosaur Jr.:You're Living All Over Me[SST]
- D.O.A.:True (North) Strong and Free[Profile]
- The Donner Party:The Donner Party[Cryptovision]
- The Dukes of Stratosfear:Psonic Psunspot[Geffen]
- Bobby Durham:Where I Grew Up[HighTone]
- Sheila E.:Sheila E.[Paisley Park]
- Earth, Wind & Fire:Touch the World[Columbia]
- Joe Ely:Lord of the Highway[HighTone]
- Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine:Let It Loose[Epic]
- Eurythmics:Savage[RCA Victor]
- The Fastbacks:. . . And His Orchestra[PopLlama]
- Fishbone:It's a Wonderful Life (We Gonna Have a Good Time)[Columbia EP]
- Fleetwood Mac:Tango in the Night[Warner Bros.]
- David Frishberg:Can't Take You Nowhere[Fantasy]
- Spoonie Gee:The Godfather of Rap[Tuff City]
- Girlschool:Nightmare at Maple Cross[GWR/Profile]
- Peter Gordon:Brooklyn[FM]
- Half Japanese:Music to Strip By[50 Skadillion Watts]
- Jon Hassell:The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound[Intuition/Capitol]
- Billy Idol:Vital Idol[Chrysalis]
- Michael Jackson:Bad[Epic]
- Michael Jackson:The Original Soul of Michael Jackson[Motown]
- The Jesus and Mary Chain:Darklands[Warner Bros.]
- Kanda Bongo Man:Amour Fou/Crazy Love[Carthage]
- Kassav':Kassav' #5[Celluloid]
- Gladys Knight & the Pips:All Our Love[MCA]
- Last Exit:The Noise of Trouble (Live in Tokyo)[Enemy]
- The Lounge Lizards:No Pain for Cakes[Island]
- Lynyrd Skynyrd:Legend[MCA]
- Mahlathini:The Lion of Soweto[Earthworks/Virgin]
- Sam Mangwana:Aladji[Syllart]
- Mel McDaniel:Greatest Hits[Capitol]
- The McGuires:Start Breathing[Righteous]
- The Mekons:Honky Tonkin'[Twin/Tone]
- George Michael:Faith[Columbia]
- Midnight Oil:Diesel and Dust[Columbia]
- The Million Dollar Quartet:The Million Dollar Quartet[S]
- Mofungo:End of the World, Part 2[Lost]
- Van Morrison:Poetic Champions Compose[Mercury]
- Roy Nathanson, Curtis Fowlkes and the Jazz Passengers:Broken Night/Red Light[Disques de Crepuscle]
- Negativland:Escape from Noise[SST]
- The Neville Brothers:Uptown[Capitol]
- Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper:Bo-Day-Shus!![Enigma]
- N.T.U. Small Tigers:Mususkungibulala Wethu[Kaya]
- Alexander O'Neal:Hearsay[Tabu]
- Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris:Trio[Warner Bros.]
- Peter and the Test Tube Babies:Peter and the Test Tube Babies[Profile]
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers:Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)[MCA]
- Buster Poindexter:Buster Poindexter[RCA Victor]
- Power Tools:Strange Meeting[Antilles]
- Public Enemy:Yo! Bum Rush the Show[Def Jam]
- A.C. Reed:I'm in the Wrong Business[Alligator]
- Royal Crescent Mob:Omerta[Moving Target]
- The Screaming Blue Messiahs:Bikini Red[Elektra]
- Shirati Jazz:Benga Beat[Carthage]
- Shoes:Best[Black Vinyl]
- The Silos:Cuba[Record Collect]
- Sister Breeze:Riddym Ravings[ROIR]
- The Smiths:Louder Than Bombs[Sire]
- Soul Asylum:While You Were Out[Twin/Tone]
- Thelonious Monster:Next Saturday Afternoon[Relativity]
- T La Rock:Lyrical King[Fresh]
- Moe Tucker:Moejadkatebarry[50 Skadillion Watts EP]
- UTFO:Lethal[Select]
- Loudon Wainwright III:More Love Songs[Rounder]
- Barrence Whitfield and the Savages:Ow! Ow! Ow![Rounder]
- Victoria Williams:Happy Come Home[Geffen]
- The Windbreakers:A Different Sort . . .[DB]
- Young Fresh Fellows:The Men Who Loved Music[Frontier]
- Christmas Rap[Profile]
- Homeland[Rounder]
- Mbube! Zulu Men's Singing Competition[Rounder]
- Reggae Dance Party[RAS]
- Sounds of Soweto[Capitol]
- South African Trade Union Worker Choirs[Rounder]
- Take Cover[Shanachie]
- The Wailing Ultimate[Homestead]
- La Bamba[Slash]
- Less Than Zero[Def Jam]
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| B | - Joey Arias:Arias on Holiday[Flaming Pie EP]
- Eric B. & Rakim:Paid in Full[4th & Broadway]
- Rubén Blades y Seis del Solar:Agua de Luna[Elektra]
- Boyoyo Boys:Back in Town[Rounder]
- Bruce Cockburn:Waiting for a Miracle[Gold Castle]
- The Cover Girls:Show Me[Fever]
- Crazy Backwards Alphabet:Crazy Backwards Alphabet[SST]
- Marshall Crenshaw:Mary Jean & Nine Others[Warner Bros.]
- The Cure:Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me[Elektra]
- The dB's:The Sound of Music[I.R.S.]
- The Doctor's Children:King Buffalo[Restless]
- Steve Earle:Early Tracks[Epic]
- Steve Earle & the Dukes:Exit 0[MCA]
- Faster Pussycat:Faster Pussycat[Elektra]
- Fat Boys:Crushin'[Tin Pan Apple/Polydor]
- Firehose:If'n[SST]
- The Furies:Fun Around the World[Infrasonic]
- Nanci Griffith:Lone Star State of Minid[MCA]
- Ted Hawkins:Happy Hour[Rounder]
- The Horseflies:Human Fly[Rounder]
- Ice-T:Rhyme Pays[Sire]
- The Iguanas:Reptiles, Lust and Dogs[Midnight]
- Chris Isaak:Chris Isaak[Warner Bros.]
- Ism:Nightmare at Noon[Raw Power EP]
- Elton John:Elton John's Greatest Hits, Volume III, 1979-1987[Geffen]
- The Johnnys:Highlights of a Dangerous Life[Enigma]
- Evan Johns and the H-Bombs:Evan Johns and the H-Bombs[Jungle]
- Just Desserts:Sentimental War[Earhorn]
- Salif Keita:Soro[Mango]
- Madhouse:8[Paisley Park]
- Mel McDaniel:Just Can't Sit Down Music[Capitol]
- NRBQ:God Bless Us All[Rounder]
- The Obvious:Home[I Wanna EP]
- Roy Orbison:In Dreams: The Greatest Hits[Virgin]
- K.T. Oslin:80's Ladies[RCA Victor]
- The Psychedelic Furs:Midnight to Midnight[Columbia]
- Public Image Ltd.:Happy?[Virgin]
- Pussy Galore:Right Now![Caroline]
- Smokey Robinson:One Heartbeat[Motown]
- Schoolly-D:The Further Adventures of Schoolly-D[Rykodisc]
- Schoolly-D:Saturday Night[Jive]
- Scrawl:Plus, Also, Too--[No Other]
- Marvin Sease:Marvin Sease[London]
- Simply Red:Men and Women[Elektra]
- The Smiths:Strangeways, Here We Come[Sire]
- Spot 1019:Spot 1019[Pitch-a-Tent]
- Chris Stamey:It's Alright[A&M]
- Chuck Stanley:The Finer Things in Life[Columbia]
- Sting:. . . Nothing Like the Sun[A&M]
- George Strait:Greatest Hits, Volume Two[MCA]
- Keith Sweat:Make It Last Forever[Elektra/Vintertainment]
- Jamaaladeen Tacuma:Music World[Gramavision]
- Tiffany:Tiffany[MCA]
- Randy Travis:Always and Forever[Warner Bros.]
- Trouble Funk:Trouble Over Here/Trouble Over There[Island]
- UB40:UB40 CCCP--Live in Moscow[A&M]
- U2:The Joshua Tree[Island]
- Ricky Van Shelton:Wild-Eyed Dream[Columbia]
- Ben Vaughn Combo:Beautiful Thing[Restless]
- Bunny Wailer:Rule Dance Hall[Shanachie]
- Tom Waits:Franks Wild Years[Island]
- Steve Wariner:Greatest Hits[MCA]
- Roger Waters:Radio KAOS[Columbia]
- Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks:It Came from Nashville[Landslide]
- X:See How We Are[Elektra]
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse:Life[Geffen]
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| B- | - Anthrax:I'm the Man[Island EP]
- Art of Noise:In No Sense? Nonsense![Chrysalis]
- The Boomtown Rats:Greatest Hits[Columbia]
- Joe 'King' Carrasco y las Coronas:Bandido Rock[Rounder]
- Club Nouveau:Life, Love and Pain[Warner Bros.]
- Exposé:Exposure[Arista]
- Front 242:Official Version[Wax Trax]
- The Golden Palominos:Blast of Silence[Celluloid]
- Guns N' Roses:Appetite for Destruction[Geffen]
- Merle Haggard:Chill Factor[Epic]
- George Harrison:Cloud Nine[Dark Horse]
- John Hiatt:Bring the Family[A&M]
- Mick Jagger:Primitive Cool[Columbia]
- George Jones:Super Hits[Epic]
- George Jones:Too Wild Too Long[Epic]
- Lyle Lovett:Pontiac[Curb]
- Hugh Masekela With Kalahari:Tomorrow[Warner Bros.]
- Megadeth:So Far, So Good . . . So What![Capitol]
- The Miracle Legion:Surprise Surprise Surprise[Rough Trade]
- New Model Army:New Model Army[Capitol EP]
- Bob Pfeifer:After Words[Passport]
- Redd Kross:Neurotica[Big Time]
- Patty Smyth:Never Enough[Columbia]
- Split Enz:History Never Repeats (The Best of Split Enz)[A&M]
- Bruce Springsteen:Chimes of Freedom[Columbia EP]
- Squeeze:Babylon and On[A&M]
- The Sugarcubes:Life's Too Good[Elektra]
- 10,000 Maniacs:In My Tribe[Elektra]
- James Blood Ulmer:America -- Do You Remember the Love?[Blue Note]
- Volcano Suns:Bumper Crop[Homestead]
- Whodini:Open Sesame[Jive]
- Wire:The Ideal Copy[Enigma]
- Peter Wolf:Come as You Are[EMI America]
- Tammy Wynette:Anniversary: Twenty Years of Hits[Epic]
- Dwight Yoakam:Hillbilly Deluxe[Reprise]
- Young Fresh Fellows:Refreshments[Frontier EP]
- Out of Our Idiot[Demon]
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| C+ | - Bryan Adams:Into the Fire[A&M]
- Aerosmith:Permanent Vacation[Geffen]
- Blotto:I Wanna Be a Lifeguard[Performance]
- David Bowie:Never Let Me Down[EMI America]
- Dana Dane:Dana Dane With Fame[Profile]
- Bryan Ferry:Bête Noire[Reprise/EG]
- Debbie Gibson:Out of the Blue[Atlantic]
- Grateful Dead:In the Dark[Arista]
- Green on Red:The Killer Inside Me[Mercury]
- Whitney Houston:Whitney[Arista]
- Joe Jackson:Will Power[A&M]
- Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam:Spanish Fly[Columbia]
- L.L. Cool J:Bigger and Deffer[Def Jam]
- Paul McCartney:All the Best[Capitol]
- Meat Puppets:Mirage[SST]
- Ray Parker Jr.:After Dark[Geffen]
- Ramones:Halfway to Sanity[Sire]
- R.E.M.:Dead Letter Office[I.R.S.]
- Robbie Robertson:Robbie Robertson[Geffen]
- Rose Royce:The Best of Rose Royce[Omni]
- Joe Satriani:Surfing With the Alien[Relativity]
- The Sisters of Mercy:Floodland[Elektra]
- 38 Special:Flashback[A&M]
- David Thomas and the Wooden Birds:Blame the Messenger[Twin/Tone]
- Frank Tovey:The Fad Gadget Singles[Sire]
- Suzanne Vega:Solitude Standing[A&M]
- Jody Watley:Jody Watley[MCA]
- Hank Williams Jr.:Wild Streak[Warner/Curb]
- Steve Winwood:Chronicles[Island]
- Back to the Beach[Columbia]
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| C | - Def Leppard:Hysteria[Mercury]
- Heart:Bad Animals[Capitol]
- The Judds:Heart Land[RCA Victor]
- Little Steven:Freedom No Compromise[Manhattan]
- Pink Floyd:A Momentary Lapse of Reason[Columbia]
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| C- | - Cutting Crew:Broadcast[Virgin]
- The Doors:Live at the Hollywood Bowl[Elektra EP]
- Who's That Girl[Sire]
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| D+ | - Rick Astley:Whenever You Need Somebody[RCA Victor]
- Whitesnake:Whitesnake[Geffen]
- White Zombie:Soul-Crusher[Caroline]
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| D | - Dirty Dancing[RCA Victor]
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