Ein eher schwacher Jahrgang aus meiner Sicht:
01) Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
02) The Rain Parade – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
03) Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
04) Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band – Bloodlines
05) Aztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain
06) The Soft Boys – Invisible Hits
07) Green on Red – Gravity Talks
08) June Tabor – Abyssinians
09) Neats – Neats
10) The Plimsouls – Everywhere at Once
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11) R.E.M. – Murmur
12) The Go-Betweens – Before Hollywood
13) T-Bone Burnett – Proof through the Night
14) Randy Newman – Trouble in Paradise
15) Marine Girls – Lazy Ways
16) Echo & The Bunnymen – Porcupine
17) Guy Clark – Better Days
18) The Sixth Station – Deep Night
19) Richard Thompson – Hand of Kindness
20) Wipers – Over the Edge
21) Nikki Sudden – The Bible Belt
22) John Terlazzo – Honor among Thieves
23) Mink DeVille – Where Angels Fear to Tread
24) The Three O’Clock – Sixteen Tambourines
25) The Waterboys – The Waterboys
26) Sad Lovers & Giants – Feeding the Flame
27) The Chameleons – Script of the Bridge
28) The Blue Nile – A Walk across the Rooftops
29) Johnny Thunders – Hurt Me
30) Van Morrison – Inarticulate Speech of the Heart
01) – 05) ****1/2
06) – 24) ****
25) – 30) ***1/2
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