Albums of the Year | 1987

After giving a brief overview of the year in music, Jason, Kramzer, and Joe each make their picks for the best albums of 1987 and discuss what they think makes them so great. Best-Selling Album: Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi Longest No. 1 Single: Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi & Faith by George Michael (Tie: 4 weeks) Grammy – Album of the Year: The Joshua Tree by U2 Grammy - Record of the Year: Graceland by Paul Simon Grammy – Song of the Year: Somewhere Out There by Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram Groups Formed: Babes in Toyland, Bad English, Danger Danger, Danzig, Fu Manchu, Fugazi, Galaxie 500, Gin Blossoms, Green Day, Guitar Wolf, Local H, Meshuggah, Porcupine Tree Groups Disbanded: Berlin, Husker Du, Montrose, The Smiths, Violent Femmes Musicians Who Died: Liberace, Buddy Rich, Paul Butterfield, Fred Astaire, Peter Tosh, Jaco Pastorius Top-Grossing Film: Three Men and a Baby TIME’s Person of The Year: Mikhail Gorbachev Don't forget to comment below with your favorite albums of '87, and if you'd like, take a stab at guessing what our picks for 1988 will be. Thanks for watching! Sound from Zapsplat.com ~~~   / listographymusic     / therecordranker     / listographymzk