Q 's Best Albums

Q is Pop/Rock magazine. Sometimes, they do a lot of Bon Jovi but sometimes, they don't. This list was compiled in alphabetical order. Two Bon Jovi's album are refered. It's incredible this magazine didn't know the 80s biggest rock album, Slippery When Wet.

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1986

• Anita Baker - Rapture
• Billy Bragg - Talking with the taxman about poetry
• The Bhundu boys - Shabini
• Cameo - Word up
• Sam Cooke - The man and his music
• Robert Cray - String Persuader
• Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland - Showdown!
• Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate
• Miles Davis - Tutu
• The fabulous thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff
• 5-Star - Silk and Steel
• Frankie goes to Hollywood - Liverpool
• Peter Gabriel - so
• Sophia George - Fresh
• Ted Hawkins - Watch your step
• The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
• Billy Idol - Whiplash smile
• Janet Jackson - Control
• Little feat - As time goes by: The best of Little Feat
• Le mystere des voix bulgres - Same
• Branford Marsalis - Royal garden blues
• Madonna - True blue
• Ennio Morricone - The mission soundtrack
• New order - Brotherhood
• Youssou N’Dour - Nelson Mandella
• The Oyster Band - Step outside
• Pet shop boys - Please
• The pretenders - get close
• Prince - Parade
• Stan Ridgway - The big heat
• REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
• Lionel Richie - Dancing on the ceiling
• Run DMC - Raising hell
• Bessie Smith - Jazz classics in digital stereo
• The Smiths - The Queen is dead
• Paul Simon - Graceland
• Ricky Skaggs - Love’s gonna get ya!
• Bruce Springsteen & the E street band - Live 1975 - 85
• Talking heads - True stories
• The Triffids - Born*Sandy*Devotional
• Trouble Funk - Say What!
• Richard thompson - Daring adventures
• Randy Travis - Storms of life
• Various artists - Hip-Hop Electro 13
• Various artists - Atlantic rhythm & Blues 1947-74
• Various artists - The house sound of Chicago
• Van Halen - 5150
• Steve Winwood - Back in the high life
• Dwight Yoakam - Guitars Cadillacs Etc. etc...
• XTC - Skylarking

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1987

• Anthrax - Among the living
• The Beatles - Revolver
• Regina Belle - All by myself
• The Christians - same
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle
• The Cure - Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me
• Def Leppard - Hysteria
• Joe Ely - Lord of the Highway
• Eurythmics - Savage
• The fabulous thunderbirds - Portfolio
• Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the night
• John Hiatt - Bring the family
• Husker Du - Warehouse (songs and stories)
• Chris Isaak - Same
• Joe Jackson - Will power
• Michael Jackson - Bad
• Jesus and Mary chain - Darklands
• New Order - Substance
• Randy Newman - Lonely at the top
• Alexander O’Neal - Hearsay
• Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris - Trio
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Signs of life
• Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - Time boom X de devil dead
• Salif Keita - Soro
• LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer
• Marillion - Clutching at straws
• Mel & Kim - F.L.M.
• Van Morrison - Poetic champions compose
• Najma - Qareeb
• Pet shop boys - Actually
• Pop will eat itself - Box frenzy
• Elvis Presley - The all time greatest hits
• Maxi Priest - Maxi
• Prince - Sign ‘o’ the times
• Chris Rea - Dancing with strangers
• REM - Document
• The Replacements - Pleased to meet me
• Robbie Robertson - Same
• Marta Sebestyen - Same
• Shirati jazz - Benga beat
• Simply red - Men and woman
• The Smiths - Strangeways here we come
• Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of love
• 10,000 Maniacs - In my tribe
• That petrol emotion - Babble
• ‘Till Tuesday - Welcome home
• Trouble Funk - Trouble over here, trouble over there
• U2 - The Joshua tree
• Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat
• Stevie Wonder - Characters

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1988

• Joan Armatrading - The shouting stage
• Eric B & Rakim - Follow the leader
• Bon Jovi - New Jersey
• Boogie down productions - By all means necessary
• Billy Bragg - Workers playtime
• Cameo - Machismo
• Tracy Chapman - same
• Toni Childs - Union
• Leonard Cohen - I’m your man
• The Robert Cray Band - Don’t be afraid of the dark
• Crowded house - Temple of low men
• Toumani Diabate - Kaira
• Gail Ann Dorsey - The corporate world
• Fairground attraction - The first of a million kisses
• Fingers inc. - Another side
• Nanci Griffith - Little love affairs
• A.R. Kane - Sixty Nine
• K. D. Lang - Shadowland
• Living Colour - Vivid
• Loose Tubes - Open letter
• Mahlathini and the Mahotella queens - Thokozile
• Bobby McFerrin - Simple pleasures
• Michelle Shocked - Short sharp shocked
• Van Morrison & the Chieftains - Irish heartbeat
• Morrissey - Viva hate
• Randy Newman - Land of dreams
• The Nits - In the Dutch mountains
• Pet shop boys - Introspective
• The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with god
• Prefab Sprout - From Langley park to Memphis
• Prince - Lovesexy
• Public Enemy - It will take a nation of millions to hold us back
• REM - Green
• Keith Richards - Talk is cheap
• Kevin Rowlands - The Wanderer
• Johannes Schmoelling - The zoo of tranquillity
• Siouxsie and the banshees - Peep show
• The Smiths - Rank
• The Sugercubes - Life’s too good
• Talk talk - Spirit of eden
• Tanita Tikaram - Ancient heart
• Traveling Wilburys - Volume one
• U2 - Rattle and hum
• Was(not was) What up, dog?
• Brian Wilson - Same
• Steve Winwood - Roll with it
• Richard Thompson - Amnesia
• Ali Farka Toure - Same
• Neil Young - This note’s for you
• John Zorn - Spillane

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1989

• Adeva - Adeva!
• Aerosmith - Pump
• The Beautiful South - Welcome to ...
• The Blue Nile - Hats
• David Byrne - Rei Momo
• Tracy Chapman - Crossroads
• Neneh Cherry - Raw like sushi
• Eric Clapton - Journeyman
• Elvis Costello - Spike
• Deacon Blue - When the world knows your name
• De La Soul - 3 Feet high and rising
• Bob Dylan - Oh mercy
• Erasure - Wild!
• Eurythmics - We too are one
• Fine young cannibals - The raw and the cooked
• Peter Gabriel - Passion
• The gipsy kings - Mosaique
• John Lee Hooker - The healer
• Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule
• Daniel Lanois - Acadie
• Paul McCartney - Flowers in the dirt
• Kirsty Maccoll - Kite
• Madonna - Like a prayer
• Van Morrison - Avalon Sunset
• Les Negresses - Mlah
• Neville Brothers - Yellow moon
• Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
• Tom Petty - Full moon fever
• Pixies - Doolittle
• The Pogues - Peace and Love
• Prefab Sprout - Protest songs
• Prince - Batman
• Chris Rea - The road to hell
• Dan Reed Network - Slam
• Lou Reed - New York
• Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
• S’Express - Original soundtrack
• Simple minds - Street fighting years
• Simply red - A new flame
• Soul II Soul - Club classics Vol I
• The stone roses - same
• Tears for fears - The seeds of love
• Tin Machine - same
• Tone loc - Loc’ed after dark
• The triffids - The black swan
• Various artists - Italia: Dance music from Italy
• Wet wet wet - Holding back the river
• Loudon Wainwright III - Therapy
• The wonder stuff - Hup
• Neil Young - Freedom

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1990

• Aztec Camera - Stray
• Pet sounds - The Beach Boys
• Beats International - Let them eat bingo
• The beautiful South - Choke
• The beloved - Happiness
• Clint Black - Killin’ time
• Tim Buckley - Dream letter live in London 1968
• The Christians - Colour
• Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
• Lloyd Cole - Same
• Julee Cruise - Floating into the night
• Deee-lite - World clique
• Depeche mode - Violator
• 808 state - Ninety
• Bob Geldof - The vegetarians of love
• Happy Mondays - Pills ‘n’ thrills and bellyaches
• Inxs - X
• The La’s - same
• Living colour - Time’s up
• Nick Lowe - Party of one
• Jeff Lynne - Armchair theatre
• Madonna - The immaculate collection
• George Michael - Listen without whinging Vol 1
• Midnight oil - Blue sky mining
• Gary Moore - Still got the blues
• Van Morrison - Enlightenment
• Sinead O’ Connor - I do not want what I haven’t got
• Pet shop boys - Behaviour
• Pixies - Bossanova
• Prefab sprout - Jordan: The comeback
• The Pretenders - Packed!
• Prince - Graffiti bridge
• Public Enemy - Fear of a black planet
• The pursuit of happiness - On sided story
• Queen Latifah - All hail the queen
• Quireboys - A bit of what you fancy
• Lou Reed/John Cale - Songs for Drella
• Jonathan Richman - Jonathan goes country
• Paul Simon - The rhythm of the saints
• The sisters of mercy - Vision thing
• The soup dragons - Lovegod
• Sonny Southon - Falling through a cloud
• Martin Stephenson and the daintees - Salvation road
• They might be giants - Flood
• Traveling Wilburys - Vol 3
• Randy Travis - Heroes and friends
• Was(not was) - Are you okay?
• World Party - Goodbye jumbo
• Neil Young - Ragged Glory
• ZZ Top - Recycler

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1991

• Blur - Leisure
• Billy Bragg - Don’t try this at home
• Gary Clail/On-U Sound System - The Emotional Hooligan
• Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
• Elvis Costello - Mighty like a rose
• Crowded House - Woodface
• Dire Straits - On every street
• The Dream Warriors - And now the legacy begins
• EG and Alice - 24 years of hunger
• 808 State - Ex.El
• Electronic - Same
• EMF - Schubert dip
• Erasure - Chorus
• Flowered up - A life with Brian
• Guns N’ Roses - Use your illusion II
• John Lee Hooker - Mr Lucky
• Ice T - Original Gangster
• Jellyfish - Bellybutton
• Jesus Jones - Doubt
• The KLF - White Room
• Kraftwerk - The mix
• Lenny Kravitz - Mama said
• Metallica - Same
• The milltown brothers - Slinky
• Nirvana - Nevermind
• Omar - There’s Nothing like this
• Alexander O’Neil - All true man
• Tom Petty - Into the great wide open
• P.M. Dawn - Of the heart, of the soul and of the cross..
• Primal Scream - Screamadelica
• Prince - Diamonds and pearls
• Bonnie Raitt - Luck of the draw
• Chris Rea - Auberge
• REM - Out of time
• Runrig - The big wheel
• Seal - Seal
• Simply Red - Stars
• Slowdive - Just for a day
• Squeeze - Play
• St Etienne - Fox Base Alpha
• Sting - The soul Cages
• Teenage fanclub - Bandwagonesque
• Richard Thompson - Rumor and sigh
• U2 - Achtung baby
• Various artists - I’m your fan
• Various artists - Where the pyramid meets the eye: A tribute to Roky Erickson
• Voice of the beehive - Honey lingers
• Chris Whitley
• The wonder stuff - Never loved Elvis
• Neil Young - Arc weld

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1992

From this year they listed a top 10 (In alphabetical order)

• Tori Amos - Little earthquakes
• The Cure - Wish
• Inxs - Welcome to wherever you are
• Michael Jackson - Dangerous
• The Orb - U.F.Orb
• REM - Automatic for the people
• Spiritualized - Lazer guided melodies
• Sugar - Copper blue
• Neil Young - Harvest moon
• Warren Zevon - Mr bad example

The rest!

• Arrested Development - 3 years, 5 months & 2 days in the life of...
• The Black Crows - The Southern Harmony and the musical Companion
• Mary - Chapin Carpenter - Come on come on
• Nick Cave - Henry’s dream
• Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
• dc Basehead - Play with toys
• Def leppard - Adrenalize
• Del Amitri - Change Everything
• Del tha funkee homosapien - I wish my brother George was here
• Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy is the greatest luxury
• Bob Dylan - Good as I been to you
• EMF - Stigma
• Faith no more - Angel dust
• The Fall - Code:selfish
• The 4 of us - Man alive
• The Frank and Walters - Trains, boats and planes
• Peter Gabriel - Us
• Juliana Hatfield - Hey babe
• Joe Henderson - Lush Life
• K.D. Lang - Ingenue
• Lemonheads - It’s a shame about Ray Groves
• Annie Lennox - Diva
• Los Lobos - Kiko
• Baaba Maal - Lam Toro
• Manic street preachers - Generation Terrorists
• Loreena McKennit - The Viset
• Morrissey - Your Arsenal
• Pavement - Slanted and enchanted
• PJ Harvey - Dry
• Pearl Jam - Ten
• Prince - OI+>
• Chris Rea - God’s great banana skin
• Lou Reed - Magic and loss
• The Rockingbirds
• Sonic youth - Dirty
• Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch/Lucky Town
• Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
• Thunder - Laughing on judgement day
• Suzanne Vega - 99.9 F

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1993

Top 10

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• The Auteurs - New wave
• Cypress hill - Black Sunday
• Aimee Mann - Whatever
• Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell IV
• New order - Republic
• Nirvana - In Utero
• The spin doctors - Pocket full of Kryptonite
• Sting - Ten Summoner’s tales
• UB40 - Promises and lies
• Neil Young - Unplugged

The rest

• A-Ha - Memorial Beach
• Geri Allen - Maroons
• Altan - Island
• The Aphex twin - selected ambient recordings 1985 - 1992
• David Baerwald - Triage
• Bjork - Debut
• Frank Black - Same
• Blur - Modern life is rubbish
• The boo radleys - Giant steps
• David Bowie - Black tie white noise
• Jackson Browne - I’m Alive
• Buzzcocks - Trade test transmissions
• The Cranberries - Everybody else is doing it, So why can’t we?
• Sheryl Crow - Tuesday night music club
• Crowded house - Together alone
• Terence Trent D’Obolicle - Symphony or damn: bla bla bla...
• Chaka Demus and Torque wrench - Tease me
• Depeche mode - Songs of faith and devotion
• Dr Dre - The Chronic
• Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad
• Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
• John Hiatt - Perfectly good guitar
• The Lemonheads - Come on feel the lemonheads
• Willie Nelson - Across the borderline
• Geoggrey Oryema - Beat the border
• Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
• PJ Harvy - Rid of me
• Robert Plant - Fate of nations
• Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese dream
• Suede - Same
• Teenage Fanclub - Thirteen
• Tont Toni tone - Sons of soul
• U2 - Zooropa
• Sven Vath - Accident in paradise
• Paul Weller - Wild Wood
• Paul Westerberg - 14 songs
• The wildhearts - Earth versus the wildhearts
• The wonderstuff - Construction for the modern idiot
• World Party - Bang
• Warren Zevon - Learning to flinch

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1994

Top 10

• Blur - Park life

• Jackie Leven - The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death
• Morrissy - Vauxhall and I
• Soundtrack (Various artists) - Natural born killers
• Oasis - Definitely maybe
• Orbital - Snivilation
• Pink Floyd - The division bell
• Soundgarden - Superunknown
• Suede - Dog man star
• Therapy? - Troublegum

The rest

• Above the rim - The soundtrack
• Beastie Boys - ill Communication
• Beck - Mellow gold
• Boston - Walk on
• Jeff - Buckley - Grace
• Johnny Cash - American recordings
• Vic Chesnut - Drunk
• Eric Clapton - From the cradle
• Colour me bad - Time and chance
• Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
• Counting crows - August and everything after
• The Cranberries - No need to argue
• Crash test dummies - God shuffled his feet
• The divine comedy - Promenade
• Warren G - Regulate...G funk era
• Green day - Dookie
• Hole - Live through this
• Ice cube - Lethal injection
• Lightning seeds - Jollification
• Nick Lowe - The impossible bird
• Baaba Maal - Firin’ in fouta
• Shane MacGowan & The Popes - The Snake
• Machine Head - Burn my eyes
• Manic street preachers - The Holy Bible
• Massive attack - Protection
• Ian McNabb - Head like a rock
• Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
• Sinead O’Connor - Universal mother
• Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - No Quarter: Unledded
• Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
• The Prodigy - Music for a jilted generation
• Pulp - His ‘N’ hers
• REM - Monster
• Danny Red - Riddimwize
• David Sanchez - The departure
• Snoop Doggy dog - Doggystyle
• Sparks - Gratuitous sax and senseless violins
• Strangelove - Time for the rest of your life
• Terrorvision - How to make friends and influence people
• Neil Young - Sleeps with angels

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1995

Top 10

• Blur - The great escape
• Bon Jovi - These days
• The Chemical Brothers - Exit planet dust
• Del Amitri - Twisted
• PJ Harvey - To bring you my love
• Oasis - (What’s the story)Morning glory?
• Radiohead - The bends
• Ron Sexsmith - same
• Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
• Paul Weller - Stanley Road

The rest

• Guy Baker - Into the blue
• Black Grape - It’s great when you’re straight... Yeah
• Bomb the bass - Clear
• The boo radleys - Wake up!
• Ali Campbell - Big love
• The Cardigans - Life
• The Charlatans - Same
• The dogg pound - Dogg food
• Steve Earle - Train a comin’
• Enya - The memory of trees
• Finn - Finn
• Stevie Forbert - Mission of the crossroads palms
• Emmylou Harris - Wrecking ball
• Salif Keita - Folon
• K.D. Lang - All you can eat
• Leftfield - Leftism
• Marillion - Afraid of light
• Method man - Tical
• Keb’ Mo’ - same
• Morphine - Yes
• Van Morrison - Days like this
• Alanis Morissette - Jagged little Pill
• Morrissey - Southpaw grammar
• Paradise lost - Draconian times
• Passengers - Original soundtracks 1
• Pulp - Different Class
• Red hot chili peppers - One hot minute
• Rolling Stones - Stripped
• Smashing pumpkins - Mellon collie and the infinite sadness
• Jill Sobule - Same
• Bruce Springsteen - The ghost of Tom Joad
• Stereolab - Music for the amorphous body study centre
• Supergrass - I should coco
• Therapy? - Infernal love
• TLC - CrazySexyCool
• Tricky - Maxinquaye
• Various - The help album
• The Verve - A northern soul
• Wet wet wet - Picture this
• The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q.

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1996

The top 10 - In alphabetical order.

• Ash - 1977
• Ben folds five - Ben folds five
• Def leppard - Slang
• Fugees - The score
• Manic street preachers - Everything must go
• Ocean colour scene - Moseley shoals
• REM - New adventures in hi fi
• Sting - Mercury falling
• Suede - Coming up
• Underworld - Second toughest in the infants

The rest...

• The auteurs - After murder park
• Baby bird - Ugly Beautiful
• Babylon zoo - The boy with the X-ray eyes
• The beautiful south - Blue is the colour
• Beck - Odelay
• The blue nile - Peace at last
• Billy Bragg
• The cardigans - First band on the moon
• The divine comedy - Casanova
• DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..
• Dodgy - Free peace sweet
• Earl Brutus - Your majesty..we are here
• Everything but the girl - Walking wounded
• Genius/Gza - Liquid swords
• Joe Henry - Trampoline
• Iona - Journey to the moon
• Kris Kristofferson - A moment forever
• Kula shaker - K
• Chikhlo - Ne la thass
• Lightning seeds - Dizzy heights
• Longpigs - The sun is often out
• Metalheads - Metalheads presents platinum breakz
• George Michael - Older
• Nas - It is written
• New edition - Home again
• Nirvana - From the muddy banks of the Wishkah
• Orbital - In sides
• Pearl jam - No code
• Pet shop boys - Bilingual
• Tom Petty and the heartbreakers - Songs & music from She’s the one
• Courtney Pine - Modern day jazz stories
• Lou Reed - Set the twilight reeling
• The Tony Rich project - Words
• Patti Rothberg - Between the 1 and the 9
• Screaming trees - Dust
• Patti Smith - Gone again
• Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
• Super furry animals - Fuzzy logic
• Terrorvision - Regular urban survivors
• Norma Waterson - Norma Waterson

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