Het heeft even een dagje geduurd, maar hier is ie dan de de 1985 KO.
Er staan precies vier platen in de top 250 uit dit jaar: Misplaced Childhood, Rain Dogs, Brothers In Arms en Meat Is Murder, zou een van deze winnen? Ik ben benieuwd! Er is (geloof ik) iig geen plaat, zoals The Queen Is Dead, waarvan iedereen al verwacht dat ie gaat winnen.

1. Steve Reich - The Desert Music vs. a-ha - Hunting High and Low
2. Aerosmith - Done with Mirrors vs. De Dijk - Elke Dag een Nieuwe Hoed
3. Gary Moore - Run for Cover vs. Stevie Nicks - Rock a Little
4. The Robert Cray Band - False Accusations vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
5. Dio - Sacred Heart vs. The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture
6. AC/DC - Fly on the Wall vs. Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac
7. Normaal - Steen, Stoal en Sentiment vs. Ramones - Too Tough to Die
8. Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega vs. Slayer - Hell Awaits
9. LL Cool J - Radio vs. T.C. Matic - Yé Yé
10. Frank Zappa - Meets the Mothers of Prevention vs. The Waterboys - This Is the Sea
11. Mike & The Mechanics - Mike + the Mechanics vs. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
12. Run-D.M.C. - King of Rock vs. Accept - Metal Heart
13. Jason and the Scorchers - Lost & Found vs. Tröckener Kecks - Betaalde Liefde
14. Exodus - Bonded by Blood vs. Rush - Power Windows
15. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace vs. John Mellencamp - Scarecrow
16. Faith No More - We Care a Lot vs. Heart - Heart
17. Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls vs. The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop
18. Neil Young - Old Ways vs. D.R.I. - Dealing with It
19. Chris Isaak - Silvertone vs. Simply Red - Picture Book
20. Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon vs. Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
21. New Model Army - No Rest for the Wicked vs. KISS - Asylum
22. David Sylvian - Alchemy - an Index of Possibilities vs. Falco - Falco 3
23. Savatage - Power of the Night vs. Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
24. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Nail vs. Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars
25. Philip Glass - Mishima vs. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
26. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! vs. New Order - Low-Life
27. The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always vs. Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight
28. Green On Red - Gas Food Lodging vs. Clannad - Macalla
29. Carnivore - Carnivore vs. Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
30. The Power Station - The Power Station vs. Propaganda - A Secret Wish
31. Midge Ure - The Gift vs. Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
32. Sade - Promise vs. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
33. Van Morrison - A Sense of Wonder vs. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
34. Chris Rea - Shamrock Diaries vs. Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound
35. Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising vs. Freddie Mercury - Mr. Bad Guy
36. China Crisis - Flaunt the Imperfection vs. Arcadia - So Red the Rose
37. Possessed - Seven Churches vs. Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox
38. Killing Joke - Night Time vs. Blue Murder - La La Love
39. The Damned – Phantasmagoria vs. Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
40. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy vs. Frank Boeijen Groep - Foto van een Mooie Dag
41. John Hiatt - Warming Up to the Ice Age vs. Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal
42. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Soul to Soul vs. INXS - Listen Like Thieves
43. Shriekback - Oil & Gold vs. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Firstborn Is Dead
44. Dinosaur Jr. - Dinosaur vs. Alan Silvestri - Back to the Future
45. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms vs. Swans - Greed
46. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion vs. Fine Young Cannibals - Fine Young Cannibals
47. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Easy Pieces vs. John Barry - A View to a Kill
48. The Sound - Heads and Hearts vs. Yello - Stella
49. Phil Collins - No Jacket Required vs. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
50. Greg Sage - Straight Ahead vs. Prince & The Revolution - Around the World in a Day
51. Klein Orkest - Roltrap Naar de Maan vs. Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
52. The Cult - Love vs. Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
53. Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig vs. Magnum - On a Storyteller's Night
54. Yngwie Malmsteen – Marching Out vs. The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically
55. ABC - How To Be A Zillionaire vs. Simple Minds - Once upon a Time
56. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs vs. S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die
57. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Southern Accents vs. IQ - The Wake
58. R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction vs. Joni Mitchell - Dog Eat Dog
59. Peter Gabriel – Birdy vs. Talking Heads - Little Creatures
60. Anne Clark - Pressure Points vs. John Fogerty - Centerfield
61. Eric Clapton - Behind the Sun vs. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
62. Kreator - Endless Pain vs. The Replacements - Tim
63. Level 42 - World Machine vs. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
64. Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles vs. The Cure - The Head on the Door

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3. Gary Moore - Run for Cover vs. Stevie Nicks - Rock a Little

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4. The Robert Cray Band - False Accusations vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley

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5. Dio - Sacred Heart vs. The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture

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