Scott and Chris go back to 1987 for a full album draft. We started with a pool of 50 records released that year, then took turns selecting 10 albums apiece to build the strongest possible team.

There are huge albums, questionable reaches, a few steals, and at least one pick that probably should have caused a brief suspension of the podcast.

Watch the draft, check out both final teams, and let us know who won: Team Scott or Team Chris?

The full pool of 50 eligible albums is listed below.

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The 50-album draft pool:

Echo & The Bunnymen — Echo & the Bunnymen
The Smiths — Strangeways, Here We Come
Pixies — Come On Pilgrim
Belinda Carlisle — Heaven on Earth
Tiffany — Tiffany
The Cult — Electric
The Jesus and Mary Chain — Darklands
Cutting Crew — Broadcast
Starship — No Protection
Guns N' Roses — Appetite for Destruction
Pet Shop Boys — Actually
Whitney Houston — Whitney
Bathory — Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Depeche Mode — Music for the Masses
Whitesnake — Whitesnake
Fleetwood Mac — Tango in the Night
The Fat Boys — Crushin'
Michael Jackson — Bad
Hüsker Dü — Warehouse: Songs and Stories
Debbie Gibson — Out of the Blue
Bruce Springsteen — Tunnel of Love
Richard Marx — Richard Marx
Aerosmith — Permanent Vacation
Yes — Big Generator
Kool Moe Dee — How Ya Like Me Now
George Harrison — Cloud Nine
The Cure — Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Faith No More — Introduce Yourself
Mötley Crüe — Girls, Girls, Girls
Public Enemy — Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Red Hot Chili Peppers — The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
Midnight Oil — Diesel and Dust
The Replacements — Pleased to Meet Me
Sinead O'Connor — The Lion and the Cobra
Rush — Hold Your Fire
Crowded House — Crowded House
Sonic Youth — Sister
Siouxsie and the Banshees — Through the Looking Glass
R.E.M. — Document
Eric B. & Rakim — Paid in Full
Prince — Sign o' the Times
George Michael — Faith
U2 — The Joshua Tree
Def Leppard — Hysteria
LL Cool J — Bigger and Deffer
Eurythmics — Savage
Dinosaur Jr. — You're Living All Over Me
Pink Floyd — A Momentary Lapse of Reason
The Cars — Door to Door
INXS — Kick

Scott and Chris kick off Personal Records with a trip back to 1997 — a weird, loaded, ridiculously good year for albums. Each of us brings our five favorite records from the year and explains what makes them so special to us.

Welcome to Personal Records.

In this short intro episode, Scott and Chris explain what the show is, why they wanted to start it, and what listeners can expect from future episodes. Personal Records is a music conversation podcast about the albums we love, the records that shaped us, and the weirdly personal reasons certain songs stick around.

Expect album rankings, drafts, year-by-year debates, deep dives, forgotten gems, and plenty of arguments about what still holds up.