1988

[Jorge]

MENUDO: The Puberty Years

[phantomanddevil]

Wasn't a fan of Flower. Or the sludge of Ultra Mega. Love everything else though. When i think 1998, i think: Iron Maiden: "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son". Hands down best Maiden LP ever. Honourable mention: Queensryche-"Operation: Mindcrime".Two towering beastd of records that neither band topped.

[j's brain]

My favorites -

- Nothing's Shocking
- ...And Justice For All
- Green
- Lies
- Straight Outta Compton
- Operation: Mindcrime

[William Bloke]

Being far too honest for my own good here...1988 was a great year for me, perhaps the best ever. I was 17 - old enough to have my drivers license yet young enough to still have to sneak into pubs (legal age is 18 here). Last year of high school, best of mates, discoverring all the best things in life (girls, booze, drugs, bad attitudes, you know).

The albums and music that I remember from that year that really grabbed me were these ones:

Billy Bragg - Worker's Playtime
The Travelling Wilburys (as well as Got My Mind Set on You by George Harrison)
"Under the Milky way" by The Church
"I Should Be So Lucky" by Kylie (man, that arse. mmm mmmmm)
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin was everywhere.
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
"Better be Home Soon" by Crowded House
"Push It" (yeah, push it real good) by Salt-n-Pepa (I didn't particularly like it, just couldn't get away from it)
"Short Sharp Shocked" by Michelle Shocked. I must have played Anchorage 1000 times.
The Proclaimers!
and of course "16 Lover's Lane" by The Go-Betweens
and the Choirboys "Run to Paradise"

Yeah, I wasn't exactly uber cool in 1988, but man was it a fantastic year to be alive.

[vegman]

1988 was an awesome year for me. I graduated high school and left for my freshman year of college. I transitioned from obsessing over Iron Maiden to obsessing over The Grateful Dead. I discovered mushrooms and acid and smoked a shit load of pot so any new music I discovered just blended into a giant tapestry of psychedelic goo.

[nyquillyn]

This came out:



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Great, great stuff.

Yes, these were good, but I don't think anybody (outside of the Pacific Northwest anyway) actually heard any of this until Flower started being played on 120 Minutes in the summer of '89.

[malice]

was just paging through the forum and came across this thread.

thought I'd chime in - i was 22.
I think of 1988 as one of those years that began to break down the walls of what modern rock and roll was supposed to be, what was acceptable.
seems to me like there was a heyday of hair bands out there who you could just tell thought they were going to rule the universe musically -
Poison - every rose has its thorn
Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of mine
Def Leppard - Pour some sugar on me
Aerosmith - Angel
Foreigner - Say You Will

and an absolute junkyard filled with pop music that turned my stomach. (thanks, MTV for that phenomena :/ - don't worry be happy, anyone?)

yet there was a presence in alternative music and rap that was gaining ground on these bubble gum/metal/pop/MOR/whatever mediocre rock bands and were hinting at what was coming.
it was a huge year musically and I wanted to take note of some of the stuff that started popping up out of what felt like nowhere to me- there was no internet to find this music on, it was MTV, main stream radio, college radio, or relying on your 'cool friends' to discover music.
here's just a few of the ones that I could find examples of/remember, but in looking around online, there was a host of really great bands and music out there if only you could find it back then...

Pixies


Dead Milkmen


Public Enemy


NWA


World Party


Dinosaur Jr.

[Blaine Ryan]

Came in to mention R.E.M.'s Green. Saw it was already mentioned. Now have nothing to add. Will post this anyway.

[psychobain]

[Blaine Ryan]

Actually, upon further research, Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden came out in '88, and that's a damn fine record.



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