Top 100 Music Albums of 1988
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desh79 
- Chart updated: 07/27/2023 15:45
- (Created: 01/03/2017 13:33).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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More a manifesto than an album, this is by far the greatest hip hop album ever made, and I can't see anyone topping it anytime soon.
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Run The Jewels: "Hold my beer. Possibly.") [First added to this chart: 01/03/2017]
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Run The Jewels: "Hold my beer. Possibly.") [First added to this chart: 01/03/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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7,004
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Is Ambient Rock a universally recognised genre? If not, it ought to be, because this is a very fine example thereof. One of the most recknowned American underground bands with arguably their best album.
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1988
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15,561
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1988
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3,523
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1988
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1,517
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A regular spin during my teenage years (and metal is the one genre to prove that vinyl really does sound better). At full blast, obviously. I'm sure the neighbours loved me.
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1988
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5,103
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One of those albums that get better with each listen, and I suspect it may move up the rankings here as time progresses.
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1988
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10,211
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Late 80s UK soul-pop at its best, an album that was played up and down on my stereo back then while its videos were (justifiably) played up and down on MTV. A shame they decided to call it a day shortly afterwards.
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1988
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269
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1988
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3,280
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1988
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727
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Somewhat immature in parts (there's, erm, the title to begin with), but the starting gun for what came to be known as Madchester, and for that I salute it.
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1988
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395
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 composition
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| Philip Glass | 2 | 2% | |
| Die Ärzte | 2 | 2% | |
| Cowboy Junkies | 1 | 1% | |
| Duran Duran | 1 | 1% | |
| Pixies | 1 | 1% | |
| Jane's Addiction | 1 | 1% | |
| Snakefinger | 1 | 1% | |
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35 | 35% | |
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33 | 33% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 22 from 39th to 17th A Bell Is A Cup ... Until It Is Struck by Wire |
| Up 3 from 48th to 45th 16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens |
| Up 3 from 41st to 38th It Seems by Colin Newman |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 29 from 20th to 49th Группа Крови [Gruppa Krovi] by Кино [Kino] |
| Down 24 from 16th to 40th Strictly Business by EPMD |
| Down 2 from 42nd to 44th Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son by Iron Maiden |
| New entries |
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| I Am Kurious Oranj by The Fall |
| Leavers |
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| Two Nuns And A Pack Mule by Rapeman |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 04/08/2025 00:04 |  Purplepash | 1,690 | 88/100 |
| ! | 09/06/2020 20:06 |  CharlieBarley | 477 | 94/100 |
| ! | 01/09/2019 18:34 |  Rhyner | 1,456 | 99/100 |
| ! | 03/26/2018 10:58 |  Leonard | 341 | 88/100 |
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