Top 16 Music Albums of 1988
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Onater 
My Top 10 songs of 1988:
10. Sonic Youth - The Sprawl (Daydream Nation)
9. Leonard Cohen - Tower Of Song (I'm Your Man)
8. The Church - Under The Milky Way (Starfish)
7. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
6. Talk Talk - The Rainbow (Spirit Of Eden)
5. Pixies - Where Is My Mind (Surfer Rosa)
4. The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (If I Should Fall From Grace With God)
3. The Go-Betweens - Love Goes On (16 Lovers Lane)
2. Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot (Daydream Nation)
1. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (Tender Prey)
- Chart updated: 06/15/2019 23:45
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:51).
- Chart size: 16 albums.
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"It's an anthem in a vacuum on a hyperstation, daydreaming days in a daydream nation."
Noisy, heavy, and dissonant, yet thoroughly beautiful. It's like the crumbling remains of a post-apocalyptic city where all that remains are the kids and their guitars.
Favourite Tracks: Teen Age Riot, The Sprawl, Trilogy, 'Cross The Breeze, Candle, Total Trash [First added to this chart: 02/16/2017]
Noisy, heavy, and dissonant, yet thoroughly beautiful. It's like the crumbling remains of a post-apocalyptic city where all that remains are the kids and their guitars.
Favourite Tracks: Teen Age Riot, The Sprawl, Trilogy, 'Cross The Breeze, Candle, Total Trash [First added to this chart: 02/16/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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15,619
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"Everybody needs someone to live by. Everybody will need someone."
This is what I think it would sound like if the earth itself were to release an album. Also I don't understand a word that he's saying, and looking up the lyrics just makes them even more incomprehensible.
Favourite Tracks: The Rainbow, Wealth, Eden, I Believe In You [First added to this chart: 02/16/2017]
This is what I think it would sound like if the earth itself were to release an album. Also I don't understand a word that he's saying, and looking up the lyrics just makes them even more incomprehensible.
Favourite Tracks: The Rainbow, Wealth, Eden, I Believe In You [First added to this chart: 02/16/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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10,243
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"There's a cat in my alleyway, dreaming of birds that are blue. Sometimes, girl, when I'm lonely, this is how I think about you."
Favourite Tracks: Love Goes On, Quiet Heart, Love Is A Sign, Streets Of Your Town, Dive For Your Memory [First added to this chart: 01/14/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Love Goes On, Quiet Heart, Love Is A Sign, Streets Of Your Town, Dive For Your Memory [First added to this chart: 01/14/2018]
Year of Release:
1988
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1,661
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"When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low, and resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow. And we're changing our ways, taking different roads."
Favourite Tracks: Atmosphere, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Transmission, She's Lost Control [First added to this chart: 06/22/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Atmosphere, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Transmission, She's Lost Control [First added to this chart: 06/22/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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1,299
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"It began when they come took me from my home and put me in Death Row. Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know. And I'll say it again: I am not afraid to die."
Favourite Tracks: The Mercy Seat, Mercy, Up Jumped The Devil, Watching Alice [First added to this chart: 07/28/2017]
Favourite Tracks: The Mercy Seat, Mercy, Up Jumped The Devil, Watching Alice [First added to this chart: 07/28/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
1,520
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"They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within."
Favourite Tracks: Tower Of Song, First We Take Manhattan, Everybody Knows, I'm Your Man [First added to this chart: 10/28/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Tower Of Song, First We Take Manhattan, Everybody Knows, I'm Your Man [First added to this chart: 10/28/2018]
Year of Release:
1988
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2,254
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7. (=)
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"Bloody your hands on a cactus tree, wipe it on your dress and send it to me."
Favourite Tracks: Where Is My Mind, Gigantic, River Euphrates, Bone Machine, Vamos [First added to this chart: 02/16/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Where Is My Mind, Gigantic, River Euphrates, Bone Machine, Vamos [First added to this chart: 02/16/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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12,057
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"To yearn admits you're outside to me."
Favourite Tracks: Carolyn's Fingers, Blue Bell Knoll, The Itchy Glowbo Blow [First added to this chart: 05/07/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Carolyn's Fingers, Blue Bell Knoll, The Itchy Glowbo Blow [First added to this chart: 05/07/2018]
Year of Release:
1988
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1,018
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"Silent watching gaze. Across the blackened plains. Two eyes like burning embers. Awaits the moment for the North star to blaze."
Favourite Tracks: A Fine Day To Die, Blood Fire Death, The Golden Walls Of Heaven [First added to this chart: 06/15/2019]
Favourite Tracks: A Fine Day To Die, Blood Fire Death, The Golden Walls Of Heaven [First added to this chart: 06/15/2019]
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"And people like you make me feel so old inside. Please die."
Favourite Tracks: Suedehead, Everyday Is Like Sunday, Margaret On The Guillotine [First added to this chart: 05/22/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Suedehead, Everyday Is Like Sunday, Margaret On The Guillotine [First added to this chart: 05/22/2018]
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1988
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1,503
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Top 16 Music Albums of 1988 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| My Bloody Valentine | 2 | 13% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 1 | 6% | |
| Bathory | 1 | 6% | |
| Morrissey | 1 | 6% | |
| Iron Maiden | 1 | 6% | |
| Sonic Youth | 1 | 6% | |
| Slayer | 1 | 6% | |
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Top 16 Music Albums of 1988 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 3 from 11th to 8th Blue Bell Knoll by Cocteau Twins |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 8th to 9th Blood Fire Death by Bathory |
| Down 1 from 9th to 10th Viva Hate by Morrissey |
| Down 1 from 10th to 11th Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son by Iron Maiden |
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