Top 47 Music Albums of 1988
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Purplepash 
- Chart updated: 10/12/2025 06:45
- (Created: 07/23/2017 09:38).
- Chart size: 47 albums.
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Best alternative rock indie rock album of the year
Best debut album of the year
Best USA album of the year [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best debut album of the year
Best USA album of the year [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
12,028
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Best jangle pop alternative rock album of the year
"I'm very scared for this world, I'm very scared for me"
Document was my first favourite REM album, then for a long time it was Automatic For The People. But now this the one I enjoy revisiting the most, despite Stand ;) Actually Stand is not that bad for what is, a feel good upbeat song. But it's the fragile beauty of You Are The Everything, and the emotionally powerful The Wrong Child (such a sad song and a real grower) that keep me coming back. As well as the classic Orange Crush and all the other great songs.
10/10 songs: You Are The Everything, The Wrong Child, Orange Crush, World Leader Pretend, and Pop Song 89. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
"I'm very scared for this world, I'm very scared for me"
Document was my first favourite REM album, then for a long time it was Automatic For The People. But now this the one I enjoy revisiting the most, despite Stand ;) Actually Stand is not that bad for what is, a feel good upbeat song. But it's the fragile beauty of You Are The Everything, and the emotionally powerful The Wrong Child (such a sad song and a real grower) that keep me coming back. As well as the classic Orange Crush and all the other great songs.
10/10 songs: You Are The Everything, The Wrong Child, Orange Crush, World Leader Pretend, and Pop Song 89. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
3,542
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Best noise rock album of the year
"Does 'fuck you' sound simple enough?"
I was in my late teens and had heard a bit of Sonic Youth but when I first Teenage Riot, and then Daydream Nation, they blew my mind.
10/10 tracks: Teenage Riot, Silver Rocket, Total Trash, Trilogy [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
"Does 'fuck you' sound simple enough?"
I was in my late teens and had heard a bit of Sonic Youth but when I first Teenage Riot, and then Daydream Nation, they blew my mind.
10/10 tracks: Teenage Riot, Silver Rocket, Total Trash, Trilogy [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
Appears in:
Rank Score:
15,619
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Best hard rock alternative rock album of the year
"Me and my girlfriend
Don't wear no shoes
Her nose is painted pepper
Sunlight...
She loves me
I mean it's serious
As serious can be..."
It was the late 90's, we were just two young summer loving, grungey hippies in love, having a barefoot wedding in the middle of summer on a 38°C (100°F) day. 20 years later and it's still serious. Summertime Rolls was one of our jams. This whole album was one we really related to, and listened to it a lot those couple of summers and many more after.
10/10 songs: Jane Says (right up there in my favourite songs of all time ), Summertime Rolls, Mountain Song, & Ted, Just Admit It... [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
"Me and my girlfriend
Don't wear no shoes
Her nose is painted pepper
Sunlight...
She loves me
I mean it's serious
As serious can be..."
It was the late 90's, we were just two young summer loving, grungey hippies in love, having a barefoot wedding in the middle of summer on a 38°C (100°F) day. 20 years later and it's still serious. Summertime Rolls was one of our jams. This whole album was one we really related to, and listened to it a lot those couple of summers and many more after.
10/10 songs: Jane Says (right up there in my favourite songs of all time ), Summertime Rolls, Mountain Song, & Ted, Just Admit It... [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
2,147
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Best Celtic rock album of the year
Best UK album of the year
"You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own"
Like a fun drunk night. You have party songs (Fiesta, Turkish Song of the Damned), singalongs (Fairytale of New York, Medley), dancing jigs (metropolis), stories (Bottle of Smoke, Sit Down By The Fire), a time to be serious (Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six) nostalgia (Thousands are Sailing) and the end of the night (If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God) which starts the album. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best UK album of the year
"You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own"
Like a fun drunk night. You have party songs (Fiesta, Turkish Song of the Damned), singalongs (Fairytale of New York, Medley), dancing jigs (metropolis), stories (Bottle of Smoke, Sit Down By The Fire), a time to be serious (Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six) nostalgia (Thousands are Sailing) and the end of the night (If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God) which starts the album. [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
1,754
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Best noise rock garage punk grunge EP of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
410
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Best gothic rock post-punk album of the year
Best Australian album of the year [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Best Australian album of the year [First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
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Rank Score:
1,516
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Best space rock album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
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Best jangle pop live album of the year
[First added to this chart: 09/30/2017]
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Best art punk alternative rock post-punk album of the year
[First added to this chart: 07/29/2017]
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Top 47 Music Albums of 1988 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Fall | 2 | 4% | |
| Pixies | 2 | 4% | |
| R.E.M. | 2 | 4% | |
| My Bloody Valentine | 2 | 4% | |
| Green River | 1 | 2% | |
| Talk Talk | 1 | 2% | |
| Brighton Rock | 1 | 2% | |
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Top 47 Music Albums of 1988 chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 40th to 41st Miss America by Mary Margaret O'Hara |
| Down 1 from 41st to 42nd Introspective by Pet Shop Boys |
| Down 1 from 42nd to 43rd It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy |
| New entries |
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| They by King Missile |
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