By '88 I had just about given up on guitar bands (until '89 anyway!), and as a consequence it was a fairly sparse year. Excepting compilations, I only bought 5 albums: 1 Mystery Hotel - Psyche 2 Front by Front - Front 242 3 Crash Head - Mark Shreeve 4 Hydrology - Recoil 5 Radio Heart - Radio Heart 🎹🖤🎹🖤🎹
Hi Al! I'm pretty sure Marty's first solo album was In Reflection, which I totally love. Just dropped a video on The Church gig I went to, thought they were magnificent. What a show! Also, dropping my Starfish review in the next few days. But enough about me...😋 Thanks for another wonderful ranking, you've given me a whole lot of music to listen to...again! Gotta give Galaxies 500 a spin. Brilliant video, cheers! 🙏
Ugh... you are, in fact, correct. I thought they were both 88. Oh well... 😆. Very jealous about getting to see that tour! I will check out the footage and will be looking out for the Starfish video! Thank you for your support!
My Notification bell didn't ring last week. Top 10 of 1988 - # 10 Temple Of Low Men - Crowded House # 9 Straight Outta Compton - NWA # 8 Surfer Rosa - The Pixies # 7 Fishermans Blues - Waterboys # 6 If I Should .. - The Pogues # 5 I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen # 4 Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth # 3 Starfish - The Church # 2 It Takes A Nation ... - Public Enemy & # 1 Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk.
1988 is a lean year in quality for me, but i have 10 in my collection that I still dig 10. Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 9. Richard Thompson - Amnesia 8. The Smithereens - Green Thoughts 7. Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men 6. Graham Parker - The Mona Lisa's Sister 5. John Hiatt - Slow Turning 4. The Church - Starfish 3. REM - Green 2. Fishbone - Truth And Soul 1. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
@kevtruth you know what... I've never heard that Graham Parker record... not sure how that evaded me.i really like his earlier records... Gonna check that out.
No Surfer Rosa? Would have been my number one for 1988. Others you didn't mention that probably make my top 25 somewhere are Lovely by The Primitives, 16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens, Only Live by The Feelies, Every Dog Has His Day by Let's Active, and Green Thoughts by The Smithereens. Agree with you that 1988 wasn't the best year, but having to compete against all those great years in the mid 80s is a tough ask for 1988 and 1989.
Yeah... 88 had only four 5 star records... 87 had 9. Definitely the least stacked year of the decade... so far... I could be wrong... but I remember 89 being light also. We'll see... So... The Pixies... for some reason I have yet to connect with their music. I liked them a bit more when I was young... but as I've gotten older... I've lost the connection. Things can change... but Surfer Rosa was my favorite of their records and it got beat out by Balaam and the Angel 😆. I'll be listening to Doolittle for 89... I'll see where that goes. I know... its weird considering everything else I love. I'm actually a pretty big Smithereens fan... but I generally tend to LOVE 4-5 songs on each record and sift through the rest of the album. The Feelies and Go Betweens were both in contention also. Thank you for supporting the channel!
@@deadendstreetchannel With the Smithereens I agree with you on the sifting, although their first two albums I find to be great from start to finish. Also, a quick shout out to you for your Hanoi Rocks mentions in your other rankings videos. I never paid them much attention, but you convinced me to give them a shot and I picked up the "All Those Wasted Years" live CD. Thought that would be a good starting point and I'm enjoying it.
1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 2. Pixies - Surfer Rosa 3. Eleventh Dream Day - Prairie School Freakout 4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey 5. Dinosaur Jr. - Bug 6. Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden 7. The New Christs - Divine Rites 8. Fugazi - Fugazi EP 9. The Feelies - Only Life 10. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God 11. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane 12. Naked Raygun - Jettison 13. And Also The Trees - The Millpond Years For Against - December Death Of Samantha - Where The Women Wear The Glory And The Men Wear The Pants Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll The Sun And The Moon - The Sun And The Moon Joy Division - Substance R.E.M. - Green Bored! - Bored! EP The Church - Starfish The Jazz Butcher - Fishcotheque The Mighty Lemon Drops - World Without End Ups And Downs - Underneath the Watchful Eye Throwing Muses - House Tornado Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peepshow The Wild Swans - Bringing Home The Ashes Passion Fodder - Love, Waltzes and Anarchy The House Of Love - The House Of Love My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise EP Also some metal and hip hop - Maiden, Slayer, Public Enemy, Coroner, etc. Wow, another goth album I totally missed, Red Temple Spirits - Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon! I also don't have that Balaam & the Angel album because it sounded like their debut was the one to have, then quality dropped. But I'll giveitalisten. Were you full-on goth at some point or just goth adjacent? At the age of 18-19, my reaction to disappointment was pretty severe, so I ranked that Killing Joke near the bottom (415) with the likes of L.A. Guns, Bangles and Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, lol. Lots of your picks were just bubbling under my top 30. The ones that you may not have that would be up your alley are And Also the Trees, For Against, Ups And Downs, The Wild Swans, and Passion Fodder, who are a pretty new discovery, lead by an American ex-pat living in France, Theo Hakola. He previously had a post-punk band, Orchestre Rouge, and his five albums with Passion Fodder (second album, Fat Tuesday from 1986 is my fave) are definitely influenced by Nick Cave.
Ah, yes... I was pretty full on goth for a couple of years... more of a dirt bag leather jacket Goth (ala FALAA era Sisters) rather than the poet blouse goth. 😆 🤣 I do have that And Also the Trees record and probably could have included it but I really only liked half of it... but same could be said for my bottom 3 or so on this list... and SOAB... I forgot about The Sun and the Moon. Ugh. Should probably be included. Damn. The KJ record grew on me after playing their other records to death I decided to give it another shot about 10 years ago. It's better than I remembered for sure. The Balaam record is very polished... but I thought it suited them... it actually got more play on HBB than 120 minutes at the time.
Hey Al, you might be interested in this... Klaus mixes out guitars and bass from 80s classics, and replaces them with synths. Not everyone's cup of tea, but interesting ::: ua-cam.com/video/Iqkj7o_FxQ4/v-deo.htmlsi=NPeYKxYHCg5gYzzS
@glennaustin37 I'm only 2 videos in... but I'm loving this already. JDs These Days is great. Gonna check out the Japan track... Thanks for the heads up!
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By '88 I had just about given up on guitar bands (until '89 anyway!), and as a consequence it was a fairly sparse year. Excepting compilations, I only bought 5 albums:
1 Mystery Hotel - Psyche
2 Front by Front - Front 242
3 Crash Head - Mark Shreeve
4 Hydrology - Recoil
5 Radio Heart - Radio Heart
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@glennaustin37 awesome. I'm gonna have to look up the Radio Heart record... I only know the one they did with Gary Numan.
Hi Al! I'm pretty sure Marty's first solo album was In Reflection, which I totally love. Just dropped a video on The Church gig I went to, thought they were magnificent. What a show! Also, dropping my Starfish review in the next few days. But enough about me...😋 Thanks for another wonderful ranking, you've given me a whole lot of music to listen to...again! Gotta give Galaxies 500 a spin. Brilliant video, cheers! 🙏
Ugh... you are, in fact, correct. I thought they were both 88. Oh well... 😆. Very jealous about getting to see that tour! I will check out the footage and will be looking out for the Starfish video! Thank you for your support!
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@glennaustin37 thank you guys so much. With any luck, I'll be able to grow the channel and do even more!
My Notification bell didn't ring last week. Top 10 of 1988 - # 10 Temple Of Low Men - Crowded House # 9 Straight Outta Compton - NWA # 8 Surfer Rosa - The Pixies # 7 Fishermans Blues - Waterboys # 6 If I Should .. - The Pogues # 5 I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen # 4 Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth # 3 Starfish - The Church # 2 It Takes A Nation ... - Public Enemy & # 1 Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk.
1988 was such a weird time in music.
1988 is a lean year in quality for me, but i have 10 in my collection that I still dig
10. Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
9. Richard Thompson - Amnesia
8. The Smithereens - Green Thoughts
7. Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men
6. Graham Parker - The Mona Lisa's Sister
5. John Hiatt - Slow Turning
4. The Church - Starfish
3. REM - Green
2. Fishbone - Truth And Soul
1. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
@kevtruth you know what... I've never heard that Graham Parker record... not sure how that evaded me.i really like his earlier records... Gonna check that out.
Pretty solid list. I still listen a lot to Mona Lisa's sister and slow turning👍
Only recently I discovered Spirit of Eden, an excellent album.
@olavirannisto3552 if you like Spirit of Eden you might also like their follow up Laughing Stock. Thank you for watching!!
No Surfer Rosa? Would have been my number one for 1988. Others you didn't mention that probably make my top 25 somewhere are Lovely by The Primitives, 16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens, Only Live by The Feelies, Every Dog Has His Day by Let's Active, and Green Thoughts by The Smithereens. Agree with you that 1988 wasn't the best year, but having to compete against all those great years in the mid 80s is a tough ask for 1988 and 1989.
Yeah... 88 had only four 5 star records... 87 had 9. Definitely the least stacked year of the decade... so far... I could be wrong... but I remember 89 being light also. We'll see... So... The Pixies... for some reason I have yet to connect with their music. I liked them a bit more when I was young... but as I've gotten older... I've lost the connection. Things can change... but Surfer Rosa was my favorite of their records and it got beat out by Balaam and the Angel 😆. I'll be listening to Doolittle for 89... I'll see where that goes. I know... its weird considering everything else I love. I'm actually a pretty big Smithereens fan... but I generally tend to LOVE 4-5 songs on each record and sift through the rest of the album. The Feelies and Go Betweens were both in contention also. Thank you for supporting the channel!
@@deadendstreetchannel With the Smithereens I agree with you on the sifting, although their first two albums I find to be great from start to finish. Also, a quick shout out to you for your Hanoi Rocks mentions in your other rankings videos. I never paid them much attention, but you convinced me to give them a shot and I picked up the "All Those Wasted Years" live CD. Thought that would be a good starting point and I'm enjoying it.
@t.o.408 very cool! Glad you're enjoying them!
1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
3. Eleventh Dream Day - Prairie School Freakout
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
5. Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
6. Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
7. The New Christs - Divine Rites
8. Fugazi - Fugazi EP
9. The Feelies - Only Life
10. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From The Grace Of God
11. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
12. Naked Raygun - Jettison
13. And Also The Trees - The Millpond Years
For Against - December
Death Of Samantha - Where The Women Wear The Glory And The Men Wear The Pants
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP
My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
The Sun And The Moon - The Sun And The Moon
Joy Division - Substance
R.E.M. - Green
Bored! - Bored! EP
The Church - Starfish
The Jazz Butcher - Fishcotheque
The Mighty Lemon Drops - World Without End
Ups And Downs - Underneath the Watchful Eye
Throwing Muses - House Tornado
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peepshow
The Wild Swans - Bringing Home The Ashes
Passion Fodder - Love, Waltzes and Anarchy
The House Of Love - The House Of Love
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realise EP
Also some metal and hip hop - Maiden, Slayer, Public Enemy, Coroner, etc.
Wow, another goth album I totally missed, Red Temple Spirits - Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon! I also don't have that Balaam & the Angel album because it sounded like their debut was the one to have, then quality dropped. But I'll giveitalisten. Were you full-on goth at some point or just goth adjacent?
At the age of 18-19, my reaction to disappointment was pretty severe, so I ranked that Killing Joke near the bottom (415) with the likes of L.A. Guns, Bangles and Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, lol.
Lots of your picks were just bubbling under my top 30. The ones that you may not have that would be up your alley are And Also the Trees, For Against, Ups And Downs, The Wild Swans, and Passion Fodder, who are a pretty new discovery, lead by an American ex-pat living in France, Theo Hakola. He previously had a post-punk band, Orchestre Rouge, and his five albums with Passion Fodder (second album, Fat Tuesday from 1986 is my fave) are definitely influenced by Nick Cave.
Ah, yes... I was pretty full on goth for a couple of years... more of a dirt bag leather jacket Goth (ala FALAA era Sisters) rather than the poet blouse goth. 😆 🤣 I do have that And Also the Trees record and probably could have included it but I really only liked half of it... but same could be said for my bottom 3 or so on this list... and SOAB... I forgot about The Sun and the Moon. Ugh. Should probably be included. Damn. The KJ record grew on me after playing their other records to death I decided to give it another shot about 10 years ago. It's better than I remembered for sure. The Balaam record is very polished... but I thought it suited them... it actually got more play on HBB than 120 minutes at the time.
Hey Al, you might be interested in this... Klaus mixes out guitars and bass from 80s classics, and replaces them with synths. Not everyone's cup of tea, but interesting ::: ua-cam.com/video/Iqkj7o_FxQ4/v-deo.htmlsi=NPeYKxYHCg5gYzzS
@glennaustin37 I'm only 2 videos in... but I'm loving this already. JDs These Days is great. Gonna check out the Japan track... Thanks for the heads up!
Yes, the other Cure ones are excellent, and the JD one very special.
He is putting up some Clan of Xymox in the next week or so... 🖤