What sort of year was 1988? A Don't Worry Be Happy, biggest selling international albums of the year all being released in 1987, Glenn Medeiros, I Owe You Nothing kind of year. On the other hand, and results may vary on whether these were strictly good things, it was also the year of I Should Be So Lucky, the Timelords, S'Express and Orinoco Flow. Down at this end it was a great year for cult alternative noisemaking, smart guys, delicacy and poetry, plus more importantly heavy stirrings of rave and rap culture preparing to completely tear down the fabric. A Guy Called Gerald is the latest Spotify refusenik, although pretty much just for this track, which either suggests licensing has beaten us once more or Gerald Simpson's famously mixed views on its legacy has got in the way.
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick
The Wedding Present - Nobody's Twisting Your Arm
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Pixies - River Euphrates
McCarthy - Should The Bible Be Banned
Throwing Muses - Mexican Women
The Go-Betweens - Was There Anything I Could Do?
The House Of Love - Destroy The Heart
R.E.M. - Turn You Inside-Out
Morrissey - Suedehead
Julian Cope - Charlotte Anne
Wire - Kidney Bingos
The Sugarcubes - Deus
Beat Happening - Indian Summer
Galaxie 500 - Tugboat
Talk Talk - I Believe In You
Frazier Chorus - Dream Kitchen
The Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing
Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices
Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
Prince - Alphabet St.
Happy Mondays - Moving In With
Pop Will Eat Itself - Def Con One
Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis
EPMD - Strictly Business
Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy
Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers
Stump - Charlton Heston
The Fall - New Big Prinz
Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
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