My favourite albums from 1988

1. 30

   Rigor Mortis

   Rigor Mortis

   

   

   Thrash metal | Death metal | Crossover thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Welcome to Your Funeral
   2. Demons ●
   3. Bodily Dismemberment
   4. Condemned to Hell
   5. Wizard of Gore
   6. Shroud of Gloom
   7. Die in Pain
   8. Vampire
   9. Re-Animator
   10. Slow Death
   11. Foaming at the Mouth
   12. Grudge Fuck

2. 29

   I'm Your Man

   Leonard Cohen

   

   

   Synth-pop | Sophisti-pop

   Tracks:

   1. First We Take Manhattan
   2. Ain't No Cure for Love
   3. Everybody Knows
   4. I'm Your Man
   5. Take This Waltz ●
   6. Jazz Police
   7. I Can't Forget
   8. Tower of Song

3. 28

   Dimension Hatröss

   Voivod

   

   

   Thrash metal | Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Experiment
   2. Tribal Convictions
   3. Chaosmöngers ●
   4. Technocratic Menipulators
   5. Macrosolutions to Megaproblems
   6. Brain Scan
   7. Psychic Vacuum
   8. Cosmic Drama

4. 27

   Blood Fire Death

   Bathory

   

   

   Black metal | Viking metal

   Tracks:

   1. Odens Ride Over Nordland
   2. A Fine Day to Die ●
   3. The Golden Walls of Heaven
   4. Pace 'Till Death
   5. Holocaust
   6. For All Those Who Died
   7. Dies Irae
   8. Blood Fire Death
   9. Outro

5. 26

   Suffer

   Bad Religion

   

   

   Hardcore punk | Melodic hardcore | Skate punk

   Tracks:

   1. You Are (the Government)
   2. 1000 More Fools
   3. How Much Is Enough?
   4. When?
   5. Give You Nothing
   6. Land of Competition
   7. Forbidden Beat
   8. Best for You
   9. Suffer ●
   10. Delirium of Disorder
   11. Part II (the Numbers Game)
   12. What Can You Do?
   13. Do What You Want
   14. Part IV (the Index Fossil)
   15. Pessimistic Lines

6. 25

   Punishment for Decadence

   Coroner

   

   

   Progressive metal | Technical thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Intro
   2. Absorbed
   3. Masked Jackal
   4. Arc-Life
   5. Skeleton on Your Shoulder ●
   6. Sudden Fall
   7. Shadow of a Lost Dream
   8. The New Breed
   9. Voyage to Eternity
   10. Purple Haze

7. 24

   Battalions of Fear

   Blind Guardian

   

   

   Speed metal

   Tracks:

   1. Majesty
   2. Guardian of the Blind ●
   3. Trial by the Archon
   4. Wizard's Crown
   5. Run for the Night
   6. The Martyr
   7. Battalions of Fear
   8. By the Gates of Moria

8. 23

   Frolic Through the Park

   Death Angel

   

   

   Thrash metal | Funk metal

   Tracks:

   1. 3rd Floor
   2. Road Mutants
   3. Why Do You This
   4. Bored
   5. Confused ●
   6. Guilty of Innocence
   7. Open up
   8. Shores of Sin
   9. Cold Gin
   10. Mind Rape
   11. Dehumanization
   12. Silent Killer
   13. Witches of Knave

9. 22

   Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II

   Helloween

   

   

   Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Invitation
   2. Eagle Fly Free
   3. You Always Walk Alone
   4. Rise and Fall
   5. Dr. Stein
   6. We Got the Right
   7. March of Time
   8. I Want out ●
   9. Keeper of the Seven Keys

10. 21

    Vivid

    Living Colour

    

    

    Funk metal | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Cult of Personality ●
    2. I Want to Know
    3. Middle Man
    4. Desperate People
    5. Open Letter (to a Landlord)
    6. Funny Vibe
    7. Memories Can't Wait
    8. Broken Hearts
    9. Glamour Boys
    10. What's Your Favorite Color?
    11. Which Way to America?

11. 20

    Tender Prey

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Post-punk | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Mercy Seat ●
    2. Up Jumped the Devil
    3. Deanna
    4. Watching Alice
    5. Mercy
    6. City of Refuge
    7. Slowly Goes the Night
    8. Sunday's Slave
    9. Sugar Sugar Sugar
    10. New Morning

12. 19

    Them

    King Diamond

    

    

    Heavy metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Out from the Asylum
    2. Welcome Home ●
    3. The Invisible Guests
    4. Tea
    5. Mother's Getting Weaker
    6. Bye, Bye Misty
    7. A Broken Spell
    8. The Accusation Chair
    9. Them
    10. Twilight Symphony
    11. Coming Home

13. 18

    Nothing's Shocking

    Jane's Addiction

    

    

    Alternative rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Up the Beach
    2. Ocean Size
    3. Had a Dad
    4. Ted, Just Admit It ...
    5. Standing in the Shower ... Thinking
    6. Summertime Rolls
    7. Mountain Song ●
    8. Idiots Rule
    9. Jane Says
    10. Thank You Boys
    11. Pigs in Zen

14. 17

    Tracy Chapman

    Tracy Chapman

    

    

    Folk rock | Roots rock

    Tracks:

    1. Talkin' 'bout a Revolution
    2. Fast Car
    3. Across the Lines
    4. Behind the Wall
    5. Baby Can I Hold You
    6. Mountains o' Things ●
    7. She's Got Her Ticket
    8. Why?
    9. For My Lover
    10. If Not Now ...
    11. For You

15. 16

    Leprosy

    Death

    

    

    Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Leprosy
    2. Born Dead
    3. Forgotten Past
    4. Left to Die
    5. Pull the Plug ●
    6. Open Casket
    7. Primitive Ways
    8. Choke on It

16. 15

    Long Cold Winter

    Cinderella

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Bad Seamstress / Fallin' Apart at the Seams
    2. Gypsy Road ●
    3. Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
    4. The Last Mile
    5. Second Wind
    6. Long Cold Winter
    7. If You Don't Like It
    8. Coming Home
    9. Fire and Ice
    10. Take Me Back

17. 14

    Surfer Rosa

    Pixies

    

    

    Alternative rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Bone Machine ●
    2. Break My Body
    3. Something Against You
    4. Broken Face
    5. Gigantic
    6. River Euphrates
    7. Where Is My Mind?
    8. Cactus
    9. Tony's Theme
    10. Oh My golly!
    11. Vamos
    12. I'm Amazed
    13. Brick Is Red

18. 13

    Forbidden Evil

    Forbidden

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Chalice of Blood
    2. Off the Edge
    3. Through Eyes of Glass ●
    4. Forbidden Evil
    5. March into Fire
    6. Feel No Pain
    7. As Good as Dead
    8. Follow Me

19. 12

    Transcendence

    Crimson Glory

    

    

    Power metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Lady of Winter
    2. Red Sharks
    3. Painted Skies
    4. Masque of the Red Death
    5. In Dark Places
    6. Where Dragons Rule ●
    7. Lonely
    8. Burning Bridges
    9. Eternal World
    10. Tramscendence

20. 11

    Green

    R.E.M.

    

    

    Alternative rock | Avant-garde rock

    Tracks:

    1. Pop Song 89
    2. Get up
    3. You Are Everything
    4. Stand
    5. World Leader Pretend
    6. The Wrong Child
    7. Orange Crush ●
    8. Turn You Inside-out
    9. Hairshirt
    10. I Remember California
    11. Untitled

21. 10

    No Exit

    Fates Warning

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. No Exit
    2. Anarchy Divine
    3. Silent Cries
    4. In a Word
    5. Shades of Heavenly Death
    6. The Ivory Gate of Dreams ●

22. 9

    Ultramega OK

    Soundgarden

    

    

    Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Flower
    2. All Your Lies
    3. 665
    4. Beyond the Wheel ●
    5. 667
    6. Mood for Trouble
    7. Circle of Power
    8. He Didn't
    9. Smokestack Lightning
    10. Nazi Driver
    11. Head Injury
    12. Incessant Mace
    13. One Minute of Silence

23. 8

    South of Heaven

    Slayer

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. South of Heaven ●
    2. Silent Scream
    3. Live Undead
    4. Behind the Crooked Cross
    5. Mandatory Suicide
    6. Ghosts of War
    7. Read Between the Lies
    8. Cleanse the Soul
    9. Dissident Aggressor
    10. Spill the Blood

24. 7

    Kings of Metal

    Manowar

    

    

    Heavy metal | power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Wheels of Fire
    2. Kings of Metal
    3. Heart of Steel
    4. Sting of the Bumblebee
    5. The Crown and the Ring (Lament of the Kings)
    6. Kingdom Come
    7. Pleasure Slave
    8. Hail and Kill ●
    9. The Warrior's Prayer
    10. Blood of the Kings

25. 6

    Out of the Silent Planet

    King's X

    

    

    Progressive metal | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. In the New Age
    2. Goldilox
    3. Power of Love ●
    4. Wonder
    5. Sometimes
    6. King
    7. What Is This?
    8. Far, Far Away
    9. Shot of Love
    10. Visions

26. 5

    The New Order

    Testament

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Eerie Inhabitants
    2. The New Order
    3. Trial by Fire
    4. Into the Pit ●
    5. Hypnosis
    6. Disciples of the Watch
    7. The Preacher
    8. Nobody's Fault
    9. A Day of Reckoning
    10. Music Death (A Dirge)

27. 4

    ... And Justice for All

    Metallica

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Blackened
    2. ... And Justice for All
    3. Eye of the Beholder
    4. One
    5. The Shortest Straw
    6. Harvester of Sorrow
    7. The Frayed Ends of Sanity
    8. To Live Is to Die ●
    9. Dyers Eve

28. 3

    So Far, So Good ... So What!

    Megadeth

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Into the Lungs of Hell
    2. Set the World Afire
    3. Anarchy in the U.K.
    4. Mary Jane
    5. 502
    6. In My Darkest Hour ●
    7. Liar
    8. Hook in Mouth

29. 2

    Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

    Iron Maiden

    

    

    Progressive metal | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Moonchild
    2. Infinite Dreams
    3. Can I Play with Madness
    4. The Evil That Men Do
    5. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son ●
    6. The Prophecy
    7. The Clairvoyant
    8. Only the Good Die Young

30. 1

    Operation: Mindcrime

    Queensrÿche

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. I Remember Now
    2. Anarchy-X
    3. Revolution Calling
    4. Operation: Mindcrime
    5. Speak
    6. Spreading the Disease
    7. The Mission
    8. Suite Sister Mary ●
    9. The Needle Lies
    10. Electric Requiem
    11. Breaking the Silence
    12. I Don't Believe in Love
    13. Waiting for 22
    14. My Empty Room
    15. Eyes of a Stranger