1988
10.
Talk Talk -
Spirit of Eden
9.
Beat Happening -
Jamboree
8.
Happy Mondays -
Bummed
7.
N.W.A -
Straight Outta Compton
6.
Cardiacs -
A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
5.
Sonic Youth -
Daydream Nation
4.
Wire -
A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck
3.
Public Enemy -
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
2.
Pixies -
Surfer Rosa
1.
Luxuria -
Unanswerable Lust
This is a s
hit kicker of a year for me. Over half of these are all-time favourites of mine, and in regular rotation. What I like about this period of time, from my experience, if how varied and diverse the music scene was. Hip Hop was starting to truly blossom and develop as an art form, punk was getting twisted and re-invented and then you have
Cardiacs just making a genre of their own. Fantastic stuff here.