Title: 1988
Description: Albums — part 2
Stephen - June 30, 2008 08:28 AM (GMT)
No space for Rattle & Hum. Sorry to all U2 fans.
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1988 part 1 Buy Kurious! - June 30, 2008 08:35 AM (GMT)
I haven't heard the vast majority of those...
Voted the Moz! -_-
Mr. Marshall - June 30, 2008 08:44 AM (GMT)
Stephen - June 30, 2008 08:48 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mr. Marshall @ Jun 30 2008, 08:44 AM) |
| None of 'em :o |
I knew I should have put in that U2 album!
Neal Cassady - June 30, 2008 09:03 AM (GMT)
I guess when all said and done Surfer Rosa is still a mighty fine LP all these years later.
Also loving 808 State in '88- good memories of buying records from Eastern Bloc that year.
Also have memory of wandering around Liverpool and bumping into Jeff Walker of Carcass - who promptly took us home where we enjoyed a cup of tea with him and his parents - rock and roll! :applaud:
elvischomsky - June 30, 2008 09:11 AM (GMT)
La Mozz, by default.
Seem to remember 1988 as a golden year, but clearly I was wrong.
Can you imagine a whole album of the "Mighty" Lemon Drops?
Crikey.
Buy Kurious! - June 30, 2008 09:13 AM (GMT)
In a one word answer, as I cannae be bothered reading the threads, are Current 93 any good?
Oh, and I bought the Lilac Time LP on a whim a few years ago. Shit!!!
on edit: "shit" is a bit strong, but I didnae like it much....
rainmaster - June 30, 2008 09:26 AM (GMT)
Went with Siouxsie.
Surfer Rosa was good, but I preferred Doolittle.
What ever happened to the Primitives? :o
Frederick II - June 30, 2008 10:09 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Neal Cassady @ Jun 30 2008, 09:03 PM) |
| I guess when all said and done Surfer Rosa is still a mighty fine LP all these years later. |
As loathe as I am to agree with a Cale fan, this poll was a no contest. The Pixies are head and shoulders above the rest - a genuine supergroup.
Mere Pseud. - June 30, 2008 10:22 AM (GMT)
Not a patch on the first 1988 poll but still enough good records. At least this makes it easy for me to pick Surfer Rosa.
I also have fond memories of the Talk Talk, Nick Cave, Felt and Morrissey albums.
elvischomsky - June 30, 2008 10:32 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Buy Kurious! @ Jun 30 2008, 09:13 PM) |
In a one word answer, as I cannae be bothered reading the threads, are Current 93 any good?
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That's actually five words, BK.
Pedants ahoy!
Dice Man - June 30, 2008 11:56 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Buy Kurious! @ Jun 30 2008, 09:13 PM) |
| In a one word answer, as I cannae be bothered reading the threads, are Current 93 any good? |
Yes.
Tender Prey for me.
Dice Man
Master of Originality
daddyslittlegrandpa - June 30, 2008 01:19 PM (GMT)
Tender Prey
or
You Walk Alone
and a nod to 39 Minutes - Microdisney
duckpin236 - June 30, 2008 01:21 PM (GMT)
Mekons for me on this one
Zoot Horn Polo - June 30, 2008 02:08 PM (GMT)
Pixies at the time, but Talk Talk now.
IanMcC - June 30, 2008 03:46 PM (GMT)
I think the Talking Heads album is very underrated. Not their best by a long way, but still mighty fine. I voted that one, ahead of Surfer Rosa and Lovesexy.
Fritter - June 30, 2008 06:24 PM (GMT)
Lovesexy was great, not least because it was indexed as one track so you got VFM on the pub jukebox. And 'Alphabet Street' still makes me go all giddy gameshow.
I was a student in 1988, so Tender Prey and Surfer Rosa were virtually issued material. Still good though. But nowadays, I listen to Talk Is Cheap a good deal.
requiredfield - July 1, 2008 03:46 AM (GMT)
Talk Talk, then Pere Ubu.
Three legged black grey hog - July 1, 2008 12:50 PM (GMT)
Mary Margaret O'Hara, obv.
worthless recluse - July 1, 2008 06:44 PM (GMT)
You Walk Alone, though I didn't hear it til c. 2001 and probably only a few dozen people actually heard it at the time. Nevertheless, a classic. Reek of Putrefaction is a personal runner-up, though marred by terrible production. Not the best albums from Neil Young, Talking Heads, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Morrissey (if you consider The Smiths) and Julian Cope this year (having had them all at one stage or another). Surfer Rosa, Tender Prey and Rank are albums I listened to a lot at one point, also The Primitives and The Sugarcubes... The Tenement Year, The Pictorial Jackson Review and Plight & Premonition are ones I've bought and enjoyed more recently.