The Top Albums from 1988

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	17	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back		Listen
2	72	Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation		Listen
3	96	Pixies	Surfer Rosa		Listen
4	109	N.W.A	Straight Outta Compton		Listen
5	365	Jane's Addiction	Nothing's Shocking		Listen
6	402	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman		Listen
7	416	Talk Talk	Spirit of Eden		Listen
8	570	My Bloody Valentine	Isn't Anything		Listen
9	605	Leonard Cohen	I'm Your Man		Listen
10	627	R.E.M.	Green		Listen
11	673	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Tender Prey		Listen
12	710	The Pogues	If I Should Fall from Grace with God
13	829	The Go-Betweens	16 Lovers Lane
14	830	Lucinda Williams	Lucinda Williams		Listen
15	871	Happy Mondays	Bummed
16	876	Boogie Down Productions	By All Means Necessary		Listen
17	921	Dinosaur Jr.	Bug		Listen
18	941	Eric B. & Rakim	Follow the Leader		Listen
19	956	The Waterboys	Fisherman's Blues		Listen
20	974	Cowboy Junkies	The Trinity Session		Listen
21	999	Ultramagnetic MCs	Critical Beatdown		Listen
22	1033	EPMD	Strictly Business		Listen
23	1057	Mary Margaret O'Hara	Miss America		Listen
24	1129	Metallica	...And Justice for All		Listen
25	1191	Morrissey	Viva Hate		Listen
26	1274	The Sugarcubes	Life's Too Good		Listen
27	1336	Living Colour	Vivid		Listen
28	1348	U2	Rattle and Hum		Listen
29	1396	Queensryche	Operation: Mindcrime		Listen
30	1416	Van Morrison & The Chieftains	Irish Heartbeat		Listen
31	1537	Jungle Brothers	Straight out the Jungle		Listen
32	1606	Slick Rick	The Great Adventures of Slick Rick		Listen
33	1672	The Traveling Wilburys	Traveling Wilburys, Volume One
34	1683	Fingers Inc.	Another Side
35	1723	Pet Shop Boys	Introspective		Listen
36	1778	Lyle Lovett	Pontiac
37	1812	Prince	Lovesexy
38	1849	Michelle Shocked	Short Sharp Shocked		Listen
39	1854	Camper Van Beethoven	Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart		Listen
40	1946	Ministry	The Land of Rape and Honey
41	1961	Keith Richards	Talk Is Cheap		Listen
42	1997	Slayer	South of Heaven		Listen
43	2017	Pata Negra	Blues de la frontera
44	2045	Mudhoney	Superfuzz Bigmuff EP		Listen
45	2120	Steve Earle	Copperhead Road		Listen
46	2247	John Hiatt	Slow Turning		Listen
47	2316	The Church	Starfish		Listen
48	2346	Ketama/Toumani Diabaté/Danny Thompson	Songhai		Listen
49	2371	Randy Newman	Land of Dreams		Listen
50	2437	Enya	Watermark		Listen
51	2442	The House of Love	The House of Love
52	2489	A.R.Kane	69
53	2507	Prefab Sprout	From Langley Park to Memphis		Listen
54	2519	American Music Club	California
55	2605	Big Daddy Kane	Long Live the Kane		Listen
56	2606	Guy	Guy		Listen
57	2706	Was (Not Was)	What Up, Dog?		Listen
58	2708	They Might Be Giants	Lincoln		Listen
59	2735	Bad Religion	Suffer		Listen
60	2929	Graham Parker	The Mona Lisa's Sister		Listen
61	2958	k.d. Lang	Shadowland		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		808 State	Newbuild		Listen
		Green on Red	Here Come the Snakes
		Mano Negra	Patchanka		Listen
		Crowded House	Temple of Low Men		Listen
		Steve Roach	Dreamtime Return		Listen
		Danzig	Danzig		Listen
		Ella Fitzgerald	Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert		Listen
		Galaxie 500	Today		Listen
		Biz Markie	Goin' Off		Listen
		Erasure	The Innocents		Listen
		Hothouse Flowers	People
		Womack and Womack	Conscience
		Bobby Brown	Don't Be Cruel		Listen
		Voivod	Dimension Hatröss		Listen
		The Wonder Stuff	The Eight Legged Groove Machine
		Front 242	Front by Front		Listen
		Barbara Manning	Lately I Keep Scissors
		The Feelies	Only Life		Listen
		Napalm Death	From Enslavement to Obliteration		Listen
		Half Japanese	Charmed Life
		The Fall	The Frenz Experiment		Listen
		Art Farmer	Blame It on My Youth		Listen
		Iron Maiden	Seventh Son of a Seventh Son		Listen
		Everything But the Girl	Idlewild		Listen
		Frank Zappa	You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2: The Helsinki Concert		Listen
		Dead Can Dance	The Serpent's Egg		Listen
		Robert Nighthawk	Live on Maxwell Street 1964/And This Is Maxwell Street		Listen

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