The Top Albums from 1988

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	18	Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back		Listen
2	70	Sonic Youth	Daydream Nation		Listen
3	77	Pixies	Surfer Rosa		Listen
4	130	N.W.A.	Straight Outta Compton		Listen
5	328	Jane's Addiction	Nothing's Shocking		Listen
6	372	Talk Talk	Spirit of Eden		Listen
7	386	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman		Listen
8	509	R.E.M.	Green		Listen
9	553	Leonard Cohen	I'm Your Man		Listen
10	598	My Bloody Valentine	Isn't Anything		Listen
11	698	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Tender Prey		Listen
12	736	Lucinda Williams	Lucinda Williams		Listen
13	794	The Pogues	If I Should Fall from Grace with God
14	795	The Go-Betweens	16 Lovers Lane
15	800	Boogie Down Productions	By All Means Necessary		Listen
16	893	Cowboy Junkies	The Trinity Session		Listen
17	909	Eric B. & Rakim	Follow the Leader		Listen
18	916	EPMD	Strictly Business		Listen
19	929	Dinosaur Jr.	Bug		Listen
20	964	The Waterboys	Fisherman's Blues		Listen
21	1017	Happy Mondays	Bummed
22	1082	Mary Margaret O'Hara	Miss America		Listen
23	1086	Metallica	…And Justice for All		Listen
24	1141	Ultramagnetic MCs	Critical Beatdown		Listen
25	1145	Living Colour	Vivid		Listen
26	1163	The Sugarcubes	Life's Too Good		Listen
27	1180	Queensryche	Operation: Mindcrime		Listen
28	1202	Morrissey	Viva Hate		Listen
29	1280	U2	Rattle and Hum		Listen
30	1302	The Jungle Brothers	Straight out the Jungle		Listen
31	1330	Slick Rick	The Great Adventures of Slick Rick		Listen
32	1450	Van Morrison & The Chieftains	Irish Heartbeat		Listen
33	1454	Fingers Inc.	Another Side
34	1524	Camper Van Beethoven	Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart		Listen
35	1607	Traveling Wilburys	Volume One
36	1627	Ministry	The Land of Rape and Honey
37	1714	Pet Shop Boys	Introspective		Listen
38	1741	Keith Richards	Talk Is Cheap		Listen
39	1802	Michelle Shocked	Short Sharped Shocked		Listen
40	1902	Slayer	South of Heaven		Listen
41	1966	The Church	Starfish		Listen
42	2003	Enya	Watermark		Listen
43	2019	Prince	Lovesexy
44	2165	Guy	Guy		Listen
45	2167	Prefab Sprout	From Langley Park to Memphis		Listen
46	2184	Mudhoney	Superfuzz Bigmuff		Listen
47	2251	American Music Club	California
48	2299	John Hiatt	Slow Turning		Listen
49	2307	Ketama/Toumani Diabate/Danny Thompson	Songhai		Listen
50	2335	Randy Newman	Land of Dreams		Listen
51	2420	Big Daddy Kane	Long Live the Kane		Listen
52	2534	Bobby Brown	Don't Be Cruel		Listen
53	2541	808 State	Newbuild		Listen
54	2573	Was (Not Was)	What Up, Dog?		Listen
55	2721	Steve Earle	Copperhead Road		Listen
56	2765	John Zorn	Spy Vs. Spy: Music of Ornette Coleman		Listen
57	2791	Crowded House	Temple of Low Men		Listen
58	2839	Bad Religion	Suffer		Listen
59	2875	k.d. Lang	Shadowland		Listen
60	2946	Danzig	Danzig		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Robert Nighthawk	Live on Maxwell Street 1964		Listen
		Art Farmer	Blame It on My Youth		Listen
		AR Kane	69
		Hothouse Flowers	People
		Bill Frisell	Lookout for Hope		Listen
		The House of Love	The House of Love
		Graham Parker	The Mona Lisa's Sister		Listen
		Barbara Manning	Lately I Keep Scissors
		Front 242	Front by Front		Listen
		Steve Roach	Dreamtime Return		Listen
		Half Japanese	Charmed Life