Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1988!!

This one's ridiculously hard. It may be significant that it is the first year in which I was old enough/clued-up enough (ie. I discovered non-commercial radio) to hear most of the contenders during the year in question.

It's basically impossible so I might just choose The Sugarcubes if I only because I distinctly remember hearing them as direct (and early) result of my newly expanded radio menu.

I love the Tracy Chapman album

and am interested in Galaxie 500 again after seeing 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, which was scored by Dean & Britta

I voted for Tracy when the poll went up, and I mostly stand by that, but listening to it again just now I'm remembering how front loaded the record is.

Introspective!

Happy Mondays, w/ shout outs to Dinosaur Jr, Metallica, Pet Shop Boys, Public Enemy, Pixies, Go Betweens, Ultramagnetic MCs. A good year!

Straight fight, Talk Talk v. Sonic Youth. Talk Talk won.

those two should have been on my shout out list as well

voted talk talk

love the 80s ali farka toure albums, tho I think my fav is the 84 red album. I'm going public enemy tho

I ended up voting for Introspective, which is the one I most feel like listening to right now.

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MM O’Hara, Cowboy Junkies, and Tracy Chapman over here. And oh shit just seeing Fisherman’s blues now, which might have gotten my vote otherwise.

Missing contender: Short Sharp Shocked.

Nice to see Cowboy Junkies get a few props, I somehow thought they weren't well liked here. That'd be my vote.

Blue Bell Knoll, followed closely by Surfer Rosa and From Langley Park to Memphis

Voted Jane's Addiction to make sure it got a vote.

A top 100 rock album for me. Still ebbs and flows and shimmys and shines

An annus mirabilis, to be sure, but only one of these is Spirit of Eden.

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In '88 I listened to Surfer Rosa and Daydream Nation all the time. Lovesexy not far behind. I wasn't that fond of Green after discovering R.E.M. through Life's Rich Pageant two years earlier. Other favorites I only discovered a few years after they were released: Tender Prey, Bug, Today, Stairway to Steven, Isn't Anything, Spirit of Eden and 69. I still haven't fully grasped the latter, it's awesome though. Mmmmm ok, Surfer Rosa gets my vote.

I wonder how many people secretly voted for Viva Hate.

The hardest pick of these polls for me...I could have happily voted for 69, SoE, Isn't Anything, 16LL or ITANOMTHUB but went with Blue Bell Knoll in the end as I thought it probably wouldn't attract as much praise as the others (but has always been my favourite Cocteau's album).

I wonder how many people secretly voted for Viva Hate.

Or Lies

Went with Jane's in the end.

I too am PE or Sonic Youth. But what a year! All the rap records are great.

Trinity Sessions with mot even a hint of regret

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To think I'd live long enough to see Morrissey get zero votes in an ilx poll...

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Glad I wasn't the only one to vote for Today. So many good memories of that record.

Good top 4 but I missed the fact that "Isn't Anything" was in this poll.

Michael B's list is smarter than Pazz & Jop's