As much as I love Cave and Cohen, their'88 records aren't particular favourites of mine.
I'm going for REM over Talk Talk.
― Valentijn, Saturday, 8 June 2019 07:27 (four years ago) link
Go-Betweens, with Pixies close behind.
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 8 June 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
I got many of these records as they came out or the hype was rising, and each of them displaced the previous as the best thing ever. Can still retrace the order I heard them: Nation of Millions, Hairway to Steven, Tender Prey, Daydream Nation, Isn't Anything, Surfer Rosa. So at the time, I was left with Surfer Rosa being the favorite. I vote in these polls with what I'd want to play a bunch right now, though. And that would be Isn't Anything
― bendy, Saturday, 8 June 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
What a year. Probably 'Today' by Galaxie 500 retrospectively (I became aware of them when 'On Fire' was released) so I'll vote for 'Bug' which I bought and loved when it was released.
― Grantman, Saturday, 8 June 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
Underrated dope year.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 8 June 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Without Workbook I am voting for Trinity Sessions
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 8 June 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
Workbook is '89 according to Wikipedia, folks
― . (Michael B), Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
Jeez, what a year. This is the first poll I've seen where there are about six or seven albums I could choose. But I voted Kurious Oranj for personal reasons....
― Equal Time for Dingelschnitzen (I M Losted), Sunday, 9 June 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
I ended up voting for Introspective, which is the one I most feel like listening to right now.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 9 June 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
tough to choose between Isnt Anything or Critical Beatdown
plus Bug, Follow The Leader, Straight Out The Jungle, Straight Outta Compton, Surfer Rosa, South Of Heaven, Great Adventures of Slick Rick are all some of the best records ever.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 9 June 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
you are not going to force me to choose in between miss america and spirit of eden, are you? i'd rather cut myself a finger off.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 9 June 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
Fuck it, believing the hype, switching to channel zero, and going with Public Enemy,
― Jeff the grown man (voodoo chili), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
Voted for M2OH, but only because - Dee is right - This list is seriously missing out on Duran Duran's Big Thing.
― Max Florian, Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
(I would have also voted for Sylvian/Czukay’s Plight & Premonition, and - even more glaring omisshun - Talking Heads’ Naked! Sigh.
― Max Florian, Sunday, 9 June 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 10 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
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
― Dan S, Monday, 10 June 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
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.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 10 June 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
Introspective!
― the article don, Monday, 10 June 2019 07:06 (four years ago) link
Happy Mondays, w/ shout outs to Dinosaur Jr, Metallica, Pet Shop Boys, Public Enemy, Pixies, Go Betweens, Ultramagnetic MCs. A good year!
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Monday, 10 June 2019 09:26 (four years ago) link
Straight fight, Talk Talk v. Sonic Youth. Talk Talk won.
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Monday, 10 June 2019 09:28 (four years ago) link
those two should have been on my shout out list as well
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Monday, 10 June 2019 09:32 (four years ago) link
voted talk talk
― nxd, Monday, 10 June 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
love the 80s ali farka toure albums, tho I think my fav is the 84 red album. I'm going public enemy tho
― ogmor, Monday, 10 June 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, June 9, 2019 9:52 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Irony is dead.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 10 June 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
They took a pictureAnd from this cold lightning
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
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.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Nice to see Cowboy Junkies get a few props, I somehow thought they weren't well liked here. That'd be my vote.
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Blue Bell Knoll, followed closely by Surfer Rosa and From Langley Park to Memphis
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
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
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
An annus mirabilis, to be sure, but only one of these is Spirit of Eden.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 13 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
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.
― willem, Thursday, 13 June 2019 09:23 (four years ago) link
I wonder how many people secretly voted for Viva Hate.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 June 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
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).
― yugi ex, Thursday, 13 June 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
Or Lies
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 June 2019 10:38 (four years ago) link
Went with Jane's in the end.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Thursday, 13 June 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
I too am PE or Sonic Youth. But what a year! All the rap records are great.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Thursday, 13 June 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
Trinity Sessions with mot even a hint of regret
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 June 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 14 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
👍
― Dan S, Friday, 14 June 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
To think I'd live long enough to see Morrissey get zero votes in an ilx poll...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 14 June 2019 06:51 (four years ago) link
You own a questionIt's a body
― Michael Jones, Friday, 14 June 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
Glad I wasn't the only one to vote for Today. So many good memories of that record.
― groovypanda, Friday, 14 June 2019 10:11 (four years ago) link
Good top 4 but I missed the fact that "Isn't Anything" was in this poll.
― John Harris is a Guardian columnist (Tom D.), Friday, 14 June 2019 11:06 (four years ago) link
Michael B's list is smarter than Pazz & Jop's
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link