1988 - THE YEAR © ℗®™ Part 9 - Which album from this list of 1988 releases do you consider to be the best?

[ST3V]

Winger's debut is a masterpiece. Sorry Metallica junkies Edited April 18, 2020 by ST3V

[treeduck]

Between Mindcrime and Justice for All. Gotta go with Metallica. "One" was a monster that year. Probably the best video of the year.

 

Not on the list and would get my pick over all of these: REM's Green.

I had that on the list and I replaced it at the last minute.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

My fav Metallica vs. my fav Maiden. My dad would choose Maiden, but my heart lies with Metallica.

[RushFanForever]

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation was voted 'best guitar album' of 1988 by Guitar Player Magazine.

[yyz305]

Between Mindcrime and Justice for All. Gotta go with Metallica. "One" was a monster that year. Probably the best video of the year.

 

Not on the list and would get my pick over all of these: REM's Green.

 

Yay! Turn You Inside Out, Get Up...

[Na na na]

Maiden

[Tony R]

Not a great year really with a few exceptions.

 

SSOASS for me. Though Mindcrime and, to some extent, Vivid where definitive albums I prefer the Maiden album.

[Texas King]

Maiden. Then Helloween and Queensryche.

[tangy]

[IbanezJem]

Steve Earle, Copperhead Road. But I can see why it would look out of place on this list.

[treeduck]

Steve Earle, Copperhead Road. But I can see why it would look out of place on this list.

Yeah there's only 40 slots and thousands of album possibilities from each year.

[cygnify]

For me, this was a close call between And Justice for All..., Operation Mindcrime, and Vivid. I love King's X, and they appeared on the scene here, but their best was yet to come. DLR cheesed out. I was not into the new Maiden (past their "best by" date!) Megadeth and Malmsteen, were letdowns for me. This list also contains a fair amount of Cheese/Hair Metal that I never liked - and forebodes of the perfect storm that led to the explosion of Grunge in a couple years.

 

I went with Vivid. Saw LC twice that year. Wil Calhoun was a big influence to my playing at the time. I liked the marriage of funk grooves with the heaviness.

[78jazz]

While I went with Justice, South of Heaven has my favorite Slayer song on it.

[Maverick]

Living Color - Vivid

[driventotheedge]

I turned 32 that year. Sigh.

 

Real close for between Mindcrime and Metallica. Went with Queensryche though Justice gets more play for me nowadays.

[treeduck]

I've gone with Maiden in this one, it's the most consistently good album of the bunch, with a lot of interesting things happening. I also prefer it to the previous Maiden album as well. It's probably the last really great Maiden album too.

 

This ties the poll up with Metallica and Maiden both on 8 votes.

Edited April 20, 2020 by treeduck

[RushFanForever]

40 slots is the limit huh? Spinal Tap was able to go to 11 from 10 on their amps.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

I've gone with Maiden in this one, it's the most consistently good album of the bunch, with a lot of interesting things happening. I also prefer it to the previous Maiden album as well. It's probably the last really great Maiden album too.

 

This ties the poll up with Metallica and Maiden both on 8 votes.

 

It's my favorite Maiden album. So prog!

[BK 2112]

Weird year for me; I was 25, married for a year, and had pretty much gotten away from the metal and prog of my youth and mostly listened to what was probably considered Adult Oriented Rock.

Most listened to albums from 1988, at the time, were Steve Winwood - Roll With It, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, REM - Green, and Big Audio Dynamite - Tighten Up Vol. 88.

Now, with the advantage of time and later discoveries, I had to go with Justice.

[treeduck]

That tips the balance to Metallica again.