Best Albums of 1988

Straight Outta Compton

N.W.A

...And Justice for All (Remastered)

Metallica

South of Heaven

Slayer

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

By All Means Necessary (Expanded Edition)

Boogie Down Productions

Straight Out the Jungle

Jungle Brothers

Vivid (2023 Remaster)

Living Colour

The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick

Slick Rick

Spirit of Eden

Talk Talk

…And Justice for All (Remastered)

Metallica

Critical Beatdown

Ultramagnetic MC's

Strictly Business

EPMD

Superfuzz Bigmuff (Deluxe Edition)

Mudhoney

Ultramega OK (Expanded Reissue)

Soundgarden

Long Live The Kane

Big Daddy Kane

Nothing's Shocking

Jane's Addiction

Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman

Lyte As a Rock

MC Lyte

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (2015 Remastered Edition)

Iron Maiden

Danzig

Danzig

Operation: Mindcrime (Deluxe Edition)

Queensrÿche

Agent Orange

Sodom

Follow the Leader

Eric B. & Rakim

Bug (Bonus Track Version)

Dinosaur Jr.

The La's

The La's

From Enslavement to Obliteration

Napalm Death

Blue Bell Knoll (Remastered) [Remastered]

Cocteau Twins

Open Up and Say... Ahh! (20th Anniversary Edition)

Poison

Blood Fire Death

Bathory

Today

Galaxie 500

Playing with Fire

Spacemen 3

Hot, Cool and Vicious

Salt-N-Pepa & En Vogue

Long Cold Winter

Cinderella

Khedni Habibi

Magida El Roumi

Dimension Hatröss

Voivod

Copperhead Road

Steve Earle

Lita

Lita Ford

Blow My Fuse

KIX

Vinnie Vincent Invasion

Vinnie Vincent Invasion

In Control, Volume 1

Marley Marl, Kool G Rap & Big Daddy Kane

Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz

Pretty Boy Floyd

Psycho Cafe

Bang Tango

The Great Radio Controversy

Tesla

Shadowland

k.d. lang

Somewhere Between

Suzy Bogguss

Hallowed Ground

Skin Yard

Fisherman's Blues (Collector's Edition)

The Waterboys

Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room

Dwight Yoakam

Hex Enduction Hour (Expanded Deluxe Edition)

The Fall

Eazy-Duz-It

Eazy-E

Daydream Nation (2012 Remastered Version)

Sonic Youth

Green (Remastered 2013)

R.E.M.

Ammnesia

Mr. Fingers

Isn’t Anything

my bloody valentine

Garfunkel

Art Garfunkel

What Up, Dog?

Was (Not Was)

Supersonic

J.J. Fad

A Quick One (Happy Jack)

The Who

Deep Listening

Pauline Oliveros

Vini Reilly

The Durutti Column

The Land of Rape and Honey

Ministry

Walking The Blues

Otis Spann

Surfer Rosa (2007 Remaster)

Pixies

The House Of Love (2012 Deluxe Version)

The House of Love

Tender Prey

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 (Remastered 2016)

The Traveling Wilburys

Cyborgs Revisited

Simply Saucer

Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2

The Beatles

The New Order

Testament

Britny Fox (Expanded Edition - 2023 Remaster)

Britny Fox

Legal Alien - Top Secrets

Willie Colón

Gipsy Kings

Gipsy Kings

Colors (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Various Artists

Miss America

Mary Margaret O'Hara

Abschiedssymphonie

Henning Christiansen

No More Color

Coroner

Trait (Deluxe Edition)

Pailhead

Lawrence of Arabia

Maurice Jarre

Perpetual Burn

Jason Becker

Corrupt Postman

Various Artists

Don't Close Your Eyes

Keith Whitley

Leprosy (Deluxe Reissue)

Death

Caifanes

Caifanes

Ojalá Que Llueva Café

Juan Luis Guerra 4.40

Köhntarkösz

Magma

The Peel Session

The Smiths

Watermark (Remastered Bonus Track Version)

Enya

Introspective: Further Listening 1988-1989 (Deluxe Edition) [2018 Remaster]

Pet Shop Boys

Heart of Stone

Cher

Think This

Toxik

Testimony of the Ancients

Pestilence

Extreme Aggression

Kreator

Dreamtime Return - 30th Anniversary Remastered Edition

Steve Roach

Helter Stupid

Negativland

Viva Hate (Remastered)

Morrissey

Illusions

Sadus

How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today

Suicidal Tendencies

Tauromagia

Manolo Sanlúcar

If I Should Fall from Grace with God (Expanded Edition)

The Pogues

13.13

Lydia Lunch