Urban75 Album of the Year 1988

[maomao]

Also not sure if anyone has mentioned the first Sugarcubes LP?

It's on my list though in 1988 I actually seriously hated the Sugarcubes because my older brother was into them (I was only 13/14).

Hating bands because he liked them did deprive me of some good music (notably mbv and j&mc) that I didn't listen to till much later but on the plus side it's helped me lead a Pink Floyd free life. By the time I gave them a chance I was old enough to know they were shit straight away.

 

[chilango]

Weird year for reggae LPs. Bunch of Jammys, "Red Rose for Gregory" and not a whole lot else...

Also not sure if anyone has mentioned the first Sugarcubes LP?

Life's Too Good is high on my submitted list.

Hearing Bjork's vocals on Birthday for the first time blew my young mind.

 

[chilango]

For the young who might have missed it...

 

[rekil]

Oh dear.

 

[Idris2002]

From wiki:

Lick is the third album by The Lemonheadsand the last to feature founding member Ben Deily. It was released in 1989 and was the group's last album before signing to major label Atlantic. A typo on the album itself erroneously states its release date as 1988.

Was this when they were still trying to promote the Lemonheads guy as a "hard man of Rock"? (Proof that indiedom was just as formulaic and commercial as the mainstream)

 

[belboid]

Still six hours or so left to vote!

Just a reminder, you don't have to have voted in any of the other polls to join in this one!

 

[belboid]

Last call.

Go on, you know you wanna

 

[belboid]

I suppose I better actually order my list now.

 

[TruXta]

Any chance I can sneak in after the curfew?

 

[belboid]

Grrrr......you have roughly ten minutes! Cheeky scamp

 

[TruXta]

Grrrr......you have roughly ten minutes! Cheeky scamp

How about half an hour? I need to put a small person to bed

 

[belboid]

Recount underway - that can't be right!

 

[TruXta]

Living Colour at #1?

 

[sunnysidedown]

bugger missed it again!

Recount underway - that can't be right!

Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy for Lilith.

 

[belboid]

Nurse With Wound - Soliloquy for Lilith.

darn it, one more vote and that would have been Number One!

 

[belboid]

Hey ho, let's go (and then I'll give you a day off before you have to think up the next list - can anyone guess what that might be?

 

[belboid]

= 20 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey

Shock Number 1: if I hadn't allowed that late vote, a Nick Cave album wouldn't have made it onto the list at all! Not even the one with The Mercy Seat and Deanna on it.

 

[belboid]

=20 Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey

Al & Paul laugh it up and create the first 'true' Ministry album

 

[belboid]

19 My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

We can't blame it for inventing shoegaze, even if it did.

 

[belboid]

=17 Henry Threadgill Sextet - Easily Slip Into Another World

I had to look this one up. Saxophonist dude.

 

[belboid]

=17 Happy Mondays - Bummed

The original title of Country Song was better

 

[belboid]

16 Ultramagnetic MC's- Critical Beatdown

Modestly received, we now know it is a minor masterpiece.

 

[belboid]

15 Pet Shop Boys ‎– Introspective

Left to their own devices, they'll do quite well, it seems.

 

[belboid]

14 Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

Idiots rule indeed, or this would have been higher. Or lower.

 

[belboid]

13 Rapeman - Two Nuns And A Pack Mule

I wonder why they never recorded another album?

 

[belboid]

12 The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Thousands are voting, it's like a fairytale.

 

[belboid]

11 World Domination Enterprises – Let's Play Domination

"The astonishing high-pressure racket of Let's Play Domination's opening salvo ("Message for You People") may send you rushing to the turntable to see if your stylus is accidentally gouging a hole in the platter." Apparently

 

[belboid]

10 Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good

Thus we are introduced to 'that voice' A happy day indeed

 

[belboid]

9 808 State - Newbuild

Before they'd even seen the Pacific, they were still pretty damned good.

 

[belboid]

8 Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader

Such lyrics of fury have never sounded so good.