Best of 1988

[metalmike76]

Hello my friends!

80’s Glam Metalcast is back w/ 1988 Revisited

What is your 1988 Hair Metal Top 10?

Poison? Winger? Cinderella? Yeah those are on there….but we have a few underdogs as well.


Full episode https://youtu.be/taVTFHZuNK4?si=z7aB-ywDWY5oSQPS

1988 Radio Show Premiere w/ Live Chat at 9PM Eastern https://youtu.be/NoWgQdCIjEc?si=PDNQy6w00IGKI_X7

[daveg]

Great Year for rock.

Lots of huge albums
Poison
Warrant
Metallica
LA Guns
Cinderella
Bon Jovi
Queensryche
Maiden
Slayer
Winger
Vixen



Also lots of bands that didn't sell had great albums

Kings of the Sun
Dirty Looks - Cool from the Wire
Krokus - Heart Attack (Don't care...I like it)
BOC - Imaginos
Honeymoon Suite - Racing after Midnight
Zodiac Mindwarp - Tatooed beat Messiah
Rock City Angels


Could go on....what a great year for music

[dmbrocker]

Oh my, where to begin? 1988 was a classic year for 80's metal/hard rock:

Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh...
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Ratt - Reach For the Sky
Winger - s/t
L.A. Guns - s/t
Kix - Blow My Fuse
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
G'n'R - Lies
Bulletboys - s/t
Britny Fox - s/t
Kingdom Come - s/t
Vixen - s/t
Dirty Looks - Cool From the Wire
Quiet Riot - QR with Shortino on vocals
Femme Fatale - s/t
D'Molls - s/t
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!
Ozzy - No Rest For the Wicked
Circus of Power - s/t
Hurricane - Over the Edge
Overkill - Under the Influence
Testament - The New Order
Flotsam & Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Smashed Gladys - Social Intercourse

Okay, I'll stop. But you get the idea. Waaaaaaaay too many good ones from that year!

[Bono Nettencourt]

Skyscraper.

[LillianRoxyFA]

Excellent year for rock. My 3 faves were:
1. Smashed Gladys
2. Mindcrime
3. Bullet Boys

[BernieTaupson]

Now And Zen.

Wilburys vol 1.

[metalmike76]

Great Year for rock.

Lots of huge albums
Poison
Warrant
Metallica
LA Guns
Cinderella
Bon Jovi
Queensryche
Maiden
Slayer
Winger
Vixen



Also lots of bands that didn't sell had great albums

Kings of the Sun
Dirty Looks - Cool from the Wire
Krokus - Heart Attack (Don't care...I like it)
BOC - Imaginos
Honeymoon Suite - Racing after Midnight
Zodiac Mindwarp - Tatooed beat Messiah
Rock City Angels


Could go on....what a great year for music

No doubt. Krokus made out list

[metalmike76]

Oh my, where to begin? 1988 was a classic year for 80's metal/hard rock:

Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh...
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Ratt - Reach For the Sky
Winger - s/t
L.A. Guns - s/t
Kix - Blow My Fuse
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
G'n'R - Lies
Bulletboys - s/t
Britny Fox - s/t
Kingdom Come - s/t
Vixen - s/t
Dirty Looks - Cool From the Wire
Quiet Riot - QR with Shortino on vocals
Femme Fatale - s/t
D'Molls - s/t
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!
Ozzy - No Rest For the Wicked
Circus of Power - s/t
Hurricane - Over the Edge
Overkill - Under the Influence
Testament - The New Order
Flotsam & Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Smashed Gladys - Social Intercourse

Okay, I'll stop. But you get the idea. Waaaaaaaay too many good ones from that year!

Wow nice list. Just an EPIC year

[dmbrocker]

Oh my, where to begin? 1988 was a classic year for 80's metal/hard rock:

Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh...
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Ratt - Reach For the Sky
Winger - s/t
L.A. Guns - s/t
Kix - Blow My Fuse
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
G'n'R - Lies
Bulletboys - s/t
Britny Fox - s/t
Kingdom Come - s/t
Vixen - s/t
Dirty Looks - Cool From the Wire
Quiet Riot - QR with Shortino on vocals
Femme Fatale - s/t
D'Molls - s/t
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!
Ozzy - No Rest For the Wicked
Circus of Power - s/t
Hurricane - Over the Edge
Overkill - Under the Influence
Testament - The New Order
Flotsam & Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Smashed Gladys - Social Intercourse

Okay, I'll stop. But you get the idea. Waaaaaaaay too many good ones from that year!

Wow nice list. Just an EPIC year

Agreed. Two others worth mentioning:

House of Lords - s/t
Jetboy - Feel the Shake

[metalmike76]

Oh my, where to begin? 1988 was a classic year for 80's metal/hard rock:

Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh...
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Ratt - Reach For the Sky
Winger - s/t
L.A. Guns - s/t
Kix - Blow My Fuse
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
G'n'R - Lies
Bulletboys - s/t
Britny Fox - s/t
Kingdom Come - s/t
Vixen - s/t
Dirty Looks - Cool From the Wire
Quiet Riot - QR with Shortino on vocals
Femme Fatale - s/t
D'Molls - s/t
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!
Ozzy - No Rest For the Wicked
Circus of Power - s/t
Hurricane - Over the Edge
Overkill - Under the Influence
Testament - The New Order
Flotsam & Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Smashed Gladys - Social Intercourse

Okay, I'll stop. But you get the idea. Waaaaaaaay too many good ones from that year!

Wow nice list. Just an EPIC year

Agreed. Two others worth mentioning:

House of Lords - s/t
Jetboy - Feel the Shake

Roxx Gang- Things You’ve Never Done Before

[dmbrocker]

Wow nice list. Just an EPIC year

Agreed. Two others worth mentioning:

House of Lords - s/t
Jetboy - Feel the Shake

Roxx Gang- Things You’ve Never Done Before

Yep. Also: Europe - Out of This World

[BulletProofPoet]

I’ll add

The Dogs D’Amour - in The Dynamite Jet Saloon
Riverdogs - ST
Lillian Axe - ST
Rock City Angels - Young Man’s Blues
Roxanne - ST

[aznsquirt]

Pantera - Power Metal!

I suppose VVI - All Systems Go deserves a mention.

[Bono Nettencourt]

An album from 88 by a legendary hard rock group hasn't been mentioned yet... because it was fucking awful.

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

VOIVOD Dimension Hatröss
CORONER Punishment for Decadence
SABBAT History of a Time to Come
DEATH Leprosy
VIO-LENCE Eternal Nightmare
STONE s/t
HERESY Face Up to It
INFEST Slave
CARCASS Reek of Putrefaction
BOLT THROWER In Battle There Is No Law
MORBID SAINT Spectrum of Death
WARGASM Why Play Around?
NAPALM DEATH From Enslavement to Obliteration
PESTILENCE Mallevs Maleficarvm
FORBIDDEN Forbidden Evil
VENDETTA Brain Damage
RAGE Perfect Man
MINOTAUR Power of Darkness
BATHORY Blood Fire Death
RAVEN Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
SCANNER Hypertrace
MEKONG DELTA The Music of Erich Zann
RAZOR Violent Restitution
NUCLEAR ASSAULT Survive
THE ACCÜSED Martha Splatterhead’s Maddest Stories Ever Told

[BernieTaupson]

An album from 88 by a legendary hard rock group hasn't been mentioned yet... because it was fucking awful.

OU812, I’ve been surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

[Borges]

Fantastic year
Other great ones


Helloween- Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
King Diamond- Them
Riot- Thundersteel
Blind Guardian- Batallions of Fear
AC/DC- Blow Up Your Video (yup, I like it a lot)
Atrophy- Socialized Hate
Toxik- World Circus
Tankard- The Morning After
Suicidal Tendencies- How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
Danzig- Danzig
Candlemass- Ancient Dreams
Liege Lord- Master Control
Running Wild- Port Royal

[Rocker4Real]

New Jersey was it for me. That got me into hard rock.

[Mister Freeze]

I always think of 1988 as the commercial peak of hair metal.

If you want an exact date: September 23, when it was half of the Billboard Top 10.
https://www.billboard.com/charts/billbo ... 988-09-23/

That week was also notable for looking ahead to the future with "...And Justice for All" debuting at #35.

[p86]

Lita Ford- Lita

[Bono Nettencourt]

Cheap Trick - Lap of Luxury

Not their greatest effort, but put them back on the map and gave those of us who were too young for Budokan a 2nd chance to see'em.

[dmbrocker]

I always think of 1988 as the commercial peak of hair metal.

If you want an exact date: September 23, when it was half of the Billboard Top 10.
https://www.billboard.com/charts/billbo ... 988-09-23/

That week was also notable for looking ahead to the future with "...And Justice for All" debuting at #35.

A bunch of other hair metal, hard rock, and thrash in the top 200 as well: Winger, Europe, Hurricane, Testament, Overkill, Aero’s PV, Operation: Mindcrime, Maiden’s Seventh Son…, King Diamond, Impellitteri’s Stand in Line, Nuclear Assault, etc. Plus Pyromania somehow reentered the top 200. Great time to be a hard rock/metal fan.

[War_in_D]

Such a great year in music.

[metalmike76]

I’ll add

The Dogs D’Amour - in The Dynamite Jet Saloon
Riverdogs - ST
Lillian Axe - ST
Rock City Angels - Young Man’s Blues
Roxanne - ST

Lillian was my #1

[Nate S Axel]

Metalmike be gettin' pissed that nobody is clicking his link to listen to the show and reply on the YouTube thread. A man's gotta eat!

[MattleyCrue]

Metalmike be gettin' pissed that nobody is clicking his link to listen to the show and reply on the YouTube thread. A man's gotta eat!

[BernieTaupson]

Metalmike be gettin' pissed that nobody is clicking his link to listen to the show and reply on the YouTube thread. A man's gotta eat!

Nah, they’d upgrade their $6.99 Radio Shack microphones if they actually wanted anyone to listen to their show.

I don’t know how the fuck audio can sound that bad in 2024. Use a fuckin iPhone maybe, it has a better microphone as standard.

And the bloody audio clipping and the songs mixed in twice as loud as the voice … amateur hour.

[BernieTaupson]

But I guess it’s only show #183 so they’ve only had #182 previous episodes to think about it.

[metalmike76]

Metalmike be gettin' pissed that nobody is clicking his link to listen to the show and reply on the YouTube thread. A man's gotta eat!

like I actually make money on this stuff

[metalmike76]

Metalmike be gettin' pissed that nobody is clicking his link to listen to the show and reply on the YouTube thread. A man's gotta eat!

Nah, they’d upgrade their $6.99 Radio Shack microphones if they actually wanted anyone to listen to their show.

I don’t know how the fuck audio can sound that bad in 2024. Use a fuckin iPhone maybe, it has a better microphone as standard.

And the bloody audio clipping and the songs mixed in twice as loud as the voice … amateur hour.

I can’t afford an iPhone. We do it with flip phones