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101 Best Songs of 1988:#1 – Guns n’ Roses – Sweet Child o’ Mine (1 Viewer)

By the way, this last page has been LOL with the observations. Just an enjoyable read. 

eta* We had Steve Miller in high school, but that was for the true blue collar kids back then, so I sort of missed out on the cultural thing they had going on. Probably radically different in different areas, but that was my experience. But yeah, was it ever played in college with the intent to make you feel more at home at a party like you were back in high school. 

 
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rockaction said:
I had typed something up, but it wasn't really all that interesting. I still like this song, and I'm not a Soundgarden guy by any stretch of the imagination. I think I liked Screaming Life/Fopp and Ultramega OK way more than I liked their later, Cornell-vocal heavy songs. They were an interesting band at first, a band that had a bunch of sonic diversity going on. Later they turned to more sludgy stoner rock with Cornell in fine form, for sure, but they lacked the charm of those first early recordings. Badmotorfinger is where we (meaning young rock and I) really tune them out, to be honest. 
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I was never really a Soundgarden guy either but I liked Badmotorfinger fine.  It was Superunknown that made me lose any interest.  I also never really understood how they got lumped in with grunge, but I guess the genre became a catch-all for any heavy guitar rock that wasn't hair metal. 

 
scorchy said:
I was never really a Soundgarden guy either but I liked Badmotorfinger fine.  It was Superunknown that made me lose any interest.  I also never really understood how they got lumped in with grunge, but I guess the genre became a catch-all for any heavy guitar rock that wasn't hair metal. 
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Because they were loud and from Seattle.

 
Have not kept close tabs on the selections, yet, but it dons upon me that I did not discover most music from 86-90 until several years later, as I think 85% of my music budget was spent replacing albums with CDs and recreating my glory days of the early 80s (which consisted mostly of albums from 67-72).  It was a weird time for me.  

 
In 1988 I was in high school and mostly into what we now call “classic rock.” I had little interest in new music except for bands like U2. I didn’t discover/appreciate many of the songs on this list until later. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
In 1988 I was in high school and mostly into what we now call “classic rock.” I had little interest in new music except for bands like U2. I didn’t discover/appreciate many of the songs on this list until later. 
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In 1988, I was consuming any new music I could find.  The year before, my best friend left for a music boarding school.  He got into all sorts of stuff that wasn't played on the radio in my hometown, and sent me mix tapes of The Smiths, Echo & the Bunnymen, and the like. In late '87/early '88 I discovered 120 Minutes on MTV. Between that and the local B Dalton -  where I read the record reviews in Rolling Stone and copied down notes - I would come up with lists of records I wanted to buy.  Then I would spend my meager paycheck on a tape or two, standing in Camelot music agonizing over the decision.

In the first half of '88, I was also still DJing at the local roller rink some weekends and sitting in front of my stereo every weeknight listening to "dial-in dedications" on the local top 40 station (more on that later in the countdown).  The main reason I picked this year is so much of it evokes really specific memories.

 
#75 - Guns n' Roses - Used to Love Her

In an earlier post about Public Enemy, I said that in 1988, only four current bands seemed to really matter in my high school.  GnR was the biggest - the first metal band I remember that was loved by the Vo-Tech dudes, the soccer players, the rednecks, and a surprising number of preppy girls.  Even though Appetite was released in '87, it didn't really get huge until the following year.  Then Lies was released while other Appetite singles were still crushing the charts.  GnR just felt like they were everywhere.

The first single from Lies wasn't released until 1989, but Used to Love Her was added on to later pressings of the Paradise City single.  My friends and I all loved the song and thought it was a pretty obvious joke.  I mean how the hell was it particularly offensive when One in a Million was two tracks later? The obvvious answer I guess is that both can be pretty offensive (pretty sure Rolling Stone wouldn't be giving Lies a 4-star review in 2021).  These days, I don't think twice when I listen to Used to Love Her or anything.  But One in a Million induces all kinds of cringe.

Used to Love Her

 
Another reason I didn’t pay much attention to new music in 1988 was because that was the year I got my first serious girlfriend, and all the, uh, stuff that comes with that. 

 
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scorchy said:
#75 - Guns n' Roses - Used to Love Her

In an earlier post about Public Enemy, I said that in 1988, only four current bands seemed to really matter in my high school.  GnR was the biggest - the first metal band I remember that was loved by the Vo-Tech dudes, the soccer players, the rednecks, and a surprising number of preppy girls.  Even though Appetite was released in '87, it didn't really get huge until the following year.  Then Lies was released while other Appetite singles were still crushing the charts.  GnR just felt like they were everywhere.

The first single from Lies wasn't released until 1989, but Used to Love Her was added on to later pressings of the Paradise City single.  My friends and I all loved the song and thought it was a pretty obvious joke.  I mean how the hell was it particularly offensive when One in a Million was two tracks later? The obvvious answer I guess is that both can be pretty offensive (pretty sure Rolling Stone wouldn't be giving Lies a 4-star review in 2021).  These days, I don't think twice when I listen to Used to Love Her or anything.  But One in a Million induces all kinds of cringe.

Used to Love Her
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Yes to all of this.   I love this song.

 
Alex P Keaton said:
Yes to all of this.   I love this song.
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One of my high school friends, when even mildly prompted, would go to great lengths to defend and explain this song.

Nobody ever defended One in a Million.

 
Just to accelerate this process a bit, I'm starting today with a triple shot of #1 songs in honor of our resident pop guru Tim.  Thirty-one singles released in 1988 reached the pinnacle of Billboard's Hot 100.  Eleven of them made the cut for me (eight from the '88 charts and three that didn't hit till early '89) and the three pop gems in this post (ok, that's really overselling two of them) are the first to appear on my countdown. 

#74 - Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

The third single off Poison's second record, it's their only #1.  Every Rose... isn't Poison's best song (that would be Talk Dirty to Me)  or even the best song on the album (I'll take Fallen Angel ftw), but man did girls love it.  The best thing I can say is that it was so easy to play that even I could strum it out.  Freshman year of college, it wasn't odd to see a guy with an acoustic guitar on the quad using Bret Michaels' pain to try to meet chicks.  I never tried that myself - taking my pet rabbit out on a leash seemed to work much better.

Every Rose Has It's Thorn

#73 - Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley

This song brings cheese to a whole new level, but it's some seriously glorious cheese.  Maybe I just associate with an 11th grade holiday dance where me and my date snuck out of the HS cafeteria and made out in the nearby baseball dugout while Will to Power was blasting from speakers inside.  If any of you actually watch the video, the dude singer embodies 1980's South Florida stereotypes, and the opening shot of the Nietzche book seems just a bit out of place given the material.

Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley

#72 - George Michael - One More Try

I'll be writing a soliloquy on my love for George Michael as we get farther along.  I won't apologize for it.  In the meantime, One More Try was the third consecutive single from Faith to reach #1.  Get this man in the RnR Hall of Fame already.

One More Try

 
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Just seeing this thread for the first time. I graduated HS in 88 and there are lots of memories in here. 

Used to Love Her is a great song. Can't wait to see the rest of the countdown. 

 
scorchy said:
#72 - George Michael - One More Try

I'll be writing a soliloquy on my love for George Michael as we get farther along.  I won't apologize for it.  In the meantime, One More Try was the third consecutive single from Faith to reach #1.  Get this man in the RnR Hall of Fame already.

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This is a fantastic song - can really feel the anguish in George's voice.

 
scorchy said:
#73 - Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley

This song brings cheese to a whole new level, but it's some seriously glorious cheese.  Maybe I just associate with an 11th grade holiday dance where me and my date snuck out of the HS cafeteria and made out in the nearby baseball dugout while Will to Power was blasting from speakers inside.  If any of you actually watch the video, the dude singer embodies 1980's South Florida stereotypes, and the opening shot of the Nietzche book seems just a bit out of place given the material.

Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
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Ugh - this one made me cringe in so many ways. Utter blasphemy. Best thing you can say is the male singer/wannabe p@rn actor had great hair.

 
scorchy said:
#73 - Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley

This song brings cheese to a whole new level, but it's some seriously glorious cheese.  Maybe I just associate with an 11th grade holiday dance where me and my date snuck out of the HS cafeteria and made out in the nearby baseball dugout while Will to Power was blasting from speakers inside.  If any of you actually watch the video, the dude singer embodies 1980's South Florida stereotypes, and the opening shot of the Nietzche book seems just a bit out of place given the material.

Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
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I don't think I remember this song, but this was a hilarious Google search. 

Still performing, you can catch them at Miami-area I Love the 80s concerts, and Mr. 80's Feathered Hair is active on Instagram. 

I'm liable to do random searches for bands from 20-30 years ago, and the more obscure they are, they more likely they are still together. 

 
zamboni said:
Ugh - this one made me cringe in so many ways. Utter blasphemy. Best thing you can say is the male singer/wannabe p@rn actor had great hair.
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OK, so it's really tough to defend the indefensible, but I'm gonna give it a go.  In developing this list, I felt it was important to hit at least some #1 songs.  Without spotlighting myself or @Bracie Smatherspotential next 100, there were a few really good songs and a lot of dreck.  In some cases, the song didn't make it here b/c I chose another track from the album and I didn't think the artist warranted two entries.  In others, the song may have been fine, but it was total dad rock in 1988 and I didn't know a soul under 40 that listened to it.  Most of the time, the song had a triple dose of bad - I thought it sucked then, I still think it sucks now, and it's still played with regularity on 80s on 8 or the local FM "we play what we want" station (that's "Jack" in Baltimore).  

In 1988, I probably thought Will to Power was terrible, but hey, my girlfriend liked it so I could deal, so put it in the Bad-plus column.  I don't even know if it sucks now (so no grade there) because it never gets played anywhere AFAIK.  When I queued this up for my wife, who used to have alternative cred at least, she broke out into a big smile.  So I went with nostalgia over the sheer awfulness of "Get Into My Dreams, Get Into My Car."  Sorry Bracie if Billy Ocean was gonna be your #1.

Don't worry, I'm having trouble convincing myself.

 
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scorchy and I were texting about George Michael yesterday, as we often do, and I think we both agreed that while you could have probably gotten us to admit that something like Faith was a bop, we'd have never admitted to liking George's big ballads in 1988 (when scorchy was Captain 120 Minutes and I was in my last dying throes of pretending to be a metal head).  I avowed to hate Careless Whisper for crimony's sake.

It seems like it was only safe to admit to loving George's voice after he slayed Someone to Love at the Freddy Mercury tribute, although my private revelation was hearing Praying for Time when it broke my freshman year in college.  Weird.  But man, could he deliver the goods on those vocals.  One of the great voices in popular music.

 
I don't care if it's I'll Never Get Over Me Getting Over You, any song blasting while I'm getting some heavy petting action in the dugout of the high school baseball field is going on my top 100 for the year.  C'mon, guys.  What are we here for?

 
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massraider said:
I don't think I remember this song, but this was a hilarious Google search. 

Still performing, you can catch them at Miami-area I Love the 80s concerts, and Mr. 80's Feathered Hair is active on Instagram. 

I'm liable to do random searches for bands from 20-30 years ago, and the more obscure they are, they more likely they are still together. 
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scorchy is the King of random bands.  I was staying at his house for his baby shower (for his son who is now visiting colleges, crikes we're old), and VH1 Classic was on.  scorchy comes into the room, looks at the screen for literally a half a second, and says "is that Chilliwack?"

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
scorchy is the King of random bands.  I was staying at his house for his baby shower (for his son who is now visiting colleges, crikes we're old), and VH1 Classic was on.  scorchy comes into the room, looks at the screen for literally a half a second, and says "is that Chilliwack?"
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As a fellow dad of college kids, it's hard to fathom that they'll be gone, gone, gone, they'll be gone so long. :(

 
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scorchy said:
Just to accelerate this process a bit, I'm starting today with a triple shot of #1 songs in honor of our resident pop guru Tim.  Thirty-one singles released in 1988 reached the pinnacle of Billboard's Hot 100.  Eleven of them of the made the cut for me (eight from the '88 charts and three that didn't hit till early '89) and the three pop gems in this post (ok, that's really overselling two of them) are the first to appear on my countdown. 

#74 - Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

The third single off Poison's second record, it's their only #1.  Every Rose... isn't Poison's best song (that would be Talk Dirty to Me)  or even the best song on the album (I'll take Fallen Angel ftw), but man did girls love it.  The best thing I can say is that it was so easy to play that even I could strum it out.  Freshman year of college, it wasn't odd to see a guy with an acoustic guitar on the quad using Bret Michaels' pain to try to meet chicks.  I never tried that myself - taking my pet rabbit out on a leash seemed to work much better.

Every Rose Has It's Thorn
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Glad this made the list but it's way too low.  This song was the ultimate ballad from the hair band craze.  Made #1 in the billboard top 100 charts and like you said the chicks loved it.  Entertaining thread keep up the good work.

 
scorchy said:
OK, so it's really tough to defend the indefensible, but I'm gonna give it a go.  In developing this list, I felt it was was important to hit at least some #1 songs.  Without spotlighting myself or @Bracie Smatherspotential next 100, there were a few really good songs and a lot of dreck.  In some cases, the song didn't make it here b/c I chose another track from the album and I didn't think the artist warranted two entries.  In others, the song may have been fine, but it was total dad rock in 1988 and I didn't know a soul under 40 that listened to it.  Most of the time, the song had a triple dose of bad - I thought it sucked then, I still think it sucks now, and it's still played with regularity on 80s on 8 or the local FM "we play what we want" station (that's "Jack" in Baltimore).  

In 1988, I probably thought Will to Power was terrible, but hey, my girlfriend liked it so I could deal, so put it in the Bad-plus column.  I don't even know if it sucks now (so no grade there) because it never gets played anywhere AFAIK.  When I queued this up for my wife, who used to have alternative cred at least, she broke out into a big smile.  So I went with nostalgia over the sheer awfulness of "Get Into My Dreams, Get Into My Car."  Sorry Bracie if Billy Ocean was gonna be your #1.

Don't worry, I'm having trouble convincing myself.
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Oh F defending YOUR list.  Its YOUR list and that is the thing I love about any music list that Tim does.  

I come in from a different angle on for 1988 a 'very-different' angle since that year is cemented in primarily two things.

  1. KFMU's play-list that I had to work from
  2. KBCO's play-list which was thee quintessential AOR station in the country 
KBCO significantly influenced our station's, program director, music director, and GM.  They worshiped :bow:  KBCO and IMHO should have.  I moved from Steamboat Springs where I worked as a DJ to Boulder to go to CU and couldn't have been happier to be able to listen to KBCO for the next four years.  

Any list will be picked over and that's a given and if people get-it the give-and-take can be fun especially Tim and Wikkid trading loving insults, lol. I have my music preferences where I don't listen to certain genres but I'll crossover if I like a tune and don't care if people think its not tough enough, lol. I'm not influenced by the 12 year old boy crowd trying too hard to be cool.  Too limiting.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Oh F defending YOUR list.  Its YOUR list and that is the thing I love about any music list that Tim does.  

I come in from a different angle on for 1988 a 'very-different' angle since that year is cemented in primarily two things.

  1. KFMU's play-list that I had to work from
  2. KBCO's play-list which was thee quintessential AOR station in the country 
KBCO significantly influenced our station's, program director, music director, and GM.  They worshiped :bow:  KBCO and IMHO should have.  I moved from Steamboat Springs where I worked as a DJ to Boulder to go to CU and couldn't have been happier to be able to listen to KBCO for the next four years.  

Any list will be picked over and that's a given and if people get-it the give-and-take can be fun especially Tim and Wikkid trading loving insults, lol. I have my music preferences where I don't listen to certain genres but I'll crossover if I like a tune and don't care if people think its not tough enough, lol. I'm not influenced by the 12 year old boy crowd trying too hard to be cool.  Too limiting.
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Thanks.  I'm honestly not defending it "defensively" though.  It's all in fun.  Now that we're almost in  year two of pandemic telework, I'm really missing all the lunchtime banter over trivial crap in my office cafeteria, and discussing the merits of Debbie Gibson is way more enjoyable than endless bad faith arguments over in the PSF.

 
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scorchy said:
Thanks.  I'm honestly not defending it "defensively" though.  It's all in fun.  Now that we're almost in  year two of pandemic telework, I'm really missing all the lunchtime banter over trivial crap in my office cafeteria, and discussing the merits of Debbie Gibson is way more enjoyable than endless bad faith arguments over in the PSF.
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Don't sell me short.  I'm prepared to make endless bad faith arguments over which Weird Al parody you should include.

 
Pipes said:
Glad this made the list but it's way too low.  This song was the ultimate ballad from the hair band craze.  Made #1 in the billboard top 100 charts and like you said the chicks loved it.  Entertaining thread keep up the good work.
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The chicks still love it.  My acoustic duo still plays this song and many nights much of the bar is singing it for me.  

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
scorchy and I were texting about George Michael yesterday, as we often do, and I think we both agreed that while you could have probably gotten us to admit that something like Faith was a bop, we'd have never admitted to liking George's big ballads in 1988 (when scorchy was Captain 120 Minutes and I was in my last dying throes of pretending to be a metal head).  I avowed to hate Careless Whisper for crimony's sake.

It seems like it was only safe to admit to loving George's voice after he slayed Someone to Love at the Freddy Mercury tribute, although my private revelation was hearing Praying for Time when it broke my freshman year in college.  Weird.  But man, could he deliver the goods on those vocals.  One of the great voices in popular music.
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My take on George changed after Freedom ‘90 came out. Amazing song.

 
scorchy said:
I couldn't let your reference to Expose' go without comment.  The earlier latin freestyle stuff was prime material for my DJ sets at Skateland, then they went all boring/adult contemporary.
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I only chose it because I associate it with my own makeout session with the aforementioned Proclaimers fan.  

 
A bit late to the party, but I love this thread.  1988 was a bad year for music in my opinion. Probably because I wasn't a huge metal or rap fan.  A was still mourning the disappearance of the new wave and new romantic eras.  But there were a few dandies. 

All Fired Up is my favorite Pat Benatar song. It absolutely rocks and her voice is so perfect for this type of rocker. It's a crime she's not on the Rock and Roll HOF.

As a fan of new wave, Erasure was a big favorite as they were one of the rare synthesizer artists to still have success in the late 80's. The creative genius behind Erasure is Vince Clark, who was with Depeche Mode for their debut album (He wrote Just Can't Get Enough). He was much more poppy and upbeat than the other creative forces in D.P., so he left the band (or was asked to leave). From there, he discovered Alison Moyet and formed Yaz (Yazoo). They had a few great songs (Situation, Only You). When Moyet went solo, he formed Erasure.  As someone pointed out, they were absolutely huge in the UK. Only had minimal success here in the states, but have a great catalog of music if you like keyboard-driven pop. 

Looking forward to scorchy's love confessions to George Michael later in the thread. I too think he was tremendous. Faith is definitely in my top 25 all-time albums. 

 
Quakertown Tom said:
A bit late to the party, but I love this thread.  1988 was a bad year for music in my opinion. Probably because I wasn't a huge metal or rap fan.  A was still mourning the disappearance of the new wave and new romantic eras.  But there were a few dandies. 

All Fired Up is my favorite Pat Benatar song. It absolutely rocks and her voice is so perfect for this type of rocker. It's a crime she's not on the Rock and Roll HOF.

As a fan of new wave, Erasure was a big favorite as they were one of the rare synthesizer artists to still have success in the late 80's. The creative genius behind Erasure is Vince Clark, who was with Depeche Mode for their debut album (He wrote Just Can't Get Enough). He was much more poppy and upbeat than the other creative forces in D.P., so he left the band (or was asked to leave). From there, he discovered Alison Moyet and formed Yaz (Yazoo). They had a few great songs (Situation, Only You). When Moyet went solo, he formed Erasure.  As someone pointed out, they were absolutely huge in the UK. Only had minimal success here in the states, but have a great catalog of music if you like keyboard-driven pop. 

Looking forward to scorchy's love confessions to George Michael later in the thread. I too think he was tremendous. Faith is definitely in my top 25 all-time albums. 
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One of my favorite high school memories is of me telling my friends about Erasure. 

I had only HEARD them. Thought they were great. My friends mostly agreed. 

Fast forward to catching a live performance on MTV, and the lead singer is wearing hot pants made from astroturf or something, with little flowers, and my friends all looking at me like 😒

 
#71 - Metallica - Dyers Eve

Time for a palate cleanser from all this soft-rock love song nonsense. Metallica is the third of the four bands that really mattered in my HS in 1988.  They probably only had 10 percent of the fanbase as GnR, but the people who were into them were really, really, really into them.*

Prior to And Justice for All, it was only the long hairs that listened to Metallica - the guys that smelled like cigarettes, had Megadeth patches on their jean jackets, and carved pictures of Eddie from Iron Maiden into their projects in shop class.  Justice... was released Labor Day weekend, and by October, some of the edgier band kids (only drummers IIRC) started showing up to school in Metallica t-shirts.  I worked with one of them at the pizza shop and he convinced me to give the new album a shot while we were cleaning up after closing.  I was hooked from the first few notes of Blackened.**  Lots more on Justice down the road a bit.

Dyers Eve is the closing track and, to me, the most anguished on an album full of darkness.  I mean, "Innocence, torn from me without your shelter..." is about as dire as it gets.

Dyers Eve

* To be sure, there was a lot of crossover with GnR fans.  Aside from me, I don't there was any crossover with the Public Enemy crowd or the 4th band yet-to-be referenced.

** Blackened caused a mini-PMRC controversy at the church I was forced to attend.  Some kid's mom heard him playing it and freaked out over "See your mother put to death, see your mother die."  Mom took it to the preacher who discussed it at Sunday service.  My mom had seen my Metallica CD and got on my case about the devil - I showed her the lyrics to prove that mother meant "Mother Earth" and it was actually about how we're destroying the planet.  Shockingly, my mom backed off.  I'm just glad the other kid's parent didn't hear him playing Last Caress instead.

 
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I was a Metallica / PE crossover.  

When I was in high school, we finished our basement and had my grandmother move in with us down there.  When she found my brother's copy of Kill 'Em All and heard both of us stupidly singing along to Motley Crue or something she solemnly informed my parents that my brother and I were on drugs (I had no idea how to even acquire drugs).  Good times.

To my folks' credit, my Mom's response was "my mother thought Pat Boone was the devil."

 
scorchy said:
#74 - Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
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Garbage

#73 - Will to Power - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
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The video is awful and terribly dated and just yucky.  But the actual song is decent IMHO.   

#72 - George Michael - One More Try
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Would be way higher on my list but I'm a big George Michael fan and believe he doesn't get the critical acclaim he deserves.

 
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#70 - Ministry - Stigmata

While we're still in headbanging mode, there are couple of songs from '88 that can still make me wanna throw an old-school CRT TV out of the window.  Stigmata, from Ministry's third album The Land of Rape and Honey, had that effect from the first time I saw the video on 120 Minutes.  Listening to Al Jourgenson scream, you would never know that Ministry was a crappy synth-pop band in their first iteration.  They went on to make a few great records and were a mainstay in the industrial/goth scene I inhabited in the early-to-mid 90s.  In case anyone else is a fan, I'm linking the original video as well as the absolutely bonkers live version from In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up.  I really wanted to toss in a couple of other classic industrial songs from 1988 in to the countdown, but couldn't convince myself that Front 242's  Headhunter or Skinny Puppy's Testure had a place here. 

Stigmata

Stigmata (Live)

 
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#70 - Ministry - Stigmata

While we're still in headbanging mode, there are couple of songs from '88 that can still make me wanna throw an old-school CRT TV out of the window.  Stigmata, from Ministry's third album Twitch, had that effect from the first time I saw the video on 120 Minutes.  Listening to Al Jourgenson scream, you would never know that Ministry was a crappy synth-pop band in their first iteration.  They went on to make a few great records and were a mainstay in the industrial/goth scene I inhabited in the early-to-mid 90s.  In case anyone else is a fan, I'm linking the original video as well as the absolutely bonkers live version from In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up.  I really wanted to toss in a couple of other classic industrial songs from 1988 in to the countdown, but couldn't convince myself that Front 242's  Headhunter or Skinny Puppy's Testure had a place here. 

Stigmata

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There it is.

 
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