1988 in music

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Albums released

• Blow Up Your Video - AC/DC
• Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul (debut)
• Y Kant Tori Read - Tori Amos (debut)
• State Of Euphoria - Anthrax
• Pound For Pound - Anvil
• Saints Will Conquer - Armored Saint
• Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven
• Wide Awake In Dreamland - Pat Benatar
• Small Block - Big Drill Car (EP)
• In Heat - Black N' Blue (final album)
• In Battle There Is No Law - Bolt Thrower
• New Jersey - Bon Jovi
• Britny Fox - Britny Fox (debut)
• Bullet Boys - Bullet Boys (debut)
• Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (debut)
• 19 - Chicago
• Starfish - The Church
• Long Cold Winter - Cinderella
• I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen
• The Trinity Sessions - Cowboy Junkies
• Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Robert Cray
• Dangerous Age - Bad Company
• Danzig - Danzig (debut, Glenn Danzig's 3rd band following The Misfits & Samhain)
• Wyau - Datblygu
• Leprosy - Death
• Bug - Dinosaur Jr.
• Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
• Beast From the East - Dokken (live album)
• Big Thing - Duran Duran
• Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
• Eazy-Duz-It - Eazy-E
• The Innocents - Erasure
• Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
• Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
• Out of This World - Europe
• Fabulous Disaster - Exodus
• On Target - Fastway (final album)
• No Exit - Fates Warning
• Only Life - The Feelies
• Truth and Soul - Fishbone
• Lita - Lita Ford
• Live 1 EP - Frehley's Comet
• Second Sighting - Frehley's Comet
• Fugazi (album) - Fugazi (debut EP)
• Breakwater - Lennie Gallant (debut)
• Gipsy Kings - Gipsy Kings
• Lead Me On - Amy Grant
• The Sweet Children - Green Day
• GNR Lies - Guns N' Roses
• Radio Free Albemuth - Stuart Hamm (solo debut)
• Racing after Midnight - Honeymoon Suite
• Greg Howe - Greg Howe
• Over The Edge - Hurricane (debut ALBUM)
• Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
• Colin James - Colin James
• Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
• 20 Years of Jethro Tull - Jethro Tull
• Reg Strikes Back - Elton John
• Greatest Hits - Journey
• Ram It Down - Judas Priest
• Straight Out The Jungle - The Jungle Brothers
• Shadowland - k.d. lang
• Big Deal - Killer Dwarfs
• Smashes, Thrashes & Hits - KISS
• King Kobra III - King Kobra (final album)
• Blow My Fuse - Kix
• Kylie - Kylie (debut album)
• L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns (debut)
• ' - John Lennon (soundtrack)
• Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe
• Vivid - Living Colour
• Pontiac - Lyle Lovett
• Odyssey - Yngwie Malmsteen (or Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force)
• So Far, So Good... So What! - Megadeth
• ...And Justice for All - Metallica
• The Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry
• Time Odyssey - Vinnie Moore
• No Sleep At All - Motörhead (live album)
• Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
• Land of Dreams - Randy Newman
• Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• If You Can't Lick Em'...Lick Em - Ted Nugent (last solo album before forming the 90's band Damn Yankees)
• The Lion and the Cobra - Sinéad O'Connor
• No Rest for the Wicked - Ozzy Osbourne
• Outrider - Jimmy Page
• Force Majuer - Doro Pesch (former Warlock vocalists solo debut album)
• Introspective - Pet Shop Boys (EP)
• The Indescribable Wow - Sam Phillips
• Delicate Sound of Thunder - Pink Floyd
• Surfer Rosa - Pixies
• Now and Zen - Robert Plant
• Open Up and Say...Ahh!- Poison
• Lovesexy - Prince
• It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
• ' - Queensrÿche
• Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot
• Green - R.E.M.
• Abbey Road EP - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
• The Uplift Mofo Party Plan - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Talk Is Cheap - Keith Richards
• Skyscraper - David Lee Roth
• Savage Amusement - Scorpions
• Hallowed Ground - Skin Yard
• VIVIsectVI - Skinny Puppy
• South of Heaven - Slayer
• Green Thoughts - The Smithereens
• Prison Bound - Social Distortion
• Ultramega OK - Soundgarden
• Beaches - Soundtrack
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Soundtrack
• Out Of Order - Rod Stewart
• In God We Trust - Stryper
• How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today? - Suicidal Tendencies
• Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
• Junekbox - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
• The New Order - Testament
• Hold an Old Friend's Hand - Tiffany
• Toots in Memphis - Toots
• Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1 - Traveling Wilburys
• The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD - Ween
• Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
• Winger - Winger (debut)
• Roll With It - Steve Winwood
• Rattle and Hum - U2
• Ain't Misbehavin' - UFO
• OU812 - Van Halen
• 3 - Violent Femmes
• Vixen - Vixen (debut)
• Guitar - Frank Zappa
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 - Frank Zappa
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 - Frank Zappa