GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums Of 1988

[Atomic Tide]

You mean ...Maddest Stories Ever Told for '88. It's one I've never heard. Could be worthy of my list, will have to check it out.

Corrected - thank you!

 

[Vegard Pompey]

SSoaSS is great you fucks. Shit on The Evil That Men Do for having a repetitive chorus all you want but the verses are spine-chilling.

AND I WILL PRAY FOOOR YOUUUU
SOMEDAY I MAY RETURN
DON'T YOU CRY FOR ME
BEYOND IS WHERE I LEARN

peak Dickinson.

That anyone could even cite The Clairvoyant as a filler track is completely unfathomable to me.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's sappy as fuck and the generic gallop gallop under those verses don't help. Would have been a wimpier song on one of the first couple Ratt albums.

 

[The Ozzman]

WE'RE BLOOD BROTHERS
WE'RE BLOOD BROTHERS
WE'RE BLOOD BROTHERS
WE'RE BLOOD BROTHERS

CAUGHT SOMEWHERE IN TIME...

Not an argument

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Congrats, you've identified two more overrated Iron Maiden songs.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Definitely one of metal's greatest years. It was painful picking favorites all the way down to #30 or so.

List so far:

1. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
2. Realm - Endless War
3. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
4. Anacrusis - Suffering Hour
5. Holy Terror - Mind Wars
6. Hexenhaus - A Tribute to Insanity
7. Deathrow - Deception Ignored
8. Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum
9. Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death (Lock Up Your Children, same thing)
10. Mekong Delta - The Music of Erich Zann

Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Absolute Zero - Piracy
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
Spectral Incursion - Nowhere Fast
Rage - Perfect Man
Target - Master Project Genesis
Nasty Savage - Abstract Reality
Heathen - Demo with Paul Baloff
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Masque - The Dead of Night
Arrakis - Demo 1988
Glacier - Demo Tape
Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
Helstar - A Distant Thunder
Doom - Complicated Mind
King's X - Out of the Silent Planet
Death - Leprosy
Mephisto - Mephisto
Brocas Helm - Black Death
Piranha - Big Fucking Teeth
Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Secrecy - Like Burning One's Boats
Drive - Characters in Time
Deadly Blessing - Ascend From the Cauldron
Infernäl Mäjesty - Nigresent Dissolution
Heathen's Rage - Demo
Bulldozer - Neurodeliri
Doom - Killing Field
Living Death - Worlds Neuroses
Desacrator - 111mzd
King Diamond - "Them"
Pantera - Power Metal
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace
Grinder - Dawn for the Living
Genocide - Black Sanctuary
Lestregus Nosferatus - Demo '88
Deranged - Premonitory Nightmare
Final Prophecy - Beyond Reality
Iron Warrior - Thy Deadly Illusion
Living Colour - Vivid
Have Mercy - Morbid Reality
Demolition Hammer - Skull Fracturing Nightmare
Fates Warning - No Exit
Aftermath - Don't Cheer Me Up
HYD - Sanctuary Lost
KAT - Oddech wymarlych swiatow
Paralyser - Demo
Judas Priest - Ram It Down
Stone - Stone
Hades - If at First You Don't Succeed
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Razor - Violent Restitution
System - Demo
Arpia - Resurrezione e Metamorfosi
Num Skull - Ritually Abused
Avant Garde - Demo #2
Syrant - Syrant
Testament - The New Order
Whetstone - Ancient Metal
Terrahsphere - Demo
Heretic - Breaking Point
Ice Age - Demo 88
Gargoyle - Gargoyle
Slayer - South of Heaven
Child Saint - Child Saint
Nomenclature Diablerie - 888
Danzig - Danzig
Scanner - Hypertrace
Xandril - Perfect Darkness
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Riot - ThunderSteel
Dreadnot - Welcome To Planet Doom
Coven - Blessed Is the Black
Wotan - Welcome to the Asgard Kingdom
Flaming Anger - Fall of Pnom Penh
Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
Smokescreen - Demo
Sinister - Up From the Abyss
Ydra - Last Land
Liege Lord - Master Control
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!
Angel Beast - The Transition
Savage Steel - Do or Die
The Accüsed - Martha Splatterhead's Maddest Stories Ever Told
Lazarus Sin - Intracranial Mass
S.D.I. - Sign of the Wicked
Virus - Force Recon
Armoros - Pieces
Myramainz - Demo
Hexx - Quest for Sanity
Invocator - Genetic Confusion
Deadly Aggressor - Demo 1988
Bulldozer - IX
Beyond - Framed Insanity
Chastain - The Voice of the Cult
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Mania - Wizard of the Lost Kingdom
Lord Crucifier - The Focus of Life
Kruiz - Kruiz
Solar Eagle - Charter to Nowhere
Dark Quarterer - The Etruscan Prophecy
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
Ludichrist - Powertrip
The Unsane - Inverted Crosses
Solar Eagle - Solar Eagle
Sadus - Illusions
Hydra Vein - Rather Death Than False of Faith
Despair - History of Hate
Blood Spill - Demo
Protector - Golem
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Siren - Financial Suicide
Angel Dust - To Dust You Will Decay
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Cynic - Demo '88
A.R.G. - Heathenism in Penitentiary
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
Leeway - Born to Expire
Assault - Slow Painful Death
Wargasm - Why Play Around?
Mutilated - Psychodeath Lunatics
Drifter - Nowhere to Hide
Nuclear Assault - Survive
Vendetta - Brain Damage
Running Wild - Port Royal
Deathwish - Demon Preacher
Saxon - Destiny
Pariah - The Kindred
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Odyssey
Pariah - Take a Walk
Virgin Steele - Age of Consent
Sword - Sweet Dreams
Blind Illusion - The Sane Asylum
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Alchemicon - Witness to the Afflicted
Process Revealed - Process Revealed
Atrophy - Socialized Hate
Shark - Shark
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
Necromancer - Demo I
Sanctus - Accept the Blessings
Cloven Hoof - Dominator
Demonic Force - Demo
Hittman - Hittman
Proud Existence - The Trial
Hobbs' Angel of Death - Hobbs Angel of Death
Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua
Death Angel - Frolic Through the Park
Viking - Do or Die
Attacker - The Second Coming
Rampage - Veil of Mourn
Black Shepherd - Immortal Aggression
Hallows Eve - Monument
Incubus - Serpent Temptation
Mandator - Initial Velocity
Darkness - Defenders of Justice
Omen - Escape to Nowhere
Bloodcum - Death by a Clothes Hanger
Leader - Out in the Wasteland
Celtic Frost - Cold Lake
Manilla Road - Out of the Abyss
Toxic Shock - Change From Reality
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Exodo - The New Babylon
Raven - Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
Necronomicon - Escalation
Vengeance - Human Sacrifice
Violent Force - Unreleased Second Album
Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
Screamer - Target: Earth
Airdash - Thank God It's Monday
Sieges Even - Life Cycle
Meliah Rage - Kill to Survive
Last Descendants - One Nation Under God
Torment - The Apparition
Fuck Off - Another Sacrifice
Paralysis - Trivial Round of Life
Ozzy Osbourne - No Rest for the Wicked
Akilla - As for Me, As for You
I.N.C. - The Visitor
Anthrax - State of Euphoria

Have roughly 40 more pending to add which I may or may not include depending on how much I feel like listening to lower-tier metal from 1988 this weekend. I think I will give Under the Influence a fair relisten though, I have it at 0.5 stars on RYM but I think it would be at least a 2 star or so album for me today.

EDIT: Fuck, forgot Morbid Saint which means I have to keep Mekong Delta out.

 

[The Ozzman]

King's X - Out of the Silent Planet

I guess I'll include this in my listening too. Great band.

 

[The Ozzman]

Congrats, you've identified two more overrated Iron Maiden songs.

Cool story.

I wonder when crimsonfloyd is going to do the Iron Maiden thread

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I hope he makes one, they're one of the few giants I've actually heard the entire discography by.

4. Taramis - Queen of Thieves

Ah yes, great album. Wouldn't have thought of this hadn't you mentioned it but it definitely goes on my list.

 

[The Ozzman]

I hope he makes one

He said he was going to do the essentials and he's already done Sabbath and Priest so I don't see why he wouldn't do Maiden. Who would you do after that though? Motorhead?

This is VERY preliminary but I think these will end up being in the Top 10 at the end of my listening:

Metallica - AJFA
Slayer - South of Heaven
Testament - The New Order
Iron Maiden - SSOASS
Liege Lord - Master Control
Death - Leprosy
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Riot - Thundersteel
Megadeth - SFSGSW (????)
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn

Razor, Priest, Helloween, Atrophy or Blind Guardian might get pushed into the list

 

[CiG]

4. Taramis - Queen of Thieves

Ah yes, great album. Wouldn't have thought of this hadn't you mentioned it but it definitely goes on my list.

1987, my dudes.

 

[The Ozzman]

Listening to Realm - Endless War. This is better than I remember it being probably because I wasn't super into thrash at the time. Eleanor Rigby cover is fun.

 

[no country for old wainds]

so we're counting spectrum of death as 88?

i've just been using an online RNG that picks an integer between 1980 and 2009 btw. sorry to ruin the image of me picking folded pieces of paper out of a hat.

i might do a 70s one at some point but i don't see much point in doing individual 70s years. i could start including years from this decade if people want though.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

The Evil That Men Do, Only the Good Die Young, the title track, and The Clairvoryant say otherwise.

SSoaSS is filler-free, perhaps the only Maiden album to be so. Very cohesive and compelling record from start to finish. The tracks are free bloated passages as well. The title track may be long, but it is perfectly paced and developed to function as the epic centerpiece of the album.

i might do a 70s one at some point but i don't see much point in doing individual 70s years. i could start including years from this decade if people want though.

You could do just one for the entire 70s or maybe you could do 70-74 and 75-79. There certainly aren't enough albums to do a year-by-year.

 

[no country for old wainds]

also yeah taramis is 1987, it just got reissued by a bigger label (metal blade) in 88 i think @HamburgerBoy @Vegard Pompey

 

[CiG]

You sure have a funny way of counting to 10 pal.

 

[no country for old wainds]

hbb's list was way bigger. you have been out-autismed.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Not an argument

Against your claim that there's "absolutely no filler", it's an argument.

 

[CiG]

No, not really. Lyrics don't make a song filler.

 

[alex76]

The thrash metal giants had just begun to emerge on the other side of their prime period, but were still capable to putting out some killer shit. Older metal acts though were really starting to show their age. Nevertheless, metal was in a grace period, with lots of new and exciting music being made. Music videos for metal acts were becoming a standard, and hair bands were beginning to spread their toxicity to the masses. The underground scene for more extreme shit was a-stirring.

1. Metallica - ...And Justice for All
2. Slayer - South of Heaven
3. Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
4. Danzig - Danzig
5. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
6. Sadus - Illusions
7. Angel Dust - To Dust You Will Decay
8. Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
9. King Diamond - "Them"
10. Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum

I have to stop doing honorable mentions...