December 31, 1988 1988 Top 100 Countdown

Top 100 Albums of 1988

On December 31, 1988, 98 Radio M aired our exclusive countdown of the top 100 alternative albums of 1988. We've recovered and restored the tape, and here is the full eight-hour special broadcast exactly as it originally aired. Start anywhere, or stream the whole special [here.]

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Hour 1: #100 to #86

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  1. The Cassandra Complex -- Theomania
  2. Hetch Hetchy -- Make Djibouti
  3. Borghesia -- Escorts and Models
  4. The Gun Club -- Mother Juno
  5. Savage Republic -- Jamahiriya Democratique et Populaire de Sauvage
  6. Woo -- Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong
  7. The Primitives -- Lovely
  8. World at a Glance -- World at a Glance
  9. Click Click -- Rorschach Testing
  10. Felt -- The Pictorial Jackson Review
  11. Siglo XX -- Fear and Desire
  12. Biff Bang Pow -- Love Is Forever
  13. William Orbit -- Strange Cargo
  14. Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Peepshow
  15. Front Line Assembly -- Corrosion

Hour 2: #85 to #72

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  1. Fields of the Nephilim -- The Nephilim
  2. Throwing Muses -- House Tornado
  3. KMFDM -- Don't Blow Your Top
  4. Salvation -- original soundtrack
  5. The Legendary Pink Dots -- Any Day Now
  6. Talk Talk -- Spirit of Eden
  7. The House of Love -- The House of Love
  8. Cassell Webb -- The Thief of Sadness
  9. Laibach -- Let It Be
  10. Section 25 -- Love and Hate
  11. The Mission UK -- Children
  12. The Wonder Stuff -- The Eight-Legged Groove Machine
  13. Bros -- Push
  14. Then Jerico -- First the Sound of Music

Hour 3: #71 to #59

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  1. Pete Bardens -- Speed of Light
  2. Breathless -- Three Times and Waving
  3. Bulgarian State Women's Choir -- Le Mystere du Voix Bulgares volume 2
  4. The Sun and the Moon -- The Sun and the Moon
  5. Hothouse Flowers -- People
  6. Matt Bianco -- Indigo
  7. Pierce Turner -- It's Only a Long Way Across
  8. Ryuichi Sakamoto -- Neo Geo
  9. Everything But The Girl -- Idlewild
  10. The Fountainhead -- Voice of Reason
  11. The Style Council -- Confessions of a Pop Group
  12. The Housemartins -- The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
  13. The Essence -- Purity

Hour 4: #58 to #45

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  1. Poesie Noire -- Tetra
  2. BFG -- Fathoms
  3. Edie Brickell and New Bohemians -- Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
  4. Joan Armatrading -- The Shouting Stage
  5. Tuesday Blue -- Shibumi
  6. A.R. Kane -- 69
  7. Erasure -- The Innocents
  8. Morrissey -- Viva Hate
  9. Wet Wet Wet -- Popped In Souled Out
  10. Killing Joke -- Outside the Gate
  11. Heaven 17 -- Teddy Bear, Duke and Psycho
  12. Book of Love -- Lullaby
  13. The Adventures -- The Sea of Love
  14. Al Stewart -- Last Days of the Century

Hour 5: #44 to #31

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  1. The Weathermen -- The Black Album According to The Weathermen
  2. Camouflage -- Voices and Images
  3. SPK -- Gold and Poison
  4. Ofra Haza -- Shaday
  5. Ultra Vivid Scene -- Ultra Vivid Scene
  6. All About Eve -- All About Eve
  7. Sarah McLachlan -- Touch
  8. Clannad -- Sirius
  9. The Wolfgang Press -- Bird Wood Cage
  10. In Tua Nua -- The Long Acre
  11. The Madness -- The Madness
  12. The Silencers -- A Letter from St. Paul
  13. Dead Can Dance -- The Serpent's Egg
  14. The Church -- Starfish

Hour 6: #30 to #21

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  1. The Communards -- Red
  2. The Triffids -- Calenture
  3. Justified Ancients of Mu Mu -- Who Killed the JAMs?
  4. Poesie Noire -- Existential Despair, Metaphysical Distress, Ontological Ungludation, and Cosmic Meltdown
  5. Colin Newman -- It Seems
  6. Peter Murphy -- Love Hysteria
  7. Sparks -- Interior Design
  8. Hue and Cry -- Seduced and Abandoned
  9. a-ha -- Stay on These Roads
  10. Psyche -- Mystery Hotel

Hour 7: #20 to #12

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  1. Sinead O'Connor -- The Lion and the Cobra
  2. David Sylvian -- Secrets of the Beehive
  3. Prefab Sprout -- From Langley Park to Memphis
  4. Shriekback -- Go Bang
  5. The Christians -- The Christians
  6. Heavenly Bodies -- Celestial
  7. Act -- Laughter, Tears, and Rage
  8. The Bible -- Eureka
  9. Thomas Dolby -- Aliens Ate My Buick

Hour 8: #11 to #1

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  1. The Sisters of Mercy -- Floodland
  2. Wire -- A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck
  3. Microdisney -- 39 Minutes
  4. The Railway Children -- Recurrence
  5. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions -- Mainstream
  6. The Sugarcubes -- Life's Too Good
  7. Trisomie 21 -- Million Lights
  8. And Also the Trees -- The Millpond Years
  9. Into a Circle -- Assassins
  10. Downy Mildew -- Mincing Steps
  11. Cocteau Twins -- Blue Bell Knoll
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