Essential Films of 1988

Favorites

A Fish Called Wanda
Die Hard
RoboCop
The Thin Blue Line
They Live

Honorable mention

Big
Bloodsport
Bull Durham
Mississippi Burning
The Naked Gun
Rainman

All ages-ish

My Neighbor Totoro
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow (last 20 minutes are quite scary)

Guilty pleasures

Coming soon

Holiday

coming sometime

Want to see

A Cry in the Dark
Akira
Cinema Paradiso
Dangerous Liaisons
Dead Ringers
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Eight Men Out
Lady in White
Midnight Run
She’s Having a Baby (John Hughes)
Talk Radio

Not worth the time

coming soon

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Essential music of 1988

Albums

  1. Metallica - …And Justice For All

  2. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

  3. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

  4. the Waterboys - Fisherman’s Blues

Honorable mention

  1. Leonard Cohen - I’m Your Man

  2. My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything

  3. Pixies - Surfer Rosa

  4. Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith

  5. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

  6. Van Halen - OU812

The greatest songs of 1988

  1. Am I Too Blue by Lucinda Williams

  2. Black Steel by Public Enemy

  3. Cover Girl - New Kids on the Block

  4. Don’t Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

  5. Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

  6. First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen

  7. Fisherman’s Blues by The Waterboys

  8. The Hardest Thing in the World - The Stone Roses

  9. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Proclaimers

  10. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

  11. One - Metallica

  12. Rhythm of Love - Scorpions

  13. Some Guys Have All the Luck by Robert Palmer

  14. Stand - R.E.M.

  15. Stolen Child - the Waterboys

  16. Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth

1988 Playlists by Month

January

  1. Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

  2. Stand - R.E.M.

  3. Fisherman’s Blues by The Waterboys

  4. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

February

  1. Rhythm of Love - Scorpions

  2. Cover Girl - New Kids on the Block

May

  1. Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block

  2. There She Goes - The La’s

  3. Don’t Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

  4. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Proclaimers

  5. Some Guys Have All the Luck by Robert Palmer

August

  1. Black Steel by Public Enemy

  2. Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth

September

  1. Am I Too Blue by Lucinda Williams

  2. Stolen Child - the Waterboys

  3. First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen

  4. The Hardest Thing in the World - The Stone Roses

October

  1. Dreaming - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

  2. One - Metallica

November

December

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