Kings of Metal is the sixth album by the American heavy metal band Manowar. It was released in November 18, 1988 by Atlantic Records. The album was the last to feature guitarist and founding member Ross “The Boss” Friedman, who later went on to rejoin punk band The Dictators. Drummer Scott Columbus left the band … Read more
Delicate Sound of Thunder is a Pink Floyd concert video taken from A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. It was largely filmed during the concerts running from 19 August 1988 through 23 August 1988 at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, with some additional footage from 21–22 June 1988 at the Place d’Armes of … Read more
Green is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in November 1988. It was the band’s debut major label album for Warner Bros. Records and represented a stylistic departure from its guitar-driven rock sound to an acoustic approach that they would follow for its subsequent two albums. The band continued … Read more
Bug is the third album by American alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr., released in October 1988 through SST Records. It was the last Dinosaur Jr. album with original bassist Lou Barlow until Beyond in 2007. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Ultramega OK is the debut studio album by the American rock band Soundgarden, released on October 31, 1988 through SST Records. Following the release of the EPs Screaming Life (1987), and Fopp (1988), both for the Sub Pop record label, Soundgarden signed with the independent record label SST and went to work on its first … Read more
20 is an album that Harry Connick Jr. recorded in his 20th year. It is his second album from Columbia Records, but his first album with vocal (on 6 of 11 tracks), from the label. As with his previous album, he dedicated it “to the memory of my loving mother, Anita Connick.”
QR (also known as Quiet Riot or Quiet Riot IV ) is the sixth studio album released in 1988 by the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. The album featured a major line-up change. Singer and founding member Kevin Dubrow had been fired before the recording sessions began, and replaced by Rough Cutt vocalist Paul … Read more