Danzig is the debut album of the American heavy metal band Danzig, released in August 1988. The album was the first release on producer Rick Rubin’s new label Def American Recordings. Def American’s successor, American Recordings, reissued the album in the United States and United Kingdom in 1998. It remains the band’s best-selling album having … Read more
Forever Your Girl is the debut studio album by American singer Paula Abdul. It was released on June 13, 1988 through Virgin Records. 64 weeks later it hit number one on the Billboard 200 album sales chart, the longest an album has been on the market before hitting number one. The album was eventually certified … Read more
New Jersey is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Bon Jovi, It was released on 19 September, 1988 through Mercury Records. The album produced by Bruce Fairbairn and recorded at the Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver, Canada. The album was the follow-up to the band’s 1986 breakthrough Slippery When Wet, reaching … Read more
Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third album by country singer Dwight Yoakam. The album contains Yoakam’s first (and, as of 2017, only) two No. 1 Hot Country Singles singles. The first was “Streets of Bakersfield,” a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, who had originally released a version of the song … Read more
Leprosy is the second album by death metal band Death, released in 1988. Notably different in tone and quality from the 1987 debut, it is the first example of Scott Burns’ work heard on many of the death metal and grindcore albums of that era.
Short Sharp Shocked is an album by Michelle Shocked. It is her second album, released in 1988. It was remastered and reissued in 2003 as a two-CD set by Shocked’s own label, Mighty Sound. The title is a combination of her last name, and the behavioral science phrase short, sharp shock meaning “punishment that is … Read more
The Eight Legged Groove Machine is the debut album from The Wonder Stuff from August 1988. Maybe it was the fact that the uncle of singer Miles Hunt had played unhinged French horn on the very weird first ELO album and sax with retro rock & roll pranksters Wizzard which so inspired the irreverent humour … Read more