Albums of my life: 1988
This is the fifth part of my Albums of my life series and this time we are in 1988.
In this series I am ranking albums that are most important to me for each year since I was born. I won't rank them by how good I think they are and neither will I include albums that I never really listened too even though they might be excellent.
As always, we'll start with honourable mentions. These are albums I listened to at least 2 times since 2007 (the year I started scrobbling) and which I really like.
Honourable Mentions
- Judas Priest - Ram it Down - Judas Priest never made a bad album. Ram it Down is very underrated.
- Testament - The New Order - Into the pit, that's an order!
- AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video - I just love Heatseeker, that's it.
- Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Awesome 80s Maiden album.
- Anthrax - State of Euphoria - This is really hit or miss, but with Antisocial, Be All, End All and Now It's Dark it features some great tunes.
Now on to my list. And this time I only found 3 albums I consider very important to me, starting with...
3. Tom Waits - Big Time
I think this is the first live album in my list. It was one of my entrypoints into the wonderful world of Tom Waits.
It ignited my love.
2. Slayer - South of Heaven
Somehow I can't believe that according to Last.fm the first time I listened to this album was only in 2016? What?
Anyways, it grew to be one of my very favourite Slayer albums.
Before you see the light, you must die, I guess.
1. Die Ärzte - Das ist nicht die ganze Wahrheit...
This album is a piece of art. The lyrics are top notch. The tunes are catchy.
I bought Das ist nicht die ganze Wahrheit... on CD and I still spin it occasionally, because it features some of the best Die Ärzte songs ever.
Ohne Dich, Westerland, Blumen, Ausserirdische, man that's great stuff. As many things from the 80s, not all songs have aged well, though. Elke for example was always a fan favourite, but for reasons they don't play this song live any longer.
If you wanna do a Die Ärzte deep dive, maybe start here (and get a German dictionary).