I'm sure there was a lot of good music in 1988

INXS -New Sensation/Devil Inside/Never Tear Us Apart
AC/DC -Heatseeker
Jimmy Barnes -Driving Wheels
James Reyne -Motor's Too Fast
The Chantoozies -Wanna Be Up
Pet Shop Boys -Left To My Own Devices
George Michael -Father Figure

Some 1988 songs that I remember.
(and these were from 1988, where I live)

The best

Don't Disturb This Groove -- The System
Chains of Love -- Erasure
Lost Without You --  BeBe & CeCe Winans
Heaven -- BeBe & CeCe Winans

Other good ones

I Don`t Want To Live Without You -- Foreigner
Off On Your Own -- Al B. Sure
Check It Out -- John Cougar Mellencamp
Beds Are Burning -- Midnight Oil
The Colour of Love -- Billy Ocean
Promise -- When In Rome
No Pain,No Gain -- Betty Wright
Rush Hour -- Jane Wiedlin
How Can I Fall -- Breathe

Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli 
Okay - O.K. 
Tell It To My Heart - Taylor Dayne 
A Groovy Kind Of Love - Phil Collins 
Theme From S-Express - S-Express 
I Need You - B.V.S.M.P.  (does anybody still know what the letters for? ;) )
The Only Way Is Up - Yazz 
The First Time - Robin Beck 

... and many more

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May 25, 1988...became the youngest, at age 17,  artist to write, produce, & record a #1 hit with "Foolish  Beat"  ;)  :)


Debbie Gibson "Out Of The Blue"
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock "It Takes Two"
Terance Trent D'Arby "Sign Your Name"
INXS "New Sensation"
Information Society "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)"
Erasure "A Little Respect"
Poison "Every Rose Has It's Thorn"
Bon Jovi "I'll Be There For You"
Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine"
U2 "Desire"
Bobby Brown "My Prerogative"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince "Parents Just Don't Understand"
Cheap Trick "The Flame"
Aerosmith "Angel"
Expose "Seasons Change"
Marc Almond "Tears Run Rings"
Lita Ford "Kiss Me Deadly"
LL Cool J "Going Back To Cali"
Jane's Addiction "Mountain Song"

Bobby McFerrin's 'Don't Worry Be Happy' is a good guilty pleasure song for me from that year.  :)

Belinda Carlisle's "Circle in the sand" was awesome. It was recorded in 1987, but I don't think it charted as a single till the next year.

I also (of course) adore the Bangles "Hazy shade of winter" and "In your room". Great year for the Bangles!  ;)

Jane Wiedlin's "Rush Hour" was another delicious pop gem!

wow alot going on the year i was born :)

Also:  :)


Pretty Poison "Catch Me I'm Falling"
Poison "Fallen Angel"
Will To Power "Dreamin'"
UB40 "Where Did I Go Wrong"
Bulletboys "Smooth Up In Ya"
Aerosmith "Rag Doll"
Def Leppard "Love Bites"
Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal"
Tracey Chapman "Fast Car"
Erasure "Chains Of Love"
Al B. Sure "Nite & Day"
REM "Orange Crush"
New Order "Blue Monday '88"

o Debbie Gibson's Out Of The Blue was in the top ten the day i was born along with Aerosmith Angel  ;)

Welcome to the Jungle -- G n' R
Pour Some Sugar on Me -- Def Leppard
Fast Car -- Tracy Chapman
Roll with It -- Steve Winwood
Need You Tonight -- INXS
Never Tear Us Apart -- INXS
Love Bites -- Def Leppard
Take It So Hard --Keith Richards...to name a few 8)

Got My Mind Set On You -- George Harrison
The Flame -- Cheap Trick
Shake Your Love -- Debbie Gibson
I'll Always Love You -- Taylor Dayne
Ghost Town -- Cheap Trick
Tell It To My Heart -- Taylor Dayne
Say You Will -- Foreigner
When It's Love -- Van Hagar
Electric Blue -- Icehouse
Wait -- White Lion
Finish What Ya Started -- Van Hagar

Got My Mind Set On You -- George Harrison
The Flame -- Cheap Trick
Shake Your Love -- Debbie Gibson
I'll Always Love You -- Taylor Dayne
Ghost Town -- Cheap Trick
Tell It To My Heart -- Taylor Dayne
Say You Will -- Foreigner
When It's Love -- Van Hagar
Electric Blue -- Icehouse
Wait -- White Lion
Finish What Ya Started -- Van Hagar


Debbie Gibson Shake Your Love is from 1987 lol but evrey this else is right

o also we had Kylie Minogue thats year too Locomotion i should Be So Lucky etc

some more faves of mine from '88:

Rock it to You - The Jets
When We Was Fab - George Harrison
Monkey - George Michael
Eric Clapton's '88 version of 'After Midnight'
Wishing Well - Terence Trent Darby
Nothin But A Good Time - Poison
Just Like Living in Paradise - David Lee Roth

(On a sad note, Roy Orbison passed away in December of that year, just as he was on the verge of a big comeback, having done some new solo material and doing his thing with the Traveling Wilburys)  :(

Debbie Gibson Shake Your Love is from 1987 lol but evrey this else is right
I stand corrected ;)

I stand corrected ;)



yea it happens Out Of The Blue and Foolish Beat were from 88

The Bangle's "Hazy Shade of Winter" and LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali" were both from the movie  "Less Than Zero" which came out in '87.

The Bangle's "Hazy Shade of Winter" and LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali" were both from the movie  "Less Than Zero" which came out in '87.


YES but the soundtrack expanded in 1988 the movie came out that DEC 1987

wow alot going on the year i was born :)


Me too!!! I was born in Soft pop alley: New England

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians "Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars" -- Lord I wore out a couple copies of that cassette.  The hit was "What I Am" but all the songs were amazing to me at that time (16).

Oh, yeah, and Expose's "Seasons Change" was another big fave.  That song, "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man" by Astley, "Monkey" and "Pour Some Sugar on Me" will always remind me of my summer as a junior camp counselor, trying to control 32 seven-year-olds while the senior counselors went to smoke weed in the woods!  :/ 

More songs to add to the list

Good Love-Anita Baker
Prove Your Love-Taylor Dayne( I heard that song when it was  when I was 9 years old. I couldn't sleep that night of the day I heard that song. Taylor Dayne's voice and the song itself put fright into me maybe.)
I"ll Still Believe-Brenda K. Starr(love that song.)
Nite and Day-Al. Be Sure
Can You Stand The Rain-New Edition
I'll Be Dreamin-Vanessa Williams
Strangelove-Depeche Mode(my favorite group of all time next to STP and PM Dawn.)
Colour of Love, Getta Out of My dreams, Get into my Car-Billy Ocean
Wishing Well-Terrance Trent D' Arby
Make It last Forever-Keith Sweat(love his voice.)
Shattered Dreams-Johnny Hates Jazz(one hit wonder but memorable.)

There's some Phil Collins songs I'm missing. That guy had a hit every year in the 80's it seemed like solo or with Genisis.  In the Air Tonight was that 88? There was a soft ballad in 88 that he did solo and I just can;t remember the name of the song. There was another song off the "Buster Soundtrack" that was a hit for Phil in 88. I'm only 25 but every time I was in the car with my Mom going to the Doctor from school Phil Collins always had some kind of song on the radio. Even when I was in Pre-School Phil Collins had hits like crazy.

More songs to add to the list

Good Love-Anita Baker
Prove Your Love-Taylor Dayne( I heard that song when it was  when I was 9 years old. I couldn't sleep that night of the day I heard that song. Taylor Dayne's voice and the song itself put fright into me maybe.)
I"ll Still Believe-Brenda K. Starr(love that song.)
Nite and Day-Al. Be Sure
Can You Stand The Rain-New Edition
I'll Be Dreamin-Vanessa Williams
Strangelove-Depeche Mode(my favorite group of all time next to STP and PM Dawn.)
Colour of Love, Getta Out of My dreams, Get into my Car-Billy Ocean
Wishing Well-Terrance Trent D' Arby
Make It last Forever-Keith Sweat(love his voice.)
Shattered Dreams-Johnny Hates Jazz(one hit wonder but memorable.)

There's some Phil Collins songs I'm missing. That guy had a hit every year in the 80's it seemed like solo or with Genisis.  In the Air Tonight was that 88? There was a soft ballad in 88 that he did solo and I just can;t remember the name of the song. There was another song off the "Buster Soundtrack" that was a hit for Phil in 88. I'm only 25 but every time I was in the car with my Mom going to the Doctor from school Phil Collins always had some kind of song on the radio. Even when I was in Pre-School Phil Collins had hits like crazy.






in the air tonight was from 1988

in the air tonight was from 1988


Earlier,  it was featured during the first season of "Miami Vice" (Fall of 1984/Spring of 1985)

I'm sure there was a lot of good music in 1988


I'm from the uk, so don't correct because some of these may have been released earlier.

I just love:

Expose - Seasons Change
Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat/Shake Your Love/ Only In My Dreams
Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky/ Got To Be Certain/Loco-Motion/Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi
Tiffany - Could've Been/I Saw Him Standing There
Prince - Alphabet Street/I Wish U Heaven
Pet Shop Boys - Heart/Left To My Own Devices

More songs to add to the list

Good Love-Anita Baker
Prove Your Love-Taylor Dayne( I heard that song when it was  when I was 9 years old. I couldn't sleep that night of the day I heard that song. Taylor Dayne's voice and the song itself put fright into me maybe.)
I"ll Still Believe-Brenda K. Starr(love that song.)
Nite and Day-Al. Be Sure
Can You Stand The Rain-New Edition
I'll Be Dreamin-Vanessa Williams
Strangelove-Depeche Mode(my favorite group of all time next to STP and PM Dawn.)
Colour of Love, Getta Out of My dreams, Get into my Car-Billy Ocean
Wishing Well-Terrance Trent D' Arby
Make It last Forever-Keith Sweat(love his voice.)
Shattered Dreams-Johnny Hates Jazz(one hit wonder but memorable.)

There's some Phil Collins songs I'm missing. That guy had a hit every year in the 80's it seemed like solo or with Genisis.  In the Air Tonight was that 88? There was a soft ballad in 88 that he did solo and I just can;t remember the name of the song. There was another song off the "Buster Soundtrack" that was a hit for Phil in 88. I'm only 25 but every time I was in the car with my Mom going to the Doctor from school Phil Collins always had some kind of song on the radio. Even when I was in Pre-School Phil Collins had hits like crazy.





Johnny Hates Jazz were not one hit wonders in the uk. They followed "Shattered Dreams" with "I Don't Wanna Be A Hero", Turn Back The Clock" and then finished off with my all time fave "Don't Say It's Love". They were brilliant.

Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat/Shake Your Love/ Only In My Dreams





"Only In My Dreams" was from 1987.

Like another poster stated, "Shake Your Love" was also from '87, but might've been released as a single or charted in 1988 in the UK.

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id say the whole Tiffany vs Debbie Gibson Thing went on more in 1988 then in 1987 Debbie became the youngest signer to have a written and produced song go to no witch she did her self and tiffany sued her mouther that year  ;D

Johnny Hates Jazz were not one hit wonders in the uk. They followed "Shattered Dreams" with "I Don't Wanna Be A Hero", Turn Back The Clock" and then finished off with my all time fave "Don't Say It's Love". They were brilliant.
I live in the US and they are one-hit wonders on US shores.

From Karaoke Queen:
Johnny Hates Jazz were not one hit wonders in the uk. They followed "Shattered Dreams" with "I Don't Wanna Be A Hero", Turn Back The Clock" and then finished off with my all time fave "Don't Say It's Love". They were brilliant.


I live in the US and they are one-hit wonders on US shores.


I'm from the US and I remember all the songs KQ posted except "Don't Say It's Love."  "Shattered Dreams" was by far the biggest -- perhaps even went to #1 -- but I know "Hero" and "Clock" each spent at least a couple weeks on the top 40, 'cause I heard 'em on Rick Dees' show.

anything else??????????????

I'm sure there was a lot of good music in 1988


That's funny...I think just the opposite!  ???

in the air tonight was from 1988

Nope, it was from Phil Collins 1981 debut solo album Face Value.