Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1988

The Top Songs from 1988
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Sample
1	181	Sonic Youth	Teen Age Riot	Listen
2	265	The La's	There She Goes
3	298	Dinosaur Jr.	Freak Scene	Listen
4	328	Fugazi	Waiting Room	Listen
5	339	N.W.A	F*** Tha Police	Listen
6	415	Pixies	Where Is My Mind?	Listen
7	439	Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock	It Takes Two
8	468	Pixies	Gigantic	Listen
9	525	My Bloody Valentine	You Made Me Realize
10	540	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	The Mercy Seat	Listen
11	622	Morrissey	Everyday Is Like Sunday	Listen
12	643	Neneh Cherry	Buffalo Stance	Listen
13	675	Tracy Chapman	Fast Car	Listen
14	704	N.W.A	Straight Outta Compton	Listen
15	739	Public Enemy	Don't Believe the Hype	Listen
16	747	A Guy Called Gerald	Voodoo Ray
17	784	Mudhoney	Touch Me, I'm Sick	Listen
18	785	Morrissey	Suedehead	Listen
19	1156	S'Express	Theme from S-Express
20	1175	Eric B. & Rakim	Follow the Leader	Listen
21	1191	N.W.A	Express Yourself	Listen
22	1202	Tone-Loc	Wild Thing
23	1208	Public Enemy	Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos	Listen
24	1215	Jane's Addiction	Jane Says	Listen
25	1266	Stetsasonic	Talkin' All That Jazz
26	1287	The Church	Under the Milky Way	Listen
27	1295	Inner City	Big Fun	Listen
28	1353	Prince	Alphabet St.
29	1412	Leonard Cohen	Tower of Song	Listen
30	1460	Happy Mondays	WFL (Wrote for Luck)
31	1501	Joe Smooth	Promised Land
32	1519	R.E.M.	Orange Crush	Listen
33	1544	The Primitives	Crash
34	1552	Metallica	One	Listen
35	1851	They Might Be Giants	Ana Ng	Listen
36	1853	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Sidewalking
37	1905	EPMD	You Gots to Chill	Listen
38	2023	Bomb the Bass	Beat Dis
39	2060	Leonard Cohen	First We Take Manhattan	Listen
40	2097	Lucinda Williams	Passionate Kisses	Listen
41	2210	Slick Rick	Children's Story
42	2214	Pet Shop Boys	Left to My Own Devices	Listen
43	2265	Living Colour	Cult of Personality	Listen
44	2299	The House of Love	Christine
45	2322	Ministry	Stigmata
46	2365	Michelle Shocked	Anchorage	Listen
47	2392	U2	Desire	Listen
48	2429	Bobby Brown	My Prerogative
49	2547	Prefab Sprout	The King of Rock 'n' Roll	Listen
50	2728	N.W.A	Gangsta Gangsta	Listen
51	2849	Run-D.M.C.	Run's House (What's It All About?)
52	2876	Mantronix	King of the Beats
53	2903	JVC Force	Strong Island
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Roxanne Shant�	Go On Girl
		The House of Love	Destroy the Heart
		Big Daddy Kane	Ain't No Half Steppin'	Listen
		R.E.M.	World Leader Pretend	Listen
		Talk Talk	The Rainbow
		Keith Richards	Take It So Hard	Listen
		Royal House	Can You Party
		L'Trimm	Cars with the Boom
		Bobby McFerrin	Don't Worry Be Happy
		Crowded House	Into Temptation	Listen
		The Waterboys	Fisherman's Blues	Listen
		Prefab Sprout	Cars & Girls	Listen
		Spacemen 3	Revolution
		Crowded House	Better Be Home Soon	Listen
		Danzig	Mother
		Jungle Brothers	I'll House You	Listen
		Patti Smith	People Have the Power
		Womack and Womack	Teardrops
		Paula Abdul	Straight Up
		New Kids on the Block	You Got It (The Right Stuff)
		E.U.	Da'Butt
		EPMD	Strictly Business	Listen
		Keith Sweat	I Want Her
		Kylie Minogue	I Should Be So Lucky
		Bangles	Eternal Flame
		DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince	Parents Just Don't Understand
		Leonard Cohen	Everybody Knows	Listen
		SWA	Arroyo
		Beat Happening	Indian Summer
		Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians	What I Am
		Karyn White	Superwoman
		fIREHOSE	Sometimes (Almost Always)
		The Young Gods	L'Amourir
		Leonard Cohen	I'm Your Man	Listen
		Bette Midler	Wind Beneath My Wings
		Ice-T	Colors
		The Traveling Wilburys	Handle with Care