The Ledge #564: 1988

Was 1988 a good year? Well...it wasn't if you followed mainstream culture. But that's a given in each and every year. If you didn't participate in that sort of nonsense, 1988 was a fabulous year. The great years in music is always the year or two before the mainstream discovers a new trend, and 1988 is that sort of year. Alternative, punk, and indie were creeping up the charts a bit higher than usual, but it was not yet time for the "normals" to latch on. It was still our little secret, and for the most part untainted by the corporate morons. Tonight's show is two hours of my favorite music from that year. 

As for this week's "52 weeks of Teenage Kicks" subtheme, I found a rare live recording of Soul Asylum performing the show at a 1988 show in Charlottesville, VA. I did receive word earlier today that in two weeks I will be world premiering a brand new cover from a fabulous band that is regularly heard on The Ledge. Of course, I'm always looking for even more covers, so please get the word out to anybody who has the capability to record a cover of the fabulous Undertones classic. If you have any questions, please shoot me an email at paulisded @ gmail dot com.

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1. Soul Asylum - Teenage Kicks

2. Soul Asylum - Chains

3. Soul Asylum - Standing In The Doorway

4. The Magnolias - Walk a circle

5. Gear Daddies - Cut Me Off

6. The Replacements - Cruella DeVille

7. The Waterboys - And a Bang on the Ear

8. The Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing

9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat

10. Graham Parker - Don't Let It Break You Down

11. Robyn Hitchcock - Balloon Man

12. The House Of Love - Christine

13. The Mighty Lemon Drops - One by One

14. Big Audio Dynamite - Esquerita

15. Camper Van Beethoven - Eye Of Fatima (Pt. 1)

16. Camper Van Beethoven - Harmony In My Head 

17. Accelerators - The Letter

18. Rave-Ups - Freedom Bound

19. The Feelies - It's Only Life

20. The Fall - Victoria

21. The Fall - New Big Prinz

22. The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death

23. The Primitives - Crash

24. Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene

25. Beat Happening - Bewitched

26. ALL - Just Perfect

27. Fugazi - Waiting Room

28. Social Distortion - Prison Bound

29. The Lemonheads - Luka

30. Titanic Love Affair - Only in the Past

31. The Junk Monkeys - So American

32. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

33. Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket