Editing 1988 in music (section)

==Albums released==
===January–March===
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|-
! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="11" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''J<br />A<br />N<br />U<br />A<br />R<br />Y'''
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[B'Sides Themselves]]'' || [[Marillion]] || B-sides compilation
|-
| ''[[L.A. Guns (album)|L.A. Guns]]'' || [[L.A. Guns]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[Live: The Road]]'' || [[The Kinks]] || Live
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''[[If I Should Fall from Grace with God]]'' || [[The Pogues]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Prison Bound]]'' || [[Social Distortion]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|19
| ''[[So Far, So Good... So What!]]'' || [[Megadeth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tell It to My Heart (album)|Tell It to My Heart]]'' || [[Taylor Dayne]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[Skyscraper (album)|Skyscraper]]'' || [[David Lee Roth]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Never Die Young]]'' || [[James Taylor]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Newbuild (album)|Newbuild]]'' || [[808 State]] ||-
|-
| ''[[State of Mind (Front Line Assembly album)|State of Mind]]'' || [[Front Line Assembly]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="25" align="center" valign="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''F<br />E<br />B<br />R<br />U<br />A<br />R<br />Y'''
| style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[Blow Up Your Video]]'' || [[AC/DC]] ||
|-
| rowspan="4"|2
| ''[[Ain't Misbehavin' (UFO album)|Ain't Misbehavin']]'' || [[UFO (band)|UFO]] || mini-album
|-
| ''[[I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen album)|I'm Your Man]]'' || [[Leonard Cohen]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lita (album)|Lita]]'' || [[Lita Ford]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Live+1]]'' || [[Ace Frehley|Frehley's Comet]] || Live EP +1 studio track
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[Space Wrangler]]'' || [[Widespread Panic]] || Debut Album
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[The Seventh One]]'' || [[Toto (band)|Toto]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Who Killed The JAMs?]]'' || [[The KLF|The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|12
| ''[[Don't Blow Your Top (album)|Don't Blow Your Top]]'' || [[KMFDM]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|16
| ''[[All About Eve (album)|All About Eve]]'' || [[All About Eve (band)|All About Eve]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Nada como el sol]]'' || [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] || EP
|-
| ''[[Starfish (album)|Starfish]]'' || [[The Church (band)|The Church]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tattooed Beat Messiah]]'' || [[Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Making Trouble]]'' || [[Geto Boys]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|23
| ''[[Goin' Off]]'' || [[Biz Markie]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Now and Zen]]'' || [[Robert Plant]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Children (The Mission album)|Children]]'' || [[The Mission (band)|The Mission]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Frenz Experiment]]'' || [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Idlewild (Everything but the Girl album)|Idlewild]]'' || [[Everything but the Girl]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Kingdom Come (Kingdom Come album)|Kingdom Come]]'' || [[Kingdom Come (German band)|Kingdom Come]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Corrosion (album)|Corrosion]]'' || [[Front Line Assembly]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Falling Up (Kevin Ayers album)|Falling Up]]'' || [[Kevin Ayers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hard Machine]]'' || [[Stacey Q]] ||-
|-
| ''[[If You Can't Lick 'Em...Lick 'Em]]'' || [[Ted Nugent]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pinker and Prouder Than Previous]]'' || [[Nick Lowe]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="27" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" |'''M<br />A<br />R<br />C<br />H'''
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[The Whitey Album]]'' || [[Ciccone Youth]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[Past Masters]]'' || [[The Beatles]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Tear Down These Walls]]'' || [[Billy Ocean]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[Racing After Midnight]]'' || [[Honeymoon Suite]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[From Langley Park to Memphis]]'' || [[Prefab Sprout]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Viva Hate]]'' || [[Morrissey]] || UK
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|15
| ''[[Naked (Talking Heads album)|Naked]]'' || [[Talking Heads]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''Now That's What I Call Music 11'' (UK series) || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Surfer Rosa]]'' || [[Pixies (band)|Pixies]] || UK
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|22
| ''[[Green Thoughts]]'' || [[The Smithereens]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|23
| ''[[Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm]]'' || [[Joni Mitchell]] ||-
|-
| ''[[No Exit (Fates Warning album)|No Exit]]'' || [[Fates Warning]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Chase the Kangaroo]]'' || [[The Choir (alternative rock band)|The Choir]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[Heart Attack (Krokus album)|Heart Attack]]'' || [[Krokus (band)|Krokus]] ||-
|-
| ''[[To the Power of Three]]'' || [[3 (1980s band)|3]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The World's Greatest Entertainer]]'' || [[Doug E. Fresh]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;" |28
| ''[[Wings of Heaven]]'' || [[Magnum (band)|Magnum]] ||-
|-
| ''[[On Target]]'' || [[Fastway (band)|Fastway]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Out of the Silent Planet (album)|Out of the Silent Planet]]'' || [[King's X]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Push (Bros album)|Push]]'' || [[Bros (British band)|Bros]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Tenement Year]]'' || [[Pere Ubu]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Lefty (album)|Lefty]]'' || [[Art Garfunkel]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" |?
| ''[[Destiny (Saxon album)|Destiny]]'' || [[Saxon (band)|Saxon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[House Tornado]]'' || [[Throwing Muses]]
|-
| ''[[Love Hysteria]]'' || [[Peter Murphy (musician)|Peter Murphy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Pictorial Jackson Review]]'' || [[Felt (band)|Felt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[What Up, Dog?]]'' || [[Was (Not Was)]]
|}

===April–June===
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|-
! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="33" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''A<br />P<br />R<br />I<br />L'''
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Conscious Party]]'' || [[Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tracy Chapman (album)|Tracy Chapman]]'' || [[Tracy Chapman]] ||-
|-
| ''[[He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper]]'' || [[DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[Odyssey (Yngwie Malmsteen album)|Odyssey]]'' || [[Yngwie Malmsteen]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[Hairway to Steven]]'' || [[Butthole Surfers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Seventh Son of a Seventh Son]]'' || [[Iron Maiden]] ||-
|-
| ''[[This Note's for You]]'' || [[Neil Young]] and the Bluenotes ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|12
| ''[[Colors (soundtrack)|Colors]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Even Worse]]'' || [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lap of Luxury]]'' || [[Cheap Trick]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|13
| ''[[Diamond Sun]]'' || [[Glass Tiger]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Aliens Ate My Buick]]'' || [[Thomas Dolby]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Shove It]]'' || [[The Cross (band)|The Cross]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[Vanishing Vision]]'' || [[X Japan]] || Debut; then known as X
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''[[Barbed Wire Kisses]]'' || [[The Jesus and Mary Chain]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Crossroads (Eric Clapton album)|Crossroads]]'' || [[Eric Clapton]] || Box Set
|-
| ''[[Savage Amusement]]'' || [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Eden Alley]]'' || [[Timbuk3]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Innocents (Erasure album)|The Innocents]]'' || [[Erasure (duo)|Erasure]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Reba (album)|Reba]]'' || [[Reba McEntire]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|20
| ''[[History of a Time to Come]]'' || [[Sabbat (English band)|Sabbat]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[Hang Time (album)|Hang Time]]'' || [[Soul Asylum]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Life's Too Good]]'' || [[The Sugarcubes]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Madness (The Madness album)|The Madness]]'' || [[The Madness (band)|The Madness]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Xenon Codex]]'' || [[Hawkwind]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|26
| ''[[Guitar (Frank Zappa album)|Guitar]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] || Live
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|27
| ''[[Flirt (album)|Flirt]]'' || [[Evelyn King (singer)|Evelyn King]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Live 1980/86]]'' || [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Ainsi soit je...]]'' || [[Mylène Farmer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[All That Jazz (Breathe album)|All That Jazz]]'' || [[Breathe (British band)|Breathe]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fur (Jane Wiedlin album)|Fur]]'' || [[Jane Wiedlin]] ||-
|- 
| ''[[Heart of Gold (album)|Heart of Gold]]'' || [[Sofia Rotaru]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Mona Lisa's Sister]]'' || [[Graham Parker]] ||-
|- 
| rowspan="34" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''M<br />A<br />Y'''
| style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[The First of a Million Kisses]]'' || [[Fairground Attraction]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|2
| ''[[Melissa Etheridge (album)|Melissa Etheridge]]'' || [[Melissa Etheridge]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="7" style="vertical-align:top;"|3
| ''[[Stronger Than Pride]]'' || [[Sade (band)|Sade]] || -
|-
| ''[[In Effect Mode]]'' || [[Al B. Sure!]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Madness (The Madness album)|The Madness]]'' || [[The Madness (band)|The Madness]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Operation: Mindcrime]]'' || [[Queensrÿche]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Scenes from the Southside]]'' || [[Bruce Hornsby and the Range]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stay on These Roads]]'' || [[a-ha]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vivid (Living Colour album)|Vivid]]'' || [[Living Colour]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[The New Order (Testament album)|The New Order]]'' || [[Testament (band)|Testament]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|9
| ''[[Open Up and Say... Ahh!]]'' || [[Poison (American band)|Poison]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hide Your Heart (album)|Hide Your Heart]]'' || [[Bonnie Tyler]] ||-
|-
| ''[[North and South (album)|North and South]]'' || [[Gerry Rafferty]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|10
| ''[[Joy (Teddy Pendergrass album)|Joy]]'' || [[Teddy Pendergrass]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lovesexy]]'' || [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|12
| ''[[Invisible Lantern]]'' || [[Screaming Trees]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|13
| ''[[Ram It Down]]'' || [[Judas Priest]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|16
| ''[[You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Tougher Than Leather]]'' || [[Run-DMC|Run-D.M.C.]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Battalions of Fear]]'' || [[Blind Guardian]] ||-
|-
| ''[[In the City of Angels]]'' || [[Jon Anderson]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing Off'' || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|23
| ''[[OU812]]'' || [[Van Halen]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Out of Order (Rod Stewart album)|Out of Order]]'' || [[Rod Stewart]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Up Your Alley (album)|Up Your Alley]]'' || [[Joan Jett|Joan Jett and the Blackhearts]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart]]'' || [[Camper Van Beethoven]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Total Devo]]'' || [[Devo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Second Sighting]]'' || [[Frehley's Comet]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|30
| ''[[Down in the Groove]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|31
| ''[[By All Means Necessary]]'' || [[Boogie Down Productions]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[The Abbey Road E.P.]]'' || [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] || EP
|-
| ''[[A Bell Is a Cup]]'' || [[Wire (band)|Wire]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Perfect Machine]]'' || [[Herbie Hancock]] ||-
|-
| ''[[People (Hothouse Flowers album)|People]]'' || [[Hothouse Flowers]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="41" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" |'''J<br />U<br />N<br />E'''
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[Britny Fox (album)|Britny Fox]]'' || [[Britny Fox]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[Provision (album)|Provision]]'' || [[Scritti Politti]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[Strictly Business (EPMD album)|Strictly Business]]''  || [[EPMD]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|10
| ''[[Small World (Huey Lewis and the News album)|Small World]]'' || [[Huey Lewis and the News]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|13
| ''[[Close (Kim Wilde album)|Close]]'' || [[Kim Wilde]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ain't Complaining]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Conscience (Womack & Womack album)|Conscience]]'' || [[Womack and Womack]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sur la Mer]]'' || [[The Moody Blues]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Guy (Guy album)|Guy]]'' || [[Guy (band)|Guy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Survive (Nuclear Assault album)|Survive]]'' || [[Nuclear Assault]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''Open All Night'' || [[The Georgia Satellites]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" style="vertical-align:top;"|20
| ''[[Nobody's Perfect (Deep Purple album)|Nobody's Perfect]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Outrider (album)|Outrider]]'' || [[Jimmy Page]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Chicago 19]]'' || [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Roll with It (album)|Roll with It]]'' || [[Steve Winwood]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Reg Strikes Back]]'' || [[Elton John]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Confessions of a Pop Group]]'' || [[The Style Council]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Don't Be Cruel (album)|Don't Be Cruel]]'' || [[Bobby Brown]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Let It Bee]]'' || [[Voice of the Beehive]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Heart Break]]'' || [[New Edition]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Instinct (Iggy Pop album)|Instinct]]'' || [[Iggy Pop]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[Forever Your Girl]]'' || [[Paula Abdul]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Information Society (album)|Information Society]]'' || [[Information Society (band)|Information Society]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Long Live the Kane]]'' || [[Big Daddy Kane]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lullaby (Book of Love album)|Lullaby]]'' || [[Book of Love (band)|Book of Love]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Fearless (Eighth Wonder album)|Fearless]]'' || [[Eighth Wonder (band)|Eighth Wonder]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Power Metal (album)|Power Metal]]'' || [[Pantera]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|27
| ''[[Heavy Nova (album)|Heavy Nova]]'' || [[Robert Palmer (singer)|Robert Palmer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[20 Years of Jethro Tull]]'' || [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] || Box Set
|-
| ''[[Eternal Nightmare (Vio-lence album)|Eternal Nightmare]]'' || [[Vio-lence]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Outside the Gate]]'' || [[Killing Joke]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Riders Radio Theater (album)|Riders Radio Theater]]'' || [[Riders in the Sky (band)|Riders in the Sky]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|28
| ''[[In God We Trust (Stryper album)|In God We Trust]]'' || [[Stryper]] ||-
|-
| ''[[It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back]]'' || [[Public Enemy (group)|Public Enemy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lead Me On (Amy Grant album)|Lead Me On]]'' || [[Amy Grant]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Dimension Hatröss]]'' || [[Voivod (band)|Voivod]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|30
| ''[[Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks]]'' || [[Michael Franks (musician)|Michael Franks]] || Compilation
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Coming Back Hard Again]]'' || [[The Fat Boys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dream of Life]]'' || [[Patti Smith]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tighten Up Vol. 88]]'' || [[Big Audio Dynamite]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Y Kant Tori Read (album)|Y Kant Tori Read]]'' || [[Y Kant Tori Read]] || featuring [[Tori Amos]]
|}

===July–September===
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|-
! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="17" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''J<br />U<br />L<br />Y'''
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[Kylie (album)|Kylie]]'' || [[Kylie Minogue]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Wide Awake in Dreamland]]'' || [[Pat Benatar]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[South of Heaven]]'' || [[Slayer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Temple of Low Men]]'' || [[Crowded House]] ||-
|- 
| ''[[Long Cold Winter]]'' || [[Cinderella (band)|Cinderella]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[Substance (Joy Division album)|Substance]]'' || [[Joy Division]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[UB40 (album)|UB40]]'' || [[UB40]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Wild Wild West (album)|Wild Wild West]]'' || [[The Escape Club]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|12
| ''[[Brian Wilson (album)|Brian Wilson]]'' || [[Brian Wilson]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|23
| ''Now That's What I Call Music 12'' (UK series) || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[View from the House]]'' || [[Kim Carnes]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|28
| ''[[Reek of Putrefaction]]'' || [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Imaginos]]'' || [[Blue Öyster Cult]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Best of Thompson Twins: Greatest Mixes]]'' || [[Thompson Twins]] || Remixes
|-
| ''[[Cocktail (1988 film)|Cocktail]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[The Indescribable Wow]]'' || [[Sam Phillips (singer)|Sam Phillips]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Train Above the City]]'' || [[Felt (band)|Felt]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="40" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" | '''A<br />U<br />G<br />U<br />S<br />T'''
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[Winger (album)|Winger]]'' || [[Winger (band)|Winger]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Chimes of Freedom (EP)|Chimes of Freedom]]'' || [[Bruce Springsteen]] || Live EP
|-
| ''[[Punishment for Decadence]]'' || [[Coroner (band)|Coroner]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Red Rose for Gregory]]'' || [[Gregory Isaacs]] ||-
|-
| ''[[So Good (Mica Paris album)|So Good]]'' || [[Mica Paris]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="7" style="vertical-align:top;"|2
| ''[[Back to Avalon]]'' || [[Kenny Loggins]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room]]'' || [[Dwight Yoakam]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Greatest Hits Live (Carly Simon album)|Greatest Hits Live]]'' || [[Carly Simon]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Let It Roll (Little Feat album)|Let It Roll]]'' || [[Little Feat]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Rumour (album)|The Rumour]]'' || [[Olivia Newton-John]] ||-
|-
| ''[[A Salt with a Deadly Pepa]]'' || [[Salt-n-Pepa]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth]]'' || [[Rich Mullins]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[Follow the Leader (Eric B. & Rakim album)|Follow the Leader]]'' || [[Eric B & Rakim]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Simple Pleasures (Bobby McFerrin album)|Simple Pleasures]]'' || [[Bobby McFerrin]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (album)|Don't Be Afraid of the Dark]]'' || [[Robert Cray]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dragon's Kiss]]'' || [[Marty Friedman (guitarist)|Marty Friedman]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[What Good Is Grief to a God?]]'' || [[D.I. (band)|D.I.]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|9
| ''[[Out of This World (Europe album)|Out Of This World]]'' || [[Europe (band)|Europe]] ||-
|-
| ''[[It Takes Two (album)|It Takes Two]]'' || [[Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" |12
| ''[[Hangin' Tough]]'' || [[New Kids on the Block]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Leprosy (album)|Leprosy]]'' || [[Death (metal band)|Death]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;" |15
| style="vertical-align:top;" |''[[Dangerous Age]]'' || [[Bad Company]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Homesick Heroes]]'' || [[Charlie Daniels]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Short Sharp Shocked]]'' || [[Michelle Shocked]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Soul Searchin' (Glenn Frey album)|Soul Searchin']]'' || [[Glenn Frey]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" |23
|''[[Nothing's Shocking]]'' || [[Jane's Addiction]] ||-
|-
|''[[Two Nuns and a Pack Mule]]'' || [[Rapeman]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Young Man Running]]'' || [[Corey Hart (singer)|Corey Hart]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|26
| ''[[Interior Design (album)|Interior Design]]'' || [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2]]'' || [[Helloween]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|30
| ''[[1988 Summer Olympics Album: One Moment in Time]]'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| ''[[Chameleon Days]]'' || [[Yanni]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Danzig (album)|Danzig]]'' || [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Other Roads]]'' || [[Boz Scaggs]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Slow Turning]]'' || [[John Hiatt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vixen (Vixen album)|Vixen]]'' || [[Vixen (band)|Vixen]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[16 Lovers Lane]]'' || [[The Go-Betweens]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Interior Design (album)|Interior Design]]'' || [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Viva Santana!]]'' || [[Santana (band)|Santana]] || Compilation with unreleased tracks
|-
| ''[[Tucker (soundtrack)|Tucker]]'' || [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]] || Soundtrack
|-
| rowspan="41" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" valign="center" align="center" |'''S<br />E<br />P<br />T<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"  | 1
|  |''[[Cold Lake (album)|Cold Lake]]'' || [[Celtic Frost]] ||-
|-
| ''[[I 2 (EYE)]]'' || [[Michael W. Smith]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" |5
| ''[[Rank (album)|Rank]]'' || [[The Smiths]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Peepshow (album)|Peepshow]]'' || [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" |6
| ''[[...And Justice for All (album)|...And Justice for All]]'' || [[Metallica]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" |8
| ''[[Suffer (album)|Suffer]]'' || [[Bad Religion]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" |12
| ''[[Spirit of Eden]]'' || [[Talk Talk]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Ancient Heart]]'' || [[Tanita Tikaram]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sunshine on Leith (album)|Sunshine on Leith]]'' || [[The Proclaimers]] ||-
|-
| ''[[VIVIsectVI]]'' || [[Skinny Puppy]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" |13
| ''[[Eazy-Duz-It]]'' || [[Eazy-E]] ||-
|-
| ''[[How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today]]'' || [[Suicidal Tendencies]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Power (Ice-T album)|Power]]'' || [[Ice-T]] ||-
|-
| ''[[See the Light (The Jeff Healey Band album)|See the Light]]'' || [[Jeff Healey|Jeff Healey Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Them (King Diamond album)|Them]]'' || [[King Diamond]] ||US
|-
| ''[[Truth and Soul]]'' || [[Fishbone]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" |16
| ''[[From Enslavement to Obliteration]]'' || [[Napalm Death]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="8" |19
| ''[[Watermark (Enya album)|Watermark]]'' || [[Enya]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Staring at the Sun (Level 42 album)|Staring at the Sun]]'' || [[Level 42]] || UK
|-
| ''[[Buster (soundtrack)|Buster]]'' || [[Phil Collins]] et al. || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[State of Euphoria]]'' || [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Blow My Fuse]]'' || [[Kix (band)|Kix]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Blue Bell Knoll]]'' || [[Cocteau Twins]] ||-
|-
| ''[[New Jersey (album)|New Jersey]]'' || [[Bon Jovi]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tender Prey]]'' || [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" |20
| ''[[Any Love (album)|Any Love]]'' || [[Luther Vandross]] ||-
|-
| ''[[BulletBoys (album)|BulletBoys]]'' || [[BulletBoys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Land of Dreams (Randy Newman album)|Land of Dreams]]'' || [[Randy Newman]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Workers Playtime (album)|Workers Playtime]]'' || [[Billy Bragg]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" |21
|''[[B'z (album)|B'z]]''
|[[B'z]]
|Debut
|-
| ''[[Pound for Pound (Anvil album)|Pound for Pound]]'' || [[Anvil (band)|Anvil]] ||-
|-
|25
| ''[[Lincoln (album)|Lincoln]]'' || [[They Might Be Giants]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" |26
| ''[[Revolutions (Jean Michel Jarre album)|Revolutions]]'' || [[Jean Michel Jarre]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Peace in Our Time (Big Country album)|Peace in Our Time]]'' || [[Big Country]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Metal Rhythm]]'' || [[Gary Numan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Boingo Alive]]'' || [[Oingo Boingo]] || Compilation + Live
|-
| rowspan="1" |28
| ''[[Let's Get It Started (album)|Let's Get It Started]]'' || [[MC Hammer]] || [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] re-release of [[Feel My Power|1987 debut]] 
|-
| rowspan="4" |?
| ''[[Big Time (Tom Waits album)|Big Time]]'' || [[Tom Waits]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Hell-O]]'' || [[Gwar|GWAR]] ||-
|-
| ''[[In Battle There Is No Law]]'' || [[Bolt Thrower (band)|Bolt Thrower]] ||-
|-
| ''[[La pistola y el corazón]]'' || [[Los Lobos]] ||-
|-
|}

===October–December===
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|-
! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="44" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''O<br />C<br />T<br />O<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[Breakwater (album)|Breakwater]]'' || [[Lennie Gallant]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|3
| ''[[Nö Sleep at All]]'' || [[Motörhead]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Flying Colours (Chris de Burgh album)|Flying Colours]]'' || [[Chris de Burgh]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Talk Is Cheap]]'' || [[Keith Richards]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[Critical Beatdown]]'' || [[Ultramagnetic MCs]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Silhouette (album)|Silhouette]]'' || [[Kenny G]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|10
| ''[[Rattle and Hum]]'' || [[U2]] || Soundtrack; Studio + Live
|-
| ''[[Introspective]]'' || [[Pet Shop Boys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Barcelona (Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé album)|Barcelona]]'' || [[Freddie Mercury]] and [[Montserrat Caballé]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Imagine: John Lennon (soundtrack)|Imagine: John Lennon]]'' || [[John Lennon]] et al. || Soundtrack
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[The Land of Rape and Honey]]'' || [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Touch (Sarah McLachlan album)|Touch]]'' || [[Sarah McLachlan]] || [[Arista Records]] re-release
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[Money for Nothing (album)|Money for Nothing]]'' || [[Dire Straits]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Broadway the Hard Way]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] || Live
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Big Thing (Duran Duran album)|Big Thing]]'' || [[Duran Duran]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Blood Fire Death]]'' || [[Bathory (band)|Bathory]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Eponymous (album)|Eponymous]]'' || [[R.E.M.]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[New Light Through Old Windows]]'' || [[Chris Rea]] || Remixes
|-
| ''[[Fisherman's Blues]]'' || [[The Waterboys]] ||-
|- 
| ''[[Copperhead Road]]'' || [[Steve Earle]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''[[Daydream Nation]]'' || [[Sonic Youth]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Everything (The Bangles album)|Everything]]'' || [[The Bangles]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Negotiations and Love Songs]]'' || [[Paul Simon]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1]]'' || [[Traveling Wilburys]] || US
|-
| ''[[Giving You the Best That I Got (album)|Giving You the Best That I Got]]'' || [[Anita Baker]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Martika (album)|Martika]]'' || [[Martika]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[Look Sharp! (Roxette album)|Look Sharp!]]'' || [[Roxette]] ||Sweden
|-
| ''[[QR (album)|QR]]'' || [[Quiet Riot]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Living Years]]'' || [[Mike and the Mechanics|Mike + The Mechanics]] || US
|-
| ''[[Rage (T'Pau album)|Rage]]'' || [[T'Pau (band)|T'Pau]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Serpent's Egg (album)|The Serpent's Egg]]'' || [[Dead Can Dance]] ||-
|-
| ''[[I Am Kurious Oranj]]'' || [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Into a Secret Land]]'' || [[Sandra (singer)|Sandra]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[In the Spirit of Things]]'' || [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Till I Loved You (album)|Till I Loved You]]'' || [[Barbra Streisand]] ||-
|-
| ''[[You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] || Live
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|27
| ''[[El Ritmo Mundial]]'' || [[Los Fabulosos Cadillacs]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|31
| ''[[Ultramega OK]]'' || [[Soundgarden]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Choba B CCCP]]'' || [[Paul McCartney]] || USSR-only release
|-
| ''[[Bug (Dinosaur Jr. album)|Bug]]'' || [[Dinosaur Jr.]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album)|No Rest for the Wicked]]'' || [[Ozzy Osbourne]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Greatest Hits of All Times – Remix '88]]'' || [[Boney M.]] || Remix
|-
| ''[[Amnesia (Richard Thompson album)|Amnesia]]'' || [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[My Nation Underground]]'' || [[Julian Cope]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="36" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''N<br />O<br />V<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="7" style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[American Dream (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album)|American Dream]]'' || [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]] ||-
|-
| ''[[20 (Harry Connick, Jr. album)|20]]'' || [[Harry Connick, Jr.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Flag (Yello album)|Flag]]'' || [[Yello]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Great Adventures of Slick Rick]]'' || [[Slick Rick]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Oasis (Roberta Flack album)|Oasis]]'' || [[Roberta Flack]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Reach for the Sky (Ratt album)|Reach for the Sky]]'' || [[Ratt]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Shaday]]'' || [[Ofra Haza]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[Beast from the East]]'' || [[Dokken]] || Live
|-
| ''[[The Memphis Sessions]]'' || [[Wet Wet Wet]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[Green (R.E.M. album)|Green]]'' || [[R.E.M.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Straight out the Jungle]]'' || [[The Jungle Brothers]] ||-
|-
| ''Endless War'' || Realm || Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|10
| ''[[California (American Music Club album)|California]]'' || [[American Music Club]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[All or Nothing (Milli Vanilli album)|All or Nothing]]'' || [[Milli Vanilli]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|15
| ''[[Greatest Hits (Journey album)|Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Journey (band)|Journey]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Smashes, Thrashes & Hits]]'' || [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] || Compilation Remixed +2 new tracks
|-
| ''[[Gems (Aerosmith album)|Gems]]'' || [[Aerosmith]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[The Live Album]]'' || [[Robert Earl Keen]] || Live
|-
| ''[[The Trinity Session]]'' || [[Cowboy Junkies]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|16
| ''[[Goodbye Girl (Miyuki Nakajima album)|Goodbye Girl]]'' || [[Miyuki Nakajima]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Leprosy (album)|Leprosy]]'' || [[Death (metal band)|Death]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''[[Kings of Metal]]'' || [[Manowar (band)|Manowar]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[Greatest Hits (1988 Fleetwood Mac album)|Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Fleetwood Mac]] || Compilation +2 new tracks
|-
| ''[[Delicate Sound of Thunder]]'' || [[Pink Floyd]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Isn't Anything]]'' || [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]] || Debut
|-
| ''Now That's What I Call Music XIII'' (UK series) || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| ''The Land Before Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Bummed]]'' || [[Happy Mondays]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|22
| ''[[Beaches (soundtrack)|Beaches]]'' || [[Bette Midler]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[CK (album)|CK]]'' || [[Chaka Khan]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|23
| ''[[Ancient Dreams]]'' || [[Candlemass (band)|Candlemass]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[Hold an Old Friend's Hand]]'' || [[Tiffany Darwish|Tiffany]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|28
| ''[[Hold Me in Your Arms (album)|Hold Me in Your Arms]]'' || [[Rick Astley]] || UK
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[G N' R Lies]]'' || [[Guns N' Roses]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" |?
|[[Front by Front|''Front By Front'']]
|[[Front 242]]
| -
|-
| ''[[Mademoiselle chante...]]'' || [[Patricia Kaas]] ||-
|- 
| rowspan="4" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" |'''D<br />E<br />C<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[Almost Acoustic]]'' || [[Jerry Garcia]] || Live
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|9
| ''[[Empnefsi!]]'' || [[Anna Vissi]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|13
| ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives (Neil Diamond album)|The Best Years of Our Lives]]'' || [[Neil Diamond]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|28
| ''[[Sub Pop 200]]'' || Various Artists ||-
|}

===Release date unknown===
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* ''The Acapella Project'' – [[Glad (band)|Glad]]
* ''[[Atomic Arena]]'' – [[Barren Cross]]
* ''[[Born 2 B Blue]]'' – [[Steve Miller (musician)|Steve Miller]]
* ''[[Can't Buy a Miracle]]'' – [[Randy Stonehill]]
* ''[[The Chess Box]]'' – [[Chuck Berry]] (compilation)
* ''[[Colin James (album)|Colin James]]'' – [[Colin James]]
* ''Come out Fighting'' – [[Greg X. Volz]]
* ''[[Don't Forget the Struggle, Don't Forget the Streets]]'' – [[Warzone (band)|Warzone]]
* ''[[The Dubliner's Dublin]]'' – [[The Dubliners]]
* ''[[English Rebel Songs 1381-1984]]'' – [[Chumbawamba]]
* ''[[Flowers in the Rain (album)]]'' – [[Mad at the World]]
* ''[[Go Off!]]'' – [[Cacophony (band)|Cacophony]]
* ''[[Godflesh (EP)|Godflesh]]'' – [[Godflesh]] (EP)
* ''[[Greg Howe (album)|Greg Howe]]'' – [[Greg Howe]]
* ''[[Hallowed Ground (Skin Yard album)|Hallowed Ground]]'' – [[Skin Yard]]
* ''[[Home Is Where the Heart Is (David Grisman album)|Home Is Where the Heart Is]]'' – [[David Grisman]]
* ''[[The House of Love (1988 album)|The House of Love]]'' – [[The House of Love]]
* ''[[Human Sacrifice (album)|Human Sacrifice]]'' – [[Vengeance Rising]]
* ''[[I Crush Bozo]]'' - [[Happy Flowers]]
* ''[[I Used to Be an Animal]]'' – [[Eric Burdon]] 
* ''[[In Heat (Black 'N Blue album)|In Heat]]'' – [[Black 'N Blue]]
* ''[[Irish Heartbeat]]'' – [[Van Morrison]] & [[The Chieftains]]
* ''[[It Won't Be Long]]'' – [[Shout (band)|Shout]]
* ''[[King Kobra III]]'' – [[King Kobra]]
* ''[[Let's Spin!]]'' – [[The Swirling Eddies]]
* ''[[Little Love Affairs]]'' – [[Nanci Griffith]]
* ''[[Live (Bad Brains album)|Live]]'' – [[Bad Brains]]
* ''[[The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD]]'' – [[Ween]]
* ''[[Live to Die (Bride album)|Live to Die]]'' – [[Bride (band)|Bride]]
* ''[[Lovely (The Primitives album)|Lovely]]'' – [[The Primitives]]
* ''[[Lucinda Williams (album)|Lucinda Williams]]'' – [[Lucinda Williams]]
* ''[[Mistress Music]]'' – [[Burning Spear]]
* ''[[My Gift to You (Alexander O'Neal album)|My Gift to You]]'' – [[Alexander O'Neal]]
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* ''[[No Man's Land (record label)|No Man's Land]]'' – Various Artists
* ''[[Nothing Exceeds Like Excess]]'' – [[Raven (band)|Raven]]
* ''[[Nothing Wrong]]'' – [[Red Lorry Yellow Lorry]] 
* ''[[On Fire!]]'' – [[Petra (band)|Petra]] 
* ''[[Perpetual Burn]]'' – [[Jason Becker]]
* ''[[Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child]]'' – [[Phil Keaggy]]
* ''A Place to Stand'' – [[Geoff Moore|Geoff Moore + The Distance]]
* ''[[Prostitute (Toyah album)|Prostitute]]'' – [[Toyah Willcox|Toyah]]
* ''[[Radio Free Albemuth (album)|Radio Free Albemuth]]'' – [[Stuart Hamm]]
* ''Read All About It'' – [[Newsboys]]
* ''[[Reel Life (Boy Meets Girl album)|Reel Life]]'' – [[Boy Meets Girl (band)|Boy Meets Girl]] 
* ''[[Remote (Hue & Cry album)|Remote]]'' – [[Hue and Cry (band)|Hue & Cry]]
* ''Rock in a Hard Place'' – [[Bloodgood]]
* ''[[Rough Night in Jericho (album)|Rough Night in Jericho]]'' – [[Dreams So Real]]
* ''[[Savvy Show Stoppers]]'' – [[Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet]]
* ''[[Shadowland (k.d. lang album)|Shadowland]]'' – [[k.d. lang]]
* ''[[Shake Sugaree]]'' - [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]]
* ''[[Silence Screams]]'' - [[Resurrection Band|REZ]] 
* ''[[Soliloquy for Lilith]]'' – [[Nurse With Wound]]
* ''[[Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films]]'' – Various Artists
* ''[[STP Not LSD]]'' – [[Angry Samoans]]
* ''[[Streets of This Town]]'' – [[Steve Forbert]]
* ''[[Swastikas for Noddy]]'' – [[Current 93]]
* ''[[Time Odyssey (album)|Time Odyssey]]'' – [[Vinnie Moore]] 
* ''[[Today (Galaxie 500 album)|Today]]'' – [[Galaxie 500]]
* ''[[Tommy Page (album)|Tommy Page]]'' – [[Tommy Page]]
* ''[[Too Late for Living]]'' – [[Saint]]
* ''Tough Love'' – [[Idle Cure]]
* ''[[Volunteer (Sham 69 album)|Volunteer]]'' – [[Sham 69]]
* ''[[The Walking]]'' – [[Jane Siberry]]
* ''[[The Winter of '88]]'' – [[Johnny Winter]]
* ''[[Workin' Band]]'' – [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]]
* ''[[Yeah, Whatever]]'' – [[Moev]]
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