You’re Not the Only One with Mixed Emotions, You’re not the only ship adrift on the Ooooooocean!

My dad was a sales executive at the time and got the tickets through work. I'm glad that I went.

I’ve worn out their 8 tracks, albums and CDs. 60+ years later they’re still rolling along.

no doubt

I saw them in 1966.

U2. Who could hate U2? It was high school and I was smoking my head off trying to stave off social anxiety (tabacco). I didn't belong out socially. I needed to be home on weekends and only out with close friends. I finally bailed in grade 13 and stayed home Friday and Saturday nights. I loved it. Went to university and didn't stretch myself and liked that way better. A quiet life I was meant to live. Unfortunately I was not left alone as an adult. But I was at least really living my own life so the music of the 90s, 2000s I like. Of course 60s and 70s music is the best.

Music, the 80s paled. But the Stones have rocked from the early 60s til today. And beyond.

I was a senior in high school that fall and thought the Wilburys were great, too!

was the main holiday of the year...

They were the soundtrack to my college years graduating in 1988.

My 23 year old daughter wears my vintage Joshua Tree tour T-shirt from that year and it makes me stupidly proud.

I lost my tshirt from that tour, along with soooo many other sorely missed concert tees, in a nasty eviction back in the early 00’s.
Had the white one with the b&w photo from the Joshua Tree album on the front, tour dates over a golden joshua tree silhouette on the back. At some point in the 90’s I lightly tie-dyed it. Dang, I miss that shirt.
They were my absolute favorite band at the time, totally obsessed. I was 12 in 1987 and Mom surprised me with tickets. She and I had a great time (even though the show was shortened because Bono slipped, fell, and dislocated his shoulder), and one of the things I remember the most is everyone singing 40 as we waited for the Metro. It echoed down the escalators and all through the Metro Station.

King Kool himself...

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That guitar solo! The tone could peel wallpaper off the wall!
And the vocals. What a great recording.

Know who is is. He once answered a newspaper ad from a Cleveland based band that need a guitarist. He got the gig. But he hated it. That Cleveland based band went on to be a one hit wonder. That hit however has become a staple at every wedding reception, high school prom, and general parties everywhere. He hated that disco song to his core, so he quit that band and started his own, to play what he wanted to play.

BTW, That Cleveland based band was Wild Cherry, and that disco hit: Play That Funky Music, White Boy...

But, I have to admit that I loved that album.
Their version of 99½, Nowhere To Run & I Feel Sanctified are fantastic.
But, I can see a pure rocker not wanting to be part of that.

But the vast majority of the their live performances was in the Cleveland area.

Naked
True Stories
Little Creatures

Talking Heads was on there.
We covered a LOT of their songs. We did 3 off Little Creatures.
But, in that time period, Stop Making Sense just grabbed all my attention.
And, I watched True Stories a dozen times.

I have the True Stories book.

Did you watch the David Byrne rendition of Heros someone posted here? Moving.

It was cool.
That song is in my top 5 Bowie songs, so I was glad to see a different take on it.

Satriani, The Fixx, Talking Heads, Smithereens, INXS, Joe Jackson, Bowie...

I would have quickly told you it was Bon Jovi and Def Leppard.

All these years later, not a band, but I have come to appreciate some of George Michael's music from that era.

From 1988:

Squeeze, INXS, Dave Edmunds, Talking Heads, Cars, Uncle Tupelo, Pixies, Bowie

Those were heady times. I grew up on classic rock, but I started playing guitar right around the time when I heard Ride The Lightning in ‘84. So all that memory catalog from the 60s and 70s, plus Priest, Scorps, and Maiden in the early ‘80s, and then Metallica blew up the scene in ‘85. I was in guitar heaven….lol.

But yeah, definitely in ‘88 my favorite band would’ve been Metallica. No question.

They stand alone.

I had just gotten divorced the year before... and my new girlfriend and I decided to move to the islands... possibly get a sail boat and sail around the world... life was going to be rum plus something and beaches and warm seas...

Never bought the sail boat, but I did move to the Caribbean and started teaching scuba diving. And the hardest decision every day was what to put with the rum and ice in the blender. Did that for a year. Learned to sail enough to where we were pretty good at it.

I was told by friends and head hunters that this year off would affect my career... because you were not supposed to retire at 30. To this day it was the best decision I ever made. I did it when I was young enough and physically fit enough to enjoy every minute. I had a deep tan, light brown hair, and a blonde "Jimmy" mustache... and a V shaped upper body and muscles to match ( hauling tanks of air from the boat to the scuba shop plus 2 to 3 dives per day with a bunch of tourists will do that to you ).

I have a million stories from that year... and a million memories.

Of course, all of the other bands mentioned in this thread are good memories from that time period too

The Eurythmics.

Followed closely by judas priest and Iron maiden

Big City Nights

I saw the tour live as well! What a show!

Patti had her one breakthrough hit written w Springsteen: "People Have The Power".
My favorite on that album is "Up There, Down There". Very mystical poetic almost fierce at times vibe starts w lyrics about The Sun!

Listening to my other favs who didn't have albums that year: Bruce, The Who, Midnight Oil, B-52s.
The other original CBGB's bands: Television, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blonde.

Lot's of single, or a couple of favorite songs from so many others.

Now if it's new music I'd have been listening to in 1988, my girlfriend would have insisted on New Jersey (Bon Jovi). Not gonna lie, I loved it/still love it. It would be 1989 before the Beasties would change my life with Paul's Boutique, and I'd discover the incredible sounds I'd missed in 1988, such as...

Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction
How did I not hear this in '88? How did I NOT catch Mountain Song on the radio and become instantly addicted?

Front By Front by Front 242
I remember catching the video for Headhunter on MTVs alternative late night show and just...wow.

1988 was an amazing year for new music. From glam rock to metal, rap to "country" it was an amazing year for new releases.