"Rage (T'Pau album) Rage is the second album by British pop group T'Pau, released in 1988. It reached number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and gave the group three hit singles - ""Secret Garden"" (a UK Top 20), ""Road to Our Dream"" and ""Only the Lonely"" (not a cover of the Roy Orbison song). The album was recorded during the summer of 1988, two years after T'Pau released their debut album ""Bridge of Spies"" and following extensive touring and live performances, including supporting Nik Kershaw on his Radio Musicola UK tour in early 1987, USA in summer 1987; support"
"1988 ""Rattle and Hum"" album and Phil Joanou-directed motion picture. The tour grossed $40 million and drew 3 million attendees, but despite its commercial success and positive reviews, U2 were dissatisfied creatively, and Bono believed they were musically unprepared for their success. Mullen said, ""We were the biggest, but we weren't the best"", and for Bono the tour was ""one of the worst times of [their] musical life"". On the road, the group dealt with death threats, along with injuries that Bono sustained from performing. The band hinted that the stresses of touring led them to enjoy the ""rock and"
"Rage (English band) Rage were an English recording group composed of producers Barry Leng and Duncan Hannant, drummer Hans Greeve, and fronted by vocalists Tony Jackson (1992–1993) and Steve Lee (1995). The group were renamed En-Rage in Germany, to avoid confusion with the German band Rage. In 1992, the group released a dance cover version of Bryan Adams' ""Run to You"", which reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart. Subsequent singles, including a dance remake of ""House of the Rising Sun"", fared less-well on the charts, and an album titled ""Saviour"" was released in 1993. Singer Tony Jackson, who had"
"Mötley Crüe's most commercially successful album ""Dr. Feelgood"" (1989). ""New Jersey"" spawned five Top 10 singles, a record for a hard rock act. In 1988 from 25 June to 5 November, the number one spot on the Billboard 200 album chart was held by a hard rock album for 18 out of 20 consecutive weeks; the albums were ""OU812"", ""Hysteria"", ""Appetite for Destruction"", and ""New Jersey"". A final wave of glam rock bands arrived in the late 1980s, and experienced success with multi-platinum albums and hit singles from 1989 until the early 1990s, among them Extreme, Warrant Slaughter and FireHouse."
"Greatest Hits (1988 Kenny Rogers album) Greatest Hits is a 1988 compilation album by Kenny Rogers. All of the tracks on the album were selected from his various recordings on the RCA Records label between 1983-87. There is one track that was not originally a single called ""She's Ready for Someone to Love Her"", which makes fully half of this greatest hits track list identical to the most recent 1987 album ""I Prefer the Moonlight"". One single that is notably missing is ""Tomb of the Unknown Love"" from 1985's ""The Heart of the Matter"". The song was a #1 single"
"Castronovo formed the glam metal band Hardline with brothers Johnny and Joey Gioeli, before joining Paul Rodgers' backing band in 1994. Cain spent the next few years focusing on his solo career. Between 1987 and 1995, Columbia Records released three Journey compilations, including the 1988 greatest hits album, which remains the band's best-selling record. It continues to sell 500,000 to 1,000,000 copies per year. By December 2008, it was the sixth best-selling greatest hits package in the United States, and by 2014 had spent 300 weeks on the Billboard 200 (one of only five albums to do so). In 1995,"
"their best-charting album in the United States. The album produced four singles, ""Follow the Leader"", ""Microphone Fiend"", ""The R"", and ""Lyrics of Fury"". ""Follow the Leader"" peaked at number 16 on the Hot Black Singles, at number 11 on the Hot Dance/Disco, and at number five on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart. ""The R"" reached number 79 on the Hot Black Singles, number 28 on the Hot Dance/Disco, number 41 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, and number 14 on the Hot Rap Singles chart. On September 27, 1988, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association"
"Greatest Metal Albums of All Time"". BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe named ""Rage Against the Machine"" as one of four 'Masterpieces'. This was his best album, on December 2, 2008. In October 2011, ""Rage Against the Machine"" was ranked number five on ""Guitar World"" magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1992. ""Anger Is a Gift"" bonus disc – released with the 1995 Australian CD re-release Bonus Maxi 12"" from the ""Limited Tour Edition"" red vinyl 1993 European re-release included this second LP labeled sides C and D"" All songs from both bonuses are the versions from previously"
"Your Sex"" helped propel ""Faith"" to its debut atop the chart, the second single ""Faith"" aided the album's continuing sales dominance. ""Faith"" was 1988's best-selling single in the United States; with ""Careless Whisper"" having been the best-selling single in 1985, George Michael became the first musician to achieve two U.S. year-end number one singles since 1968, when the Beatles' ""Hey Jude"" topped the year-end singles chart after ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" had done so in 1964. Michael also surpassed many music artists by having both the year's number one album and the number one single. That hadn't happened"
"previously performed backing vocals for Billy Ocean, Amii Stewart and Paul Young among others, died in June 2001. Rage (English band) Rage were an English recording group composed of producers Barry Leng and Duncan Hannant, drummer Hans Greeve, and fronted by vocalists Tony Jackson (1992–1993) and Steve Lee (1995). The group were renamed En-Rage in Germany, to avoid confusion with the German band Rage. In 1992, the group released a dance cover version of Bryan Adams' ""Run to You"", which reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart. Subsequent singles, including a dance remake of ""House of the Rising Sun"", fared"
"was cited for selling a copy to an undercover police officer in 1988. It was the first time in the United States that a record store owner was held liable for obscenity over music. The charges were dropped after a jury found the record store not guilty. Their following album ""Move Somethin'"" (1988) also went gold. Their third album ""As Nasty As They Wanna Be"" (1989), it became the group's largest seller, being certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. In 1990, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled that the album"
"with they ""used two old Marshall's that were on the verge of exploding"" by using a Variac causing the transformers to work harder. In 2005, ""Rage for Order"" was ranked number 343 in ""Rock Hard"" magazine's book of ""The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time"". ""Rage for Order"" was ranked No. 88 on ""Kerrang!"" magazine's ""100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time"" in January 1989. Rage for Order Rage for Order is the second studio album by the American progressive metal band Queensrÿche, released on June 27, 1986. The album was re-released on May 6, 2003"
"Guy, Jodeci, and Bell Biv DeVoe. Michael Jackson remained a prominent figure in the genre in the late 1980s, following the release of his album ""Bad"" (1987) which sold more than 6 million copies in the US in the 80s, and went on the sell 30 million worldwide. Janet Jackson's 1989 album ""Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814"" continued the development of contemporary R&B into the 1990s, as the album's title track ""Rhythm Nation"" made ""use of elements from across the R&B spectrum, including use of a sample loop, triplet swing, rapped vocal parts and blues notes."" Encompassing graffiti art, break"
"June 1988 on the Rampant Records (for Australian market) and Normal Records (for German market). The album was engineered by John Phillips (of not drowning, waving) and produced by Race. Late in 1989 Race relocated to Europe, initially to London then living in Berlin, Germany. In 1990 he issued ""Earls World"" under the moniker, The True Spirit. He was joined in the studio by Alex Hacke on guitar and slide guitar (of Einstürzende Neubauten); Chris Hughes on tabla (of Slub); John Molineux on harmonica; Rainer Lingk on banjo, guitar and bass guitar; and Thomas Wydler on drums (both of Die"
"Greatest Hits (1988 Fleetwood Mac album) Greatest Hits is a 1988 compilation album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. It covers the period of the band's greatest commercial success, from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. It is different from the similarly titled 1971 release by the Peter Green incarnation of the band, and contains an entirely different track listing. The 1988 album in fact omits anything before 1975 including ""Albatross"", one of the band's biggest hits. The album has proven to be a major success since the time of its release. It peaked at No. 14 in the US"
"York saying he was the best rapper in the world. I was trying to get my feet out of LA. You can't have someone saying they're the best if you're trying to. We had a little hip hop thing but it was never serious."" ""Power"" was released in the United States on September 13, 1988, through Sire on vinyl, compact disc, and cassette. The album debuted on the ""Billboard"" 200 on October 1, 1988, at number 102. ""Power"" stayed on this chart for 33 weeks and peaked at number 35 on November 12, 1988. While touring to support ""Power"", Ice-T"
"March 1988 selling just under 400,000 copies in first week of release just in the UK, Push went 4× platinum in the UK British Phonographic Industry, 5x platinum in Ireland and entered the top 10 in over 19 countries including: Australia (ARIA) 2× Platinum 140,000^ France (SNEP) 2× Gold 200,000* Germany (BVMI) Gold 250,000^ Ireland (IRMA)[20] 5× Platinum 75,000^ New Zealand (RMNZ) Platinum 15,000^ Spain (PROMUSICAE) Gold 50,000 Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) Gold 25,000^ United Kingdom (BPI) 4× Platinum 1,200,000 >. to date the album has sold over 10 millions copies, making Bros one of the few bands to achieve this"
"Race (album) Race is the third studio album released by Australian new wave band, Pseudo Echo. It was released via EMI Australia in 1988 and RCA Records internationally in 1989. ""Race"" resulted in a musical change for the group as it mirrored the music landscape at the time; dominated by big hair, big guitars and rock. While the album no doubt alienated the majority of the band's fan base, it equally attracted a new breed of rock loving fans. The album included their track ""Take On the World"" which won at 1987 World Popular Song Festival (aka Yamaha Music Festival)"
"Greatest Hits (Tom Petty album) Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1993. It is Petty's best-selling album to date and was certified 12× Platinum by the RIAA on April 28, 2015. The single ""Mary Jane's Last Dance"" became one of Petty's most popular songs, reaching No. 14 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The other new song on the album is a cover of the Thunderclap Newman hit ""Something in the Air"". The album contains no songs from 1987's ""Let Me Up (I've"
"State of Euphoria State of Euphoria is the fourth studio album by the American thrash metal band Anthrax. It was released on September 19, 1988 through Megaforce/Island Records. The album was produced by Anthrax and Mark Dodson, with Alex Perialas engineering. The album reached No. 30 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart in late 1988 and was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 8, 1989. The songs ""Who Cares Wins"", dealing with the plight of the homeless, and ""Antisocial"" (a cover of the song by the French band ""Trust"") were released as singles with accompanying music videos. The song ""Misery"
"mainstream success in the US. With the guidance of A&R guru John Kalodner, it has sold 8x platinum in the US. The success of ""Whitesnake"" (1987) also pushed sales of ""Slide It In"" (1984) from its RIAA certified gold status to platinum status, and made the band a bona fide arena headliner for the first time in North America. The album continued to sell throughout 1987 and 1988, peaking at No. 2 in the US, and No. 8 in the UK. The album was their most commercially successful, and in 1988, they were nominated for the Brit Award for Best"
"disappointment after the across-the-board success of ""Whitesnake"""". Aerosmith's comeback album ""Permanent Vacation"" (1987) would begin a decade long revival of their popularity. ""Crazy Nights"" (1987) by Kiss was the band's highest charting release in the US since 1979 and the highest of their career in the UK. Mötley Crüe with ""Girls, Girls, Girls"" (1987) continued their commercial success and Def Leppard with ""Hysteria"" (1987) hit their commercial peak, the latter producing seven hit singles (a record for a hard rock act). Guns N' Roses released the best-selling début of all time, ""Appetite for Destruction"" (1987). With a ""grittier"" and ""rawer"""
"in the United States as the most shipped album of the year. Along with the success of Michael Jackson's album ""Bad"" as well as breakthrough albums by many new and old artists, it was seen as a sign that US record sales were slowly recovering. By the end of 1988, the industry had sold millions of albums, an increase of approximately one percent. Compared with record sales in 1987, this showed a two percent increase. A remastered edition of ""Faith"" was released on 31 January 2011 in the UK and on 1 February 2011 in the US. It is available"
"band in years"". It was pulled by editor Alan Lewis as it was feared that criticism of the band would affect the magazine's circulation. At the end of 1988, ""Rattle and Hum"" was voted the 21st-best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by ""The Village Voice"". In other critics' lists of the year's top albums, it was ranked number one by ""HUMO"", second by the ""Los Angeles Times"" and ""Hot Press"", 17th by ""OOR"", 23rd by ""NME"", and 47th by ""Sounds"". According to review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film"
"Greatest Hits (Journey album) Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American rock band Journey, originally released in 1988 by Columbia Records. It is the band's best-selling career disc, spending 517 weeks on the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart (more than any other compilation album, except for Bob Marley's ""Legend"" disc, in history). Additionally, as of late 2014, it has logged nearly 1,000 weeks on ""Billboard""'s Catalog albums chart. As of December 2008, it was reported to have been the sixth highest certified 'greatest hits' package in the United States according to the RIAA, behind only similar collections by The"
"lists of the year's best albums, being ranked at No. 2 by ""Rolling Stone"", No. 1 by ""CMJ"", and No. 9 by ""NME"". It was also voted the year's second best record in ""The Village Voice""s annual Pazz & Jop poll, which made the band realize that the album had made an impact. Christgau, the poll's creator and supervisor, named it the fourth best album of 1988 in his own list. ""Daydream Nation"" has received extensive critical acclaim and numerous accolades since its release in 1988. According to Matthew Stearns, writer of the 33⅓ book dedicated to the album, it"
"were sold in the United States, making it the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. In the summer of 1988, the band achieved its only U.S. No. 1 hit with ""Sweet Child o' Mine,"" a song spearheaded by Slash's guitar riff and solo. In November of that year, Guns N' Roses released ""G N' R Lies"", which sold over five million copies in the U.S. alone, despite containing only eight tracks, four of which were included on the previously released EP ""Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide"". As their success grew, so did interpersonal tensions within the band."
"ever. In 2012, ""Slant Magazine"" listed the album at #2 on its list of ""Best Albums of the 1980s"" behind only Michael Jackson's ""Thriller"". ""Purple Rain"" sold over 1.5 million copies its first week in stores, and sold over 13 million copies in the United States alone, with a total of 25 million copies sold worldwide.April 2016, the album re-charted at No. 2 on the ""Billboard 200"" after Prince's death, selling over 69,000 copies in the following week, and one of the best-selling albums of the year in the US with 487,000 sold in 2016. According to Billboard, within less"
"released by Wishbone Records, followed by an EP called Depraved to Black in August 1985. Avenger changed their name and became Rage and got a record deal at Noise releasing their first official LP Reign of Fear on May 12, 1986. On May 11, 1987 they released the album Execution Guaranteed under the label Noise. In the same year they released their first official video clip ""Down By Law"" as well, introducing the new line-up with Manni Schmidt and Chris Efthimiadis. With this new line-up in 1988 the album Perfect Man was released, having as a single the song Don't"
"tapes had long since ceased by 1988.) One US reissue by WB as #R1 25801, does not include tracks 7, 14 or 15, and the order of the tracks on the back side is completely different. Greatest Hits (1988 Fleetwood Mac album) Greatest Hits is a 1988 compilation album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. It covers the period of the band's greatest commercial success, from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. It is different from the similarly titled 1971 release by the Peter Green incarnation of the band, and contains an entirely different track listing. The 1988 album in"
"Rat Race (Child's Play album) Rat Race is the debut studio album by hard rock/heavy metal band Child'ƨ Play, released in 1990 through Chrysalis Records. It was produced by Howard Benson, who would later go on to produce for Motörhead, Sepultura, and Seether. It is the first album to feature new bassist Marion Idzi, going by the mononym Idzi. It is also the first album to feature Brian Jack on lead vocals, as previous vocalist Lawrence Hinshaw left the band in 1988, who only appeared on the band's 1986 EP, Ruff House. The band released three singles from the album,"
"sound than most glam metal, it produced three top 10 hits, including the number one ""Sweet Child O' Mine"". Some of the glam rock bands that formed in the mid-1980s, such as White Lion and Cinderella experienced their biggest success during this period with their respective albums ""Pride"" (1987) and ""Long Cold Winter"" (1988) both going multi-platinum and launching a series of hit singles. In the last years of the decade, the most notable successes were ""New Jersey"" (1988) by Bon Jovi, ""OU812"" (1988) by Van Halen, ""Open Up and Say... Ahh!"" (1988) by Poison"", Pump"" (1989) by Aerosmith, and"
"album, ""Dance Party"", ""Nowhere to Run"" hit number eight on the ""Billboard"" Pop Singles chart, and number five on the ""Billboard"" R&B Singles chart. It also charted in the UK peaking at number twenty-six on the chart. The single release was backed with ""Motoring"". This version was ranked #358 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In July 1988, following the success of the film 'Good Morning Vietnam' the song was re-released in the UK by A&M Records, with James Brown's 'I Got You (I Feel Good)' on the flip side.The single spent three weeks"