Desert Island Songs - 1988

This page is a list of performers and songs with tracks I love broken down by the year the song was released (or first peaked on a pop chart). For more information check out the intro page.

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• 'Til Tuesday, "Limits To Love"
• 'Til Tuesday, "Long Gone (Buddy)"
• 'Til Tuesday, "Rip In Heaven"
• 'Til Tuesday, "Everything's Different Now"
• 10,000 Maniacs, "What's The Matter Here"
• 10,000 Maniacs, "Like the Weather"
• 2 Men A Drum Machine & A Trumpet, "Tired Of Getting Pushed Around"
• AC-DC, "Heatseeker"
• Adventures, "Broken Land"
• Aerosmith, "Magic Touch"
• Aerosmith, "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"
• Al B. Sure!, "Nite And Day"
• Alarm, "Rain In The Summertime"
• Alarm, "Rescue Me"
• Anita Baker, "Good Love"
• Anita Baker, "Good Enough"
• Anita Baker, "Rules"
• Anita Baker, "Giving You The Best That I Got"
• Anita Baker, "Priceless"
• April Wine, "Rock Myself to Sleep"
• Aztec Camera, "Somewhere In My Heart"
• Bad Company, "No Smoke Without a Fire"
• Bananarama, "Love In The First Degree"
• Bananarama, "I Can't Help It"
• Bangles, "Hazy Shade of Winter"
• Belinda Carlisle, "I Get Weak"
• Belinda Carlisle, "Heaven Is A Place On Earth"
• Belinda Carlisle, "Mad About You"
• Belinda Carlisle, "Circle in the Sand"
• Berlin, "Blowin' Sky High"
• Big Country, "King Of Emotion"
• Billy Idol, "Catch My Fall"
• Billy Idol, "Hot In The City"
• Billy Ocean, "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"
• Blue Zone U.K., "Jackie"
• Boy George, "Live My Life"
• Brenda Russell, "Piano In The Dark"
• Brian Setzer, "When The Sky COmes Tumblin' Down"
• Bruce Hornsby & the Range, "The Valley Road"
• Bruce Hornsby & the Range, "Look Out Any Window"
• Bruce Springsteen, "One Step Up"
• Bruce Springsteen, "Tunnel of Love"
• Bryan Ferry, "Kiss and Tell"
• Carly Simon, "All I Want Is You"
• Cellarful Of Noise, "Samantha (What You Gonna Do)"
• Chicago, "Look Away"
• Church, "Under the Milky Way"
• Church, "Reptile"
• Clash, "I Fought the Law"
• Climie Fisher, "Room To Move"
• Climie Fisher, "Love Changes (Everything)"
• Communards, "Never Can Say Goodbye"
• Contours, "Do You Love Me"
• Cover Girls, "Because of You"
• Crowded House, "When You Come"
• Crowded House, "I Feel Possessed"
• Crowded House, "Better Be Home Soon"
• Cure, "Just Like Heaven"
• Danny Wilson, "Mary's Prayer"
• David Lee Roth, "Damn Good"
• Def Leppard, "Hysteria"
• Def Leppard, "Animal"
• Def Leppard, "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
• Depeche Mode, "Behind the Wheel"
• Depeche Mode, "Never Let Me Down Again"
• Doug and the Slugs, "Tomcat Prowl"
• Duran Duran, "I Don't Want Your Love"
• Echo & the Bunnymen, "People Are Strange"
• Eddie Money, "Walk On Water"
• Elton John, "Take Me To The Pilot"
• Elton John, "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That"
• Erasure, "Chains of Love"
• Eria Fachin, "Savin' Myself"
• Eric Carmen, "Hungry Eyes"
• Eric Clapton, "After Midnight"
• Escape Club, "Wild, Wild West"
• Everything But the Girl, "I Don't Want To Talk About It"
• Expose, "Seasons Change"
• Faith No More, "We Care a Lot"
• Fleetwood Mac, "Everywhere"
• Foreigner, "I Don't Want to Live Without You"
• Foreigner, "Heart Turns to Stone"
• Foreigner, "Can't Wait"
• Foreigner, "Say You Will"
• George Harrison, "Cloud 9"
• George Harrison, "When We Was Fab"
• George Harrison, "This Is Love"
• George Harrison, "Got My Mind Set on You"
• George Michael, "Faith"
• George Michael, "Father Figure"
• George Michael, "Monkey"
• George Thorogood & The Destroyers, "You Talk Too Much"
• Gerry Rafferty, "A Dangerous Age"
• Gerry Rafferty, "Tired of Talking"
• Giant Steps, "Another Lover"
• Glenn Medeiros, "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You"
• Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, "1-2-3"
• Godfathers, "Birth, School, Work, Death"
• Graham Parker, "Get Started, Start A Fire"
• Great White, "Save Your Love"
• Hall & Oates, "Everything Your Heart Desires"
• Heart, "What About Love"
• Heart, "There's The Girl"
• Henry Lee Summer, "I Wish I Had A Girl"
• Hooters, "Satellite"
• Hothouse Flowers, "Don't Go"
• Huey Lewis & The News, "Perfect World"
• INXS, "New Sensation"
• INXS, "Devil Inside"
• INXS, "Need You Tonight"
• INXS, "Never Tear Us Apart"
• INXS, "Kick"
• Icehouse, "Electric Blue"
• Icehouse, "Crazy"
• Information Society, "Over the Sea"
• Information Society, "Tomorrow"
• Information Society, "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)"
• Information Society, "Make It Funky"
• Information Society, "Attitude"
• Ivan Neville, "Not Just Another Girl"
• James Brown, "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
• Jane Wiedlin, "Rush Hour"
• Jane's Addiction, "Mountain Song"
• Jane's Addiction, "Standing In The Shower... Thinking"
• Jane's Addiction, "Ocean Size"
• Jane's Addiction, "Had a Dad"
• Jane's Addiction, "Idiots Rule"
• Jerry Harrison, "Rev It Up"
• Jets, "Rocket 2 U"
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, "I Hate Myself for Loving You"
• Jody Watley, "Don't You Want Me"
• John Hiatt, "Drive South"
• John Hiatt, "Slow Turning"
• John Lennon, "Jealous Guy"
• John Mellencamp, "Rooty Toot Toot"
• John Mellencamp, "Cherry Bomb"
• John Mellencamp, "Check It Out"
• Johnny Hates Jazz, "Shattered Dreams"
• Johnny Kemp, "Just Got Paid"
• Judson Spence, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"
• Keith Sweat, "I Want Her"
• Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night"
• Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows"
• Leonard Cohen, "I'm Your Man"
• Level 42, "Take a Look"
• Living Colour, "Middle Man"
• Love And Rockets, "No New Tale to Tell"
• M-A-R-R-S, "Pump Up the Volume"
• Men Without Hats, "Pop Goes the World"
• Merry Clayton, "Yes"
• Midnight Oil, "The Dead Heart"
• Midnight Oil, "Dreamworld"
• Midnight Oil, "Beds Are Burning"
• Midnight Oil, "Put Down That Weapon"
• Mike & The Mechanics, "Nobody's Perfect"
• Miracle Legion, "The Backyard"
• Moody Blues, "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"
• Morrissey, "Suedehead"
• Morrissey, "Everyday Is Like Sunday"
• Neil Young, "This Note's for You"
• New Order, "Touched by the Hand of God"
• Night Ranger, "I Did It For Love"
• Ofra Haza, "Im Nin'alu"
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, "Dreaming"
• Pat Benatar, "All Fired Up"
• Paul Kelly, "Dumb Things"
• Pet Shop Boys, "What Have I Done to Deserve This"
• Pet Shop Boys, "Heart"
• Peter Cetera, "One Good Woman"
• Phil Collins, "A Groovy Kind Of Love"
• Pink Floyd, "Sorrow"
• Pink Floyd, "Time"
• Pink Floyd, "Comfortably Numb"
• Pretty Poison, "Catch Me (I'm Falling)"
• Primitives, "Crash"
• R.E.M., "The One I Love"
• R.E.M., "Finest Worksong"
• R.E.M., "Orange Crush"
• Railway Children, "A Pleasure (acoustic)"
• Ratt, "No Surprise"
• Ratt, "Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds"
• Ratt, "I Want to Love You Tonight"
• Ratt, "City to City"
• Ratt, "I Want a Woman"
• Richard Marx, "Should've Known Better"
• Rick Astley, "Together Forever"
• Rick Astley, "Never Gonna Give You Up"
• Rick Springfield, "Rock Of Life"
• Roachford, "Give It Up"
• Robert Palmer, "Simply Irresistible"
• Robert Palmer, "Early In The Morning"
• Robert Plant, "The Way I Feel"
• Robert Plant, "Dance on My Own"
• Robert Plant, "Ship Of Fools"
• Robert Plant, "Tall Cool One"
• Robert Plant, "Heaven Knows"
• Roxette, "Shadow of a Doubt"
• Roxette, "View From a Hill"
• Roxette, "Half a Woman, Half a Shadow"
• Roxette, "Chances"
• Roxette, "Dance Away"
• Roxette, "Paint"
• Roxette, "Sleeping Single"
• Roxette, "Cry"
• Roy Orbison, "Crying"
• SO, "Are You Sure"
• Sade, "Paradise"
• Scarlett & Black, "You Don't Know"
• Sinead O'Connor, "Mandinka"
• Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Peek-A-Boo"
• Smithereens, "Drown In My Own Tears"
• Smithereens, "House We Used To Live In"
• Smithereens, "Only A Memory"
• Squeeze, "853-5937"
• Steve Winwood, "Put On Your Dancing Shoes"
• Steve Winwood, "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do"
• Steve Winwood, "Shining Song"
• Steve Winwood, "Roll With It"
• Steve Winwood, "Valerie"
• Sting, "Be Still My Beating Heart"
• Sting, "Englishman in New York"
• Sugarcubes, "Mama"
• Sugarcubes, "Cowboy"
• Sugarcubes, "Delicious Demon"
• Sugarcubes, "Birthday"
• Sugarcubes, "Motorcrash"
• Swing Out Sister, "Twilight World"
• T'Pau, "China in Your Hand"
• Talking Heads, "(Nothing But) Flowers"
• Talking Heads, "Mr. Jones"
• Talking Heads, "Blind"
• Taylor Dayne, "Tell It to My Heart"
• Taylor Dayne, "Prove Your Love"
• Terence Trent D'Arby, "Sign Your Name"
• Terence Trent D'Arby, "Wishing Well"
• They Might Be Giants, "Where Your Eyes Don't Go"
• They Might Be Giants, "Santa's Beard"
• They Might Be Giants, "Purple Toupee"
• They Might Be Giants, "Ana Ng"
• Thomas Dolby, "The Ability To Swing"
• Thomas Dolby, "Airhead"
• Thomas Dolby, "The Key To Her Ferrari"
• Timbuk 3, "Welcome To The Human Race"
• Times Two, "Strange But True"
• Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers, "I'm Not Your Man"
• Toni Childs, "Don't Walk Away"
• Toto, "Pamela"
• Toto, "Stop Loving You"
• Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car"
• Tracy Chapman, "Talkin' Bout a Revolution"
• Treat Her Right, "I Think She Likes Me"
• U2, "In God's Country"
• Underworld, "Underneath the Radar"
• Van Halen, "Finish What Ya Started"
• Was (Not Was), "Dad, I'm in Jail"
• Was (Not Was), "Earth To Doris"
• Was (Not Was), "Spy In The House Of Love"
• Whitesnake, "Here I Go Again"
• Whitesnake, "Give Me All Your Love"
• Yazz, "The Only Way Is Up"
• Yes, "Shoot High Aim Low"
• Yes, "Rhythm of Love"
• a-ha, "Touchy!"
• a-ha, "Stay On These Roads"
• a-ha, "The Blood That Moves The Body"

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