It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart.
George Thorogood & The Destroyers – The Baddest Of George Thorogood And The Destroyers: #436 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Gonna get drunk, don’t you have no fear – I want one bourbon, one scotch, one beer.
Jack White – Blunderbuss: #437 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m hungry and the hunger will linger, I eat sixteen saltine crackers then I lick my fingers.
Foreigner – Double Vision: #438 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Feeling down and dirty, feeling kinda mean, I’ve been from one to another extreme.
Cunninlynguists – Will Rap For Food: #439 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Feelin’ my wrath, venturing through parts of the South so dirty you’ll want to be given a bath.
U2 – War: #440 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How long, how long must we sing this song?
The Suicide Machines – The Suicide Machines: #441 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I won’t spend another day in this heart attack city, it’s messed up here and everything’s money.
Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won: #442 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Made up my mind to make a new start, going to California with an aching in my heart.
The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing: #443 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I ain’t freaking, I ain’t faking this – shut up and let me go.
Veruca Salt – Eight Arms To Hold You: #444 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Volcano girls, we really can’t be beat – warm us up and watch us blow.
The Riverboat Gamblers – Something To Crow About: #445 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Listen to me scream and shout, ‘cause all my teeth are falling out.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Symbolic: #446 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m living in a nightmare can’t you see, I need some musical therapy.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Willy and the Poor Boys: #447 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Down on the corner, out in the street, Willy and the Poor Boys are playing, bring a nickel, tap your feet.
DMX – The Definition of X: Pick of the Litter: #448 of best 1,000 albums ever!
X gonna give it to you.
R.E.M. – Monster: #449 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You know with love comes strange currencies, and here is my appeal.
The Ponys – Laced With Romance: #450 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You make me feel just like I’m insane, yeah, and you’re trouble. You’re trouble.
Jethro Tull – Stand Up: #451 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let us close our eyes – outside their lives go on much faster. Oh, we wont give in, we’ll keep living in the past.
Wu-Tang Clan – The W: #452 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Watch your step, kid (yo, you best protect ya neck).
New York Dolls – New York Dolls: #453 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All about that personality crisis, you got it while it was hot. But now frustration and heartache is what you got.
RZA – Afro Samurai: The Album: #454 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When they see me, they say, “Who dat ovah there?” Just a lil dude with a head full of hair.
Pixies – Come On Pilgrim: #455 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This ain’t no holiday, but it always turns out this way.
The Guess Who – Wheatfield Soul: #456 of best 1,000 albums ever!
These eyes cry every night for you.
Faith No More – The Real Thing: #457 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You want it all, but you can’t have it.
Le Butcherettes – A Raw Youth: #458 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take a second, open your mind, take a step back, and stop this madness.
Caesars – Love For The Streets: #459 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wind me up, put me down, start me off and watch me go.
LMFAO – Party Rock: #460 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shots shots shots shots shots shots everybody.
Lee Morgan – Cornbread: #461 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hot, fresh, and tasty.
Bob Dylan – Desire: #462 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Here comes the story of the Hurricane, the man the authorities came to blame.
De La Soul – Three Feet High and Rising: #463 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Everybody wants to be a DJ, everybody wants to be an MC, but being speakers are the best.
The Cars – The Cars: #464 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let the good times roll, let them knock you around.
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers: #465 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Find yourself a girl and settle down, live a simple life in a quiet town. Steady as she goes.
OutKast – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: #466 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shake it like a Polaroid picture.
Various Artists – Rushmore (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): #467 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wherein we examine the most important question of our time: what is the most Wes Anderson movie song ever?
Grateful Dead – American Beauty: #468 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What a long strange trip it’s been.
Aerosmith – Pump: #469 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love in an elevator – livin’ it up while I’m going down.
Various Artists – Trainspotting: Music From the Motion Picture: #470 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just a perfect day, you made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good.
G-Unit – Beg For Mercy: #471 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Every hood that we go through, all the gangsters around know my whole crew.
The Knack – Get The Knack: #472 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one, when you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version: #473 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shimmy shimmy ya, shimmy yam, shimmy yay, gimme the mic so I can take it away.
The Easybeats – Easy: #474 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I woke up bright and early this morning, my little girl was not in sight. I been looking everywhere, morning, noon, and daylight.
Fastbacks – Answer the Phone, Dummy: #475 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They said it was such a good time for everyone to not get along. And how was everyone so right if only everyone was wrong?
Oasis – Be Here Now: #476 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Look into the wall of my mind’s eye. I think I know but I don’t know why. The questions are the answers you might need.
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here: #477 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Nancy Sinatra – Start Walkin’ 1965-1976: #478 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You only live twice, or so it seems – one life for yourself, and one for your dreams.
The B-52’s – Cosmic Thing: #479 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hop in my Chrysler, it’s as big as a whale, and it’s about to set sail. I got me a car, it sits about twenty, so come on and bring your jukebox money.
Portishead – Dummy: #480 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m so tired of playing, playing with this bow and arrow. Gonna give my heart away, leave it to the other girls to play.
Dilated Peoples – 20/20: #481 of best 1,000 albums ever!
About to steal the game, I’m a whole new crook. Bakin’ up that fire, I’m a whole new cook.
Lenny Kravitz – Circus: #482 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I got that tunnel vision going through my head.
Midnight Oil – Midnight Oil: #483 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There’s a bubble a bouncing, and it’s bouncing my way. There’s two sticks in the powderworks, I think it’s gonna blow today.
Various Artists – The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience: #484 of best 1,000 albums ever!
UH-HUH HUH, HEH HEH YEAH… but no, this is actually, like, a really great album. Like seriously (UH HUH YEAH).
Fastbacks – Truth, Corrosion, and Sour Bisquits: #485 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And so I wondered and wandered around the planet, looking for some things that might have mattered to me.
Stray Cats – Built For Speed: #486 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We’re gonna rock this town, rock it inside out.
Cypress Hill – Black Sunday: #487 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t you know I’m loco?
Foster the People – Torches: #488 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks: you better run, better run, outrun my gun.
Cappadonna – The Struggle: #489 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s not a game – you play chess with life, end up in the flame.
Meat Puppets – Too High To Die: #490 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Exchange our fears for little glass holes and broken dreams of bent-backed trolls.
The Dandy Warhols – Welcome to the Monkey House: #491 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A long time ago, we used to be friends but I haven’t thought of you lately at all.
NOFX – Punk in Drublic: #492 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Linoleum supports my head – gives me something to believe.
Digital Underground – Sex Packets: #493 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The Humpty Dance is your chance to do the hump.
Descendents – Milo Goes to College: #494 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I wanna be stereotyped, I wanna be classified, I wanna be a clone – I want a suburban home.
Soundgarden – Superunknown: #495 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In my eyes, indisposed, in disguises no one knows, hides the face, lies the snake, and the sun in my disgrace.
deadmau5 – For Lack of a Better Name: #496 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s been so long, I’ve been out of my body with you. I feel alone, feel at home, feel like nothing is true.
Neil Young – Freedom: #497 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
Blind Melon – Blind Melon: #498 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I don’t understand why I sleep all day, and I start to complain that there’s no rain.
Pink Floyd – The Wall: #499 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Crazy, toys in the attic, truly gone fishing. They must have taken my marbles away!
Yolk – Yolk: #500 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Capturing beauty of something as precious as life.
The Pretenders – Learning to Crawl: #501 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The middle of the road is trying to find me. I’m standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me.
John Coltrane – Giant Steps: #502 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re going to want to take a few long-ish steps or multiple little ones to get your ears closer to this one.
Gang Starr – Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr: #503 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now I’m a start collecting props, connecting plots. Networking like a conference, ‘cause the nonsense is yet to stop.
U2 – Songs of Experience: #504 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Nothing to stop this being the best day ever, nothing to keep us from where we should be. I wanted the world but you knew better, and that all we have is immortality.
Fastbacks – Very, Very Powerful Motor: #505 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I need a change in my life, and I need it right now. Good or bad, it doesn’t really matter how.
The Breeders – Pod: #506 of best 1,000 albums ever!
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Various Artists – Wonder Boys: Music from the Motion Picture: #507 of best 1,000 albums ever!
People are crazy and times are strange. I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range. I used to care, but things have changed.
They Might Be Giants – Flood: #508 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople, been a long time gone, Constantinople, now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night.
Mad Caddies – Duck and Cover: #509 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Gotta watch those corners in the stretch of danger, a problem could arise eventually. I’ve walked this earth for twenty years and now my mind is floating out to sea.
Radiohead – My Iron Lung: #510 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rust in the mountain, rust in the brain, the air is sacred here in spite of your claim.
Van Halen – 1984: #511 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ah, can’t you see me standing here? I got my back against the record machine. I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen, ah can’t you see what I mean?
Jamiroquai – Synkronized: #512 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You know this boogie is for real.
Descendents – I Don’t Want To Grow Up: #513 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If growing up means being like you, then I don’t want to be like you.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory: #514 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Seven thirty seven coming out of the sky – won’t you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride. I want to move, playing in a traveling band.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – The Band Geek Mafia: #515 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The doctor says to take it easy because this isn’t healthy, but I need things a doctor can’t prescribe. I’m running the race on a treadmill going nowhere fast; I need an outlet in my so-called life.
Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule: #516 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love is gentle as a rose, and love can conquer any war. It’s time to take a stand, brothers and sisters join hands.
The Creation – Our Music Is Red – With Purple Flashes: #517 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Why do we have to carry on? Always singing the same old song.
Paul Simon – Graceland: #518 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’ll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal. I can call you Betty, and Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al.
The Beatles – Anthology 1: #519 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well up came that first cat, he said, “Man, look at that! Man do you see what I see?”
Weezer – OK Human: #520 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All my favorite songs are slow and sad. All my favorite people make me mad.
The Animals – Animal Tracks: #521 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.
Green Day – Uno!: #522 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are the vultures, the dirtiest kind. We’ll cut you once in your heart and your mind.
Foghat – Fool for the City: #523 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m in the mood, the rhythm is right. Move to the music, we can roll all night.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country: #524 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Left a good job in the city, working for the man every night and day, and I never lost one minute of sleeping, worrying ‘bout the way things might have been.
Soft Cell – Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: #525 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sometimes I feel I’ve got to run away. I’ve got to get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me.
Dance Hall Crashers – Lockjaw: #526 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Why are you listening to all the things they tell you every day? Why are you listening, what happened to your own mind anyway?
The Doors – An American Prayer: #527 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The music was new, black polished chrome, and came over the summer like liquid night.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Let Love In: #528 of best 1,000 albums ever!
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man in a dusty black coat and a red right hand.
Diana Ross – Diana: #529 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Upside you’re turning me, you’re giving love instinctively. Around and round you’re turning me, I say to thee respectfully.
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MGMT – Oracular Spectacular: #530 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is our decision to live fast and die young. We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun. Yeah, it’s overwhelming, but what else can we do? Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way: #531 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The future’s in our present hands. Let’s reach right in, let’s understand.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival: #532 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I ain’t never been in trouble, I ain’t got the time. I don’t mess around with magic, child, what I got is mine.
Downset – Do We Speak A Dead Language?: #533 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Graffin’ up in L.A. you can’t act stupid and play, striking up in the hood could mean your last day.