Common ruse, dirty face, pretty noose is pretty hate, and I don’t like what you got me hanging from.
R.E.M. – Automatic for the People: #546 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Smack, crack, bushwhacked, tie another one to your back, baby. Hey kids, rock and roll, nobody tells you where to go, baby.
Patti Smith – Easter: #547 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take me now baby here as I am. Pull me close, try and understand. Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe. Love is a banquet on which we feed.
Desmond Dekker – The Definitive Collection: You Can Get It If You Really Want: #548 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get up in the morning slaving for bread sir, so that every mouth can be fed, poor me Israelites.
Le Tigre – Le Tigre: #549 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp? Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?
Weezer – Maladroit: #550 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We go together baby, and if we do, yeah I’ll be your weakness baby, and get to you.
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory: #551 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Brothers front, they say the Tribe can’t flow, but we’ve been known to do the impossible like Broadway Joe.
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: #552 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Tall buildings shake, voices escape singing sad, sad songs.
Das EFX – Dead Serious: #553 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I’ll be darned, shiver me timbers yo, head for the hills! I picked a weeping willow, and a daffodil.
Bad Religion – How Could Hell Be Any Worse?: #554 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In this world today, there ain’t nobody to thank. Just blame it on the kids and toss ‘em in the tank.
OK Go – Oh No: #555 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It starts out easy, something simple, something sleazy, something inching past the edge of reserve. Now through the lines of the cheap venetian blinds, your car is pulling off of the curb.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Bachman-Turner Overdrive II: #556 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And would you cry if I told you that I lied? And would you say goodbye, would you let it ride?
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Question the Answers: #557 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We question one accessory: don’t think the piece is necessary. We agree you’re dressed to kill, but wonder if you will.
The Presidents of the United States of America – The Presidents of the United States of America: #558 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the one she got was sorta rotten and insane. Small things so sad that birds could land – is lump fast asleep or rockin’ out with the band?
Blondie – Parallel Lines: #559 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Once I had a love and it was a gas, soon turned out had a heart of glass. Seemed like the right thing, only to find mucho mistrust, love’s gone behind.
The Hippos – Heads Are Gonna Roll: #560 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Something in the way she never looks my way, I’m in love, I’m in love.
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown: #561 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I’ve got a fever, I’m a non-believer, I’m in a state of grace, for I am the Caesar, I’m gonna seize the day.
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life: #562 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand, with an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance, and clap their hands.
Roxette – Look Sharp!: #563 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer, she’s a juvenile scam. Never was a quitter, tasty like a raindrop, she’s got the look.
The Jackson 5 – ABC: #564 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Stop, the love you save may be your own! Darling, take it slow or someday you’ll be all alone.
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor: #565 of best 1,000 albums ever!
First got it when he was six, didn’t know any tricks. Matter fact first time he got on it, he slipped.
Frank Black – Christmass: #566 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve kissed mermaids, rode the El Niño, walked the sand with the crustaceans. Could find my way to Mariana on a wave of mutilation.
Various Artists – Iron Eagle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #567 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So give me your hands, your hearts, I’m ready! There’s only one direction.
Sonic Youth – Goo: #568 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Time to take a ride, time to take it in a midnight eye. And if you want to go, get on below.
Madlib & Freddie Gibbs – Bandana: #569 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, I been struggling my whole life, yeah. I pour it up and get my soul right, yeah.
Minor Threat – First Two Seven Inches: #570 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I don’t want to hear it – all you do is talk about you. I don’t want to hear it, ‘cause I know that none of it’s true.
Inspectah Deck – The Movement: #571 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Want to measure my size? I rise above the norm, the urban icon ridin’ on the eye of the storm, fool.
Guns N’ Roses – G N’ R Lies: #572 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Said woman take it slow, and it’ll work itself out fine. All we need is just a little patience.
The Notorious B.I.G. – Ready to Die: #573 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine, Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine.
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane: #574 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve come on a few years from my Hollywood highs, the best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had.
Method Man & Redman – Blackout! 2: #575 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I challenge any opponent who want to smoke – we can pull ‘till our voice get lower than Tone Loc.
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: #576 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Guys you know you better watch out – some girls are only about that thing, that thing, that thing.
The Fratellis – Costello Music: #577 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Give us a kiss and maybe we can go out – it’s hard to miss you when you follow us about.
Buck-O-Nine – Twenty-Eight Teeth: #578 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My soul is sound when I’m in my hometown, yeah, and no place I’d rather be.
Kaiser Chiefs – Employment: #579 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Watching the people get lairy, it’s not very pretty I tell thee – walking through town is quite scary.
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home: #580 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Johnny’s in the basement, mixin’ up the medicine. I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ about the government.
Mos Def – Black on Both Sides: #581 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In she came with the same type game, the type of girl giving out the fake cell phone and name.
Alice in Chains – Dirt: #582 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I feel so alone – gonna end up a big ol’ pile of them bones.
The Distillers – Sing Sing Death House: #583 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are kids, we play punk rock ‘n roll. If we didn’t, we got no soul.
Elvis Presley – ’68 Comeback Special: #584 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There must be lights burning brighter somewhere, got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue.
Angel Olsen – My Woman: #585 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shut up, kiss me, hold me tight.
KRS-One – Kristyles: #586 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s supposed to be about fun and gettin’ the pain out, but it’s all about clout and popping them chains out.
Mötley Crüe – Dr. Feelgood: #587 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Skydive naked from an aeroplane, or a lady with a body from outer space.
Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor: #588 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Time goes by so slowly for those who wait – no time to hesitate.
Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum: #589 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There is no morphine, I’m only sleeping. There is no crime to dreams like this.
Various Artists – Mad Men (Music from the Original TV Series), Vol. 1: #590 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From series composer David Carbonara’s contributions to period-specific pieces that zooms you back to the early 1960s, the music is one of the elements that makes Mad Men so special.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Deja Vu: #591 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year-old carbon, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Various Artists – Class of 77: US Punk Nuggets: #592 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m a lexicon devil with a battered brain, and I’m lookin’ for a future, the world’s my aim.
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted: #593 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve been crowned the King of Id, and Id is all we have, so wait to hear my words and they’re diamond sharp.
The Romantics – The Romantics: #594 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What I like about you, you hold me tight. Tell me I’m the only one wanna come over tonight, yeah.
Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music… Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop: #595 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sell your soul and sign an autograph – big bang baby, it’s a crash, crash, crash.
Mötley Crüe – Girls, Girls, Girls: #596 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This love that I tell now feels lonely as hell from this padded prison cell.
Rakim – The 18th Letter: #597 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame, I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains ‘til things change.
Tom Waits – Rain Dogs: #598 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We sail tonight for Singapore. Don’t fall asleep while you’re ashore. Cross your heart and hope to die, when you hear the children cry.
The Libertines – Up the Bracket: #599 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But if you’ve lost your faith in love and music the end won’t be long. Because if it’s gone for you then I too may lose it and that that would be wrong.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Ska-Core, The Devil and More: #600 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You know, I’ve made mistakes. I’ve had my ups and downs, my ins and outs, my share of bad breaks. But when it’s all been said and done, I raise my beer and I swear, “God, it’s been fun!”
Various Artists – Boogie Nights: Music From the Original Motion Picture: #601 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You got the touch, you got the power. When all hell’s breaking loose, you’ll be riding the eye of the storm.
The Rapture – Echoes: #602 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The city breathing, the people churning, the conversating. The price is what?
Mad Caddies – Quality Soft Core: #603 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s only human nature, pollutes temptation. We have reserved bookings for the fathers of our nation.
The Greenhornes – Dual Mono: #604 of best 1,000 albums ever!
He told you he loved you, well that’s just a lie. I don’t need possession to satisfy my mind.
Jack White – Fear of the Dawn: #605 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If I die tomorrow, what did I do today? You want fresh air? You won’t find it this way.
Neil Young – Harvest: #606 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I want to live, I want to give. I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.
Journey – Frontiers: #607 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Someday love will find you, true love won’t desert you. You know that I still love you, though we touched and went our separate ways.
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Going to a Go-Go: #608 of best 1,000 albums ever!
People say I’m the life of the party ‘cause I tell a joke or two. Although I might be laughing loud and hearty deep inside I’m blue.
Blur – Leisure: #609 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Every time I come here I’m not sure what to say. I know it should be easy but it never seems that way.
Masta Ace – Disposable Arts: #610 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ain’t nothing changed: everyone still want the Benz and the Range, everybody still want the gems and the chains.
The Best 100 TV Shows Ever
An entirely subjective list – I’m judge, jury, and benevolent executioner – of my best 100 TV shows, ranked and in order for your reading pleasure.
First Aid Kit – Stay Gold: #611 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I hear a voice calling, calling out for me. These shackles I’ve made in an attempt to be free.
The Everly Brothers – The Very Best of The Everly Brothers: #612 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m through with romance, I’m through with love, I’m through with countin’ the stars above.
X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents: #613 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s dark and eerie and it’s really late, come on kids don’t hesitate.
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell: #614 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you hear the music, you make a dip into someone else’s pocket and then make a slip.
Brother Ali – Shadows on the Sun: #615 of best 1,000 albums ever!
To everyone out there, who’s a little different, I say damn a magazine, these is God’s fingerprints.
Adam Ant – Friend or Foe: #616 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow – there must be something inside.
Mathematics – The Problem: #617 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can I rise? And get to the laugh, through the cries. While I’m alive, the projects, the hood through my eyes.
The Cult – Love: #618 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Like a desert sun that burns my skin, I’ve been waiting for her for so long.
Cream – Disraeli Gears: #619 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve been waiting so long to be where I’m going, in the sunshine of your love.
Black Flag – Damaged: #620 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are tired of your excuse. Try to stop us – it’s no use!
En Vogue – Funky Divas: #621 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Free your mind and the rest will follow. Be color blind: don’t be so shallow.
Danzig – Danzig: #622 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Warning is come upon your heels – feel your dreams slip away.
Cat Power – The Greatest: #623 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Anyone can tell you there’s no more road to ride. Everyone will tell you there’s no place to hide.
The Donnas – Spend the Night: #624 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You shouldn’t try to look so good if you don’t wanna be misunderstood.
George Michael – Faith: #625 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But I gotta think twice before I give my heart away. And I know all the games you play because I played them, too.
Blondie – Blondie: #626 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, you know her, would you look at that hair.
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back: #627 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My posse come quick, because my posse got velocity.
Elvis Presley – The Sun Sessions: #628 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I heard the news, there’s good rockin’ tonight.
Whitesnake – Whitesnake: #629 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I don’t know where I’m going, but I sure know where I’ve been.
The Pogues – Hell’s Ditch: #630 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade.
Peter Gabriel – So: #631 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You could have a bumper car, bumping. The amusement never ends.
Elliott Smith – Either/Or: #632 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Watching the parade with pinpoint eyes full of smoldering anger.
Arcade Fire – Funeral: #633 of best 1,000 albums ever!
As the day grows dim, I hear you sing a golden hymn.
Madonna – Ray of Light: #634 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Faster than the speed of light, she’s flying, trying to remember where it all began.
The Traveling Wilburys – The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1: #635 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, it’s all right – we’re going to the end of the line.
The Toasters – Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down: #636 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I won’t play ball, won’t do as I’m told. I’d rather be a square peg in a round hole.
Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True: #637 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m not gonna get too sentimental like those other sticky valentines.
R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction: #638 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Maybe these maps and legends have been misunderstood.
The Yardbirds – Having A Rave Up: #639 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, smokestack lightning. Don’t you hear me calling?
Richard Cheese – Lounge Against the Machine: #640 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Waitress, can I get a vodka martini with a twist of sub-lime? Thank you.
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours: #641 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Could this be true? It all comes down to you.
Hanson – Middle of Nowhere: #642 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s pure pop joy, pure joy joy. Okay?
Broken Bells – Broken Bells: #643 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Come on and get the minimum, before you open up your eyes.