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.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps: #644 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey hey, my my. Rock and roll can never die.
Destiny’s Child – The Writing’s On The Wall: #645 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re all I think about and everywhere I look, I know it’s bad, but we could be so good.
John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band: #647 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I heard something about my ma and my pa. They didn’t want me so they made me a star.
Bo Burnham – Words Words Words: #648 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I hate catchy choruses and I’m a hypocrite.
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited: #649 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How does it feel? To be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
Duran Duran – Seven and the Ragged Tiger: #650 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Every little thing the reflex does leaves you answered with a question mark.
Beat Happening – Dreamy: #651 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heed what this wise man says: stay away from redheads.
Spoon – Gimme Fiction: #652 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, you got the weight of the world coming down like a mother’s eye.
The Police – Outlandos D’Amour: #653 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So many times I used to give a sign. Got this feeling, gonna lose my mind.
L7 – Bricks Are Heavy: #654 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They can’t hear a word that we’ve said, when we pretend that we’re dead.
Rollins Band – Get Some Go Again: #655 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No safety net: you get what you get, what you settle for.
Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold + Tally All the Things That You Broke: #656 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Coffee breaks and lamb’s tail shakes aren’t arbitrary marks.
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours: #657 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.
The Runaways – The Runaways: #658 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Down the streets I’m the girl next door. I’m the fox you’ve been waiting for.
The Jayhawks – Tomorrow The Green Grass: #659 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Keep my real light shining.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Adicción, Tradición, Y Revolución: #660 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She don’t like The Toasters or The Skeletones, she’d rather pound some beers and listen to The Ramones.
Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl: #661 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Straight up, this album is catchy on a cellular level.
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album): #662 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Destroyed by MTV, I hate to bite the hand that feeds me.
UFO – Phenomenon: #663 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Livin’, lovin’ on the run, so far away from you.
RZA – RZA As Bobby Digital: #664 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The mic is cast to the floor and shapeshifted. Heavy as the hammer of Thor you can’t lift it.
Billy Joel – The Nylon Curtain: #665 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You have no scars on your face and you cannot handle pressure.
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth – Funky Technician: #666 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lord Finesse and DJ Mike Smooth dial up the number of the funky technician!
Prince – Dirty Mind: #667 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Raw, grimy, funked up danceable R&B pop. Also: fun.
The Aquabats! – The Aquabats! Vs. The Floating Eye of Death! And Other Amazing Adventures, Vol.1: #668 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey kid! What do we got? Not a lot. So what?
The Riff Randells – Doublecross: #669 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So come on, check it off now.
Radiohead – In Rainbows: #670 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A surprisingly warm tone eventually gives way to something more fractured, shattered, and eventually becomes somewhat haunting. Well, this is Radiohead, right?
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session: #671 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An album with a specific, intimate, and special energy to it.
Wolfmother – Wolfmother: #672 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You see right through me – I got the feeling of love.
Various Artists – Top Gun – Motion Picture Soundtrack: #673 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Revvin’ up your engine, listen to her howlin’ roar.
The Fratellis – We Need Medicine: #674 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One part evil, three-fifths blind.
Boston – Boston: #675 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I lost myself in a familiar song. I closed my eyes and I slipped away.
SIMON & GARFUNKEL – BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER: #676 OF BEST 1,000 ALBUMS EVER!
You’re breaking my heart. You’re shaking my confidence daily.
Huey Lewis & The News – Sports: #677 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The heart of rock and roll is still beating.
Metric – Fantasies: #678 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer?
Electric Light Orchestra & Olivia-Newton John – Xanadu: #679 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You have to believe we are magic, nothing can stand in our way.
Jack White – Lazaretto: #680 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The Jack White Experience produces another successful experiment.
Patti Smith – Horses: #681 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sopra i cieli, ancor più su. Dolci canti di angeli.
Kool & The Gang – The Very Best of Kool & The Gang: #682 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get down, get DOWN.
Transplants – Haunted Cities: #683 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are true sonic gems hiding on these streets, in this shadowy world.
Pavement – Wowee Zowee: #684 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We got the money! We got the money now!
Prince – Purple Rain: #685 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Dearly beloved: let’s go crazy. Let’s get nuts.
The Fratellis – Here We Stand: #686 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You can find her screaming along with the ghosts, reminds you she’s the one that you need the most.