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Category: Best 1,000 Albums Ever
The audacious (never before seen in human history?) ranking of the best 1,000 albums ever — each with a deep dive, personal stories, and pop culture tie-ins.
The Doors – Other Voices: #833 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“Ray, Robbie, and John did Doors stuff post-Jim?” Yep, and this one’s really good!
Southern Culture on the Skids – Dirt Track Date: #834 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Loose, fun, and fresh sounds from SCotS… down at the dirt track.
Britney Spears – Blackout: #835 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Britney at her darkest, sleekest, pulsing synth-est best. Best-est?
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure: #836 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shmaltzy, glammy, proto-punk? Yeah, this is one unique album.
Tommy Roe – Tommy’s 22 Big Ones: #837 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Come on everybody, it’ll get you feeling dizzy.
Dusty Springfield – Dusty in Memphis: #838 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A sweet talkin’ – not to mention singin’ – pop-soul gem.
The Mike Flowers Pops – A Groovy Place: #839 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Groovy and swinging (and clever and funny).
The Streets – Everything Is Borrowed: #840 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Mike Skinner lets the sun in.
Arctic Monkeys – AM: #841 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ll call it up when I’m… in any number of states.
Mitski – Be the Cowboy: #842 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What’s difficult to define and describe becomes essential to why I’m drawn to it.
The Meters – Look-Ka Py Py: #843 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get down with the funky miracle.
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch A Fire: #844 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Whether it’s high tide or low ebb, this is classic reggae.
Ween – 12 Golden Country Greats: #845 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Plays as great comedic alt country or country rock material or simply flat out great alt country or country rock music, period. Well, except for…
Nina Simone – Wild is the Wind: #846 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Striking, powerful, and evocative vocals mapped against a wild variety of musical styles.
Gang of Four – Entertainment!: #847 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Are you not entertained? Well, you will be by this classic post-punk album, yes, thanks for asking.
Cracker – Kerosene Hat: #848 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They keep it low, they keep it hot, they keep heads covered.
Led Zeppelin – Coda: #849 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh, it’s my love. Ooh, it’s my own true love.
U2 – Boy: #850 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The first U2 album sounds as fresh and energetic and urgent as ever.
Wire – Pink Flag: #851 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly inventive and intriguing punk rock from the UK circa 1977.
Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan: #852 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take a freewheelin’ classic folk rock ride with a young artist named Bob Dylan, early ‘60s style.
Audioslave – Out of Exile: #853 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The supergroup comprised of Rage Against the Machine (minus Zach de la Rocha) and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell finds their cohesive sound.
The Saints – (I’m) Stranded: #854 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Legit punk rock circa 1977 from Down Under.
Reel Big Fish – Cheer Up!: #855 of best 1,000 albums ever!
RBF can rock you with their specialty of snarked up ska punk, but it’s the more mature power pop material that really stands out here.
Television – Marquee Moon: #856 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Post-punk, new wave, intellectual guitar rock? Any which way, it’s all good.
Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle: #857 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wherein I find my appetite for this slice of space blues.
The Pharcyde – Bizarre Ryde II The Pharcyde: #858 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Chill, quirky hip hop that is absolutely unique (and uniquely good).
Scorpions – Love At First Sting: #859 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well-crafted hair metal. You might say it’ll rock you like… a powerful force of nature.
Liam Lynch – Fake Songs: #860 of best 1,000 albums ever!
More than a one-hit wonder album? Whatever.
Lenny Kravitz – 5: #861 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Kravitz doing funk rock and hippie rock for the ‘90s pushes 5 into my best 1,000.
Kirsty MacColl – Kite: #862 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Pop gems from a UK-based singer-songwriter with a flat-out gorgeous voice.
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution – A Call to Arms: #863 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A short and incredible acoustic ska punk album.
Various Artists – Luaka Bop 10th Anniversary: Zero Accidents on the Job: #864 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Legit excellent world music, alt rock, funk, and pop from an eclectic group of bands and musicians.
The Chemical Brothers – Surrender: #865 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Accessible electronic music with great hooks and the dance vibe to match.
Various Artists – Thunderbirds Are Go – TV Themes for Grown Up Kids: #866 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Bombastic, retro futuristic theme songs of glory. And fun!
Chuck D – Autobiography of Mistachuck: #867 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Incredible underground hip hop with laid back jazz, funk, and r&b influences, fronted by one of the best MCs in hip hop history.
The Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray: #868 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Do you want this album to seduce you? That’d be a yes.
Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead: #869 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t call this a jam band… album.
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger: #870 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night.
The Pogues: If I Should Fall from Grace with God – #871 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Meshes traditional Irish sounds with a propulsive punk sensibility. In short, a bottle of smoke.
Mad Season – Above: #872 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A supergroup with real chemistry. An album that’s deeply affecting and melancholy and cool.
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense and Peppermints: #873 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A kaleidoscopic spectacle of psychedelic hippie rock.
Bitter:Sweet – The Mating Game: #874 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Orchestral strings, hip hop beats, and gorgeous lounge vocals that keeps it moving while keeping it chill.
NOFX – Ribbed: #875 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Insanely energetic punk rock with surprisingly agile music dynamics. But also, you know, fun.
Icona Pop – This Is… Icona Pop: #876 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Loud, brash, insanely catchy, and fun as hell. What’s not to like?
Blink-182 – Enema of the State: #877 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A great balance of pop and punky alt rock.
Ben L’Oncle Soul – Ben L’Oncle Soul: #878 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A seven nation army shouldn’t hold you back from checking out this retro soul gem.
Neil Young – On the Beach: #879 of best 1,000 albums ever!
See the sky is about to rain.
Jay-Z – Reasonable Doubt: #880 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Jay-Z’s debut album has a great blend of rawness and tremendous vitality and energy.
Laura Nyro – Eli and the Thirteenth Confession: #881 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A bombshell of a singer songwriter album from 1968.