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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.
Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona: #984 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Top notch early ‘90s alt/indie rock with fantastic vocals and a knack for poppy hooks.
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – Mecca and the Soul Brother: #985 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Old school hip hop with flavors of A Tribe Called Quest and Digable Planets, and that’s just sweet.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe As Milk: #986 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This zig zag wander ain’t for everyone, but for me it’s sure ‘nuff ‘n’ yes, I do!
Mission of Burma – Signals, Calls and Marches: #987 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Smart, catchy, arty new wave-y punk that gets under your skin in the best kind of way.
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into: #988 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Crunching, groovy electro beats that could chew through the back of the club (or your mind, yeah?).
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk: #989 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Incredible songcraft, wild variety, and the magical odd couple combo of Campbell’s whispery delightful voice and Lanegan’s world weary soft growl.
La Roux – La Roux: #990 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love love “Bulletproof,” and the whole album has a high-octane dance pop energy.
Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain: #991 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Whatever he chooses to call himself, MF Doom… er, Viktor Vaughn is a hip hop genius.
The Vaselines – Enter The Vaselines: #992 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly eclectic and inventive music that pings between punk to indie with many inviting ports of call in between.
Wolfgang Gartner – Weekend in America: #993 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Great electro house music with crushing grooves for days.
The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus: #994 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Conjures the feeling of being inside a gritty, indie British gangster flick and/or hanging out in a pub on a dreary English afternoon.
Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire: #995 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’re in the mood for a melancholy, quiet, pretty album with a Beatles-y vibe (and with literal Beatles-y lineage), Friendly Fire fits the bill.
Doc Heller – Terribly Mysterious: The Goat Boy Origins: #996 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This album represents the best of the kind of music listening I do these days while working or hanging out with family and friends during cocktail hour.
The Sugarhill Gang – 8th Wonder: #997 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a fun (very) old school hip hop party album, and/but “Apache” is the towering achievement here that merits best 1,000 albums ever consideration.
Plumtree – Predicts the Future: #998 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“Scott Pilgrim” and many others are a fantastic blend of garage, poppy punk, and indie rock that are addictively ear pleasing.
Steppenwolf – The Second: #999 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Steppenwolf is a blend of late ‘60s psychedelia and hard rock which, melded together, gets you the term Acid Rock.
Agent Orange – Living in Darkness: #1,000 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s fresh, indie, passionate, and punk, all the more remarkable for an album produced some four decades ago
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