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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.
Pixies – Doolittle: #76 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Drive my car into the ocean – you think I’m dead, but I sail away.
Wyclef Jean – Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival: #77 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sit right back and hear a tale of a hustler ’round my way.
U2 – The Joshua Tree: #78 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside.
Babyshambles – Shotter’s Nation: #79 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m half dead, I’m a third alive, a quarter ticking over in the middle by the side of the road.
Jurassic 5 – Quality Control: #80 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My quality control captivates your party patrol.
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: #81 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It was twenty years ago today when Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
The Specials – The Specials: #82 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Stop your fooling around, time you straighten right out. Better think of your future, else you’ll wind up in jail.
Ramones – Ramones: #83 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey ho, let’s go.
INXS – Kick: #84 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So slide over here and give me a moment. Your moves are so raw, I’ve got to let you know.
The Breeders – Last Splash: #85 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I know you’re a cannonball.
Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty: #86 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Another dimension, new galaxy, intergalactic planetary.
Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive: #87 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love is such a selfish thing, it’s always crying, “Me, me, me.”
Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced: #88 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Purple haze all in my brain.
Frank Black – Frank Black Francis: #89 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
John Lennon – Imagine: #90 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.
Tenacious D – Tenacious D: #91 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is just a tribute, you’ve gotta believe me.
R.E.M. – Around the Sun: #92 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Leaving New York, never easy – I saw the light fading out.
Frank Black – Oddballs: #93 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Forget about the girls and forget about the boys – turn off the TV and put away your toys.
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication: #94 of best 1,000 albums ever!
‘Cause you can’t, you won’t, and you don’t stop.
The White Stripes – Icky Thump: #95 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I guess you have to have a problem, if you want to invent a contraption. First you cause a train wreck, then they put me in traction.
GZA – Beneath the Surface: #462 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Move swift as light, a thousand years in one night, in flight with insight.
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour: #97 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
Beck – Stereopathetic Soulmanure: #98 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now I’m rolling in sweat with a loaf of cold bread and a taco in my jeans.
The Doors – Waiting for the Sun: #99 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hello, I love you, won’t you tell me your name?
Fastbacks – Zücker: #100 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Believe me never, hate me forever.
Dr. Dre – 2001: #101 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Still taking my time to perfect the beat, and I still got love for the streets.
Reel Big Fish – Why Do They Rock So Hard? #102 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Everything is cool, how are things with you?
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes: #103 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let me go on like I blister in the sun.
Camper Van Beethoven – Telephone Free Landslide Victory: #104 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling.
Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask: #105 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s just that I’m old school like that, roll that rap over soul loops like that.
R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now: #106 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yes I will rhyme that, after, after all I’ve done today, I have earned my wings.
Rancid – …And Out Come The Wolves: #107 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Good morning heartache, you’re like an old friend, come and see me again.
Eminem – The Slim Shady LP: #108 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I lay awake and strap myself in the bed with a bulletproof vest on and shoot myself in the head.
Pixies – Surfer Rosa: #109 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let’s ride a tire down the river Euphrates.
Various Artists – No Alternative: #110 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You know I’m superdeformed, you can’t say you weren’t warned. I’m superdeformed, now dig it.
Fugees – The Score: #111 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh la la la, it’s the way that we rock when we’re doing our thing.
Beck – Colors: #112 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When nothing’s right just close your eyes, close your eyes and you’re gone.
The Aquabats! – The Fury of the Aquabats! #113 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All systems go! Soon the world will know the fury of attack – feel the wrath of the super rad.
Metallica – Master of Puppets: #114 of best 1,000 albums ever!
End of passion play, crumbling away, I’m your source of self-destruction.
Flight of the Conchords – I Told You I Was Freaky: #115 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You think fashion’s your friend, my friend, fashion is danger.
The Who – Live at Leeds: #116 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shakin’ all over, quivers down my backbone.
GZA – Liquid Swords: #117 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now gone off the mental plane, to spark the brain with the building to be born.
Hype! The Motion Picture Soundtrack: #118 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, you better watch out. Well, you better beware, ‘cause they’re coming from all sides of the country now.
Devo – New Traditionalists: #119 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We’re through being cool.
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP: #120 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So won’t the real Slim Shady please stand up?
Rancid – Indestructible: #121 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If I fall back down, you’re gonna help me back up again.
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale: #122 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I’m a singer, dancer, we bulletproof brothers. Wu-Tang got the answer.
Reservoir Dogs – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #123 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lookin’ back on the track for a little greenback. Got to find just the kind or I’m losin’ my mind.
The Velvet Underground – Loaded: #124 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She started shakin’ to that fine fine music, you know her life was saved by rock ‘n roll.