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Tag: 1980s albums
Operation Ivy – Operation Ivy: #7 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sound system gonna bring me back up, yeah, one thing that I can depend on.
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction: #25 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Welcome to the jungle.
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill: #41 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No sleep ‘till Brooklyn.
R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant: #43 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t fall on me.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Devil’s Night Out: #48 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The band was so hot, my beer got warm.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Mother’s Milk: #53 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you see me getting high, knock me down – I’m not bigger than life.
Midnight Oil – 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1: #55 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You take what you get to get what you please.
Living Colour – Vivid: #57 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Look in my eyes, what do you see? The cult of personality.
Cheepskates – Run Better Run: #66 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re not around but you’re plain to see – I hear you’re voice and you’re telling me.
R.E.M. – Murmur: #70 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk.
Midnight Oil – Red Sails in the Sunset: #71 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You say times are tough – we got the best of both worlds here.
Nirvana – Bleach: #73 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ll take advantage while you hang me out to dry, but I can’t see you every night – free.
Pixies – Doolittle: #76 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Drive my car into the ocean – you think I’m dead, but I sail away.
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.
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.
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes: #103 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let me go on like I blister in the sun.
Pixies – Surfer Rosa: #109 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let’s ride a tire down the river Euphrates.
Metallica – Master of Puppets: #114 of best 1,000 albums ever!
End of passion play, crumbling away, I’m your source of self-destruction.
Devo – New Traditionalists: #119 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We’re through being cool.
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: #131 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a holiday in Cambodia. It’s tough, kid, but it’s life.
Run-D.M.C. – Tougher Than Leather: #132 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Who’s house? Run’s house.
R.E.M. – Reckoning: #156 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Did you never call? I waited for your call. These rivers of suggestion are driving me away.
Fastbacks – …And His Orchestra: #157 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I can’t believe how lonely it is here on K Street, there’s no one like me here on K Street.
Def Leppard – Hysteria: #166 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take a bottle, shake it up. Break the bubble, break it up.
Midnight Oil – Diesel and Dust: #170 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
R.E.M. – Green: #180 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hello, my friend, are you visible today? You know I never knew that it could be so strange.
U2 – Rattle and Hum: #197 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t believe them when they tell me there ain’t no cure – the rich stay healthy, the sick stay poor. I believe in love.
N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton: #461 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m expressing with my full capabilities, and now I’m living in correctional facilities.
Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet: #202 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shot through the heart and you’re to blame darling: you give love a bad name.
Echo & The Bunnymen – Songs to Learn & Sing: #210 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Fate – up against your will – through the thick and thin.
Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party: #214 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a dead man’s party, who could ask for more? Everybody’s coming, leave your body at the door.
Run-D.M.C. – Raising Hell: #235 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In New York, the people talk and try to make us rhyme, they really hawk, but we just walk because we have no time.
Misfits – Collection: #249 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They call us walking corpses, unholy living dead. They had to lock us up, put us in their British hell.
David Bowie – Let’s Dance: #262 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
Good Morning, Vietnam: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #263 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Baby, please don’t go down to New Orleans, you know I love you so, baby please don’t go.
R.E.M. – Chronic Town: #273 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Suspicion yourself, suspicion yourself, don’t get caught.
The English Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It: #280 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Big shot, I want the whole lot. And if you like it or not, I still control you.
Devo – Freedom of Choice: #284 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Freedom of choice is what you got. Freedom from choice is what you want.
Wipers – Is This Real? #293 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There’s gotta be a better place, there’s got to be, so let’s get on the move.
Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever: #294 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I’m free, free fallin’.
The Smiths – The Smiths: #300 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m not the man you think I am.
The Selecter – Too Much Pressure: #303 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This pressure got to stop.
Jimi Hendrix – Radio One: #309 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just turn that dial, make your music worthwhile.
X – Los Angeles: #317 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You don’t have to answer me, you don’t have to call me back. Your phone’s off the hook, but you’re not.
Meat Puppets – Up On The Sun: #318 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Fill up the bucket with whatever you got. Make sure it’s something that the bucket likes a lot.
The Toasters – Skaboom! #336 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We get ourselves in situations I don’t understand – that always leads to confrontations getting out of hand.
The Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat: #341 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can you hear them? They talk about us, telling lies – well, that’s no surprise.
R.E.M. – Document: #344 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
Duran Duran – Duran Duran: #350 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Look now, look all around, there’s no sign of life. Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?