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Tag: 1980s albums
Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy: #352 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We live in a political world where mercy walks the plank. Life is in mirrors, death disappears up the steps into the nearest bank.
Fishbone – Fishbone: #356 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Party at ground zero, a B Movie starring you, and the world will turn to flowing pink vapor stew.
R.E.M. – Dead Letter Office: #357 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Look at all the flags and all the banners waving – open up our arms, a magic kingdom, open-armed and greet us all.
Madness – Absolutely: #358 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Naughty boys in nasty schools, headmaster’s breaking all the rules, having fun and playing fools, smashing up the woodwork tools.
Yaz – Upstairs at Eric’s: #360 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can’t stop now, don’t you know I ain’t never gonna let you go, don’t go.
Def Leppard – Pyromania: #365 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock, rock, ’til you drop. Rock, rock, never stop.
Duran Duran – Rio: #376 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In touch with the ground, I’m on the hunt I’m after you. A scent and a sound, I’m lost and I’m found, and I’m hungry like the wolf.
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead: #381 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, has the world changed, or have I changed?
The Clash – Combat Rock: #395 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock the Casbah.
Run-D.M.C. – Run-D.M.C.: #424 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t ask me, because I don’t know why, but it’s like that, and that’s the way it is.
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation: #426 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can’t forget the flashing, can’t forget the smashing, the sending and the bending, the atmosphere re-entry.
Billy Joel – An Innocent Man: #432 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Once I thought my innocence was gone – now I know that happiness goes on.
The Cars – Heartbeat City: #433 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You might think I’m crazy – all I want is you.
Michael Jackson – Thriller: #435 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart.
U2 – War: #440 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How long, how long must we sing this song?
Pixies – Come On Pilgrim: #455 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This ain’t no holiday, but it always turns out this way.
Faith No More – The Real Thing: #457 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You want it all, but you can’t have it.
De La Soul – Three Feet High and Rising: #463 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Everybody wants to be a DJ, everybody wants to be an MC, but being speakers are the best.
Aerosmith – Pump: #469 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love in an elevator – livin’ it up while I’m going down.
The B-52’s – Cosmic Thing: #479 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hop in my Chrysler, it’s as big as a whale, and it’s about to set sail. I got me a car, it sits about twenty, so come on and bring your jukebox money.
Stray Cats – Built For Speed: #486 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We’re gonna rock this town, rock it inside out.
Descendents – Milo Goes to College: #494 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I wanna be stereotyped, I wanna be classified, I wanna be a clone – I want a suburban home.
Neil Young – Freedom: #497 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
The Pretenders – Learning to Crawl: #501 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The middle of the road is trying to find me. I’m standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me.
Van Halen – 1984: #511 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ah, can’t you see me standing here? I got my back against the record machine. I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen, ah can’t you see what I mean?
Descendents – I Don’t Want To Grow Up: #513 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If growing up means being like you, then I don’t want to be like you.
Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule: #516 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love is gentle as a rose, and love can conquer any war. It’s time to take a stand, brothers and sisters join hands.
Paul Simon – Graceland: #518 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’ll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal. I can call you Betty, and Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al.
Soft Cell – Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: #525 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sometimes I feel I’ve got to run away. I’ve got to get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me.
Diana Ross – Diana: #529 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Upside you’re turning me, you’re giving love instinctively. Around and round you’re turning me, I say to thee respectfully.
Bad Religion – How Could Hell Be Any Worse?: #554 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In this world today, there ain’t nobody to thank. Just blame it on the kids and toss ‘em in the tank.
Roxette – Look Sharp!: #563 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer, she’s a juvenile scam. Never was a quitter, tasty like a raindrop, she’s got the look.
Various Artists – Iron Eagle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #567 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So give me your hands, your hearts, I’m ready! There’s only one direction.
Minor Threat – First Two Seven Inches: #570 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I don’t want to hear it – all you do is talk about you. I don’t want to hear it, ‘cause I know that none of it’s true.
Guns N’ Roses – G N’ R Lies: #572 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Said woman take it slow, and it’ll work itself out fine. All we need is just a little patience.
Mötley Crüe – Dr. Feelgood: #587 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Skydive naked from an aeroplane, or a lady with a body from outer space.
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.
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.
Journey – Frontiers: #607 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Someday love will find you, true love won’t desert you.
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.
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.
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.
Black Flag – Damaged: #620 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are tired of your excuse. Try to stop us – it’s no use!
Danzig – Danzig: #622 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Warning is come upon your heels – feel your dreams slip away.
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.
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.
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.
Peter Gabriel – So: #631 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You could have a bumper car, bumping. The amusement never ends.
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.