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Tag: 1988 albums
Pixies – Surfer Rosa: #109 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let’s ride a tire down the river Euphrates.
Run-D.M.C. – Tougher Than Leather: #132 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Who’s house? Run’s house.
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.
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.
Jimi Hendrix – Radio One: #309 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just turn that dial, make your music worthwhile.
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.
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.
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.
Danzig – Danzig: #622 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Warning is come upon your heels – feel your dreams slip away.
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.
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.
Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl: #661 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Straight up, this album is catchy on a cellular level.
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session: #671 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An album with a specific, intimate, and special energy to it.
Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson: #689 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The genius behind The Beach Boys finds his powers fully intact on his first solo album.
Bad Religion – Suffer: #715 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t suffer the fools who refuse to get enough-er of this construct of musical performances.
Fishbone – Truth & Soul: #734 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It might not be for ma nor pa, but this Fishbone dish is sizzling.
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking: #739 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Nothing’s shocking, indeed, yet consistently surprising.
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.
Lucinda Williams – Lucinda Williams: #891 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Whether this is country or rock or blues or whatever, it’ll make you say, “Hell yeah.”
Enya – Watermark: #919 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Celtic and new age-y, at turns gentle and pleasant or moving and beautiful.