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Tag: 1989 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.
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.
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.
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.
Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever: #294 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I’m free, free fallin’.
The Walkabouts – Cataract: #351 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now tell who’s that clown who pulled this veil on down.
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.
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.
Neil Young – Freedom: #497 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
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.
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.
Skid Row – Skid Row: #713 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t wait for 18 and life to check this one out.
Various Artists – Say Anything: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #759 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Amazing soundtrack from an amazing movie… almost too amazing? Nah.
James Horner – Glory: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #814 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a time machine to a little study lounge near the back of Johnson Hall at Binghamton University.
Kirsty MacColl – Kite: #862 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Pop gems from a UK-based singer-songwriter with a flat-out gorgeous voice.
Indigo Girls – Indigo Girls: #911 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Folk rock that bridges the gap from the 1960s to the Lilith Fair generation.
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine: #921 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’d have to have a head like a hole not to.