But if I work all day on the blue sky mine, there’ll be food on the table tonight.
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Tag: 1990 albums
INXS – X: #126 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love devastation, suicide blonde.
Living Colour – Time’s Up: #137 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How you gonna stop the clock when the well runs dry?
Cappadonna – The Pillage: #212 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My slang is editorial explicit material, briefcase yo, live in stereo flow.
Bad Religion – Against the Grain: #219 of best 1,000 albums ever!
‘Cause I’m a 21st century digital boy. I don’t know how to read, but I’ve got a lot of toys.
Depeche Mode – Violator: #244 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Words are very unnecessary – they can only do harm.
Madonna – The Immaculate Collection: #266 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are living in a material world, and I am a material girl.
The Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker: #329 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey little thing, let me light your candle ‘cause mama, I’m sure hard to handle now, gets around.
Pixies – Bossanova: #335 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From distant star to this here bar, the me, the you, where are we now?
L7 – Smell the Magic: #337 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get out of my way or I might shove.
Digital Underground – Sex Packets: #493 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The Humpty Dance is your chance to do the hump.
Fastbacks – Very, Very Powerful Motor: #505 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I need a change in my life, and I need it right now. Good or bad, it doesn’t really matter how.
The Breeders – Pod: #506 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Walking on his highways, we leave the land and float inside the dark, black water, robin flies again.
They Might Be Giants – Flood: #508 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople, been a long time gone, Constantinople, now it’s Turkish delight on a moonlit night.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – The Band Geek Mafia: #515 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The doctor says to take it easy because this isn’t healthy, but I need things a doctor can’t prescribe. I’m running the race on a treadmill going nowhere fast; I need an outlet in my so-called life.
The Creation – Our Music Is Red – With Purple Flashes: #517 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Why do we have to carry on? Always singing the same old song.
Goodfellas: Music From the Motion Picture: #539 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Must I forever be a beggar whose golden dreams will not come true? Or will I go from rags to riches? My fate is up to you.
Sonic Youth – Goo: #568 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Time to take a ride, time to take it in a midnight eye. And if you want to go, get on below.
The Pogues – Hell’s Ditch: #630 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade.
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth – Funky Technician: #666 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lord Finesse and DJ Mike Smooth dial up the number of the funky technician!
Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet: #730 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Fight the power, indeed.
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual: #756 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delivery of a strange and wonderful musical experience.
Alice in Chains – Facelift: #830 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lots of AiC in slower-paced grunge mode? Yes please.
Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles: #894 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A freight train of pioneering grungy punk rock energy.
Sinéad O’Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got: #900 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sure, it’s the “Nothing Compares 2 You” album, but there’s a range of Celtic-influenced rock and gorgeous pure pop to enjoy besides.