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Tag: Alternative Pop
R.E.M. – Live at the Olympia: #15 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is not a show.
Beck – One Foot in the Grave: #18 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I got time on my hands.
R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant: #43 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t fall on me.
Beck – Mellow Gold: #45 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Soy un perdedor.
Being Dead – Eels: #65 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just when you thought you knew someone – guess again because you were wrong.
R.E.M. – Murmur: #70 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk.
R.E.M. – Live at the BBC: #74 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t talk to me about being alone.
Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive: #87 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love is such a selfish thing, it’s always crying, “Me, me, me.”
Frank Black – Frank Black Francis: #89 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh my golly! Oh my golly!
R.E.M. – Around the Sun: #92 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Leaving New York, never easy – I saw the light fading out.
Beck – Stereopathetic Soulmanure: #98 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now I’m rolling in sweat with a loaf of cold bread and a taco in my jeans.
R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now: #106 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yes I will rhyme that, after, after all I’ve done today, I have earned my wings.
Beck – Colors: #112 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When nothing’s right just close your eyes, close your eyes and you’re gone.
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.
Beck – Guero: #174 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hell yes, now I’m moving this way, I’m doing this thing. Please enjoy.
Gorillaz – Gorillaz: #181 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad. I got sunshine in a bag.
R.E.M. – Reveal: #220 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You want the greatest thing, the greatest thing since bread came sliced.
Beck – Sea Change: #259 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m tired of fighting, fighting for a lost cause.
Beck – Midnite Vultures: #278 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Touch it real good if you want a piece. Party people know I’m that type of freak.
R.E.M. – Up: #287 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Say, haven’t you noticed? Oh, I ate the lotus.
Noisettes – What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf? #291 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Scratch your name into the fabric of this world before you go.
The Smiths – The Smiths: #300 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m not the man you think I am.
Garbage – Garbage: #373 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You wanna hear about my new obsession? I’m riding high upon a deep depression. I’m only happy when it rains.
Eels – Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006 Vol. 1: #397 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Goddamn right it’s a beautiful day.
Fiona Apple – When the Pawn…: #409 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I went crazy again today, looking for a strand to climb, looking for a little hope.
Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen: #416 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m big and important – one angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces for you.
The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing: #443 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I ain’t freaking, I ain’t faking this – shut up and let me go.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Let Love In: #528 of best 1,000 albums ever!
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man in a dusty black coat and a red right hand.
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: #552 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Tall buildings shake, voices escape singing sad, sad songs.
Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum: #589 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There is no morphine, I’m only sleeping. There is no crime to dreams like this.
Broken Bells – Broken Bells: #643 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Come on and get the minimum, before you open up your eyes.
Beat Happening – Dreamy: #651 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heed what this wise man says: stay away from redheads.
The Jayhawks – Tomorrow The Green Grass: #659 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Keep my real light shining.
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session: #671 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An album with a specific, intimate, and special energy to it.
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: #725 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Highly unique yet strangely comforting? Just ask the king of the carrot flowers.
Pulp – Different Class: #732 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There’s something about the vibe that takes me back to the Nag’s Head pub in Rochester, Kent.
Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine: #755 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Playful and orchestral, bombastic and pulsing, trippy and sultry.
Cornershop – When I Was Born For the 7th Time: #768 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Record scratches, catchy pop hooks, and Indian influences that will butter the soul.
Beck – Modern Guilt: #769 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It grooves and clicks and jumps like a fanciful anxious thought, beautiful and foreboding.
Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes: #776 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s gorgeous and piercing and moving all at once.
Sarah McLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: #802 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Much more than a standard issue album handed out at my undergrad college dorms.
Belly – Star: #826 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A pop grunge vibe that completely works.
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.
Moon Duo – Mazes: #954 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An unusual musical locale that’s hard to nail down, but well worth the journey.
The Lightning Seeds – Dizzy Heights: #960 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Effervescent Britpop from the mid-‘90s with hooks to match.
Descartes A Kant – Paper Dolls: #967 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s kind of weird and disturbing and great. Come take the trip.
Brainiac – Hissing Prigs in Static Couture: #978 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Uh… this album is crazy. Good crazy, but crazy. Dig it.
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk: #989 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Incredible songcraft, wild variety, and the magical odd couple combo of Campbell’s whispery delightful voice and Lanegan’s world weary soft growl.
Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire: #995 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’re in the mood for a melancholy, quiet, pretty album with a Beatles-y vibe (and with literal Beatles-y lineage), Friendly Fire fits the bill.