Fill up the bucket with whatever you got. Make sure it’s something that the bucket likes a lot.
Tag: Alternative Rock
The Offspring – Smash: #320 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You gotta keep ’em separated.
Blur – Parklife: #322 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love in the ’90s is paranoid.
Perfect Thyroid – Kiss The Mammoth And Run: #325 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re nobody’s zero.
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.
Perfect Thyroid – Musical Barnacles: #338 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Open your mouth and close your eyes and let the overlord’s spoon slide deep inside.
Midnight Oil – Earth and Sun and Moon: #346 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now who can stop the hail when human senses fail – there was never any warning, no escape.
Radiohead – The Bends: #359 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry.
Blind Melon – Soup: #366 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And you’re leaving me, yeah you’re leaving me. You’re leaving me with a hated identity.
The Libertines – Anthems for Doomed Youth: #369 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We’re going nowhere, but nowhere, nowhere’s on our way.
Stone Temple Pilots – Purple: #371 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Too much walking, shoes worn thin. Too much trippin’ and my soul’s worn thin.
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.
Sonic Youth – Dirty: #385 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re perfect in the way, a perfect end today.
Pixies – Complete ‘B’ Sides: #389 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s weird at my school.
Fastbacks – New Mansions in Sound: #399 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just say I’m all alone, just say where am I going? Just say the phone rang once today for a wrong number.
Sublime – Robbin’ the Hood: #421 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wake up in the morning and it’s hard to live.
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.
Pixies – Trompe le Monde: #431 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s educational.
The Suicide Machines – The Suicide Machines: #441 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I won’t spend another day in this heart attack city, it’s messed up here and everything’s money.
Veruca Salt – Eight Arms To Hold You: #444 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Volcano girls, we really can’t be beat – warm us up and watch us blow.
R.E.M. – Monster: #449 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You know with love comes strange currencies, and here is my appeal.
Pixies – Come On Pilgrim: #455 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This ain’t no holiday, but it always turns out this way.
Le Butcherettes – A Raw Youth: #458 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take a second, open your mind, take a step back, and stop this madness.
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers: #465 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Find yourself a girl and settle down, live a simple life in a quiet town. Steady as she goes.
Various Artists – Trainspotting: Music From the Motion Picture: #470 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just a perfect day, you made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, someone good.
Fastbacks – Answer the Phone, Dummy: #475 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They said it was such a good time for everyone to not get along. And how was everyone so right if only everyone was wrong?
Oasis – Be Here Now: #476 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Look into the wall of my mind’s eye. I think I know but I don’t know why. The questions are the answers you might need.
Fastbacks – Truth, Corrosion, and Sour Bisquits: #485 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And so I wondered and wandered around the planet, looking for some things that might have mattered to me.
Meat Puppets – Too High To Die: #490 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Exchange our fears for little glass holes and broken dreams of bent-backed trolls.
The Dandy Warhols – Welcome to the Monkey House: #491 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A long time ago, we used to be friends but I haven’t thought of you lately at all.
Soundgarden – Superunknown: #495 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In my eyes, indisposed, in disguises no one knows, hides the face, lies the snake, and the sun in my disgrace.
Blind Melon – Blind Melon: #498 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I don’t understand why I sleep all day, and I start to complain that there’s no rain.
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.
Radiohead – My Iron Lung: #510 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rust in the mountain, rust in the brain, the air is sacred here in spite of your claim.
Weezer – OK Human: #520 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All my favorite songs are slow and sad. All my favorite people make me mad.
Green Day – Uno!: #522 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are the vultures, the dirtiest kind. We’ll cut you once in your heart and your mind.
Dance Hall Crashers – Lockjaw: #526 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Why are you listening to all the things they tell you every day? Why are you listening, what happened to your own mind anyway?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell: #534 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I got a date with the night, burnin’ down my finger.
Soundgarden – Down on the Upside: #545 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Common ruse, dirty face, pretty noose is pretty hate, and I don’t like what you got me hanging from.
R.E.M. – Automatic for the People: #546 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Smack, crack, bushwhacked, tie another one to your back, baby. Hey kids, rock and roll, nobody tells you where to go, baby.
Le Tigre – Le Tigre: #549 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp? Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?
Weezer – Maladroit: #550 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We go together baby, and if we do, yeah I’ll be your weakness baby, and get to you.
OK Go – Oh No: #555 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It starts out easy, something simple, something sleazy, something inching past the edge of reserve. Now through the lines of the cheap venetian blinds, your car is pulling off of the curb.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Question the Answers: #557 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We question one accessory: don’t think the piece is necessary. We agree you’re dressed to kill, but wonder if you will.
The Presidents of the United States of America – The Presidents of the United States of America: #558 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the one she got was sorta rotten and insane. Small things so sad that birds could land – is lump fast asleep or rockin’ out with the band?
The Hippos – Heads Are Gonna Roll: #560 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Something in the way she never looks my way, I’m in love, I’m in love.
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown: #561 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I’ve got a fever, I’m a non-believer, I’m in a state of grace, for I am the Caesar, I’m gonna seize the day.
Frank Black – Christmass: #566 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve kissed mermaids, rode the El Niño, walked the sand with the crustaceans. Could find my way to Mariana on a wave of mutilation.
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 Fratellis – Costello Music: #577 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Give us a kiss and maybe we can go out – it’s hard to miss you when you follow us about.
Buck-O-Nine – Twenty-Eight Teeth: #578 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My soul is sound when I’m in my hometown, yeah, and no place I’d rather be.
Kaiser Chiefs – Employment: #579 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Watching the people get lairy, it’s not very pretty I tell thee – walking through town is quite scary.
Alice in Chains – Dirt: #582 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I feel so alone – gonna end up a big ol’ pile of them bones.
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted: #593 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve been crowned the King of Id, and Id is all we have, so wait to hear my words and they’re diamond sharp.
Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music… Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop: #595 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sell your soul and sign an autograph – big bang baby, it’s a crash, crash, crash.
The Libertines – Up the Bracket: #599 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But if you’ve lost your faith in love and music the end won’t be long. Because if it’s gone for you then I too may lose it and that that would be wrong.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Ska-Core, The Devil and More: #600 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You know, I’ve made mistakes. I’ve had my ups and downs, my ins and outs, my share of bad breaks. But when it’s all been said and done, I raise my beer and I swear, “God, it’s been fun!”
Blur – Leisure: #609 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Every time I come here I’m not sure what to say. I know it should be easy but it never seems that way.
The Donnas – Spend the Night: #624 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You shouldn’t try to look so good if you don’t wanna be misunderstood.
Spoon – Gimme Fiction: #652 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, you got the weight of the world coming down like a mother’s eye.
L7 – Bricks Are Heavy: #654 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They can’t hear a word that we’ve said, when we pretend that we’re dead.
Parquet Courts – Light Up Gold + Tally All the Things That You Broke: #656 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Coffee breaks and lamb’s tail shakes aren’t arbitrary marks.
The Aquabats! – The Aquabats! Vs. The Floating Eye of Death! And Other Amazing Adventures, Vol.1: #668 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey kid! What do we got? Not a lot. So what?
The Riff Randells – Doublecross: #669 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So come on, check it off now.
The Fratellis – We Need Medicine: #674 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One part evil, three-fifths blind.
Metric – Fantasies: #678 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer?
Transplants – Haunted Cities: #683 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are true sonic gems hiding on these streets, in this shadowy world.
Pavement – Wowee Zowee: #684 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We got the money! We got the money now!
The Fratellis – Here We Stand: #686 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You can find her screaming along with the ghosts, reminds you she’s the one that you need the most.
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: #688 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The band that I feel I should really like more but… erases the but.
7 Year Bitch – Viva Zapata!: #694 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An exquisitely executed dose of grungy riot grrl punk rock.
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out: #696 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s the riot grrl drama you’ve been craving.
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!: #697 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Easily one of my favorite “new” finds of this decade.
Pilfers – Pilfers: #698 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You think it’s funny but what I say is true.
PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea: #702 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is love, this is love that I’m feeling.
Cake – Fashion Nugget: #703 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Much like Fashion Nugget, I will survive. Yeah yeah.
No Doubt – Rock Steady: #706 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey baby, it’s hella good, okay?
Graham Day and the Gaolers – Soundtrack to the Daily Grind: #714 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One listen and you’ll be on the pull.
Slant 6 – Soda Pop * Rip Off: #716 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Some bands and some albums hit a bunch of my musical sweet spots at once.
Frank Black – The Cult of Ray: #718 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Another tremendous album from the cult of Frank Black.
Babyshambles – Down in Albion: #720 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I still turned out to be a huge Babyshambles fan, didn’t I?
Parquet Courts – Human Performance: #722 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The humans of Parquet Courts have banged out yet another remarkably consistent performance.
U2 – Zooropa: #728 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Some albums are better than others.
Urge Overkill – Saturation: #729 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Alt rock with an ironic edge that still nonetheless rocks.
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.
Fishbone – Truth & Soul: #734 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It might not be for ma nor pa, but this Fishbone dish is sizzling.
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill: #735 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’d tell you, but don’t make me say it… Okay, you oughta know, right?
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking: #739 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Nothing’s shocking, indeed, yet consistently surprising.
Conehead Buddha – Rockets: #740 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get that body up.
Streetlight Manifesto – Everything Goes Numb: #743 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ska punk with a level of musicianship and sophistication that very few bands ever achieve. Oh, and don’t forget the energy energy energy.
Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend: #747 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Matthew Sweet is a power pop master craftsman.
Gorillaz – Demon Days: #749 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It will, I suppose you could say, make you (sha, sha-ba-da) feel good.
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual: #756 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delivery of a strange and wonderful musical experience.
Catch 22 – Keasbey Nights: #758 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Day in day out and on and on and on, *this* is the version of Keasbey Nights you’ve been looking for.
Beck – Modern Guilt: #769 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It grooves and clicks and jumps like a fanciful anxious thought, beautiful and foreboding.
Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising: #771 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Listen to this on a battered cassette player for maximum effect.
Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped: #778 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Do you believe in this sweet sensation? You should.
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Let’s Face It: #779 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The impression that I get is that this is a rock solid collection of highly enjoyable alternative rock and pop- and punk-infused ska.