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.
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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: #242 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.