Take me in and dry the rain.
Tag: British Bands
Blur – Parklife: #322 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love in the ’90s is paranoid.
The Raincoats – The Raincoats: #330 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But don’t worry, honey don’t worry. This is just a fairytale happening in the supermarket.
Sweet – Desolation Boulevard: #345 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And the man in the back said, “everyone attack!” And it turned into a ballroom blitz.
Led Zeppelin – In Through the Out Door: #349 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light to chase a feather in the wind, within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight there moves a thread that has no end.
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon: #354 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Breathe, breathe in the air, don’t be afraid to care.
Madness – Absolutely: #358 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Naughty boys in nasty schools, headmaster’s breaking all the rules, having fun and playing fools, smashing up the woodwork tools.
Radiohead – The Bends: #359 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t leave me high, don’t leave me dry.
Yaz – Upstairs at Eric’s: #360 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can’t stop now, don’t you know I ain’t never gonna let you go, don’t go.
Def Leppard – Pyromania: #365 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock, rock, ’til you drop. Rock, rock, never stop.
The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle: #375 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s the time of the season for loving.
Duran Duran – Rio: #376 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In touch with the ground, I’m on the hunt I’m after you. A scent and a sound, I’m lost and I’m found, and I’m hungry like the wolf.
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead: #381 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, has the world changed, or have I changed?
Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple: #384 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hush, hush, I thought I heard her calling my name now.
The Kinks – BBC Sessions: 1964-1977: #388 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Feel good from morning till the end of the day.
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now: #391 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Safe in the heat of the moment, a stillness that comes to me when I’m close to you.
The Who – My Generation: #392 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is my generation.
The Clash – Combat Rock: #395 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock the Casbah.
The Who – Tommy: #398 of best 1,000 albums ever!
He’s a pinball wizard, there has got to be a twist – a pinball wizard’s got such a supple wrist.
Electric Light Orchestra – Discovery: #401 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ll tell you once more before I get off the floor: don’t bring me down.
The Kinks – Kinks: #408 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Girl, I want to be with you all of the time – all day and all of the night.
The Kinks – Something Else: #417 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Won’t someone help me to break up this crown – let’s all drink to the death of a clown.
Elvis Costello – Armed Forces: #428 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?
The Zombies – I Love You: #430 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Got to get a hold of myself, got to make believe I don’t care.
Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won: #442 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Made up my mind to make a new start, going to California with an aching in my heart.
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.
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.
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here: #477 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Portishead – Dummy: #480 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m so tired of playing, playing with this bow and arrow. Gonna give my heart away, leave it to the other girls to play.
Pink Floyd – The Wall: #499 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Crazy, toys in the attic, truly gone fishing. They must have taken my marbles away!
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.
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.
The Beatles – Anthology 1: #519 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well up came that first cat, he said, “Man, look at that! Man do you see what I see?”
The Animals – Animal Tracks: #521 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good. Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.
Foghat – Fool for the City: #523 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m in the mood, the rhythm is right. Move to the music, we can roll all night.
Soft Cell – Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: #525 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sometimes I feel I’ve got to run away. I’ve got to get away from the pain you drive into the heart of me.
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned: #536 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No crime if there ain’t no law, no cops left to mess you around, no more dreams of mystery chords, no more sight to bring you down.
Wings – Band on the Run: #543 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, the night was falling as the desert world began to settle down. In the town they’re searching for us everywhere but we never will be found.
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.
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.
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.
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.
X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents: #613 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s dark and eerie and it’s really late, come on kids don’t hesitate.
The Cult – Love: #618 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Like a desert sun that burns my skin, I’ve been waiting for her for so long.
Cream – Disraeli Gears: #619 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve been waiting so long to be where I’m going, in the sunshine of your love.
Whitesnake – Whitesnake: #629 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I don’t know where I’m going, but I sure know where I’ve been.
Elvis Costello – My Aim Is True: #637 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m not gonna get too sentimental like those other sticky valentines.
The Yardbirds – Having A Rave Up: #639 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, smokestack lightning. Don’t you hear me calling?
Duran Duran – Seven and the Ragged Tiger: #650 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Every little thing the reflex does leaves you answered with a question mark.
The Police – Outlandos D’Amour: #653 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So many times I used to give a sign. Got this feeling, gonna lose my mind.
Duran Duran – Duran Duran (The Wedding Album): #662 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Destroyed by MTV, I hate to bite the hand that feeds me.
UFO – Phenomenon: #663 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Livin’, lovin’ on the run, so far away from you.
Radiohead – In Rainbows: #670 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A surprisingly warm tone gives way to something more fractured, shattered, and eventually becomes somewhat haunting. Well, this is Radiohead, right?
The Fratellis – We Need Medicine: #674 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One part evil, three-fifths blind.
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.
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers: #690 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, when you call my name I salivate like a Pavlov dog.
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.
The Who – Who’s Next: #705 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take a bow for the new revolution.
T. Rex – Electric Warrior: #709 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Bang a gong. Get it on.
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.
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?
The Clash – Sandinista! #731 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The high highs make it well worthy of being in the magnificent seven… hundreds on the best 1,000 albums ever project.
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.
Cream – Wheels of Fire: #741 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are some powerful powerful, favorite favorite, classic classics going on here.
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.
Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X: #752 of best 1,000 albums ever!
For that uniquely trip-hoppy, moody, atmospheric, and posh-sounding vibe.
The Yardbirds – For Your Love: #761 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’ll get stuck in your head and make you go wild.
Idles – Ultra Mono: #763 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Points to the future of aggressive music generally in some small but important way.
Teleman – Brilliant Sanity: #766 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Intelligently hook-driven, guitar rock. But, you know, also fun.
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality: #767 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heavy metal is bestowed upon We Mere Mortals. And it is good.
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.
Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth: #775 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you gonna learn?
The Swinging Blue Jeans – The EMI Years: Best of the Swinging Blue Jeans: #787 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The grooviest, swinging, British Invasion-est music that most people these days have not (yet!) heard.
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms: #803 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now that IS workin’, that’s the way you do it.
Generation X – Generation X: #821 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One hundred wild youth punks agree: this one is ready steady go.
Swell Maps – International Rescue: #823 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Incredible raw energic punk that sounds both of its time and timeless.
Unit 4+2 – Greatest Hits: #825 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s fun and rock and pop and a little quirky and very British Invasion.
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure: #836 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Shmaltzy, glammy, proto-punk? Yeah, this is one unique album.
Arctic Monkeys – AM: #841 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ll call it up when I’m… in any number of states.
Gang of Four – Entertainment!: #847 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Are you not entertained? Well, you will be by this classic post-punk album, yes, thanks for asking.
Led Zeppelin – Coda: #849 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just because it’s the end, there’s still plenty of reasons to get the led out.
Wire – Pink Flag: #851 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly inventive and intriguing punk rock from the UK circa 1977.
The Beta Band – Hot Shots II: #885 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Conjures hyper specific sound collages and delivers songs that immediately feel essential.
Pulp – His ‘n’ Hers: #890 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Britpop that’s deeply soaked in 1970s and 1980s influences spanning post-punk to glam rock to synth pop to dance music.
Judas Priest – British Steel: #898 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not including it would be akin to, say… breaking the law, for example?
Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes: #905 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock ‘n roll meets proto-punk meets David Bowie-inspired early ‘70s glam rock. And chocolate and peanut butter (somehow?).
The Human League – Dare!: #910 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t you want me to tell you? Read on.
The Jam – Sound Affects: #920 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Driving energy and pop hooks that helps to carry the initial British punk music wave forward.
Various Artists – Wanna Buy A Bridge? #935 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A stunning collection of post-punk (but mostly leaning into the punk side, and thankfully so) artists out of the UK.
Arctic Monkeys – Who the F*** Are Arctic Monkeys? #937 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is a (small!) collection of songs that demanded to make this list by a fun, brash, and talented band at their early best.
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath: #949 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The definition of heavy metal.
Madness – One Step Beyond…: #957 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From ska to punk to new wave to pop, all performed with the extreme exuberance and confidence of youth and with tongues firmly planted in cheeks… I guess you can only describe it as Madness.