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Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mining: #31 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But if I work all day on the blue sky mine, there’ll be food on the table tonight.
R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant: #43 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t fall on me.
Midnight Oil – 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1: #55 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You take what you get to get what you please.
R.E.M. – Murmur: #70 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s so much more attractive inside the moral kiosk.
Midnight Oil – Red Sails in the Sunset: #71 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You say times are tough – we got the best of both worlds here.
R.E.M. – Live at the BBC: #74 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t talk to me about being alone.
Pixies – Doolittle: #76 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Drive my car into the ocean – you think I’m dead, but I sail away.
R.E.M. – Around the Sun: #92 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Leaving New York, never easy – I saw the light fading out.
Camper Van Beethoven – Telephone Free Landslide Victory: #104 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling.
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.
Pixies – Surfer Rosa: #109 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let’s ride a tire down the river Euphrates.
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.
Midnight Oil – Diesel and Dust: #170 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
R.E.M. – Green: #180 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hello, my friend, are you visible today? You know I never knew that it could be so strange.
Echo & The Bunnymen – Songs to Learn & Sing: #210 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Fate – up against your will – through the thick and thin.
Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party: #214 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a dead man’s party, who could ask for more? Everybody’s coming, leave your body at the door.
R.E.M. – Chronic Town: #273 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Suspicion yourself, suspicion yourself, don’t get caught.
R.E.M. – Out of Time: #296 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try.
The Smiths – The Smiths: #300 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m not the man you think I am.
R.E.M. – Accelerate: #306 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s an experience, sweet, delirious, supernatural, super serious.
X – Los Angeles: #317 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You don’t have to answer me, you don’t have to call me back. Your phone’s off the hook, but you’re not.
Meat Puppets – Up On The Sun: #318 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Fill up the bucket with whatever you got. Make sure it’s something that the bucket likes a lot.
Pixies – Bossanova: #335 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From distant star to this here bar, the me, the you, where are we now?
R.E.M. – Document: #344 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
R.E.M. – Dead Letter Office: #357 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Look at all the flags and all the banners waving – open up our arms, a magic kingdom, open-armed and greet us all.
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead: #381 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, has the world changed, or have I changed?
Pixies – Complete ‘B’ Sides: #389 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s weird at my school.
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.
U2 – War: #440 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How long, how long must we sing this song?
Pixies – Come On Pilgrim: #455 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This ain’t no holiday, but it always turns out this way.
Descendents – Milo Goes to College: #494 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I wanna be stereotyped, I wanna be classified, I wanna be a clone – I want a suburban home.
The Pretenders – Learning to Crawl: #501 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The middle of the road is trying to find me. I’m standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me.
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.
Descendents – I Don’t Want To Grow Up: #513 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If growing up means being like you, then I don’t want to be like you.
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.
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.
R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction: #638 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Maybe these maps and legends have been misunderstood.
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session: #671 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An album with a specific, intimate, and special energy to it.
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime: #723 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A sprawl of 43 eclectic gems add up to a greater whole, and that price is right on.
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Through the Looking Glass: #762 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not your typical album of cover songs. Just ask Alice, I think she’ll know…
Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising: #771 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Listen to this on a battered cassette player for maximum effect.
10,000 Maniacs – MTV Unplugged: #772 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The magic of the live and acoustic setting shines through for Natalie Merchant and crew.
The Replacements – Let It Be: #780 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From jangle pop to post-punk to quiet ballads, this one has great range (and each range is great).
The Bangles – Different Light: #782 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I mean, just ask any police officer who happens to be at a local fried carbohydrate treat market.
Descendents – Cool To Be You: #798 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Houston, we have a problem indeed. But not with this record.
Descendents – Everything Sucks: #824 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So much that is so great (and so right) about punk rock.
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.
Cracker – Kerosene Hat: #848 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They keep it low, they keep it hot, they keep heads covered.