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Tag: Garage Rock
The Beatles – Abbey Road: #9 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Because the world is round, it turns me on because the world is round.
The Beatles – Revolver: #14 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All the lonely people – where do they all come from?
The Beatles – Rubber Soul: #28 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What goes on in your heart? What goes on in your mind?
Being Dead – Eels: #65 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just when you thought you knew someone – guess again because you were wrong.
Cheepskates – Run Better Run: #66 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re not around but you’re plain to see – I hear you’re voice and you’re telling me.
Graham Day & The Gaolers – Triple Distilled: #144 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I wanna smoke (and smoke and smoke).
Jack White – Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016: #154 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve thought about it for a while, and I’ve thought about the many miles. But I think it’s time that I’ve gone away.
The Beatles – Anthology 2: #183 of best 1,000 albums ever!
After a while you start to smile, now you feel cool. Then you decide to take a walk by the old school.
Foxboro Hot Tubs – Stop Drop and Roll!!!: #248 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Goin’ down to the Ruby Room, I’m gonna meet my doom.
The Zombies – Begin Here: #265 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry: how would I know, why should I care? Please don’t bother trying to find her – she’s not there.
The Sonics – Here Are The Sonics: #277 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Some folks like water, some folks like wine. But I like the taste of straight strychnine.
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.
RocknRolla Original Film Soundtrack: #295 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Be my, be my, be my little rock and roll queen.
Jimi Hendrix – Radio One: #309 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Just turn that dial, make your music worthwhile.
The Kingsmen – The Best of The Kingsmen: #372 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Louie Louie, oh no, me gotta go. Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby, me gotta go.
The Kinks – BBC Sessions: 1964-1977: #388 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Feel good from morning till the end of the day.
The Monkees – The Monkees: #405 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey, hey, we’re The Monkees and people say we monkey around. But we’re too busy singing to put anybody 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.
Question Mark and The Mysterians – 96 Tears: #427 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying.
Caesars – Love For The Streets: #928 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wind me up, put me down, start me off and watch me go.
Various Artists – Rushmore (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack): #467 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wherein we examine the most important question of our time: what is the most Wes Anderson movie song ever?
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.
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.
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!: #697 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Easily one of my favorite “new” finds of this decade.
Parquet Courts – Human Performance: #722 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The humans of Parquet Courts have banged out yet another remarkably consistent performance.
Cream – Wheels of Fire: #741 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are some powerful powerful, favorite favorite, classic classics going on here.
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal: #807 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hits that perfect sweet spot between alt rock and garage rock.
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.
The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today! #895 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Brian Wilson and the Boys get into more mature, interesting, and nuanced territory versus the early hits.
The Chocolate Watchband – Inner Mystique: #924 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Any band with a name that has a food word in front of a time telling device-related word has a huge shot of making this list.
The Dead Weather – Dodge and Burn: #930 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It gets under your skin, holding a dark, rocking, and compelling power.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation: #945 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Melancholy yet upbeat, accessible yet deeply indie.
Gore Gore Girls – Get the Gore: #946 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Revved up garage rock with punk attitude. Get it.
The Pink Spiders – Teenage Graffiti: #948 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Fun power pop with a little punk and glam influence thrown in – nothing wrong with that (and much that’s right).
Human Switchboard – Who’s Landing in My Hangar? #961 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Early ‘80s new wave-meets-garage rock with fantastic keyboards.
Wimps – Garbage People: #974 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Aggressive yet upbeat, fast paced and super fun power poppy punk by way of Seattle, Washington.
Plumtree – Predicts the Future: #998 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“Scott Pilgrim” and many others are a fantastic blend of garage, poppy punk, and indie rock that are addictively ear pleasing.
Steppenwolf – The Second: #999 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Steppenwolf is a blend of late ‘60s psychedelia and hard rock which, melded together, gets you the term Acid Rock.