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Tag: Hard Rock
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.
Queen – A Night at the Opera: #355 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
Def Leppard – Pyromania: #365 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock, rock, ’til you drop. Rock, rock, never stop.
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.
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 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.
KISS – Dressed to Kill: #415 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.
Living Colour – Stain: #423 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I will never be satisfied until it ends in tears.
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life: #429 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I am a passenger, and I ride and I ride.
George Thorogood & The Destroyers – The Baddest Of George Thorogood And The Destroyers: #436 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Gonna get drunk, don’t you have no fear – I want one bourbon, one scotch, one beer.
Foreigner – Double Vision: #438 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Feeling down and dirty, feeling kinda mean, I’ve been from one to another extreme.
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.
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.
Jethro Tull – Stand Up: #451 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let us close our eyes – outside their lives go on much faster. Oh, we wont give in, we’ll keep living in the past.
New York Dolls – New York Dolls: #453 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All about that personality crisis, you got it while it was hot. But now frustration and heartache is what you got.
The Guess Who – Wheatfield Soul: #456 of best 1,000 albums ever!
These eyes cry every night for you.
Faith No More – The Real Thing: #457 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You want it all, but you can’t have it.
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.
Aerosmith – Pump: #469 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love in an elevator – livin’ it up while I’m going down.
Neil Young – Freedom: #497 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
Yolk – Yolk: #500 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Capturing beauty of something as precious as life.
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.
Van Halen – 1984: #511 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ah, can’t you see me standing here? I got my back against the record machine. I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen, ah can’t you see what I mean?
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.
Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic: #538 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You talk about things that nobody cares, wearing out things that nobody wears. You’re calling my name but I gotta make clear, I can’t say baby where I’ll be in a year.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Bachman-Turner Overdrive II: #556 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And would you cry if I told you that I lied? And would you say goodbye, would you let it ride?
Guns N’ Roses – G N’ R Lies: #572 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Said woman take it slow, and it’ll work itself out fine. All we need is just a little patience.
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.
Mötley Crüe – Dr. Feelgood: #587 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Skydive naked from an aeroplane, or a lady with a body from outer space.
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.
Mötley Crüe – Girls, Girls, Girls: #596 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This love that I tell now feels lonely as hell from this padded prison cell.
Jack White – Fear of the Dawn: #605 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If I die tomorrow, what did I do today? You want fresh air? You won’t find it this way.
Journey – Frontiers: #607 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Someday love will find you, true love won’t desert you. You know that I still love you, though we touched and went our separate ways.
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell: #614 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you hear the music, you make a dip into someone else’s pocket and then make a slip.
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.
Rollins Band – Get Some Go Again: #655 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No safety net: you get what you get, what you settle for.
The Runaways – The Runaways: #658 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Down the streets I’m the girl next door. I’m the fox you’ve been waiting for.
UFO – Phenomenon: #663 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Livin’, lovin’ on the run, so far away from you.
Boston – Boston: #675 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I lost myself in a familiar song. I closed my eyes and I slipped away.
Tenacious D – Rize of the Fenix: #687 of best 1,000 albums ever!
To be the best we got to pass the test we gotta make it all the way to the top of the mountain.
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers: #690 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, when you call my name I salivate like a Pavlov dog.
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.
Skid Row – Skid Row: #713 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t wait for 18 and life to check this one out.
Urge Overkill – Saturation: #729 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Alt rock with an ironic edge that still nonetheless rocks.
Cream – Wheels of Fire: #741 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are some powerful powerful, favorite favorite, classic classics going on here.
Jethro Tull – Aqualung: #754 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Without pretension, this album deserves best 1,000 albums ever project retention.
Various Artists – Say Anything: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #759 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Amazing soundtrack from an amazing movie… almost too amazing? Nah.
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality: #767 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heavy metal is bestowed upon We Mere Mortals. And it is good.
The Black Keys – El Camino: #785 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This one trucks (vans?), hammers, and stomps.
Pearl Jam – Ten: #790 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The pinnacle of Pearl Jam’s output. At least so far.
Supersuckers – La Mano Cornuda: #800 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It rocks out while having run rocking out while letting YOU know that they’re… oh, just keep on reading for more.
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain: #813 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A work of psychedelicized funk/soul/rock bizarro-genius that you may choose to hit and/or quit.
Porno for Pyros – Good God’s Urge: #816 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An album to dig one last time under the Tahitian moon.
Le Butcherettes – Cry Is for the Flies: #817 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly and gloriously weird punk-y art-meets-garage rock. Just dig it.
Brother Meat – Extraordinarily Moist and Delicious: #819 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You want it, you need it, you got it… you got it!
Alice in Chains – Facelift: #830 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lots of AiC in slower-paced grunge mode? Yes please.
Rush – Moving Pictures: #831 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Great hard rock with just the right touch of prog rock-y flair.
Cracker – Kerosene Hat: #848 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They keep it low, they keep it hot, they keep heads covered.
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.
Audioslave – Out of Exile: #853 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The supergroup comprised of Rage Against the Machine (minus Zach de la Rocha) and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell finds their cohesive sound.
Scorpions – Love At First Sting: #859 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well-crafted hair metal. You might say it’ll rock you like… a powerful force of nature.
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger: #870 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Curl up your smile and take your time, take your chances.
Judas Priest – British Steel: #898 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not including it would be akin to, say… breaking the law, for example?
The Murder City Devils – In Name and Blood: #904 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Spooky cool carnivalesque organ against Misfits-ish dirty, fast-paced hardcore punk? Uh, yes please.
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 J. Geils Band – Freeze Frame: #913 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delicious hamburger of fun early ‘80s rock ‘n roll.
White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1: #916 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An undeniable hurricane of thrashy, trashy, dirty, funky metal that gets under your skin like very few albums can.
Europe – The Final Countdown: #928 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Do I need to finally say it? Do I need to count it down?
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.
Death – …For the Whole World to See: #931 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A great big blast of proto-punk angst and passion and loud crashing guitars.
Living Colour – Collideoscope: #933 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A lesser work of one of great hard rock bands still easily makes this here list.
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.
Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion: #938 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s delicate (grunge?), but it all clicks.
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath: #949 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The definition of heavy metal.
The Gits – Frenching the Bully: #980 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Mia Zapata’s vocals matched with urgent, raucous, punky Seattle grunge energy.
Clutch – Psychic Warfare: #981 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Tight-as-a-drum, chugging, thunderous, and gloriously aggressive metal.
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.