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Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club: #964 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An album that makes you think about music as a lifelong lifeline.
Rosalia De Souza – Garota Moderna: #965 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Brazilian and bossa nova roots with a modern upbeat lounge feel.
Various Artists – Ma 6-t Va Crack-er: #966 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Underground French hip hop that reminds me that there’s nothing better than discovering great music.
Descartes A Kant – Paper Dolls: #967 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s kind of weird and disturbing and great. Come take the trip.
Black 47 – Home of the Brave: #968 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An unusual but ultimately pleasing combination of traditional Irish music and modern American rock.
Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell: #969 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Adams spans singer songwriter-y pop to chilled out rock to alt country for quite a moody trip.
Sham 69 – Angels With Dirty Faces: #970 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delirious blast of UK punk.
Thievery Corporation – The Mirror Conspiracy: #640 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Too low to find my way, too high to wonder why.
Aloe Blacc – Good Things: #972 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I defy you to come away from this one without humming “I need a dollar, dollar, dollar that’s what I need…”
Fountains of Wayne – Welcome Interstate Managers: #973 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Serious about its 1970s and 1980s guitar rock sensibilities. Doubly serious about having a gas in the lyrical content department.
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.
Immortal Technique – Revolutionary, Vol. 1: #975 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Smart, blistering underground hip hop with ultra-tight flow.
The Coasters – The Coasters: #976 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Smooth, sexy, doo wop-y, rocking late 1950s vibes that project energy and fun.
KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope: #977 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’re not yet hip to it, suddenly you shall see that super satisfying sounds abound.
Brainiac – Hissing Prigs in Static Couture: #978 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Uh… this album is crazy. Good crazy, but crazy. Dig it.
Edwin Starr – War & Peace: #979 of best 1,000 albums ever!
“War” first and foremost, but make peace with the fact there’s also a lot of other great songs going down here.
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.
Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk Quintet – Milt Jackson With John Lewis, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke, Lou Donaldson and the Thelonious Monk Quintet: #982 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Exquisite 1950s-era New York City jazz replete with vibraphone tidings and jazz lounge vibes.
Burning Spear: Marcus Garvey: #983 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Head bobbing roots reggae with intense, consciousness-raising lyrics.
Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona: #984 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Top notch early ‘90s alt/indie rock with fantastic vocals and a knack for poppy hooks.
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – Mecca and the Soul Brother: #985 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Old school hip hop with flavors of A Tribe Called Quest and Digable Planets, and that’s just sweet.
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe As Milk: #986 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This zig zag wander ain’t for everyone, but for me it’s sure ‘nuff ‘n’ yes, I do!
Mission of Burma – Signals, Calls and Marches: #987 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Smart, catchy, arty new wave-y punk that gets under your skin in the best kind of way.
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into: #988 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Crunching, groovy electro beats that could chew through the back of the club (or your mind, yeah?).
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk: #989 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Incredible songcraft, wild variety, and the magical odd couple combo of Campbell’s whispery delightful voice and Lanegan’s world weary soft growl.
La Roux – La Roux: #990 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Love love “Bulletproof,” and the whole album has a high-octane dance pop energy.
Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain: #991 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Whatever he chooses to call himself, MF Doom… er, Viktor Vaughn is a hip hop genius.
The Vaselines – Enter The Vaselines: #992 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly eclectic and inventive music that pings between punk to indie with many inviting ports of call in between.
Wolfgang Gartner – Weekend in America: #993 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Great electro house music with crushing grooves for days.
The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus: #994 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Conjures the feeling of being inside a gritty, indie British gangster flick and/or hanging out in a pub on a dreary English afternoon.
Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire: #995 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’re in the mood for a melancholy, quiet, pretty album with a Beatles-y vibe (and with literal Beatles-y lineage), Friendly Fire fits the bill.
Doc Heller – Terribly Mysterious: The Goat Boy Origins: #996 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This album represents the best of the kind of music listening I do these days while working or hanging out with family and friends during cocktail hour.
The Sugarhill Gang – 8th Wonder: #997 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a fun (very) old school hip hop party album, and/but “Apache” is the towering achievement here that merits best 1,000 albums ever consideration.
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.
Agent Orange – Living in Darkness: #1,000 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s fresh, indie, passionate, and punk, all the more remarkable for an album produced some four decades ago
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