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Tag: New Wave
Ramones – Ramones: #83 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey ho, let’s go.
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes: #103 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let me go on like I blister in the sun.
Devo – New Traditionalists: #119 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We’re through being cool.
The Clash – London Calling: #150 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How you get a rude and a reckless? Don’t you be so crude and feckless.
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.
Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady: #237 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ever fallen in love, in love with someone you shouldn’t have fallen in love with?
Adventureland: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #241 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m curious to know exactly how you are. I keep my distance, but that distance is too far.
Depeche Mode – Violator: #244 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Words are very unnecessary – they can only do harm.
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – This Year’s Model: #250 of best 1,000 albums ever!
See her picture in a thousand places ’cause she’s this year’s girl.
David Bowie – Let’s Dance: #262 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
The English Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It: #280 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Big shot, I want the whole lot. And if you like it or not, I still control you.
Devo – Freedom of Choice: #284 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Freedom of choice is what you got. Freedom from choice is what you want.
Ramones – Rocket to Russia: #289 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go – they’re ready to go now.
The Selecter – Too Much Pressure: #303 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This pressure got to stop.
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.
The Toasters – Skaboom! #336 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We get ourselves in situations I don’t understand – that always leads to confrontations getting out of hand.
The Go-Go’s – Beauty and the Beat: #341 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Can you hear them? They talk about us, telling lies – well, that’s no surprise.
Duran Duran – Duran Duran: #350 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Look now, look all around, there’s no sign of life. Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
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.
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.
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 B-52’s – The B-52’s: #382 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It wasn’t a rock – it was rock lobster.
The Clash – Combat Rock: #395 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock the Casbah.
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food: #412 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take me to the river, drop me in the water.
Elvis Costello – Armed Forces: #428 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?
The Cars – Heartbeat City: #433 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You might think I’m crazy – all I want is you.
U2 – War: #440 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How long, how long must we sing this song?
The Cars – The Cars: #464 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Let the good times roll, let them knock you around.
The Knack – Get The Knack: #472 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one, when you gonna give me some time, Sharona?
Midnight Oil – Midnight Oil: #483 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There’s a bubble a bouncing, and it’s bouncing my way. There’s two sticks in the powderworks, I think it’s gonna blow today.
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.
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.
Patti Smith – Easter: #547 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take me now baby here as I am. Pull me close, try and understand. Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe. Love is a banquet on which we feed.
Le Tigre – Le Tigre: #242 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Who took the bomp from the bompalompalomp? Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?
Blondie – Parallel Lines: #559 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Once I had a love and it was a gas, soon turned out had a heart of glass. Seemed like the right thing, only to find mucho mistrust, love’s gone behind.
The Romantics – The Romantics: #594 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What I like about you, you hold me tight. Tell me I’m the only one wanna come over tonight, yeah.
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.
Adam Ant – Friend or Foe: #616 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow – there must be something inside.
Blondie – Blondie: #626 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, you know her, would you look at that hair.
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.
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.
Patti Smith – Horses: #681 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sopra i cieli, ancor più su. Dolci canti di angeli.
Devo – Oh No! It’s Devo: #695 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Peek-a-boo! I can see you.
Class Actress – Journal of Ardency: #699 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The most incredible ‘80s album… of 2010.
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!: #704 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Q: Should you listen to this album? A: Uh, that’d be a big time yes.
Slant 6 – Soda Pop * Rip Off: #716 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Some bands and some albums hit a bunch of my musical sweet spots at once.