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Tag: New York Bands
Boss Hog – Boss Hog: #60 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Nothing to lose – I got nothing to lose.
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.
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico: #68 of best 1,000 albums ever!
‘Cause everybody knows she’s a femme fatale.
The Velvet Underground – 1969 Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed: #72 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I’m beginning to see the light.
Ramones – Ramones: #83 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey ho, let’s go.
The Velvet Underground – Loaded: #124 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She started shakin’ to that fine fine music, you know her life was saved by rock ‘n roll.
Living Colour – Time’s Up: #137 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How you gonna stop the clock when the well runs dry?
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground: #192 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Linger on your pale blue eyes.
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.
Perfect Thyroid – Kiss The Mammoth And Run: #325 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re nobody’s zero.
Perfect Thyroid – Musical Barnacles: #338 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Open your mouth and close your eyes and let the overlord’s spoon slide deep inside.
Frankie Cosmos – Close It Quietly: #411 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Selfish as you are cannot be undone – you wouldn’t let me let myself become a person.
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.
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.
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.
Stray Cats – Built For Speed: #486 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We’re gonna rock this town, rock it inside out.
Yolk – Yolk: #500 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Capturing beauty of something as precious as life.
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.
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular: #530 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is our decision to live fast and die young. We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun. Yeah, it’s overwhelming, but what else can we do? Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell: #534 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I got a date with the night, burnin’ down my finger.
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 Rapture – Echoes: #602 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The city breathing, the people churning, the conversating. The price is what?
Blondie – Blondie: #626 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, you know her, would you look at that hair.
The Toasters – Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down: #636 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I won’t play ball, won’t do as I’m told. I’d rather be a square peg in a round hole.
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.
Class Actress – Journal of Ardency: #699 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The most incredible ‘80s album… of 2010.
Parquet Courts – Human Performance: #722 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The humans of Parquet Courts have banged out yet another remarkably consistent performance.
Ramones – Road to Ruin: #738 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A thoroughly non-sedating blast of old school punk rock.
Conehead Buddha – Rockets: #740 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get that body up.
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.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!: #799 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heads will rock n’ roll to this one.
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal: #807 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hits that perfect sweet spot between alt rock and garage rock.
Television – Marquee Moon: #856 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Post-punk, new wave, intellectual guitar rock? Any which way, it’s all good.
The Scofflaws – Live!, Vol. 1: #918 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A fun ska band with real musical chops that’s at its most fun-est best live.
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.