I heard you think you’re bulletproof.
Tag: SoCal Bands
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 Offspring – Smash: #320 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You gotta keep ’em separated.
The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn!: #321 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A time for love, a time for hate, a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late.
NOFX – White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean: #324 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There’s nothing new, no one I want to talk to, nothing I want to think about, I got soul doubt.
The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man: #332 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In the jingle jangle morning, I’ll come following you.
L7 – Smell the Magic: #337 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get out of my way or I might shove.
Rage Against the Machine – Renegades: #342 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We’re the renegades of funk.
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.
Allah-Las – Worship the Sun: #383 of best 1,000 albums ever!
But it all just came and went faster than I could, have the time to separate the bad from good.
The Beach Boys – Wild Honey: #394 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sweet sweet wild honey bee, eat up eat up eat up honey.
Eels – Meet the Eels: Essential Eels 1996-2006 Vol. 1: #397 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Goddamn right it’s a beautiful day.
The Mamas & The Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears: #410 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You gotta go where you want to go, do what you want to do.
NOFX – Coaster: #420 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I am a reverend of irreverence, I’m a shill for any sacrilege.
Sublime – Robbin’ the Hood: #421 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wake up in the morning and it’s hard to live.
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?
Foster the People – Torches: #488 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks: you better run, better run, outrun my gun.
NOFX – Punk in Drublic: #492 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Linoleum supports my head – gives me something to believe.
Descendents – Milo Goes to College: #494 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I wanna be stereotyped, I wanna be classified, I wanna be a clone – I want a suburban home.
Mad Caddies – Duck and Cover: #509 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Gotta watch those corners in the stretch of danger, a problem could arise eventually. I’ve walked this earth for twenty years and now my mind is floating out to sea.
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?
Descendents – I Don’t Want To Grow Up: #513 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If growing up means being like you, then I don’t want to be like you.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – The Band Geek Mafia: #515 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The doctor says to take it easy because this isn’t healthy, but I need things a doctor can’t prescribe. I’m running the race on a treadmill going nowhere fast; I need an outlet in my so-called life.
Weezer – OK Human: #520 of best 1,000 albums ever!
All my favorite songs are slow and sad. All my favorite people make me mad.
The Doors – An American Prayer: #527 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The music was new, black polished chrome, and came over the summer like liquid night.
Downset – Do We Speak A Dead Language?: #533 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Graffin’ up in L.A. you can’t act stupid and play, striking up in the hood could mean your last day.
Weezer – Maladroit: #550 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We go together baby, and if we do, yeah I’ll be your weakness baby, and get to you.
Bad Religion – How Could Hell Be Any Worse?: #554 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In this world today, there ain’t nobody to thank. Just blame it on the kids and toss ‘em in the tank.
The Hippos – Heads Are Gonna Roll: #560 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Something in the way she never looks my way, I’m in love, I’m in love.
Buck-O-Nine – Twenty-Eight Teeth: #578 of best 1,000 albums ever!
My soul is sound when I’m in my hometown, yeah, and no place I’d rather be.
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.
Mad Caddies – Quality Soft Core: #603 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s only human nature, pollutes temptation. We have reserved bookings for the fathers of our nation.
Black Flag – Damaged: #620 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are tired of your excuse. Try to stop us – it’s no use!
Broken Bells – Broken Bells: #643 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Come on and get the minimum, before you open up your eyes.
L7 – Bricks Are Heavy: #654 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They can’t hear a word that we’ve said, when we pretend that we’re dead.
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.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Adicción, Tradición, Y Revolución: #660 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She don’t like The Toasters or The Skeletones, she’d rather pound some beers and listen to The Ramones.
The Aquabats! – The Aquabats! Vs. The Floating Eye of Death! And Other Amazing Adventures, Vol.1: #668 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey kid! What do we got? Not a lot. So what?
Transplants – Haunted Cities: #683 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are true sonic gems hiding on these streets, in this shadowy world.
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.
No Doubt – Rock Steady: #706 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Hey baby, it’s hella good, okay?
Love – Forever Changes: #707 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Eclectic psychedelic rock released at the pinnacle of the Flower Power era.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Steady As She Goes: #711 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’d have to have nada en la cabeza to not get moving to this album.
Bad Religion – Suffer: #715 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t suffer the fools who refuse to get enough-er of this construct of musical performances.
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime: #723 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A sprawl of 43 eclectic gems add up to a greater whole, and that price is right on.
Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles: #724 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The Rage is relentless, in three parts.
Mad Caddies – Just One More: #733 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Drink smoke drink smoke this is what we do. Well, not what I do necessarily but… you get it.
Fishbone – Truth & Soul: #734 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It might not be for ma nor pa, but this Fishbone dish is sizzling.
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking: #739 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Nothing’s shocking, indeed, yet consistently surprising.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: #750 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Is the movie Swingers and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy partially responsible for my moving to the west coast from NYC? It’s a long story…
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual: #756 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delivery of a strange and wonderful musical experience.
Allah-Las – Allah-Las: #764 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Garage rock with the perfect concoction of indie, moody pop, and psychedelic influences.
The Bangles – Different Light: #782 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I mean, just ask any police officer who happens to be at a local fried carbohydrate treat market.
Descendents – Cool To Be You: #798 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Houston, we have a problem indeed. But not with this record.
Descendents – Everything Sucks: #824 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So much that is so great (and so right) about punk rock.
Reel Big Fish – Cheer Up!: #855 of best 1,000 albums ever!
RBF can rock you with their specialty of snarked up ska punk, but it’s the more mature power pop material that really stands out here.
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense and Peppermints: #873 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A kaleidoscopic spectacle of psychedelic hippie rock.
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 Offspring – Americana: #896 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I can think of, say, uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis reasons…
The O.C. Supertones – Supertones Strikes Back: #903 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A powerhouse of a ska punk album that just happens to layer in… well, you’ll see.