My Top 30 Albums Of All Time
In no particular order. |
| 1 |  | The Cure
Seventeen Seconds
You sleep
Sleep in a safe bed
Curled and protected
Protected from sight
Under a safe roof
Deep in your house
Unaware of the changes at night
At night
I hear the darkness breathe
I sense the quiet despair
Listen to the silence
At night
Someone has to be there
Someone has to be there |
| 2 |  | Deftones
Deftones
So God bless you all
For the song you saved us
For the hearts you break
Every time you moan
And God bless you all on the earth |
| 3 |  | Tool
Lateralus
But I'm still right here
Giving blood
Keeping faith
And I'm still right here.
Wait it out.
Gonna wait it out.
Be patient. |
| 4 |  | Ministry
Filth Pig
You keep runnin' away
Don't matter how fast or long
You always wind up there
Another thousand pileups in the ugly name of morality
Fucking ugly
Some creepy guy keeps asking
"How the fuck do you sleep at night?"
With a frozen dream and a borrowed hope that died |
| 5 |  | Marilyn Manson
Mechanical Animals
Shoot myself to love you
If I loved myself I'd be shooting you |
| 6 |  | Nirvana
Bleach
And very late I have learned
To accept some friends of ridicule
My whole existence is for your amusement
And that is why I'm here with you |
| 7 |  | If These Trees Could Talk
Red Forest
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| 8 |  | Alice In Chains
Dirt
You can't understand a user's mind
But try, with your books and degrees
If you let yourself go and opened your mind
I'll bet you'd be doing like me
And it ain't so bad |
| 9 |  | AFI
Black Sails in the Sunset
If only pure sweetness was offered
Why's this bitter taste left in my mouth?
If I could catch my breath
Just to exhale
I'd know that I held it in too long |
| 10 |  | Finch
Say Hello to Sunshine
Focus on the fire
Burning virus in me
Hopeless host hooked to a wire
Keeping me
Focused on the fire burning
Virus that is me, a hopeless host
Sickness
Is crumbling me
Born into disease
Stomach won't digest demons
Mother please
I beg just finish the stitch
Sew me up to live |
| 11 |  | City of Ships
Ultraluminal
a few years back
they say a teenage girl on a makeshift raft
went off into the water and
she never came back
she was way too loaded to swim
the current was raging and it pulled her in
they never found a body but they searched to no end
the river flows on
ever changing, true to none
its endless miles
apologize to no one
the river flows on
indifferent to everything
watch it breach its banks
and then quietly recede
some say she asked for it
as she went sinking down
they watched her drown
the talking heads are going on about
a record breaking epic drought
but from 35,000 feet i look down
see the tops of the houses submerged
watch a barge move upstream unimpressed like it hadn't heard
crops are destroyed, famine's assured
for so long
i've been captivated by
her sweet meandering song
at the gathering of waters i sing along
some say what happened
is divine vengeance on that town
but i have my doubts |
| 12 |  | Katatonia
Night Is the New Day
Idle the blood
A black state of mind
All my dreams left behind |
| 13 |  | Opeth
Damnation
Blank face in the windowpane
Made clear in seconds of light
Disappears and returns again
Counting hours, searching the night
Might be waiting for someone
Might be there for us to see
Might be in need of talking
Might be staring directly at me |
| 14 |  | Meshuggah
Catch Thirtythree
So imminently visible
This cloaked innocent guilt
Sentenced to a lifetime
A second of structured chaos
Trampled by the ferocious
Raging crowds of solitude
I'm the soil beneath me soaking up the sustenance of my own death
Extradited to the gods of chance
The deities of all things random
Alive, multicolored, twitching in their dead monochrome world |
| 15 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile
in the blur of serenity
where did everything get lost?
the flowers of naivete
buried in a layer of frost
a fool's devotion
swallowed up in empty space
the tears of regret
frozen to the side of his face
I've done all I can do
could I please come with you?
sweet smell of sunshine
I remember sometimes |
| 16 |  | A Perfect Circle
Thirteenth Step
Disappear.
Disappear.
Higher.
Higher.
Into.
The air.
Slowly disappear.
No, no longer here. |
| 17 |  | Agalloch
Ashes Against the Grain
The god of man is a failure
Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky
Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood
Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood
The god of man is a failure
And all of our shadows...
All of our shadows...
All of our shadows...
Are ashes...
against
the
grain... |
| 18 |  | Porcupine Tree
In Absentia
The creator had a mastertape
But he left it in a cab
I stared into the void tonight
The best dream I ever had
Pills and chloroform
All the pages torn |
| 19 |  | Bjork
Homogenic
I dare you
To take me on
I dare you
To show me your palms |
| 20 |  | The Blood Brothers
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Can you inject love's tender touch back into the gang bang?
Can you knit the stiletto back in, into the bloodstain?
Can you put the bite back into the beast you've broken, tied and tamed?
Can you crease the wrinkles back into this cracked and open brain?
So doctor won't you pull the fucking plug?
Oh, won't you cut the cord?
'Cause you can't put the life back into this hospital ward.
And every hole has a snake in it
and every crotch is a Siamese gun
every sunshine hides a cancerous chime
when every breath is a bomb |
| 21 |  | Scarling.
So Long, Scarecrow
Nothing like love, sex,
Everything, its all or nothing
Oh, I would kill anyone for you.
Love, drug, I'm not in love,
It's all, all, all sex, apathy,
Oh, I would kill anyone for you. |
| 22 |  | Burzum
Filosofem
In every winter there's a different cold
in every winter I feel so old
so very old as the night
so very old as the dreadful cold |
| 23 |  | August Burns Red
Constellations
Open your closed mind and close your open mouth.
You're pushing more, you're pushing more than you are pulling. |
| 24 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
Fuck this road
And fuck you too
I'll fuckin kill your best friend
What you fuckin gonna do |
| 25 |  | Misery Signals
Controller
They were sinking or swimming
I was floating away |
| 26 |  | Portishead
Dummy
Please could you stay awhile to share my grief
For its such a lovely day
To have to always feel this way
And the time that I will suffer less
Is when I never have to wake |
| 27 |  | rancid
...And Out Come the Wolves
my hand went blind
you were in the veins clairvoyant
my hand went blind
i make love to my transistor my trance sister
went on and my trance parents see from the balcony
I looked out on the big field
it opens like the cover of an old bible
And out come the wolves
their paws trampling in the snow the alphabet
I stand on my head and watch it all go away |
| 28 |  | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fever To Tell
Boy you're just a stupid bitch
And girl you're just a no good dick |
| 29 |  | Hypno5e
Des Deux l'une Est l'autre
Unperceivable fall
Towards this space opened for silence
Which skims without crossing it
With its thin pulsation. |
| 30 |  | System of a Down
System of a Down
Well, now, mutually, mentally molested children of a mother. |
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