for my lyric mfs
my top 100 albums strictly when it comes to the lyrics. not ranked except for 1 and 2. 1 release per artist/collab. |
| 1 |  | Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" |
| 2 |  | Aesop Rock
Labor Days
"I told this cat the Earth was flat, he walked til his beard grew long enough to strangle himself for being stupid" |
| 3 |  | Aesop Rock and Homeboy Sandman
Lice
"My older homies think I'm kinda-sorta schizo
I feel the same of y'all, but don't consider it an issue
We can openly embrace it or be trained to mostly tip-toe,
where shame becomes a staple in the nature of the crypto -
that's a baseball through your window, a roach up in your shawarma
I know it sounds strange, but strange beats normal" |
| 4 |  | Aesop Rock x Blockhead
Garbology
I guess this counts as a 'collab'? Whatever
"Traffic in a mad world, mad world whereupon
oftentimes the body spits the spirit out and carries on
to engineer some semblance of a normal life, yours and mine
Then of course, it's normalcy, where paranormal's normalized" |
| 5 |  | Hail Mary Mallon
Bestiary
"Man - shamefully, whichever way you cut it,
I was trying to impress some people I can't even stomach
You'd like to think you're cool enough to not care if you're cool,
but the spirit gets distracted, the flesh is fucking cruel" |
| 6 |  | David Thomas Broughton
Crippling Lack
"I'm simply the friend you once had, Simon,
come to see the state that you're in
If you can't be forgiving, if you can't be forgiving,
then you can't be my friend" |
| 7 |  | AJJ
Knife Man
"You don't have it any better, you don't have it any worse
You're an irreplaceable human soul with your own understanding of what it means to suffer
And that's a huge bummer" |
| 8 |  | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica
"Gimme that old-time religion
It's good enough for me
It's good enough for you" |
| 9 |  | Charlie Hilton
Palana
"We fall in love, but we keep falling, don't we?
We'll fall right through a hundred million centuries" |
| 10 |  | Dangers
Anger
"In my perfect world, there would be no police
Yet we would still function in relative peace" |
| 11 |  | David Bowie
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
"Soul love, the priest that tastes the word
and told of love, and how my God on high
is all love, though reaching up, my loneliness evolves
by the blindness that surrounds him" |
| 12 |  | Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
"It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
A holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife" |
| 13 |  | Fall Out Boy
Take This to Your Grave
"What meant the world imploded,
inflated then demoted all my oxygen to product gas
and suffocated my last chance" |
| 14 |  | Guided by Voices
Bee Thousand
"And I know what's right,
but I'm losing sight of the clues
For which I search and choose to abuse
to just unlock my mind - yeah, just unlock my mind" |
| 15 |  | Jawbreaker
Dear You
"If you don't remind me, I won't forget you
If you don't ask, I won't upset you" |
| 16 |  | Jets to Brazil
Orange Rhyming Dictionary
"This skin we've stretched for centuries -
it's faded, it's fraying,
it's meaningless to me" |
| 17 |  | Johnny Foreigner
Waited Up 'til It Was Light
"Why'd you wanna live here if there's nothing but housing?" |
| 18 |  | Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate
"Cover up your face with soap - there, now you're Santa Claus
And you've got a gift for anyone who will give you his applause
I thought you were a racing man, ah, but you couldn't take the pace
That's a funeral in the mirror and it's stopping at your face" |
| 19 |  | Madvillain
Madvillainy
"...he said it's been a while,
got a breadwinner style to get the inner child to 'finna smile" |
| 20 |  | Ought
More Than Any Other Day
"And today
more than any other day
I am prepared to make the decision between 2% and whole milk" |
| 21 |  | PJ Harvey
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea |
| 22 |  | Primus
Frizzle Fry |
| 23 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows |
| 24 |  | Regina Spektor
Soviet Kitsch |
| 25 |  | Sole
Selling Live Water |
| 26 |  | Soul Coughing
Ruby Vroom |
| 27 |  | Steely Dan
Aja |
| 28 |  | Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb |
| 29 |  | System of a Down
System of a Down |
| 30 |  | Talking Heads
Fear of Music |
| 31 |  | The Beatles
Rubber Soul |
| 32 |  | The Evens
The Evens |
| 33 |  | The Limp Twins
Tales From Beyond The Groove |
| 34 |  | The Microphones
The Glow Pt. 2 |
| 35 |  | The Mothers of Invention
We're Only in It for the Money |
| 36 |  | The Mountain Goats
Tallahassee |
| 37 |  | The National
Alligator |
| 38 |  | The Thermals
The Body, The Blood, The Machine |
| 39 |  | Tom Waits
Swordfishtrombones |
| 40 |  | Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land |
| 41 |  | Arcade Fire
The Suburbs |
| 42 |  | Beck
Odelay |
| 43 |  | Counting Crows
This Desert Life |
| 44 |  | Depeche Mode
Violator |
| 45 |  | Eels
Electro-Shock Blues |
| 46 |  | Faith No More
Angel Dust |
| 47 |  | Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel... |
| 48 |  | Frightened Rabbit
The Midnight Organ Fight |
| 49 |  | Linea Aspera
Linea Aspera |
| 50 |  | Lou Reed
Transformer |
| 51 |  | No Trend
Too Many Humans |
| 52 |  | Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation |
| 53 |  | The Smith Street Band
No One Gets Lost Anymore |
| 54 |  | The Weakerthans
Reconstruction Site |
| 55 |  | Fire On Fire
The Orchard |
| 56 |  | Edie Brickell and New Bohemians
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars |
| 57 |  | Thao And The Get Down Stay Down
A Man Alive |
| 58 |  | The Tallest Man on Earth
The Wild Hunt |
| 59 |  | The Promise Ring
Nothing Feels Good |
| 60 |  | cLOUDDEAD
cLOUDDEAD |
| 61 |  | Billy Woods and Kenny Segal
Maps |
| 62 |  | Bladee
Eversince |
| 63 |  | Current 93
All the Pretty Little Horses
I'm just starting to get into Current 93, so this pick could change in time - but this is what it is right now. |
| 64 |  | Iron Lung
Sexless // No Sex |
| 65 |  | RXKNephew
Till I'm Dead |
| 66 |  | RX Papi
100 Miles & Walk'in |
| 67 |  | Ed Scissor
The Theremin |
| 68 |  | Extra Life
Made Flesh |
| 69 |  | Kind of Like Spitting
Nothing Makes Sense Without It |
| 70 |  | Laurie Anderson
Big Science |
| 71 |  | People (US)
People |
| 72 |  | Saccharine Trust
Paganicons |
| 73 |  | SIR E.U
R E D H E L L Y/Twin Towers |
| 74 |  | Swans
White Light From the Mouth of Infinity |
| 75 |  | Talons'
Rustic Bullshit |
| 76 |  | Genelec & Memphis Reigns
Scorpion Circles |
| 77 |  | blink-182
Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| 78 |  | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis |
| 79 |  | Discordance Axis
The Inalienable Dreamless |
| 80 |  | Doseone
Hemispheres |
| 81 |  | Nicole Dollanganger
Natural Born Losers |
| 82 |  | Neurosis
A Sun That Never Sets |
| 83 |  | Open Mike Eagle
Brick Body Kids Still Daydream |
| 84 |  | Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Altered States of America |
| 85 |  | Gorgeous Children
Gorgeous Children |
| 86 |  | Marika Hackman
We Slept at Last |
| 87 |  | Deine Lakaien
White Lies |
| 88 |  | Wolfsheim
Casting Shadows |
| 89 |  | Karin Park
Apocalypse Pop |
| 90 |  | Jenny Hval
Apocalypse, girl |
| 91 |  | The Books
Lost And Safe |
| 92 |  | Joyce Manor
Joyce Manor |
| 93 |  | Hiatus Kaiyote
Choose Your Weapon |
| 94 |  | HORSE the band
Desperate Living |
| 95 |  | P.O.S
Never Better |
| 96 |  | Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| 97 |  | The Menzingers
On the Impossible Past |
| 98 |  | Operation Ivy
Energy |
| 99 |  | Cap'n Jazz
Shmap'n Shmazz |
| 100 |  | Cynic
Traced in Air |
| 101 |  | Sigur Ros
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Honorable Mention |
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