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Rowan1000 Ratings

Feelin' good about all the times spent here and the great albums I've discovered in my time on this is a music website. Shoutout to all my mates, too many to name, and here's 50 of the coolest 1000 albums I've come across in the past couple of years in no discernible order.
1The National
Alligator

Thanks to tommy, YoYo, avonbarksdale and everyone else for persevering with me on this one until I finally got it. Recently making it's way towards my favourite of all time spot. "I got two sets of headphones I miss you like hell"
2David Bowie
Low

"I once went... to Warszawa... on a train with Iggy Pop"
3Thursday
No Devolucion

Probably the peak of its genre for me, and still one of the most beautiful, terrifying, engrossing albums I've ever heard. "Lost my wedding ring, down the kitchen sink/now it's glimmering somewhere far away"
4R.E.M.
Automatic for the People

Probably the most uplifting depressing album I know. The closing one-two punch is still one of the greatest of all time. "I'm not sure all these people understand"
5OutKast
Aquemini

Best hip-hop of all time. Actually screw that, this goes beyond genres. Just one of the best. "Uh uh, yeah yeah, baby, yeah yeah"
6Bomb the Music Industry!
Vacation

Obligatory shoutout to the bomb squad, keep it frosty. "I drove off like I couldn't understand at all/fuck I couldn't even walk you inside"
7mewithoutYou
Brother, Sister

Best lyrics ever. "For the past five, almost six years now you know you haven't once looked at me with kindness in your eyes"
8Eyedea and Abilities
By the Throat

Best lyrics ever [2]. Also the record that got me out of the (so far) darkest time of my life, something I'm thankful for everyday. "You look so graceful when you're flyin/keep going there's a lot of world that you haven't seen"
9Pixies
Doolittle

Surfer Rosa is better, but I have this on vinyl and it's the coolest thing so I'll give it the spot on this list. "Slicin up eyeballs oh-ho-ho-ho-ho"
10Sunhouse
Crazy on the Weekend

Is it an album? Is it a meme? You decide! "Dream dream, think I'm gonna be somebody"
11Talking Heads
Remain in Light

TAKE A LOOK AT THESE HANDS!
12Pinback
This is a Pinback CD

Shout-out to my man Phero, one of the chillest dudes on this site. "Something's wrong with my soul"
13Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate

Best lyrics ever [3]. But seriously, one of the bleakest, funniest, most twisted albums I've ever heard. Music for 4am. "It's four in the morning, the end of December/I'm writing you now just to see if you're better"
14Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible

YoYo, how much do I owe you, man? "For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video"
15Modest Mouse
The Moon & Antarctica

The frostiest album that ever frosted. "I stepped down/as presi/dent of Antarctica"
16The Hotelier
Goodness

For my main man Freddie. "Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun"
17The Sound of Animals Fighting
Lover, the Lord Has Left Us...

I still barely understand what this is, but I love it. The Heretic is an all-time greatest song. "Flesh is heretic, my body is a witch/I am burning it"
18Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Let Love In

Nick Cave doesn't just write music. He's got a whole other world in his discography, inviting you in. "They'll interview my teachers/who'll say I was onna god's sorrier creatures"
19 The Wrens
Meadowlands

but baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabe gotta have somethin'

somethin' riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
20...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Source Tags & Codes

"""art rock""" at its finest. "It's okay, I'm a saint, I forgave your mistakes"
21Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska

One of the realest albums ever. Real in the sense of totally present, totally raw, and dripping with passion from start to finish. "At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe"
22Radiohead
In Rainbows

One of the first great discoveries I made on this site, and a damn fine beginning it is too. "...because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen"
23Bjork
Homogenic

Speaks for itself. "How Scandinavian of me"
24 Hammock
Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo

The kind of album you can use tildes to quote without looking awful. "Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
25Massive Attack
Mezzanine

The only thing I can ever think of is that scene from Snatch when it goes from one of the funniest movies ever made to incredibly real, and it's all thanks to Angel.
26U2
The Unforgettable Fire

Thanks to onionbubs for reminding me how much I love this. Ain't even trippin'. "Walk on by, walk on through"
27Tenement
Predatory Headlights

Not a second of this is wasted. "Queen of queens, hive of hives"
28Fugazi
The Argument

Yeah, I checked Fugazi.
29The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream

You've been out on the street... talkin' bout the war with me
30GZA
Liquid Swords

If Gold doesn't have the best rhyme scheme of all time I'll eat my hat
31Thomas Feiner & Anywhen
The Opiates Revised

Just a recent discovery, but an incredible one. Chronologically probably the end of my journey thus far.
32Alexisonfire
Crisis

because this CIIIIITY this city is HAUUUUNTED
33Third Eye Blind
Blue

foxxxy is right about this one, and if Jenkins wasn't a control freak it would've ended up with a much better tracklist and been one of the best albums of its kind. Even so... "Been a long time been a long time to walk with the mighty"
34Cat Stevens
Tea for the Tillerman

How does anyone pick between this and Teaser and the Firecat? both are incredible. "And everything emptying into white"
35Hiatus Kaiyote
Choose Your Weapon

Choose.
36Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures

"So I told her I was trash, she winked and laughed and said 'I already know'"
37Gotye
Like Drawing Blood

Dude strikes a delicate balance that somehow never tips over into either cheese or obscurity. Night Drive in particular is just bliss. "The highway lines pass by in two-four double time"
38Elliott Smith
Figure 8

Hearing "Can't Make a Sound" on a cross-country bus ride is one of the most truly sublime, almost religious experiences I've had in my short life. There's nothing else quite like it. "Why should you want any other/when you're a world within a world?"
39Devin Townsend Project
Ki

Here's a little riddle...
40A Bunny's Caravan
Draining Puddles, Retrieving Treasures

All about those last five minutes.
41Genesis
Selling England by the Pound

I know it's the wrong album but nothing else matters except "why don't you touch me? touch me? touch me NOW NOW NOW NOW"
42Bloc Party
Silent Alarm

Throwback to the tommygun days, and the best riff of all time. "Come back to me the way you were the way you were when we were young"
43Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan

But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
44James Blake
The Colour in Anything

Came for Bon Iver. Stayed for all the rest.
45Deep Puddle Dynamics
The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel

How is this album even real? "It ain't all love, it's confusion and a waste of time"
47The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds

god only knows WHAT I'd BEEE without YOUUUUUUUU
48Damien Rice
O

Best sad indie acoustic album ever. You can't touch Delicate. It's untouchable. "Mama tried to wash their faces/but these kids, they lost their graces/daddy lost at the races too many times"
49Built to Spill
Perfect From Now On

This whole album is just a prequel to Kicked it in the Sun, let's be real.
50Belle and Sebastian
If You're Feeling Sinister

Once again, no particular order, but this is as good a place to finish up as any. Pretty, catchy, cynical, emotional - all the things I've ever needed from music. This one goes out to everyone I've ever chatted to, bantered with, got recommendations from or got pissy about Pink Floyd with. Safe travels, hombres.
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