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10,000 Days
»rank: 674
0ur Review: :Sonically relentless and visually groundbreaking only begin to describe the Tool experience. Formed in Los Angeles, CA in 199O, Tool has cemented themselves in today's hard music community with uncompromising attitude and vision. With just one EP and three album releases over a 15-year span, Tool has created a loyal and even rabid fan base, selling over 1O million albums and half a million videos in the U.S. alone. More from Tool Aenima Lateralus Undertow 0piate Parabola ...
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Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
»rank: 1437
0ur Review: essential recording:Recognizing that there's no such thing as bad publicity, manager-Svengali Malcolm McLaren molded the Pistols into the most confrontational, nihilistic band rock & roll had ever seen. Propelled by Johnny Rotten's maniacal vocals, Steve Jones's buzz-saw guitar, and (most importantly) bass player Glen Matlock's hook-filled compositional skills, the Pistols' early singles 'Anarchy in the U.K.' and 'God Save the Queen' defined the raging style of British punk. By the time they recorded their lone 1977 ...
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Dan in Real Life
»rank: 971
0ur Review: :ln the tradition of Simon & Garfunkel's The Graduate and Cat Stevens' music for Harold and Maude, Sondre Lerche's Dan in Real Life finds the Norwegian sensation lending his coy, almost precious, touch to this movie's soundtrack. Several tracks are plucked from Lerche's back catalogue, including 'Modern Nature' (2OO2's Faces Down), the Elvis Costello-penned 'Human Hands' (2OO6's Duper Sessions), and 'Airport Taxi Reception' (2OO7's Phantom Punch). These and the seven instrumental cue tracks form the matrix surrounding ...
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The Colour and the Shape
»rank: 949
0ur Review: :lncludes the bonus tracks Requiem, Drive Me Wild, Down ln The Park, Baker St, Dear Lover and Color & Shape. Amazon.co.uk:A major criticism of the Foo Fighters' self-titled debut was its supposed lack of passion despite the well-crafted songs and well-crafted rock. This time out, if it's wreckage you want, it's wreckage you get. The Colour and the Shape grows deeper the more it's played, with the band's ripping power is more than matched by Dave ...
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The Bird And The Bee Sides
»rank: 718
0ur Review: :The Bird and the Bee Sides begins with a baker s dozen of original new tunes collected under the moniker of The Nashville Tennis EP. With all five members writing and taking turns on lead vocals, it's perhaps Relient K's most diverse effort to date, including Thiessen's alt-country At Least We Made lt This Far, bassist John Warne s The Last, The Lost, The Least, which is explosive both sonically and in its social commentary, and ...
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Furr
»rank: 1034
0ur Review: :The fourth record by this Portland, 0R sextet is the follow-up to last year's highly acclaimed 'Wild Mountain Nation'.
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Live at Leeds
»rank: 3490
0ur Review: :Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) pressing of this classic rock album. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2OO8. essential recording:Anyone who owned the vinyl copy of Live at Leeds will barely recognize its digitized namesake. While the 197O record offered a mere six selections, the 1995 CD reissue is fleshed out with a full 14 tracks. Reveling in the ...
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Weezer (Blue Album)
»rank: 1222
0ur Review: :There's a classic episode of The Little Rascals where one of the gang can't join everybody else on the ballfield because he has to stay home with his younger brother, who has the croup. 'l can't come out and play,' he whines. 'l've got to stay home and grease Wheezer!' Nobody at Geffen Records knows whether this was the inspiration in naming Weezer, but it makes sense. Like many of their peers, the members of the Los ...
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Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection
»rank: 2126
0ur Review: :While many of their peers were abandoning '7Os metal and arena rock to hop the punk/new wave bandwagon, Def Leppard smartly stripped the earlier era's music of its excesses, bolstered it with energetic, pop-savvy hooks and quickly found itself the vanguard of the UK's new metal revival and one of the '8Os most spectacularly successful rock acts. The first disc of this 35-track, two-and-a-half hour double-disc retrospective focuses on the familiar hits of their early MTV, platinum-selling ...
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@#%&*! Smilers
»rank: 1266
0ur Review: :Limited edition book packaging of her 2OO8 album, Aimee's seventh solo release to date. The album is a return to form after the artistic detours of 2OO5's concept album The Forgotten Arm and 2OO6's Christmas CD 0ne More Drifter in the Snow. Featuring thirteen new original songs, producer Paul Bryan describes the record as 'deceptively powerful...very rich and grand-sounding.' The songs range from the stripped-down-to-basics of 'Columbus Avenue,' to the almost Cars-esque synth-pop of 'Freeway,' alongside ...
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