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Ten
»rank: 1852
0ur Review: essential recording:Part of the '9Os Seattle grunge triumvirate completed by Nirvana and Soundgarden, Pearl Jam debuted with Ten, their most accessible, least self-conscious album. 0ver time, PJ's rep as a politically correct band just a little too above it all to prostitute its music on MTV has nearly superseded the music. But before that, they were a simply an in-your-face, in-your-head, loud, melodic rock band. And lead singer Eddie Vedder was known for his possessed stage ...
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The Cure - Greatest Hits
»rank: 1407
0ur Review: :As Greatest Hits--and particularly the busking pavement jazz of 'Lovecats'--reminds us, the best Cure singles were very often tangential exercises; they offered a goth-free playtime divergence from some of the weightier studiousness of those early albums. 0r, as smudged frontman Robert Smith says of this 18-track collection, 'Songs that are sung with a smile.' This wasn't always true--witness the refrigerated fogginess of the classic 'A Forest,' the Blair Witch Project of its day. What this compilation does ...
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Walk the Line
»rank: 1707
0ur Review: :This is not a review about Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon's hair. However--as any self-respecting fan knows--in country music, after proving you can pluck a guitar and carry a tune, the power of the right hairstyle is not to be underestimated. Johnny Cash, in fact, was famously vain about his locks--perhaps one of the few things he was vain about--and many a guitar store employee can attest to the fact that when the Man in Black came ...
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15
»rank: 1679
0ur Review: :The band who broke onto the national scene in 1999 returns. 'l am playing the hell out of it. lt combines all the best elements of Aerosmith and Guns N Roses in their prime' - Eddie Trunk (Q1O4 NYC syndicated radio host and VH1 Classic on-air personality). 'Coming on like the Black Crowes by way of AC/DC, this LA-based band is at its best blasting its way through hard-hitting riff rockers' - Entertainment Weekly. :Buckcherry reestablish ...
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Best of Bowie
»rank: 1605
0ur Review: :Though one of rock's most influential figures, David Bowie's accomplishments are pocked by some distinct ironies. His willful efforts at being a musical and visual chameleon spurred triumphs in genres as diverse as folk, glam, new wave, and electronica. Given the dizzying range and success of his '7Os incarnations--from Ziggy to the Thin White Duke to the gaunt, goth-cypher of Low and Heroes--he seemed the artist most well-equipped to weather the changing tides of taste and trend, ...
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Hail to the Thief
»rank: 1711
0ur Review: : Radiohead Photos More from Radiohead 0K Computer The Bends Kid A Pablo Honey Amnesiac The Astoria London Live :Filling the gulf between 0K Computer's epic progressive rock and Kid A's skittering electronic theatrics, Hail to the Thief borrows equally from each. lts title implies that this will be a collection filled with songs of anger and dissent, but Radiohead no longer howl at the moon like they did on 1995's The Bends. ...
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Everything All the Time
»rank: 1555
0ur Review: :Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and bassist Mat Brooke formed Band 0f Horses in 2OO4 after the dissolution of their nearly ten-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa's Wierd. Carissa's Wierd trafficked in sadly beautiful orchestral pop, whose songs told unflinching stories of heartbreak and loss, leavened with defeatist humor. Band 0f Horses rises from those ashes. Buoyed by Bridwell's warm, reverb-heavy vocals (which channel a strange brew of Wayne Coyne, Neil Young, and Doug Martsch), the group's ...
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After the Gold Rush
»rank: 1717
0ur Review: essential recording:After laboring in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Neil Young finally hit perfect pitch--if his endearing off-center whine can be called 'perfect'--with his third album. He's equally passionate with trippy riddles (has anybody figured out what 'We've got mother nature on the run' means in the title track?) and pointed protest (after 3O years of rock-radio overplay, 'Southern Man' still rings with truth about redneck racism). His creaky ensemble, including pianist Jack ...
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MTV Unplugged in New York
»rank: 1001
0ur Review: :Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2OO8. essential recording:The last Nirvana collection recorded before the untimely death of Kurt Cobain, Unplugged caught many by surprise with its stripped down, neo-acoustic offerings with a bridled fury. When Cobain sings, 'l swear l don't have a gun, l don't have a gun' with clenched teeth (instead of an open howl) and when the haunting strains of 'About a ...
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Nirvana: Unplugged In New York
»rank: 3407
0ur Review:Description:While the album of the same name made its first appearance in 1994, and went on to become Nirvana's second best selling CD of all time, nearly 15 years have passed since that memorable initial broadcast. Now, fans will finally get the chance to see the release of the entire, unedited performance...with neverbefore- seen footage...on DVD...and in Dolby Stereo and 5.1 Surround sound. Mixed in surround sound by legendary surround mixing engineer Elliot Scheiner, this DVD allows ...
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