Hole – “Live Through This”
GENRE: GrungeLABEL: DGC RecordsRELEASED: 1994 10 When Live Through This arrived in April 1994, it was under circumstances that would
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Album Reviews
Poison the Well – “You Come Before You”
GENRE: MetalcoreLABEL: AtlanticRELEASED: 2003 8.9 By 2003, Poison the Well were already regarded as underground heroes within the metalcore scene
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Coheed and Cambria – “In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3”
GENRE: Progressive RockLABEL: Columbia/Equal VisionRELEASED: 2003 9.1 Few albums from the early 2000s emo and post-hardcore movement reach as far,
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The Used – “The Used”
GENRE: Post-HardcoreLABEL: RepriseRELEASED: 2002 8.8 The Used’s self-titled debut remains one of the defining releases of the early 2000s post-hardcore
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Wilco – “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”
GENRE: Alternative RockLABEL: NonesuchRELEASED: 2002 9.5 Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is as much defined by its backstory as it is
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Oasis – “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”
GENRE: BritpopLABEL: Creation RecordsRELEASED: 1995 9.4 By the time Oasis released (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? in 1995, the so-called
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Arctic Monkeys – “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”
GENRE: Indie RockLABEL: DominoRELEASED: 2006 9.2 Few debut albums have exploded onto the scene with the same force as Whatever
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D’Angelo – “Voodoo”
GENRE: Neo-SoulLABEL: VirginRELEASED: 2000 9.4 When Voodoo arrived in early 2000, it didn’t just reaffirm D’Angelo’s talent; it redrew the
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Jack’s Mannequin – “Everything in Transit”
GENRE: Piano RockLABEL: MaverickRELEASED: 2005 8.6 When Everything in Transit first began to take shape, Andrew McMahon imagined it as
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Quicksand – “Slip”
GENRE: Post-HardcoreLABEL: PolydorRELEASED: 1993 9.3 By the early 1990s, Walter Schreifels had already cemented himself as a hardcore icon through
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