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In Your Honour [2CD]
~Foo Fighters
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RCA (Audio CD) - June 13, 2005 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Inspired by the American public that Dave Grohl met on the trail while
campaigning for John Kerry during the 2004 US Election campaign, In
Your Honour could easily have fallen flat, a casualty of George W
Bush’s triumphant return to the Whitehouse. That it isn’t is thanks to
Grohl’s... |
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American Idiot [EXPLICIT LYRICS]
~Green Day (Artist)
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Reprise (Audio CD) - September 20, 2004 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
There's a clenched fist grasping a heart-shaped hand grenade on the
cover of American Idiot, a militant mural presumably designed to
inform us that Californian punk-pop vets Green Day love America but hate
what's becoming of it. Inferences aside, you could argue that
American Idiot is a suspect... |
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The Colour and the Shape
~Foo Fighters (Artist)
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Roswell (Audio CD) - October 20, 2003 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
A major criticism of the Foo Fighters' self-titled debut was its
supposed lack of, you know, passion among 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.. |
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(What's the Story) Morning Glory
~Oasis (Artist)
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Big Brother (Audio CD) - February 17, 2000 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Oasis were already dubbed the New Beatles before the release of
What's The Story--within a month of it going multi-platinum, The
Times claimed they were more important than the Fabs; and Liam
Gallagher was inviting George Harrison to fight him on Primrose Hill.
But then, you'd feel cocky enough to... |
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Wave of Mutilation - The Best of the Pixies [EXPLICIT
LYRICS]
~Pixies (Artist)
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4ad (Audio CD) - May 3, 2004 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Though they recorded just four full-length albums and lasted only four
years, the Pixies were easily one of the most influential bands of the
1980s. Wave of Mutilation is a fairly concise effort at capturing
some of the band's greatest moments, with 23 tracks spanning their
albums, with a bunch of... |
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Definitely Maybe
~Oasis (Artist)
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Big Brother (Audio CD) - March 6, 2000 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
So this is where it all began. This is where Noel Gallagher first
realised his vision of a band that matched the swagger of the Stone
Roses to the harmonic thrill of the Beatles. It is difficult to resist
this album, despite the obvious flaws. (It plods. The production is too
heavy-handed.... |
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Elephant
~The White Stripes
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Xl (Audio CD) - March 31, 2003 |
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Jokingly referred to as the White Stripes' "British" album, Elephant
is scattered with little cultural references that give away the fact it
was recorded far from the duo's US home--just listen to the lyrics on
"Seven Nation Army" ("..from the Queen of England to the hounds of
Hell") or the album... |
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There Is Nothing Left to Lose
~Foo Fighters (Artist)
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Roswell (Audio CD) - September 15, 2003 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Just what is it that you do when the world catches up with you? Dave
Grohl's pre-Foo Fighters career was about rebellion and breaking moulds,
whether it was in Washington DC hardcore bands (Mission Impossible,
Scream) or in Nirvana. When he stepped out from behind the drum kit and
put out Foo ... |
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In Time: The Best of REM 1988 - 2003
~REM |
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Wea (Audio CD) - October 27, 2003 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
In 1988, REM were a cult on the cusp of major success. In 1992 they were
somewhere close to being the biggest band in the world. In 2003, they're
marginalised again, a middle-aged institution purportedly on the wane.
Still, uninformed listeners to In Time might find it tricky to
work out which songs... |
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Songs for the Deaf
~Queens of the Stone Age
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Universal (Audio CD) - August 22, 2002 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
On Songs for the Deaf, core Queens of the Stone Age members Nick
Oliveri and Josh Homme, with the help of like-minded consorts Dave Grohl
and Mark Lanegan, balance pure guitar-induced carnage with more complex,
though no less aggressive, speed rock that whips by so fast it creates
its own breeze.... |
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Around the Sun [Gatefold Sleeve]
~R.E.M. (Artist)
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Warner (Audio CD) - October 4, 2004 |
Album
Description
Around the Sun is REM's first studio album since the acclaimed
platinum Reveal in 2001. This eagerly anticipated album follows
the success of last year's multi-platinum greatest hits collection,
In Time: The Best of REM 1988-2003.
Around the Sun, REM's 13th album, was written by REM and
produced by... |
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International Superhits
~Green Day (Artist)
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Reprise (Audio CD) - November 5, 2001 |
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Strangely for a greatest hits compilation, Green Day's International
Superhits opens with two new songs recorded in 2001. "Maria" is
Green Day playing to their strengths, a burst of rattling skinny tie new
wave that has you itching to join the nearest mosh pit, and the cool
acoustic pop of "Poprocks... |
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Word Gets Around
~Stereophonics (Artist)
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V2 (Audio CD) - February 6, 2000 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
After the release of Word Gets Around, the Stereophonics
blistering debut album, word did, indeed, get around, and rightly so.
Firm adherents to the philosophy of "write what you know", Kelly Jones
escaped the rural Welsh village of his upbringing and unleashed his
remarkable songwriting talent on a... |
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Want One
~Rufus Wainwright
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Dreamworks (Audio CD) - May 31, 2004 |
All
Music Guide
Rufus Wainwright croons and cries through another set of obscenely lush
and opulent pop operettas on his third album, Want One. As is to
be expected, the songs are meticulously layered and richly textured,
with full orchestral passages and many-throated harmonies. Producer
Marius deVries... |
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The White Stripes
~The White Stripes
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Xl (Audio CD) - November 26, 2001 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Their self-titled debut, The White Stripes, is probably the
rawest album to date from Meg and Jack. With their own stomping version
of blues classic "Stop Breakin' Down" (Robert Johnson), the passionate
railings of "The Big 3 Killed My Baby" and the sudden blues breakdown of
"When I Hear My Name",... |
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Greatest Hits
~The Cure (Artist)
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Polydor (Audio CD) - November 11, 2001 |
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As Greatest Hits--and particularly the busking pavement jazz of "Lovecats"--reminds
us, the best Cure singles were very often tangential exercises; halcyon
playtime divergences offering a Goth-free contrast to some of the
weightier studiousness of some of those early albums. Or, as smudged
frontman... |
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Dookie
~Green Day (Artist)
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Warner (Audio CD) - February 14, 1994 |
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Punk had flirted with mainstream attention before--the Clash and Sex
Pistols had hits--but didn't fully advance from the underground until
this pure-punk 1994 album. In singing catchy, tight rock & roll
tunes--including "Longview", "Welcome to Paradise" and "When I Come
Around"--Green Day sneered... |
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The Masterplan
~Oasis (Artist)
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Big Brother (Audio CD) - February 17, 2000 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
It's often the way of rock & roll--the accidental stuff you don't sweat
over often turns out to be better than the supposedly
generation-defining monolith you rupture your life to expel. So it was
with Oasis and their third album, Be Here Now--soaked with sweat,
it left Noel and Liam purple-faced... |
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O.K Computer
~Radiohead (Artist)
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Parlophone (Audio CD) - May 1, 1997 |
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Whilst one suspects some kind of pre-millennial hysteria prompted Q
magazine's readers to vote OK Computer The Greatest Album Ever
Made scarcely five months after its release, it certainly doesn't look
stupid up there in the pantheon. Following the hot red rock attack of
1995's The Bends, OK... |
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Doolittle
~Pixies (Artist)
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4ad (Audio CD) - December 31, 1993 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If you want to plot a classic rise and fall pattern in the career of a
band, look no further than the Pixies. This middle album, third of five,
is the pinnacle of their noise equation: taut, terrifying and tightly
edited, these 15 tracks (best known: "Monkey Gone To Heaven"; best
quality, the insane... |