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  • Is This It

    • 5 out of 5
    • The Strokes
    • The Strokes set the music world on fire with this 2001 album, with headlines declaring that the New York band was here to save Rock and Roll. While the band hasn't made as much of a splash since then, Is This It remains one of the best albums [...] - Bryan Chaffin

  • Pretty Hate Machine

    • 4 out of 5
    • Nine Inch Nails
    • For years I wanted to make music that sounded like something between Love and Rockets and Ministry. In 1989, Trent Reznor beat me to it with this genre-defining album, and it smacked me upside the head. "Head Like a Hole," "Terrible Lie," and "Sanctified" [...] - Bryan Chaffin

  • Stadium Arcadium

    • 4 out of 5
    • Red Hot Chili Peppers
    • What? Only four stars, you stingy bastard? I'm asking myself the same question, so let me explain myself to myself... If I compare the new RHCP album to, say, any double [...] - Darla Sasaki

  • Hello

    • 4 out of 5
    • Poe
    • Poe rocked my world with "Angry Johnny" (I want to kill you/I want to blow you/Away) and "Trigger Happy Jack" (Trigger Happy Jack/ You're gonna blow/But I'm gonna get off/Before you go), as powerful and clever songs about feminine power as Alanis [...] - Bryan Chaffin

  • The Stooges

    • 4 out of 5
    • The Stooges
    • Another pillar of my musical foundations, The Stooges' first album is one those records whose influence far outweighed its popularity. Like The Velvet Underground & Nico, hordes of people who bought this album went out to form their own bands, [...] - Bryan Chaffin

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