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The Hour Of Bewilderbeast remains Badly Drawn Boy’s ramshackle masterpiece
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60 minutes of Beyoncé songs that foreshadowed Lemonade
These days, there’s almost no such thing as an album that doesn’t leak. So it was all the more impressive when Beyoncé, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, released her self-titled fifth album near
With the Ox releases, Coalesce grew up and embraced its home
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Surrender to 60 minutes of timeless Cheap Trick cuts
If you’ve been lucky enough to see Cheap Trick within the past few years, at Riot Fest, or South By Southwest, or opening for the Foo Fighters, or even their recent sold-out show at Chicago’s legendar
Drake refines the art of bragging in 60 minutes
There are few artists out there who manage to be as self-conscious and self-reverential as Drake, let alone combine both qualities in a single bar. But the rapper and former Degrassi: The Next Generat
In an album-oriented rock era, Journey became an outstanding singles band
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An A.V. Club writer begins a long battle with physical media
Eight or nine years ago, I decided to limit the number of CDs I owned to 2,000. The decision wasn’t arbitrary—I had (and still have) two CD shelves that each hold a thousand. I reasoned then, in the d
60 minutes of the gospel music that colors Chance’s Coloring Book
I’m not religious, I don’t go to church, but I’ve loved gospel music for as long as I can remember. Growing up in a black Missionary Baptist church meant spending most of my Sundays in a pew—eating ca
Week 2: From Lily Allen to Eric Bachmann, should it stay or should it go?
Lily Allen: My favorite records and bands, as you’ll learn, can be pretty depressing—which is sort of the opposite of my personality. That’s part of the reason I’m inclined to keep both of the Lily Al
60 minutes of power pop to prove there’s life after Pinkerton for Weezer
If you’ve never heard a Weezer song before, you’re in for a treat: Rivers Cuomo and his bandmates have created some of the catchiest blasts of peppy and crunchy guitar rock ever recorded. You’re proba
It’s week three of the purge, and the CDs are winning
Badly Drawn Boy: I like Badly Drawn Boy, but not five CDs’ worth, so I’m keeping just the classic debut The Hour Of Bewilderbeast, with its beguiling singles “The Shining” and “Pissing In The Wind.” K
60 minutes of deeper cuts that show why The Monkees’ music still matters
The four Monkees transcended their pre-fab status to become an actual band, and the transition is unlike any other in pop-music history
The weird, wonderful Brainiac lives on with Bonsai Superstar
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Week 4: Frank Black, Built To Spill, Blur, and more… to the used CD store
Black Francis/Frank Black: At the height of Pixies reunion mania in 2004, Frank Black—by then back to Black Francis—released an oddity called Frank Black Francis, a two-disc set with very distinct rec
60 minutes of Joni Mitchell’s jazzy, folky stories of romantic independence
For all the losses we’ve suffered in 2016, we can take comfort in this: Joni Mitchell is still with us. A year ago, that seemed unlikely. When news broke that the singer-songwriter had suffered a brai
Week 5: I’m keeping most of the Coldplay, okay?
The Cars: As you may have noticed, I’m something of a completist, to a fault. If I love a band, I generally have everything they’ve ever done. But The Cars to me is the very definition of a greatest-h
Week 6: In which Death Cab For Cutie competes for space with “Ass-N-Titties”
Evan Dando: Evan Dando is like the poster child for squandered talent. Is that too harsh? Maybe he’s a test case for drugs not being good for creativity? That’s not true, either, since clearly Dando w
Sloan self-reflected with charming power pop on One Chord To Another
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Week 7: Fugazi, The Frogs, astrology songs, and some Fs I don’t want
Eazy-E: I’m slightly tempted to keep the mostly subpar It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa for its ridiculous dis track “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s” and for the artwork, which includes a photo of Dr. Dre in his
Everything Sucks marked the return of an older, angrier Descendents
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