Flashback: Eminem – The Eminem Show

“The Eminem Show” is the last incredible album Mathers has produced, and it reveals his understanding of himself as a performer.

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[Flashback] – The Streets – “Original Pirate Material”

Mike Skinner didn’t take on a phony persona or a gimmicky approach to his music. His honesty was, and still is, what makes his music so relatable.

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[Flashback] – Spoon – “Kill the Moonlight”

Spoon celebrate their twentieth birthday this year, and “Kill The Moonlight” celebrates its tenth. Anyone who knows this record will agree that “Kill the Moonlight” only ages better and better with every passing year.

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[Flashback] – The Flaming Lips – “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots”

Number 2 of our ’02 Flashbacks. When the most substantial criticism of an album is that its philosophical commentary isn’t as good as Heidegger’s, you can assume that there is a hell of a lot right with everything else. “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” might not go down as The Flaming Lips’ finest work, but by almost every other metric it’s an absolute triumph.

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[Flashback] – Beck – “Sea Change”

The first in a series of looks back at great or underrated albums from 10 years ago. “Sea Change” doesn’t feel like a Beck album; it feels like a Beck Hansen album. It took us closer to the real man than ever before, and we’ll probably never get as close again.

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[Flashback] – …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – “Worlds Apart”

I’ve never been impacted by a song as much as I was the first time I heard “Worlds Apart.”

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[Flashback] – Daft Punk – “Discovery”

Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please [...]

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[Flashback] – Sparklehorse – “It’s A Wonderful Life”

Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD  One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please [...]

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[Flashback] – Weezer – “Weezer” (The Green Album)

Download this entire album for free! One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses.  Lost in this [...]

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[Flashback] – Rival Schools – “United By Fate”

One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses.  Lost in this growing blogging race are the building [...]

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[Flashback] – Radiohead – “Amnesiac”

One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses.  Lost in this growing blogging race are the building [...]

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[Flashback] – The Dismemberment Plan – “Change”

One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses.  Lost in this growing blogging race are the building [...]

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[Flashback] – Red House Painters – “Old Ramon”

One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses.  Lost in this growing blogging race are the building [...]

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