Released a week after her husband's suicide in Seattle (Courtney Love was in an LA rehab center when the moment happened) and around two months before Hole's bassist Kristen Pfaff died of a heroin overdose, both musicians at the age of 27, Live Through This was an album born out of smothering tragedy and crippling trauma, represented through a scorched-earth post-feminist mindset that was wildly successful for sounding like Nirvana, yet wildly controversial for angrily speaking out ... read more
The most sophisticated and cohesive album by the most theatrical band in post-Ok Computer England.
It's ironic that the moment Ween strove for lyrical depth and accessibility, they were isolated by many of their fans. In many ways, White Pepper was the most important Ween album for revealing that the musicians behind all the weird experiments and raunchy humor were talented rock musicians as well.
Like traveling through a sonic wormhole beyond time and space.
All Pink Floyd fans must acknowledge that, regardless of their feelings about the individual members in the post-Wall years, Roger Waters excelled at conceptualizing ideas but struggled with musicianship, while the others were brilliant musicians yet produced messy albums in their years following Waters.
The Division Bell was without a doubt the most fun and substantial album that David Gilmour-led Floyd ever made, fully reuniting Richard Wright with the band and drawing closer to a ... read more
Unplugged has always been my favorite Nirvana record for the fact that the stripped-back production got me used to the band's style in a way I found difficult with their studio albums. It almost feels ironic that Kurt Cobain primarily played noise punk in his career and he's playing such an intimate but vital set at the end - he would have easily made the transition to indie rock had he lived.