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The Pharcyde: Plain Rap

Even if it didn't arrive five years after its predecessor, The Pharcyde's Plain Rap would still linger in the long shadows cast by the group's groundbreaking first two albums, 1992's gleefully irrever
Guitar Wolf: Missile Me

A lot of Japanese bands have found varying degrees of success in America in the last few years, and with wildly varying styles of music: We've heard deconstructionist noise (Boredoms), bubble-gum pop
Various Artists: Music Power

It has been argued that compact discs cannot fully render vinyl obsolete until every remotely desirable vinyl recording has been reissued on CD. Of course, that day will never arrive—just think of how
Radiohead: OK Computer

Who could have guessed, when Radiohead's obnoxiously overexposed debut single "Creep" came out in 1993, that the band's two subsequent albums would be such elegant artistic triumphs? The Bends, Radioh
Echoboy: Volume 2

England is notorious for fostering small armies of bedroom musicians, shy guys who noodle around prolifically, only to emerge as fully formed visionaries. Richard Warren, a.k.a. Echoboy, used to play
The Monorchid: Who Put Out The Fire?

Either vocalist Chris Thompson has just enough patience with a band to release two albums before having it disintegrate, or he has a tendency to drive his bandmates away after two albums. It happened
Various Artists: At Home With The Groovebox

A compact archive of electronic-music history, the Groovebox is a machine equipped with an encyclopedic collection of synthesized sounds taken from classic drum machines (including the beloved 808) an
Linda Perry: In Flight

Linda Perry was the lead singer of 4 Non Blondes, perpetrators of one of the most unlistenable hit singles of the 1990s, the preach-and-screech anthem "What's Up." Perry mercifully disbanded 4 Non Blo
D.I.T.C.: D.I.T.C.

Hip-hop posse albums tend to be known more for their commercial calculation (if you like Ma$e, you'll love a group of unknowns vaguely associated with him!) and nepotism (if you like Ma$e, you'll love
Uncle Tupelo: 89/93: An Anthology

In 1992, Uncle Tupelo released March 16-20, 1992, an album whose simple title revealed that its intense, perfectly realized tracks had been cut in a mere five days. Though the time frame is wider, the
Cesar Rosas: Soul Disguise

As Los Lobos celebrates its 25th anniversary, it comes as no surprise that a few of the group's members are itching for a break. However, given Los Lobos' well-documented eclecticism, it does come as
Rakim: The 18th Letter/Book Of Life

Hip hop is all about attitude, and if an MC has enough of it, he can make reading a McDonald's menu sound like the end of the world. Rakim's fiery cadences made him one of the most influential and res
Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs

What started as a soundtrack project for a friend's film has evolved into a band whose albums are soundtracks for acid flashbacks. Mercury Rev and its guitarist, Grasshopper, will forever lurk on the
David Sylvian: Everything And Nothing

David Sylvian confounds the notion of a "best of" or "greatest hits" collection, since he's hardly popular enough to warrant even such run-of-the-mill commercial designations. Sylvian's old group, Jap
Mick Turner: Tren Phantasma

The amazing Australian instrumental trio Dirty Three isn't immediately known for its guitar work; after all, the primary instrumental voice generally belongs to Warren Ellis and his searing, beautiful
Zoviet France: Digilogue

The members of Britain's Zoviet France began their foray into recording without any training as musicians. But since they're uninterested in making "music," per se, this has not proven to be the setba
Third Eye Blind: Third Eye Blind

On paper, Third Eye Blind's drug-themed hit "Semi-Charmed Life" should be as grating as the worst Spin Doctors song: With its half-rapped, pitter-pat delivery and "doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo" chorus
Fishbone: Presents The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx

You can call it willful unpredictability or iconoclasm, but someone's been giving Fishbone bad career advice. How else to explain 1993's Give A Monkey A Brain And He'll Swear He's The Center Of The Un
2nd II None: Classic 220

When Too $hort began selling homemade tapes out of the trunk of his car more than a decade ago, few could have guessed how influential the foul-mouthed Oakland rapper's music would become. His scatolo
Tru: Da Crime Family

Like fellow hip-hop magnate Sean "Puffy" Combs, Master P has always enjoyed success that seems unrelated to his skills as a rapper. More a showman, businessman, and icon than an artist, P has neverthe

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