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| Leonard Cohen |
| Songs From A Room |
| 1969 |
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His most accessible and poignant work, containing a set of short and simple structured songs.
Obviously a brief period of relief before things got really dark.
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How a couple from the depth of Canada could come up with a sound this fully developed is still
unclear. Sadly as most artists in the 00s they could not continue on this high level.
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It might be a bit reckless to put all your best songs on your first EP. But Curve's next
two EPs were not that bad either. All three of them are collected here.
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| Schnipo Schranke |
| Satt |
| 2015 |
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Totally against all current trends these two girls made completely their own thing. They took the
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| Depeche Mode |
| Violator |
| 1990 |
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Their most consistent work although their best songs like 'Stripped' and 'Behind The Wheel' were
featured on previous albums. Syntipop goes rock'n'roll.
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| PJ Harvey |
| White Chalk |
| 2007 |
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A really unexpected piece of work from an artist that although being known for her
uncompromising and idiosyncratic method of work was not expected to go so far into
a direction so unknown to her.
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| Chapterhouse |
| Whirlpool |
| 1991 |
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The EP as an art form has long lost its significance. But to the genre wildly
known as 'Shoegazing' it was absolutely vital as many of those acts sadly didn't
manage to come up with a proper album. But not so Chapterhouse.
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| Mercury Rev |
| Yerself Is Steam |
| 1991 |
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Beauty and chaos balanced on a knife edge. Just look at how that flute on
the first track works itself through the guitar noise surrounding it to come out as
the winner in the end. Alt.country this certainly wasn't.
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Sadly this was not the long awaited proper sophomore album. But what we got
instead was still well worth the wait. A varied mix of material containing one
of the best German language songs ever and some hard hitting other stuff as well.
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| Big Star |
| Sister Lovers |
| 1978 |
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Compiled from various recording sessions and finally released four years after its creation
this is pop music at its most desperate and desolate. Which does not prevent it from offering
some stunning tunes in-between.
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| DJ Shadow |
| Endtroducing ... |
| 1996 Review |
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This will be remembered for being the last record in the history of popular music for which adjectives
such as groundbreaking and seminal could be used with justification. Innovate don't imitate as they
said back then.
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| Primal Scream |
| XTRMNTR |
| 2000 |
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After a decade of trial and error they returned with this hell of a comeback. It showed all the
dance/rock crossover acts of the nineties how this should be properly done.
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| Arctic Monkeys |
| Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| 2006 |
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The Arctic Monkeys were the final opportunity for the British music press to over-hype
a band. And boy did they use it. But don'st let this put you off.
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| Blondie |
| Parallel Lines |
| 1978 |
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One of the few bands which have obtained mayor success without loosing their artistic integrity.
In addition, their singer became a role model for all girl fronted bands following in their wake.
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| Saint Etienne |
| Foxbase Alpha |
| 1991 |
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Some relaxed beats, some fluffy samples and some dreamy vocals. This was conceived and
put together with an expert eye for detail yet sounds completely effortless.
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| The Sugarcubes |
| Life's Too Good |
| 1988 |
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Björk's finest half hour, don't let them tell you otherwise. A colourful kaleidoscope
of strange spoken word segments, weird trumpet solos, confusing lyrics and
on top of it all that inimitable, childlike voice.
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| Mojave 3 |
| Ask Me Tomorrow |
| 1995 Review |
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This couldn't have been released at a more inappropriate time. Although made in England
Britpop this certainly wasn't. And although being rather maudlin and introspective Trip Hop this
wasn't either. Perfectly out of time so to say.
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The best of his electronic based Berlin trilogy. It's the instrumental half that astonishes. Brian Eno's
contribution probably being greater than Bowie would admit.
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| Johnny Cash |
| American III: Solitary Man |
| 2000 |
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It's the singer not the song. This saying has rarely been more fitting than for this collection
of (mainly) cover versions. And hey, Mr. Cash even manages to make a U2 song sound cool.
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| Kreisky |
| Blick auf die Alpen |
| 2014 |
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I always thought that there should be at least one entry in this list with German vocals.
And then, finally, after a long wait, this worthy contender arrived.
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