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Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. The term is often used to describe the means of production and distribution of independent underground music, as well as the style of music that was first associated with this means of...
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Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written (with help from Van Sant) by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who both star in the film.
The film tells the story of Will Hunting, a prodigy hoodlum from South Boston...
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- Dec 2, 1997
Pablo Honey
Pablo Honey, released in early 1993, is the first album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. The cover features the baby Tim Coates, the son of close friends of the band. The title comes from a Jerky Boys prank call skit in which the...
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- Feb 22, 1993
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- 2,532.693 s (42.21155 min )
The Yellow Tape
Barenaked Ladies (more commonly known as The Yellow Tape) is the Barenaked Ladies' third indie tape release, after Buck Naked in 1989 with just Ed Robertson and Steven Page, then Barenaked Lunch (also known as the Pink Tape) in 1990, with bassist...
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- 1991
Barenaked Lunch
Barenaked Lunch (often referred to as The Pink Tape) is the Barenaked Ladies second indie tape release, which came after Buck Naked in 1989 and before The Yellow Tape in 1991. It is a pun on the novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
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- 1990
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground is the fourth album by Bright Eyes.
This album is the 46th release of Saddle Creek Records.
Lifted received largely positive reviews, ranking fourth on Rolling Stone's list of the best...
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Every Day and Every Night
Every Day and Every Night is the third record and the first EP by Nebraskan indie rock band Bright Eyes. It became the 30th release by Saddle Creek Records on November 1, 1999.
Conor Oberst references this album art in another of his songs, "Waste...
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- Nov 1, 1999
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Is This It
Is This It is the debut studio album by American indie rock band The Strokes. Recorded at Transporterraum in New York City, it was produced by Gordon Raphael. It was released on July 30, 2001 in Australia through BMG, on August 27 in the United...
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- Jul 29, 2001
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- 2,189.627 s (36.49378 min )
At Action Park
At Action Park is the first full length record by Shellac, released in 1994.
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- Sep 1994
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- 2,223.533 s (37.05888 min )
Peppermint EP
Peppermint EP was the first album released by Canadian rock band Sloan. It was released on their own label, Murderecords, in 1992. The sound of the band at this point was often described as a mix between Sonic Youth and The Beatles. Three of the...
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- Jul 27, 1992
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Smeared
Smeared was the first full-length album released by the Canadian rock band Sloan. It was released in Canada in October, 1992, and in the United States in January, 1993, on Geffen Records. Like their first release, the Peppermint EP, it was seen as a...
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- Oct 1, 1992
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- 2,800.733 s (46.67888 min )
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Twice Removed
Twice Removed was the second album by Canadian rock band Sloan. It was released on Geffen Records in 1994, and is considered to be one of their best albums. It was more melodic and catchy than their previous album, Smeared, and as a result Geffen...
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- Jul 13, 1994
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- 2,691.533 s (44.85888 min )
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One Chord to Another
One Chord to Another was the third album by Canadian rock band Sloan. After rumours that they had broken up following the problems they faced with Geffen Records when Twice Removed was released, Sloan began touring and writing again in 1995 and...
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- Jun 12, 1996
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- 2,312.36 s (38.5393 min )
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Navy Blues
Navy Blues was the fourth album by Canadian rock band Sloan (it is also the title of six different films). Released on Murderecords in 1998, it was a little heavier than their previous albums, showing an influence from 1970s rock mixed with their...
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- May 26, 1998
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- 2,795.867 s (46.59778 min )
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Between the Bridges
Between the Bridges is the fifth album by Canadian rock band Sloan. Released on Murderecords in 1999, it continues the band's progression towards 1970s-influenced rock mixed with 1960s and 1990s-influenced pop. The album marked a pivotal move...
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- Sep 21, 1999
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- 2,759.4 s (45.99 min )
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Read Music/Speak Spanish
Read Music/Speak Spanish was the only record by the American post-hardcore/punk band Desaparecidos, and was released in February 2002. This album is the 42nd release of Saddle Creek Records.
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- Feb 2002
De Stijl
For the Dutch art and architecture style, visit De Stijl.
De Stijl (pronounced /də ˈstaɪl/) is the second studio album by the American garage rock band The White Stripes, released on June 20, 2000 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album...
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- Jun 20, 2000
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- 2,259.733 s (37.66222 min )
The White Stripes
The White Stripes is the debut studio album by American garage rock band The White Stripes, released on June 15, 1999. The album was produced by vocalist, guitarist and pianist Jack White and Jim Diamond and recorded in January 1999 at Ghetto...
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- Jun 15, 1999
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- 2,626.4 s (43.773 min )
The Execution of All Things
The Execution of All Things is the second full length album released by Los Angeles-based indie pop band Rilo Kiley. Expanding on their previous musical sound that mostly incorporated guitars, vocals, percussion and pianos, "Execution" contains...
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- Oct 1, 2002
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- 2,865.693 s (47.76155 min )
The Initial Friend E.P.
The Initial Friend E.P. was the first release put out by Los Angeles based rock band Rilo Kiley. It was initially a self titled release that was put out by the band independently in 1999. They re-pressed it with altered artwork and track-listing in...
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- 2001
Fight Test
Fight Test (US version) is an EP by The Flaming Lips featuring the song of the same name, released on Warner Bros. Records in 2003. The single version of the "Fight Test" release was released in June 23, 2003, peaking at #28 in the UK Singles Chart....
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- Apr 22, 2003
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- 1,967.88 s (32.798 min )
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The Argument
The Argument is the sixth studio album from the post-hardcore band Fugazi, and their last before going on indefinite hiatus in 2002. It was released by Dischord Records, which Fugazi singer and guitarist Ian MacKaye co-owns, on October 16, 2001. The...
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- Oct 16, 2001
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- 2,702.027 s (45.03378 min )
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
In the Aeroplane over the Sea is the second studio album by American indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, released in the United States on February 10, 1998 on Merge Records. The album was released in the United Kingdom in May 1998 on Blue Rose...
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- May 18, 1998
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- 2,396.867 s (39.94778 min )
Hearts of Oak
Hearts of Oak is the third album by the Washington, D.C. rock band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, released in 2003 by Lookout! Records. A music video was filmed for the single "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?"
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- Feb 11, 2003
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- 3,285.653 s (54.76088 min )
Exile in Guyville
Exile in Guyville is American indie rock singer-songwriter Liz Phair's 1993 debut album. In the spring of 1994, the album briefly made it to the U.S. charts, selling over 200,000 copies. As of July 2003, the album has sold 450,000 copies.
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- Jun 22, 1993
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- 3,351.4 s (55.857 min )
The Beacon Street Collection
The Beacon Street Collection is the second studio album by American rock band No Doubt, released in March 1995. It was released independently by the band under their own record label, Beacon Street Records. It was produced by No Doubt themselves and...
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- Mar 1995
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- 2,470.2 s (41.17 min )
Now That's What I Call Quite Good
Now That's What I Call Quite Good was the post-breakup greatest hits album from The Housemartins. It was released in 1988. As well as singles, the compilation includes various album tracks, B-sides and radio session recordings. It includes many...
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- 1988
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Primal Scream
Primal Scream was the second album of British band Primal Scream. Released in 1989 (see 1989 in music) it took a harder rock approach than their debut album Sonic Flower Groove and did not achieve great success. However, the song "I'm Losing More...
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- Sep 4, 1989
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Sonic Flower Groove
Sonic Flower Groove was Scottish band Primal Scream's debut album. Released in 1987, Sonic Flower Groove featured psychedelic, Byrdsy jangle pop and was the only Primal Scream album to feature founder member Jim Beattie. The album sold well enough...
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- Sep 1987
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XTRMNTR
XTRMNTR is a 2000 album by Primal Scream. In a departure from Primal Scream's earlier hedonistic recordings, the band took a more political stance, attacking government, police, and multinational corporations. A free postcard championing the cause...
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13
13 is the sixth album by English alternative rock band Blur, released in March 1999. The album reached number one in the UK Albums Chart and number 80 in the US Billboard 200. 13 spawned three hit singles: "Tender", "Coffee & TV" and "No Distance...
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- Mar 15, 1999
Veni Vidi Vicious
Veni Vidi Vicious is the second album by Swedish garage punk band The Hives, released in April 2000. It was released through Burning Heart Records and distributed through Warner Music Group. The Japanese release included several extra tracks and...
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- Apr 10, 2000
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- 1,682.067 s (28.03445 min )
XO
XO is the name of the fourth album recorded by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Smith's first work on a major label, it was released by DreamWorks Records on August 25, 1998. Bong Load Custom Records released it on vinyl LP, which has since...
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- Aug 25, 1998
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Phantom Power
Phantom Power is the sixth album by Welsh indie rock band Super Furry Animals, released on 21 July 2003 by Epic Records in the United Kingdom.
The record was originally conceived as a ten song concept album using D-A-D-D-A-D guitar tuning, but the...
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- Jul 21, 2003
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- 3,153.267 s (52.55445 min )
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The Brothers Creeggan II
The Brothers Creeggan II is the self-titled second album by The Brothers Creeggan. It was released in 1997.
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- 1997
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Katonah
Katonah, the debut album by Boston area indie rock group Apollo Sunshine, was released on October 7, 2003 on spinART Records. It was followed up in 2005 by Apollo Sunshine.
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- Oct 7, 2003
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U.S.E.
U.S.E. is a 2004 album by United State of Electronica. It was produced, recorded, and mixed by Jason Holstrom and U.S.E. It can be downloaded freely at mannheimworldwide.com
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Yanqui U.X.O.
Yanqui U.X.O. is the third studio album by the Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It was produced and recorded by musician Steve Albini at the Electrical Audio in Chicago, Illinois in late 2001. The recording was published by the...
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- Nov 4, 2002
Spiderland
Spiderland is the second studio album by the American indie rock band Slint, released on March 27, 1991 on Touch and Go. Featuring dramatically alternating dynamics and vocals ranging from spoken word to shouting, the album contains narrative lyrics...
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- Mar 27, 1991
Slanted and Enchanted
Slanted and Enchanted is the debut album by American indie rock band Pavement. The album was distributed to critics as early as 1991 before its official release; the original distribution did not feature the entire band as several members joined...
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- Apr 20, 1992
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Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe is a double album by Pavement featuring a remastered version of the band's first studio album Slanted & Enchanted, as well as outtakes & live tracks from the same era as the original release. The album was released...
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- Oct 20, 2002
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Slay Tracks
Slay Tracks (1933–1969) (also referred to as Slay Tracks) is the debut extended play by the American indie rock band Pavement. Pavement, then consisting of founding members Stephen Malkmus (guitar, vocals) and Scott Kannberg (guitar), recorded Slay...
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- 1989
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Demolition Plot J-7
Demolition Plot J-7 is the second extended play by American indie rock band Pavement, released in 1990. The EP was the band's first release on Chicago independent label Drag City, and its first release that was not self-issued. Demolition Plot J-7...
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- Jun 1, 1990
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From a Basement on the Hill
From a Basement on the Hill is the sixth studio album by the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. Released posthumously on October 19, 2004 by ANTI- Records in CD, double LP, and digital download, it peaked at #19 in the US and #41 in the UK.
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- Oct 18, 2004
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- 3,477.707 s (57.96178 min )
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Supergrass
Supergrass is the third album by the band of the same name and reached #3 in the UK charts. It is often referred to as "the X-ray" album due to the picture on the sleeve. In Australia a free CD was included with some live tracks.
CD 5220562 / TC...
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- Sep 20, 1999
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- 2,737.267 s (45.62112 min )
Castaways and Cutouts
Castaways and Cutouts is the debut full-length album by The Decemberists, originally released May 21, 2002 on Hush Records and reissued May 6, 2003 on Kill Rock Stars. The album's title is taken from a line in the song "California One/Youth and...
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- May 21, 2002
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- 3,007.547 s (50.12578 min )
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Jenny
Jenny was an EP album released September 15, 2003 by Stellastarr, an American Indie rock band based in New York City.
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- Sep 15, 2003
Under the Tray
Under the Tray..., also known as Inside the Dust Sleeve... is the third LP release of the indie band Reggie and the Full Effect.
Under the Tray was written an recorded in the years following the band's previous release Promotional Copy, mostly while...
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- Feb 18, 2003
About Last Night
About Last Night is an EP by New Buffalo, released on September 10, 2001.
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- Sep 10, 2001
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Living in Clip
Living in Clip is a live album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 1997. The title is from a comment made by live sound engineer Larry Berger, indicating that the amplifiers weren't merely being overdriven into clipping occasionally ...
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- Apr 22, 1997
Shootenanny!
Shootenanny! (pronounced /ˈʃuːtən.æniː/) is a 2003 studio album by Eels. The name comes from a neologism coined by Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett for "a social gathering at which participants engage in folk singing and sometimes dancing [a...
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- Jun 2, 2003
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- 2,523.827 s (42.06378 min )
Songs for Polarbears
Songs for Polarbears is the debut album by the indie rock group Snow Patrol, released on 31 August 1998 in the UK and 12 October in the US. All lyrics were written by Gary Lightbody, and all music composed by Gary Lightbody, Mark McClelland and...
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Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits is the first album by Canadian rock band Rheostatics. Only 1,000 copies were released in 1987, and all sold out. The album was subsequently rereleased in 1996.
Despite the album's name, it is not a greatest hits compilation in the...
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- 1987
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 animated film based on the Nickelodeon television series SpongeBob SquarePants, released on November 19, 2004. It was produced and distributed in the US by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies,...
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- Nov 9, 2004
Hotel Detective
(She Was A) Hotel Detective is a song by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. It went on to be released as an EP, two years after the release of They Might Be Giants, the album it was taken from. The song has been followed up by the band with...
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- May 5, 1988
Turn on the Bright Lights
Turn On the Bright Lights is the debut studio album by American post-punk revival band Interpol. It was recorded in November 2001 at Tarquin Studios in Connecticut, and was co-produced, mixed and engineered by Peter Katis and Gareth Jones. It was...
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- Aug 19, 2002
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- 2,941.667 s (49.02778 min )
Once More with Feeling
Once More with Feeling is a 2004 compilation album by Placebo, featuring mainly their greatest hits. It was released to celebrate the band's tenth anniversary. The songs "I Do", "Twenty Years" and "Protège-Moi" are unique to this compilation ...
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- Nov 30, 2004
Revelling/Reckoning
Revelling/Reckoning is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 2001 on Righteous Babe Records. It is a double album of winding, narrative, acoustic-based songs.
All songs by Ani DiFranco.
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- Apr 10, 2001
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter is the second live album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).
The opening track of the second disc, "Comes a Time", is an excerpt from the famous speech by Mario Savio, given...
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- Sep 10, 2002
Bif Naked
Bif Naked is the first album by singer/songwriter Bif Naked, released in 1995.
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- 1994
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- 2,512 s (41.87 min )
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Whip-Smart
Whip-Smart is the second album by American singer-songwriter Liz Phair, released in 1994, the follow-up to Phair's critically well received debut, 1993's Exile In Guyville. Despite the strength of the first single "Supernova" on the rock charts, the...
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- Sep 20, 1994
Running Time:
- 2,522.76 s (42.046 min )
