In honor of the passing of the great MF DOOM, we rank his first solo album (and sadly the only one we'll get to talk about here) Operation: Doomsday. Then we move on to the world of accidental goth rock with Concrete Blonde's biggest, most vampiric record, Bloodletting.

In honor of the passing of the great MF DOOM, we rank his first solo album (and sadly the only one we'll get to talk about here) Operation: Doomsday. Then we move on to the world of accidental goth rock with Concrete Blonde's biggest, most vampiric record, Bloodletting.

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As one career goes into decline (at least for a while), another starts to bloom. Wild Mood Swings was the Cure's disappointing (to everyone but Robert Smith, apparently) followup to their masterpiece, Wish. Meanwhile in Germany, Rammstein was starting to blossom from an industrial metal band heavily influenced by KMFDM into artists with their own distinct voice.

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Do you want to go in the box? Alice In Chains sounds like the want to go in the box. Pulp, on the other hand, breaks out of the C86 box and into the land of disco and Petula Clark.

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After our week off, we return with an album that took trends and made them sound somewhat timeless, and an album that took somewhat timeless sounds and made them nearly unlistenable with obnoxious vocals. The '90s!

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The La's were one of the biggest one-hit wonders of the '90s, but did their one and only album contain even greater things than "There She Goes"? We also revisit Bjork's solo (technically not) debut and discover that this was trip-hop before we knew what that was.

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It's a brand new podcast for 2020! If we really wanted to try, we could probably come up with a "Particle Man" joke about the Man In Black, but we already ranked these albums—what more do you want from us?!

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Unprecedented events go down this week as we discuss Pavement's landmark indie rock album Slanted and Enchanted and David Bowie's better-than-you-remember foray into drum and bass, Earthling.

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Not going to lie, the world has made it a little tough to get new podcasts out lately, but please accept this belated look at songs about steaks and the stoves we cook them on.

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It's Halloween, so we kick off with some spooky goth (butt) rock, the Sisters Of Mercy's final album Vision Thing. Then we break the theme entirely with the Cardigans' debut Emmerdale which...well, it has a discofied cover of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," so it counts, right?

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It's time for cake and sawtooth waves, as we delve into Marilyn Manson's ostensibly shocking debut album, and the Messiah's ecstasy-fueled hardcore beats.

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