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12. Joan Jett – Pure and Simple
11. Kyuss – Welcome To Sky Valley
10. Velvet Crush -Teenage Symphonies To God
9. The Greenberry Woods – Rapple Dapple
8. Hybrid Children – Honeymoon In Babylon
number 13 on the Finnish charts but it wasn’t until the band’s second album, Honeymoon In Babylon, was released in May of 1994 that the band really found themselves and their sound, an infectious mix of thrash metal and pop punk. Check out the killer track “We Were All Born Naked” and then my favorite song on the record, an insanely catchy version of poppy thrash called “I’m All Yours.”
7. Samiam – Clumsy
6. Supersuckers – La Mano Cornuda
5. Lee Harvey Oswald Band – A Taste of Prison
4. Cheap Trick – Woke Up With a Monster
3. Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand
2. Built To Spill – There’s
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1. Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary
Ever heard of emo? We are now somehow twenty years removed from this album’s release and holy shit that word comes with some baggage these days. That term (emo) has been bastardized perhaps even more than “metal” or “punk” but it all pretty much started right here with this one of a kind testament to individuality and creativity, a stunning album called Diary by a little band from Portland, Oregon called Sunny Day Real Estate. This was one of those records that changed music, there is clearly a before and an after Diary. You know how they say not many people heard The Velvet Underground but most of those that did started a band? Diary was that kind of a record. It spawned a genre. The band broke up before their second album (and what a record!) even came out but they’d already made more of a mark than any ambitious band could ever hope to make. Dave Grohl immediately scooped up the defunct band’s rhythm section for his new project Foo Fighters. I saw that incarnation of the band live in May of 1995 when they opened for Mike Watt and was very impressed. But back to Sunny Day, be sure to listen to “47” and “The Blankets Were The Stairs” all the way through, they end strong!