The Who Sell Out
1967
One sleeve photograph left Roger Daltrey sitting in a bath of cold baked beans long enough to catch pneumonia. The radio jingles between songs are real.
★ 4.8
The Albums canon
Sourced and spun.
Every record chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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Something/Anything?
1972
Rundgren played every instrument himself on three of the four sides, then used an actual band for the fourth, just to show the difference.
★ 4.9
Pinkerton
1996
Named after a character in Madame Butterfly. It failed so badly that Rivers Cuomo disowned it for a decade before everyone decided it was great.
★ 6.0
Weezer (The Blue Album)
1994
Ric Ocasek of the Cars produced it, and Spike Jonze cut the Buddy Holly video into an old episode of Happy Days.
★ 6.7