Rage Against the Machine
1992
The sleeve insists there are no samples or keyboards anywhere. Every strange noise is Tom Morello working the pickup switch and scraping the strings.
★ 7.5
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Dirt
1992
Singer Layne Staley wrote most of it about his own heroin addiction, and the band recorded it in Los Angeles while the city was burning.
★ 6.1
Badmotorfinger
1991
It came out two weeks after Nevermind and got buried. Soundgarden spent the tour opening for Guns N' Roses instead.
★ 5.5
Toxicity
2001
Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian sing over each other constantly, one shouting while the other croons, often within the same bar.
★ 4.8