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bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’00s (80-71)

by Popblerd Staff on Feb 10, 2012 • No Comments

Gwen Stefani and No Doubt place on our list of the’00s best albums. Where does “Rock Steady” place? Read on to find out…

bLISTerd: The Top 100 Albums of the ’90s (90-81)

by MJ on Oct 26, 2011 • 9 Comments

bLISTerd / Lists! / music / pop culture / Pop Music / rock music / soul music / Uncategorized

Check out the first 10 titles on the list here I could write a preface to this and each installment in this series, but seriously (to quote the title of one of 1990’s biggest albums), what can I say about the Nineties that a VH-1 soundbite hasn’t already said? Good God, what does that say about my ability to come up with a good soundbite? I’m going back to bed now. Here’s #90-#81. Venture a guess as to what #1 is yet? Pissed off because your favorite album didn’t […]

Spin Cycle: Puscifer’s “Conditions of My Parole”

by Popblerd Staff on Oct 25, 2011 • 1 Comment

Album Reviews / music / rock music / Spin Cycle

While some may not always enjoy Maynard James Keenan’s out and out weirdness, you do have to appreciate what he brings to the music scene. He’s a larger than life yet still intensely private figure, a passionate winemaker, and the core of two different but wildly successful projects: prog-rock gods Tool and alt-rock side project A Perfect Circle. But occasionally the man just needs to indulge his weirdness in a way that neither Tool nor APC will allow. For those […]

bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the ’90s (40-31)

by Popblerd Staff on Aug 9, 2011 • 4 Comments

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Check out the first ten entries in our list here , and let’s move on… 40. Slayer “Seasons in the Abyss” (1990) I don’t know exactly why, but it makes absolutely perfect sense to set Slayer up in a desert with temples looming behind them while they perform this song. One can practically see Karl Sanders from Nile sitting on a couch, guitar in hand, writing riffs for songs that would eventually appear on “Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka” while watching […]