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"As far as genre descriptors go, post-punk is pretty vague—let’s just get that out of the way immediately. In the late…"

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"Loveless isn’t just an essential alternative rock album, it’s also one of the best albums of the 90s. It’s like an ov…"

"You could say, shrewdly, that Loveless combines two main modalities of the ’90s by being the greatest rock album that…"

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"Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before, Nothing's changed. I still love you, oh, I still love you Onl…"

"Last night I dreamt That somebody loved me. No hope, no harm, Just another false alarm."