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2. Cursive, Domestica (2000)

Chronic hiatus-taker Tim Kasher first disbanded Cursive in the mid-’90s when he married and moved to Oregon. Luckily for the band, Kasher’s marriage proved short-lived, inspiring Cursive's scathing 2000 album Domestica. Opening with “The Casualty” and closing with “The Night I Lost The Will To Fight,” Domestica chronicles a tumultuous relationship (between the characters “Sweetie” and “Pretty Baby”) with the subtlety of a ball-peen hammer. “Sweetie don’t cry,” goes “The Martyr.” “Your tears are only alibis to prove you still feel / you only feel sorry for yourself / well, get on that cross, that’s all you're good for.” The storyline doesn’t exactly match Kasher’s experience—he said in an interview that Sweetie and Pretty Baby stay together—but it’s safe to say that art imitated life.

 

3. Hüsker Dü, Zen Arcade (1984)

 

 

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http://www.avclub.com/articles/turn-off-the-shuffle-25-great-albums-that-work-bes,25837/

dan nakamura getting big props (2 of the top 11), can't say i disagree!

PF's _The Wall_ is a turgid mess.  easily their worst record, if you discount _The Final Cut_.