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| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 2002 |
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| Interpol |
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| Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane | Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall | 2005 |
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| Queens of the Stone Age | Songs for the Deaf | 2002 |
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| Damien Rice | O | 2002 |
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| Wilco |
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 2002 |
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