CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Gimme Five: Rock Classics That You Don't Have to Love

By Nick Deriso Spend enough time around rock music—or, at least, rock critics—and you'll be convinced that any number of Seminal Works, Forgotten Gems and Timeless Standards are must-have items for your record collection. Even if they turn out to be, you know, retreads dressed up as brilliant pop redux (Gene Clark's post-Byrds catalogue, most of Syd Barrett's sides, all but a handful of things on the Rhino Records imprint), important-sounding yet all-but-unlistenable vanity projects (a...

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