(This is the third installment of marathonpacks’ Top 50 of the 90s list. To see #50-41, click here. To see #40-31, click here. The fourth installment, #20-11, will be posted Wednesday.)

30. PJ Harvey-To Bring You My Love (Island, 1995)
The slowly building, primordial guitars of opening track “To Bring You My Love” provide the perfect initiation [...]

Seemingly as a rule, hip-hop documentaries (Scratch and Freestyle excluded) suck. Almost always, they consist of nothing more than poorly shot camcorder footage decorated with outlandishly unnecessary graphics that amount to little more than a promotional vehicle for the artist or label. (Here’s a hint: watch out for “unauthorized” biographies on Netflix–and make sure to [...]