(This is the second installment of marathonpacks’ Top 50 of the 90s list. To see #50-41, click here. The third installment, #30-21, will be posted Tuesday.)
40. Depeche Mode-Violator (Sire, 1990) (buy)
Serving diligently, along with Paul’s Boutique and, later, Nevermind as my Walkman-based school bus listening from eighth grade through the start of [...]

1994 was musically dominated by multi-platinum pop-punk and post-grunge bands, so it’s understandable that a group like Dag slipped by relatively unnoticed. I worked at a college radio station at the time, and the single “Lovely Jane” made its way into our rotation. A high-energy Prince-copping guitar and keyboard funk workout, it was impossible to [...]