Everclear: Ten Years Gone: The Best Of Everclear 1994-2004

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Everclear has made one enduring classic (1995's Sparkle And Fade), two more keepers (1993's World Of Noise and 1997's So Much For The Afterglow), and, in the years since, an assortment of mostly disposable filler. Happily, the Portland band's creative decline seemed to accompany the slaughter of its frontman's personal demons—give Art Alexakis credit for dispensing with his bleakest confessionals when he ran out of new stuff to confess—but did he have to develop such an unappealing persona in the process? The 2003 single "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom" marked a particularly dire low point, as Alexakis' trite observations about aging rebels reeked of smug condescension.