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Congratulations I'm Sorry

Congratulations I'm Sorry is the Gin Blossoms' third studio album, released February 13, 1996 on A&M Records. Produced with John Hampton, it peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200, went platinum, and yielded the Top 10 hit "Follow You Down".

Contra (album)

Contra is the second studio album by the American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released on XL Recordings in January 2010; it topped the Billboard charts with 124,000 first-week US sales.

Cracked Rear View

Cracked Rear View is the 1994 debut album by Hootie & the Blowfish, released on Atlantic Records and produced by Don Gehman. It topped the US chart five times in 1995, was RIAA-certified 21x Platinum, and yielded the hits Hold My Hand, Let Her Cry, Only Wanna Be with You, and Time.

Creature of Habit (album)

Creature of Habit is Courtney Barnett's fourth studio album, indie rock, released March 27, 2026 on Mom+Pop; written partly in Joshua Tree, featuring Waxahatchee and Flea, produced by John Congleton.

Critical Thinking (album)

Critical Thinking is the fifteenth studio album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, released 14 February 2025 on Columbia. 12 tracks, 41:44, produced by Dave Eringa and Loz Williams, UK chart number 2, Metacritic 82, first single with Nicky Wire lead vocals.

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994) is the second studio album by American indie rock band Pavement, released on Matador Records. Also known for the 2004 reissue LA's Desert Origins, it features "Cut Your Hair", "Gold Soundz", and "Range Life" and peaked at #121 on the US chart.

Dancing on the Wall

Dancing on the Wall is MUNA's fourth studio album, released May 8, 2026 on Saddest Factory; produced by Naomi McPherson, inspired by Gessen's Surviving Autocracy, featuring the political song Big Stick; Billboard 200 debut at 160, Metascore 73.

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, My Chemical Romance's fourth and final studio album (Reprise, November 22, 2010), is a colorful post-apocalyptic concept album about the Killjoys fighting Better Living Industries in 2019 California, produced with Rob Cavallo after a scrapped Brendan O'Brien session.

Dark Horse (Nickelback album)

Dark Horse (2008) is Nickelback's sixth studio album on Roadrunner, produced by Mutt Lange with Joey Moi, 11 tracks, 43:33, triple platinum, 2009 Juno Album of the Year winner, Metascore 49.

Dark Matter (Pearl Jam album)

Dark Matter is the twelfth studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released in 2024 and produced by Andrew Watt, largely written and recorded in about three weeks.

Day & Age

Day & Age (2008) is the third studio album by The Killers, produced with Stuart Price, released on Island Records in November 2008; 12 songs, 48 minutes, featuring Human, Spaceman, and A Dustland Fairytale, Metacritic 69.

Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation: 1988 double album by Sonic Youth on Enigma/Blast First, recorded at Greene St. Recording, SoHo, with Nick Sansano; No. 2 in the 1988 Pazz & Jop poll, a National Recording Registry inductee, and the band's last indie-label album before Geffen.

Days (The Mountain Goats album)

Days (2026) is the Mountain Goats' studio album on Cadmean Dawn, produced by John Congleton. Conceived as "Grunges," a grunge-culture sequel to Goths, it earned a Metacritic score of 79 and peaked at UK number 73.

De Stijl (album)

De Stijl, the White Stripes' second album (June 20, 2000, Sympathy for the Record Industry SFTRI 609), named for the Dutch art movement, recorded lo-fi in Detroit, with Son House and Blind Willie McTell covers, later reissued on XL, V2, Third Man, and Sony.

Dead Letters

Dead Letters is best known as the 2003 album by Finnish rock band The Rasmus, recorded at Nord Studios, Stockholm, featuring In the Shadows; the title also denotes albums by Sunshone Still, the band Deadletter, a PGP email study, and a Grateful Dead studies book.

Decide (album)

Decide (stylized DECIDE) is the 2022 second studio album by Joe Keery under his alias Djo, released on AWAL; a 36-minute synth-pop and synthwave record written and produced with Adam Thein, distinct from Djo's 2019 psychedelic debut Twenty Twenty.

Definitely Maybe

Definitely Maybe is Oasis's 1994 debut album on Creation Records, produced by the band with Mark Coyle. It topped the UK chart as Britain's fastest-selling debut at the time, after abandoned Monnow Valley sessions and a Sawmills re-recording.

Demon Days

Demon Days is the second studio album by virtual band Gorillaz, released 11 May 2005, produced by Danger Mouse with Damon Albarn, featuring De La Soul, MF Doom, Shaun Ryder, and Dennis Hopper; Metacritic score 82.

Different Class

Different Class (Pulp album, released in Japan as Common People), fifth studio album by the Sheffield Britpop band, 30 October 1995 on Island; UK number 1, 1995 Mercury Music Prize winner, lead single "Common People".

Dig Out Your Soul

Dig Out Your Soul is the seventh and final studio album by English rock band Oasis, released 6 October 2008 on Big Brother Recordings, produced by Dave Sardy, recorded at Abbey Road, a UK number one that sold over one million copies before the band's 2009 split.

Diorama (Silverchair album)

Diorama (2002) is the fourth studio album by Australian band Silverchair, produced by David Bottrill with Van Dyke Parks orchestrations. It broke from grunge toward piano-based orchestral art rock, debuted at ARIA No. 1, and touring was curtailed by Daniel Johns's reactive arthritis.

Dire Straits (album)

Dire Straits (1978) is the self-titled debut album by the British rock band Dire Straits, recorded at Basing Street Studios, produced by Muff Winwood, containing "Sultans of Swing", peaking at UK number 5.

Dirt (Alice in Chains album)

Dirt is Alice in Chains' second studio album, released September 29, 1992 on Columbia Records, produced by Dave Jerden, known for Rooster, Would?, its bleak addiction themes, and six-track layered guitar sound.

Dizzy Up the Girl

Dizzy Up the Girl (女の子をめまいさせる) is the Goo Goo Dolls' sixth studio album, released September 22, 1998 on Warner Bros., produced by Rob Cavallo, home of "Iris" and "Slide," quadruple platinum.

DMA's (album)

DMA's is the fifth studio album by the Australian indie rock trio DMA'S, released on 21 August 2026 and their first self-titled album, a return to guitar-led early sound.

Document (album)

Document (1987) is R.E.M.'s fifth album and last for I.R.S. Records, produced by Scott Litt in Nashville. Featuring "The One I Love" (No. 9 Billboard) and "It's the End of the World," it became the band's first million-selling, platinum album.

Don't Believe the Truth

Don't Believe the Truth is Oasis's sixth studio album, released 30 May 2005 on Big Brother Recordings. A UK number one with 237,865 first-week sales, it featured songwriting from all band members and the singles Lyla and The Importance of Being Idle.

Don't Forget Me (album)

Don't Forget Me is Maggie Rogers' third studio album, released April 12, 2024 on Capitol and Polydor. Written and recorded in five days with producer Ian Fitchuk, mostly first takes, framed as her 'earth' album.

Doolittle (album)

Doolittle, Pixies' second studio album (1989, 4AD/Elektra), produced by Gil Norton; UK #8, US #98, RIAA Platinum, famed for quiet/loud dynamics and influence on Nirvana and Radiohead.

Dopamine Chamber

Dopamine Chamber is the fifth studio album by Irish rock band Fontaines D.C., released October 16, 2026 on XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it features ROSALÍA on "Where Is Gone?" and continues the synth-led shift from Romance.