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Its not easy being the world’s loudest band, but it sure is loud

One of the pioneers of heavy metal and hard rock (take your pick they’re both) Deep Purple’s many styles make them more complicated to categorize than that. But when it comes to classic rock records, Machine Head is Deep Purple’s most successful recording, has topped the charts all over the world, and certainly done its [...]

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These steps are probably going to stay too giant to fill

When John Coltrane released Giant Steps in 1959, this was the first time that all the pieces had been composed by him. This was also the first time listeners were privileged to hear his so-called “Coltrane changes”, a progression of modal, harmonic changes, now an improvisational standard for jazz musicians. It is a powerful, measured [...]

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These don’t sound like the animal sounds I’m used to hearing

There are few records out there that have received more critical acclaim than the 1966 Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album. Brian Wilson’s complex tonal weaving of vocal harmonies, strange sound effects and unconventional musical instruments remains a thrilling listening experience to this day, and not just for music journalists.

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An automatic hit after hit for the people, and then some

When it comes to album releases, it doesn’t get much more successful than R.E.M.’s 1992 Automatic for the People. The band’s most important critical and commercial success, the album boasted three top 40 hits, ranked number one for four weeks and remained on the album charts for a full 75 weeks.

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You’re not necessarily a loser just because you’re alternative

A lot was expected of Beck’s Odelay release in 1996, Beck’s fourth album, especially after his smash hit Loser, and most fans were not disappointed. Odelay features the hits Where It’s At, The New Pollution and Devils Haircut, to name just three. A great commercial success, it is also Beck’s best album to date.

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If you’re going to be a punk, you might as well be a Punk

Another landmark album in rock history, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols was not only the Sex Pistols’ first studio album, it was their only one. It was from here in 1977 that every think “punk rock” originated, and it was from here where all the trouble with British authorities began.

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Who let the dogg out and why does he call himself snoop?

Doggystyle by Snoop Dogg is not only one of the most significant albums released in the 1990s, it is one of the most important hip hop albums ever to be released. Introducing the so-called West Coast hip hop style to the mainstream, Snoop Dogg’s debut album crowns him king of West Coast gansta rap.

Published by admin on February 28th, 2009 at 01:02 pm
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Yo, like Marshall Mathers ain’t got nothing on me

When Eminem released The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000, his second album, he made clear that he would have more to say in hip hop than many had believed up until then. A loud and angry tribute to his fears and his confusion, although not just his of course, this record aimed him up the [...]

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Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam

U2 just had to do their American album, too. And in 1987, with The Joshua Tree, they did. Filled with hits like With or Without You, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For and Where The Streets Have No Name, this record stands out as one of the best albums of the 1980s and [...]

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Where oh where has all the fun in music disappeared to?

Nowhere. But if you ask Joey Ramone, he’ll tell you that it temporarrily disappeared sometime before 1974, at which one point the Ramones brought it back with their self-titled debut album. These 16 short, punchy pieces was the essence of New York punk rock and a confrontational spit in the face of 1970s rock pomposity.

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