Blood on the Tracks (9) is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in January 1975 by Columbia Records. The album marked Dylan’s return to Columbia after a two-album stint with Asylum Records. Dylan began recording the album in New York City in September 1974. In December, shortly before Columbia was due […]
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (10) is the debut solo album by American singer and rapper Lauryn Hill. It was released August 1998, by Ruffhouse Records and Columbia Records. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a neo soul and R&B album with some songs based in hip hop soul and reggae. Its lyrics touch upon […]
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Revolver (11) is the seventh studio album by the English band the Beatles. It was released in August 1966, accompanied by the double A-side single “Eleanor Rigby”/”Yellow Submarine”. The album was the Beatles’ final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group’s most overt use of studio technology to date, building […]
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Thriller (12) is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released in November 1982, by Epic Reocrds. It was produced by Quincy Jones, who had previously worked with Jackson on his 1979 album Off the Wall. Jackson wanted to create an album where “every song was a killer”. With the ongoing […]
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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (13) is the tenth studio album by American singer Aretha franklin released in March 1967, by Atlantic Records. It was Franklin’s first release under her contract with the label, following her departure from Columbia Records after nine unsuccessful Jazz standard albums, and marked a commercial […]
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Exile on Main Street (14) is the 10th British and 12th American studio album by the English band the Rolling Stones, released in May 1972. Recording began in 1969 in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers and continued in mid-1971 at a rented villa in the South of France named Nellcote while the band lived […]
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (15) is the second studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released in June 1988, by Def Jam Recordings and Columbia Records. It was recorded from 1987 to 1988 in sessions at Chung King Studios, Greene St. Recording, and Sabella Studios in New […]
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London Calling (16) is the third studio album by English band the Clash. It was originally released as a double album in the United Kingdom in December 1979 by CBS Records, and in the United States in January 1980 by Epic Records. On their second album Give ‘Em Enough Rope (1978), the Clash had started […]
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (17) is the fifth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. It was released in November 2010, by Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records following a period of public controversy for West. Retreating to a self-imposed exile in Hawaii in 2009, he recorded the album at Honolulu’s Avex […]
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Highway 61 Revisited (18) is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in August 1965, by Colmbia Records. Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing track, the 11-minute ballad “Desolation Row”. Critics have focused […]