Year: 2022

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 […]

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 […]

To Pimp a Butterfly (19) is the third studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released in March 2015, by Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. The album was recorded in studios throughout the United States, with production from Sounwave, Terrace Martin, Taz “Tisa” Arnold, Thundercat, Rahki, LoveDragon, Flying Lotus, Pharrell […]

Kid A (20) is the fourth studio album by the English band Radiohead, released in October 2000 by Parlophone. It was recorded with producer Nigel Godrich in Paris, Copenhagen, Gloucestershire and their hometown of Oxford, England. Following the critical and commercial success of their 1997 album OK Computer, the members of Radiohead suffered burnout. Songwriter […]

Born to Run is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released in August 1975, by Columbia Records. As his effort to break into the mainstream. Two singles were released from the album: “Born to Run” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out”; the first helped Springsteen to reach mainstream popularity. The tracks “Thunder Road”, […]

Horses (22) is the debut studio album by American musician Patti Smith. It was released in November 1975 by Arista Records. A fixture of the mid-1970s underground rock music scene in New York City, Smith signed to Arista in 1975 and recorded Horses with her band at Electric Studios in August and September of that […]

The Velvet Underground & Nico (23) is the debut album by American band the Velvet Underground and German singer Nico, released in March 1967 through Verve Records. It was recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour. The album features experimental performance sensibilities and a number of controversial […]

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (24) is the eighth studio album by the Beatles. Released in May 1967, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard chart in the United States. It was lauded by critics for its innovations […]

Rolling Stone has just updated it’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and so I thought for our new series that I would be bring you the Top 25 acording to the this new list. They compiled the new list by receiving and tabulating ‘Top 50 Albums’ lists from more than 300 […]

“Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” is a 1953 novelty song, with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. The lyrics refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul. “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” was originally recorded by the […]