Category: Music

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]