Billy Joel’s ‘An Innocent Man’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

August 5, 2023 Andy Healy

With its unabashedly throwback feel, it’s surprising that Joel’s ninth album generated so many hit singles in an era when music’s most exciting new artists were coming to the fore.

Billy Joel’s ‘The Stranger’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

September 24, 2022 Sonya Alexander

‘The Stranger’ makes us look in the mirror and examine all the nooks and crannies that the light might not touch.

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Pearl Jam’s Debut Album ‘Ten’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

Most records are missing one of these elements: technical virtuosity, raw emotion, and balanced structure. Pearl Jam’s dynamic debut LP impressively possesses all three in droves.

Blur’s Debut Album ‘Leisure’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

For those of you who were champions of Blur from the very beginning with their underappreciated debut LP, you have been rewarded handsomely in the decades since.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

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