Bobby Brown’s ‘Don’t Be Cruel’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

June 15, 2023 Andy Healy

What ‘Don’t Be Cruel’ has going for it is the high caliber of the songs, swinging the right mix of braggadocio, bravado and seduction throughout the album.

ALBUMISM PRESENTS: 20 Albums from the New Jack Swing Era That Still Sound Great Today

February 27, 2017 Albumism Staff

Three decades since New Jack Swing’s inception, the Albumism team has decided to revisit a handful of the era’s definitive albums that have aged remarkably well.

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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.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.

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