Common’s ‘Be’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

May 18, 2025 Jesse Ducker

While Common went the experimental route on some of his previous offerings, with his sixth studio affair, he brought things back to the block and released one of the best albums of his career.

Common’s ‘Like Water For Chocolate’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

March 23, 2025 Justin Chadwick

Common Like Water For Chocolate Turns 25

Common’s fourth album is not just an exercise in the cerebral. Far from it. Sonically, it’s his most fully realized and dynamic album to date.

Common’s ‘Resurrection’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

September 28, 2024 Jesse Ducker

The top-shelf lyricism and its creator’s attention to his craft displayed across ‘Resurrection’ has made it timeless, rightfully included among the greatest hip-hop albums ever made.

Common’s ‘Electric Circus’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

December 9, 2022 Patrick Corcoran

Following the success of 2000’s ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Common spread his creative wings and recorded the most daring album of his career thus far.

Common’s Debut Album ‘Can I Borrow a Dollar?’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

October 2, 2022 Ben Pedroche

Common Debut Album Can I Borrow a Dollar? 1992

On his 1992 debut, Common wasn’t afraid to be the kind of rapper he wanted to be, rather than the formulaic rapper he could have conformed to become.

Common’s ‘One Day It’ll All Make Sense’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

September 25, 2022 Ben Pedroche

Common One Day It'll All Make Sense 1997

The Chicago-bred emcee’s third LP offers an intriguing look at the transition from the Common Sense of old to the Common we know today.

Common’s ‘Finding Forever’ Turns 15 | Anniversary Retrospective

July 28, 2022 Mark Chappelle

Greeted with a lukewarm critical reception upon its release, Common’s seventh studio affair warrants reevaluation within the broader context of the Chicago emcee’s prolific discography.

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.