Pulp’s ‘Different Class’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

October 18, 2025 Rayna Khaitan

With their fifth studio affair, Pulp extended a message of solidarity—an open invitation to wallflowers, weirdos and pretty much anyone who’s ever dwelt in the fringes.

Pulp’s ‘His ‘N’ Hers’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

April 13, 2024 Patrick Corcoran

‘His ‘N’ Hers’ began a classic three-album arc of breakthrough–triumph–disaffection for the band that made them one of the key cultural forces of the 1990s in the UK.

Pulp’s ‘This Is Hardcore’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

March 29, 2023 Rayna Khaitan

A self-effacing peep show that shivers with unequivocal shame and questionable delight, Pulp’s sixth studio affair suffers no delusions in its appraisal of fame.

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.