Simple Minds’ ‘Street Fighting Years’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

May 5, 2024 Andy Healy

With their eighth studio affair, Simple Minds honed its stadium-filling sound and even pushed against it with a mix of smoother rock sensibilities and acoustic ambitions.

Simple Minds’ ‘Sparkle In The Rain’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

February 3, 2024 Andy Healy

Whereas previous albums cast Simple Minds as a band looking for a voice, ‘Sparkle In The Rain’ had them finding it.

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Jamiroquai’s ‘Travelling Without Moving’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

Three decades on and despite loads of unwarranted criticism, Jamiroquai’s terrific third studio album still sounds as fresh and invigorating as ever.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Modern Times’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

‘Modern Times’ mourns a musical idiom by giving it another good try, because if it’s in your bones, that’s how you grieve stuff anyway.

The Roots’ ‘Game Theory’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

The Roots’ seventh studio affair is the disquieted soundtrack to learning you’re in a game engineered for you to lose—a first-person shooter with your weapons removed.

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