X’s Debut Album ‘Los Angeles’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

April 20, 2025 Libby Cudmore

Complex and dazzling in its brutality, X’s debut album is one of those albums that will remain with the author (and many of us) for the rest of her life.

X’s ‘More Fun in the New World’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

September 1, 2023 Terry Nelson

X’s fourth studio album incorporates a rockabilly sound mixed in with insightful sociopolitical commentary to give the band the best album in their catalog.

Plaid Perfume On My Breath: X’s ‘Under The Big Black Sun’ Turns 40 | Anniversary Retrospective

July 1, 2022 Erika Wolf

On X’s third studio LP, you can hear each band member’s unique talents, all of the various musical genres and influences, and how these elements meld into something potent and magical.

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.