‘Time Out of Mind’ took risks, succeeded, and was rewarded. There wasn’t a Bob Dylan album like it before, and there likely won’t be another ever again.
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Reality rap in its truest sense Compton’s Most Wanted’s third studio album remains an elucidating and provocative listen 30 years on.
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Employing producer T-Bone Burnett, INXS’ rhythm section of Jon Farriss and Garry Gary Beers, as well as Booker T’s legendary keyboard skills, the album’s musical pedigree was never going to be disputed.
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Controversies, conflicts and commercial achievements notwithstanding, ‘Urban Hymns’ remains The Verve’s creative pinnacle twenty years on.
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The Smiths’ fourth and final studio album has made it to 35, no less the worse for wear, but no better.
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A rich, multilayered mix of sex, drugs, isolation, obsession, gloom and contemplation, ‘Music For The Masses’ found the band creating new musical vistas.
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The question “is there anybody alive out there?” is meant to be genuine, and you’re supposed to respond. Now, fifteen years later, ‘Magic’ is a clear portrait of what happens if we don’t.
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‘The Stranger’ makes us look in the mirror and examine all the nooks and crannies that the light might not touch.
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‘Bridges to Babylon’ isn't the Stones’ strongest offering, but that's not to say it's not a shimmering rose in their musical garden nevertheless.
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