With her second LP, O’Connor managed to deliver an incredible follow-up that extended her curiosity into the unknown with a fearlessness and honesty that has rarely been matched since.
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One listen to the infectious single “Poison” was all it took for many of us to be immediately hooked on BBD’s sound, and thankfully, their debut album of the same name proved equally enjoyable.
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Stylistically, there were few emcees like Wise Intelligent at the time, and on PRT’s debut LP, he displayed his skills in rocking over unconventional beats.
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For a band that is often slighted by being dour, dark and depressive in their sound, their seventh studio affair is, for the most part, quite an uplifting and optimistic album.
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E-40 arguably still doesn’t get enough credit for what he achieved with ‘In A Major Way,’ as he helped to place his native city of Vallejo—and the Bay Area as a whole—squarely on the broader hip-hop map.
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Weighty issues are handled sensitively and compassionately throughout ‘Me Against The World,’ a dynamic album that only a talent as unique as 2Pac could have pulled off so well.
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Most tracks on the band’s fifth studio album luxuriate in the fuzzy border between punk and mainstream, creating some of the most dynamic work in the band’s now-sprawling repertoire.
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Elastica surfaced as a refreshing, female-driven counterpoint to the somewhat oafish lad culture that emerged as Britpop morphed into a global sensation deeper into the mid-’90s.’
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CSNY’s ‘Déjà Vu’ offers a more unified vision of the collective than the songwriting, or the individual band members, could ever conjure up on their own.
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Bowie's ‘Young Americans’ stands out in his prolific discography because nothing else in his catalog sounds like it.
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