With her second studio affair, Carey crafted a record preoccupied with love not as fantasy, but as something capable of exhilaration, humiliation, spiritual rescue and profound loss.
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If ‘She’s So Unusual’ introduced Lauper as an explosion of personality, ‘True Colors’ asked what existed beneath it.
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With ‘He Think He Raw,’ Casual crafted a pure and unfiltered view of himself as an emcee, showcasing an underappreciated range that many listeners were not expecting.
Read moreBob Dylan’s ‘Love And Theft’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
Where ‘Time Out Of Mind’ was drenched in murky, reverb-heavy production, ‘Love And Theft’ was something else entirely: dry, warm, well-written and self-produced under the pseudonym Jack Frost.
Read moreJay-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
Jay-Z made damn good albums before ‘The Blueprint,’ as well as some afterwards. But his sixth studio affair remains the album where everything came together.
Read moreP.O.D.’s ‘Satellite’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
P.O.D. have enjoyed a prosperous and influential career to date, but their most successful project to date remains their breakthrough fourth album.
Read moreThe Cardigans’ ‘First Band on the Moon’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
So much more than their massive hit “Lovefool,” The Cardigans’ terrific third LP reflected the band’s evolving confidence and musical maturation at the time.
Read moreMariah Carey’s ‘Glitter’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary
Instead of the disproportionate attention paid to the commercial performance of ‘Glitter,’ the focus should actually rest on Carey’s continued desire to marry pop, R&B, and hip-hop genres for the masses.
Read moreCeCe Peniston’s ‘I’m Movin’ On’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
After early career success like Peniston’s, many artists would rather sell their souls than chance to change the formula, even if they have to create work they don’t love. Peniston refused.
Read moreR.E.M.’s ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary
Largely overlooked in the wake of ‘Out of Time,' ‘Automatic for the People' and ‘Monster,' R.E.M.’s terrific tenth LP remains one of their strongest ever.
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