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Although the seed of ‘Strange Little Girls’ began with songs by men, it’s really in the end, as it always is with Tori Amos, all about the girls.
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The group’s debut LP may not be the best-known or most acclaimed album of hip-hop’s golden era, but its relevance and impact endure three-and-a-half decades later.
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Greg Nice & Smooth B’s classic sophomore album reflects their multiple talents and represents a triumph of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
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Fifteen perfect songs in one lifetime few bands accomplish. Fifteen perfect songs, intricately connected in the Nine Circles of Hell they illuminate, Tool accomplished with their second album in 1996.
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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.
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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.
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