50 Fantastic “Flying Solo” Albums | Erick Sermon’s ‘No Pressure’ (1993)

September 23, 2018 Daryl McIntosh

Our staff has selected 50 notable debut solo albums by artists who either said farewell to their respective groups or simply took a temporary hiatus from the fold.

100 Most Dynamic Debut Albums: EPMD’s ‘Strictly Business’ (1988)

September 7, 2017 Justin Chadwick

Though thousands of excellent first albums have been recorded, our team has weighed in on the 100 most dynamic debuts of all time.

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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.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.

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