PLAYLIST: Portrait of a Phenomenon – Lilith Fair 1997-1999

July 5, 2022 Quentin Harrison

Enjoy this aural Lilith Fair retrospective featuring familiar fare from Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Erykah Badu, Sheryl Crow, and many more.

Albumism’s 100 Essential Songs of 2021 | The Playlist

December 9, 2021 Albumism Staff

We hope you enjoy the 100 songs that tickled our ears and soothed our souls throughout 2021 via this expansive year-end audio & video playlist.

Albumism’s 100 Essential Songs of 2020 | The Playlist

December 10, 2020 Albumism Staff

We hope you enjoy the 100 songs that tickled our ears and soothed our souls throughout 2020 via this expansive year-end YouTube & Spotify playlist.

LISTEN & WATCH: Albumism’s 100 Essential Songs of 2019 | Playlist

December 11, 2019 Albumism Staff

We hope you enjoy the 100 songs that tickled our ears and invigorated our souls throughout 2019 via this expansive year-end YouTube & Spotify playlist.

Albumism’s 100 Essential Songs of 2018 | Playlist

December 16, 2018 Albumism Staff

We hope you enjoy the 100 songs that tickled our ears and invigorated our souls throughout the year via these expansive YouTube & Spotify playlists.

Albumism’s 100 Essential Songs of 2017 | Playlist

December 18, 2017 Albumism Staff

We hope you enjoy the 100 songs that tickled our ears and invigorated our souls throughout the year via this expansive Spotify playlist.

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.