A fitting and fetching end to a hyper-productive first decade of recording, the two-disc, 24-track ‘To Venus And Back’ was a generous gift to Amos’ loyal legion of devotees.
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Green Day’s seventh studio album proves that music and art are great places to grow a political conscience, inspiring bigger movements and educative means that can have an impact.
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With its intergenre diversity, Adams’ sixth studio album had a unifying effect that communicated tacitly that all of this was gospel music.
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Funkadelic’s eleventh studio affair is a heady mix of funk, soul, and rock set against a militant sensibility with drum corps rhythms and call-and-response chants.
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Although Mack had no interest in following Puff Daddy’s roadmap to mainstream success, his debut album went Gold and is still fondly remembered as one of the great albums of 1994.
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Accurately regarded as one of hip-hop’s greatest albums, Big Daddy Kane’s sophomore album succeeds because he was so effective in switching lyrical and thematic gears throughout the affair.
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Not necessarily an all-out assault to secure mainstream acceptance, Phair’s second album is a perceptibly more polished affair with a crisper, bigger sound than its precursor ‘Exile in Guyville.’
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“Every song was a universe unto itself, and I played the record on repeat for weeks,” Albumism’s Jeremy Levine confides.
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The truth is that without her eponymous fifth studio album, none of what came later for Minogue would’ve been possible.
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‘Mingus Ah Um’ takes those darker recesses of the world and wraps them up in a joyously exuberant roll call of tunes that take their cues not just from jazz, but from gospel and the blues as well.
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