while making sure that each album still sounds great a few years after its release. This list adheres to a fairly narrow definition of “rock,” confining it to largely guitar-based music, and making exceptions only in a few cases where the album was too important to leave off. Which mea...
Ranked By 2.0K votes 633 voters Voting Rules Albums by both The Wailers and Bob Marley and the Wailers are included on this list List of the best Bob Marley albums, including The Wailers albums, as well as Bob Marley and the Wailers albums after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the band...
By Jazz Monroe Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal 40. Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12 It’s difficult not to consider Ryuichi Sakamoto’s final album through the lens of his death in April. He began recording it a couple of years ago, not long after receiving his second cancer dia...
. By the time Oh, Inverted World became the poster record for “indie goes mainstream”– a good three years after the album’s release– many of us had already internalized it from beginning to end, ensuring that the music itself will live on well past both the hype and the backlash. ...
The ladies of hip hop had a strong year, too. Zambia-born, Australia-based Sampa The Great is back with her 3rd studio album, the first one in 3 years - after 2019’sThe Return. As Above, So Belowhas 11 bangers, most of them with stellar guest artists like Denzel Curry, Joey Bada...
27/11/1982 THE SINGLES - THE FIRST TEN YEARS ABBA 1 04/12/1982 THE JOHN LENNON COLLECTION JOHN LENNON 6 1983 DATE TITLE ARTIST WKS AT NO.1 15/01/1983 RAIDERS OF THE POP CHARTS VARIOUS ARTISTS 2 29/01/1983 BUSINESS AS USUAL MEN AT WORK 5 05/03/1983 THRILLER MICHAEL JACKSON 1 12...
It’s a sign of what a great band Queens of the Stone Age is that one of their best albums was released 15 years after their debut. Like Clockwork has arguably the tightest of any QOTSA album to date, and retains the signature chunky and bracing production that worked so well in 2002...
(text by Jason Lipshutz, Billboard) Billboard 2014 Year in Music: See All of Our Coverage Here! 10.Freddie Gibbs & Madlib,Piñata Ten years after Madlib recorded one of the most imaginative rap LPs of the century as the duo Madvillain with MF DOOM, the producer’s soulful soundscapes pr...
George Clanton is in his prime. The 100% Electronica label owner (no relation to the P-Funk legend) has been on a steady upward climb for years, and after cementing his status with 2018’s indie breakthroughSlide, the follow-upOoh Rap I Yaemphatically proves the former’s success was ...
Ives was possibly the most original composer in history, whose influence was only felt years after his astonishing works became known – a pioneer in new directions for orchestration, musical form, harmony, text setting (especially his 114 songs), rhythm, piano writing, tuning and more, predatin...