Miscellaneous

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Pixies - Doolittle: Nineties alternative rock, in 1989

A hugely important record for Nineties alternative rock, the American band's second album was overshadowed by the landmark "Surfer Rosa"

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Madonna – Like a Virgin, the (Lost) Innocence of Pop That Turned Madonna into a Diva

The record that crowned Miss Ciccone, cementing her image as the incurable Material Girl — a brazen, provocative diva, and a shrewd calculator too.

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Dj Shocca - 60 Hz, the producer album that revived Italian hip-hop

The producer album that announced the rebirth of Italian hip-hop

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High Rise - II, the psychedelic assault of Japanese noise-rock against… drugs

A fierce, intoxicating assault that fuses noise-rock and deafening psychedelia to deliver a message against drugs (practically incomprehensible)

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Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality: stoners, darkness and mud

Closing out an unrepeatable trilogy, the album that inspired three whole branches of heavy music: doom, stoner and sludge

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a-ha - Scoundrel Days, the three imaginary boys of the Norwegian fjords

After the breakout success of "Take On Me", the Norwegian trio managed to refine their sound on a more experimental second album, proving they were no "one hit band"

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Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley, the Faces frontman reveals himself as a bold, gritty solo artist

Already a Faces frontman, the British artist unleashes his dynamic, gritty vocals on his second solo album

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Bryan Ferry - Bête Noire, Ferry's sensual Libertango between the dancefloor and sophisti-pop

Co-produced by Patrick Leonard, Madonna's dance guru, the former Roxy Music man's 1987 album skilfully blends disco beats with refined electronic pop

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Eagles - One Of These Nights, half a century of the Californian band's misunderstood masterpiece

The fiftieth anniversary of one of the high points of Don Henley and Glenn Frey's band has shamefully flown under the radar. Let's try to make up for it...

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Kit Clayton - Nek Sanalet, the glitch form of a digital poem

Dematerialized dub, stochastic logic, glitch as sonic grammar: Clayton's futurist vision still resonates today with a timeless clarity

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Horace Silver - Blowin' The Blues Away, the impetuous breath of hard bop

An archetype of the best hard bop jazz, flawlessly played, accessible and satisfying at the same time

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Little Brother Montgomery - Farro Street Jive, at the roots of barrelhouse blues

A sepia-toned snapshot leading us into unforgettable 1920s and '30s atmospheres

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Scrapper Blackwell - Mr. Scrapper's Blues, the forgotten masterpiece of one of the greatest blues guitar virtuosos

The final act of a refined blues guitarist whose life would be cut short by a gunshot during a robbery

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John Lee Hooker - John Lee Hooker Plays And Sings The Blues: from Mississippi to Detroit

From country blues roots to the first stirrings of rock'n'roll: the alchemy of a black music legend

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The Style Council - Our Favourite Shop, Paul Weller's internationalist emporium turns 40

Forty years of our favourite shop, between soul-pop-jazz sophistication and blistering political invective

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The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere, the psychedelic apotheosis of Roky Erickson & Co.

The dreamlike, lysergic illusions of the Texan band behind "The Psychedelic Sounds", in their formidable 1967 follow-up

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Mississippi John Hurt - 1928 Sessions, a journey to the roots of country blues

The mild-mannered sharecropper who made blues history: we open the treasure chest of his 13 songs recorded in 1928, of crucial influence on Bob Dylan too

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Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots, the time machine of an ingenious double bassist

The time machine built by the double bassist's genius, immortalized in the finest period of his career

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Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms, the anti-militarist brotherhood that gave Knopfler & co. a new lease of life

The most universal LP by the English band turns forty: an album of pure classic rock and unforgettable ballads

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Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree, the hymn of the year to come

Twenty years to the day since its release, we revisit John Darnielle and co.'s most urgent and personal record

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Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time, forays along the borders of hard bop

The American jazzman's tenor saxophone charts new sonic experimentation

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Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music, the impertinent revolution of free jazz

The album with which the quartet led by the American saxophonist paved the way for free jazz, blending sonic insight with impertinent humor

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Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk, the locomotive of hard rock

The second album by the three lads from Michigan: a pivotal turning point, at the crossroads between blues rock and hard rock

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Love - Four Sail, or how Arthur Lee won his impossible battle

After releasing the masterpiece "Forever Changes", the band's leader reinvents the group and still manages to astonish, renewing his style once again