This album marked Tom Petty’s final collaboration with Rick Rubin, and is regarded as one of Tom Petty’s finest works because, compared to his other projects, it feels more unique and introspective: a great album that creates a captivating atmosphere.
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Massive Attack's third album was released in 1998 – and it still sounds modern and timeless today: a magnificent production that combined equally magnificent songs, sounds and performers to create a fascinating and unique atmosphere. A masterpiece beyond all doubt.
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An album that packs a real punch: whilst other bands merely toy with their criticism of Christianity, Christian Death really got to the heart of the matter with this album – and musically speaking, it is one of their finest works.
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There is probably no album more fitting for this time of year than Patti Smith’s ‘Easter’. Whilst ‘Horses’ is generally regarded as her most significant work, ‘Easter’ from 1978 is every bit as good and feels even more powerful: an artist at the height of her powers.
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The Magnetic Fields’ sixth album, released in 1999, brings together a wide variety of musical styles yet forms a cohesive and impressive work: never has love been portrayed more sincerely and, at the same time, more ironically than in this band's magnum opus.
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Despite various break-ups, re-formations and line-up changes, The Lurkers are among the pioneers of British punk. Their 2nd album is permeated by a sinister atmosphere that one would have expected to find in post-punk, which makes *God’s Lonely Men* so unique and special.
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You couldn't go to a punk or new wave pub in Germany In the early 80s without this album being played at some point during the evening: the bleak everyday life of young people between the grey big city walls is accurately observed and described in these 11 songs.
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Adrian Sherwood: fucking legend! One of the most innovative and out-of-the-box thinking producers, who has had a significant influence not only on dub reggae but also on trip hop, and whose all-star album with the New Age Steppers remained criminally underrated.
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Neil Young has released so many great songs and albums throughout his musical career that he has earned the status of a living legend. He is one of the few artists whose later work is still significant – and ‘Freedom’ is no exception.
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A concept album by a punk band? Sounds strange, but that's exactly what Sham 69 did in 1978 with their 2nd album, ‘That's Life’ – an album that accurately portrays the lives of working-class youth in England in the late 1970s.
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Kim Gordon described the music of The Raincoats perfectly: „They seemed like ordinary people playing extraordinary music. They had enough confidence to be vulnerable and to be themselves without having to take on the mantle of male rock/punk rock aggression…“
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Alongside ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’, this is certainly Pink Floyd's most exciting album: David Gilmour had replaced Syd Barrett, making this an album of transition – or as Nick Mason put it: "It's a cross-fade rather than a cut."
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The Vibrators were not among the most popular punk bands of their time. Their second album, V2, is characterised by a strange brooding atmosphere that pervades the entire album and culminates in the stunning final track, ‘Troops of Tomorrow’.
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A difficult choice: there may be better Dead Can Dance albums, but I have a special connection to 'Spiritchaser' because this album accompanied me through the hardest and most agonising period of my life and gave me hope and confidence...
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I loved the album ‘Voyager’ from the very beginning. It combines Celtic elements with the chill-out atmosphere of its predecessor, ‘The Songs of Distant Earth,’ and never feels intrusive: simply a beautiful piece of music.
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On its release in 1980m this album showcased a completely new, powerful sound, coupled with a completely new attitude: the new romantics were born, except that these guys sounded more rough and adventurous than all the other new romantic bands.
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‘Tallulah’, the fifth studio album by The Go-Betweens from 1987, is, in my opinion, the unexcelled masterpiece of this Australian band, which is already blessed with a wealth of masterpieces, anyway.
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Uncompromising, deeply disturbing, unsettling, challenging, shocking: all these terms can be used to describe This Heat's debut album from 1979, which essentially became the blueprint for an entire genre.
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Although the art of the concept album seemed to have died out, Public Service Broadcasting released just such an album in 2017 with ‘Every Valley’, which tells the tear-jerking story of the rise and decline of the Welsh mining industry.
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Gosh, the Monks were so far ahead of their time. At a time when conventional beat music was all the rage, these GIs stranded in Germany produced the most monotonous yet powerful noise that would become the blueprint for many bands that followed.
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This sampler is an invaluable historical document, as it shows how musically heterogeneous, diverse and open the pre-hardcore punk scene in San Francisco was in the early 1980s: the spectrum ranged from Dead Kennedys to Tuxedomoon.
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Warren Zevon, who died at the age of 56, was an outstanding and brillant songwriter who really deserved a career similar to that of Billy Joel or Elton John – but he was probably too cynical, too political and too dark-humoured for that.
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What a strange bunch this avantgarde band from San Francisco is, whose members have remained anonymous to this day. And to be honest, some of their albums are simply unlistenable nonsense – but this album from 1980 is truly outstanding.
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In my opinion, this is one of the best Irish folk albums ever made, and it is extremely unfortunate that it is difficult to obtain nowadays: Sinead's gorgeous and powerful version of ‘Óró Sé do Bheatha 'Bhaile’ alone is absolute outstanding.
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In 1979 ‘Reproduction’ appeared on the scene and, thanks to its innovative use of synthesisers, sounded like nothing before it. This was not the pleasing synth-pop of the band's later incarnation, but rather dark & sinister synth doom.
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This fantastic punk album from 1981 is special because it does not contain those classic fast paced punk songs, but spreads a dark and brooding atmosphere. Moreover, the lyrics paint an accurate picture of Thatcher’s England at that time.
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Rarely has an album title been more apt than that of Siouxie & The Banshees' debut album: what this band presented here was indeed like a harrowing primal scream; something unprecedented and radically new that shook us to the core.
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Somehow, this album unintentionally became the soundtrack to a breakup—and the sometimes melancholic mood of those songs was a perfect fit. Even today, this album still takes me back to that time when I was lost between hope and despair.
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While Einstuerzende Neubauten could be considered pretentious nowadays, they were absolutely revolutionary and innovative in their early days—and reached their creative and artistic peak with their album "Halber Mensch" from 1985
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"Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts" is definitely one of the most underrated yet important punk albums of its era – and it's great to see that ex-Adverts front man T.V. Smith is still out and about and has lost none of his intensity and spirit
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