Nothing Succeeds Like Excess: Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome to the Pleasuredome at 35
Frankie said relax, but did we really listen? This is what over the top of over the top sounds like
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The First Cut Is The Deepest: The Slits’ Classic Debut Turns 40
They were a band willing and able to transcend their peers’ three-chord pop songs and political sloganeering to create something that really did chip away at the rock ‘n’ roll myth
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Cause All I Have Left is My Memories of Yesterday: Dummy at 25
How Portishead got me through college in the mid-90s
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When You’re Gone: Nick Drake’s Debut Album Turns 50
Five decades later, Five Leaves Left still resonates with a beauty and grace that defies age
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Too Good To Be True: Robert Palmer’s Secrets at 40
The dapper don of soulful artpop closed out the 70s with a hit album
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Happy Birthday, Tom Waits!
An exclusive playlist celebrating a hero’s 69th year on earth
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Encapsulating The Past Through A Revamped Refrain
Thirty years ago, Tom Waits releases Big Time
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