November 16, 1999, sneaks in on the back of Dr. Dre2001, his comeback record, went six times platinum and earned five Grammy nominations (with two wins). Naming your band after a Siouxsie & The Banshees song is one thing, being one of the most influential guitar bands on the planet over a quarter of a century later is another. The musics freewheeling and often startling twists and turns often envelop the listener like a torrent of creative expression or fever dream that one never wants to wake up from, feeling simultaneously meticulously crafted and urgently spontaneous. I was sitting in tour catering at a festival in Suffolk in 2014 and heard the Jayhawks playing in the distance. Depending on who you ask Dangerous is either the last genuinely good, or first demonstrably - ahem - bad Michael Jackson album. By Pitchfork. Elsewhere, though, Dangerous contains some of Jacksons best moments, whether in the elegant, slinky Remember The Time, or the melancholy and drama of Give In To Me. That idea of simplicity is also present in Brian Wilsons songwriting; they sound more complex but are usually simple chords with uncommon bass notes. Best Ever Albums has Yeezus as the no. To celebrate the occasion, were looking back on September 24, 1991, by diving into the legacy of Nevermind and The Low End Theory, plus using math to determine whether any other release day in the past three decades stacks up.

Subjectively, its considered one of the greatest release dates in historyperhaps even the absolute best.

It's one of those rare neo-psychedelic albums that does more than just slather itself in cliched 60s set-dressings of organ and fuzztone; instead, it reproduces the romantic hippie ideology in a contemporary music. Its easy to forget that in just eight years, Blur went from Theres No Other Way to Tender. Of course, Pixies being Pixies, this was no ordinary swansong. The crowd drew closer to the stage as soon as she began, and I rubbed shoulders till I was front and center. I was just starting to make my own electronic and sample-based music in high school when I crossed paths with Operation Re-Information. 1 album), more than 20 million records sold in the U.S. alone.Total score: 100.5. They were arguably the worlds biggest band off the back of Live Aid and The Joshua Tree, but 1987s Rattle and Hum was a bit of a turd and the band were on the brink of calling it quits.

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I can remember listening to it on my ferry rides across the water from Vancouver to North Van, where I was making my first album. 494 on the Best Ever Albums chart for the yearbut everyone else did. Web25 years ago today, Goo Goo Dolls released "Iris," originally written for the soundtrack of City of Angels, and later included on the band's sixth album, Dizzy If you look at rock and roll or blues or soul, we have been through so much, and thats being translated into music. Notable releases: 2Pacs All Eyez on Me, the Fugees The ScoreWhy its ranked here: The two biggest rap albums of 1996 came out on the same dayScore: 61. Photo by Gus Stewart/Redferns/Getty Images. Photo by Mariano Regidor/Redferns/GettyImages. Theres some absolutely magnificent work here, be it You Could Be Mine, with its hell-raising riff and bitch-slap rappin and cocaine tongue, or Axl Roses surprisingly tender Estranged and November Rain, the latter of which containing not one, but TWO of the finest guitar solos of the last three decades. 33 Musicians on Their Favorite Albums of the Last 25 Years Phoenix, Beach House, Lil B, the War on Drugs, and more share the records that defined their last 25 It paved the way for Radiohead to do Kid A; its because this album showed us how exciting U2 could be that their output since 2000 is so depressing. Esperanza composed the music and focuses primarily on singing (though she does play some acoustic bass and other instruments) while backed by her insanely talented band (and guitarist Matt Stevens superb articulation, harmonic sensibility, and tones certainly got my attention) for this concept song cycle/stage show (which we eventually witnessed at Town Hall. This is one of the lowest-selling days on the list, but one of the most critically lauded ones, thanks mostly to the release of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Some of the key - and very big - releases from 25 years ago All Saints All Saints. My favorite song on the album is Aint No Sunshine.. If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive. To kick off Pitchforks 25th anniversary, we published a list of the 200 most important artists across our lifetime thus far. Its something Gen Xers and old millennials will tell their grandkids about: the hallowed release date. As a fan, I consider their entire discography a consolidated masterpiece, but Acre Thrills fully peaked me. Their punky attitude was something new and fresh for computer music. I was completely unaware of all the reference points they folded into their sound, and as a result, everything felt completely new and timeless at the same time. I bought the album the next day and everything about it made sense. Songbook came out when I was 16 years old. The way the compression is used adds a kind of breathless feeling. And from their subject matter to the deliberate parody of the violent expectations of girlhood in their stage presence, they spoke to girls and young women in a way that previous waves of feminism had failed to. [104012](http://dis.resized.images.s3.amazonaws.com/540x310/104012.jpeg), Nevermind Nevermind - 25 Albums Released 25 Years Ago We Still Adore. The DiS Community's 101 Favourite Albums, Panic Prevention: At the drink with Jamie T. Reviewed: Shut Up And Play the Hits a documenta New Emo Goth Danger? Jeremy might be somewhat questionable but it was extremely powerful subject matter to tackle back then, and its arguably even more relevant in 2016. OK, maybe we couldve skipped this exercise and simply crowned September 24 from the beginning. Well check back in in another 30 years to be sure, but dont be surprised if this one still tops the list. Sitting atop their argument is the colossus that is Nevermind, an album that came to define an entire era and generation by a band who adorned a million teenage bedroom walls. And now, without further ado, our official list: Notable release: Dr. Dres 2001, Korns Issues, Will Smiths Willenium, Kurupts Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha, Ani DiFrancos To the TeethWhy its ranked here: More than 11 million records sold, cumulatively, plus a lot of love for 2001Score: 55. It will be remembered for its experimentation, especially with its lilt towards mixing alt-country with rock and pop, most notably on tracks such as the beautiful Country Feedback Michael Stipes personal favourite. And while Core and Dirt both placed highly on the BEA list for the year (11 and 4, respectively), Us clocks in at a respectable no. 1: 2 Harvest, which featured hits such as Old Man and Heart Of Gold, and album tracks such as Out On The In 2002, my band Hella opened for them at their Sacramento show date and I went on to reference that Fillmore performance when writing the lyrics to a Death Grips song called Hacker: I got this pregnant snake, stay surrounded by long hairs, a plethora of maniacs and spiral stairsthe pregnant snake being their performance, long hairs in reference to their first album Long Hair in Three Stages, and Spiral Stairs being the second guitarist in Pavement known as Spiral Stairs. They presented themselves as a scientific organization, and their performances also doubled as lectures on information control dynamics.. Feist is perhaps the most magical of all artists to me. There is something more to this than just music. Everyone who discovers Spiderland is mesmerised by it. Trompe Le Monde was a delightful yet brash mix of rock bombast, hardcore squall, and psychotic punk, replete with muscular riffs and some of the most blatantly aggressive music they ever committed to tape; if you thought The Jesus And Mary Chains Head On couldnt sound any more self-assured or flat out cool, you obviously reckoned without Black Francis willful disregard for conformity and ability to zone in on a songs essence and fill it with his personality. Every five years or so, a record comes along and becomes a constant companion, a weekend guest who never leaves and simply becomes part of the family. I wasnt a serious singer yet on my own, only in choir, and Beth Gibbons encapsulated the image in my mind of something I began to want to be. Lets also skip past Doggystyle, which set the first-week-sales record for a debuting artist. Teenage Fanclub may have smoothed their edges in subsequent years, but Bandwagonesque is still very much regarded as the bands unconventional magmum opus, setting the standard for indie-pop for the next two decades with their pop melodies, infectious harmonies, and a somewhat underappreciated sense of humour. Bad (REMIX BY AFROJACK FEATURING PITBULL DJ BUDDHA EDIT). With J. Cole and Kanye both landing at no. You can feel the birds on the line, the people on the street, the time of day, the phone rings, a cough, a dog bark. And each of the several times I was fortunate enough to see it performed live was a completely enjoyable and rewarding experiencethree absolutely wonderful and interesting musicians producing truly compelling sounds and making something only they could. You dont kick back and get lost in this - you drown. This album alone has more hit songs than most greatest hits collections; no wonder he would often decry Ive got so many hits, I dont know what to play at his live shows. Michael Jackson albums always sound utterly of their time and thus often age badly, and Dangerous shiny, CD-era production is no exception, but in the beautiful, delicate Gone Too Soon, or poppin New Jack Swing of In The Closet, there is still magic to be found. OutKasts album Speaker Boxxx/The Love Below was always one of my favorite albums. As wonderfully captured in Lange Bang's documentary Breadcrumb Trail, these Midwest teenagers created something unimaginably special in 6 tracks, with centrepiece 'Washer' their crowning achievement and 'Good Morning, Captain' their defining statement. Photo by Paul Bergen/Redferns/Getty Images. I remember discovering this album with Cameron and Taylor Graves, Ronald, and Kamasi around the same time. My number one on the list is Homework by Daft Punk. Taken together, they prove that 1991 wasn't just a vintage year for grunge, or rock, or any one particular genre; it was just a vintage year full stop.

A classic debut stacked full of hits Black, meanwhile, lays it on thick (naturally) with musings about bitter hands and broken glass, but its a gorgeous number and Vedders I know someday youll have a beautiful life / I know youll be a star in somebody elses sky / But why, why, why cant it be mine? is the kind of naked earnestness you cant help but fall for. When you factor in how the very concept of the release date has lost power, its not unreasonable to suggest that there may never be a day that challenges this one. But the personal autonomy of which that song spoke remained a very real pressure point during the making of Laughing Stock, the bands swansong. We love critics here (some of us. I first heard it during my last year of high school and knew immediately that it was a cipher, encrypting everything that I would come to love most about music. In 2021, its nearly impossible to imagine these two ever dropping a record on the same day again. And those of a younger generation might well point to 1991, the year when the depressing, deeply uncool cloak of the eighties was finally cast off, and a bright new dawn began. Then Acre Thrills came out in 2001, and I was consumed by it. Photo by Daniel Boczarski/Redferns/Getty Images. On Accelerator, they really struck a remarkable balance between structure and chaos.
Every weektypically on Tuesdays in the U.S. before the advent of Global Release Daythousands would schlep to their local mom-and-pop or chain store and plop down between $10 and $20 for an actual, physical copy of an album. They were indeed, and forever will be, the Justified and the Ancient. All of these artists taught me a lot about using really simple means to create something really complex and interesting. Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns/Getty Images. I have listened to this album hundreds of times, probably more than Tusk even.

Some of the finest rock albums of the 80s turn 40 in 2021 here are some of our favourites!

Few artists have had as dominant a stretch as he did at the time, with four top-10 hits (and two no. We ended up with about 100 days across 30 years. Perversely branded by Courtney herself as unlistenable in Patty Schemels 2011 documentary, Hit So Hard, Pretty On The Inside is in fact Hole at their most radical and daring. I always come back to this tape and listen and hear something new! Ive never run so fast. The new version is sometimes corny (Brians voice is Auto-Tuned, the production is really slick like Broadway or kids music slick), but its also the sound of a bunch of musicians supporting Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks vision which had gotten squashed for almost 40 years. I was in a very strange place at this time. Now its time to hear from some of these artists themselves about the music that theyve cherished and taken inspiration from during the same timespan. Six weeks later, their long-awaited debut Just For A Day was with us. It was in July of 2001 that Blake Shelton first released his debut album, Blake Shelton, via Warner Music Nashville. It taught me how to build an altar. Phoenix, Beach House, Lil B, the War on Drugs, and more share the records that defined their last 25 years. Im still in awe of how skillfully she set out to make an album of songs that flow together so effortlessly as if they always belonged together. If you have to give the edge to one, it goes to the Wu-Tang debutit not only sold more and helped redefine the sound of rap, it introduced us to a fully realized world and mythology unrivaled in the genres history. While very dense and layered at times, it was still very melodic and easy to listen to.

The Use Your Illusion records are exhibit A in the case of GnR have gone too far. Instead, For Keeps was made up of ten brand new pieces, each and every one highlighting Bob Wratten as a songwriter of some distinction, and his band as capable players rather than shambolic also-rans which the scene they belonged to seemed to revel in. Wasnt the most available thing, but our crew in Montreal at the time found out about it and latched onto it real quick. Notable releases: Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion I and II, Mariah Careys Emotions, Ozzy Osbournes No More Tears, Holes Pretty on the InsideWhy its ranked here: GNRs shenanigansScore: 78. If music should ever simply be allowed speak for itself, surely its these perfect 11 tracks? The result was Blue Lines, a debut album that not only made the band a household name, but saw a whole genre and movement spring up in its wake. The move showed off the full power of GNR, and 30 years later, were still feeling the impactat least in this list. He was right. It felt like Aphex Twin had pushed music to where it had never ventured before. You can see both sides - theres certainly some rot starting to set in here, especially on the insipid Heal The World (which would pave the way for the far-worse Earth Song), or on the plasticky and lightweight Black Or White, the first of MJs classics to fail to hold up to scrutiny. The two biggest-selling albums here, 12 Play and The Colour of My Love, arent the main drawits 36 Chambers and Midnight Marauders going head to head. CD one features re-mastered versions of Michaels biggest hits on the original BAD album, including, Smooth Criminal, Man In The Mirror, Bad, Another Part of Me, The Way You Make Me Feel, and Dirty Diana arranged in the same sequence as they appeared on the original album released 25 years ago. It also feels timeless. Sticky Fingers has a famed cover, and also some equally-famous songs. That idea is something Ive been drawn to more and more these days when collaborating with other people. Produced by Kim Gordon and co-producer Don Flemming, the record is Hole at their most visceral and untempered. Notable releases: Stone Temple Pilots Core, Alice in Chains Dirt, Peter Gabriels Us, Chant Moores PreciousWhy its ranked here: Three albums in the Best Ever Albums top 30 of 1992, including one that may surprise youScore: 69.5.

It was transportive and alien but also grounded and familiar in the traditions of jazz, rap, and psychedelic music that it adhered to. Though I can say that Jolie Hollands Catalpa had the biggest impact on me of any album in the last 25 years. But it turns out to be beyond the magical beyond. 5 on that chart despite being dwarfed in sales. Taking the bass heavy beats of hip-hop from the US and the emerging electronica of the UK before combining them with more traditional sounds of soul and '70s reggae, Blue Lines set the precedent for what would later become known as trip-hop. 0:00. claim the popsters for whom everything starts and ends with The Beatles. 1. This album is my favorite kind of album, one where once you put it on you know you are listening to the whole thing start to finish. We started with 1991roughly the start of the SoundScan era, which changed how record sales were accounted for and much of what we knew about popular musicand ran through the present, singling out days with several big-ticket releases. CD two offers fans a rare listen to thirteen additional tracks, 6 of which are previously unreleased demo recordings created at Michaels personal studio built at his then-home on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino, California. Dark, vulnerable, but tough. 1 singles, plus the critical success of the other releases. Leave Me Alone was added to the album as a bonus track following its initial release and has been included on the disc. Completely singular in 91, still completely singular today. Web2020 - Adam Schlesinger. You can feel the point of view. Web1981 Album Releases 1980 1982 1981 Sort Popularity Type Box Set Compilation Demo DJ Mix EP Holiday Live LP Reissue Single Video Genre Feb 12 Rush Moving Pictures 90 critic score (2) 84 user score (736) Sep 22 King Crimson Discipline 87 critic score (3) 83 user score (646) Apr 14 The Cure Faith 65 critic score (2) 80 user score (632) Sep This Heat When we partied like it was 1999 in erm, 1999 and the millennial bug bit, most Britpop bands had either died or were in the middle of a long, painful, death: Oasis released five more albums after Whats the Story, Morning Glory?.

I was too young to understand it, but via Automatic For The People a few years later, I hit adolescence and the beginning of my life-long love affair with all things R.E.M. Anyhow, Ive never sounded anything like them with anything Ive ever been involved in, but this record has been a tireless reference point for me over the last 23 years (wow). But we also got major releases from Korn and Will Smith (his last gasp of commercial success, at least as a musician), plus well-regarded records from Kurupt and Ani DiFranco. They were left with two choices - double-down on the technically accomplished blitzkrieg thrash theyd pioneered and remain a furious cult, as their peers Slayer did, or step into the bright lights of the mainstream. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns. Take away the Rolling Stone cover and no one would remember this day. Much like Nevermind, critical acclaim was an afterthought for British anarchists Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. For bonus points, the day also includes great Black Keys and Yo La Tengo albums plus the record that includes Hey There Delilahthe only song here to join Justins three no. But while Hov crushed the dungeon dwellers in sales on the initial go-around, Dre and Big Boi got the best of him both commercially and critically in 2000. I just loved their hypnotic, trance-inducing music, which my friends and I called Motion Rock.. 1s) coming from this album and another in steady rotation with Biggies Mo Money Mo Problems, which Puff guested on. From the last 25 years, there are a few records that I cherish. The sheer volume of big releases may have put this day on a path to no. Nevermind Nevermind - 25 Albums Released 25 Years Ago We Still Adore. 1999 has long been considered the peak of the recording industry, right before file sharing came into play and messed up the whole business plan. Her verse on Monster was one of the most praised of the 2010s, and Super Bass is one of her highest-charting singles as the lead artist with only Anaconda faring better. They were amazing and a huge influence. While I was finding it difficult to master new technologies like Max/MSP or SuperCollider, they made it look all so easy.

WELD, though, was a formidable return to rock music. Layer upon layer of hidden sample meaning unfolds the deeper you dive in and the longer you spend with this record.

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Photo by Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns/Getty Images. We knew and loved her and David Rawlings records before, but this record arrived as a deeper, uncharted, cryptic stretch into the possibilities of the folk song format and a new standard in dual vocal interplay. Richard Youngs has worked with blind-mixing too. retort those who like their tunes to have a heavier, seedier edge. But unlike walking into a record store in 1993, you dont have to choose one or the otherboth are available right now to anyone with a streaming subscription. Notable releases: Outkasts Stankonia, Jay-Zs The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, Lifehouses No Name Face, Godsmacks Awake, Insane Clown Posses BizaarWhy its ranked here: More than 10 million copies sold, cumulatively, plus a lot of accolades for OutkastScore: 60.

In a time where music was dominated by the likes of U2, The White Room was never meant to be taken seriously, and because of this, it became a symbol of creative freedom, expression, and brilliance. "1971!" Undoubtedly there is dross here, but there is also genuine fucking magnificence to be found on both records. These recordings are lush universes that repay close attention. Theres little doubt that hadnt The Field Mice imploded on that fateful night at the Tufnell Park Arms in November 1991 theyd have probably enjoyed a similar level of commercial success to Belle & Sebastian, the natural heirs to their indie pop throne. 3 a.m. Eternal and Last Train To Trancentral are timeless rave classics from a point when electronic music was seen as a renegade movement, while other moments such as The White Room set new benchmarks for acid-house. Sitting at the point where joy and sorrow meet.

You might say "Let It Be" is the ugly duckling of Beatles albums. Where they are now: OK Go's Twitter is still active and their last album, Hungry Ghosts, released in 2014. It seems they have one upcoming show they're playing in Canada later this year. What the fuck is that? She is one of the great elders in North American music.

fsck sounds to my ears like free-jazz-computer-technonobody else was attempting this at that time. Shes of course still relevantand bar for bar, still one of the best rappers on the planet when she turns it onbut as we end the second week of discourse about her cousins friends balls, its clear that a lot of time has passed since this release date. J Dillas cut-up sample masterpiece is a spiritual experience to listen to. Notable releases: Puff Daddys No Way Out; Limp Bizkits Three Dollar Bill, Yall; Men in Black: The Album, the Prodigys The Fat of the LandWhy its ranked here: Diddy selling a lot of records and turning a lot of old hits into new onesScore: 67. Since those days, Ive gotten to know Connan, played with him a bunch, and have become friends. Photo by Roberto Finizio/NurPhoto/Getty Images. Photo by Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella. It taught me how to honor a friend. Imagine being a fan of U2s stadium rock in 1991, putting the album on and hearing those opening notes of Zoo Station tearing through your speakers The Edges guitar so newly dirty and distorted that it sounded like your copy might genuinely be damaged. It taught me to live first and then document.

As a species, we are not well. Oops. And their album still sounds as futuristic today as it did then. An oft-repeated exercise for easy clickbait is to debate which year was the best ever for music. ! 1991 is a fascinating year because its known as "The Year Punk Broke", referring to Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr's major label debuts and the film of the same name documenting them. Here are answers from Phoenix, Beach House, the War on Drugs, and more. Theres a certain irony that while Nirvana were at the peak of their powers, releasing the album and song that came to define not only them but a whole genre, the band that was such a source of inspiration to a young Kurt Cobain were very publicly going through their death throes.

Theres so much darkness that surrounded the original SMiLE sessions (and subsequent Beach Boys albums): substance abuse, emotional abuse, untreated mental illness. The list below covers the biggest releases of that day, plus each dates cumulative score and the key factors behind it. Guest vocals from Kate Pierson of the B52s on Shiny Happy People and Me In Honey bring a sense of joie de vivre, and you can almost hear the great friendship between the two play out across the album. My dream was to make a classic album like the ones I grew up with, and suddenly, my neighbors achieved that with some basic home studio equipment in their bedroom. The DIY aesthetic of 80's America had finally "sold out" and yet here was a band who quietly produced, like The Velvet Underground, one of the most influential records of the whole genre. But yeah, Vedders voice. I first saw U.S. Number of top-10 singles in the Billboard Hot 100, with one point for each one (three for a no. 2 rank in the BEA top 10 for 2001. This date nearly didnt qualify for this exercisethe highest-ranking album on the Best Ever Albums 1994 list is R.E.M.s Monster, which sits at 27.

Its hard to picture where Id be without this record. Wow, I feel so old! The Biggest Album Release Dates in Modern Music History, Ranked September 24, 1991, is often called the biggest release day in history.

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