Atomic Bomb finds U2 in the unique position of being one of the only rock acts capable of making the universal seem achingly personal.
Grace is possibly the most sensuous album to have emerged in the aftermath of grunge.
While Get Behind Me Satan may be standing on the shoulders of Elephant, it doesn’t stand in its shadow.
Does anyone have Mike Chapman’s phone number?
Sadly, with The Secret Migration, the revelators seem to have left the technicolor visions back at home somewhere in the Catskills.
Pawn Shoppe Heart loudly and proudly buries the snide snipes of naysayers under a walloping mound of chunky garage-rock.
David Byrne and company truly had their fingers on the metronomic pulse of modern culture.
Every song here carries the besotted lyrical weight of unrequited love.
Bowie was always partial to the pomp side of pop, and Ziggy Stardust carries all the drama of a Shakespearean play.
The album is an essential, timeless artifact of an era when pop could be both popular and personal.
With Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, the Cure gives the listener the kind of roller-coaster rush that only great pop can provide.
To celebrate the re-release of Grace, we’ve decided to root through the self-proclaimed chanteuse’s catalogue and spotlight some of his key releases.
Without the odd bursts of light that Robert Smith is more than capable of, The Cure remains cloaked in shadow.
That’s right, it’s Lynn’s album, so we’ll try to keep the Jack White fawning to a minimum.
For all the band knew, these tunes could’ve been beamed into Brian’s brain from another planet.
Perhaps one recording experience like Rumours, as sweet as the end result was, is all we should wish upon anyone.
If the rapturous radio response to the album’s first single “C’mon, C’mon” is any indication, bulging bags of cash may be in the cards.
Automatically their appropriation of all that we hold dear about ’80s rock gives them a better shot at the suburbs than the flouncy ditties of the aforementioned bands.
Who better to make an album about fortune and hardship than David Bowie?