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249 Deep Purple - Made in Japan Jun 22, 2020

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Recorded over three nights in August 1972, Deep Purple’s Made in Japan was the record that brought the band to headliner status in the U.S. and elsewhere, and it remains a landmark in the history of heavy metal music.

248 Slade - Slayed Jun 18, 2020

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Crank the volume up and the whole world will be going crazee all over again. A very fun record that inspired everything from , hard rock, to glam to 80’s hair metal.

247 Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Jun 15, 2020

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Mayfield, along with several other soul and funk musicians, spread messages of hope in the face of oppression, pride in being a member of the black race and gave courage to a generation of people who were demanding their human rights, without abandoning the struggle for equality. He has been compared to Martin Luther King, Jr. for making a lasting impact in the civil rights struggle with his inspirational music. This album works not only as a soundtrack but as a stand alone album.

246 Neil Young - Harvest Jun 11, 2020

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Graham Nash — of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — has a story about his friend, Neil Young, that has been almost too perfect to believe for nearly three decades.

As the myth goes, Nash was at Young’s ranch just south of San Francisco when Young asked him if he wanted to hear something. (That something would become Young’s now famous 1972 “Harvest” album, which features the track “Heart of Gold.”) Nash, of course, said yes and suggested going into Young’s studio. That wasn’t Young’s plan.

“He said, ‘Get into the rowboat,'” Nash explained on NPR’s Fresh Air in 2013. “I said, ‘Get into the rowboat?’ He said, ‘Yeah, we’re going to go out into the middle of the lake.'”

The two row out on the lake, with Nash assuming Young brought a cassette player and headphones with him.

“Oh, no,” said Nash on NPR. “He has his entire house as the left speaker and his entire barn as the right speaker. And I heard ‘Harvest’ coming out of these two incredibly large loud speakers louder than hell. It was unbelievable. Elliot Mazer, who produced ‘Harvest,’ came down to the shore of the lake and he shouted out to Neil, ‘How was that, Neil?'”

As Nash explained, “I swear to God, Neil Young shouted back, ‘More barn!'”

245 Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill Jun 08, 2020

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Most rock & roll bands are a tightly wound unit that developed their music through years of playing in garages and clubs around their hometown. Steely Dan never subscribed to that aesthetic. As the vehicle for the songwriting of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan defied all rock & roll conventions.

-Artist Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

244 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Vol. 4 Jun 04, 2020

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Often overlooked by the general public and stories of studio insanity can’t keep this album from showing Black Sabbath create something interesting.. “The recording was plagued with problems, many due to substance abuse. In the studio, the band regularly had speaker boxes full of cocaine delivered.[2] It’s no secret the band consumed Scarface-like piles of powder and other substances at the time Ward said. There was one point where Ozzy had spray-painted my private parts,And then I read on the spray paint it was poisonous and do not apply to the skin, so in fear of my private parts, I panicked and went kind of crazy.” (Osbourne, in his 2010 memoir I Am Ozzy, wrote that it was Iommi who spray-painted Ward’s junk.)

243 Big Star - #1 Record Jun 01, 2020

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A classic record that went unnoticed on it’s release but has seen a huge influence on artist with each re-release. Sit back crank it up and enough this power pop masterpiece.

242 Deep Purple - Machine Head May 28, 2020

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Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, and Deep Purple’s Machine Head have stood the test of time as the Holy Trinity of English hard rock and heavy metal, serving as the fundamental blueprints followed by virtually every heavy rock & roll band since the early ’70s. – AllMusic summery by Eduardo Rivadavia

241 Randy Newman - Sail Away May 25, 2020

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Randy Newman’s third studio album, finds the singer/songwriter at the beginning of a great career with a beautiful blend of orchestrated pop, stripped-down insight and humor. You listen to Randy and you are going to learn something.

240 David Bowie - Hunky Dory May 21, 2020

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Bowie has arrived with Hunky Dory, a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie’s sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class. Another classic. This is going to be a good year.

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