Social Distortion
Buy Social Distortion After working for over a decade to refine their sound, Social Distortion finally got their opportunity for a major label release in 1990. Their third overall album, Social Distortion, displays […]
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Bringing It All Back Home
by Bob Dylan
Buy Bringing It All Back Home Perhaps the most lyrically potent album ever, Bob Dylan delivered a masterpiece with his fifth overall album, Bringing It All Back Home, released 50 years ago today […]
The Rhythm of the Saints
by Paul Simon
Buy The Rhythm of the Saints Ever the artist searching for a new, authentic sound, Paul Simon went to Brazil and employed the heavily percussive samba known as Batucada for his 1990 album, […]
Facelift by Alice In Chains
Buy Facelift Alice In Chains released an impressive debut album in 1990 with Facelift. Some have given this record the distinction of being the first “grunge” record to be certified platinum, although we […]
Damn Yankees
Buy Damn Yankees Before its swift exit from the mainstream rock scene in 1991, “hair metal” had its last hurrah during the year 1990. Perhaps the apex of this final phase was the […]
Manic Nirvana by Robert Plant
Buy Manic Nirvana If Led Zeppelin had attempted to make a pop-oriented album, it may have sounded like Manic Nirvana. This 1990 release by Robert Plant fuses some of the pop and dance-oriented […]
Kinda Kinks by The Kinks
Buy Kinda Kinks The Kinks sophomore effort is often overlooked in their catalog due to the popularity of their recently released debut and the critical acclaim of later albums. But the rapidly recorded […]
Back In Black by AC/DC
Buy Back In Black Who would have guessed that out of the ashes of tragedy would rise the rock n’ roll classic, Back In Black? Recorded just a few weeks following the untimely […]
Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne
Buy Blizzard of Ozz Few rock and roll comebacks are as bizarre, but complete, as that of Ozzy Osbourne in 1980. Just a year after being fired from Black Sabbath, the superstar rock […]
Forgotten 80s Rock Gems
Today we look at a Top 9 List of some forgotten gems from the 1980s. These are pop/rock songs which may have briefly entered the national charts or rotation on MTV, but have […]