Balance by Van Halen
Buy Balance There is no doubt that the decade-long Sammy Hagar experiment had run its course by the time Van Halen had gotten to their tenth studio album (the fourth with Hagar), Balance. […]
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Badmotofinger by Soundgarden
Buy Badmotofinger Laying the sonic foundation for their most successful run as a band, Soundgarden delivered their first of a trio of critically acclaimed albums with 1991’s Badmotofinger. The third studio release by […]
Back On the Streets by Donnie Iris
Buy Back On the Streets Released in the summer of 1980, Back on the Streets was the debut solo record by Pittsburgh based artist Donnie Iris. This came after Iris spent more than […]
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 […]
Axis: Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy Axis: Bold As Love The second album from the trio’s explosive and productive 1967, Axis: Bold as Love, was released in the United Kingdom by The Jimi Hendrix Experience in December 1967. […]
Automatic For the People by R.E.M.
Buy Automatic For the People Automatic For the People is the eighth album by R.E.M., released in 1992 following their breakthrough Out of Time. Since the band did not tour to support that album, […]
August and Everything After by Counting Crows
Buy August and Everything After One of the more impressive debuts of 1993, August and Everything After by Counting Crows fuses lyrically rich ballads with such long forgotten sonic treasures as the Hammond […]
At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash
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Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
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Asia
Buy Asia Asia was a short-lived “supergroup” which existed primarily in the early 1980s. Their debut eponymous album was wildly successful commercially, reaching #1 in the US on the Billboard album charts and […]