The Vinyl Countdown # 1917
Jaydiohead, Jay-Z X Radiohead (2009) The Jaydiohead project is one of many mash-ups to use Jay-Z’s record, The Black Album against a contrasting/incongruous musical background. Here it’s Radiohead. I...
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Prince, Lovesexy (1988) The two things that killed this album – I’m guessing, here – were the cover and the fact that, prepared for the CD-age, it was all one track, one single 45-minute song-medley....
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Better known as “The Black Album”, the black of course was to signal the death of Metallica’s credibility. The rebirth of the band brought with it a success as stadium rockers and for a while earnest...
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View ArticleCharles Fairchild: Danger Mouse’s Grey Album (33 1/3)
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