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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die...Or Not

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die…Or Not: 1989 – 1990

Post author By Christian Adams
Post date May 18, 2015
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Comparatively speaking, we’re going to breeze through this period. There’s a revolution of sorts on the horizon. At this point, recording artists are either making records that sell, or they aren’t making records. There will be fewer suggested alternatives simply because 1001 AYMHBYD already named most of the Must Hear records. You could almost skip […]

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die…Or Not: 1987 – 1988

Post author By Christian Adams
Post date May 7, 2015
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If 1985-86 is a dead zone for Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, then 1987-88 is a black hole. Mainstream popular music was more about hairspray and pastel colors than artistic achievement. How bad was music in 1987? It was Bruce Willis – The Return of Bruno bad. It was Whitesnake and Tawny Kitaen […]

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die...Or Not

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die…Or Not: 1979 – 1980

Post author By Christian Adams
Post date March 31, 2015
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1979-1980 is the first period of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die…Or Not in which I had heard every record prior to writing the associated essay. In some cases, I was listening to the record for only the second time, but there were no surprises, only disappointments and hasty generalizations. On the other […]