Monday, August 14, 2017
Albums Released This Week (August 14 - 20)
Here's a sampling of the BEST music ever made! Great albums from the 60s, 70s and 80s rock and pop released this week (and some related albums of note):
August 14
● The Rolling Stones ------ 5 X 5 ► British Invasion >> 1964
● Al Green ------ Al Green Gets Next To You ► Soul >> 1971
● Buddy Guy & Junior Wells ------ Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues ► Electric Blues >> 1974
● Roberta Flack ------ Killing Me Softly ► Pop-Soul >> 1973
● The Who ------ Rarities Volume I & Volume II ► British Rock >> 1983
● Soul Asylum ------ Say What You Will…Everything Can Happen ► Alt. Pop-Rock >> 1984
● Brenda Lee ------ Feels So Right ► Country-Pop >> 1985
● The Heart Throbs ------ Cleopatra Grip ► Indie Pop >> 1990
● Motörhead ------ March Ör Die ► Heavy Metal >> 1992
● Spin Doctors ------ Turn It Upside Down ► Alt Pop-Rock >> 1994
● Elvis Costello And The Attractions ------ Dead Deep Blue ► Roots Rock >> 1995
● Elvis Costello ------ Deep Dead Blue ► Alt. Pop-Rock >> 1995
● Godspeed You Black Emperor! ------ F♯ A♯ ∞ ► Instrumental/Experimental >> 1997
● The XX ------ XX ► Dream Pop >> 2009
● Loverboy ------ Rock 'N' Roll Revival ► Arena Rock >> 2012
August 15
● Chad & Jeremy ------ Distant Shores ► Folk-Pop >> 1966
● Fleetwood Mac ------ Pious Bird Of Good Omen ► Blues-Rock >> 1969
● The Band ------ Rock Of Ages ► Folk-Rock >> 1972
● Rod Stewart ------ Atlantic Crossing ► Folk-Rock >> 1975
● Scorpions ------ Tokyo Tapes ► Heavy Metal/Kraut Rock >> 1978
● Led Zeppelin ------ In Through The Out Door ► Hard Rock >> 1979
● America ------ Alibi ► Folk-Rock >> 1980
● The Kinks ------ Give The People What They Want ► British Rock >> 1981
● The Pretenders ------ Pretenders II ► Post-Punk >> 1981
● AC/DC ------ Flick Of The Switch ► Hard Rock >> 1983
● Cheap Trick ------ Next Position Please ► Hard Rock/Power Pop >> 1983
● Dio ------ Sacred Heart ► Heavy Metal >> 1985
● Michelle Shocked ------ Short, Sharp, Shocked ► Folk-Rock >> 1988
● Glenn Frey ------ Soul Searchin' ► Pop-Rock >> 1988
● The Rolling Stones ------ Singles Collection: The London Years ► Blues-Rock >> 1989
● Southern Culture On The Skids ------ Dirt Track Date ► Rockabilly >> 1995
● Garbage ------ Garbage ► Art Rock >> 1995
● Blind Melon ------ Soup ► Alt. Rock >> 1995
● Korn ------ Follow The Leader ► Post-Grunge/Nu Metal >> 1998
● Blue October ------ Consent To Treatment ► Indie Rock/Post-Grunge >> 2000
● Ringo Starr ------ Ringo Starr And Friends ► Pop-Rock >> 2006
● Little Dragon ------ Little Dragon ► Trip Hop/Downtempo >> 2007
● Sparks ------ The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman ► Glam Rock >> 2009
August 16
● The Rolling Stones ------ Gimme Shelter ► Blues-Rock >> 1971
● The Temptations ------ The Temptations Do The Temptations ► Soul - Motown >> 1976
● Red Hot Chili Peppers ------ Freaky Styley ► Alt. Funk-Rock >> 1985
● Miami Sound Machine ------ Primitive Love ► Pop-Dance >> 1985
● Mayhem ------ Deathcrush ► Norwegian Black Metal >> 1987
● The Ethiopians ------ Dread Prophecy ► Rocksteady >> 1989
● Red Hot Chili Peppers ------ Mother's Milk ► Alt. Funk-Rock >> 1989
● ALL ------ Breaking Things ► Punk Rock/Pop-Punk >> 1993
● Crosby, Stills & Nash ------ After The Storm ► Folk-Rock >> 1994
● Prince ------ Come ► Funk-Pop >> 1994
● Barenaked Ladies ------ Maybe You Should Drive ► AA Pop-Rock >> 1994
● Neil Young & Crazy Horse ------ Sleeps With Angels ► Folk-Rock >> 1994
● Tricky ------ Juxtapose ► Electronic Trip-Hop >> 1999
● Frank Zappa ------ FZ:OZ ► Art Rock >> 2002
August 17
● Miles Davis ------ Kind Of Blue ► Improv Jazz >> 1959
● The Band ------ Stage Fright ► Folk-Rock >> 1970
● XTC ------ Drums And Wires ► New Wave Pop-Rock >> 1979
● Rose Royce ------ Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection ► Disco/Funk >> 1979
● W.A.S.P. ------ W.A.S.P. ► Glam Metal >> 1984
● Tom Waits ------ Franks Wild Years ► Blues-Rock >> 1987
● New Order ------ Substance 1987 ► New Wave Synth-Pop >> 1987
● Cannibal Corpse ------ Eaten Back To Life ► Heavy Metal/Death Metal >> 1990
● The Call ------ Red Moon ► New Wave Alt. Pop >> 1990
● Manfred Mann's Earth Band ------ Plains Music ► British Rock >> 1991
● Take That ------ Take That & Party ► Pop-Rock/Boyband >> 1992
● Mariah Carey ------ Music Box ► Pop-Rock >> 1993
● Bad Brains ------ Rise ► Post-Punk/Hardcore >> 1993
● Tina Arena ------ In Deep ► Pop-Rock >> 1997
● Front Line Assembly ------ Re-wind ► Industrial Rock >> 1998
● Blur ------ The 10 Year Limited Edition Anniversary Box Set ► Alt Pop-Rock/Britpop >> 1999
● The Knack ------ Best Of The Knack ► Power Pop >> 1999
● John Mellencamp ------ Rough Harvest ► Folk-Rock >> 1999
● The Moody Blues ------ Strange Times ► Prog Rock >> 1999
● Talking Heads ------ The Best Of The Talking Heads ► New Wave Art-Rock >> 2004
● Boz Scaggs ------ Greatest Hits Live ► Pop-Rock >> 2004
● Iron Maiden ------ The Final Frontier ► Heavy Metal >> 2010
● David Gray ------ Founding ► AA Pop-Rock >> 2010
● John Mellencamp ------ No Better Than This ► Roots Rock >> 2010
August 18
● Burning Spear ------ Man In The Hills ► Roots Reggae >> 1976
● The Who ------ Who Are You ► British Rock >> 1978
● Yes ------ Drama ► Prog Rock >> 1980
● Wall Of Voodoo ------ Dark Continent ► Post-Punk >> 1981
● ABBA ------ ABBA Live ► Euro-Pop >> 1986
● Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ------ Kicking Against The Pricks ► Post-punk Alt Rock >> 1986
● Debbie Gibson ------ Out Of The Blue ► Pop-Rock/Dance-Pop >> 1987
● Aerosmith ------ Permanent Vacation ► Hard Rock >> 1987
● Patty Smyth ------ Patty Smyth ► Pop-Rock >> 1992
● Eric Clapton ------ Unplugged ► Blues-Rock >> 1992
● Phranc ------ Goofyfoot ► Folk-Rock/Surf Rock >> 1995
● At The Drive-In ------ Acrobatic Tenement ► Post-Hardcore >> 1996
● Billy Joel ------ Greatest Hits Volume III ► Pop-Rock >> 1997
● At The Drive-In ------ In/Casino/Out ► Punk Rock >> 1998
● Graham Coxon ------ The Sky Is Too High ► Indie Rock/Lo-Fi >> 1998
● Lynyrd Skynyrd ------ Greatest Hits [2008] ► Southern Rock >> 2008
August 19
● The Beach Boys ------ The Best Of The Beach Boys, Vol. 3 ► Pop-Rock >> 1968
● The Beach Boys ------ Stacks O' Tracks ► Instrumental Rock >> 1968
● Carpenters ------ Close To You ► Soft Rock >> 1970
● Harry Nilsson ------ Pussy Cats ► Folk-Rock >> 1974
● Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ------ So Far ► Folk-Rock >> 1974
● Emerson, Lake & Palmer ------ Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends ► Prog Rock >> 1974
● The Manhattan Transfer ------ Coming Out ► Jazz-Pop >> 1976
● The Doobie Brothers ------ Livin' On The Fault Line ► Pop-Rock >> 1977
● John Cougar Mellencamp ------ Scarecrow ► Roots Rock >> 1985
● Arthur Brown With Jimmy Carl Black ------ Brown, Black & Blue ► Blues-Rock >> 1991
● Sneaker Pimps ------ Becoming X ► Electronic-Dance/Trip Hop >> 1996
● The Beach Boys ------ Stars And Stripes Vol. 1 ► Pop-Rock >> 1996
● Fleetwood Mac ------ The Dance ► Pop-Rock >> 1997
● Alison Moyet ------ Hometime [UK] ► AA Pop-Rock >> 2002
● Neil Young & Crazy Horse ------ Greendale ► Rock >> 2003
● Goo Goo Dolls ------ Greatest Hits Volume Two: ► Alt Pop-Rock/Post-Grunge >> 2008
● Pure Bathing Culture ------ Moon Tides ► Dream Pop >> 2013
● Jerry Garcia Band ------ Garcia Live Volume Seven ► Roots Rock >> 2016
August 20
● Harmonia ------ Deluxe ► Krautrock/Kosmische Musik >> 1975
● Kiss ------ Kiss Destroys Anaheim, Pt. 1 ► Hard Rock >> 1976
● Kiss ------ Kiss Destroys Anaheim, Pt. 2 ► Hard Rock >> 1976
● Bob Dylan ------ Slow Train Coming ► Folk-Rock >> 1979
● Heart ------ Passionworks ► Album Rock >> 1983
● Asia ------ Astra ► Prog Rock >> 1985
● Queensrÿche ------ Empire ► Heavy Metal >> 1990
● Black Sabbath ------ TYR ► Hard Rock >> 1990
● Joan Jett & The Blackhearts ------ Notorious ► Hard Rock >> 1991
● Spin Doctors ------ Pocket Full of Kryptonite ► Alt Pop-Rock >> 1991
● Luis Miguel ------ Nada Es Igual ► Latin Pop >> 1996
● Boards Of Canada ------ Music Has The Right To Children ► Techno-Ambient >> 1998
● Dark Tranquility ------ Damage Done ► Heavy Metal/Melodic Death Metal >> 2002
● The Black Crowes ------ Live ► Southern Rock >> 2002
● Black Sabbath ------ Past Lives ► Hard Rock >> 2002
● Berlin ------ Voyeur ► L. A. Synth-Pop >> 2002
● Tedeschi Trucks Band ------ Made Up Mind ► Blues-Rock >> 2013
August 14
● The Rolling Stones ------ 5 X 5 ► British Invasion >> 1964
● Al Green ------ Al Green Gets Next To You ► Soul >> 1971
● Buddy Guy & Junior Wells ------ Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues ► Electric Blues >> 1974
● Roberta Flack ------ Killing Me Softly ► Pop-Soul >> 1973
● The Who ------ Rarities Volume I & Volume II ► British Rock >> 1983
● Soul Asylum ------ Say What You Will…Everything Can Happen ► Alt. Pop-Rock >> 1984
● Brenda Lee ------ Feels So Right ► Country-Pop >> 1985
● The Heart Throbs ------ Cleopatra Grip ► Indie Pop >> 1990
● Motörhead ------ March Ör Die ► Heavy Metal >> 1992
● Spin Doctors ------ Turn It Upside Down ► Alt Pop-Rock >> 1994
● Elvis Costello And The Attractions ------ Dead Deep Blue ► Roots Rock >> 1995
● Elvis Costello ------ Deep Dead Blue ► Alt. Pop-Rock >> 1995
● Godspeed You Black Emperor! ------ F♯ A♯ ∞ ► Instrumental/Experimental >> 1997
● The XX ------ XX ► Dream Pop >> 2009
● Loverboy ------ Rock 'N' Roll Revival ► Arena Rock >> 2012
August 15
● Chad & Jeremy ------ Distant Shores ► Folk-Pop >> 1966
● Fleetwood Mac ------ Pious Bird Of Good Omen ► Blues-Rock >> 1969
● The Band ------ Rock Of Ages ► Folk-Rock >> 1972
● Rod Stewart ------ Atlantic Crossing ► Folk-Rock >> 1975
● Scorpions ------ Tokyo Tapes ► Heavy Metal/Kraut Rock >> 1978
● Led Zeppelin ------ In Through The Out Door ► Hard Rock >> 1979
● America ------ Alibi ► Folk-Rock >> 1980
● The Kinks ------ Give The People What They Want ► British Rock >> 1981
● The Pretenders ------ Pretenders II ► Post-Punk >> 1981
● AC/DC ------ Flick Of The Switch ► Hard Rock >> 1983
● Cheap Trick ------ Next Position Please ► Hard Rock/Power Pop >> 1983
● Dio ------ Sacred Heart ► Heavy Metal >> 1985
● Michelle Shocked ------ Short, Sharp, Shocked ► Folk-Rock >> 1988
● Glenn Frey ------ Soul Searchin' ► Pop-Rock >> 1988
● The Rolling Stones ------ Singles Collection: The London Years ► Blues-Rock >> 1989
● Southern Culture On The Skids ------ Dirt Track Date ► Rockabilly >> 1995
● Garbage ------ Garbage ► Art Rock >> 1995
● Blind Melon ------ Soup ► Alt. Rock >> 1995
● Korn ------ Follow The Leader ► Post-Grunge/Nu Metal >> 1998
● Blue October ------ Consent To Treatment ► Indie Rock/Post-Grunge >> 2000
● Ringo Starr ------ Ringo Starr And Friends ► Pop-Rock >> 2006
● Little Dragon ------ Little Dragon ► Trip Hop/Downtempo >> 2007
● Sparks ------ The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman ► Glam Rock >> 2009
August 16
● The Rolling Stones ------ Gimme Shelter ► Blues-Rock >> 1971
● The Temptations ------ The Temptations Do The Temptations ► Soul - Motown >> 1976
● Red Hot Chili Peppers ------ Freaky Styley ► Alt. Funk-Rock >> 1985
● Miami Sound Machine ------ Primitive Love ► Pop-Dance >> 1985
● Mayhem ------ Deathcrush ► Norwegian Black Metal >> 1987
● The Ethiopians ------ Dread Prophecy ► Rocksteady >> 1989
● Red Hot Chili Peppers ------ Mother's Milk ► Alt. Funk-Rock >> 1989
● ALL ------ Breaking Things ► Punk Rock/Pop-Punk >> 1993
● Crosby, Stills & Nash ------ After The Storm ► Folk-Rock >> 1994
● Prince ------ Come ► Funk-Pop >> 1994
● Barenaked Ladies ------ Maybe You Should Drive ► AA Pop-Rock >> 1994
● Neil Young & Crazy Horse ------ Sleeps With Angels ► Folk-Rock >> 1994
● Tricky ------ Juxtapose ► Electronic Trip-Hop >> 1999
● Frank Zappa ------ FZ:OZ ► Art Rock >> 2002
August 17
● Miles Davis ------ Kind Of Blue ► Improv Jazz >> 1959
● The Band ------ Stage Fright ► Folk-Rock >> 1970
● XTC ------ Drums And Wires ► New Wave Pop-Rock >> 1979
● Rose Royce ------ Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection ► Disco/Funk >> 1979
● W.A.S.P. ------ W.A.S.P. ► Glam Metal >> 1984
● Tom Waits ------ Franks Wild Years ► Blues-Rock >> 1987
● New Order ------ Substance 1987 ► New Wave Synth-Pop >> 1987
● Cannibal Corpse ------ Eaten Back To Life ► Heavy Metal/Death Metal >> 1990
● The Call ------ Red Moon ► New Wave Alt. Pop >> 1990
● Manfred Mann's Earth Band ------ Plains Music ► British Rock >> 1991
● Take That ------ Take That & Party ► Pop-Rock/Boyband >> 1992
● Mariah Carey ------ Music Box ► Pop-Rock >> 1993
● Bad Brains ------ Rise ► Post-Punk/Hardcore >> 1993
● Tina Arena ------ In Deep ► Pop-Rock >> 1997
● Front Line Assembly ------ Re-wind ► Industrial Rock >> 1998
● Blur ------ The 10 Year Limited Edition Anniversary Box Set ► Alt Pop-Rock/Britpop >> 1999
● The Knack ------ Best Of The Knack ► Power Pop >> 1999
● John Mellencamp ------ Rough Harvest ► Folk-Rock >> 1999
● The Moody Blues ------ Strange Times ► Prog Rock >> 1999
● Talking Heads ------ The Best Of The Talking Heads ► New Wave Art-Rock >> 2004
● Boz Scaggs ------ Greatest Hits Live ► Pop-Rock >> 2004
● Iron Maiden ------ The Final Frontier ► Heavy Metal >> 2010
● David Gray ------ Founding ► AA Pop-Rock >> 2010
● John Mellencamp ------ No Better Than This ► Roots Rock >> 2010
August 18
● Burning Spear ------ Man In The Hills ► Roots Reggae >> 1976
● The Who ------ Who Are You ► British Rock >> 1978
● Yes ------ Drama ► Prog Rock >> 1980
● Wall Of Voodoo ------ Dark Continent ► Post-Punk >> 1981
● ABBA ------ ABBA Live ► Euro-Pop >> 1986
● Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ------ Kicking Against The Pricks ► Post-punk Alt Rock >> 1986
● Debbie Gibson ------ Out Of The Blue ► Pop-Rock/Dance-Pop >> 1987
● Aerosmith ------ Permanent Vacation ► Hard Rock >> 1987
● Patty Smyth ------ Patty Smyth ► Pop-Rock >> 1992
● Eric Clapton ------ Unplugged ► Blues-Rock >> 1992
● Phranc ------ Goofyfoot ► Folk-Rock/Surf Rock >> 1995
● At The Drive-In ------ Acrobatic Tenement ► Post-Hardcore >> 1996
● Billy Joel ------ Greatest Hits Volume III ► Pop-Rock >> 1997
● At The Drive-In ------ In/Casino/Out ► Punk Rock >> 1998
● Graham Coxon ------ The Sky Is Too High ► Indie Rock/Lo-Fi >> 1998
● Lynyrd Skynyrd ------ Greatest Hits [2008] ► Southern Rock >> 2008
August 19
● The Beach Boys ------ The Best Of The Beach Boys, Vol. 3 ► Pop-Rock >> 1968
● The Beach Boys ------ Stacks O' Tracks ► Instrumental Rock >> 1968
● Carpenters ------ Close To You ► Soft Rock >> 1970
● Harry Nilsson ------ Pussy Cats ► Folk-Rock >> 1974
● Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ------ So Far ► Folk-Rock >> 1974
● Emerson, Lake & Palmer ------ Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends ► Prog Rock >> 1974
● The Manhattan Transfer ------ Coming Out ► Jazz-Pop >> 1976
● The Doobie Brothers ------ Livin' On The Fault Line ► Pop-Rock >> 1977
● John Cougar Mellencamp ------ Scarecrow ► Roots Rock >> 1985
● Arthur Brown With Jimmy Carl Black ------ Brown, Black & Blue ► Blues-Rock >> 1991
● Sneaker Pimps ------ Becoming X ► Electronic-Dance/Trip Hop >> 1996
● The Beach Boys ------ Stars And Stripes Vol. 1 ► Pop-Rock >> 1996
● Fleetwood Mac ------ The Dance ► Pop-Rock >> 1997
● Alison Moyet ------ Hometime [UK] ► AA Pop-Rock >> 2002
● Neil Young & Crazy Horse ------ Greendale ► Rock >> 2003
● Goo Goo Dolls ------ Greatest Hits Volume Two: ► Alt Pop-Rock/Post-Grunge >> 2008
● Pure Bathing Culture ------ Moon Tides ► Dream Pop >> 2013
● Jerry Garcia Band ------ Garcia Live Volume Seven ► Roots Rock >> 2016
August 20
● Harmonia ------ Deluxe ► Krautrock/Kosmische Musik >> 1975
● Kiss ------ Kiss Destroys Anaheim, Pt. 1 ► Hard Rock >> 1976
● Kiss ------ Kiss Destroys Anaheim, Pt. 2 ► Hard Rock >> 1976
● Bob Dylan ------ Slow Train Coming ► Folk-Rock >> 1979
● Heart ------ Passionworks ► Album Rock >> 1983
● Asia ------ Astra ► Prog Rock >> 1985
● Queensrÿche ------ Empire ► Heavy Metal >> 1990
● Black Sabbath ------ TYR ► Hard Rock >> 1990
● Joan Jett & The Blackhearts ------ Notorious ► Hard Rock >> 1991
● Spin Doctors ------ Pocket Full of Kryptonite ► Alt Pop-Rock >> 1991
● Luis Miguel ------ Nada Es Igual ► Latin Pop >> 1996
● Boards Of Canada ------ Music Has The Right To Children ► Techno-Ambient >> 1998
● Dark Tranquility ------ Damage Done ► Heavy Metal/Melodic Death Metal >> 2002
● The Black Crowes ------ Live ► Southern Rock >> 2002
● Black Sabbath ------ Past Lives ► Hard Rock >> 2002
● Berlin ------ Voyeur ► L. A. Synth-Pop >> 2002
● Tedeschi Trucks Band ------ Made Up Mind ► Blues-Rock >> 2013
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