Released in early 1969, Neil Young's first solo album is essentially an extension of "Broken Arrow" and "Expecting to Fly," his two most inventive contributions to Buffalo Springfield. Jack Nitzsche arranged and produced several of the tracks, fusing haunting strings and even funky female backing vocals to acoustic-oriented songs like "Here We Are in the Years" and "The Old Laughing Lady." "The Loner" is the one song from Neil Young to achieve classic-rock immortality, but "I've Been Waiting for You" is almost as good, and the rambling "Last Trip to Tulsa" presages the dark acoustic epics of On the Beach. Though it's not an essential album, Neil Young-like the man himself-is rarely less than interesting. --Dan Epstein

Look-Ka Py Py is the second studio album by the American funk group The Meters. The instrumental album was ranked number 218 on the Rolling Stone list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, 220 on the 2012 revised list and 415 on the 2020 revised list.

Neil Diamond是美国60－80年代最为成功的流行歌手和创作人之一，在Billboard历史上，他的成绩仅次于Elton John和Barbra Streisand。截至2005年，他的专辑在全世界范围内已经售出了1亿2千万张，这简直是个天文数字（在美国的销量不过4800万张，可见他的影响力是国际性的）。他在1984年入选歌曲创作名人堂。 然而，尽管在商业上非常成功，由于他的整体风格属于典型的流行＋软摇滚，Neil Diamond在专业的乐评领域并没有得到很高的评价，不过，这并不影响人们欣赏他的歌曲——音乐是否具有革命性和歌曲是否好听基本上是两个不同的概念。 我个人认为这张精选并不是他最好最全的精选集，他有许多脍炙人口的歌曲（例如Morning Has Broken或Kentucky woman）并未收进这张专辑，但专辑中的歌曲风格比较多样，大约比较受乐评人的认可，因此本专辑入选了滚石杂志评出的500张历代最强专辑，排名第222位，这也是他唯一一张入选滚石500强专辑。

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.

Bruce Springsteen在1982年推出的一张回归民谣风格的专辑。专辑的配器极其“简单”，吉他和口琴几乎就完全构成了歌曲的铺垫，这种Bob Dylan式的民谣在当时已经很难引起轰动，Bruce也没有对它进行特别的宣传炒作，因此它在专辑榜上最高也只排到第三，销量也马马虎虎，至今只有百万。然而，如果用心去听，可以感受到这是一张很有乡土感和现实感的专辑，很朴实，也很恳切，非常耐听。因此，尽管商业上并不成功，仍然有许多人认为这是Bruce生涯中最优秀的专辑之一，甚至在美国流行音乐史上也是值得记录的杰作。 这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第224位

Eric B. and Rakim的第一张专辑，是非常有影响的一张rap，公认为把hi-hop带到了一个新的高度，甚至是重新定义了hi-pop，销量虽然将将100万，但却赢得了许多荣誉，比如还在滚石的 "50最酷录音"中排名第19, 入选Vibe的 "20世纪最经典的100张专辑", 以及入选了MTV频道选出的最经典hi-pop专辑。 这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第227位。

On his fifth solo album The Strokes' guitarist contrast his previous work with 19 honest and inventive tracks

Saviors (stylized as 'SAVIORS') is the upcoming fourteenth studio album by American rock band Green Day. It is set to be released on January 19, 2024, through Reprise Records. The album is the band's first since Kerplunk (1991) in which they own the copyright, although it is under exclusive license to Reprise Records. Saviors was recorded in London, England, and Los Angeles, California, and sees the band collaborating with producer Rob Cavallo for the first time since 2012.Early reports stated that their forthcoming record would be titled 1972, signifying the year all three members were born. Prior to the album's release, the band played a song titled "1981" off the upcoming album during their live performance at Festival d'été de Québec on July 16, 2023.The band announced the album with the title Saviors on October 24, 2023, and released the song "The American Dream Is Killing Me" with a zombie-themed music video along with it. Written and recorded as one of the last tracks for the album, Billie Joe Armstrong revealed that they immediately decided to release the song as the lead single after recording it. The band first performed the single and another song titled "Look Ma, No Brains!" live in Las Vegas, Nevada, when they were in Vegas for When We Were Young.The track constitutes "a look at the way the traditional American Dream doesn't work for a lot of people" but hurts them instead. Green Day is set to embark on a stadium tour through North America along with the Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and the Linda Lindas in 2024.On the same day, the track list was leaked on Banquet Records, a UK record store before later being confirmed by Warner Music's site. A new single is scheduled to come out on November 2, 2023.

End, the enigmatic new album by Explosions in the Sky, was inspired by darkness, but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death. “Our starting point was the concept of an ending—death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we’ve all expanded on and made its own world. Maybe it’s our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation—the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next,” says the band about the album. End is perhaps the “grandest” Explosions In The Sky album – melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early recordings with the aural exploration and ornate experimentation of their later works (while incorporating their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalog).

This is Explosion In The Sky's 2nd album, and one of the most critically acclaimed records of 2004 and a massive word-of-mouth success story, going on to sell 20,000 copies in the UK alone. Features 5 tracks. Bella Union. 2005.

The Rescue is the fourth studio album by Explosions in the Sky. Written, recorded and mastered in two weeks in band member Michael James's house in Austin, Texas, The Rescue is a concept album inspired by an experience the band had while touring.

The long waited fourth studio album from the moody and intense Texas instrumental band Explosions In The Sky. Known for bringing an emotional heft and sense of hope to a usually placid genre, Explosions In The Sky have experienced the kind of meteoric rise in popularity that flies in the face of music industry convention. Their songs run well past a length suitable for radio play or commercial music videos; they avoid performing in LiveNation/Clear Channel venues; they didn't jump to a major label; and they don't sing. They're also the very rare band that fans of Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens and My Chemical Romance can all agree on. EITS are not just an anomaly, they're a gateway. Recorded by John Congleton (The Roots, The Mountain Goats) at Pachyderm Studios in rural Minnesota, the album is a massive leap forward, showcasing a broader instrumental range and their most focused, efficient songwriting. Bella Union. 2007.

I august 2023 spillede Joe Bonamassa for første gang nogensinde i det ikoniske Hollywood Bowl i sin hjemby Los Angeles, hvor han blev akkompagneret af et stjerneensemble bestående af 40 orkestermusikere til en eksklusiv begivenhed, der kun fandt sted den ene aften. Joes optræden i The Bowl var hans største liveproduktion til dato, og den er klar til at løfte hans allerede blomstrende karriere til nye højder. Med utrolige orkesterarrangementer fra David Campbell, Trevor Rabin og Jeff Bova får dine yndlingssange nyt liv i en meget større skala.

There is something so historic about the earliest recordings of Neil Young with Crazy Horse that even the most devoted fans of Young and that pivotal band cannot contain their excitement when new releases are scheduled – continuing with the release of ‘EARLY DAZE’ on June 28th. Representing the first time that the music the band performs has been collected on one album like this set, ‘EARLY DAZE’ includes some of the most iconic originals by Neil Young, and several with contributions by band guitarist Danny Whitten. It is Young’s first band after the breakup of Buffalo Springfield, and set one of the high marks of rock ‘n’ roll at the end of the 1960s when all these songs were written. This new collection of Neil Young with Crazy Horses’ earliest recordings includes several original versions that have not been released before, along with the 7-inch mono mix of ‘Cinnamon Girl’ that was released in 1970 that includes a guitar outro not on the original LP version.

滚石评出的最伟大500张专辑之一 1964年，特蕾西·查普曼出生在俄亥俄的克里夫兰的一个工人家庭,Tracy Chapman从小就会弹吉他，并不久开始自己写歌。在高中，她获得“少数族裔安置奖学金”（minority placement scholarship），入读Tufts大学，在那里她从事了人类学和非洲人研究。在 Tufts的时候，她迷上了民谣摇滚，开始在咖啡馆里弹唱自己的作品。她的歌旋律简单，朗朗上口，歌词深刻，发人深省。 这位创作型的女歌手在80年代一经亮相，便成万众瞩目的焦点。特蕾西．查普曼的首张同名专辑于1988年春天出版后受到热烈好评。这张专辑为特蕾西．查普曼赢得了当年的3项格莱美奖，其中包括“年度最佳新人奖。”首张专辑的成功为她后来的事业发展铺平了道路。几个月后，她应邀参加为庆祝南非黑人运动领袖纳尔逊．曼德拉70岁生日而举行的音乐会。特蕾西．查普曼的歌风是70年代城市乡谣的延续，不过她的音乐更富时代气息，对社会问题的揭示也更犀利。在她的音乐中，反对种族歧视、呼吁民权一向占有主导的地位。特蕾西．查普曼的歌中所表达的自由平等的政治主张在美国大学校园中得到强烈回应，她的音乐甚至在某种程度上推动了美国的政治改革进程。