The album, with its Bowie-written title track, emphasized the band’s bravado, and helped lay the foundation for the ’70s glam movement.
Browsing: Album Rewinds
Given the test of time and the wisdom of hindsight, how do significant albums from the past sound and play today? Our critics take a second look from a fresh perspective
The Georgia band’s fifth studio album was the mark of a group spreading its wings, but also leaving something behind.
They’d lost their way as the ’80s lumbered along. Then, the Boston rockers remembered just who Aerosmith was. We take a look back at their classic comeback
Their most consequential stylistic stroke since their pioneering folk-rock debut three years earlier, it ushered in country-rock and Americana
The 1987 album signaled more than a bid for a career reset. Now sober and focused, and with help from R.E.M., he was clearly back on track.
The Kinks returned to America in 1972 after a ban to become the arena rock band they deserved to be.
With 17 million sales, it still ranks not only as one of the best-selling debut albums in music history, but also one of the fastest-selling as well.
The sparks of genius are here and there in the songwriting, and especially in the deft singing and instrumental arrangements.
By 1974, his once-promising career had hit a wall and it would clearly take something significant to get him back on track. Enter John Lennon
Although compiled to satisfy a contractual obligation, the collection of stray tracks is “a corner of the room worth spending some time in.”