Ah, Dookie. One of my oldest loves. I can remember buying both Dookie (1994) and Warning (2000) at Best Buy on my thirteenth birthday. I had been putting off buying Warning since its release the previous October, something I apparently had in common with other Green...
After releasing the explosive A Crow Left of the Murder... in early 2004, Incubus released their follow-up Light Grenades in late 2006. Despite opening at number one, Light Grenades fell down the charts quickly and failed to achieve a platinum certification from the...
When I was a senior in high school, Bruce released the 30th Anniversary Edition of Born to Run, his greatest album, and I asked for it for my birthday. It was a fancy three-disc package with a remastered CD and two DVDs, one a "making of" documentary and another a...
It took me a while to really get into Vs., but once I did, boy, did it sink its claws in me and refuse to let go. I can safely say that over the last few years I have listened to Vs. more times than any other album, and by a wide margin. In my junior year of college I...
One of the triumphs of popular music both artistically and commercially, Rumours was a huge success in the late '70s, and is one of just ten albums in history estimated to have sold more than forty million copies worldwide. Fleetwood Mac released a self-titled reboot...
AC/DC are one of the biggest bands in history, having sold over 200 million records worldwide, and like some other bestselling bands, they held out from the digital download market until quite recently. Led Zeppelin's music was unavailable on iTunes until 2007, and...
I think we always knew the White Stripes weren't going to be around forever, since they peaked so early with 2003's Elephant, which was perfect to the point that it was basically impossible to top. It was as good an album as a two-person band with an inherently...
If you're looking to get into the blues, start with this album right here. Eric Clapton's famous show for MTV's Unplugged is, at least in my experience, the most accessible blues album ever. (Seriously.) Clapton summons a lot of his heroes here, playing passionate...
Very early in the morning of March 3, 1991, a Black man named Rodney King drunkenly sped down one of Los Angeles' many freeways and was pursued by the police all over the city. King was a convicted felon who was out on parole, and he fled the police because he was...
The roots of this list can probably be traced back several years, to when I heard my classic rock radio station's -- 100.7 The Bay in Baltimore, MD -- countdown of the greatest classic rock songs of all time for Memorial Day. I was sort of unsatisfied with their list,...