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Favorite Albums | Honorable Mention: Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1970)

Posted by Eric Mack | Dec 24, 2014 | Favorite Albums | 0

Led Zeppelin may have come first, striking twice in 1969 with Zeppelin I and II, but Black Sabbath...

Posted by Eric Mack | May 8, 2014 | Favorite Albums | 0

Every once in a while, I’ll come across an album whose first track is so good it takes me days,...

Posted by Eric Mack | Jan 13, 2013 | Favorite Albums | 0

For some reason, my honorable mention posts have all focused on albums made in the past 15-20...

Posted by Eric Mack | Oct 5, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

What a difference a year makes. I was wholly unimpressed by Bon Iver when I first heard it a year...

Posted by Eric Mack | Sep 7, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

Wasting Light is aging quite well; it’s only been out for just under a year and a half, but...

Posted by Eric Mack | Jan 30, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

The final fourteen months of Duane Allman’s life were filled with events worthy of rock & roll...

Posted by Eric Mack | Jan 29, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

I started to take a deeper interest in hip-hop when I got to college, since the library at the...

Posted by Eric Mack | Jan 26, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

Aja (1977) is frequently cited as Steely Dan’s signature work, but I consider Katy Lied to be...

Posted by Eric Mack | Jan 25, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

One of the great albums in alternative rock, The Bends was Radiohead’s artistic breakthrough, and...

Posted by Eric Mack | Jan 15, 2012 | Favorite Albums | 0

I still remember when I first heard the White Stripes’ “Fell in Love with a Girl” on the radio in...