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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – 11th Album ‘NO MORE SHALL WE PART’ Released 25 Years Ago Today

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2 April 2026

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS released their 11th LP, called
No More Shall We Part on 2 April 2001, today 25 years ago.

Nick Cave had to overcome heavy heroin and alcohol addictions in
1999–2000 before starting to work on this album. It featured guest
appearances by Kate & Anna McGarrigle and was met with mostly
positive reviews.

Pitchfork wrote: ‘If ‘No More Shall We Part’ seems less distinguished next
to Cave’s mid-90s streak and his reinvigorated Anti- output, it represents
an important turning point in the Bad Seeds discography. It marks that
pivotal moment where Cave regains the sensation in his red right hand.”

Turn Up The Volume: Not really top – too many masterpieces
to compare to – on the other hand, the iconic Australian crooner
never made a bad album.

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PRINCE – The Late Royal Genius Released His 8th Album ‘PARADE’ Today 40 Years Ago

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31 March 2026

The late royal genius PRINCE (1958 – 2016) released his 8th LP (and also the
4th and final one, where the Revolution is billed) PARADE today 40 years ago,
on 31 March 1986.

Parade eschews the guitar and rock elements of Prince‘s 1984 album Purple Rain in
favor of the neo-psychedelic style he explored on Around the World in a Day (1985), austerely produced funk, and soundtrack compositions.

It went to #3 on the US Pop Charts and #4 in the UK.
It sold more than 2 million copies internationally.

The New York Times: “The album succeeds in part because of the more aggressive
songs, in which Prince chooses to play up the black side of his multifaceted musical
sensibility.”

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LED ZEPPELIN – 7th Album ‘PRESENCE’ Came Out 50 Years Ago Today

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31 March 2026

Herculian blues rock giants LED ZEPPELIN (1968-1980) released their
7th LP, named PRESENCE, on 31 March 1976, today 50 years ago.

It went #1 in the UK and the US

Rolling Stone wrote: “In spite of a few dull blues rock songs, the album is
another monster in what by now is a continuing tradition of battles won by
this band of survivors.”

Turn Up The Volume: For many bands, this would have been a top album.
For Led Zep – given the brilliant work they released before – it was nothing
more than a good, but too familiar-sounding LP.

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THIN LIZZY – Irish Rock Legends Released Their 6th LP ‘JAILBREAK’ Today 50 Years Ago

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26 March 2026

Band: THIN LIZZY

Who: Legendary Irish rock group led by the late great Phil Lynott
who passed away following a heroin overdose in 1986, he was
only 36. After his death, the band continued to play live, but
didn’t produce new music.

Album: JAILBREAK
Their 6th. Released on 26 March 1976,
today 50 years ago.

AllMusic said in retrospect: “A truly exceptional album with a dimension
of richness that sustains, but there’s such kinetic energy to the band that
it still sounds immediate no matter how many times it’s played”.

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ELVIS PRESLEY Released His Self-Named Debut LP This Day 70 Years Ago

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23 March 2026

The mighty King released his rock-game-changing, self-named debut LP
on March 23, 1956, today 70 years ago. OMG, 70! This sounds so unreal.

The album spent ten weeks at Number One on the Billboard Top Pop Albums Chart,
the first rock and roll album ever to make it to the top of the charts, and the first
million-selling album of that genre. It also topped the UK Charts.

41 more LPs (compilations not included) would follow.


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The photograph of Elvis on the front cover was taken
at the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida
in 1955.

The LP’s graphic styling and photo were also used on
an EP and a double-EP comprising songs from this LP,
also released in March 1956.

The design was echoed by several other artists such
as The Clash for their 1979 double masterpiece album
London Calling.

Pop-ular music would never be the same again.

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YEAH YEAH YEAHS – NYC’s Guitar Pop Trio Released Underrated Second Album ‘SHOW YOUR BONES’ Today 20 Years Ago

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22 March 2026

Band: YEAH YEAH YEAHS
Who: Alt-rock trio from New York,
fronted by the gorgeous Karen O.

Album: SHOW YOUR BONES – 2nd full-length.
Released: 22 March 2006 – 20 years ago today.

Pitchfork said: “New York band follows its debut album
‘Fever to Tell’, this decade’s gold standard for transcending
indie hype, with a record that offers only one side of the
group’s multifaceted sound.”

TUTV: Seems like Pitchfork only listened to one side.
Trust me, this is a totally underrated LP.

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JETHRO TULL – Their Prog Rock Classic ‘AQUALUNG’ Is 55 Today

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19 March 2026

British prog rock icons JETHRO TULL (1967–2012, 2017–present) led on one leg
by charismatic Scottish vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, have released their
4th LP AQUALUNG on 19 March 1971, today 55 years ago

The LP has generally been regarded as a concept album with a central theme of
“the distinction between religion and God“. The album’s “dour musings on faith and religion” have marked it as “one of the most cerebral albums ever to reach millions of rock listeners“. Academic discussions of the nature of concept albums have frequently listed Aqualung amongst their number.

The album’s original cover art by Burton Silverman features a watercolour portrait
of a long-haired, bearded man in shabby clothes. The idea for the cover came from a photograph Anderson‘s wife took of a homeless man.

Anderson later felt it would have been better to have used the photograph rather than commission the painting. Also, he recalled later that he posed for a photograph for the painting.

AllMusic said in retrospect: “In the space of one album, Tull went from relatively unassuming electrified folk-rock to larger-than-life conceptual rock full of sophisticated compositions and complex, intellectual, lyrical constructs. While the leap to full-blown prog rock wouldn’t be taken until a year later on ‘Thick as a Brick’, the degree to which Tull upped the ante here is remarkable.”

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HÜSKER DÜ – Guitar Rock Champs Released 5th LP ‘CANDY APPLE GREY’ Today 40 Years Ago

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17 March 2026

HÜSKER DÜ (guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton, and drummer/vocalist Grant Hart) turned up the decibels between 1979 and 1988 with no less than 6 LPs.

The 5th one, named CANY APPLE GREY, came out on 17 March 1986, today
40 years ago. It was their first major label release, though Warner Bros.

Candy Apple Grey was the first Hüsker Dü album to chart on the Billboard Top 200,
but despite positive reviews, exposure with the singles on radio as well as MTV, it
only went to No. 140.

AllMusic said in retrospect: “Demonstrating that punks can mature without losing
their edge, Mould inverts the rules of conventional confessional singer/songwriter songs
with these two haunting numbers, and in doing so, he illustrates the faults with the relatively staid post-hardcore punk that dominates the remainder of the record.”

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DEPECHE MODE – British Dark-Electro-Pop-Wave Legends Released 5th LP ‘BLACK CELEBRATION’ Today 40 Years Ago

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17 March 2026

British dark-electro-pop-wave titans DEPECHE MODE, active since 1980,
released their 5th album, BLACK CELEBRATION, 40 years ago,
on 17 March 1986.

It topped the UK charts, but only went to #90 in the US.

Martyn Atkins designed the album cover, as he’d done for all of the band’s LP
covers since A Broken Frame from 1982. Originally, he had envisioned a physical
miniature building, draped in black banners and inspired by totalitarian imagery,
to be photographed.

However, the band was not happy with the original design and so the cover
was re-designed to include only a cropped, close-up of the original photograph
and they instead emphasized the logos around the image, which the band paid
to have embossed on initial pressings of the album.

The LP’s title was not a reference to Black mass or rituals of the Occult, it was meant to describe the daily boredom of a dreary life without climaxes or hope for improvement.

Martin Gore: “Our songs from Black Celebration capture the idea: Make
the most of what you have, and find consolation wherever you can.”

David Gahan: “It’s a common thing: at the end of a working day you go
out and drown your sorrows no matter how shitty you feel or how bleak your
future looks.”

NME: “Within their own parameters, Depeche Mode create a resonant, if undemonstrative techno-pop tapestry” with “a rich textured sheen that is not without a certain depth. When the songs address topics other than the composer’s state of mind, Depeche Mode sound like a lot more than just a high tech, low-life melodrama.”

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THE WHO Released Their 9th LP ‘FACE DANCES’ This Day 45 Years Ago

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15 March 2026

British rock heroes THE WHO released their
9th LP FACE DANCES on 16 March 1981, today
45 years ago.

Despite mixed reviews, the record peaked at #4 on the
US Billboard Charts and #2 on the UK Albums Chart.

The album was originally to be titled simply The Who, but the name Face Dances
replaced it just before release. The phrase was inspired by a friend of Pete Townshend‘s who was rhythmically moving a match between her teeth, an action that Townshend jokingly termed “face dances.”

The album cover features 16 paintings of the band members by 16 British painters,
who were commissioned by Peter Blake, designer of the cover of the Beatles‘ album
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.

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