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U2 Released All Killers No Fillers Album’ ALL THAT YOU CAN’T LEAVE BEHIND’ 25 Years Ago

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30 October 2025

Irish pop giants U2 their 10th album ALL THAT YOU
CAN’T LEAVE BEHIND on 30 October 2000, today
25 years ago.

It went #1 in most European countries and #3 in the US

AllMusic‘s editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine said: “It’s U2’s return to the generous
spirit that flowed through their best ’80s records. A clever and craftsmanlike record,
filled with nifty twists in the arrangements, small sonic details, and colors.”

Turn Up The Volume: Along with ‘Achtung Baby‘ the Irish stadium rockers’
best work to mye ars. All killers, no fillers. They found what they were looking
for. Eat your heart out U2 haters and Bono mockers.

Top tracks: Elevation / Kite / Grace

– ELEVATION –

– KITE –

– GRACE –

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Classic PULP Pop Album ‘DIFFERENT CLASS’ Released 30 Years Ago Today

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30 October 2025

Sheffield‘s pop heroes PULP, fronted by voice/face/songwriter Jarvis Cocker,
who made a comeback this year with More, their first album in 24 years, scored
their biggest LP hit 30 years ago today, on 30 October 1995, with their 5th one
Different Class.

It came out at the height of Britpop.
It topped the UK Charts and won
the prestigious Mercury Prize.

Pitchfork wrote: “On 1995’s Different Class, Pulp and Jarvis Cocker
were arty outsiders worming their way into the lives of ordinary folk,
and they became pop in its most democratically widespread sense.”

TUTV: Perfect pulp pop for common people like you and me.

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PJ HARVEY – Her Sterling 5th Album ‘STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA’ Came Out 25 Years Ago Today

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24 October 2025

Singer-songwriter heroine PJ HARVEY (aged 56 now) released her sterling 5th LP
STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA, her love tribute to New York City,
on 24 October 2000, today 25 years ago.

Upon its release, the album received acclaim from most music critics and earned Harvey several accolades, including the 2001 Mercury Prize. It spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, and has been certified platinum in the United Kingdom and Australia.

NME said: “A magnificent, life-affirming opus.”

Singles/clips.

– GOOD FORTUNE –

– THIS IS LOVE –

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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Released Their Magnum Opus ‘MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS’ 30 Years Ago Today

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24 October 2025

Rock giants THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (1988–2000, 2006–present)
released their 3rd LP, a double one, titled MELLON COLLIE AND THE
INFINITE SADNESS released on 24 October 1995 in the US, 30 years ago
today.

It went straight to #1 on the US Charts
with first-week sales of 246,500 units.

Pitchfork said: “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was one of the most generous
records of the 90s. Smashing Pumpkins took it upon themselves to make a record that
only teenagers could love and for many it was the only one they needed.”.

Musically, the album has been described as featuring alternative rock, Grunge, alt metal, art rock and heavy metal. Its sprawling nature resulted in diverse music styles from song to song, contrasting what some critics felt was the “one dimensional flavor” of the previous two albums.

The artwork was conceived by American illustrator and collage artist John Craig.
He worked from Corgan‘s scribbled notes and crude sketches, most of which
arrived via fax.

The woman on the front cover is a collage made from two paintings: the face was taken from a work by French painter by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 – 1805), and a portrait of Saint-Catherine Of Alexandria by medieval Italian painter Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Saint-Catherine Of Alexandria

Billy Corgan: “Do I belong in the conversation
about the best artists in the world? My answer is
yes, I do.”

Singles/clips: Bullet With Butterfly Wings / 1979 / Zero

– BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS –

– 1979 –

– ZERO –

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ROXY MUSIC – Glamourus Masterwork ‘SIREN’ Turns 50

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23 October 2025

Iconic art-glam rockers ROXY MUSIC (1970–1976, 1978–1983, 2001–2011)
fronted by ladies man Bryan Ferry (who turned 80 last month), released
their 5th LP SIREN on 24 October 1975, tomorrow 50 years ago.

The cover artwork features famous model Jerry Hall
crawling on rocks near South Stack, Anglesey in Wales.

Melody Maker (legendary British music weekly) wrote at the time:
“A superb album, striking the listener immediately with a force and invention
reserved only for the most special musical experiences with crispness and
vitality.”

Bryan Ferry: “Women? I have no idea. I don’t know
anything about women at all. They’re a complete mystery
to me.”


Singles/clips: Love Is The Drug / Both Ends Burning

– LOVE IS THE DRUG –

– BOTH ENDS BURNING –

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TOM WAITS – The Genial Barfly Released His 3rd LP ‘NIGHTHAWKS AT THE DINER’ Today 50 Years Ago

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21 October 2025

Crooner and barfly legend TOM WAITS (75 now) released his 3rd LP, titled
NIGHTHAWKS AT THE DINER today, 50 years ago, on 21 October 1975.

It was recorded over four sessions in July in the Los Angeles Record Plant studio
in front of a small invited audience, set up to recreate the atmosphere of a jazz club.
The album got very positive critics but didn’t score commercially well at first, as it
peaked at #164 on the Billboard 200. Over the years it went silver.

The title was inspired by Edward Hopper‘s 1942 painting Nighthawks. See here.

Jim Hughart, who played upright bass on the recordings
recalled the experience of preparing for and recording the
album:

“Preparing for this thing, we had to memorize all this stuff, ’cause Waits had nothing on paper. So ultimately, we spent four or five days in a rehearsal studio going over this stuff. And that was drudgery. But when we did actually get it all prepared and go and record, that was the fastest two days of recording I’ve ever spent in my life. It was so fun.”

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Released His RAMONES Single ‘HUNGRY HEART’ Today 45 Yeasr Ago

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21 October 2025

THE BOSS earned his first Top-5 hit in the US with HUNGRY HEART.
The single was released this day 45 years ago, on 21 October 1980.

The song was part of his fifth album The River.

One day Springsteen met Joey Ramone in Asbury Park, New Jersey, who asked
him to write a song for the Ramones. He then composed ‘Hungry Heart‘, but
decided to keep it for himself on the advice of his producer and manager,
Jon Landau.

Previously, upbeat and catchy Springsteen songs such as ‘Blinded by the Light’,
‘Because the Night’, and ‘Fire‘ had been given away and become hits for others,
and Landau preferred the trend not continue.

Too bad, I really would have known what
the Ramones would have done with
the song.

The title is drawn from a line in Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
famous poem Ulysses: “For always roaming with a hungry heart”.

“Everybody’s got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody’s got a h-h-hungry heart”

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Released His Double Album ‘THE RIVER’ 45 Years Ago

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17 October 2025

The now 76-year-old rock prodigy BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
released his 5th LP THE RIVER on 17 October 1980, today
45 years ago.

#1 in the US and Canada, #2 in the UK

Pitchfork wrote: “Bruce Springsteen’s fifth album gushes forth with the fury
of a burst dam, delivering torrents of despair, inspiration, heartbreak, and joy.
‘The River’ brought Bruce to those heights, giving him his first number one album
and Top 10 single.”

Bruce: “The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way
back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we’ve had everything in the
band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the
great rock guitarists in the world.”

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THE POLICE Topped The UK Album Charts This Day 45 Years Ago With ‘ZENYATTA MONDATTA’

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15 October 2025

Legendary trio THE POLICE (1977–1984, 1986, 2007–2008) topped released their
3rd LP ZENYATTA MONDATTA this day 45 years ago? ON 15 October 1980.


Rolling Stone said: “A near-perfect pop by a band that bends
all the rules and sometimes makes musical mountains out of
molehill-size ideas.”

Stewart Copeland (drummer) about the album’s title: “It’s not an attempt to be mysterious, just syllables that sound good together, like the sound of a melody that has no words at all has a meaning.

Miles (Stewart Copeland’s brother and group manager) came up with “Trimondo Blondomina”. Very subtle. Geddit? Like three blondes and the world. Then somebody thought of “Caprido Von Renislam”. That rolls off the tongue. It was the address of the studio in the Netherlands.
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