Big Blasts From The Past

NIRVANA And RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Released Both Blazing Albums 35 Years Ago

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24 September 2026

Band: NIRVANA
Active: 1987-1994 / 3 studio LPs

Album: NEVERMIND
Released: 24 September 1991 – 35 years ago today

It was their second and global breakthrough album.
A seminal one for the future. Copies are still sold today.

It topped the US Charts and peaked at #7 in the UK.

TUTV: The magnum opus that made grunge a worldwide (commercial) phenomenon.
Nevermind the bollocks, Nirvana rocked their asses off while Kurt Cobain focused on
his life in his impassioned songs.

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Band: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Active: 1982–present / 13 LPs

Album: BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK
Released: 35 years ago today, 24 September 1991

It was their 3rd and peaked at
#3 in the US, #25 in the UK.

TUTV: Mega punky/funky/groovy record for punky/funky/groovy parties.

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T. REX – 55 Candles Today For Glam Rock Classic ‘ELECTRIC WARRIOR’

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24 September 2026

Solid gold rock star MARC BOLAN, who died tragically in a car accident at only 29,
started his career with a band named Tyrannosaurus Rex, released 4 LPs and then
the group’s name changed to T. REX (1967-1977), who made 12 albums.

Their 2nd LP as T.Rex, titled ELECTRIC WARRIOR, has become a classic in
the glam rock genre. It came out on 24 September 1971, 55 years ago today.

It was a #1 hit in the UK.

It was produced by Tony Visconti, who worked a lot
with Bowie and several other big-name musicians.

Pitchfork said in retrospect: What makes this record so enduring is its almost accidental emotional depth. When T.Rex is kicking out the jams, they sound like they’re having the most gleeful, absurd good time ever committed to wax. There’s nothing so glorious in rock and roll as hearing Bolan croon, “Just like a car, you’re pleasing to behold/ I’ll call you Jaguar if I may be so bold,” over his namesake boogie.”

TUTV: Bolan was a natural-born rock star. Charisma, looks, clothes,
voice, and most of all tons of classic gems, slow and fast, glamorous
and moody. A genuine electric warrior. Legend 4ever.

Singles.

– GET IT ON –
(No 1 on the UK Singles Chart)

– JEEPSTER –
(Peaked at #2 in the UK)

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PRIMAL SCREAM – E-tastic Album ‘SCREAMADELICA’ Is 35 Today

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23 September 2026

Scottish-British legends PRIMAL SCREAM, fronted by voice/songwriter
Bobby Gillespie released their notorious, acid-house-inspired 3rd album SCREAMADELICA on 23 September 1991, today 35 years ago.

It peaked at #8 in the UK.

The man who actually turned the LP in a seminal
masterpiece was DJ Andrew Weatherall.

Gillespie about Weatherall: “It was just this natural talent to make this music
and structure and arrange music in a way that we’d never heard before. He took
our songwriting, instrumentals, melodies and the gospel singers, the strings, the
slate guitars, the synthesisers as well, selected the parts he liked, rearranged it
and make it into this fantastic music”.

The album cover was painted by Creation Records‘ in-house artist Paul Cannell.
He was inspired by a damp water spot he had seen on the Creation Records offices
ceiling after taking LSD.

Pitchfork said: “The meeting of unashamed, celebratory club music and rock
star fandom is what gives Primal Scream’s 1991 album Screamadelica its particular
mood, half strutting with confidence, half yearning for transcendence. It’s a full-length
manifesto not just for the brotherhood of clubbing but for the syncretic approach to
rock Primal Scream were exploring.”

TUTV: This was the soundbreaking soundtrack for
drug-fueled parties, 24-hour raves, and E-tastic ecstasy.

Singles.

KEY SINGLE

– COME TOGETHER –

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TOM WAITS Released His 4th LP ‘SMALL CHANGE’ Today 50 Years Ago

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21 September 2026

TOM WAITS (76 now) released his 4th album, named
SMALL CHANGE today, 50 years ago, on 21 Sept 1976.

It peaked at #89 in the US, actually his first charting album.

Waits: “It’s all about ambulance drivers, night watchmen, ticket takers, street sweepers,
tattoo parlors, stage door jockeys, shoe string hotels from New York City to Chicago, Buffalo, Los Angeles, all the way from Tuxedo Junction to swing town. Did it in five nights on the corner of Selma and Cahuenga. Recorded complete and direct to 2-track stereo tape.”

Los Angeles Times said: “He has not only fulfilled the promise of his early
work, but extended it in a way that makes him one of America’s most valuable
pop performers. By refusing to stay in the safe mold of his first albums, he
enriched his art.”

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THE STILLS-YOUNG BAND Released Their Collaborative LP ‘LONG MAY YOU RUN’ Today 50 Years Ago

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20 September 2026

Legendary songwriters/voices Stephen Stills and Neil Young made one
LP together as a duo under the name TEH THE STILLS-YOUNG BAND.

The album, titled LONG MAY YOU RUN, was released
today 50 years ago, on 20 September 1976.

Following the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young stadium tour of 1974, an attempt by the quartet to finalize a new album ended amidst acrimony without result. David Crosby and Graham Nash resumed their partnership, while Stills and Young continued their independent careers.

In early 1976, Stills and Young reached a rapprochement and began to work on a joint album project from a desire by both to pick up where they left off with Buffalo Springfield (1966-1968). Crosby and Nash signed on as well, and briefly Long May You Run looked to be the awaited CSNY reunion album, but in the end it was just Stills and Young.

Young about working with Stills: “The Stills/Young band was a sort of attempt to wrap up something that we had started a long time ago. It really wasn’t as hot as the early stuff we did. When we were about twenty we used to lock horns a bit, and that was good for the group.”

AllMusic said in retrospect: “Young’s songs were pleasant newly written throwaways with
the exception of the title track, a trunk song he had written as a tribute to an old car. Stills’ compositions seemed more seriously intended, but still were not substantial.

The playing, largely handled by the professional sessionman types in Stills’ band, was far smoother than what one was accustomed to in a Young album. The result was a listenable record, but not a compelling one.”

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(About Young‘s old car)

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WILCO Released Their Standout Album ‘YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT’ 25 Years Ago Today

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18 September 2026

Band: WILCO
Who: Formed by mastermind Jeff Tweedy
and some old Uncle Tupelo mates.

Their 4th full-length, named YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
was released on 18 Sept 2001, today 25 years ago.

The towers in Marina City, a residential-commercial building
complex in Chicago, inspired the record’s front artwork.

#13 in the US, #40 in the UK.

Pitchfork wrote: “After half a year living with a bootleg copy, the music remains
revelatory. Complex and dangerously catchy, lyrically sophisticated and provocative,
noisy and somehow serene, Wilco’s aging new album is simply a masterpiece; it is
equally magnificent in headphones, cars and parties.

Beneath the great story of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, there are all the tropes and symbols
and coincidences of a little mythology; but under that is a fantastic rock record. And
why tell you? You all already knew this.”

TUTV: Jeff Tweedy is Chicago‘s Bob Dylan.

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SPIRITUALIZED Released Masterwork ‘LET IT COME DOWN’ Today 25 Years Ago

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17 September 2026

Band: SPIRITUALIZED

Who: Former Spacemen 3 member Jason Pierce
and his band, floating in space regulary.
Active: 1990-present / 9 albums thus far.

Anniversary album: LET IT COME DOWN
Released: 17 Sept 2001 – 25 years ago today.

It took Jason Pierce four years to write, perform, produce and release.
The album utilises 115 session musicians, including an orchestra and
the London Community Gospel Choir.

Pitchfork wrote: “With all of Jason Pierce’s tormented vocals, with his talk
of addiction and recovery, of fractured love, of the burden of religion on the
soul; with all this, you’d expect him to be confined to a straitjacket. But rather,
he manages to make it all sound glorious, as if these rock-bottom moments
are equally responsible for the beauty of living, or of not dying.”

Turn Up The Volume: One of the best works of soul space
crusader Jason Pierce and his symphonic orchestra.

KEY TRACK
A jaw-dropping live version of
Lord Can You Hear Me?

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Spiritualized – Amsterdam 2015 – pic by Turn Up The Volume

DJ SHADOW – Groundbreaking Album ‘ENTRODUCING…’ Released 30 Years Ago Today

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16 September 2026


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Influential musician DJ SHADOW, born Joshua Paul Davis 53 years
ago in San Jose (California), celebrates the 30th anniversary of his
outstanding debut LP, titled ENDTRODUCING… today.

A masterly varied, instrumental hip hop opus
composed almost entirely of samples from vinyl
records.

#1 on the UK’s Dance Charts and #37 in the US.

Endtroducing has been acclaimed by critics
as one of the greatest albums of the 1990s.

NME said: “Both slyly knowing and brilliantly naive,
fusing the dramatic and the deranged to his own
sweet end.”


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ELVIS COSTELLO Released ‘BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE’ Album Today 40 Years Ago

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15 September 2026

Singer-songwriter master ELVIS COSTELLO (aged 72 now) released his 11th LP,
entitled BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE on 15 September 1986, today 40 years ago.
It was the 9th recorded with The Attractions.

A departure from the roots rock of King of America, Blood & Chocolate musically and
lyrically recalls Costello‘s early works, particularly This Year’s Model (1978). Featuring a garage-sounding production, it is a straightforward rock and roll album with revenge
and guilt-driven lyrics and imagery drawn from nightmarish worlds.

The cover artwork is a painting by Costello
himself titled ‘Napoleon Dynamite‘.

The critics didn’t really like it.
And it wasn’t a commericial
succes either.

#84 in the US and #18 in the UK.

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BOB DYLAN – Prizewinning Album ‘LOVE AND THEFT’ Came Out 25 Years Ago Today

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11 September 2026

Grandmaster songwriter BOB DYLAN (85) released his 31st album,
titled LOVE AND THEFT on 11 September 2001, today 25 years ago.

It peaked at #5 in the US and #3 in the UK.

The record continued Dylan‘s artistic comeback following 1997’s Time Out Of Mind.

The title of the album was apparently inspired by American historian Eric Lott‘s
1993 book Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class,

The record won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

Rolling Stone wrote: “On ‘Love and Theft’, he turns this fantasy into a stone-cold Dylan
classic. ‘Love and Theft’ takes us on a full-blown tour of American song in all its burlesque splendor, which includes, of course, Dylan’s own psychedelic mutations of the blues.

Talk about bringing it all back home: Dylan veers into country, ragtime, vaudeville, deep blues, cocktail-lounge corn, the minstrel show and the kind of rockabilly he must have bashed out with his high school band more than forty years ago. “

TUTV: My favorite singer-songwriter-performer of all-time went
back, once more, to the decades he loves the most, the 50s and 60s,
and returned with his umpteenth triumph.

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