BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 20 In 2025
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31 December 2024
Band: THE WHITE STRIPES
Album: Get Behind Me Satan
Their 5rh LP. #3 in the UK and the US.
Pitchfork: “On their fifth album, the White Stripes’ ambitions finally seem to outpace their limited musical vocabulary. Making an almost-entirely clean break with the jet-fueled blues
rock of Elephant and De Stijl, they forsake electric guitar on all but a couple of tracks, working instead with pianos, acoustic guitars, marimbas, and other assorted oddball percussion.”
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Band: EDITORS
Album: The Back Room
Their first one. No. 2 in the UK.
No21 in the USA.
Pitchfork: “They imitate bands with dramatic vocalists … but the best moments
on The Back Room aren’t the theatrical ones—it’s when the four of them are playing
and discovering their own chemistry”.
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Band: OASIS
Album: Don’t Believe The Truth
Their 6th. #1 in the UK, #12 in the USA.
AllMusic: “Don’t Believe the Truth the closest Oasis has been to great since the
summer of Britpop, when they were the biggest and best band in the world.”
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Band: dEUS
Album: Pocket Revolution
4th longplayer. No 1 in Belgium.
AllMusic: “The group offers an album that refuses to be pinned down to a single
style. Despite the extended break between albums, dEus picks up right where they
left off with The Ideal Crash.”
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Band: BLOC PARTY
Album: Silent Alarm
Their debut. No. 3 in the UK.
NME: Varied in tone and stylistically uncategorisable, one thing
is clear about Bloc Party’s debut album: it’s bloody brilliant.
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Band: HARD-FI
Album: CCTV
1st full length.
No. 1 in the UK.
The Guardian: “Hard-Fi’s edge over more derivative rivals lies in a formula
that delivers old Specials and Clash reggae vibes with the big-tune ratio of
a boy band.”
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Artist: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Album: Devils & Dust
The 13th. #1 both in the UK & US.
Rolling Stone: “In striking and affecting ways, his most audacious
record since the home-demo American Gothic of 1982’s Nebraska.”
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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Album: Lullabies To Paralyze
4th LP. #5 in the US, #4 in UK.
NME: ‘Lullabies To Paralyze’ will use its enigmatic mysticism to lull you into
a blissful daze so you don’t at first notice that the riffs have broken your neck.
Better. Than. Sex.”
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Band: THE ROLLING STONES
Album: A Bigger Bang
22nd LP. #2 in the UK,
#3 in the US.
The Guardian: “There is a sense of finality about A Bigger Bang. It may not be quite
the blazing ship to Valhalla they intended, but then nor is it the unmarked grave you
might expect.”
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Band: LCD SOUNDSYTEM
Album: LCD Soundsystem
Debut one. #6 in the US,
#20 in the UK.
AllMusic: “Like just about everybody else these days, Murphy’s more skilled at creating isolated tracks than making full-lengths, even though this particular full-length has few weak spots and unfolds smoothly as you listen to it from beginning to end.”
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