But she knew that to fully convey the horror of that bloody string that ties history together required a level of strength and depth as a writer that would take years to accomplish. ‘Funeral’ captured a broad, mature and considered philosophical spirit rarely found in popular music. ‘Metropolis’. Not everything here works, but when it does – the ramshackle, last-take-of-20 ‘Stuck Inside Of Mobile…’; the mesmeric, magical, magnificent ‘Visions Of Johanna’ – it’s incomparable. While it’s easy to feel like you know every beat of ‘Revolver’ or ‘Abbey Road’, ‘The White Album’ remains The Beatles’ dark continent, vast enough to retain some mystery, varied enough to still surprise. ... McGregor was finally going to face the greatest featherweight of all-time in what was sure to be an epic fight. There was a time when Radiohead listeners didn’t need to train their ear in order to appreciate their work. It is one of those select few albums which seem to transcend its influences, working them into something singular and new. Kanye West, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ (2010) Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam. – sleeping subconscious: immersive and impressionistic, ‘Come In Alone’ and ‘To Here Knows When’ sounded as if they were being beamed in from another plane of consciousness. Talking Heads, ‘Remain In Light’ (1980) Sire. 29. Far and away the best album of rock’s Phase One, virtually every one of these 35 minutes brought a fresh revelation, featuring more stylistic and cultural innovation in its first ten minutes than most other bands achieve in their lifespan. i am proud to present, in order, the coolest records of all time. The longing of ‘Last Goodbye’, the lump-in-the-throat heartache of ‘Lover, You Should’ve Come Over’ and the haunting ‘Dream Brother’ are all the more eerie from beyond the grave. It’s been mastered very high in the mix, so it leaps out of the speakers at you.”. Nirvana, ‘Nevermind’ (1991) Geffen. 69. 19. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. He was a smooth lothario in a pop band who then went on to make an album about Vietnam and oppression. Beastie Boys, ‘Paul’s Boutique’ (1989) Capitol/EMI. Recorded over nine years from 1956 - 1965, the … Tap to unmute. ‘Raw Power’ is probably the best Stooges album, because it’s so loud. More than thirty years on, there’s still something unknowable and otherworldly about it. These ratings are based on albums’ weekly performance on the Top Country Albums chart from January 1996 to June 2016. Jason Lytle: “They’re a great band so it’s really hard to pick out any one of their records because they’re all great, but this one is terrific. 12. You know who wrote ‘The Loco-Motion’? ‘Ziggy Stardust…’ demands to be engaged with from start to finish. 87. Just over a year after its release the band was over – the closing suite of merged songs dominating side two was a fittingly staggering swansong for this most peerless of bands. Never for commercial success, but a hunger for art, for honesty, for beauty. The Libertines, ‘The Libertines’ (2004) Rough Trade. Super Furry Animals, ‘Radiator’ (1997) Creation. 39. In This Article: 500greatestalbums, alltime, Beastie Boys, Beck, Best Albums, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, Green Day, Jimi Hendrix, … Jagger puts himself in Beelzebub’s shoes on the simply staggering album opener ‘Sympathy For The Devil’, blazing a trail through history while Richards comes on like the soundtrack to the apocalypse. His fifth album caused shockwaves that were to be felt long after it’s 1965 release, with rowdy tracks like ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ and ‘Maggie’s Farm’ a major influence on the folk-rock scene that exploded for the rest of the decade. 15. ‘Astral Weeks’ is so sharp that it takes one breath between sanity and madness. An album that, rather than heavy-hearted, was irrepressible in its youthful spirit. 53. ‘Different Class’ is the sound of Pulp smuggling some deeply subversive truths into our record players. 33. 64. Blondie, ‘Parallel Lines’ (1978) Chrysallis. 10. 91. 30. Publication by Engaged Media. Tens of thousands of you voted, and now it's time for the results. The Libertines’ graceful romanticism has never shone brighter. The cult success of this sole album released by Tim Buckley’s son during his short life is intrinsically linked to his mysterious premature death. The Beatles, ‘Rubber Soul’ (1965) Parlophone. The album that has inspired the rise of new artists such as Florence & The Machine and Haim. As the Purple One himself might put it, it’s close 2 genius. Joni Mitchell, ‘Blue’ (1971) Reprise. But rather than wallowing in it all, they soared above the squalor. Shedding the distortion of their debut, ‘Live Through This’ ventured into unexpectedly gentle territory with acoustic track ‘Softer, Softest’. 94. 27. Hyundai Records Its Best Sales Month Of All-Time In March 2021 BY Sebastien Bell | Posted on April 1, 2021 April 2, 2021 The month that just ended was Hyundai Motor America’s best ever. Ecstatic suicides, carrot-flower kings and semen-stained mountaintops. 5. Rapturous rock n’ roll. Edited by Bob Guccione Jr. Only vinyl and nothing after 1991. But she seems to need those bits to vault up to the high points. 7. Dusty Springfield, ‘Dusty In Memphis’ (1969) Atlantic. The sleeve said it all: space-age technology turned on its side. The Stone Roses, ‘The Stone Roses’ (1989)Silvertone. England's greatest rock band holds the top spot on this all-time ranking of best-selling artists by album sales, and it looks untouchable on a list filled with a number of surprising appearances. These are the 20 best-selling albums of all time: Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, Oasis, ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, The Sex Pistols, ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’, Wu-Tang Clan, ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’, David Bowie, ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’, Kanye West, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’, Public Enemy, ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’, The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground & Nico. Having wrestled creative control of his career from Motown, Wonder was at the peak of his powers as both a performer and songwriter; his transition from child hitmaker to experimental adult artist was complete. Dave Maclean, Django Django: “I remember going into Our Price with my mum and asking the guy for some Public Enemy; I was used to ’60s music in my folks’ LP collection, and that was mind-expanding enough, but this felt like my music, speaking for my generation, and it blew my tiny, Scottish head.”. 25. It’s so uninhibited it’s almost grotesque. In 1994 anti-government concept albums and Broadway musicals seemed a long way off for Green Day, but they did manage to release the definitive punk-pop album of the decade. Miles Davis, ‘Kind Of Blue’ (1959) Columbia. For ‘Remain In Light’, Talking Heads wanted to be more than a rock band. No sales figures can convey the gut-punch excitement of ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’. Periodically, magazines and radio stations mount grand polls, asking readers and listeners to register their "all-time favourite" singles/songs. 80. For one thing, timelessness. It hasn’t stood the test of time like 1998’s ‘Mezzanine’ but it’s this debut record that marked the invention of trip-hop and the birth of the Bristol movement. The Streets ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’ (2004) Locked On/679. Taking in dub, soul, breakbeat and reggae, the trio forged a new type of electronica. updated over 5 years ago. ‘Horses’ roared with hunger. Young was in his mid 20s, but wrote and sang like a man who’d already seen too much. 76. I’m trying to focus on this record, Carter Thomas’ Sonoma—a mid-’80s UK pressing with a trilogy of early ’70s pieces, all done solely on Buchla and Serge equipment, all gorgeous. 65. 49. It was Carole King. 55The Rolling Stones, ‘Sticky Fingers’. Joy Division, ‘Unknown Pleasures’ (1979) Factory. Producer Steve Albini was brought in, and with him the trio created a stunningly ferocious and spiteful set of songs that reconnected Kurt, Dave and Krist with their punk rock roots. In 2018, The Eagles' greatest hits album, released in 1976, surpassed Michael Jackson's 1982 album "Thriller" to take the top spot on the RIAA's list. Shields’ magnum opus sounds like an authentic field recording from its author’s – or should that be architect’s? The only low points would be some of the shorter ones on Side 3, but Hey You, Nobody Home, and … Love, ‘Forever Changes’ (1967) Elektra. 82. Kraftwerk, ‘Trans-Europe Express’ (1977) Kling Klang. Freddie Cowan, The Vaccines: “When I was growing up I used to like skate videos and there was this one where they used ‘Where Is My Mind?’ and it just got me. What distinguishes it as the greatest ever made? Oasis, ‘Definitely Maybe’ (1994) Creation. Eschewing the trends of commercial rap in the early 90s, Nas and DJ Premier combined minimalist production with funk, soul and jazz samples to create an album against which any future rap release would be judged. The album that exposed the QOTSA as a gargantuan rock force. Radiohead, ‘In Rainbows’ (2007) Self released. This may be because this unrehearsed recording session from 1959 marks a great turning point in jazz history as well as showcasing the top … The Libertines ‘Up The Bracket’ (2002) Rough Trade. Massive Attack, ‘Blue Lines’ (1991) Virgin. It’s the one unbroken link that takes you from Richard Hell to The Ramones to Joy Division to The Jesus & Mary Chain to OMD to Pulp to The Strokes to whatever’s happening a week next Tuesday. A hormone-drenched racket. But I remember thinking it was great.”. Hands down the catchiest record to come from the youth crew pre-1990 HYHC scene. From the opening ‘Planet Telex’ through the blistering ‘My Iron Lung’, the neurotic ‘Just’ and the world-weary ‘Fake Plastic Trees’, ‘The Bends’ is the gateway Radiohead record. PJ Harvey, ‘Let England Shake’ (2011) Island. Worse, it reduces the listener’s ability to feel the full range of a tremendous record’s complicated and expansive power. The whole package sparked a shift in music, putting intensity, grandiosity and scale of ambition back on the agenda, and introducing nu-folk boom. 83. Songs such as ‘Reel Around The Fountain’ and debut single ‘Hand In Glove’ shine through the slightly tinny production (hey, it was the ’80s), setting the first marker of a generation-defining career. Without a doubt the most pivotal record of the post-punk era. In the run-up to the release of Blur’s second album Damon Albarn declared “If punk was about getting rid of hippies then I’m getting rid of grunge.” He may not have succeeded but ‘Modern Life’ did signal an exhilarating new chapter for British music in a period where America dominated. 96. The RS 500 was assembled by the editors of Rolling Stone, based on the results of two extensive polls. Brian Fallon: “I went to high school in Hackettstown, New Jersey. 28. The Beatles, ‘The Beatles’ (1968)Apple. The 100 greatest vinyl records of all time by Liza Lentini. 14. 52. And here was an album that managed to utterly encapsulate the baggy Madchester scene of the moment and that would continue to influence bands to this day. Signing to a major label didn’t cost Sonic Youth their soul, ‘Goo’ and ‘Dirty’ are both loftily-ranked in the alt.rock pantheon -but their last album before signing to Geffen is still their most revered. Manic Street Preachers, ‘The Holy Bible’ (1994) Epic. Matlock, Jones and Cook were always better than the “turn up, plug in and play” punk rubric would imply, but Rotten’s performances of some scabrous songs left everyone else playing catch-up. David Bowie, Station To Station (1976) RCA. Eight flawless tracks make up Springsteen’s triumphant third album. Young admits to having a love/hate relationship this album – it’s huge sales gave him the freedom to do what he wanted, in spite of that he’s never been able to shake off the ‘country rocker’ mantle. © 2021 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. 24. 41.Sonic Youth ‘Daydream Nation’ (1988) Enigma. ‘Tapestry’ is the mother of the reflective records; so comforting, beautifully woven and wise, it would be easy but foolish to forget to thank it for its guidance. The Beatles, Revolver (1966). 11. Publication by Engaged Media. Roxy Music’s second album is the pinnacle of English art rock, mixing pop sensibilities with a brash experimental spirit, its songs about new dance crazes and inflatable doll lust attracting attention from devotees such as Morrissey. David Bowie, ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ (1972) RCA. 88. The Beatles, ‘Abbey Road’ (1969) Apple. 97. In the middle of the 1970s, this album was the Molotov cocktail that ignited a cultural revolution. 60. MOJO SAYS: Manchester’s gloomiest invested their greatest moment with washes of colour that sentenced an entire indie aesthetic to the sidelines: RIP Miserabilism, 1979-81. The Stone Roses were a band for all seasons, pulling influences from dance music and psychedelia, indie and rock and fusing them into one effortless whole. The Smiths, ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ (1984) Rough Trade. Stevie Wonder, ‘Innervisions’ (1973) Tamla. Prince And The Revolution, ‘Purple Rain’ (1984) Warner Bros. Television, ‘Marquee Moon’ (1977) Elektra. 71. Joy Division produced a record that perversely thrived because of the weight of its own burden, a record that writhed with an all-encompassing internal atmosphere that would go on to influence artists to this day. The global group-hug of ‘Everybody Hurts’ offset the gorgeous skinny-dipping piano snapshot ‘Nightswimming’ and somber funeral paean ‘Sweetness Follows’. REM’s creative pinnacle was a delectably mournful affair approaching the ennui of loss and aging with a comforting hand. Suede, ‘Dog Man Star’ (1994) Nude. No novelties, special collector releases etc. I was getting into punk and the owner of the store was like, ‘You’re trying to get into punk and you don’t know The Clash?’ So he bought the record for me. Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ (2006) Domino. Neutral Milk Hotel, ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’ (1998) Merge/Domino. Eventually bordering on the divine, as well as something cracked and broken. Radiohead, ‘The Bends’ (1995) Parlophone. 50. Hayden Thorpe, Wild Beasts: “It’s a real time-and-a-place album. Neutral Milk Hotel, ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’, Queens Of The Stone Age ‘Songs For The Deaf’, The Streets ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’, Lauryn Hill, ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’, The Beatles, ‘Sgt. No novelties, special collector releases etc. A year later they would perform on Live Aid and steal the show, with Radio Ga Ga unifying Wembley and the world. In every sense, ‘Pet Sounds’ was a bar-raising record, something which was more complex and sophisticated than anything the Beach Boys – or any of their peers – had previously attempted, an album which represented rock music moving on from adolescent whimsies and into a rich new maturity. Sitting midway between The Beatles’ fresh-faced beginnings and their druggier experimental indulgences, ‘Rubber Soul’ subtly shed the group’s old, squeaky clean skin on an exciting stepping stone to wilder innovations. So I bought ‘Surfer Rosa’ because of that. 47. I went back and gave him the money because I was like, ‘This is awesome’”. I found 10 lists of "best blues albums of all time" in books, magazines and web sites, and combined them into one list. Seamlessly gelling the coldness of machines with the hot thrum of rock’n’roll, James Murphy’s finest hour finds him squealing and wailing like a crazed party animal given access to the control room of electronic music. For their visceral third album, the Manics went back to their Wire, Gang Of Four and Joy Division albums for songs which touched on anorexia, the Holocaust and imperialism, unleashing their most brutal scream from the depths of social and psychological depravity. Dazzling. Any song that lists the days of the week pisses me off.”. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. No novelties, special … REM, ‘Murmur’ (1983) IRS. Bob Dylan, ‘Blonde On Blonde’ (1966) Columbia. The merits of Radiohead’s pay-what-you-thinkit’s-worth release plan are still being debated now, but what’s not is the quality of the music, unquestionably Radiohead’s finest, most coherent record since ‘OK Computer’ – in fact, many fans now hold it in higher esteem. Rough Trade. Suede, ‘Suede’ (1993) Nude. Pulp, Different Class (1995) Island. Wu-Tang Clam, ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chamblers)’ (1993) Loud. 55. 4. The list of albums and figures mentioned below have been compiled from various sources around the web, such as Business Insider, Mental Floss & Paste Magazine. Experimenting with stream-of-consciousness writing, inspired by American baptist preachers. The Beatles, ‘Sgt. And in ‘Unfinished Sympathy’, they dreamt up its unsurpassable blueprint. A benchmark of claustrophobia and creeping unease, it feels like there’s hardly any room to breathe on Joy Division’s 1979 debut – as though the austere machinery that propels the album along is sucking all the oxygen out of your lungs. 59. Neil Young ‘Harvest’ (1972) Reprise. We attempt to rank top 5 teams by the best NBA regular season records of all time. To follow through on that sort of transformation so convincingly is just amazing.”. i welcome suggestions for that as well. Many records with covers autographed by the artists are worth quite a good sum, and average everyday people owned these, so you will run across them at thrift stores or estate sales from time to time. WOT_COM_US_G I Joe_Joe_vs_Cobra_EN_30-sec. Simon and Garfunkel* - Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Beatles - Sgt. Words: Damien Morris, Chris Cottingham, Thomas H Green, Duncan Dick. Stephen Street: “The Clash proved you didn’t have to be just a one-trick pony – you could do a little bit of rockabilly, some reggae, or something straightforward, punky and rocky. Morrissey and Marr compliment each other perfectly. It was a masterstroke of lyrical poetry, a piece of work that will continue to live through the ages. Van Morrison, ‘Astral Weeks’ (1968) Warner Bros. 74. On another it’s full of Cocker’s idiosyncratic takes on song-writers fancying people and taking lots of lovely drugs. It’s also much more than that. 22. I felt like it would succeed to the point where we would be able to make another record. ‘The Model’. Now credited with inventing post-rock, its hushed-tones cognoscenti-led reputation seems to grow every single year. ‘The Beatles’ proved that the group were just as brilliant while unravelling as they were when everything was fab. The rest of their albums are not brilliantly produced and even ‘The Queen Is Dead’ doesn’t have the depth of ‘Hatful of Hollow’.”. Suede had created the Britpop scene in the image of Bowie at his most stylish, only to watch it go mod, chug a load of cheap lager, pretend it didn’t have a degree and fight itself over ‘birds’. Epic in every sense of the word, ‘Daydream Nation’ was hailed as a work of undiluted genius upon its release, age has not withered it a jot. If the preceding ‘Modern Life Is Rubbish’ had seen Blur declare war on grunge and meathead American rock, ‘Parklife’ saw them perfect the sound that would put Britain back in the middle of the mid-‘90s cultural map. Doing a list of the best albums “of all time” is bound to be a disaster — EW tried it this past summer and not surprisingly the thing was a shitshow. Bjork, ‘Debut’ (1993) One Little Indian. 63. 62. The Rolling Stones, ‘Let It Bleed’ (1969) Decca. Albert Hammond Jnr: ”That was just the set list we had been playing, it was underneath our fingers and the feeling was one of extreme excitement. The Montreal collective’s debut saw them contemplating nothing smaller than life and death itself. At first glance it read like a particularly morbid edition of Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, but ‘Aeroplane…’ crystallizes the no-fi psych-folk ethos of the Elephant 6 collective that Mangum emerged from. Utterly bewitching, ‘Dusty…’ stands up as perhaps the ultimate piece of A&R, a perfect match of evergreen songs (Wexler originally put as many as 80 to Dusty), a great singer and crack players. Solidifying his status as the greatest songwriter of the 20th century™, it kicked off with the monumental ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and ended with him harking back to his acoustic roots with the epic ‘Desolation Row’. Their debut made them brat-rap anti-heroes, but this follow-up was a rare record – iconoclastic without an ounce of calculation, startlingly innovative because its makers were just pleasing themselves. Check out Recent Lists. Oasis, ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’ (1995) Creation. Hayden Thorpe, Wild Beasts “He’s a hero to me because he’s such an antihero. The second solo on Comfortably Numb is the greatest solo of all time. Want to see other lists from the Discogs Community? Dylan’s sixth LP saw him trading stripped-back protest balladry and Woody Guthrie worship for full-band ballsiness. I reckon I’d have been about 11, so I never realised it was a seminal record or anything. Nirvana, ‘In Utero’ (1993) DGC. Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos 5 & 7. The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) Verve. ‘Debut’ achieved the remarkable feat of turning an idiosyncratic vocalist from a feted cult band into a significant global pop star, without losing one iota of the experimental mindset and creative cool that made her so special. The seven-minute ‘Champagne Supernova’ hinted at the cocaine sprawls of ‘Be Here Now’, but nonetheless trapped the early-Oasis lightning in a Bolly bottle. All-time tennis records – men's singles, covers the period from 1877 to present.. Before the beginning of the Open Era in April 1968, only amateurs were allowed to compete in established tennis tournaments, including the four Grand Slam tournaments (also known as the Majors). Oasis’ breakthrough album claimed Britpop for the lads and primed the band for Knebworth with such timeless anthems as ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’. 32. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out From ‘Thunder Road’ to ‘Jungleland’ its Motown influences make for particularly emotive rock’n’roll. Few artists ever capture a moment like this, hooked around the story of a stoner losing a wedge down the back of the TV. REM at their most balletic. It’s because ‘Rumours’ travels the entire breadth of human emotion and at the heart of the record lies all the elements of an addictive rock’n’roll soap opera that never ceases to fascinate its fans. The Clash, ‘London Calling’ (1979) CBS/Epic/Legacy. 44. i will take suggestions if you got them. 23. Carole King, ‘Tapestry’ (1971) Ode. b ps- in the months to follow i will be drawing up a list of both the 50 greatest EP's and singles of all time. REM, ‘Automatic For The People’ (1992) Warner Bros. Prince was big before ‘Purple Rain’, but his sixth studio album (and soundtrack to the film of the same name) made him massive by mixing first-rate songwriting with his dazzling ability to master genres from funk to hard rock to psychedelic pop. A record that followed the surprise gloomy shades of 1968’s ‘Beggars Banquet’ with even stormier hues, ‘Let it Bleed’ was to be the Swinging Sixties’ sinister swan song – an album that, beneath its bristling bass lines, bluesy licks of guitar and clatter of drums, lamented the crumbling of a counterculture uprising. Bowie created Ziggy to be the perfect rock star, a cocaine-skinny humanoid alien, charisma down to his bones and suitably adored by the fan armies depicted in the timeless ‘Ziggy Stardust’ song. 95. 20. 2. Kraftwerk, ‘The Man Machine’ (1978) EMI/Kling Klang/Capitol. updated over 5 years ago. 56. Noisier than punk, funk only in the most technical sense and with Chuck’s righteous sloganeering spliced between Flavor’s manic cackles and declamations, it redefined the possibilities for rap, rock, soul and beyond. The Rolling Stones, ‘Beggars Banquet’ (1968) Decca. Forget the glitter, the Spiders, the weird eyes, it was Bowie’s incredible song-writing gifts on ‘Hunky Dory’ that convinced us he was beamed from the stars. 98. On one level it’s a brilliant pop record, full of songs custom-built for the indie disco. The Rolling Stones, ‘Sticky Fingers’ (1971) Rolling Stones. The Libertines’ debut sounds lapel-grabbingly urgent rather than lo-fi and unfinished. Lyrically examining Courtney Love’s new place in motherhood, Hole’s second album showed a sweeter side to the band. With the help Brian Eno, he wound this into an album of driving polyrhythms fired with an ecstatic fervour, nowhere better than on the modern spiritual ‘Once In A Lifetime’. Music is as subjective as any art form, but most people can agree that there are works that rise above the rest and go down as the best albums of all … 100 best rock albums of all time, according to critics Driven by the success of the Byrds and the Beatles, the mid-1960s saw rock-and-roll evolve from mere dance music for youth to a bona fide form of art , according to Simon C. W. Reynolds, author of “Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock.” But it’s on a harrowing tale of heroin abuse, the acoustic ‘The Needle And The Damage Done’, that we hear the real Young –raw and unflinchingly honest. Exuding Bowie’s androgy-trash glamour and oozing bad drugs and weirdie sex from every pore, the suave and sultry Suede debut brought over-arching pop sleaze (‘Animal Nitrate’) and all-consuming doomed romance (‘The Drowners’, ‘Pantomime Horse’, ‘Sleeping Pills’) to a UK scene previously obsessed with Es and shoes, and kick-strated the Britpop revolution. Amy Winehouse, ‘Back To Black’ (2006) Island. 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