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Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom
Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, also called brony music, is fan-made music inspired by the 2010 show composed by Daniel Ingram. It began 2010–2011 with Eurobeat Brony, peaked 2011–2013, spans EDM to orchestral, and persists via compilations like Ponies at Dawn.
My Generation (album)
My Generation (The Who Sings My Generation in the US) is the Who's 1965 debut album, produced by Shel Talmy, reaching #5 in the UK, with the title single at #2 UK and #74 US.
My Own Prison
My Own Prison (1997) is Creed's debut album, recorded for under $6,000 in John Kurzweg's Tallahassee home studio, self-released on Blue Collar, then re-released by Wind-Up; it sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
Never Let Me Down
Never Let Me Down is David Bowie's seventeenth studio album, released by EMI in April 1987 and produced with David Richards. Known for its dense 1980s production, poor reception, the Glass Spider Tour, and the 2018 reworking in the Loving the Alien box set.
Nevermind
Nevermind is Nirvana's second studio album and major-label debut, released on Geffen/DGC in September 1991. Produced by Butch Vig at Sound City Studios and mixed by Andy Wallace, it reached US number one on January 11, 1992, sold over 30 million copies, and popularized grunge worldwide.
New York Dolls (album)
New York Dolls (1973) is the eponymous debut album by the New York Dolls, produced by Todd Rundgren at the Record Plant for Mercury. A proto-punk landmark that sold poorly at first but shaped punk, glam, and the Sex Pistols.
News of the World (album)
News of the World, Queen's sixth studio album, released 28 October 1977 (EMI UK, Elektra US). Recorded July-September 1977 at Basing Street and Wessex, self-produced with Mike Stone; contains We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions; UK No. 4, US No. 3, Frank Kelly Freas robot cover.
Night in the Ruts
Night in the Ruts, Aerosmith's sixth studio album (Columbia, November 16, 1979), recorded as Joe Perry quit mid-session; reached No. 14 US, with the No. 67 single "Remember (Walking in the Sand)".
Night Moves (album)
Night Moves (1976) is Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band's ninth studio album on Capitol, recorded in Muscle Shoals, Detroit, and Toronto; it peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, went 6x platinum, and made Seger a national star.
Nine Lives (Aerosmith album)
Nine Lives is the twelfth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in 1997 by Columbia Records and reaching number one on the Billboard 200.
Nothing's Shocking
Nothing's Shocking is the 1988 Warner Bros. debut studio album by Jane's Addiction, produced by Dave Jerden and Perry Farrell, famous for its banned conjoined-twins cover, "Jane Says," "Mountain Song," gold and platinum certification, and role in mainstreaming alternative rock.
Obscured by Clouds
Obscured by Clouds is Pink Floyd's seventh album (June 1972, Harvest), the soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's film La Vallée, recorded in about a week at Château d'Hérouville and renamed after a dispute with the film company.
On Through the Night
On Through the Night is Def Leppard's 1980 debut album (Vertigo, UK No. 15, US No. 51), produced by Tom Allom at Startling Studios, Ascot, and a leading NWOBHM release, distinct from the later High 'n' Dry title track.
Operation: Mindcrime
Operation: Mindcrime is Queensrÿche's 1988 EMI concept album about the assassin Nikki and Dr. X; a million-selling US breakthrough, widely called a defining progressive metal record, later followed by sequels II (2006) and III (2026).
OU812
OU812: Van Halen's eighth studio album, released May 24, 1988 on Warner Bros., second with Sammy Hagar ("Van Hagar"), titled as a pun on David Lee Roth's Eat 'Em and Smile; hit number 1 on the Billboard 200, sold 4 million US copies, 4x Platinum.
Out of Our Heads
Out of Our Heads is a 1965 Rolling Stones album released in different US (London, July 30) and UK (Decca, September 24) editions; produced by Andrew Loog Oldham, it gave the band their first US number-one album and carried "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."
Out of the Cellar
Out of the Cellar (1984) is the debut full-length album by American glam metal band Ratt, also their biggest seller at over three million copies. Known for "Round and Round," it was produced by Beau Hill and reissued for its 40th anniversary.
Outlandos d'Amour
Outlandos d'Amour is the 1978 debut studio album by English rock band The Police, released by A&M Records and featuring the hit singles "Roxanne" and "So Lonely".
Paradise Theatre (album)
Paradise Theatre (album), Styx's tenth studio album (A&M, January 19, 1981), a concept album about Chicago's Paradise Theatre; Styx's only Billboard number-one album, with "The Best of Times" (#3) and "Too Much Time on My Hands" (#9).
Parental Advisory
Parental Advisory is the voluntary RIAA warning label for US recordings with strong language or violence, sex, or substance abuse, created November 1, 1985 after the PMRC campaign and standardized in 1990.
Pin Ups
Pin Ups: David Bowie's seventh studio album, released 19 October 1973 on RCA; an all-covers collection of 1964–67 London club favorites, the last Spiders from Mars album, UK No. 1, reissued for its 2023 50th anniversary.
Pinball Wizard
Pinball Wizard is a 1969 Pete Townshend song by The Who from the rock opera Tommy, about a deaf, blind pinball prodigy; UK #4 single, later a 1975 film scene, Broadway musical, and namesake of pinball machines and games.
Pompatus
Pompatus is a nonce word popularized by the Steve Miller Band in the 1970s. It stems from a mishearing of "puppetutes" in the 1954 doo-wop song "The Letter."
Power Up (ϟUP) (album)
Power Up (PWR/UP) is AC/DC's 17th studio album, released 13 November 2020 on Columbia Records; produced by Brendan O'Brien and credited entirely to Angus and Malcolm Young as a tribute to Malcolm, it peaked at number 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart.
Pump (album)
Pump is Aerosmith's tenth studio album, released September 12, 1989 on Geffen Records, produced by Bruce Fairbairn at Little Mountain Sound. Certified 7x Platinum in the US, it peaked at No. 5 Billboard and No. 3 UK, with hits Love in an Elevator and Janie's Got a Gun.
Purple (Stone Temple Pilots album)
Purple (STP Purple), Stone Temple Pilots' 1994 second album produced by Brendan O'Brien in Atlanta: No. 1 Billboard debut, six million copies, singles "Interstate Love Song", "Vasoline", "Big Empty".
Pyromania (album)
Pyromania is Def Leppard's third studio album, released January 20, 1983, produced by Mutt Lange. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, sold over 10 million US copies, and launched the hits Photograph, Rock of Ages, and Foolin'.
Quadrophenia
Quadrophenia is The Who's sixth studio album, a 1973 double rock opera written by Pete Townshend about mod Jimmy, whose split personality mirrors the four band members; it reached No. 2 in the UK and US and inspired the 1979 film.
Queen II
Queen II is Queen's second studio album, released 8 March 1974, recorded at Trident Studios with Roy Thomas Baker. Divided into Side White and Side Black, it peaked at UK No. 5, spawned the hit Seven Seas of Rhye, and is regarded as the band's heaviest album.
Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age album)
Rated R, Queens of the Stone Age's second album (Interscope, 6 June 2000), recorded at Sound City with Homme, Oliveri, guests Lanegan and Halford; UK peak 54, reissued 2003, 2010, 2019.