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Agents of Fortune
Agents of Fortune is Blue Öyster Cult's fourth studio album (Columbia, May 1976), produced by Pearlman, Krugman, and David Lucas. It reached US No. 29 and UK No. 26, went platinum, and yielded the hit "(Don't Fear) The Reaper".
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is a soul song written by Ashford and Simpson, recorded in 1967 by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and a 1970 number-one hit for Diana Ross.
Ain't Nobody
Ain't Nobody is a 1983 synth-funk song by Rufus and Chaka Khan, written by keyboardist David "Hawk" Wolinski around a Linn drum machine loop. It hit No. 1 R&B, won a 1984 Grammy, and was later covered by LL Cool J and Felix Jaehn.
Aladdin Sane
Aladdin Sane is David Bowie's sixth studio album, released April 1973 on RCA, produced with Ken Scott, famous for Duffy's lightning-bolt cover, Mike Garson's avant-garde piano, and the 'Ziggy goes to America' persona.
Album-oriented rock
Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally album-oriented radio) is a US FM radio format from the late 1960s playing rock album tracks and deep cuts instead of Top 40 singles; it peaked in the 1970s, helped shift listeners from AM to FM, and evolved into classic rock radio in the 1980s. Distinct from adult-oriented rock, which shares the initialism.
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth (1946–2017), English jazz-fusion guitarist from Bradford, known for Soft Machine, Tony Williams' Lifetime, U.K., solo albums like Metal Fatigue, legato technique, and SynthAxe use.
Alternative R&B
Alternative R&B (alt-R&B, indie R&B, PBR&B) is an experimental strand of contemporary R&B that broke out in 2011 via Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, defined by atmospheric, lo-fi production and confessional lyrics.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock, also known as alt-rock, is a broad style of rock from punk and independent underground scenes of the late 1970s and 1980s that reached the mainstream in the early 1990s.
Ambient music
Ambient music, a genre named by Brian Eno in 1978 with Music for Airports, is atmosphere-oriented music 'as ignorable as it is interesting', spanning drone, new age, ambient techno, and chill-out, now strained by short-form streaming economics.
America (Thirty Seconds to Mars album)
America (2018) is the fifth studio album by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, released April 6, 2018 on Interscope: 12 pop/electropop tracks featuring A$AP Rocky and Halsey, preceded by singles Walk On Water and Dangerous Night.
American Idiot (musical)
American Idiot is a rock musical adapting Green Day's 2004 album, with a book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer, premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2009 and running on Broadway at the St. James Theatre 2010-2011.
An American Prayer
An American Prayer (1978), the Doors' final studio album, sets Jim Morrison's 1969-1970 spoken-word poetry recordings to new music recorded in 1977 by Manzarek, Krieger, and Densmore, produced by John Haeny, credited to Jim Morrison with music by The Doors.
Animal Magnetism (Scorpions album)
Animal Magnetism is the seventh studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions, released March 31, 1980 on Harvest/EMI and Mercury, produced by Dieter Dierks, featuring the singles Make It Real and The Zoo, RIAA platinum in 1991.
Animalize
Animalize is KISS's twelfth studio album, released September 13, 1984 on Mercury. Produced by Paul Stanley, it features Mark St. John on guitar, the hit "Heaven's On Fire", US #19 chart peak, and RIAA platinum certification.
Another Brick in the Wall
Another Brick in the Wall: three-part Roger Waters song on Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall; Part 2, with the Islington Green School choir, hit UK Number 1 and was banned in apartheid South Africa in 1980.
Answer song
Answer song, response song, or answer record: a song made in answer to a previous song by another artist, widespread in blues and R&B in the 1930s–1950s, popular in country and pop through the 1960s, and surviving in hip hop diss tracks.
Anti-folk
Anti-folk (antifolk) is a raw, satirical acoustic songwriting movement founded by Lach in 1980s New York, home at Sidewalk Cafe from 1993, associated with Beck, the Moldy Peaches, Regina Spektor, and Jeffrey Lewis.
Antichrist Superstar
Antichrist Superstar is Marilyn Manson's second studio album, released October 8, 1996, produced by Trent Reznor at Nothing Studios; it debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200, went platinum, and opens the Triptych trilogy.
Appetite for Destruction
Appetite for Destruction is the 1987 Geffen Records debut album by Guns N' Roses, produced by Mike Clink, No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1988, 18x Platinum in the US, with over 30 million copies sold and the banned Robert Williams cover art.
Arca (musician)
Arca (Alejandra Ghersi, born 1990) is a Venezuelan experimental electronic musician, producer, and vocalist; co-producer of Björk's Vulnicura and Kanye West's Yeezus, with albums Xen, Arca, the KiCk series, and XXXXX.
Arena rock
Arena rock, also called anthem rock or stadium rock, is a style of hard rock of the 1970s and 1980s built for large venues, with acts such as Journey, Boston, and Queen.
Arnel Pineda
Arnel Pineda (born 1967, Sampaloc, Manila) is a Filipino singer, Journey's lead vocalist since December 2007, discovered by Neal Schon via Noel Gomez's YouTube videos of his band the Zoo; albums Revelation and Eclipse.
Art Alexakis
Art Alexakis (Arthur Paul Alexakis, born 1962) is the American singer, guitarist, and songwriter who founded Everclear in Portland in 1992, wrote its 1990s alt-rock hits, and went solo with Sun Songs in 2019.
Art of Noise
Art of Noise (The Art of Noise), English electronic group formed in London in 1983 by Langan, Jeczalik, Dudley, Horn, and Morley; Fairlight CMI sampling pioneers on ZTT, known for Into Battle, Moments in Love, and In Visible Silence.
Art pop
Art pop: a loosely defined pop music style emerging mid-1960s in the UK and US, influenced by pop art and art-school culture, emphasizing imagery and style over personal expression; associated with Warhol, the Velvet Underground, Bowie, and Roxy Music.
Art rock
Art rock: eclectic rock genre emerging in the late 1960s, peaking 1972–74 with Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP; classical-influenced, concept-album-oriented; distinct from progressive and experimental rock; continued by Radiohead and 2000s experimental pop.
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) is the Kinks' seventh studio album, released 10 October 1969 on Pye/Reprise. A Ray Davies concept album about carpet-layer Arthur Morgan, based on brother-in-law Arthur Anning, it was originally a cancelled Granada TV play soundtrack.
ASAP Mob
ASAP Mob (A$AP Mob), a Harlem hip hop collective founded around 2006–2007 by A$AP Yams, A$AP Bari, and A$AP Illz, launched A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg's careers; its Cozy Tapes series peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200.
Asylum (Kiss album)
Asylum (1985) is Kiss's 13th studio album on Mercury, the first with lead guitarist Bruce Kulick. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, it peaked at US #20, went RIAA gold, and produced the hit single "Tears Are Falling."
Autobahn (album)
Autobahn is Kraftwerk's fourth studio album, released 1 November 1974 on Philips/Vertigo, with a 23-minute title track, US college-radio hit single, UK No. 4 and US No. 5 album chart positions, and a 2025 Dolby Atmos 50th-anniversary reissue.