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Absolutely Free
Absolutely Free is the 1967 second album by Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention on Verve, recorded November 1966 on an $11,000 MGM budget, structured as two linked suites including "Plastic People" and "Brown Shoes Don't Make It."
Aja (album)
Aja, pronounced "Asia," is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Steely Dan, released in 1977 and known for the hit singles "Peg," "Deacon Blues," and "Josie."
Amnesiac (album)
Amnesiac (Radiohead, 2001) studio album from the same sessions as Kid A; UK number 1, Grammy-winning Stanley Donwood library packaging, Gnostic memory themes, later ranked among the 2000s' best albums.
Another Green World
Another Green World (1975) is Brian Eno's third solo album on Island Records: 14 tracks, only five with vocals, built from improvisation with Phil Collins, Percy Jones, John Cale, and Robert Fripp using Oblique Strategies cards; it bridged his rock records and ambient music.
Apostrophe (')
The apostrophe (') is an English punctuation mark for contractions and possessives, not plurals. Guides differ on names ending in s (Styles's vs Styles'); Unicode distinguishes U+0027, U+2019, and U+02BC.
Avalon (Roxy Music album)
Avalon is Roxy Music's eighth and final studio album, released May 1982. A UK No. 1 for three weeks and the band's biggest US success, it spawned More Than This, Take a Chance With Me, and the title track.
Berlin Trilogy
The Berlin Trilogy is David Bowie's run of three albums, Low, "Heroes", and Lodger (1977–1979), made with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti; only "Heroes" was recorded in Berlin, at Hansa Studios near the Wall.
Blackstar (album)
Blackstar (★) is David Bowie's 25th and final studio album, released 8 January 2016 on his 69th birthday, two days before his death; a jazz-inflected seven-track record made with the Donny McCaslin Quartet and Tony Visconti, it won four posthumous Grammys.
Brian Wilson Presents Smile
Brian Wilson Presents Smile is a 2004 studio album by Brian Wilson that completes SMiLE, the legendary Beach Boys project abandoned in 1967, released by Nonesuch Records.
David Bowie (1969 album)
David Bowie (1969), also known as Space Oddity and Man of Words/Man of Music, is Bowie's second studio album, released 14 November 1969 on Philips, led by the top-five UK single Space Oddity and reissued by RCA in 1972.
Gone to Earth (David Sylvian album)
Gone to Earth (September 1986, Virgin) is David Sylvian's double album follow-up to Brilliant Trees: seven vocal tracks plus ten ambient instrumentals, with Robert Fripp and Bill Nelson, UK peak No. 24, themes of gnosticism and alchemy.
Hail to the Thief
Hail to the Thief (The Gloaming) is Radiohead's sixth studio album, released 9 June 2003; recorded in two weeks in Los Angeles with Nigel Godrich, its title parodies 'Hail to the Chief' and was read as anti-Bush commentary.
Heathen (David Bowie album)
Heathen (2002) is David Bowie's studio album on ISO/Columbia, produced with Tony Visconti in their first collaboration in 22 years. 12 tracks including Cactus and Slow Burn; UK No. 5, US No. 14; hailed as his best since Scary Monsters.
Hounds of Love
Hounds of Love (Kate Bush, 1985): fifth studio album, UK No. 1, two-part LP with the The Ninth Wave suite, Fairlight CMI home-studio production, BPI Double Platinum, 2022 Stranger Things revival.
Hunky Dory
Hunky Dory is David Bowie's fourth studio album, released 17 December 1971 on RCA, produced by Ken Scott and Bowie at Trident Studios. Piano-driven songs including Changes and Life on Mars?, with Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder, and Woody Woodmansey; slow seller that later ranked among Bowie's best albums.
Iconoclasts (album)
Iconoclasts is Anna von Hausswolff's sixth studio album, released October 31, 2025 on Year0001. The 12-song, organ-driven record features Iggy Pop and Ethel Cain, scored 88 on Metacritic, and won Sweden's P3 Guld Album of the Year.
In Rainbows
In Rainbows is Radiohead's seventh studio album, self-released 10 October 2007 as a pay-what-you-want download after leaving EMI; 38% of buyers paid about $6, and it scored 88 on Metacritic.
Kid A
Kid A is Radiohead's fourth studio album, released October 2000 on Capitol and produced with Nigel Godrich. The experimental, electronics-driven follow-up to OK Computer reached No. 1 in the UK and US, won the 2001 Grammy for Best Alternative Album, and was later named album of the decade by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and The Times.
Laughing Stock
Laughing Stock, Talk Talk's fifth and final studio album, released 16 September 1991 on Verve/Polydor; recorded at Wessex Studios 1990-91 with Tim Friese-Greene, Phill Brown, about 50 musicians; UK chart No. 26; foundational post-rock influence.
Lodger (album)
Lodger is David Bowie's thirteenth studio album, released May 1979 on RCA and produced with Tony Visconti; the final Berlin Trilogy album with Brian Eno, recorded in Montreux and New York, all-vocal, UK number 4.
Low (David Bowie album)
Low is David Bowie's eleventh studio album, released 14 January 1977 on RCA and first of the Berlin Trilogy. Mostly recorded at Château d'Hérouville, mixed at Hansa, West Berlin; produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti; peaked at UK number 2.
Murder Ballads
Murder Ballads is the ninth studio album by Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1996 and featuring guests Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey, and Shane MacGowan.
Never for Ever
Never for Ever (1980) is Kate Bush's third studio album, co-produced with Jon Kelly, her first UK No.1 album and the first by a British female solo artist to top the UK chart, featuring Babooshka, Army Dreamers, and Breathing.
O\I
o\i (backslash, not oblique) is Peter Gabriel's eleventh studio album, released 27 November 2026 on Real World; 13 tracks completing the 25-track i/o / o\i project, delivered song by song on each full moon of 2026.
OK Computer
OK Computer is Radiohead's third studio album, released May 1997, produced with Nigel Godrich and largely recorded at St Catherine's Court near Bath. A 12-track art rock landmark on technology and alienation, it topped the UK chart and entered the National Recording Registry in 2014.
Over-Nite Sensation
Over-Nite Sensation: 1973 Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention album on DiscReet, seven funk-rock satire tracks including Montana and I'm The Slime, RIAA Gold in 1976, Billboard peak 32, 50th anniversary box set 2023.
Peter Gabriel (1978 album)
Peter Gabriel (1978), nicknamed Scratch, is Peter Gabriel's second solo album, produced by Robert Fripp, recorded in the Netherlands and New York, released June 1978 on Charisma.
Peter Gabriel (1980 album)
Peter Gabriel (1980), aka Melt or Peter Gabriel III, is Peter Gabriel's third self-titled solo album, produced by Steve Lillywhite; it introduced the gated reverb drum sound on "Intruder", featured Kate Bush on the UK No. 4 single "Games Without Frontiers", and closed with the political song "Biko".
Peter Gabriel (1982 album)
Peter Gabriel (1982 album), also called Security or Peter Gabriel 4, is Gabriel's fourth self-titled solo album, released 10 September 1982, co-produced with David Lord, his first fully digital recording, featuring the Fairlight CMI and the US top 40 hit Shock the Monkey.
Rattle That Lock
Rattle That Lock is David Gilmour's fourth solo studio album, released 18 September 2015 on Columbia Records: 10 tracks, 51 minutes, produced with Phil Manzanera, lyrics mostly by Polly Samson, title track inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost Book 2 and a French train-station chime.