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The Bad Fire

The Bad Fire is the eleventh studio album by the Scottish band Mogwai, released in 2025 and produced by John Congleton; its title is Glaswegian slang for hell.

The Band (album)

The Band (1969), the self-titled "Brown Album" by the Band, is the group's second album on Capitol, recorded in a Hollywood Hills pool house, reaching No. 9 and entering the National Recording Registry in 2009.

The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes: Bob Dylan and the Band's 1967 informal home recordings at Big Pink, West Saugerties, New York; bootlegged as Great White Wonder (1969), officially released 1975, fully issued in 2014 as Bootleg Series Vol. 11.

The Beach Boys (album)

The Beach Boys (1985) is the band's self-titled studio album on Caribou Records, produced by Steve Levine, their first digital recording, with the Top 40 single "Getcha Back."

The Beach Boys Love You

The Beach Boys Love You (1977, Brother/Reprise) is a Beach Boys album written and produced solely by Brian Wilson after being planned as his solo record Brian Loves You; a Moog-driven flop at No. 53 US that became a cult favorite, followed by the shelved Adult/Child.

The Beach Boys Today!

The Beach Boys Today! is the Beach Boys' eighth studio album, released March 8, 1965 on Capitol. First album after Brian Wilson stopped touring; split into a pop Side 1 and ballad Side 2, it paved the way to Pet Sounds.

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album is a 1964 holiday collection by the American band The Beach Boys. It peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Christmas Album chart.

The Beatles (album)

The Beatles, known as the White Album, is the Beatles' 30-track double album released 22 November 1968 on Apple, recorded at Abbey Road May–October 1968 after Rishikesh songwriting, first Apple-label album, 19-times platinum in the US.

The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl

The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl (1977) is the band's only official live album, compiled from 1964 and 1965 concerts, recorded on three-track tape, remixed in 2016 as Live At The Hollywood Bowl.

The Beatles' Christmas records

The Beatles' Christmas records: seven annual fan-club flexi discs, 1963–1969, with skits, carols, and messages; compiled on 1970's From Then to You and officially reissued in the 2017 Christmas Records box set.

The Beatles' Second Album

The Beatles' Second Album is a Capitol Records US compilation released April 10, 1964 (T 2080/ST 2080), the third Beatles LP issued in America. Its 11 tracks went to Number 1 for five weeks and include first LP appearances of I Call Your Name and Long Tall Sally.

The Bends (album)

The Bends is Radiohead's second studio album, released 13 March 1995 on XL Recordings. Produced by John Leckie, recorded through 1994, it features Fake Plastic Trees, Just, and Street Spirit, and introduced engineer Nigel Godrich.

The Best Damn Thing

The Best Damn Thing is Avril Lavigne's third studio album (RCA, April 17, 2007), a pop-punk record led by "Girlfriend" and produced by Dr. Luke, Butch Walker, Rob Cavallo, and Deryck Whibley; it topped US and UK charts and went double platinum in the US.

The Best of New Order

The Best of New Order, also styled (the best of) NewOrder, is New Order's second compilation album, released November 1994 after Substance (1987): 17 tracks, 70 minutes, 7" mixes from 1985 on, four new '94 mixes, UK top 5, later paired with the 1995 remix album The Rest Of New Order.

The Big Day (album)

The Big Day, the 2019 debut studio album by Chance the Rapper (Chancelor Bennett), a 22-track self-released record inspired by his wedding to Kirsten Corley; scored 71 on Metacritic but 3.7 from fans, followed six years later by Star Line.

The Big Lebowski (soundtrack)

The Big Lebowski (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Mercury, February 24, 1998: 14-track T Bone Burnett song compilation with one Carter Burwell cue, 'Wie Glauben'; reissued on LP by Virgin EMI and Mondo.

The Black (Asking Alexandria album)

The Black (2016) is the fourth studio album by British metalcore band Asking Alexandria, released on Sumerian Records. It is their only album with Ukrainian vocalist Denis Stoff, who replaced Danny Worsnop, and peaked at number 15 on the UK Albums Chart.

The Black (Imminence album)

The Black (2024) is the fifth studio album by Swedish metalcore band Imminence, released April 12, 2024; 12 tracks, 52 minutes, violin-led symphonic metalcore produced by Eddie Berg, Harald Barrett, and Henrik Udd.

The Black Album (Jay-Z album)

The Black Album is Jay-Z's eighth studio record, released in 2003. It features 12 producers, including Kanye West and Timbaland, and sold 3.5 million copies.

The Black Album (Prince album)

The Black Album is Prince's sixteenth studio album, an eight-song funk record withdrawn days before its 1987 release and officially issued by Warner Bros. in 1994.

The Black Parade

The Black Parade is My Chemical Romance's third studio album, released October 24, 2006 on Reprise. A Rob Cavallo-produced emo rock opera about The Patient, a dying cancer patient, it spawned the UK No. 1 "Welcome to the Black Parade" and went 4x Platinum in the US.

The Blue Notebooks

The Blue Notebooks is Max Richter's second studio album, released in 2004 on FatCat's 130701 imprint. Tilda Swinton reads Kafka and Miłosz over chamber strings, piano, and electronics; recorded in 2003 as quiet protest against the Iraq war.

The Blueprint

The Blueprint, Jay-Z's sixth studio album (September 11, 2001, Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam), a soul-sampling East Coast hip hop classic produced largely by Kanye West and Just Blaze, selling 427,000+ first week and entering the National Recording Registry.

The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse

The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse (Blueprint 2) is Jay-Z's 2002 double album, sequel to The Blueprint; 25 tracks, debuted at No. 1 with 545,000 copies, later condensed as Blueprint 2.1.

The Blueprint 3

The Blueprint 3 is Jay-Z's eleventh studio album, the final Blueprint trilogy installment, released September 8, 2009 on Roc Nation. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 476,000 first-week US sales and features Empire State of Mind and Run This Town.

The Boatman's Call

The Boatman's Call (1997) is the tenth studio album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds on Mute, a sparse piano-led record shaped by the end of his affair with PJ Harvey, peaking at UK number 22.

The Bodyguard (soundtrack)

The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album, 1992 Arista Records, credited to Whitney Houston and various artists, is the best-selling soundtrack ever at over 45 million copies, with 20 weeks at Billboard 200 number one and the Album of the Year Grammy.

The Book For,

The Book For, is the fourth extended play by the Japanese music duo YOASOBI, released on June 26, 2026. Its 12 tracks include the Overwatch collaboration "Orion."

The Book of Souls

The Book of Souls (2015) is Iron Maiden's 16th studio album, its first double album at 92 minutes, produced by Kevin Shirley and Steve Harris in Paris, reaching UK number one and spawning a two-year world tour.

The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966

The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 is Bob Dylan's 2015 Columbia/Legacy outtakes collection covering the Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde sessions, issued in 2-, 6-, and 18-CD editions.