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Southern Accents

Southern Accents: sixth 1985 studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, a troubled loose concept album about the modern South on MCA, produced by Petty, Jimmy Iovine, Mike Campbell, Dave Stewart, and Robbie Robertson, best known for "Don't Come Around Here No More" and its title track.

Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills and Nash song)

Southern Cross is a 1982 Crosby, Stills & Nash song by Stephen Stills, Rick and Michael Curtis, reworked from "Seven League Boots"; a No. 18 Billboard hit from Daylight Again on which Crosby does not sing.

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is OutKast's debut album, released April 26, 1994 on LaFace Records. Produced entirely by Organized Noize, it reached number 20 on the Billboard 200, went platinum within a year, and helped Southern rap gain mainstream acceptance.

Souvlaki (album)

Souvlaki is Slowdive's second album, released 1 June 1993 on Creation Records. Recorded across three studios after roughly 40 scrapped songs, with Brian Eno guesting, it became a shoegaze classic despite poor initial reviews.

Space Oddity

Space Oddity is David Bowie's 1969 single about the astronaut Major Tom, inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, recorded at Trident with Gus Dudgeon, used in BBC Moon landing coverage, and reissued at number one in 1975.

Spaghetti (song)

"SPAGHETTI" (스파게티) is a 2025 alternative pop and funk single by LE SSERAFIM featuring j-hope of BTS, title track of the group's first single album; it debuted at No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100, a career high, with lyrics comparing the group to spaghetti stuck in one's teeth.

Spamalot

Spamalot is a Tony-winning 2005 Broadway musical comedy by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, adapted from Monty Python and the Holy Grail; it ran 1,575 performances, won Best Musical, and was revived on Broadway in 2023.

Sparks Live on the Moon

Sparks Live on the Moon (2026, Transgressive) is the first full concert album by Sparks, Ron and Russell Mael: 20 songs, 1h31, framed as a show at Taruntius Crater with Cate Blanchett as emcee, following MAD!.

Speak & Spell (album)

Speak & Spell is the 1981 debut studio album by Depeche Mode, released on Mute Records; the only one written mostly by Vince Clarke, featuring Just Can't Get Enough, recorded at Blackwing Studios, and followed by Clarke's departure.

Speak English or Die

Speak English or Die is the 1985 Megaforce debut album by crossover thrash band Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.), the Anthrax side project of Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Dan Lilker, and Billy Milano: 21 songs in under 29 minutes, recorded in three days.

Speak Now

Speak Now is Taylor Swift's third studio album, released October 25, 2010 on Big Machine; all 14 songs written solo, over one million first-week US sales, No. 1 on the Billboard 200, re-recorded as Speak Now (Taylor's Version) in 2023.

Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is Taylor Swift's July 7, 2023 re-recording of her 2010 album Speak Now, the third of six Taylor's Versions, with six vault tracks, Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams duets, and a revised Better Than Revenge lyric.

Speak Now World Tour – Live

Speak Now World Tour – Live is Taylor Swift's 2011 Big Machine live album and concert video from her Speak Now World Tour: 16 live tracks plus the full tour film, with covers of Bette Davis Eyes, Drops of Jupiter, and I Want You Back.

Speak of the Devil (Ozzy Osbourne album)

Speak of the Devil (Talk of the Devil in the UK) is Ozzy Osbourne's 1982 double live album of Black Sabbath covers, recorded at The Ritz, New York, with Brad Gillis on guitar; RIAA Platinum, Billboard 200 peak 14.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is OutKast's 2003 double album pairing Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and André 3000's The Love Below; it sold 11.4 million copies, topped the Billboard 200 for seven weeks, and became the second hip-hop Album of the Year Grammy winner.

Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album)

Speaking in Tongues (1983, Sire) is Talking Heads' fifth studio album and first self-produced record, a funk-driven commercial breakthrough yielding "Burning Down the House," the band's only Top 10 single, and closing with "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)."

Spectre (song)

Spectre is a 2015 song by Radiohead, written for the James Bond film Spectre but rejected as too dark; released free on 25 December 2015, it differs from Sam Smith's chosen theme and Laibach's 2014 album of the same name.

Speed Demon (Justin Bieber song)

Speed Demon (Justin Bieber song): opening track of SWAG II, released September 5, 2025; funk-influenced rap-sung kiss-off reusing the "is it clocking to you" meme, produced by Carter Lang, Eddie Benjamin, Dylan Wiggins, and Daniel Chetrit.

Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven

Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, Kid Cudi's fifth studio album (December 4, 2015, Republic/Wicked Awesome), a 26-track double album of lo-fi grunge and alternative rock with Beavis and Butt-Head skits, debuting at number 36 on the Billboard 200.

Spice 1

Spice 1 (Robert Lee Greene Jr., b. 1970) is a Bay Area gangsta rapper from Hayward/Oakland; Jive Records artist whose 1990s albums Spice 1, 187 He Wrote, AmeriKKKa's Nightmare, and 1990-Sick defined his career. Not the dancehall singer Spice.

Spiceworld (album)

Spiceworld, the Spice Girls' second studio album (Virgin, 3 November 1997), recorded largely during the Spice World film shoot; three weeks at UK No. 1, No. 1 in eleven other territories, and over 14 million copies sold worldwide.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (soundtrack)

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is Michael Giacchino's fourth Spider-Man score album, released by Sony Classical on July 31, 2026; 26 tracks, Abbey Road orchestra, deconstructed Spider-Man theme.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (soundtrack)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Soundtrack from & Inspired by the Motion Picture) is the 2018 hip-hop song album for the animated film, featuring Sunflower by Post Malone & Swae Lee, distinct from Daniel Pemberton's score.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was a Broadway rock musical with music by Bono and The Edge, book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. It ran 2010-2014 at Foxwoods Theatre, set records for cost ($75 million) and previews (182), suffered injuries, and lost its director during a notorious rewrite.

Spiderland

Spiderland is the 1991 second and final album by Louisville band Slint, produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders, released on Touch and Go, and later credited as a foundation of post-rock.

Spiegel im Spiegel

Spiegel im Spiegel ("Mirror in the Mirror") is a 1978 chamber piece by Arvo Pärt for violin and piano, his last Estonian work, built on tintinnabuli: triadic piano arpeggios in F major under a stepwise violin melody centered on A.

Spirit (Depeche Mode album)

Spirit (2017) is the fourteenth studio album by Depeche Mode, produced by James Ford and released 17 March 2017 on Columbia/Mute. Its most politically direct album since the 1980s; last with Andy Fletcher; number 1 in Germany, number 5 in UK and US.

Spirit in the Sky

Spirit in the Sky is Norman Greenbaum's 1969 fuzz-guitar rock single about Jesus and the afterlife; a US number three and UK number one hit, later topped in Britain by Doctor and the Medics and Gareth Gates.

Spirit of Eden

Spirit of Eden (1988) is Talk Talk's fourth album, written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, recorded improvisationally in darkness at Wessex Studios and edited digitally; a commercial failure that became a foundational post-rock record.

Spirituals

Spirituals are religious folk songs created by enslaved African Americans in the American South, blending Christian themes with West African elements like call-and-response, and sometimes carrying coded messages about escape.