Certainly, a tough choice this week and quite the race for the most votes as we wrap up the year 1974 with three, of what became, iconic albums of that decade. The second album from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Second Helping, along with Eric Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard gave us timeless songs that will always be played…
1994 gave us these three awesome albums: Green Day’s third album Dookie, Nine Inch Nails’ third album The Downward Spiral, and Alice in Chain’s Jar of Flies. Jar of Flies was titled after a third-grade science experiment. Jerry Cantell recalls an experiment he conducted with a jar of flies in the third grade, of which…
No Jacket Required, the third studio album from Phil Collins, came in with the most votes this week; edging out Heart’s self-titled album and John Mellencamp’s Scarecrow, all MTV favorites. But the drummer from the legendary Prog Rock band Genesis showed us what a great front man he is, as well as songwriter and album…
The music of 1976 is synonymous with names like Steve Miller, Bob Seger and the Eagles. All artists have some great musical anthems like “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Night Moves” and, of course, “Hotel California.” It was the Eagles’ fifth studio album that came in with the most votes this week. It was the first…
1991 was a great year in music with the debut of Pearl Jam’s Ten, Guns ‘N Roses’ Use Your Illusion I and II, and the fifth studio album from Metallica “The Black Album” or self titled. Ten and I & II were incredible albums that gave us songs that have become staples in our music…
Tough choice for this week’s 50 Years, 50 Albums. We had the 9th studio album from Scorpions Love at First Sting, which is a great follow up to their previous album Blackout, the U.S. introduction to the band. We also had the 5th studio album from the Cars Heartbeat City, which had six great singles…
Staind were a Springfield based band that were discovered by Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit fame. Their debut album came out in 1999 just when the nu metal movement was starting to gain steam. Staind was part of the extremely popular “Family Values” tour and then in 2001 dropped their biggest record and our hall…
It is not often that your debut album also sounds like a greatest hits. The Cars are one of those bands thanks to the genius of Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr. These two Boston based musicians came up with a sound that would later would be called new wave. An album with six hits that…
This is a first in voting for 50 Years, 50 Albums for the year 1998 with Kid Rock’s 4th album Devil Without A Cause, Offspring’s 5th album Americana and the debut lp from Godsmack. It came down to a tie at the end of the voting between Offspring and Godsmack, so we went to a…
Wrapping up the year 1981 with a tight voting race between Foreigner’s fourth album 4, Journey’s seventh studio album Escape, which gave us some of Journey’s biggest hits, and Tattoo You from the Rolling Stones. After the dust settled, it was the 18th studio album from the Stones that came in with the most votes.…