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The Sisters of Mercy – Floodland (1987, MFSL 2013)

The Sisters of Mercy emerged from a brief hiatus and lineup overhaul in spectacularly grand fashion on Floodland, an epic album that stands as the group’s commercial breakthrough as well as one of the...

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Los Lobos – Kiko (1992, MFSL 2014)

Los Lobos had earned a reputation as one of the most intelligent and creative roots rock acts in America with the albums By the Light of the Moon and The Neighborhood, but it was with 1992’s Kiko that...

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Miles Davis – My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert (1965, MFSL 2014)

Miles Davis’ My Funny Valentine marks several historic turning points. For Davis, the live album represents the final time on record he’d perform standards rather than original compositions. It also...

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Miles Davis – Bitches Brew (1970, MFSL 2014)

Thought by many to be among the most revolutionary albums in jazz history, Miles Davis‘ Bitches Brew solidified the genre known as jazz- rock fusion. The original double LP included only six cuts and...

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Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970, MFSL 2014)

As the ’60s drew to a close, it was a heavy time for the quickly crumbling hippie movement that had reached its apex just a few years earlier in 1967’s Summer of Love. Death and violence were pervasive...

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Grateful Dead – American Beauty (1970, MFSL 2014)

With 1970’s Workingman’s Dead, the Grateful Dead went through an overnight metamorphosis, turning abruptly from tripped-out free-form rock toward sublime acoustic folk and Americana. Taking notes on...

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The Band – The Last Waltz (1978, MFSL 2015)

As a film, The Last Waltz was a triumph — one of the first (and still one of the few) rock concert documentaries that was directed by a filmmaker who understood both the look and the sound of rock...

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Chicago – Chicago Transit Authority (1969, MFSL 2015)

Few debut albums can boast as consistently solid an effort as the self-titled Chicago Transit Authority. Even fewer can claim to have enough material to fill out a double-disc affair. Although this...

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Love – Forever Changes (1967, MFSL 2014)

Love‘s Forever Changes made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the...

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Bob Dylan – New Morning (1970, MFSL 2014)

The album might have saved Bob Dylan’s career. At the least, it proved the icon still relevant, and his wits still in tact. And it immediately followed what remains the artist’s biggest disaster, the...

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The Allman Brothers Band – Brothers and Sisters (1973, MFSL 2014)

Brothers and Sisters is significant for myriad reasons. It’s the first album the Allman Brothers Band made in its entirety after Duane Allman’s death. It also came after bassist Berry Oakley’s spookily...

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Bill Withers – Live at Carnegie Hall (1973, MFSL 2014)

On par with the most treasured concert albums of the ’60s and ’70s, Bill Withers’ transformative Live at Carnegie Hall is a forgotten classic — an easygoing portrait of a down-home soul artist coming...

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Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan (1962, MFSL 2015)

Bob Dylan‘s first album is a lot like the debut albums by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones — a sterling effort, outclassing most, if not all, of what came before it in the genre, but similarly...

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Miles Davis – Sorcerer (1967, MFSL 2015)

Sorcerer, the third album by the second Miles Davis Quintet, is in a sense a transitional album, a quiet, subdued affair that rarely blows hot, choosing to explore cerebral tonal colorings. Even when...

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Weezer – Weezer (1994, MFSL 2014)

Even if you lived through it, it’s hard to fathom exactly why Weezer were disliked, even loathed, when they released their debut album in the spring of 1994. If you grew up in the years after the...

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Pretenders – Pretenders (1980, MFSL 2014)

Few rock & roll records rock as hard or with as much originality as the Pretenders‘ eponymous debut album. A sleek, stylish fusion of Stonesy rock & roll, new wave pop, and pure punk...

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Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964, MFSL 2015)

If The Times They Are a-Changin’ isn’t a marked step forward from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, even if it is his first collection of all originals, it’s nevertheless a fine collection all the same. It...

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Bob Dylan & The Band – Before the Flood (1974, MFSL 2015)

Bob Dylan and the Band both needed the celebrated reunion tour of 1974, since Dylan’s fortunes had been floundering since Self Portrait and the Band stumbled with 1971’s Cahoots. The tour, with its...

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Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (1959, MFSL 2015)

Kind of Blue isn’t merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it’s an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged...

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Miles Davis – Nefertiti (1968, MFSL 2015)

Nefertiti, the fourth album by Miles Davis’ second classic quintet, continues the forward motion of Sorcerer, as the group settles into a low-key, exploratory groove, offering music with recognizable...

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