ESSAYS ON ALBUMS

Writers, Musicians, and Music fans on one album that changed them.

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1983: Clics Modernos, Charly Garcia

By Ramiro Portnoy

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1988: Hangin’ Tough, New Kids on the Block

By Jan Saenz

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1984: Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen

By Johanna Sommer

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1984: Salon de Musique, Su Tissue

By Imogen Bergin

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1986: Rapture, Anita Baker

By DeAsia Paige

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1982: One Two, Sister Nancy

By Frederica Solomon

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1982: Avalon, Roxy Music

By Vivian Manning-Schaffel

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1989: Disintegration, The Cure

By Camila Valle

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1988: Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman

By beloved suruae ibiene

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1987: Belinda Carlisle, Heaven on Earth

By Katie Mansfield

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1980: Pete Townshend, Empty Glass

By Caryn Rose

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1985: Kate Bush, Hounds Of Love

By Serenity Hughes

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1985: Tina Turner, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)”

By Jason Fitzroy Jeffers

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1985: The Replacements, “Here Comes A Regular”

By Anthony Thomas Lombardi

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1987: Miami Sound Machine, Let It Loose

By Brian Oliu

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1983: Minutemen, Buzz Or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat

By Jeremy Michael Clark