R.E.M.’s breakthrough 1987 album Document was the culmination of a few things: hard work, experimental tendencies and good old-fashioned trial and error. On Document‘s predecessor, Lifes Rich Pageant, R.E.M.
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Radio K.A.O.S. had an often-impenetrable theme, but Roger Waters – and his label – clearly thought a shift to more era-friendly sequencer- and synth-based sounds
Unspoken fears that were guiding David Gilmour’s private and professional lives eventually commingled on the first Pink Floyd single he worked on without Roger Waters.
There’s an understandable weariness to the Pretenders’ biggest Billboard hit, as Chrissie Hynde returns to the rock ‘n’ roll grind with “Back on the Chain
50 Years Ago: A Very Different ‘M*A*S*H’ Makes Its Debut
There were many Frank Zappas: guitar virtuoso, studio tinkerer, writer of raunchy rock songs. But at his core, he was a legitimate composer, with ideas
Love Over Gold was something of a calm before the storm for Dire Straits. Released on Sept. 24, 1982, the LP burnished their reputation as
Peter Gabriel became fascinated with found sounds while recording his fourth album at a home studio being overtaken by dry rot. New Fairlight synthesizer technology
Radiohead’s “Creep” may forever be regarded as one of the ’90s defining rock songs, but it was roundly dismissed by critics and U.K. listeners upon
Before R.E.M. was finished making Out of Time, they had begun crafting Automatic for the People. They just didn’t know it yet. In December 1990,