If you haven't heard these five rock albums... then you're not a real rocker!
1971 was a hell of a year musically, with great albums like Hunky Dory Bowie, Pearl Janis Joplin, Just As I Am by Bill Withers, Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones and many more. Get ready to feel old!
What are the best music albums of 2019 according to our editors?
A month ago we read about the best albums of the past year, now it's time to predict the new one. We have already heard some chirps, some rumors will obviously be confirmed, but it seems that 2018 will also be a very varied year musically.
In December, we like to look over our shoulder and find out what was the best thing about the past year. Of course, first we look through our archive, take inventory, pat ourselves on the back if we were satisfied, and thus raise a glass in greeting to the coming year. But the review and list of the best, the most successful, the most deserving takes place in just about every field. Of course also in music. These are the best music albums of 2017.
2017 did not skimp on good music. So far, we have received quite a few excellent music albums. But summer is perhaps the most exciting time in the music industry, as musicians are jostling for places on the charts.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the remaining surviving members of the legendary group The Beatles, reunited after a long time and recorded a new song together.
Rihanna has become the best-selling solo artist of all time! She managed to do this in just 12 years of her music career. She began her journey with the song Pon De Replay in 2005. 213.2 million albums sold later, she has taken the crown of the most successful solo artist in music history. She dethroned the king of rock'n'roll, Elvis Presley. Now Rihanna has a new target on the fly - the legendary band The Beatles, who are the only ones to have sold more albums than the Barbadian beauty. But even this record is at risk...
This time, the famous duo 2Cellos tackled the title song of the popular series Game of Thrones and released an epic video for it, which they shot in Dubrovnik, where the aforementioned HBO series was also filmed. The track heralds the imminent release of the Score album, which will be released in March 2017 and is dedicated to film music.
The Rolling Stones released a new album after eleven years. Blue & Lonesome, which is said to be their best album in 35 years, includes a dozen bluesy covers and features the legendary Eric Clapton as a guest. For the song Ride 'Em On Down', they have already recorded a video, in which the American actress Kristen Stewart plays the main role, driving a Mustang around post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.
Although 2016 is nowhere near over, our thoughts are already on 2017 and what it has to offer. We can already tell you that it will be lively in the music field, because after five years the skillful cats LCD Soundsystem are returning. Canadian indie rockers Arcade Fire and the most influential young musician of 2014, Lorde, are also preparing the album. So what are the most anticipated music albums of 2017?
Are you curious about how the baby from the cover of Nirvana's cult Nevermind album looks 25 years later? Spencer Elden, who in 1991 as a four-month-old baby posed in a swimming pool (due to the fear that the baby's nudity would offend someone, the Geffen label covered the delicate part with a sticker), in honor of Nirvana and the venerable anniversary of its second album, posed again underwater and recreated the famous scene, except without the US bill on the hook. The Nevermind album cover was named the third most legendary of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.