Tago Mago is the exemplar of that most elusive of musical finds: the difficult, yet rewarding, listen.
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Trout Mask Replica is not so much a diamond in the rough as it is a diamond pulled out of the collision of a fireworks truck and a busload of homicidal clowns.
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It is a curious feeling to rethink a classic album over two decades old, just as the moment of seeing the band in the flesh looms nearer every day. 
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Jazz needed a kick in the pants to remain current and important; Miles Davis provided it.
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Atmosphere is everything in music.
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Armed Forces is not only one of the finest pop albums of its decade, it also possesses the quality of being consistently relevant.


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A decade on Jimi Hendrix’s debut album still sounds like a futuristic slap to the face.
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While pundits may enjoy the challenges of the album, Springsteen seems at his best when he’s belting out choruses, plain-faced and impassioned.
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Bridge Over Troubled Water encapsulates the fragmentation of America’s youthful dream.
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With Modern Times the listener, and indeed the critic, is best served by surrendering to the record’s rolling momentum.

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A Bigger Bang may be our most recent benchmark for the Stones’ return-to-form, but the band’s most effective statement of the sort came in 1981 with Tattoo You.

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On the eve of Springsteen and the E-Street band’s reformation, WB looks at the album that yielded commercial success for The Boss and his band.
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