Style(s): Hip-hop
Year of Release: 2001
Key Song(s): "One Mic,"
RapReviews
While no album may ever top his debut's brilliance, this one comes close enough to make even his most passionate haters happy to hear the raw essence of hip-hop revealed in all it's true glory.
#494 | JUSTICE - [CROSS]
Style(s): French House
Year of Release: 2007
Key Song(s): "Genesis,"
Boomkat
Giving your album a symbol for a title is a gesture of Prince-like arrogance, and the fact that the aforementioned symbol is a cross, coupled with biblically-themed song titles ('Waters Of Nazareth', 'Let There Be Light' etc.), might prompt you to arrive at the conclusion that this Parisian duo have a Messiah complex. The electro-frazzled funk of 'Genesis' (the first track of course) is accordingly epic-sounding, with a tongue-in-cheek fanfare at the beginning that quickly gives way for some distinctly unholy slap bass.
#493 | BON JOVI - SLIPPERY WHEN WET
Style(s): Hard Rock, Glam Metal
Year of Release: 1986
Key Song(s): "Livin' On A
Wikipedia
Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by Bon Jovi, released in August 1986 by Vertigo Records.
#492 | U2 - ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND
Style(s): Rock
Year of Release: 2000
Key Song(s): "New York,"
Rolling Stone
All That You Can't Leave Behind gets serious about simplicity. The songs aren't obscured by excessive production, but the band doesn't commit the common sin of boring people silly in the name of scaling back. The Edge's guitars are even more self-effacing than usual, showing up only as conveyors of accent and texture.
#491 | GAS - POP
Style(s): Ambient, Minimal Techno
Year of Release: 2000
Key Song(s): "Untitled,"
RateYourMusic
Wolfgang Voigt's latest and final work, Pop, is perhaps his finest and most aurally impressive album to date. Textures found on the first untitled track are that of a stream, trickling down rocks, flowing while nature around it vibrantly blossoms. Most of the album carries that similar hissing and ringing undercurrent of sound, as if you're drifting down a river in a secluded forest. When compared to his previous albums under the Gas moniker, the pulsating beats and gloomy samples have been mainly lifted in favor of complete and total sonic bliss. It's still a very personal and in depth deconstruction of minimal sounds, but this time, perhaps, it's a more immediately digestible version of his ultimate goals.
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