Albums Released This Week (August 13 - 19)

Here's a sampling of the BEST music ever made! - great albums from the 60s, 70s and 80s rock and pop which were released this week (and some related albums of note):

Aug 13

● Gene Vincent ------ Bluejean Bop! ► Rock n Roll >> 1956
● The Beatles ------ Help! ► Pop-Rock >> 1965
● King Curtis ------ Everybody's Talkin' ► Southern Soul >> 1970
● Lynyrd Skynyrd ------ Pronounced, Leh-nerd Skin-nerd ► Southern Rock >> 1973
● Chicago ------ Chicago 13 ► Jazz-Rock >> 1979
● Don Henley ------ I Can't Stand Still ► Pop-Rock >> 1982
● Twisted Sister ------ Love Is For Suckers ► Hair Metal >> 1987
● Pixies ------ Bossanova ► Garage Rock >> 1990
● Duran Duran ------ Liberty ► Synth-Pop >> 1990
● Brooks & Dunn ------ Brand New Man ► Country-Rock >> 1991
● Kid Creole & The Coconuts ------ You Shoulda Told Me You Were…. ► Dance-Rock >> 1991
● Sheena Easton ------ No Strings ► Standards >> 1993
● Akinyele ------ Put It In Your Mouth ► Dirty Rap >> 1996


Aug 14

● The Rolling Stones ------ 5 X 5 ► British Invasion >> 1964
● Al Green ------ Al Green Gets Next To You ► Soul >> 1971
● Buddy Guy & Junior Wells ------ Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues ► Electric Blues >> 1974
● Roberta Flack ------ Killing Me Softly ► Pop-Soul >> 1973
● Brenda Lee ------ Feels So Right ► Country-Pop >> 1985
● The Heart Throbs ------ Cleopatra Grip ► Indie Pop >> 1990
● Motörhead ------ March Ör Die ► Heavy Metal >> 1992
● Godspeed You Black Emperor! ------ F♯ A♯ ∞ ► Instrumental/Experimental >> 1997


Aug 15

● Chad & Jeremy ------ Distant Shores ► Folk-Pop >> 1966
● Fleetwood Mac ------ Pious Bird Of Good Omen ► Blues-Rock >> 1969
● The Band ------ Rock Of Ages ► Folk-Rock >> 1972
● Rod Stewart ------ Atlantic Crossing ► Folk-Rock >> 1975
● Led Zeppelin ------ In Through The Out Door ► Hard Rock >> 1979
● America ------ Alibi ► Folk-Rock >> 1980
● The Kinks ------ Give The People What They Want ► British Rock >> 1981
● The Pretenders ------ Pretenders II ► Post-Punk >> 1981
● AC/DC ------ Flick Of The Switch ► Hard Rock >> 1983
● Cheap Trick ------ Next Position Please ► Hard Rock/Power Pop >> 1983
● Dio ------ Sacred Heart ► Heavy Metal >> 1985
● Michelle Shocked ------ Short, Sharp, Shocked ► Folk-Rock >> 1988
● Southern Culture On The Skids ------ Dirt Track Date ► Rockabilly >> 1995
● Garbage ------ Garbage ► Art Rock >> 1995
● Blind Melon ------ Soup ► Alt. Rock >> 1995
● Korn ------ Follow The Leader ► Post-Grunge/Nu Metal >> 1998
● Blue October ------ Consent To Treatment ► Indie Rock/Post-Grunge >> 2000


Aug 16

● The Rolling Stones ------ Gimme Shelter ► Blues-Rock >> 1971
● The Temptations ------ The Temptations Do The Temptations ► Soul - Motown >> 1976
● Red Hot Chili Peppers ------ Freaky Styley ► Alt. Funk-Rock >> 1985
● Miami Sound Machine ------ Primitive Love ► Pop-Dance >> 1985
● Mayhem ------ Deathcrush ► Norwegian Black Metal >> 1987
● The Ethiopians ------ Dread Prophecy ► Rocksteady >> 1989
● Red Hot Chili Peppers ------ Mother's Milk ► Alt. Funk-Rock >> 1989
● ALL ------ Breaking Things ► Punk Rock/Pop-Punk >> 1993
● Crosby, Stills & Nash ------ After The Storm ► Folk-Rock >> 1994
● Prince ------ Come ► Funk-Pop >> 1994
● Barenaked Ladies ------ Maybe You Should Drive ► AA Pop-Rock >> 1994
● Neil Young ------ Sleeps With Angels ► Folk-Rock >> 1994
● Tricky ------ Juxtapose ► Electronic Trip-Hop >> 1999


Aug 17

● Miles Davis ------ Kind Of Blue ► Improv Jazz >> 1959
● The Band ------ Stage Fright ► Folk-Rock >> 1970
● XTC ------ Drums And Wires ► New Wave Pop-Rock >> 1979
● W.A.S.P. ------ W.A.S.P. ► Glam Metal >> 1984
● Tom Waits ------ Franks Wild Years ► Blues-Rock >> 1987
● New Order ------ Substance ► New Wave Synth-Pop >> 1987
● Cannibal Corpse ------ Eaten Back To Life ► Heavy Metal/Death Metal >> 1990
● The Call ------ Red Moon ► New Wave Alt. Pop >> 1990
● Take That ------ Take That & Party ► Pop-Rock/Boyband >> 1992
● Mariah Carey ------ Music Box ► Pop-Rock >> 1993
● Bad Brains ------ Rise ► Post-Punk/Hardcore >> 1993
● Tina Arena ------ In Deep ► Pop-Rock >> 1997
● Front Line Assembly ------ Re-wind ► Industrial Rock >> 1998
● Blur ------ The 10 Year Limited Edition Anniversary Box Set ► Alt Pop-Rock/Britpop >> 1999
● The Moody Blues ------ Strange Times ► Prog Rock >> 1999
● Iron Maiden ------ The Final Frontier ► Heavy Metal >> 2010


Aug 18

● Burning Spear ------ Man In The Hills ► Roots Reggae >> 1976
● The Who ------ Who Are You ► British Rock >> 1978
● Yes ------ Drama ► Prog Rock >> 1980
● Wall Of Voodoo ------ Dark Continent ► Post-Punk >> 1981
● ABBA ------ ABBA Live ► Euro-Pop >> 1986
● Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ------ Kicking Against The Pricks ► Post-punk Alt Rock >> 1986
● Debbie Gibson ------ Out Of The Blue ► Pop-Rock/Dance-Pop >> 1987
● Aerosmith ------ Permanent Vacation ► Hard Rock >> 1987
● Eric Clapton ------ Unplugged ► Blues-Rock >> 1992
● Phranc ------ Goofyfoot ► Folk-Rock/Surf Rock >> 1995
● At The Drive-In ------ Acrobatic Tenement ► Post-Hardcore >> 1996
● At The Drive-In ------ In/Casino/Out ► Punk Rock >> 1998
● Graham Coxon ------ The Sky Is Too High ► Indie Rock/Lo-Fi >> 1998


Aug 19

● The Beach Boys ------ The Best Of The Beach Boys, Vol. 3 ► Pop-Rock >> 1968
● The Carpenters ------ Close To You ► Soft Rock >> 1970
● Nilsson ------ Pussy Cats ► Folk-Rock >> 1974
● Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ------ So Far ► Folk-Rock >> 1974
● Emerson, Lake & Palmer ------ Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends ► Prog Rock >> 1974
● The Manhattan Transfer ------ Coming Out ► Jazz-Pop >> 1976
● The Doobie Brothers ------ Livin' On The Fault Line ► Pop-Rock >> 1977
● John (Cougar) Mellencamp ------ Scarecrow ► Roots Rock >> 1985
● Arthur Brown With Jimmy Carl Black ------ Brown, Black & Blue ► Blues-Rock >> 1991
● Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ------ The Fire Inside ► Album Rock >> 1991
● Sneaker Pimps ------ Becoming X ► Electronic-Dance/Trip Hop >> 1996
● Fleetwood Mac ------ The Dance ► Pop-Rock >> 1997
● Alison Moyet ------ Hometime [UK] ► AA Pop-Rock >> 2002