Albums Released This Week (January 23 - 29)

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):

Jan 23

● The Supremes ------ The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland ► Soul - Motown >> 1967
● Family ------ A Song For Me ► Prog Rock >> 1970
● Rick Wakeman ------ The Six Wives Of Henry VIII ► Prog Rock >> 1973
● The Kinks ------ Schoolboys In Disgrace ► Rock >> 1976
● David Bowie ------ Station To Station ► Glam Rock >> 1976
● Pink Floyd ------ Animals ► Prog Rock >> 1977
● Elvis Costello ------ Trust ► Alt. Pop-Rock >> 1981
● David Crosby ------ Oh Yes I Can ► Folk-Rock >> 1989
● Stabbing Westward ------ Wither Blister Burn & Peel ► Industrial Rock >> 1996
● John (Cougar) Mellencamp ------ Freedom's Road ► Roots Rock >> 2007
● Little Feat ------ Rocky Mountain Jam ► Southern Rock >> 2007

Jan 24

● Cass Elliott ------ Cass Elliott ► Pop-Rock/Folk-Rock >> 1972
● Michael Jackson ------ Got To Be There ► Soul - Motown >> 1972
● Aretha Franklin ------ Young, Gifted And Black ► Soul >> 1972
● Debbie Gibson ------ Electric Youth ► Pop-Rock >> 1989
● Skid Row ------ Skid Row ► Heavy Metal >> 1989
● Underworld ------ Dubnobasswithmyhead ► Techno Trance >> 1994
● David Crosby ------ It's All Coming Back To Me Now… ► Folk-Rock >> 1995

Jan 25

● Cilla Black ------ Cilla ► Brit Invasion Pop >> 1965
● John Phillips ------ John Phillips (John, The Wolf King Of L.A.) ► Country-Rock >> 1970
● Cher ------ Take Me Home ► Pop-Rock >> 1979
● Phil Collins ------ No Jacket Required ► Pop-Rock >> 1985
● Gary Moore ------ After The War ► Roots Rock (Irish) >> 1989
● Sarah McLachlan ------ Touch ► Folk-Rock >> 1989
● Kenny G ------ The Collection ► Jazz-Pop >> 1993
● Peter Frampton ------ A Day In The Sun ► Arena Rock >> 1994
● New Kids On The Block ------ Face The Music ► Teen Dance-Pop >> 1994
● Alice In Chains ------ Jar Of Flies ► Heavy Metal/Grunge Metal >> 1994
● Meat Puppets ------ Too High To Die ► AA Pop-Rock >> 1994
● Dimmu Borgir ------ Stormblåst ► Heavy Metal/Black Metal >> 1996
● Shpongle ------ Are You Shpongled? ► Psychedelic Ambient >> 1998
● Blindside ------ A Thought Crushed My Mind ► Post Hardcore Punk >> 2000
● D'Angelo ------ Voodoo ► Neo-Soul/Funk >> 2000

Jan 26

● Simon & Garfunkel ------ Bridge Over Troubled Water ► Folk-Pop >> 1970
● Chicago ------ Chicago II ► Jazz-Rock >> 1970
● Elton John ------ Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player ► Pop-Rock >> 1973
● Deep Purple ------ Who Do We Think We Are ► Hard Rock >> 1973
● Generation X ------ Valley Of The Dolls ► Punk Rock >> 1979
● Janet Jackson ------ Control: The Remixes ► Dance-Pop >> 1987
● Public Enemy ------ Yo! Bum Rush the Show ► Hip Hop >> 1987
● David Lee Roth ------ Skyscraper ► Hard Rock >> 1988
● Emerson, Lake & Palmer ------ Live At The Royal Albert Hall ► Prog Rock >> 1993
● The Bouncing Souls ------ Maniacal Laughter ► Punk Rock >> 1996
● Foxy Brown ------ Chyna Doll ► Hip Hop >> 1999
● Dan Swanö ------ Moontower ► Progressive Death Metal >> 1999
● Napalm Death ------ Words From The Exit Wound ► Heavy Metal/Grindcore >> 1999
● Mariah Carey ------ Playlist: The Very Best Of Mariah Carey ► Pop-Rock >> 2010

Jan 27

● The Beach Boys ------ 20/20 ► Pop-Rock >> 1969
● Queen ------ Flash Gordon [Sndtrk] ► Glam Rock >> 1981
● The B-52's ------ Mesopotamia ► New Wave Pop-Rock >> 1982
● John Lennon ------ Milk & Honey ► Pop-Rock >> 1984
● Frank Zappa ------ Does Humor Belong In Music? ► Comedy Rock >> 1986
● The Replacements ------ Don't Tell A Soul ► Alt. Pop-Rock >> 1989
● Slaughter ------ Stick It To Ya ► Hair Metal >> 1990
● Therapy? ------ Pleasure Death ► Alt Metal/Noise Rock >> 1992
● The Human League ------ Octopus ► Synth-Pop >> 1995
● Reef ------ Glow ► Brit Pop >> 1997
● Dixie Chicks ------ Wide Open Spaces ► Country-Rock >> 1998
● Edguy ------ Theater Of Salvation ► Heavy Metal/Power Metal >> 1999
● The Cure ------ Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001 ► Post-Punk >> 2004
● Twista ------ Kamikaze ► Midwest Rap >> 2004
● Bruce Springsteen ------ Working On A Dream ► Heartland Rock >> 2009

Jan 28

● Gentle Giant ------ Playing The Fool [UK] ► Prog Rock >> 1977
● J. Geils Band ------ Love Stinks ► Blues-Rock >> 1980
● Triumph ------ Never Surrender ► Arena Rock >> 1983
● David Lee Roth ------ Crazy From The Heat ► Hard Rock >> 1985
● Black Sabbath ------ Seventh Star ► Hard Rock >> 1986
● Rick Astley ------ Hold Me In Your Arms ► Dance-Pop >> 1989
● Guns N' Roses ------ Lies, The Drugs, The Sex ► Hard Rock >> 1991
● The Afghan Whigs ------ Congregation ► Post-Punk >> 1992
● Current 93 ------ Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre ► Industrial/Experimental >> 1994
● Pat Boone ------ In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy ► MOR Jazz-Pop >> 1997
● Built To Spill ------ Perfect From Now On ► Indie Rock/Pop-Rock >> 1997
● Lou Reed ------ The Raven ► Art Rock >> 2003

Jan 29

● Miles Davis ------ Filles De Kilimanjaro ► Electric Jazz/Fusion >> 1969
● Buzzcocks ------ Love Bites ► Punk-Rock >> 1997
● Shalamar ------ Friends ► Disco >> 1982
● Huey Lewis & The News ------ Picture This ► Pop-Rock >> 1982
● Yello ------ Stella ► Electro Synth-Pop >> 1985
● Fish ------ Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors ► Prog Rock >> 1990
● The Divinyls ------ Divinyls ► Post-Punk Pop-Rock >> 1991
● Gloria Estefan ------ Into The Light ► Latin Pop >> 1991
● Chicago ------ Twenty 1 ► Jazz-Rock >> 1991
● Susanna Hoffs ------ When You're A Boy ► Pop-Rock >> 1991
● Prince ------ The Truth ► Soul-Funk >> 1998
● Blackmail ------ Science Fiction ► Post-Grunge/Kraut Rock >> 1999