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1989-GEFFEN
Produced By TOM WERMAN
1. Blooze
2. Hot Rod
3. Simple Man
4. Shot In The Dark
5. Hollywood
6. Life Sentence
7. Long Way Home
8. Can't Hold Back
9. Texas
10. Hands Off
One of the unfortunate by products of Hollywood hair metal was that some of the really excellent music was buried by the stupidity of bands like Poison, Warrant, and Skid Row. You get points if you remember Junkyard. Steeped more in southern boogie and The Rolling stones than in Motley Crue and Van Halen, this band's debut album scorched an unheard and forgotten trail that paved the way for much better music in the early 90's like The Black Crowes. Lumped in with hair metal because no one really knew where else to put them, Junkyard, for a short time, rocked as hard as anyone. Tracks like "Shot In The Dark", "Blooze", and "Hollywood" rocked harder than most of their contemporaries, and even their power ballad ("Hands Off") was not the norm: while most bands tried to show how sincere they were with flowery sappy love ballads, Junkyard told the tale of a girlfriend turned whore who gives the singer's best friend head, then won't shut up about how innocent it was. Genius.
Junkyard made one more album (with Steve Earle) and split in the early 90's, although they are back together now. For a moment, it was bands like this that gave us hope that people like Sebastian Bach, Jani Lane and Kip Winger would actually fall off the planet. Junkyard still sounds sharp today...if you can find this, it's worth picking up.
[First added to this chart: 10/13/2026]
Produced By TOM WERMAN
1. Blooze
2. Hot Rod
3. Simple Man
4. Shot In The Dark
5. Hollywood
6. Life Sentence
7. Long Way Home
8. Can't Hold Back
9. Texas
10. Hands Off
One of the unfortunate by products of Hollywood hair metal was that some of the really excellent music was buried by the stupidity of bands like Poison, Warrant, and Skid Row. You get points if you remember Junkyard. Steeped more in southern boogie and The Rolling stones than in Motley Crue and Van Halen, this band's debut album scorched an unheard and forgotten trail that paved the way for much better music in the early 90's like The Black Crowes. Lumped in with hair metal because no one really knew where else to put them, Junkyard, for a short time, rocked as hard as anyone. Tracks like "Shot In The Dark", "Blooze", and "Hollywood" rocked harder than most of their contemporaries, and even their power ballad ("Hands Off") was not the norm: while most bands tried to show how sincere they were with flowery sappy love ballads, Junkyard told the tale of a girlfriend turned whore who gives the singer's best friend head, then won't shut up about how innocent it was. Genius.
Junkyard made one more album (with Steve Earle) and split in the early 90's, although they are back together now. For a moment, it was bands like this that gave us hope that people like Sebastian Bach, Jani Lane and Kip Winger would actually fall off the planet. Junkyard still sounds sharp today...if you can find this, it's worth picking up.
[First added to this chart: 10/13/2026]
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Produced By JOHNNY SANDLIN
1. Introduction
2. Fixin’ To Die
3. Yield Not To Temptation
4. Working On A Building
5. Time Is Free
6. Basically Frightened
7. Compared To What
8. Time Flack
9. Davy Crockett
10. A Walk With Peltor
11. Jazz Bank
12. Quinius Thoth
13. Planet Earth
The number one way to tell if it’s a jam band? Their debut album is a live album. This short lived group from Atlanta may have been the most musically proficient of them all. Col. Bruce Hampton was already a legend in the South, the ultimate cult musician, and maybe the most musically rounded person in the history of rock. He had fronted the Hampton Grease Band which released one stunning album in 1971 (it is said to be the second worst selling album in the history of Columbia Records), then played with a number of bands that were highly regarded but virtually unknown outside of Georgia like New Ice Age and The Late Bronze Age. The Aquarium Rescue Unit came together in the clubs of Atlanta in the early 90’s, which is where this live debut album was recorded. Hampton, who somehow brings all of his musical loves to the table (rock, jazz, R&B, country, psychedelic, swing, soul, bluegrass, and more)has been compared favorably to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. He has influenced countless jazz bands, who doubtlessly all wish they had the chops of the Aquarium Rescue Unit.
Technically, the album is a jarring blur of exceptional musicianship. And the live setting shows how strong and energetic this band could be. It may also leave the listener quite puzzled, and will hardly appeal to a mass audience (jazz fusion has always been the music of musicians only, and there’s plenty of that here). What keeps the album above water is the sheer energy of the performance. The band performs at a gleeful lightning pace, moving from style to style with an almost graceful passion. If you’re a fan of the jam band, then this is an important album for you…this is where the Grateful Dead left off and everything else was incorporated. Unknown but important music. In true jam band fashion, the only other album by this band, 1993’s Mirror’s Of Embarrassment, was much weaker without the live setting. (The band reunited briefly in the 2000’s: we saw them open for Marc Ford at a club in Denver. Stunning musicians.) Hampton passed away in 2017.
[First added to this chart: 10/12/2026]
1. Introduction
2. Fixin’ To Die
3. Yield Not To Temptation
4. Working On A Building
5. Time Is Free
6. Basically Frightened
7. Compared To What
8. Time Flack
9. Davy Crockett
10. A Walk With Peltor
11. Jazz Bank
12. Quinius Thoth
13. Planet Earth
The number one way to tell if it’s a jam band? Their debut album is a live album. This short lived group from Atlanta may have been the most musically proficient of them all. Col. Bruce Hampton was already a legend in the South, the ultimate cult musician, and maybe the most musically rounded person in the history of rock. He had fronted the Hampton Grease Band which released one stunning album in 1971 (it is said to be the second worst selling album in the history of Columbia Records), then played with a number of bands that were highly regarded but virtually unknown outside of Georgia like New Ice Age and The Late Bronze Age. The Aquarium Rescue Unit came together in the clubs of Atlanta in the early 90’s, which is where this live debut album was recorded. Hampton, who somehow brings all of his musical loves to the table (rock, jazz, R&B, country, psychedelic, swing, soul, bluegrass, and more)has been compared favorably to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. He has influenced countless jazz bands, who doubtlessly all wish they had the chops of the Aquarium Rescue Unit.
Technically, the album is a jarring blur of exceptional musicianship. And the live setting shows how strong and energetic this band could be. It may also leave the listener quite puzzled, and will hardly appeal to a mass audience (jazz fusion has always been the music of musicians only, and there’s plenty of that here). What keeps the album above water is the sheer energy of the performance. The band performs at a gleeful lightning pace, moving from style to style with an almost graceful passion. If you’re a fan of the jam band, then this is an important album for you…this is where the Grateful Dead left off and everything else was incorporated. Unknown but important music. In true jam band fashion, the only other album by this band, 1993’s Mirror’s Of Embarrassment, was much weaker without the live setting. (The band reunited briefly in the 2000’s: we saw them open for Marc Ford at a club in Denver. Stunning musicians.) Hampton passed away in 2017.
[First added to this chart: 10/12/2026]
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1972-WARNER BROTHERS
Produced By VAN MORRISON & TED TEMPLEMAN
1. Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)
2. Gypsy
3. I Will Be There
4. Listen To The Lion
5. Saint Dominic’s Preview
6. Redwood Tree
7. Almost Independence Day
Was this Van Morrison’s best album? It’s very likely that it was. Saint Dominic’s Preview is a beautiful melding of pop, soul, Celtic and everything else that Morrison is at his very best. “Jackie Wilson Said” and the title track were hits, and on a par with any of his other hits. “Gypsy”, “I Will Be There” and “Redwood Tree” are some of his best lyrics. The other two tracks are the long “Listen To The Lion” and “Almost Independence Day”, which sound like they could have come from his excellent solo debut Astral Weeks.
Morrison would follow this with his first career misstep, Hard Nose The Highway, and his popularity would wane soon afterward. Saint Dominic’s Preview is the end of Morrison’s peak as an artist, and is if not above his earlier works, right there alongside of them. A vital piece of the Van Morrison discography.
[First added to this chart: 09/30/2026]
Produced By VAN MORRISON & TED TEMPLEMAN
1. Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)
2. Gypsy
3. I Will Be There
4. Listen To The Lion
5. Saint Dominic’s Preview
6. Redwood Tree
7. Almost Independence Day
Was this Van Morrison’s best album? It’s very likely that it was. Saint Dominic’s Preview is a beautiful melding of pop, soul, Celtic and everything else that Morrison is at his very best. “Jackie Wilson Said” and the title track were hits, and on a par with any of his other hits. “Gypsy”, “I Will Be There” and “Redwood Tree” are some of his best lyrics. The other two tracks are the long “Listen To The Lion” and “Almost Independence Day”, which sound like they could have come from his excellent solo debut Astral Weeks.
Morrison would follow this with his first career misstep, Hard Nose The Highway, and his popularity would wane soon afterward. Saint Dominic’s Preview is the end of Morrison’s peak as an artist, and is if not above his earlier works, right there alongside of them. A vital piece of the Van Morrison discography.
[First added to this chart: 09/30/2026]
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1972
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968
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2007-LAST CHANCE
Produced By GLOSSARY
1. Only Time Will Tell
2. Little Caney
3. Almsgiver
4. Valessa
5. Shout It From The Rooftops
6. Bitter Branch
7. Gasoline Soaked Heart
8. Nothing Can Hurt You Now
9. Chase Me Out Of The Dark
10. Blood On The Knobs
How can you not love a band that called its first album Southern By The Grace Of Location? Glossary is a little known alt-country band from Murfreesboro, TN that has been quietly turning out albums since 1998, with little to show for it in the way of sales or fame, but with a steadily growing reputation as one of the genre’s finest bands. The Better Angels Of Our Nature is their fifth album, and was apparently released in a very limited form…only 500 copies were supposedly made of the first run, according to Discogs. I found it on a homemade disc buried in one of my wife’s CD books, and immediately knew I had found a nice little gem of an album. Glossary pulls its influences from bands like Sonic Youth, Pavement and Neil Young, and from the country music they grew up around. Glossary is reminiscent of another Tennessee band, Lucero…in fact, former Lucero member Todd Beene is now a member of Glossary. The Southern world is a small one.
The Better Angels Of Our Nature is a fine album, with solid musicianship and good Southern rock storytelling. It’s an album that will grow on you, and songs like “Little Caney”, “Shout It From The Rooftops”, “Blood On The Knobs” and “Valessa” will win you over and make you want to hear more from them. The band’s influences run together well, and the songwriting has a subtle way of slowly winning you over. After five albums and almost ten years, Glossary had matured into a fine band that, despite a lack of large scale success, had become as solid as any more well known and bigger selling act. Joey Kneiser fronts the band with lots of heart, and the guitar work is very strong. Last word was that the band was working on a new album, but that was in mid 2013, and there’s been little news from the band since. Hoping that they’re still around, and that I can catch a show sometime…this album has won me over.
[First added to this chart: 09/30/2026]
Produced By GLOSSARY
1. Only Time Will Tell
2. Little Caney
3. Almsgiver
4. Valessa
5. Shout It From The Rooftops
6. Bitter Branch
7. Gasoline Soaked Heart
8. Nothing Can Hurt You Now
9. Chase Me Out Of The Dark
10. Blood On The Knobs
How can you not love a band that called its first album Southern By The Grace Of Location? Glossary is a little known alt-country band from Murfreesboro, TN that has been quietly turning out albums since 1998, with little to show for it in the way of sales or fame, but with a steadily growing reputation as one of the genre’s finest bands. The Better Angels Of Our Nature is their fifth album, and was apparently released in a very limited form…only 500 copies were supposedly made of the first run, according to Discogs. I found it on a homemade disc buried in one of my wife’s CD books, and immediately knew I had found a nice little gem of an album. Glossary pulls its influences from bands like Sonic Youth, Pavement and Neil Young, and from the country music they grew up around. Glossary is reminiscent of another Tennessee band, Lucero…in fact, former Lucero member Todd Beene is now a member of Glossary. The Southern world is a small one.
The Better Angels Of Our Nature is a fine album, with solid musicianship and good Southern rock storytelling. It’s an album that will grow on you, and songs like “Little Caney”, “Shout It From The Rooftops”, “Blood On The Knobs” and “Valessa” will win you over and make you want to hear more from them. The band’s influences run together well, and the songwriting has a subtle way of slowly winning you over. After five albums and almost ten years, Glossary had matured into a fine band that, despite a lack of large scale success, had become as solid as any more well known and bigger selling act. Joey Kneiser fronts the band with lots of heart, and the guitar work is very strong. Last word was that the band was working on a new album, but that was in mid 2013, and there’s been little news from the band since. Hoping that they’re still around, and that I can catch a show sometime…this album has won me over.
[First added to this chart: 09/30/2026]
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2010 – BANDCAMP
Produced By MARC FORD
1. Cool Heads
2. Half Dead
3. Bolero In Red
4. Next To Me
5. Long Gone
6. The Way It Goes
7. My Love
8. You’re The One
9. Bluebird St.
10. Future Too
Marc Ford is best known as the lead guitarist for The Black Crowes during their most successful period, from The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion to By Your Side. His tenure in the Crowes was short, which has become the signature of Ford’s career…he’s the victim of a short attention span. Over his career, which began with the short lived Burning Tree, Ford has been in the Crowes, been in countless other bands that came and went quickly, tried his hand as a solo artist more than once, rejoined and left the Crowes, and is now a producer, collaborator, and well respected player. Fuzz Machine, released on BandCamp, is an album recorded during the blurry lines between this band and the Neptune Blues Club. It’s a much heavier affair, and might actually be the best of Ford’s solo work…unfortunately, it’s also an avenue that he chose not to pursue much beyond this recording.
What makes Fuzz Machine work is that Ford simply gets heavy. He turns his amp up high and let’s his signature…that great tone…take over the album. And when it works, it works well. “Cool Heads” and “Next To Me” showcase Ford’s greatest asset, his exceptional guitar playing. “Bolero In Red” is good, but he seems to be trying to sing it like Chris Robinson would. Vocally, the album is better than most of Ford’s solo work, thanks in part to help from his son Elijah and bassist Muddy Dutton. Ultimately, what makes this maybe the best Ford recording outside of The Black Crowes is that he remembers what got him here…his guitar. Ford can really wail, and on this album more than any other in his discography, he does just that. It makes up for a lot…his voice, his sometimes marginal songwriting, and his career indecisions. If you only spring for one Marc Ford album, this would not be a bad choice at all.
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2026]
Produced By MARC FORD
1. Cool Heads
2. Half Dead
3. Bolero In Red
4. Next To Me
5. Long Gone
6. The Way It Goes
7. My Love
8. You’re The One
9. Bluebird St.
10. Future Too
Marc Ford is best known as the lead guitarist for The Black Crowes during their most successful period, from The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion to By Your Side. His tenure in the Crowes was short, which has become the signature of Ford’s career…he’s the victim of a short attention span. Over his career, which began with the short lived Burning Tree, Ford has been in the Crowes, been in countless other bands that came and went quickly, tried his hand as a solo artist more than once, rejoined and left the Crowes, and is now a producer, collaborator, and well respected player. Fuzz Machine, released on BandCamp, is an album recorded during the blurry lines between this band and the Neptune Blues Club. It’s a much heavier affair, and might actually be the best of Ford’s solo work…unfortunately, it’s also an avenue that he chose not to pursue much beyond this recording.
What makes Fuzz Machine work is that Ford simply gets heavy. He turns his amp up high and let’s his signature…that great tone…take over the album. And when it works, it works well. “Cool Heads” and “Next To Me” showcase Ford’s greatest asset, his exceptional guitar playing. “Bolero In Red” is good, but he seems to be trying to sing it like Chris Robinson would. Vocally, the album is better than most of Ford’s solo work, thanks in part to help from his son Elijah and bassist Muddy Dutton. Ultimately, what makes this maybe the best Ford recording outside of The Black Crowes is that he remembers what got him here…his guitar. Ford can really wail, and on this album more than any other in his discography, he does just that. It makes up for a lot…his voice, his sometimes marginal songwriting, and his career indecisions. If you only spring for one Marc Ford album, this would not be a bad choice at all.
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2026]
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1989 – SUB POP
Produced By JACK ENDINO
1. Blew
2. Floyd The Barber
3. About A Girl
4. School
5. Love Buzz
6. Paper Cuts
7. Negative Creep
8. Scoff
9. Swap Meet
10. Mr. Moustache
11. Sifting
12. Big Cheese
13. Downer
Before there was the massive success of Nevermind in 1991, before there was anything called grunge outside of Seattle, and before there was Dave Grohl playing drums for Nirvana, there was their debut album, Bleach. The now legendary story is that this album was recorded for $606.17, which was financed by Jason Everman. In return, Everman was credited (and pictured on the cover) as the band’s second guitarist, even though he didn’t play a single note on it. Chad Channing plays drums on all but two tracks here…he was Nirvana’s fourth different drummer in 1988, when the album was recorded. So, keep in mind that Nirvana got what it paid for here. $600 bucks will only take you so far, and for the money, it sounds pretty damn good. It’s nowhere near the level of recording that they got on Nevermind with Grohl and Geffen Records behind them, but you can hear the beginnings of what a great band this was soon to be.
Kurt Cobain (he was credited as “Kurdt”), as always with Nirvana, writes the songs (except for “Love Buzz”, a Shocking Blue cover) and sings them, and provides much of the dynamics with his guitar. “Love Buzz” and “Blew” were released as singles, and were moderately successful on college radio. But the album was hardly a success. When Nevermind was released two years later, Bleach had barely sold 40,000 copies. Since that time, it has sold nearly 2 million, helped by the success of the recording of “About A Girl” from the MTV Unplugged album. Bleach is a good starting point, and the best way to hear what Nirvana was all about before they became massively successful. And Bleach is still a pretty good album, especially given the budget and the fact that they did not yet have a settled drummer. And because Cobain was gone after only 3 studio albums, you take what you can get from the guy.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2026]
Produced By JACK ENDINO
1. Blew
2. Floyd The Barber
3. About A Girl
4. School
5. Love Buzz
6. Paper Cuts
7. Negative Creep
8. Scoff
9. Swap Meet
10. Mr. Moustache
11. Sifting
12. Big Cheese
13. Downer
Before there was the massive success of Nevermind in 1991, before there was anything called grunge outside of Seattle, and before there was Dave Grohl playing drums for Nirvana, there was their debut album, Bleach. The now legendary story is that this album was recorded for $606.17, which was financed by Jason Everman. In return, Everman was credited (and pictured on the cover) as the band’s second guitarist, even though he didn’t play a single note on it. Chad Channing plays drums on all but two tracks here…he was Nirvana’s fourth different drummer in 1988, when the album was recorded. So, keep in mind that Nirvana got what it paid for here. $600 bucks will only take you so far, and for the money, it sounds pretty damn good. It’s nowhere near the level of recording that they got on Nevermind with Grohl and Geffen Records behind them, but you can hear the beginnings of what a great band this was soon to be.
Kurt Cobain (he was credited as “Kurdt”), as always with Nirvana, writes the songs (except for “Love Buzz”, a Shocking Blue cover) and sings them, and provides much of the dynamics with his guitar. “Love Buzz” and “Blew” were released as singles, and were moderately successful on college radio. But the album was hardly a success. When Nevermind was released two years later, Bleach had barely sold 40,000 copies. Since that time, it has sold nearly 2 million, helped by the success of the recording of “About A Girl” from the MTV Unplugged album. Bleach is a good starting point, and the best way to hear what Nirvana was all about before they became massively successful. And Bleach is still a pretty good album, especially given the budget and the fact that they did not yet have a settled drummer. And because Cobain was gone after only 3 studio albums, you take what you can get from the guy.
[First added to this chart: 09/07/2026]
Year of Release:
1989
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3,459
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1974 – ATLANTIC
Produced By KING CRIMSON
1. Red
2. Fallen Angel
3. One More Red Nightmare
4. Providence
5. Starless
King Crimson’s 1969 debut, In The Court Of The Crimson King, is often viewed as their best work. But while “21st Century Schizoid Man” is their best known song, the album as a whole is easily overshadowed by 1974’s Red. Their seventh album, Red finds the band down to the trio of Robert Fripp, John Wetton and Bill Bruford, and has been named as one of the heaviest albums of all time. And it’s true. King Crimson, which had always had a very acoustic and light side to them, gets deep and heavy here…as heavy as progressive rock ever got. Fripp pulls out all of the stops, driven by the powerhouse rhythm section of Wetton and Bruford. It’s Zeppelin-esque in its heaviness, yet as smart and complex as anything in the world of prog. The title song lets you know right away that this is going to rock heavily, as the instrumental track rips for a solid six minutes of dizzying scales and monster guitar riffs.
The lightest moments come early on “Fallen Angel”. “One More Red Nightmare” is right back to powerful heavy goodness. “Providence” is a live improv recording featuring former keyboardist and violinist David Cross. King Crimson saves the best for last, though. “Starless”, a song that was originally discarded from the pool of tracks for their previous album, Starless & Bible Black, is, with all apologies to the Schizoid Man, the best King Crimson song of all time. Clocking in at over twelve minutes, “Starless” is simply stunning, and everything that has ever been great about this band rolled up in one fine song. You must have this album for this track alone…the rest is just bonus. “Starless” is also the last King Crimson track of the seventies. After the recording of Red was finished, the band went on hiatus for seven years, returning in 1981 with Discipline. Red is their masterpiece…one of the best progressive rock albums ever, and the best work by an underappreciated and excellent band.
[First added to this chart: 08/25/2026]
Produced By KING CRIMSON
1. Red
2. Fallen Angel
3. One More Red Nightmare
4. Providence
5. Starless
King Crimson’s 1969 debut, In The Court Of The Crimson King, is often viewed as their best work. But while “21st Century Schizoid Man” is their best known song, the album as a whole is easily overshadowed by 1974’s Red. Their seventh album, Red finds the band down to the trio of Robert Fripp, John Wetton and Bill Bruford, and has been named as one of the heaviest albums of all time. And it’s true. King Crimson, which had always had a very acoustic and light side to them, gets deep and heavy here…as heavy as progressive rock ever got. Fripp pulls out all of the stops, driven by the powerhouse rhythm section of Wetton and Bruford. It’s Zeppelin-esque in its heaviness, yet as smart and complex as anything in the world of prog. The title song lets you know right away that this is going to rock heavily, as the instrumental track rips for a solid six minutes of dizzying scales and monster guitar riffs.
The lightest moments come early on “Fallen Angel”. “One More Red Nightmare” is right back to powerful heavy goodness. “Providence” is a live improv recording featuring former keyboardist and violinist David Cross. King Crimson saves the best for last, though. “Starless”, a song that was originally discarded from the pool of tracks for their previous album, Starless & Bible Black, is, with all apologies to the Schizoid Man, the best King Crimson song of all time. Clocking in at over twelve minutes, “Starless” is simply stunning, and everything that has ever been great about this band rolled up in one fine song. You must have this album for this track alone…the rest is just bonus. “Starless” is also the last King Crimson track of the seventies. After the recording of Red was finished, the band went on hiatus for seven years, returning in 1981 with Discipline. Red is their masterpiece…one of the best progressive rock albums ever, and the best work by an underappreciated and excellent band.
[First added to this chart: 08/25/2026]
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1974
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9,567
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[First added to this chart: 08/22/2026]
Year of Release:
2012
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5,925
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2005 – CAPITOL
Produced By DANTON SUPPLE, COLDPLAY & KEN NELSON
1. Square One
2. What If
3. White Shadows
4. Fix You
5. Talk
6. X&Y
7. Speed Of Sound
8. A Message
9. Low
10. The Hardest Part
11. Swallowed In The Sea
12. Twisted Logic
13. Til Kingdom Come
If you were to guess that the top selling album worldwide from 2005 was X&Y by Coldplay, you would be correct. This is, thankfully, not the same Coldplay that found itself meandering around the stage at the Super Bowl with Beyonce and Bruno Mars a decade later. This was the Coldplay that was busy downplaying the “new Radiohead” tag, and that was coming off their excellent second album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head. The pressure was on, but Coldplay was certainly up to the challenge. Welcoming the break from constant touring, the band settled into the studio and created a beautiful album. The critics may have seen it as a letdown after their previous release, but the little girls understand…X&Y is a thing of beauty. That it was as popular as it was is just icing on the cake.
“Speed Of Sound” was a successful hit, and there are several exceptional songs here. “White Shadows”, “Fix You”, “What If” and “Talk” are all great, as is “The Hardest Part”. The atmosphere is airy and expansive, with the band really stretching out with a beautiful and more electronic sound. The real star, as always with Coldplay, is singer Chris Martin, who’s dreamy, sometimes falsetto, voice carries each song it touches to a new level. This is a point in Coldplay’s career when they were really on top of it all. The band would begin moving towards a more outwardly pop sound on their next album, seemingly shooting for hits instead of letting them come naturally, but the early albums by this band, particularly A Rush Of Blood and X&Y, is where you’re going to find the real root of what they are capable of.
[First added to this chart: 08/17/2026]
Produced By DANTON SUPPLE, COLDPLAY & KEN NELSON
1. Square One
2. What If
3. White Shadows
4. Fix You
5. Talk
6. X&Y
7. Speed Of Sound
8. A Message
9. Low
10. The Hardest Part
11. Swallowed In The Sea
12. Twisted Logic
13. Til Kingdom Come
If you were to guess that the top selling album worldwide from 2005 was X&Y by Coldplay, you would be correct. This is, thankfully, not the same Coldplay that found itself meandering around the stage at the Super Bowl with Beyonce and Bruno Mars a decade later. This was the Coldplay that was busy downplaying the “new Radiohead” tag, and that was coming off their excellent second album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head. The pressure was on, but Coldplay was certainly up to the challenge. Welcoming the break from constant touring, the band settled into the studio and created a beautiful album. The critics may have seen it as a letdown after their previous release, but the little girls understand…X&Y is a thing of beauty. That it was as popular as it was is just icing on the cake.
“Speed Of Sound” was a successful hit, and there are several exceptional songs here. “White Shadows”, “Fix You”, “What If” and “Talk” are all great, as is “The Hardest Part”. The atmosphere is airy and expansive, with the band really stretching out with a beautiful and more electronic sound. The real star, as always with Coldplay, is singer Chris Martin, who’s dreamy, sometimes falsetto, voice carries each song it touches to a new level. This is a point in Coldplay’s career when they were really on top of it all. The band would begin moving towards a more outwardly pop sound on their next album, seemingly shooting for hits instead of letting them come naturally, but the early albums by this band, particularly A Rush Of Blood and X&Y, is where you’re going to find the real root of what they are capable of.
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