From the classics to those rare gems you forgot about, each week music blogger Sam Smith reviews an album celebrating an anniversary. Offering a mix of history, quirky facts, and of course tunes, catch anniversary albums every Monday on Morning Glory with Geneva for your fix of music history.
This week Sam takes a look at the debut studio album from American R&B singer Frank Ocean "Channel Orange." Released in 2012, "Channel Orange" is considered by many to be the best album released in 2012, as well as being an all-time 21st century classic album.
This week Sam takes a look at New York hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim's debut album "Paid in Full." Released in 1987, "Paid in Full" is considered one of the most influential hip hop albums of all time and a standard from the golden era of hip hop in the 80s and 90s.
This week Sam takes a look at the 4th studio album by British R&B group Sade. Although they were labeled "sophisti-pop," Sade was more a fusion group that blended jazz, R&B, soul and pop with exotic Latin and African rhythms and had mass crossover appeal between both commercial and alternative music fans.
This week Sam takes a look at American singer/songwriter Elliott Smith's 3rd studio album "Either/Or." Released in 1997, "Either/Or" is considered by many to be Smith's best album and a 90's classic.
This week Sam takes a look at the Beatles 1967 soundtrack album "Magical Mystery Tour." This record was the second album the band released in 1967 after "Sgt Pepper" and accompanied the band's 3rd film of the same name.
This week Sam takes a look at singer-songwriter Tom Waits 8th studio album "Franks Wild Years." Released in 1987, this album forms part of a trilogy of albums that includes "Swordfishtrombones" and "Rain Dogs" during a period in the mid-80s that is considered by many to be Waits creative peak.
For our final NZ Music Month anniversary album special, Sam takes a look at Darcy Clay's "Jesus I Was Evil EP" from 1997. Darcy was a 95bFM legend and in fact, his song "Jesus I Was Evil" was voted the number one song played on the station by listeners in a 2009 poll.
This week on our NZ Music Month anniversary albums special, Sam takes a look at the self-titled album from hip hop crew Home Brew. Released in 2012, this album made a splash right from the outset and became the first NZ hip hop album since Scribe's "The Crusader" to go number one.
This week on our NZ Music Month anniversary albums special, Sam takes a look at Christchurch band the Bats debut studio album "Daddy's Highway." Released in 1987, this album is one of the albums that best represents the Dunedin Sound of the 1980's.
For NZ Music Month this May we are going to be looking at New Zealand albums. This week Sam takes a look at the debut album from singer-songwriter Bic Runga "Drive." Released in 1997, "Drive" became an instant classic in the New Zealand music cannon and cemented Runga as a modern-day great.
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