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 "Rejuvenation" the 1974 album from New Orleans funk band The Meters. The Meters were one of the masters of the southern New Orleans R&B and funk styles that dominated the 1970s.
This week Sam pays tribute to Keith Flint of the Prodigy by celebrating their 1994 album "Music for the Jilted Generation." This record helped usher in the big beat scene in the UK and Europe and established the Prodigy as an electronic music force around the globe.
This week, Sam takes a look at the self-titled debut album from Manchester band the Stone Roses. Released in 1989, their debut was at the centre of what became known as the Madchester music scene and has gone on to be considered one of the best British albums of all time.
This week, Sam takes a look at the eight studio album from British band The Cure "Disintegration." Released in 1989, this album is considered an 80s goth rock classic and one of the best records of that decade.
This week, Sam takes a look at the 1979 album from the Queen of Disco Donna Summer "Bad Girls." This album was the most commercially successful of Summer's career and became one of the most influential dance music albums of all time.
This week, Sam takes a look at the second studio album from American alternative rock band the Pixies "Doolittle." Released in 1989, this album quickly became a seminal record in the alternative scene and helped pave the way for many other alternative bands to follow.
This week Sam takes a look at the fifth studio album from British soul singer Dusty Springfield "Dusty in Memphis." Released in 1969 although it bombed commercially at the time it has since gone on to be considered a classic album and one of Dusty's best.
This week, Sam takes a look at the final studio album from British band Tubeway Army "Replicas." Released in 1979, this was the last album Gary Numan made with the group before he went solo.
This week on anniversary albums, Sam takes a look at the debut album from New York rap group De La Soul "3 Feet High and Rising." Released in 1989, this album helped usher in a few fun, psychedelic and conscious rap sound and has since gone on to be viewed as one of the best hip-hop albums of all time.
Anniversary albums is back for another year. This year we are going to be looking at albums from years with a 4 or 9. So this means 1964, 69, 74, 79, 84, 89, 94, 99, 04, 09.
Kicking things off, this week, Sam took a look at Manchester band New Order's fifth studio album "Technique." Released in 1989 during the height of the "second summer of love," this album captured the essence of the time with its dance and rave-heavy sound.
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