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Revisiting Memorable Albums and Their History
The 1990s and 2000s were two evolutionary decades in the music world. Not only was music composition and creation changing, but genres were transforming and music distribution was evolving. In this era, several genres would collide and music enjoyment transitioned to the digital world. In the middle of these two decades of metamorphosis within music, many defining albums were being released. Some of these albums would expand a genre's boundaries, others would break industry standards, and a few challenged societal structure.
Run That Back will be revisiting some of the defining albums within these two decades of music, by providing context surrounding the album's release, identifying an album's peaks and valleys, measuring an album's influence, and questioning an album's longevity. Each album will be explored through the following categories.
Backround - Sharing the history of the artist and album at the time of release.
High Note - Identifying the strongest track on an album and exploring its qualities.
Under the Radar - Hyping up a quality album song that did not receive many accolades.
Very Vintage - Highlighting an aspect of the album that aged the worst.
Hitting the Point Home - Identifying the theme of the album as carried into present day context
Top of the Charts - Recognizing whether the album was the artist's peak and the influence the album had
The Crescendo - Wrapping the article up with final thoughts about the artist and album.
What albums aged well? What albums were influential? Did an album define an artist's career or expand a genre? Get ready to think of all these questions... it's time to Run That Back!