Scary Monsters - BONUS TRACKS
Artist: David Bowie
90125
Artist: Yes
Community Score: 7.00

A stunning self-reinvention by a band that many had given up for dead, 90125 is the album that introduced a whole new generation of listeners to Yes. Begun as Cinema, a new band by Chris Squire and Alan White, the project grew to include the slick production of Trevor Horn, the new blood (and distinctly '80s guitar sound) of Trevor Rabin, and... Read More

Classic Yes
Artist: Yes
Community Score: 4.50

Compiled by Chris Squire (in case you're wondering how "The Fish" made it this far upstream), Classic Yes was Atlantic's initial attempt to distill the band's best music. Subsequent compilations have swelled to four discs (Yesyears), been abridged to two (Yesstory), and further compacted to a single disc (Highlights), any one of which offers a... Read More

Gold
Artist: Steely Dan
Community Score: 5.00

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker wrote many outstanding light-rock tunes with a somewhat soulful appeal. This compilation album plays host to quite a few of those songs, among them "Hey Nineteen," "Deacon Blues," and Black Cow." The twosome have an uncanny style of conveying their messages in a very overt way without forfeiting the songs'... Read More

Gaucho
Artist: Steely Dan
Community Score: 6.00

Aja was cool, relaxed, and controlled; it sounded deceptively easy. Its follow-up, Gaucho, while sonically similar, is its polar opposite: a precise and studied record, where all of the seams show. Gaucho essentially replicates the smooth jazz-pop of Aja, but with none of that record's dark, seductive romance or elegant aura. Instead, it's... Read More

Atlantic Years (1973-1980)
Artist: Roxy Music

Mourning Roxy Music's departure to Warner Brothers for their final album, Avalon, The Atlantic Years was a very top-heavy compilation concentrating on the band's final last albums for Atco, then tracking back to radio faves "Do The Strand" and "Love is The Drug" to justify its title.



As such, it was placed perfectly to... Read More

Avalon
Artist: Roxy Music
Community Score: 7.90

Flesh + Blood suggested that Roxy Music were at the end of the line, but they regrouped and recorded the lovely Avalon, one of their finest albums. Certainly, the lush, elegant soundscapes of Avalon are far removed from the edgy avant-pop of their early records, yet it represents another landmark in their career. With its stylish, romantic... Read More

Genesis - ATLANTIC
Artist: Genesis
Community Score: 6.79

If Genesis still had one foot in the art rock world with Abacab, they jumped into pop with both feet on their eponymous release. Genesis used crisp, glossy production and mid-tempo arrangements designed for pop radio in the 1980s. After years of relative obscurity on this side of the Atlantic, one cannot blame the band, especially one so... Read More

Abacab
Artist: Genesis
Community Score: 7.32

After gaining some limited commercial success with Duke, Genesis went for the jugular of American radio with the well-crafted pop of Abacab. While there are still some traces of their art rock past, the album is primarily filled with a new wave sound and concise songs. Phil Collins, who replaced Peter Gabriel years earlier as the lead vocalist,... Read More

Jungle Law
Artist: Philip Rambow