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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
- 33 1/3, Book 30
- Written by: Dan LeRoy
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning to record their second album—an embarrassing commercial flop that should have ruined the group's career. But not only did "Paul's Boutique" eventually transformed the Beasties from a fratboy novelty to hiphop giants, its sample-happy, retro aesthetic changed popular culture forever.
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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
- 33 1/3, Book 30
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Leah Kardos
- Narrated by: Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer. Track-by-track commentaries focus on the experience of the album from the listener’s point of view, drawing attention to the art and craft of Bush’s songwriting, production and sound design.
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Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Ma'Chell M. Duma
- Narrated by: Gillian Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The apex of critical praise and commercial success is a metric achieved by a select few. In 2020, Cardi B became synonymous with “record breaking” as her debut album Invasion of Privacy went five times platinum and became the longest charting record by a female rapper in history. From streaming and charting to views, likes, retweets, and shares, Cardi dominates.
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Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Gillian Williams
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- Written by: Hugo Wilcken
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- Written by: Carl Wilson
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred — with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt.
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Abba's Abba Gold
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Elizabeth Vincentelli
- Narrated by: Stephanie Németh Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Perhaps more than any other Greatest Hits compilation, Abba Gold has come to define a band’s career on one disk. More than that, its release in 1992 heralded the critical rehabilitation of a group which had, since its demise a decade earlier, become little more than a memory of trashy costumes and cheesy tunes to many people. Here, Elisabeth Vincentelli charts the circumstances surrounding the birth of Abba Gold, looks at the impact it had on the music world, and tells the stories behind some of the greatest pop songs ever recorded.
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Abba's Abba Gold
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Stephanie Németh Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Elton John's Blue Moves
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Matthew Restall
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist and the highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in a row and a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London suburbs to the pinnacles of rock stardom, his songs never leaving the charts, his sold-out shows packed with adoring fans. Then he released Blue Moves, and it all came crashing down.
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Elton John's Blue Moves
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Aaron Cohen
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time. For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic: five years after ascending to soul royalty and commercial success, Franklin was publicly returning to her religious roots.
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Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Pearl Jam's Vs.
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Clint Brownlee
- Narrated by: TJ Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Vs. is the sound of a band on fire. The same confluence of talent, passion, timing, and fate that made “grunge” the world’s soundtrack also lit a short fuse beneath Pearl Jam. The band combusted between late 1992 and mid-1994, the span during which they planned, recorded, and supported their sophomore record. The spotlight, the pressure, the pace—it all nearly turned the thriving act to ash.
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Pearl Jam's Vs.
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: TJ Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Metallica's Metallica
- 33 1/3
- Written by: David Masciotra
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1991, Metallica released their fifth studio album that would become known and beloved around the world as “The Black Album.” Since its release, it has sold 30 million copies, and become a towering monument in the pantheon of rock’s greatest records. Listeners will get unprecedented insight into the story behind an iconic album from one of the world’s most iconic bands through interviews with James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted, and “Black Album” producer Bob Rock.
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Metallica's Metallica
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Madvillain's Madvillainy
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Will Hagle
- Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop.
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Madvillain's Madvillainy
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Alex Niven
- Narrated by: Matt Haynes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes & Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Matt Haynes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Duran Duran's Rio
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Annie Zaleski
- Narrated by: Susan Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound—influences include danceable disco, tangy funk, swaggering glam, and Roxy Music's art-rock—the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as "Hungry Like the Wolf" and the title track.
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Duran Duran's Rio
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Susan Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
- 33 1/3, Book 77
- Written by: Rob Trucks
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.
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Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
- 33 1/3, Book 77
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Eric Wolfson
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Like a killer returning to the scene of the crime, Elvis came back home to Memphis, where it had all begun. Eschewing the fancier studios of Nashville and Hollywood, he set up shop at the ramshackle American Sound Studio, run by a maverick named Chips Moman with an in-house backing band now known as "The Memphis Boys,"" and made the music of his life. The resulting work, From Elvis in Memphis, would be the finest studio album of his career, an explosion of mature confidence and fiery inspiration.
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Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Nas's Illmatic
- 33 1/3, Book 64
- Written by: Matthew Gasteier
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A decade and a half ago, Illmatic launched one of the most storied careers in hip hop, and cemented New York’s place as the genre’s epicenter. With this in-depth look at the record, Matthew Gasteier explores the competing themes that run through Nas’s masterpiece and finds a compelling journey into adulthood.
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Nas's Illmatic
- 33 1/3, Book 64
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Natasha Lasky
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to record an album, Blackout. Critics thought it spelled the end for Britney Spears’ career.
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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AC DC's Highway to Hell
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Joe Bonomo
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Joe Bonomo strikes a three-chord essay on the power of adolescence, the durability of rock & roll fandom, and the transformative properties of memory. Why does Highway To Hell matter to anyone beyond non-ironic teenagers? Blending interviews, analysis, and memoir with a fan's perspective, Highway To Hell dramatizes and celebrates a timeless album that one critic said makes "disaster sound like the best fun in the world."
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AC DC's Highway to Hell
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Joe Gross
- Narrated by: Rob Vlock
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater and 1991's impressionistic follow-up Steady Diet of Nothing) inside of five years, Fugazi was on creative roll, astounding increasingly large audiences as they toured, blasting fist-pumping anthems and jammy noise-workouts that roared into every open underground heart.
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Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Rob Vlock
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Ayanna Dozier
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson’s career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control over her career but was, rather, an existential question about the desire to control and be in control over her bodily integrity as a Black woman.
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Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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