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With the Beatles
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With the Beatles

(1963)
With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock group the Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963, on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band's debut Please Please Me. The album features eight...
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Please Please Me
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Please Please Me

(1963)
Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Parlophone rush-released the album on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of the singles "Please Please Me" and "Love Me...
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A Hard Day's Night
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A Hard Day's Night

(1964)
A Hard Day's Night is the third studio album by English rock band the Beatles, released on 10 July 1964, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their film A Hard Day's Night. The American version of the album was re...
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Help!
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Help!

(1965)
Help! is the fifth studio album by English rock group the Beatles, and the soundtrack from their film Help! Produced by George Martin, it contains fourteen songs in its original British form. Seven of these, including the singles...
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Yesterday and Today
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Yesterday and Today

(1966)
Yesterday and Today is the ninth Capitol Records album release by the Beatles and the eleventh overall American release. It was issued only in the United States, Canada and, in the 1970s, Japan. The album is remembered primarily f...
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Revolver
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Revolver

(1966)
Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 5 August 1966 in the United Kingdom and three days later in the United States.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

(1967)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the United Kingdom an...
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The Beatles
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The Beatles

(1968)
The Beatles, also known as the White Album, is the ninth studio album by English rock group the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embos...
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Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin

(1969)
Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and released on Atlantic Records on 12 January 1969 in the United States and 31 M...
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Abbey Road
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Abbey Road

(1969)
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 in the United Kingdom and on 1 October 1969 in the United States. The recording sessions for the album were the last in wh...
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Cold Fact
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Cold Fact

(1970)
Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. The album sold very poorly in the United States (Rodriguez was himself an unknown in t...
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Let It Be
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Let It Be

(1970)
Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970, almost a month after the group's break-up. Like most of the band's previous releases, it was a number one album i...
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Coming from Reality
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Coming from Reality

(1971)
Coming from Reality is the second and final studio album to date from American singer and songwriter Rodriguez, originally released by Sussex Records in 1971. It was later released in South Africa in 1976 with the alternate title...
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On the Beach
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On the Beach

(1974)
On the Beach is the fifth studio album by Neil Young, released in 1974. It was unavailable on compact disc until it was released as a HDCD-encoded remastered version on August 19, 2003 as part of his Archives Digital Masterpiece S...
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Comes a Time
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Comes a Time

(1978)
Comes a Time is the ninth album by Neil Young, and a return to the country/folk rock sound of Harvest (1972). "Comes a Time" is also the title song and a single release from this album. Originally, it had started out as a solo rec...
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Hawks & Doves
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Hawks & Doves

(1980)
Hawks & Doves is the tenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. Its two sides were recorded in different circumstances, side one being culled from sessions dating from approximately 1974 through 1977, and side two from se...
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Heartattack and Vine
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Heartattack and Vine

(1980)
Heartattack and Vine was Tom Waits' last album on the Asylum label, released in September 1980. Bruce Springsteen has performed "Jersey Girl" as part of his live shows since the early 1980s, including it in his live retrospective...
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Tonight
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Tonight

(1984)
Tonight is the sixteenth studio album by David Bowie, released in 1984. He described the album, released immediately after his previous album's tour wrapped up, as an effort to "keep my hand in, so to speak," and to retain the new...
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Rain Dogs
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Rain Dogs

(1985)
Rain Dogs is the eighth album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records. The album includes appearances by guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot. The album peaked at #29 on the UK cha...
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Not of This Earth
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Not of This Earth

(1986)
Not of This Earth is the first studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released in 1986 through Relativity Records.
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Landing on Water
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Landing on Water

(1986)
Landing on Water is the fifteenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young. The album was released on July 28, 1986, by Geffen Records. Several of the songs on the album were resurrected from Neil Young and Crazy Horse's faile...
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Surfing with the Alien
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Surfing with the Alien

(1987)
Surfing with the Alien is the second studio album by American rock guitarist Joe Satriani. It was released on October 15, 1987, by Relativity Records. The album is one of Satriani's most successful to date. The album contains fast...
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Never Let Me Down
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Never Let Me Down

(1987)
Never Let Me Down is the seventeenth studio album by David Bowie, released in April 1987 by EMI America. Bowie conceived the album as the foundation for a theatrical world tour, writing and recording most of the songs in Switzerla...
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Life
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Life

(1987)
Life is the sixteenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, his fifth with Crazy Horse, and Young's last release on the Geffen label. The album was released on July 6, 1987. Most of the album was recorded live in concert a...
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Franks Wild Years
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Franks Wild Years

(1987)
Franks Wild Years is an album by Tom Waits, released 1987 on Island Records. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen Brennan) for a play...
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Flying in a Blue Dream
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Flying in a Blue Dream

(1989)
Flying in a Blue Dream is the third studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on October 30, 1989 through Relativity Records. It is one of Satriani's most popular albums and his second highest-charting release to date, reac...
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Eldorado
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Eldorado

(1989)
Eldorado is an EP released only in Japan and Australia by Neil Young backed by The Restless, which consisted of Chad Cromwell and Rick Rosas. It contains different mixes of three songs that subsequently appeared on Young's 1989 al...
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Tin Machine
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Tin Machine

(1989)
Tin Machine is the debut album of Tin Machine originally released by EMI in 1989. The group was the latest venture of David Bowie, inspired by sessions with guitarist Reeves Gabrels. Drummer Hunt Sales and bassist Tony Sales forme...
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Ragged Glory
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Ragged Glory

(1990)
Ragged Glory is the nineteenth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, his sixth with Crazy Horse, released on September 9, 1990. The album revisits the hard-rock style previously explored on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere...
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Tin Machine II
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Tin Machine II

(1991)
Tin Machine II is an album by Tin Machine, originally released by Victory Music in 1991.
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The Extremist
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The Extremist

(1992)
The Extremist is the fourth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on July 21, 1992 through Relativity Records The album is one of Satriani's most popular releases and his highest-charting to date, reaching No. 22 on the...
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Black Tie White Noise
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Black Tie White Noise

(1993)
Black Tie White Noise is the eighteenth studio album by David Bowie. Released in 1993, it was his first solo release in the 1990s after spending time with his hard rock band Tin Machine, retiring his old hits on his Sound+Vision T...
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The Black Rider
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The Black Rider

(1993)
The Black Rider is an album by Tom Waits, released in 1993 on Island Records, featuring studio versions of songs Waits wrote for the play The Black Rider, directed by Robert Wilson and co-written by William S. Burroughs. The play...
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Sleeps with Angels
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Sleeps with Angels

(1994)
Sleeps with Angels is the twenty-first studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, released on August 16, 1994, on Reprise. Co-produced by David Briggs, the album is Young's seventh with Crazy Horse...
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Joe Satriani
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Joe Satriani

(1995)
Joe Satriani is the self-titled sixth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released in October 1995 through Relativity Records. The album reached No. 51 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for seven weeks, as w...
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Mirror Ball
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Mirror Ball

(1995)
Mirror Ball is the twenty-second studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, and features members of Pearl Jam. It was released on June 27, 1995 through Reprise Records. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA in the Unite...
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Crystal Planet
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Crystal Planet

(1998)
Crystal Planet is the seventh studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on March 3, 1998 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 50 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for eight weeks, as well as reachi...
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'Hours...'
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'Hours...'

(1999)
'Hours...' is the twenty-first studio album by British musician David Bowie. It was released on 4 October 1999 on Virgin Records. This was Bowie's final album for the EMI sub-label. It was the first complete album by a major artis...
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Engines of Creation
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Engines of Creation

(2000)
Engines of Creation is the eighth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on March 14, 2000 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 90 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for three weeks, as well as r...
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Are You Passionate?
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Are You Passionate?

(2002)
Are You Passionate? is the twenty-fifth studio album by Canadian musician Neil Young, the only album to feature Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and his eighth with Crazy Horse, released on April 9, 2002. It represents Young's foray into s...
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Alice
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Alice

(2002)
Alice is an album by Tom Waits, released in 2002 on Epitaph Records (under the Anti sub-label). The album contains the majority of songs written for the play Alice. The adaptation was directed by Robert Wilson, whom Waits had prev...
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Heathen
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Heathen

(2002)
Heathen is the 22nd studio album by English rock musician David Bowie, released in 2002. It was his highest charting album (#14) since Tonight (1984). Worldwide, it sold over two million copies and experienced a four-month run on...
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Strange Beautiful Music
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Strange Beautiful Music

(2002)
Strange Beautiful Music is the ninth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on June 25, 2002 through Epic Records; a Super Audio CD edition was released on September 10. The album reached No. 140 on the U.S. Billboard 20...
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Greendale
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Greendale

(2003)
Greendale is the twenty-sixth studio album by Neil Young. Young and Crazy Horse's Greendale, a 10-song rock opera, is set in a fictional California seaside town. Greendale combines numerous themes on corruption, environmentalism a...
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Reality
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Reality

(2003)
Reality is the 23rd studio album by English rock musician David Bowie. It was released in 2003 on his Iso Records label, in conjunction with Columbia Records.
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Real Gone
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Real Gone

(2004)
Real Gone is an album by Tom Waits, released October 3, 2004 in Europe, and October 5 in United States on the ANTI- label. Recorded in an abandoned schoolhouse in Mississippi, its songs are notable for their heavy use of percussio...
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Is There Love in Space?
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Is There Love in Space?

(2004)
Is There Love in Space? is the tenth studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on April 13, 2004 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 80 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for two weeks, as well as...
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Living with War: "In the Beginning"
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Living with War: "In the Beginning"

(2006)
Living with War: "In the Beginning" is a studio album by Neil Young, released in 2006. It is a stripped-down version of Young's 2006 album Living with War. The original title of this particular CD/DVD release, according to a press...
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Super Colossal
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Super Colossal

(2006)
Super Colossal is the eleventh studio album by guitarist Joe Satriani, released on March 14, 2006 through Epic Records. The album reached No. 86 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and remained on that chart for two weeks, as well as reachi...
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Living with War
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Living with War

(2006)
Living with War, released on May 2, 2006, is the Grammy and Juno Award-nominated twenty-eighth studio album by the Canadian musician Neil Young.
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