Continuing my look at 1975, first by counting down my own top albums of that year.
#3 – Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled album was the band’s tenth release but the first with the legendary lineup that would propel them to superstardom.
Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined current band members Mick Fleetwood and John and Christine McVie, bringing along some great compositions (‘Rhiannon,’ ‘I’m So Afraid,’ ‘Monday Morning’) and their prodigious guitar/vocal skills.
Continuing my look at 1975, first by counting down my own top albums of that year.
#4 – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years
Paul Simon’s fourth solo album, and third since the breakup of Simon & Garfunkel, was the highpoint of the 15 years following the duo’s split.
Coming on the heels of 1973’s excellent There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, Still Crazy gave Simon his first (and only) #1 album as a soloist and produced two of his most enduring classics: the title track and ’50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.’
Grab your tie-dye and bell bottoms because we’ll be spending the next month exploring the albums of 1975, in the latest installment of the Decades series. I’ve covered the first five years of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s and now I’m wrapping back around to focus on the middle year of each decade.
As usual, I’ll start by counting down my personal favorite albums from the year then highlight some of the critically and commercially popular releases with which I’m less familiar.
Today we throw back to the week of May 4, 2013, the most recent year I’ll cover in Throwback Weekends (at least until we hit 2024). Next week I’ll loop back around to 1963.
Pink’s ‘Just Give Me a Reason’ was the third single from The Truth About Love, one of the best albums of that year. The song was initially planned as a solo performance, with Nate Ruess of the band fun. as a co-songwriter, but Pink felt the track would work better as a conversation between two performers.
Today’s Throwback Weekend installment has us throwing back to the week of May 3, 2003, when 50 Cent’s ‘In Da Club’ occupied the top spot of Billboard’s Hot 100.
This song spent 17 weeks on the Hot 100 and nine weeks at #1. It was the first single on 50 Cent’s well-received debut studio album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
Meet Me In Montauk 