On this Day in Music – 1st July

Previous Albums Of The Day

No.1396 01/07/2020

The 4th album by English rock band Traffic, John Barleycorn Must Die, celebrates a 50th anniversary today! In late 1968 Traffic split, but soon were reborn. JBMD became the band’s first Gold album, and showed more structure to their jazz-rock style.

No.1029 01/07/2019

The 1999 debut Macy Gray album On How Life Is was released 20 years ago today! Gray’s unique vocals catapulted the single I Try to international success. The album was huge, her creative peak. Q magazine said of Gray’s voice “as if Rod Stewart were a girl.

No.664 01/07/2018

The Vangelis soundtrack to the 1982 Ridley Scott movie Blade Runner took about a decade to be released, but was definitely worth the wait. The score is seen as an important piece of work in the history of electronic music. I remember hearing a bootleg long before the official release!

No.299 01/07/2017

The debut Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill, Y’all is 20 years old today. Fred Durst power rap-rock. Forgot about the George Michael cover of Faith!

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