On this Day in Music – 22nd December

Previous Albums Of The Day

No.1552 22/12/2020

The 3rd LP by Bad Brains I Against I, released in November 1986, is the band’s bestselling album and often cited as their masterpiece. The vocals to Sacred Love were recorded over the phone from prison where H.R. was serving time. Love House of Suffering.

No.1204 22/12/2019

The 1975 War LP Why Can’t We Be Friends was a big hit powered by the single Low Rider. Perhaps the band’s finest moment the LP has tender moments, Latino moments, reggae moments, and of course funk, funk, funk!

No.838 22/12/2018

When Tom Waits declared himself a junkyard noise poet his output became sporadic. There was a 5-year hiatus before releasing the 1999 Mule Variations. An album of fantastically Wait’s song writing, with a vocal delivery that could wake the dead! Do you dig Thomas Alan Waits?

No.466 22/12/2017

The debut LP Mr Fantasy by Traffic is 50 years old this month. Jim Calpaldi’s lyrics and Steve Winwood’s vocals, and the band’s use of unusual instruments, capture a moment in time, post Sgt Peppers.

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