Strange Days is the second album by American rock band The Doors, released in September 1967. It was a commercial success, initially earning a gold record and reaching #3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The album also yielded two top 30 hits and eventually a platinum certification. Despite all this, the album's producer, Paul Rothchild, considered it a commercial failure: "We all thought it was the best album. Significantly, it was also the one with the weakest sales. We were confident it was going to be bigger than anything The Beatles had done. But, there was no single. The record died on us.

In Blue is the third studio album by Irish pop rock band The Corrs, released in 2000 which saw the band become known in the United States. The title of the album comes from a lyric in the song "Give Me a Reason". As well as the UK number one single "Breathless", the album also contains new versions of "Radio" and "At Your Side", which had previously appeared on their previous album The Corrs Unplugged. Mutt Lange co-wrote and produced three songs from the album and Tim Martin was the engineer for the album's tracks for their recordings at Westland Studios and Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin.

Domino Effect is the second studio album from The Blizzards, released on 12 September 2008. The first single from the album "Trust Me, I'm A Doctor" was released in August 2008, A second single, "The Reason" was released in November 2008. The third single, "Postcards", was released on 27 February 2009.

Carry on Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South was the surprise British hit of 1994, going platinum five times between its late fall release and the summer of 1995. The success was surprising, because while the Beautiful South had been modestly popular, their last few albums were sliding down the charts. However, their hits collection, Carry On Up the Charts, flew to number one and stayed there for weeks. It's nothing more than all their singles, yet compiled together they make the most convincing case for the Beautiful South's sly, cynical sophisticated pop.

This is a definitive best-of from the scathingly satiric, invariably tuneful band that arose from the ashes of The Housemartins. Sadly, Paul Heaton and friends have always been too twee and clever for the colonies, though classics like "My Book" and "Old Red Eyes Is Back" deserved better. A lovely, sing-along new track, "One Last Love Song," sounds like a farewell to arms, while the limited-edition disc of B sides proves that only XTC can match them in terms of high-caliber throwaways. --Jeff Bateman

Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 5 August 1966, accompanied by the double A-side single "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine". The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology to date, building on the advances of their late 1965 release Rubber Soul. It has since become regarded as one of the greatest and most innovative albums in popular music, with recognition centred on its range of musical styles, diverse sounds, and lyrical content.

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, in tandem with the motion picture of the same name. Like most of the band's previous releases, the album topped record charts in many countries, including both the US and the UK. However, the critical response was generally unfavourable, and Let It Be came to be regarded as one of the most controversial rock albums ever.

Help! is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles and the soundtrack from their film of the same name. It was released on 6 August 1965. Produced by George Martin, it was the fifth UK album release by the band, and contains fourteen songs in its original British form. Seven of these, including the singles "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride", appeared in the film and took up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side contained seven other releases including the most-covered song ever written, "Yesterday".

Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 3 December 1965 in the United Kingdom, on EMI's Parlophone label, accompanied by the non-album double A-side single "Day Tripper" / "We Can Work It Out". The original North American version of the album, issued by Capitol Records, contained ten of the fourteen songs and two tracks withheld from the band's Help! album. Rubber Soul met with a highly favourable critical response and topped sales charts in Britain and the United States for several weeks.

Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Produced by George Martin, it was released on EMI's Parlophone label on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom, following the success of the band's singles "Please Please Me" and "Love Me Do", which reached number 1 on the NME and Melody Maker charts and number 17 on the UK Singles Chart, respectively. The album topped Record Retailer's LP chart for 30 weeks, an unprecedented achievement for a pop album at that time.

With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963 on Parlophone, exactly eight months after the band's debut Please Please Me. Produced by George Martin, the album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and "Don't Bother Me", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album) and six covers (mostly of Motown, rock and roll, and R&B hits). The cover photograph was taken by the fashion photographer Robert Freeman and has since been mimicked by several music groups over the years. A different cover was used for the Australian release of the album, which the Beatles were displeased with.

Anthology 3 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 29 October 1996 by Apple Records as part of The Beatles Anthology series. The album includes rarities and alternative tracks from the final three years of the band's career, ranging from the initial sessions for The Beatles (better known as "the White Album") to the last sessions for Let It Be and Abbey Road in 1969 and early 1970. It is the last in a trilogy of albums with Anthology 1 and Anthology 2, all of which tie in with the televised special The Beatles Anthology.

Приписывать Озеро Слез к какому-то стилю рука не поднимется, они давно стали абсолютно самостоятельной музыкальной единицей. Скажу лишь то, что группам готической направленности есть чему у них поучиться!
Все песни на диске совершенны. Успокаивающая "Forever Autumn", проходящая ножом по сердцу "Hold On Tight", так похожая на нашу жизнь "Otherwheres" (в смысле чередования дождливых и солнечных дней, горестных и радостных событий) и загадочная "Demon You / Lily Anne".
Такого альбома у Lake Of Tears больше не будет и тем выше его ценность. Такими Lake Of Tears мы больше не увидим никогда.

На мой взгляд, лучший, самый тяжелый и злой альбом Slayer. Настоящий трэш-металл, не обладающий красивой мелодичностью, но зато в меру скоростной и не в меру агрессивный. Том Арайя еще не пытается здесь петь или говорить скороговорками, как на "Reign In Blood", но кричит очень мощно. Звук вовсе не безупречен, однако хорошо разбираем и к тому же нешуточно тяжел - идеальный для трэш-металла саунд. Необходимо отметить также немало возросший профессионализм музыкантов со времен дебютного "Show No Mercy". Скоростные и техничные гитарные партии в сочетании с мощнейшей и громкой ритм-секцией убивают наповал неподготовленного слушателя. Тексты, может, местами весьма наивны, но злобы в них зато хоть отбавляй и они хорошо ложатся на музыку. Нужно также сказать и о музыкальной составляющей альбома. Как я уже заметил, музыка не содержит красивых мелодий, но от этого в данном случае она ничуть не хуже. По агрессии этот релиз легко поспорит с блэк-металлом. Великолепные песни, безупречные в рамках такого стиля как трэш! Дьявольский открывающий боевик "Hell Awaits" достоин называться если не лучшей, то одной из лучших песен Слэера за всю его историю уж точно.

К сожалению, большинство свежих альбомов от групп, которые радуют поклонников уже достаточно долгое время хитами или просто приятными песнями, оказываются слабыми, недотянутыми, не оправдавшими желания услышать новые композиции в логичном для группы ключе. Так и здесь: казалось, эти бравые финские волки пауэр-металла смогли после неудачного альбома "Reckoning Night" дать музыке обновлённое звучание, выпустив уже чуть более грамотную Unia, осторожно-новаторский "The Days of Grays" и уже почти революционный "Stones Grow Her Name", в котором добились сочетания традиций первых альбомов и абсолютно иного стиля исполнения.