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Title: Nirvana – In UteroYear/Genre: 1993, GrungeCondition: New Cultural Facts: Recorded with e...
Title: Nirvana – In UteroYear/Genre: 1993, GrungeCondition: New Cultural Facts: Recorded with engineer Steve Albini in rural Minnesota after the band grew uncomfortable with how polished Nevermind had become. The original back-cover fetus art and some song titles drew pressure from big-box chains, leading to censored alternate packaging. Seen by the band as a corrective to sudden fame, it was released less than a year before Kurt Cobain’s death, adding to its bleak mythology.
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A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Marauders
Title: A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight MaraudersYear/Genre: 1993, East Coast Hip-HopCondition: Ne...
Title: A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight MaraudersYear/Genre: 1993, East Coast Hip-HopCondition: New Cultural Facts: Recorded by the Queens group at the height of the Native Tongues movement, blending street-level stories with abstract, Afrocentric humor. The cover art features a crowd of Black radio DJs and rap figures, nodding to the community of hosts who kept underground hip-hop on the air. Released the same year as Wu-Tang Clan’s debut, it represents the jazzy, laid-back branch of Ne...
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Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume 1 (Staff Pick!)
Title: Guru – Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1Year/Genre: 1993, Jazz Rap Matrix #: B0024953-01Condition: Brand ...
Title: Guru – Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1Year/Genre: 1993, Jazz Rap Matrix #: B0024953-01Condition: Brand New Cultural Facts: Recorded at New York’s D&D Studios, it was among the first albums to unite live jazz legends with rap production and lyricism. Guests like Donald Byrd, Roy Ayers, and Branford Marsalis blurred the line between improvisation and programmed rhythm. Guru’s concept of “hip-hop with a live band” helped shape later projects by artists like The Roots and Digable Planets. ...
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Grateful Dead- Workingman's Dead
Title: Grateful Dead – Workingman’s DeadYear/Genre: 1970, Country RockCondition: New Cultural Fac...
Title: Grateful Dead – Workingman’s DeadYear/Genre: 1970, Country RockCondition: New Cultural Facts: Recorded quickly at Pacific High Recording in San Francisco after years of debt, busted sound systems, and LSD-era excess caught up with the band. Marked a turn toward harmony-heavy, song-focused writing influenced by The Band and Bakersfield country, with Robert Hunter’s storytelling at the center. The cover photo was shot in San Francisco’s Mission District, underscoring the album’s bl...
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Grateful Dead – American Beauty
Title: Grateful Dead – American BeautyYear/Genre: 1970, Psych RockCondition: New Cultural Facts:...
Title: Grateful Dead – American BeautyYear/Genre: 1970, Psych RockCondition: New Cultural Facts: Recorded in 1970 as the studio twin to Workingman’s Dead, marking the Dead’s shift from long acid jams into tightly written Americana. Made in California studios while the band was emerging from the Haight-Ashbury ’60s and leaning into country, folk, and barroom harmonies. The ornate “American Beauty/American Reality” cover art played into the era’s tension between idealized U.S. imagery an...
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Title: Björk – VespertineYear/Genre: 2001, Art PopCondition: New Cultural Facts: Written while ...
Title: Björk – VespertineYear/Genre: 2001, Art PopCondition: New Cultural Facts: Written while Björk was retreating from mainstream attention after intense press scrutiny around her film work and earlier albums. Built with laptop producers like Matmos and experimental programmers, it became a key early-2000s meeting point between electronic art music and pop. The Vespertine tour used small ensembles, choirs, and custom music boxes, staged in theaters and opera houses instead of arenas t...
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