Album Rewinds
Given the test of time and the wisdom of hindsight, how do significant albums from the past sound and play today? Our critics take a second look from a fresh perspective
Grateful Dead’s ‘Aoxomoxoa’ @50: Review
Like its predecessors, the 1969 psychedelic classic didn’t sell all that well—it took nearly two decades to go gold—but it has aged nicely.
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Glen Campbell ‘The Legacy’ Box Set Review
He scored no fewer than 20 pop hits in a 10-year period that began in 1967, and, in 1969, he actually outsold the Beatles.
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Van Morrison ‘The Healing Game’ Deluxe: Review
This deluxe edition of ‘The Healing Game’ may lead fans to re-examine what Morrison was up to in the late ’90s. They’re bound to like what they hear.
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Rolling Stones’ ‘Beggars Banquet’ Reissue: Review
The album saw them moving back to basics for an album that relied largely on acoustic blues. There’s not a rotten apple in the bunch.
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Jimi Hendrix ‘Electric Ladyland’ 50th Deluxe: Review
Half a century after its arrival, the last album Hendrix released before his death is the subject of a fittingly major anniversary limited edition.
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The Ramones’ ‘Road to Ruin’ Deluxe Edition: Review
Today, all four of the group’s original members are dead but the music lives on, and it’s a good deal better than many listeners realized in 1978.
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