ines' cd and vinyl collection

Ultraviolence

Album · Lana Del Rey

The Dance

Album · Fleetwood Mac

Honeymoon

Album · Lana Del Rey

AM

Album · Arctic Monkeys

Shawn Mendes

Album · Shawn Mendes

Live at the Bowl '68

Album · The Doors

1 (Remastered)

Album · The Beatles

WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

Album · Billie Eilish

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Album · Lana Del Rey

Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass

Album

Around the Fur

Album · Deftones

Lust For Life

Album · Lana Del Rey

The New Abnormal

Album · The Strokes

Tracy Chapman

Album · Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman was already on the roster of the June 1988 concert for Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, and had performed a slot early in the day, before the television networks were broadcasting the event. But then, the hard drive on Stevie Wonder’s synclavier failed, rendering him unable to perform, and Chapman was asked to take his time slot. She performed “Fast Car” and “Across the Lines” to a global audience, and two weeks later had sold 2 million copies of her debut record. “Fast Car,” the album’s first single, went to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. She quickly went from playing clubs to opening dates for Neil Young and Bob Dylan, before being asked to join the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour alongside Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, and Youssou N’Dour, performing in stadiums around the world. The Cleveland-raised singer-songwriter’s quietly seething, sometimes hopeful songs were the perfect capstone to the tired, frazzled end of the Reagan era. But the fact that they resonate even more decades later is a testament to how little has changed and how timeless is her approach and delivery. Enduring classics like “Fast Car” and “Why?” and “Baby Can I Hold You” and “Talkin’ ’Bout a Revolution” were politically barbed and defiant, no matter how restrained the music and how soothing her voice. Luke Combs’ 2023 reverent cover of “Fast Car” not only brought the song newfound popularity, it introduced a whole new generation to Chapman, whose public appearances and performances had become rare. Later that year, Combs won Single of the Year at the Country Music Association’s yearly awards ceremony for his chart-topping version. But best of all, Chapman herself won Song of the Year, becoming the first Black woman to win a CMA award, 35 years after the song was originally released.

Disintegration (2010 Remaster)

Album · The Cure

<b>100 Best Albums</b> <i>The Head on the Door</i> represented The Cure’s first big breakthrough: Buoyed by bona fide pop melodies, the 1985 album marked a definitive break with the claustrophobic intensity of the goth icons’ early-’80s run. Four years later, <i>Disintegration</i> would enlarge their vision to stadium-sized proportions, confirming The Cure’s status as alt-rock titans. Where <i>Disintegration</i>’s predecessor, 1987’s giddy <i>Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me</i>, swung wildly between opposing feelings, <i>Disintegration</i> is a deep dive into a singular mood: dreamy, wistful, and deeply melancholy, imbued with all the drama of standing at the railing of a rain-slicked ship as it sails away and gazing at the lover left behind. <br /> <i>Disintegration</i> fully sharpened The Cure’s pop instincts: “Pictures of You,” “Lovesong,” and “Fascination Street” are as immediate and indelible as anything in their catalog. But the band have tempered their emotions, so that even the major-key tonalities of a track like “Plainsong” aren’t as blindingly bright as on the previous album; they’re a deeper, richer hue, like beams of sunlight penetrating aquamarine depths. <br /> The textures are remarkably lush: a sumptuous mix of guitars and synths so swirled together that it’s tough to say where one instrument ends and the next begins. That oceanic mood carries through in the way songs flow from one to another: The churning chords of “Last Dance” give way to the relative calm of “Lullaby,” and in the back half, the stretch from “Fascination Street” through “Homesick” comprises a kind of suite. There’s an echo of <i>Pornography</i>’s bleakness here, but this time, the descent into despair is strangely welcoming—it’s as though Robert Smith and his bandmates had discovered that on the coldest nights, wrapping up in one’s own loneliness is the only way to stay warm.

Rank (Live)

Album · The Smiths

Status Quo 1982

Album

(What's The Story) Morning Glory?

Album · Oasis

Thriller

Album · Michael Jackson

Blue Banisters

Song · Lana Del Rey

Live (Deluxe Edition)

Album · Fleetwood Mac

The Final Cut (2011 Remastered Version)

Song · Pink Floyd