Strange Advance

Blank & Jones released the 11th volume in their popular so80s (so eighties) series which offers rare and forgotten 12" extended versions from the 1980s. The 22-track set includes artists like ABC, Yello, The Beloved,Tina Turner, Bryan Ferry or Company B and includes a 36-page booklet which features notes about the selections (in English and German) as well as full page cover images for each of the singles included.

The Top 100 '60s Rock Albums represent the moment when popular music came of age. In the earliest part of the decade, bands were still regularly referencing earlier sounds and themes. By the middle, something powerful and distinct was happening, which is why the latter part of the '60s weighs so heavily on our list. A number of bands evolved alongside fast-emerging trends of blues rock, folk rock, psychedelia and hard rock, adding new complexities to the music even as the songs themselves became more topical. If there's a thread running through the Top 100 '60s Rock Albums and this period of intense change, it has to do with the forward-thinking artists who managed to echo and, in some cases, advance the zeitgeist. Along the way, legends were made.