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Massive Attack

Trip Hop - Released by Virgin Records on 20 Apr 1998

Increasingly ignored amidst the exploding trip-hop scene, Massive Attack finally returned in 1998 with Mezzanine, a record immediately announcing not ...

Tangerine Dream

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 20 Feb 1974

Phaedra is one of the most important, artistic, and exciting works in the history of electronic music, a brilliant and compelling summation of Tangeri ...

Meat Loaf

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1993

Although Meat Loaf has made several albums since Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell is an explicit sequel to that milestone of '70s p ...

Lenny Kravitz

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 24 Oct 2000

Lenny Kravitz's greatest gift is that he's a master synthesist, pulling together different sounds and styles from eras past to create a sound that isn ...

A Perfect Circle

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2003

Three years after the release of its debut Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step sees the light of day. By that time, Troy van Leeuwen and P ...

UB40

Reggae - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2000

The British version of The Very Best of UB40 1980-2000 offers a large collection of songs that are often associated with the group ("Red Red Wine") an ...

Bryan Ferry

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 May 1985

Having at last laid Roxy to bed with its final, intoxicatingly elegant albums, Ferry continued its end-days spirit with his own return to solo work. D ...

XTC

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Feb 1982

Several new instruments within the band -- Dave Gregory's Rickenbacker 12-string, Andy Partridge's new acoustic guitar, and Terry Chambers' new drum s ...

Massive Attack

Trip Hop - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2003

A new album from Massive Attack is an event, even if only one-third of the original group is present for the festivities. Just the group's fourth albu ...

Massive Attack

Trip Hop - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2006

As expected but perhaps not hoped for, Virgin dishes fans this best of, Collected, as Massive Attack are buying time to complete Weather Underground, ...

The Smashing Pumpkins

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jul 1993

While Gish had placed the Smashing Pumpkins on the "most promising artist" list for many, troubles were threatening to break the band apart. Singer/gu ...

The Chemical Brothers

Electronic - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2005

When the big beat boom gradually subsided, the Chemical Brothers initially sought refuge within a carefully crafted version of house music both epic a ...

A Perfect Circle

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2000

A Perfect Circle is one of those bands that nobody realized was needed until it happened. A grand claim, perhaps, but there's little question that the ...

Massive Attack

Trip Hop - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2010

Until 2003's 100th Window, each Massive Attack album had been a discrete record, stylistically distinct and mostly unconnected to what had gone before ...

A Perfect Circle

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2004

When Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan covered Wings' "Silly Love Songs" as a guest vocalist for the Replicants, it was amusing and well thought out. ...

XTC

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Aug 1979

Following Go 2, keyboardist Barry Andrews left XTC and, rather than finding a replacement keyboard player, the band opted to recruit another guitarist ...

The Chemical Brothers

Dance - Released by Virgin Records on 7 Apr 1997

Taking the swirling eclecticism of their post-techno debut, Exit Planet Dust, to the extreme, the Chemical Brothers blow all stylistic boundaries down ...

Iggy Pop

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1977

In 1976, the Stooges had been gone for two years, and Iggy Pop had developed a notorious reputation as one of rock & roll's most spectacular waste cas ...

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the dark (OMD)

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1988

Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys make up Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, who were responsible for some of the catchiest and brightest synth pop th ...

Neneh Cherry

Soul/Funk/R&B - Released by Virgin Records on 5 Jun 1989

Around three weeks after the birth of her first child, Neneh Cherry was in front of Jean-Baptiste Mondino’s camera lens for the legendary album cover ...

Gary Moore

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1990

Relieved from the pressures of having to record a hit single, Gary Moore cuts loose on some blues standards as well as some newer material. Moore play ...