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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 ...

Boz Scaggs

Pop - Released by Virgin Records on 19 Nov 1996

Fade into Light is a stellar album. It features unplugged and redone performances from Scaggs' classic Some Change, Silk Degrees, and Middle Man, as w ...

The Smashing Pumpkins

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Mar 1991

Arriving several months before Nirvana's Nevermind, the Smashing Pumpkins' debut album, Gish, which was also produced by Butch Vig, was the first shot ...

The Future Sound Of London

Electronic - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1994

Having indulged in more explicitly ambient realms with the Amorphous Androgynous side project, FSOL returned to full action with Lifeforms, a double-d ...

Roxy Music

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 16 Jun 1972

At the turn of the 70s, David Bowie was not the only one to take rock and pop music into the backrooms of glam excesses. With Roxy Music, the genre ev ...

30 Seconds To Mars

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 16 Aug 2005

It's easy to take potshots at actors turned musicians, since it often seems like the actors are taking advantage of their celebrity by turning into re ...

Iggy Pop

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1996

Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop is an excellent 17-track overview of Pop's career, from the Stooges into the '90s. With the exception of The Idiot, ...

XTC

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 20 Jan 1978

XTC's first full album, White Music shows the band going full-throttle in true punk spirit. More dissonant than their latter period, the young band sh ...

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 ...

The Chemical Brothers

Dance - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2002

Don't call it a comeback (they never left) or a return to the underground (there's still a spot reserved in Britain's Top Ten). Still, after disappoin ...

N.E.R.D.

Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Virgin Records on 12 Mar 2002

N.E.R.D. are nothing if they're not clever, and they brilliantly constructed a back-story to accompany their debut album, In Search Of... As every roc ...

30 Seconds To Mars

Alternative & Indie - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2009

Emotional bloodletting never quite fit 30 Seconds to Mars -- perhaps it was residual prejudice from Jared Leto’s status as actor-turned-musician, but ...

Ashra

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1976

This title is more prophetic than most -- though thankfully, New Age of Earth isn't quite as bathetic as any number of releases on Windham Hill; by th ...

Spice Girls

Pop - Released by Virgin Records on 4 Nov 1996

Spice doesn't need to be original to be entertaining, nor do the Spice Girls need to be good singers. It just has to be executed well, and the innocuo ...

Human League

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 16 Oct 1981

Dare! captures a moment in time perfectly -- the moment post-punk's robotic fascination with synthesizers met a clinical Bowie-esque infatuation with ...

Ben Harper

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2006

After seven albums and 12 years in the game, it can stop being said that Ben Harper is hard to categorize, because at this point, the fact that he alw ...

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Laura Marling

Folk - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2010

British folksinger Laura Marling’s 2008 debut, Alas I Cannot Swim, showed more depth and maturity than one would expect from a (then) 18-year-old. Mar ...

Lenny Kravitz

Rock - Released by Virgin Records on 12 May 1998

Lenny Kravitz must have realized he bottomed out with the turgid Circus, so he decided to shake things up a bit on its follow-up, 5. Like any veteran ...

The Smashing Pumpkins

Alternative & Indie - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 2001

Like many alt-rock bands, the Smashing Pumpkins sound better than expected as a singles band -- probably because their high points were singles, no ma ...

The Chemical Brothers

Dance - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1999

By the time of the Chemical Brothers' third album, Surrender, the big beat phenomenon they had done much to engender was more apt to be heard on a sof ...

Janet Jackson

R&B - Released by Virgin Records on 1 Jan 1997

Where janet., Ms. Jackson's third blockbuster album, implied sexuality with its teasing cover and seductive grooves, its sequel, The Velvet Rope, is s ...