A Long December

Three decades on from its October 1996 release, Overnight Sensation remains the album that locked Motörhead into its longest-running line-up and delivered one of Lemmy's sharpest lyrical turns of the decade.

ZZ Top's 1996 album Rhythmeen turns 30 on September 17, marking the final studio album produced by longtime collaborator Bill Ham and a deliberate return to the blues foundations of the Texas trio.

Thirty years after its release, Frente!'s second album Shape stands as one of the boldest stylistic pivots by an Australian band of the 1990s, trading the acoustic charm of Marvin The Album for a darker, more atmospheric sound.

Thirty years after its release, Beck's Odelay remains one of the defining albums of the 1990s, a record that fused hip-hop production, folk, rock, electronic music and pop into a sound that reshaped alternative music.

The Wallflowers' breakthrough album Bringing Down The Horse turns 30 this week, marking three decades since Jakob Dylan's band moved from cult status to mainstream rock success with hits including ‘One Headlight' and ‘6th Avenue Heartache'.

Thirty years on from its original release, George Michael's Older is being reassessed as a pivotal mid-career statement, arriving after a prolonged legal dispute and delivering a run of UK chart records that reshaped his commercial standing in the 1990s.

Three decades on, The Cure revisit a bold, uneven and ambitious record that reshaped their trajectory and tested their audience