Albums · Skopia

Every record chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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5 records

Madonna

1983

Madonna fought the label for control of her own debut and got a club DJ brought in to remix it. It sold ten million.

★ 5.0

2006

The producer Timbaland built most of the tracks in two halves, so the songs change shape halfway through instead of repeating a chorus.

★ 5.5

1987

Prince was supposed to sing the title track with Jackson and turned it down. Five singles from it went to number one anyway.

★ 7.7

1979

Jackson was twenty-one and wrote the two best songs on it himself. It won a single Grammy, which he took as an insult.

★ 8.5

1982

Quincy Jones and Jackson remixed the whole record because the first version sounded thin, and Eddie Van Halen played his solo for free.

★ 9.5