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Miles Davis’s 1971 album A Tribute to Jack Johnson sits uneasily within both jazz and rock genres, but its indefinable nature should be celebrated.
David Bowie was the tasteful thief and practised faker, and his 1974 album Diamond Dogs borrowed from everything to create a sublime post-apocalyptic soundscape.
Kurt Cobain killed himself a week before this album was due to come out. It became a perfect soundtrack to Gen X’s grief and with its raw, angry, feminist-inspired, grunge sound, remains a classic.
From The Smiths to Kendrick Lamar, Conversation readers tell us their favourite albums.
In Different Class, Pulp got fans singing and dancing to searing commentaries on class and privilege.
The songs of Tribal Voice offered hope and strength to generations of Yolŋu people and gave audiences elsewhere a rare insight into the resolve and aspirations of Indigenous Australia.
The Beastie Boys’ Ill Communication closed out hip-hop’s Golden Age with a kaleidoscope of jazz-infused beats, bratty punk interludes and a deeper appreciation for storytelling.
The Cure’s seventh studio album was an 18-track, 70-minute plus extravagance of pure theatre and dark romance.
In Hounds of Love, Kate Bush’s extraordinary vocal performances are the musical equivalent of speaking in tongues. There are few more thrilling, literate, and ambitious works of popular music.
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Professor of Law, Keele University
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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PhD candidate, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Professor and Inaugural Director, Indigenous Knowledge Institute, The University of Melbourne
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PhD in cultural studies; teaches in School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate professor in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
