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Bursting with esoteric mysticism and cosmic extravagance, Yes’ ‘Tales From Topographic Oceans’ album plumbed the depths of prog-rock excess.

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Believed to be the first Christmas song ever recorded, Jingle Bells was not even originally written for the holiday season.

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From its rise as one of the best songs of 2005 to its embrace as a TikTok challenge, Sean Paul’s Temperature shows no sign of cooling down.

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With her ‘Everyday Is Christmas’ album, Sia set out to improve on the state of modern Christmas songs. She pulled out a cracker.

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Compiling seven concerts across 21 LPs, ‘Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two’ presents Yes at the peak of their prog-rock powers.

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The best Janelle Monáe songs find a space where Black experience, queer expression, sci-fi pop, imagination, reality and technology intersect.

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One of Madonna’s most famous songs, Material Girl helped define the 80s. But everything wasn’t quite what it seemed – deliberately so.

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Hailed as ‘the most adventurous record in rock’, ‘Astral Weeks’ ensured Van Morrison’s name would be forever written in the cosmos.

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Fearlessly critical, with emotional breadth and depth, the best Randy Newman songs go to places other songwriters wouldn’t dare.

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Tim Buckley’s second album of 1970, ‘Starsailor’ is a life-affirming blast of musical freedom that is still blowing minds today.

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