Welcome to ATL Collective’s first-ever presentation of U2. Tonight we bring you the band’s fifth album, The Joshua Tree. Released in 1987 and produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, the team who produced U2s previous release, Unforgettable Fire. The Joshua Tree won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1988. It’s one of […]

Welcome to our fifth annual presentation of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Released November 30, 1982, the album was produced by Quincy Jones and recorded for a mere $750,000. The album was a massive success. It was selling a million copies a week at its peak. With singles including “Thriller,” “Billy Jean,” “Beat It,” and “Wanna Be […]

Lineup: Maleke O’Ney Ingrid Sibley Jill Rock Jones Zema Lovefire Ruby Velle Chanda Leigh Side A 1.Rim Shot (Intro) 2.On & On 3.Appletree 4.Sometimes 5.Next Life Side B 6.4 Leaf Clover 7.No Love 8.Sometimes… 9.Certainly (Flipped It)

Paul Simon says he wrote the title track, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” so quickly he didn’t know where it came from. It went on to win the Grammy for Song of the Year (and the album won Album of the year). It’s also one of the best-selling singles of all time Lineup: Takenobu Cleveland P. […]

D’Angelo wrote the song “Brown Sugar” while messing around on the piano while the computer crashed in the recording studio. He was working with Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Muhammad asked him what he was playing and asked him to play it again. He programmed a quick beat, and D’Angelo replayed the progression. In […]

Welcome to the close of our smoking Summer Series: TLC’s “CrazySexyCool.” Released in November of 1994 on La Face Records, this is TLC’s sophomore album. By nearly all metrics, it crushed their first release and is an album for the ages. “CrazySexyCool” debuted at number 15 on the Billboard charts, peaking at number 3. It […]

Before Portishead released its debut album Dummy, the band had barely performed. In fact, they were hardly a band. It was only after the album became so popular that the group realized they probably could and should play some shows. Dummy sold over two million copies in Europe and earned them 1995’s coveted Mercury Music […]

Brown, who died on December 25, 2006, recorded three Christmas-themed albums during his creative peak: 1966’s James Brown Sings Christmas Songs, 1968’s A Soulful Christmas and 1970’s Hey America It’s Christmas. The best tracks from each are collected on this fantastic set. The Godfather was re-inventing rock & roll in his own funk-revolutionary image throughout […]

Phil Collins discovered his gated reverb drum sound while playing a cymbal-less drum kit on Peter Gabriel’s third self-titled album. That drum sound went on to define so many of his future hits, including the massive solo in “In The Air Tonight, which was later performed in a gorilla suit on the Cadbury commercial. Hear […]

Welcome to the Hotel California. Released on December 8th, 1976, this is the Eagles’ sixth album (fifth studio) and the follow up to Their Greatest Hits (which was the best-selling album of all time until Michael Jackson died and Thriller sales spiked, thus beating it out). The band was already huge by this point, though […]