Released 20 years ago this month, the Top 5 U.K. smash album ‘Reality’ found David Bowie doing something unusual.

Issued 35 years ago today, ‘No Rest for the Wicked’ ranks with ‘Blizzard of Ozz’ and ‘Diary of a Madman’ when discussing Ozzy Osbourne’s top solo records.

Released 25 years ago today, the Band’s ‘Jubilation’ somehow held together as well as any they’d produced since ‘Northern Lights-Southern Cross.’

Released 15 years ago this month, ‘Gift of Screws’ pulled together all of Lindsey Buckingham’s considerable strengths without going overboard on his quirks.

Released 15 years ago this week, B.B. King’s ‘One Kind Favor’ began with a dying plea: “When the day comes, don’t forget me.” No chance of that.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s ‘Greendale’ arrived 20 years ago this week as an exploration of murder, art and intrigue in a mythical coastal California town.

Released 50 years ago this month, ‘Brothers and Sisters’ found the Allman Brothers Band recommitting to the group dynamic during a period of emotional turmoil.

Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills’ wildly improvisational ‘Super Session’ arrived 55 years ago this month. They don’t make them like this anymore.

The Pixies’ seminal ‘Surfer Rosa’ revived rock music 35 years ago with a sound that was somehow both chaotic and cohesive.

Black Sabbath called it a career 10 years ago with ’13,’ an album that mixed and matched sounds from every one of their classic eras.