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Classic Albums. Hosted by Stevie Nix

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Classic Albums. Hosted by Stevie Nix
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  • Classic Albums. Hosted by Stevie Nix

    Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey

    17/09/2026 | 44 mins.
    The album represents a stunning artistic maturation for an artist who had already established herself as one of pop music's most distinctive voices. Where her earlier work sometimes veered into stylized melodrama, Norman Fucking Rockwell! achieves a rare authenticity and emotional clarity. This is Lana Del Rey fully realised — a songwriter of considerable depth chronicling America's gradual collapse with a poet's eye and a realist's resignation.
    Featured songs:
    Norman Fucking Rockwell
    Venice Bitch
    Doin’ Time
    Happiness Is A Butterfly
    The Greatest
    Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me to Have – But I Have It
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    Folk Singer by Muddy Waters

    10/09/2026 | 39 mins.
    This album is Muddy Waters as you’ve rarely heard him: intimate, vulnerable and devastatingly powerful. It’s the sound of a man returning to his roots — not out of nostalgia, but with full awareness of how far he’s come since first recording with Aristocrat Records in 1947, the label that would soon become Chess Records.
    Folk Singer creates space — literal and emotional — for his voice to echo, growl, and howl. It’s one of the most evocative recordings in blues history, a tour de force in restraint, and — perhaps most surprising — a carefully crafted bridge to a new audience.
    Featured songs:
    My Home Is In The Delta
    My Captain
    Good Morning Little School Girl
    Cold Weather Blues
    Long Distance
    Feel Like Going Home
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    Tea For The Tillerman by Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam

    03/09/2026 | 41 mins.
    What ultimately elevates Tea For The Tillerman to classic status is how it articulates a particular historical consciousness while speaking to enduring human concerns. In giving voice to his own spiritual journey with honesty and artistry, Cat Stevens created a work that continues to offer solace, inspiration, and companionship to people navigating their own paths through an ever-changing world.
    Featured songs:
    Where Do The Children Play?
    Sad Lisa
    Wild World
    Into White
    On The Road To Find Out
    Father And Son
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    Sour by Olivia Rodrigo

    27/08/2026 | 42 mins.
    Yes, Sour is gloriously teenage — Rodrigo was just 18 when she recorded it. It’s riddled with insecurity and melodrama. But that’s exactly why it works. In embracing the undignified mess of a first heartbreak — without shame or apology — Rodrigo gave us one of the most cathartic and precociously accomplished debut albums in pop history. And she proved, definitively, that she was no one-hit wonder.
    Featured songs:
    brutal
    traitor
    drivers license
    1 step forward, 3 steps back
    enough for you
    happier
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    Coat Of Many Colors by Dolly Parton

    26/08/2026 | 46 mins.
    When Parton made this album she was not the megastar we came to know — she was still seen as Porter Wagoner's blonde sidekick. But Coat of Many Colors sits right at the point where Dolly Parton is becoming Dolly Parton.
    You can hear the Appalachian roots. You can hear traditional country. You can hear folk and pop creeping in around the edges. You can hear the extraordinary emotional directness that would eventually make her one of the great country songwriters of her generation.
    But you can also hear somebody still figuring it out.
    Featured songs:
    Coat Of Many Colors
    Traveling Man
    She Never Met A Man [She Didn't Like]
    Early Morning Breeze
    The Way I See You
    Here I Am
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About Classic Albums. Hosted by Stevie Nix
Not all albums stand the test of time, but plenty do and Australian music critic Stevie Nix will bring one to you each week. He'll cover all eras and most genres and tell you why each record is so revered and, equally, why it deserves to be. And he only uses six songs to do it.
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