History Series / ClassicAlbums

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* ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' (1975) by Music/{{Queen}}.

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* ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' (1991) by Music/{{Nirvana}}.

* ConceptAlbum: Quite some concept albums were the subject of the show, but not all of them.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Demo recordings will sometimes be analyzed, together with multitracks dissected into separate tracks so one can hear how they were mended together in the song everybody knows. For instance, in the ''Music/{{Aja}}'' episode, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Music/SteelyDan play some of the many solos that different session guitarists had recorded for "Peg" before Jay Graydon laid down the one that appears on the album.

* ''Music/{{Aja}}'' (1977) by Music/SteelyDan

Only three artists have had more than one album covered on the show: the Grateful Dead, Rush, and Frank Zappa, the latter of whom holds the current record at three. For the Grateful Dead and Rush, both albums are covered in a single episode; for Zappa, the first two albums follow the pattern, while the third was given its own episode fourteen years later.

Three artists (The Grateful Dead, Rush, and Frank Zappa) have each had two albums featured on the series; both albums are covered in a single episode.

* ''Music/{{Rio}}'' (1982) by Music/DuranDuran.