# One Release Per Decade

A curated list by [Chris Hayes](https://waxlog.com/user/purp1ehayes) on Waxlog, submitted to the **One Release Per Decade** challenge.

> Per Decade?  Too difficult to call.  One release for each year?  Check!

77 releases · last updated 2025-09-08

## Releases

1. **Giacomo Puccini & Bidú Sayão & Richard Tucker & Salvatore Baccaloni & Mimi Benzell & Francesco Valentino & George Cehanovsky & Nicola Moscona & Lodovico Oliviero & Lawrence Davidson & Giuseppe Antonicelli & Chorus Of The Metropolitan Opera Association Of New York & Orchestra Of The Metropolitan Opera Association Of New York** — La Bohème
2. **Engelbert Humperdinck & Max Rudolf & Orchestra Of The Metropolitan Opera Association Of New York & Chorus Of The Metropolitan Opera Association Of New York & Risë Stevens & Nadine Conner & Thelma Votipka & John Brownlee & Claramae Turner & Lillian Raimondi** — Hansel and Gretel
3. **Frank Loesser** — Guys & Dolls
4. **Erroll Garner** — Gems
5. **Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye** — Sammy Kaye Plays Irving Berlin
6. **Andy Griffith** — What It Was, Was Football / Romeo And Juliet
7. **Antoine De Saint\-Exupéry** — Le Petit Prince
8. **Clifford Brown And Max Roach** — Study In Brown
9. **Kenny Burrell** — Kenny Burrell
10. **Buddy Holly & The Crickets** — The "Chirping" Crickets
11. **Screamin' Jay Hawkins** — At Home With Screamin' Jay Hawkins
12. **Santo & Johnny** — Santo & Johnny
13. **Wes Montgomery** — Movin' Along
14. **Leonard Bernstein** — West Side Story \(The Original Sound Track Recording\)
15. **Smothers Brothers** — The Songs And Comedy Of The Smothers Brothers At The Purple Onion
16. **Mose Allison** — Mose Allison Sings
17. **Jerry Lee Lewis** — "Live" At The "Star\-Club" Hamburg
18. **The Beatles** — Rubber Soul
19. **Love** — Da Capo
20. **The Jimi Hendrix Experience** — Are You Experienced
21. **The Velvet Underground** — White Light/White Heat
22. **Frank Zappa** — Hot Rats
23. **The Who** — Live At Leeds
24. **Paul & Linda McCartney** — Ram
25. **Aphrodite's Child** — 666
26. **The Stooges** — Raw Power
27. **Sparks** — Kimono My House
28. **Neil Merryweather** — Kryptonite
29. **Rush** — 2112
30. **Pink Floyd** — Animals
31. **The Cars** — The Cars
32. **Buzzcocks** — Singles Going Steady
33. **Motörhead** — Ace Of Spades
34. **Rush** — Moving Pictures
35. **X** — Under The Big Black Sun
36. **Violent Femmes** — Violent Femmes
37. **Spinal Tap** — Spinal Tap \(From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "This Is Spinal Tap" An Embassy Pictures Release\)
38. **Tom Waits** — Rain Dogs
39. **Poison** — Look What The Cat Dragged In
40. **Icehouse** — Man Of Colours
41. **"Weird Al" Yankovic** — Even Worse
42. **Pixies** — Doolittle
43. **The Cramps** — Stay Sick\!
44. **Slint** — Spiderland
45. **R.E.M.** — Automatic For The People
46. **The Smashing Pumpkins** — Siamese Dream
47. **Beck** — Mellow Gold
48. **Sunny Day Real Estate** — LP2
49. **Weezer** — Pinkerton
50. **Radiohead** — OK Computer
51. **Jump, Little Children** — Magazine
52. **Dream Theater** — Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
53. **TransAtlantic** — SMPTe
54. **The Dirtbombs** — Ultraglide In Black
55. **Porcupine Tree** — In Absentia
56. **The Mars Volta** — De\-Loused In The Comatorium
57. **Umphrey's McGee** — Anchor Drops
58. **The Coral** — The Invisible Invasion
59. **Cursive** — Happy Hollow
60. **The Shins** — Wincing The Night Away
61. **The Hold Steady** — Stay Positive
62. **Other Lives** — Other Lives
63. **Jeremy Messersmith** — The Reluctant Graveyard
64. **The Black Lips** — Arabia Mountain
65. **The Explorers Club** — Grand Hotel
66. **Harvard** — From The Bird's Cage
67. **Run The Jewels** — Run The Jewels 2
68. **Kendrick Lamar** — To Pimp A Butterfly
69. **The Caretaker** — Everywhere At The End Of Time
70. **Kendrick Lamar** — Damn.
71. **Thee Oh Sees** — Smote Reverser
72. **Michael Kiwanuka** — Kiwanuka
73. **Young Gun Silver Fox** — Canyons
74. **Weezer** — OK Human
75. **Kendrick Lamar** — Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
76. **Black Market Brass** — Hox
77. **Beak>** — >>>>

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