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Fearless
by Taylor Swift
One of the best mainstream pop releases of 2008, Taylor Swift's second album is styled after crossover country-pop stars Shania Twain and Faith Hill. There may be a hint of youthfulness to the 18-year-old Swift's singing but her writing—and she had a hand in penning all 13 tracks, with six of them bearing her solitary credit—is sharply, subtly crafted and the music is softly assured. Swift's gentle touch is as enduring as her songcraft, and this musical maturity results in a small-scale and sweetly tuneful production— always seeming humble even when the power ballads build to a big close.

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	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) more music like this by The Beatles $4.79 (used CD, see detail) With Revolver, the Beatles made the Great Leap Forward, reaching a previously unheard-of level of sophistication and fearless experimentation. Sgt. Pepper, in many ways, refines that breakthrough, as... read more see all copies from $2.89! new only from $9.50!
	Magical Mystery Tour (1967) more music like this by The Beatles $14.98 (used CD, see detail) The U.S. version of the soundtrack for the Beatles' ill-fated British television special embellished the six songs that were found on the British Magical Mystery Tour double EP with five other cuts... read more see all copies from $3.79! new only from $15.42!
	The Beatles [White Album] (1968) more music like this by The Beatles $20.74 (new CD, see detail) Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly... read more see all copies from $16.44! new only from $20.74!
	Rubber Soul [UK] (1965) more music like this by The Beatles $8.99 (new CD, see detail) While the Beatles still largely stuck to love songs on Rubber Soul, the lyrics represented a quantum leap in terms of thoughtfulness, maturity, and complex ambiguities. Musically, too, it was a... read more see all copies from $8.99! new only from $8.99!
	Collective Soul (1995) more music like this by Collective Soul $1.99 (used CD, see detail) It would not have been surprising if Collective Soul had become a one-hit wonder. Straddling a line between '80s arena rock and jangling, '90s alternative pop, their debut was a pleasant affair that... read more see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.88!
	Beatles for Sale (1964) more music like this by The Beatles $7.99 (used CD, see detail) It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles, but the weariness of Beatles for Sale comes as something of a shock. Only five... read more see all copies from $7.99! new only from $12.72!
	Please Please Me (1963) more music like this by The Beatles $7.99 (used CD, see detail) Once "Please Please Me" rocketed to number one, the Beatles rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day. Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely... read more see all copies from $3.79! new only from $14.42!
	The Essential Billy Joel (2001) more music like this by Billy Joel $6.58 (new CD, see detail) Released in conjunction with Billy Joel's grand experiment with classical music, The Essential Billy Joel was a welcome reminder of Billy Joel's way with a pop song, improving on the previous... read more see all copies from $3.25! new only from $6.59!
	Hair [Original Broadway Cast] (1968) more music like this by Original Broadway Cast Recording $6.05 (used CD, see detail) Hair was both celebratory and anticlimactic at the same time. Heralded by many at the time as being a rejuvenation for musical theater, it was also supposed to "speak" for the youth. The problem with... read more see all copies from $6.05! new only from $8.14!
	(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) more music like this by Oasis $1.99 (used CD, see detail) If Definitely Maybe was an unintentional concept album about wanting to be a rock & roll star, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? is what happens after the dreams come true. Oasis turns in a... read more see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.48!
	Showbiz (1999) more music like this by Muse $6.87 (used CD, see detail) The musical touchstone for the British trio Muse is obviously Radiohead and that fact is crystal clear from the smoldering opening cut, "Sunburn." Their John Leckie-produced debut, Showbiz, is strong... read more see all copies from $6.86! new only from $10.98!
	Hail to the Thief (2003) more music like this by Radiohead $1.99 (used CD, see detail) Radiohead's admittedly assumed dilemma: how to push things forward using just the right amounts of the old and the older in order to please both sides of the divide? Taking advantage of their longest... read more see all copies from $2.99! new only from $11.04!
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	Hello Nasty (1998) more music like this by Beastie Boys $1.99 (used CD, see detail) Hello Nasty, the Beastie Boys' fifth album, is a head-spinning listen loaded with analog synthesizers, old drum machines, call-and-response vocals, freestyle rhyming, futuristic sound effects, and... read more see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.06!
	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) more music like this by Black Sabbath $3.99 (used CD, see detail) With 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, heavy metal godfathers Black Sabbath made a concerted effort to prove their remaining critics wrong by raising their creative stakes and dispensing unprecedented... read more see all copies from $3.99! new only from $5.06!
	Kid A (2000) more music like this by Radiohead $4.56 (used CD, see detail) Instead of simply adding club beats or sonic collage techniques, Radiohead strive to incorporate the unsettling "intelligent techno" sound of Autechre and Aphex Twin, characterized by its skittering... read more see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.78!
	Amnesiac (2001) more music like this by Radiohead $2.41 (used CD, see detail) Faced with a deliberately difficult deviation into "experimentation," Radiohead and their record label promoted Kid A as just that -- a brave experiment, and that the next album, which was just... read more see all copies from $2.41! new only from $6.98!
	The Smiths (1984) more music like this by The Smiths $7.99 (used CD, see detail) Arriving in an era dominated by synth pop and gloomy post-punk, the Smiths' eponymous debut was the bracing beginning of a new era. On the surface, the Smiths' sound wasn't radically different from... read more see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.05!
	Bullet in a Bible (2005) more music like this by Green Day $10.34 (used CD, see detail) Bullet in a Bible is a CD/DVD package (also available as a UMD, for those who want to carry it around on a Sony PSP) documenting Green Day's show at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes on their 2005 U... read more see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.92!
	Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (1995) more music like this by Raekwon $5.34 (used CD, see detail) A serious contender for the title of best Wu-Tang solo album (rivaled only by the Genius' Liquid Swords), Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is also perhaps the most influential, thanks to Raekwon's cinematic... read more see all copies from $5.34! new only from $8.08!
	A Hard Day's Night [UK] (1964) more music like this by The Beatles $12.19 (used CD, see detail) A Hard Day's Night not only was the de facto soundtrack for their movie, not only was it filled with nothing but Lennon-McCartney originals, but it found the Beatles truly coming into their own as a... read more see all copies from $3.00! new only from $15.41!
	Everybody Dance! (2007) more music like this by James Roberson $10.97 (new CD, see detail) In a sense, 2009's Everybody Dance! is the coming-out party for longtime gospel producer James Roberson. Often seen behind the boards for the likes of inspirational luminaries from Beverly Crawford... read more see all copies from $10.97! new only from $10.97!
	Revolver [UK] (1966) more music like this by The Beatles $7.75 (used CD, see detail) All the rules fell by the wayside with Revolver, as the Beatles began exploring new sonic territory, lyrical subjects, and styles of composition. It wasn't just Lennon and McCartney, either --... read more see all copies from $3.78! new only from $12.51!
	Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978) more music like this by Devo $3.99 (used CD, see detail) Produced by Brian Eno, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! was a seminal touchstone in the development of American new wave. It was one of the first pop albums to use synthesizers as an important... read more see all copies from $3.99! new only from $6.43!