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The year 1996 was a great time for rock music fans. These are three classic rock albums from 1996 that hit No. 1 that we ...

Steely Dan's last US Top 40 hit sounded peppy enough. You can almost miss the references to addiction in the lyrics.

These four country songs came out in 2017, but they sound even better today, eight years after they were released.