Original Features

Some of these albums started as studio recordings and turned into something completely different the moment a live crowd showed up.

From debut releases to cult classics, these LPs were put to tape in record time.

Max Yasgur was reportedly pro-Vietnam War, but he still saw the value and importance of the three-day festival in upstate New York.

Album covers have been selling music before a single note plays, and some of them hit harder than the songs inside.

"There's big, then there's bigger than big, and then there's f***ing like last night," Noel Gallagher said of the experience.

The genre features some of the most distinctive voices to ever step behind a mic.

There's more to their seventh album than studio tricks.

The classic tune hit No.1 45 years ago.

All seven released an LP that either slipped through the cracks at the time or lost cultural resonance over the years.

Now that we're around the halfway point of the year, we're taking a look at our personal favorites.