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You've Never Heard Public Enemy's 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back'?!

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You've Never Heard Public Enemy's 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back'?!

July 13, 2012 • A young hip-hop fan finally listens to a classic album that's four years older than he is.

You've Never Heard Simon And Garfunkel's 'Bookends'?!

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You've Never Heard Simon And Garfunkel's 'Bookends'?!

May 14, 2012 • Hear how intern Jenna Strucko discovered an "old friend" of her own in the classic folk album.

You've Never Heard Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew'?!

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You've Never Heard Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew'?!

May 3, 2012 • NPR Music intern Dominic Martinez listens to the legendary jazz musician's 1970 album and, thanks it its grooves, learns to love jazz fusion.

You've Never Heard Kiss' 'Alive!'?!

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You've Never Heard Kiss' 'Alive!'?!

March 30, 2012 • See why NPR Music intern Jenna Strucko won't be joining the Kiss Army after hearing the band's 1975 live record for the first time.

You've Never Heard Jeff Buckley's 'Grace'?!

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You've Never Heard Jeff Buckley's 'Grace'?!

February 9, 2012 • All Songs Considered intern Dan Raby takes a first look at Buckley's 1994 classic album.

You've Never Heard Patti Smith's 'Horses'?!

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You've Never Heard Patti Smith's 'Horses'?!

November 29, 2011 • NPR Music intern and classic rock fan Charlie Kaplan listens to Patti Smith's 1975 masterpiece for the first time.

You've Never Heard Joni Mitchell's 'Blue'?!

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You've Never Heard Joni Mitchell's 'Blue'?!

November 14, 2011 • All Songs Considered intern Clare Flynn loves folk music, but she hadn't heard an album by Joni Mitchell in its entirety until now.

You've Never Heard Gram Parsons' 'Grievous Angel'?!

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You've Never Heard Gram Parsons' 'Grievous Angel'?!

September 18, 2011 • Summer intern Laurin Penland is a lifelong country fan, but she never got around to Parsons' posthumous classic until now.

You've Never Heard 'Dark Side of the Moon'?!

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You've Never Heard 'Dark Side of the Moon'?!

June 24, 2011 • Remarkably, All Songs intern Shannon Carlin had never heard Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. So we got her a copy and gave her some listening homework. Read what she thought.

You've Never Heard Big Star's '#1 Record'?!

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You've Never Heard Big Star's '#1 Record'?!

June 9, 2011 • Growing up on a steady diet of Wilco, intern Micah Loewinger finally listens to Jeff Tweedy's biggest influence, Big Star.

You've Never Heard Robert Johnson's 'Complete Recordings'?!

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You've Never Heard Robert Johnson's 'Complete Recordings'?!

May 6, 2011 • NPR Music intern Catherine DeGennaro finds out while the context may change, the blues stays the same.

You've Never Heard 'Let It Bleed'?!

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You've Never Heard 'Let It Bleed'?!

March 11, 2011 • NPR Music intern Catherine DeGennaro, a Beatles-bred baby, lends her ears to the other side of the rock spectrum. She isn't disappointed.

You've Never Heard 'London Calling'?!

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You've Never Heard 'London Calling'?!

February 11, 2011 • It's hard to imagine what it was like to hear groundbreaking albums for the first time, when they were released 30 or 40 years ago. In this recurring series, we try to capture that wide-eyed awe by having our interns review some of the classics they've never heard before.

You've Never Heard Cream's 'Disraeli Gears'?!

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You've Never Heard Cream's 'Disraeli Gears'?!

February 3, 2011 • In this recurring series, our unimaginably young interns review classic albums they've never heard. For All Songs Considered intern Beca Grimm, the cream of Cream's crop brews up strange and wonderful.

You've Never Heard Curtis Mayfield's 'There's No Place Like America Today'?!

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You've Never Heard Curtis Mayfield's 'There's No Place Like America Today'?!

November 24, 2010 • In this recurring series, we ask our imaginably young interns to review classic albums they've never heard before. NPR Music intern Erik Myers takes a stab at Curtis Mayfield's 1975 classic funk and soul album, and is unimpressed.

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You've Never Heard 'Pet Sounds'?!

October 12, 2010 • It took All Songs Considered intern Sarah Ventre about everything she had to admit she hadn't listened to The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds in its entirety. In this recurring series, she finally gives it a spin and tells us what she thinks.

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You've Never Heard 'Electric Warrior'?!

September 28, 2010 • This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums they've never heard. All Songs Considered intern Sarah Ventre gives T. Rex's Electric Warrior a spin.

You've Never Heard 'The Velvet Underground and Nico'?

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You've Never Heard 'The Velvet Underground and Nico'?

June 23, 2010 • In our recurring series the latest All Songs Intern, Lindsay Sanchez, reviews the groundbreaking album.

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You've Never Heard U2's 'The Joshua Tree'?

January 27, 2010 • Note: This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums they've never heard before. Our current intern at All Songs Considered is Will Butler. by Will Butler I've never been a real U2 fan. But an...

You've Never Heard 'Loveless'?!

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You've Never Heard 'Loveless'?!

December 15, 2009 • The most appropriate word I could use to define Loveless is dense. It's hard to crack, hard to get behind the wall of noise and find emotion or passion in the music. There's a stoicism about it that makes it difficult to connect with. Not being...

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You've Never Heard 'Back In Black'?!

October 15, 2009 • This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums they've never heard before. Our current intern at All Songs Considered is Meg Ruddick. For this installment she reviews AC/DC's Back in Black.

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