Great second albums with host Stephen Kallao

In music, they say you get your entire life to write your first album, and only six months to write your second. While some artists fall into the dreaded “sophomore slump,” others reach new heights the second time around, creating career-defining music – Bands like Nirvana and A Tribe Called Quest, and singers like Prince and Adele, all coming alive on their sophomore records. On an encore edition of the World Cafe, join host Stephen Kallao for a dive into some of the best SECOND records ever made.

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*Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” The Bends
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nevermind
Teenage Fanclub “The Concept” Bandwagonesque
Bjork “Hyper Ballad” Post
Amy Winehouse “You Know I’m No Good” Back To Black
A Tribe Called Quest “Check The Rhime” The Low End Theory
Adele “Rolling In The Deep” 21
The Pixies “Monkey Gone To Heaven (live)” (live)
Pavement “Gold Soundz” Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Prince “I Wanna Be Your Lover” Prince
Neil Young “Cowgirl In The Sand” Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Hour Two
*Bob Dylan “Blowin’ In The Wind” The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
The Beatles “All My Loving” With The Beatles
The Band “Up On Cripple Creek” The Band
Van Morrison “The Way Young Lovers Do” Astral Weeks
Sheryl Crow “Everyday Is A Winding Road” Sheryl Crow
James Taylor “Fire And Rain” Sweet Baby James
D’Angelo “Devil’s Pie” Voodoo
Bill Withers “Use Me” Still Bill
Fiona Apple “Fast As You Can” When The Pawn…
Patti Smith “Ask The Angels” Radio Ethiopia
New Order “Age Of Consent” Power, Corruption & Lies
R.E.M. “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville” Reckoning
Oasis “Don’t Look Back In Anger” (What’s The Story) Morning Glory
John Lennon “Imagine” Imagine

*Optional Song