Album of the Day

What's the most successful American rock group after The Beach Boys? Chicago. The horn rock hitmakers have charted in every decade since their late-'60s inception, and the latter portion of their still-ongoing career is the focus of THE STUDIO ALBUMS 1979-2008. The 10-disc collection of the most recently remastered, bonus track-laden versions of the band's 13, XIV, 16, 17 (the best-selling album of the band's career at 6x platinum), 18, 19, TWENTY 1, NIGHT & DAY, XXX and STONE OF SISYPHUS shows Chicago's instrumental and songwriting chops to be second to none. The group's emergence as first-class romantic balladeers and the post-Peter Cetera evolution heard on the new THE STUDIO ALBUMS set mark Chicago as one of the most consistently appealing performers of the last 30 years.