The Fugees translated an intriguing blend of jazz-rap, R&B, and reggae into huge success during the mid-'90s, when the trio's sophomore album The Score hit number one on the pop charts and sold over five million copies. The trio formed in the late '80s in the New Jersey area, where Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel Michel ("Pras") attended a local high school and began working together. Michel's cousin Wyclef Jean ("Clef") joined the group (then called the Tranzlator Crew), and the trio signed to Ruffhouse/Columbia in 1993. After renaming themselves the Fugees (a term of derision, short for refugees, which was usually used to describe Haitian immigrants). Though the group's debut album, Blunted on Reality, was quite solid, it reflected a prevailing gangsta stance that may have been forced by the record label.

2010 three CD set containing a trio of original albums from the German Hard Rock band: In Trance (1975), Virgin Killer (1976) and Taken By Force (1978). While the band were not to achieve worldwide commercial success until the beginning of the '80s, they were one of Germany's hardest working and hardest rocking bands throughout the '70s. Their later success was built upon the groundwork laid out by this trio of albums, which remain some of their finest to date. Though 'Rock You Like A Hurricane' was still a few years away (and not included on these albums), these early albums spotlight a band that could literally rock you like a hurricane!