On this day in music history:

Paradise and Lunch by Ry Cooder (1974)

In a Reverie by Lacuna Coil (1999)

Dark Hope by Renée Fleming (2010)

Paradise and Lunch

Album by Ry Cooder,

released June 8, 1974.

Track list: Tamp ‘Em Up Solid; Tattler; Married A Man’s A Fool; Jesus On The Mainline; It’s All Over Now; Fool For A Cigarette / Feelin’ Good; If Walls Could Talk; Mexican Divorce; Ditty Wah Ditty.

In a Reverie

Album by Lacuna Coil,

released June 8, 1999.

Cover art for 2005 re-release:

Track list: Circle; Stately Lover; Honeymoon Suite; My Wings; To Myself I Turned; Cold; Reverie; Veins of Glass; Falling Again.

Dark Hope

Album by Renée Fleming,

released June 8, 2010.

Track list: Endlessly; No One’s Gonna Love You; Oxygen; Today; Intervention; With Twilight as My Guide; Mad World; In Your Eyes; Stepping Stone; Soul Meets Body; Hallelujah.