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What A Night! A Christmas Album(more) »rank: 12by: Harry Connick Jr.
Our review:Album Description:Holidays with Harry and his 2008 release, What A Night! A Christmas Album. Harry Connick, Jr. is an accomplished singer, pianist, and actor who emerged in the late 1980s as a Sinatra-style crooner for a new generation. As a musician, his influences include Bebop, New Orleans Jazz, and big-band swing. His score for the film When Harry Met Sally brought him national acclaim and an Oscar. He has appeared in many films and he is known for his Pop music as well. Detail |
Let It Snow(more) »rank: 22by: Michael Bublé
Our review:Album Description:Holidays with Harry and his 2008 release, What A Night! A Christmas Album. Harry Connick, Jr. is an accomplished singer, pianist, and actor who emerged in the late 1980s as a Sinatra-style crooner for a new generation. As a musician, his influences include Bebop, New Orleans Jazz, and big-band swing. His score for the film When Harry Met Sally brought him national acclaim and an Oscar. He has appeared in many films and he is known for his Pop music as well. Detail |
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Call Me Irresponsible(more) »rank: 71by: Michael Bublé
Our review:Album Description:Melding the contemporary and the classic in ways only he can, Michael Buble has created his most complete studio effort yet. Ranging from 'I've Got The World On a String' to 'Me and Mrs. Jones,' in addition to two new songs co-written by Michael, Call Me Irresponsible makes this album irresistible. :It's no coincidence that Michael Bublé's new album starts with just his voice and some fingersnaps on 'The Best Is Yet to Come,' a song made famous by Frank Sinatra. The Canadian smoothie looks longingly towards early-'60s Vegas, an impression quickly reinforced when a boisterous horn section makes its grand entrance, ... Detail |
The Beatles (The White Album)(more) »rank: 82by: The Beatles
Our review: essential recording:Better known as the 'White Album,' this was meant to be the record that brought them back to earth after three years of studio experimentation. Instead, it took them all over the place, continuing to burst the envelope of pop music. Lennon and McCartney were still at the height of their powers, with Lennon in particular growing into one of rock's towering figures. But even McCartney could still rock, and the amazement on 'Helter Skelter' was that he had vocal cords at the end. From Beach Boys knock-offs to reggae and to the unknown ('Revolution #9'), this has it all. Some ... Detail |
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White Christmas(more) »rank: 106by: Bing Crosby
Our review: :Try to forget the fact that Bing Crosby probably never had to record another song in his life after he immortalized 'White Christmas.' If you can do that, you'll find plenty more to like in this crooning Christmas collection. There's the Romantic Bing, charming the tinsel right off the tree with 'The Christmas Song,' and that cure for cabin fever, 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' There's the Reverent Bing, solemnly singing 'Adeste Fideles.' And of course, there's Bing the Showman, belting out 'Good King Wenceslas' with a bit of that ole vaudeville shine. But no matter what you're told, ... Detail |
Now That's What I Call Christmas!(more) »rank: 111by: Various Artists
Our review: :The title doesn't lie, even if it does sounds like a hyperbolic pitch from an old late-night cable TV ad. With 36 tracks of various genres spread over two discs, Now That's What I Call Christmas might be the best, most eclectic 'value-plus' holiday record ever released, assuming your tastes embrace crooners such as Cole, Crosby, and Como, plus contemporary boy bands such as Boyz II Men, as well as the ubiquitous Britney Spears. In between there are the sumptuous classics by Bobby Helms, Brenda Lee, the Beach Boys, Elvis, and Burl Ives on disc one, balanced on disc two by more recent ... Detail |
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band(more) »rank: 137by: The Beatles
Our review:Album Description:One of the most famous and influential albums ever recorded, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had a huge impact on the music world, signaling the beginning of a new era of sophistication and maturity in rock. The musical experimentation was dynamic and fresh, several tracks were edited to create seamless transitions, and even the visual design was more elaborate than anything previously attempted. Producer George Martin and The Beatles searched for new sounds and studio effects. They added crowd sounds and animal cries from sound-effects recordings, sped up Paul McCartney's vocals in 'When I'm Sixty-Four' (to make him sound younger), and ... Detail |
Abbey Road(more) »rank: 130by: The Beatles
Our review: essential recording:The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, 'Come Together' and 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ('Golden Slumbers'/'Carry That Weight'/'The End') is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's ... Detail |
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The Andy Williams Christmas Album(more) »rank: 114by: Andy Williams
Our review: :This was one of the best-selling Christmas records of the 1960s, and with good cause! Somehow, without the fatherly image of Bing Crosby, or the svelte croon of Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett, or even the reverent innocence of Perry Como, Andy Williams managed to make a holiday institution! This collection of Christmas songs is full of standards normally identified with other artists, but armed with an average tenor and lots of exuberance, Andy Williams made them his own. His 'It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year' is the most exhilarating version of the song there is, and even his 'White Christmas' ... Detail |
It's Time(more) »rank: 149by: Michael Bublé
Our review: :Michael Bublé's assured debut and the tireless year of globe-trotting touring he spent promoting it elevated the 20-something Vancouver native into the first rank of pop crooner revivalists. His sophomore studio follow-up largely turns on the same formula that helped make his considerable vocal prowess so attractive to mainstream audiences, mixing the nigh flawless, if expected Sinatra-channeling ('I've Got You Under My Skin') with more playful and inviting renditions of pop standards like the Gershwin's 'A Foggy Day in London Town,' 'Feeling Good,' 'Try A Little Tenderness' and Cole Porter's 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' But it's the eclectic mix of more ... Detail |