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David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live from the Royal Albert Hall(more) »rank: 3001starring: David Gilmour
Our review: :Studio: Sony Music Release Date: 09/18/2007 Detail |
Cars - Complete Greatest Hits(more) »rank: 1043by: The Cars, Cars
Our review:Album Description:20 of their best tracks available on 1 CD, including 'Just What I Needed', 'You're All I've Got Tonight', Touch and Go', 'Magic', 'You Might Think' & more. Rhino Records. 2002. :If rock's most successful and memorable acts have usually succeeded by wrapping their own distillation of music history and personal tastes in whatever fashionable trappings are currently gripping the culture, it's hardly surprising that the Cars remain one of the most enduring symbols of the punk/new wave era. This 20-track anthology distills that argument perfectly. Ric Ocasek's songs embody a solid '60s sense of pop craftsmanship informed by a trend-conscious stylistic ... Detail |
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Aha Shake Heartbreak(more) »rank: 1096by: Kings of Leon
Our review:Album Description:Limited edition 2004 album from Kings Of Leon featuring the first single 'The Bucket'. Hand Me Down. Having released a debut album that you can safely say was well received (the NME described it as, 'one of the best debut albums of the last ten years'), Kings Of Leon have their work cut out to produce a suitable follow-up. Thankfully their sophomore effort, the strangely titled ‘A-Ha Shake Heartbreak’, is more than a match for its illustrious predecessor. Fast paced, lyrically shocking and, rather surprisingly, with added yodelling, ‘A Ha Shake Heartbreak’, is a shoe-in for one of the best albums of ... Detail |
ZZ Top - Greatest Hits(more) »rank: 918by: ZZ Top
Our review: :\N :One of ZZ Top's great gifts is its concision; even in the side-long-jam era of the '70s, the Texans almost always fit 10 cuts on their albums. Surveying two decades of their output, Greatest Hits isn't the perfect overview you might expect, but it's still a pretty darn good driving album. The disc goes easy on the pre-Deguello stuff surveyed on their earlier best-of, and seems to digitally boost the drums on tracks like the 1975 'Tush.' Still, later cuts like 'I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide' and 'My Head's in Mississippi' are full-on triumphs of this trio's very weird, very blues-drenched sensibility. ... Detail |
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The Lion King (1997 Original Broadway Cast)(more) »rank: 680by: Elton John, Tim Rice, Heather Headley, Mark Mancina
Our review: :An Oscar win might suggest a score that would need a miracle to be bettered--but this colorful stage adaptation of Disney's The Lion King does so with flair. Composers Mark Mancina and Lebo M worked closely together to fuse the movie's many disparate elements. Where there was a veritable army exercising creative influences for the animated tale, this brings it all under the wings of a like-minded few. This is genuinely apparent as one track flows into the next. The African rhythms--both vocal and in instrumentation--come across as authentic and original all at once. No doubt this is largely through Mancina's passion for ... Detail |
Live and Dangerous(more) »rank: 5196starring: Thin Lizzy
Our review: :An Oscar win might suggest a score that would need a miracle to be bettered--but this colorful stage adaptation of Disney's The Lion King does so with flair. Composers Mark Mancina and Lebo M worked closely together to fuse the movie's many disparate elements. Where there was a veritable army exercising creative influences for the animated tale, this brings it all under the wings of a like-minded few. This is genuinely apparent as one track flows into the next. The African rhythms--both vocal and in instrumentation--come across as authentic and original all at once. No doubt this is largely through Mancina's passion for ... Detail |
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Toys in the Attic(more) »rank: 1275by: Aerosmith
Our review: essential recording:Originally released in 1975, this was Aerosmith's breakout recording. Listeners only familiar with their more recent, post-comeback material may be surprised; like their other albums from the 1970s, Toys has a strong blues inflection, as indicated by their cover of 'Big Ten Inch Record,' which also shows that Aerosmith has never lacked raunchiness or innuendo. There's also the original (pre-Run-D.M.C.) version of 'Walk This Way,' and the classic 'Sweet Emotion.' This is classic Aerosmith at its gritty, streetwise best; they may have been derivative, but it really doesn't matter, then or now: it's all in good fun. --Genevieve Williams Detail |
The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991(more) »rank: 806by: Bob Dylan
Our review: :Bob Dylan has always been incredibly prolific, only releasing a fraction of what he records. Such a policy has made him a prime target for bootleggers over the years, finally prompting this sanctioned 1991 triple-disc dive into the Dylan vaults. It consists of rare tracks, unreleased outtakes, early versions of classics ('Times They Are a-Changin',' 'Like a Rolling Stone,' 'I Shall Be Released'), and alternate versions that sometimes cut the originals ('Idiot Wind'). A measure of Dylan's depth is his list of discarded songs ('She's Your Lover Now,' 'Blind Willie McTell,' 'Series of Dreams') that would be the crown jewels of most catalogs. ... Detail |
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Bridge Over Troubled Water(more) »rank: 1474by: Simon & Garfunkel
Our review: essential recording:No one can say Simon & Garfunkel went out with a whimper. The popular duo's 1970 swan song produced four hit singles and won six Grammy awards, including Record, Album, and Song of the Year. An involving mix of sweeping epics ('The Boxer,' the title track) and breezy throwaways (a live cover of the Everly Brothers' 'Bye Bye Love,' the rock & roll trifle 'Baby Driver'), Bridge was one of the most popular albums of its era. What's particularly striking about this collection is how brightly lesser-acclaimed songs like 'So Long Frank Lloyd Wright' and the gorgeous 'The Only Living Boy ... Detail |
Billy Joel Greatest Hits: Vol. 1-2 (2CD)(more) »rank: 934by: Billy Joel
Our review: essential recording:It's one of the cruel ironies of music today that Billy Joel has been relegated to a kind of adult-contemporary hell, where his legacy is measured by soft-rock staples such as 'Just the Way You Are,' 'Piano Man,' and 'New York State of Mind.' To be sure, well-crafted ballads are a part of his legacy, but they're hardly the whole story, as this collection of his early and mid-period hits amply demonstrates. From the unbridled biographical boasting of 'The Entertainer' and the ambitious storytelling of 'Scenes from an Italian Restaurant' to the careening abandon of 'Only the Good Die Young' and ... Detail |