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Terence Trent D'Arby's Lunar Rotation by jaycoburn Pros: A Masterpiece. Better than Sgt. Pepper's!
Cons: An ambitious song cycle that is not sustained by every track. My long sabbatical from writing music reviews seems to be over, and now I can return to my habit of turning people on to old and new music that they probably have never heard of, but should hear of anyway. One of the artists that I championed earlier on ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Northeast garage band finds their mojo after 45 years in mothballs by redtunictroll Pros: Powerful garage rock with howling vocals and buzzsaw fuzz guitars.
Cons: - Northeast garage band finds their mojo after 45 years in mothballsForty-five years after the original lineup of little-known Northfield, Vermont garage band fell apart, they're back, and damned if they don't sound good. And by good, I mean gritty, ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Yes, "0304" Truly Is Jewel's Sellout Album: Inane Dance Themes Gut Jewel's Integrity by wlswarts Pros: A few catchy beats/lines
Cons: Music is homogeneously bad, Lyrics are the dumbest Jewel has ever written,Voice is produced over. As I reach the end (at least for now) of my sojourn through the musical works of Jewel (Jewel Kilcher), I hit the album I openly admit I prejudged based on its first single. When Jewel released her song "Intuition," many of us cringed and judging by ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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"The Day" Babyface Opened His Rolodex & Realized "Hey, I Know Lots of Famous People"!!! by speeddemon531 Pros: Babyface hadn't completely forgotten how to write a great song. Some delightful singing and melodies.
Cons: Way too many guest artists here, and Babyface is starting to hit "autopilot" mode. By the time "The Day" was released in 1996, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds had already established himself as quite possibly the most important songwriter and producer of the Nineties. With a classicist's approach to writing love songs, the Indiana native ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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If These Guys Are The Saints, I'd Hate To Meet The Sinners by wolfman309 Pros: As strong of an album as any by Motley Crue.
Cons: You have to put up with a very unnecessary intro. With the recent success of Nikki Sixx and his band Six A.M. have had, with his autobiographical album The Heroin Diaries, it is little wonder that he applied the same technique to the newest entry in the Motley Crue catalogue, Saints of Los ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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oh wait that was an album wasn't it by noktorn Pros: boring
Cons: boring Here's one of those albums you get when a band that did some essential work early in its career never really burnt out and just kept going to no one's benefit. 'Definition' is an album that really no one at all cares about; it's just sort of there and I ...
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Aug 27 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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How Do You Like Your Pasta? by wolfman309 Pros:
Good covers that Axl and the boys do with gusto. Cons: Should have let Charlie Manson and his music rot. The title refers to a food fight that happened between lead singer Axl Rose and drummer Steve Adler. When Steve sued the band his attorney referred to the fight as "The Spaghetti Incident" and the name stuck.Much of the material was done while ...
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Aug 27 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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2 The Rufus Premier by sj1and0 Pros: their simmering authenticity
Cons: None! Chaka Khan has the most edgy driving riff displayed when she raises her sweet voice to the sun. Not only is her vocal output very warm, but it also has color and style. With elements of honey blended with spices, she exclaims expressively and blows ...
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Aug 27 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Jewel Becomes Indistinct Before The Sellout: "This Way" Flatly Disappoints! by wlswarts Pros: Moments of voice, Moments of musical experimentation
Cons: Musically and lyrically boring I tend to take umbrage with the idea that an artist who tries to jump out of the niche that they might have become popular in is selling out. The idea that an artist cannot evolve or grow or try something new is a fallacy that disappoints the ...
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Aug 27 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Not their shining moment by maleficent36 Pros: Duran Duran are still making music after 25+ years together
Cons: Unless you're a collection completist, it's really not worth the money Duran Duran's latest release "Red Carpet Massacre" was the latest in their lengthy discography, and the only Duran Duran album I never bothered to personally purchase. I've heard each track, though, and am completely familiar with this album, and I ...
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Aug 27 '08 |
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K-ci & Jojo's "Love Always": Who Needs Those Other Two Guys Anyway? by speeddemon531 Pros: A mature and classy step up from Jodeci's material.
Cons: None worth mentioning. Just about every song here is a winner. I'll put it in simple terms: if Boyz II Men were the prom kings of Nineties pop/R&B, Jodeci were their nasty Southern cousins. While BIIM promised to "make love to you", the 4 men that made up Jodeci promised to "freek you". Both groups undeniably had ...
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Aug 27 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Disturbed Get Fired Up by PacManY2J Pros: Solid, energetic hard rock album
Cons: Lacks innovation Despite all their critics, Disturbed's momentum in the metal world just can't seem to be derailed. Their latest album, the aptly titled Indestructible, has given the band their third consecutive number one album, a feat accomplished by a mere six ...
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Aug 27 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Greatest Does Not Always Mean Best by wolfman309 Pros: The early work is outstanding.
Cons: The later work is not so good. America is a tale of two bands. There is the real group that brought us thrilling music that was so different from the standard radio fare when they first hit the horizon, then there is the commercialized fluff hit makers that seemed to leave their ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Top-notch package of the duo's Liberty A's and B's by redtunictroll Pros: Complete run of Liberty singles in original untainted MONO!
Cons: - In the shorthand of compilation albums and oldies radio, Jan & Dean sprung into the world fully-formed with the 1963 chart-topper "Surf City," and proceeded to unwind a string of surf and drag hits that included "Honolulu Lulu," "Drag City," "Dead Man's ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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"Joy:" Jewel Sings About Christ, Yet Calls It A "Holiday" Collection! by wlswarts Pros: Voice, Creativity of arrangements
Cons: Hardly original, Seldom inspired, Musically dull and predictable (mostly), Disturbing arrangement on "Rudolph" Every now and then, I like to step out of my proud, Northern Liberal facade to say something that might surprise those who know me as a smug, progressive critic. Today, that note from me is that I don't, as a general rule, hate Christmas albums. Sure, ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Fine 1970s-inflected piano singer-songwriter pop by redtunictroll Pros: Songs, arrangements, Dixon's piano playing and singing.
Cons: - Dixon has been compared to singer-songwriters Ben Folds, Billy Joel and Elton John, and though he's likewise a pianist, his songs are more often wistful in the vein of Jackson Brown or Paul Simon. There's a soulful grandeur to his playing and singing, ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
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Metallica's Last Good Album by groove1 Pros: Musically sound, lyrically intelligent, no filler tracks, last speed metal Metallica album
Cons: Not a con to me, but production is poor (bass is difficult to hear) If you have read any selection of my previous reviews, you may be surprised to learn that I was once a big metal fan, and a lot of that was due to Metallica in the 1980s. Like many other people who have reviewed this cd, it was definitely ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Meat Loaf "Objects In The Review Mirror Maxi Single": Why Bother? by Pandemonium Pros: Roll Over Beethoven
Cons: Being live kills those songs, poor production on the others. To start off with, I have never been a huge fan of Meat Loaf but, he has released some songs that I have really liked. Of course releasing as many songs during his career, before and after "retirement", you are going to have at least some songs ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The Adventures of Yo-Yo Ma by sj1and0 Pros: Nice catchy tunes.
Cons: None! "Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." - John Erskine Every now and then I want to listen to something different. I listen to a whole lot of music because I am very intrigued by the way that it ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Greasy Live Blues at its Finest by tanta08 Pros: The band is cooking, and Johnson's playing has never been better
Cons: Lousy editing detracts from the listening experience Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson is probably not a well-known name outside of the blues genre. Johnson served in Muddy Waters' backing band in the 1970s before striking out on his own. He has spent the last few decades honing a distinctive form of West ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Richard Stoltzman's recording of Corigliano and Copland clarinet concerti and Bernstein by Stephen_Murray I didn't plan to write a series of reviews of recordings of music composed by John Coriagliano. Noti ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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I'm Going Crazy for The Sound of Madness by gotahemmi55 Pros: Excellent songwriting, the band takes new risks displaying flashes of brilliance
Cons: Choice of singles is confusing some instances of poor song placement A lot has happened in the world of Shinedown since the release of their 2nd album, Us and Them back in 2005. For starters there have been a few changes in the band's lineup. Jasin Todd, the original guitarist and southern rock enthusiast left ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Patti Smith & Kevin Shields Sail for Robert Mapplethorpe in The Coral Sea by thevoid99 Pros: Production, Smith's Vocals, Text, & Shields' Guitar.
Cons: None, Though Too Esoteric for Mainstream Audiences. Known for her poetic-style of lyrics and her no-frills attitude, Patti Smith is considered to be one of rock's finest heroines. Ever since emerging from the NY punk scene at CBGB's in the mid-1970s, Smith has paved the way for female artists to be as ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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I was listening to the rain by GregRadiohead Pros: A brilliant, must-hear rock landmark
Cons: None Punk rock and I don't get along too well. Our incompatibility stems from the opinion I hold about it, which is that it was a musical movement that was important and influential but produced nothing, music-wise, I find brilliant. Allow me to clarify ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The Blues Don't Have To Make You Blue by wolfman309 Pros: Terrific all the way around.
Cons: Sadly there will be no more music from this truly great musician. In March of this year, 2008, the world lost one of the finest musicians to have ever graced the planet. Jeff Healey had battled cancer since it took his eyesight at the age of one. He succumbed to the disease a brief 40 years later. I had the ...
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Aug 26 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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