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Byrne & Eno Returns with Some Strange Overtones by thevoid99 Pros: Production, Atmosphere, Byrne's Vocals, Eno's Arrangements, & Performance.
Cons: Lacks The Adventure Aspect of their Previous Collaboration. With the music industry facing a revolt from the artists they had been supporting for years. A new revolution has emerged as everyone from Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead to Paul McCartney taking a stance against major music corporations in favor of ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Recycled Aire-Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Song by skbreese Pros: A few highlights
Cons: Bland, unispired, recycled material Founded by musical producer and composer Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller has produced a successful series of recordings, combining medieval instruments with modern arrangements. They have also become the best selling Christmas ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
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Genesis Can't Dance, But They Write a Mean Pop Song by speeddemon531 Pros: Phil Collins' soulful singing, the band's way with a memorable hook.
Cons: Self-plagiarism begins to rear it's head, some lazy lyricism. By the time We Can't Dance was released at the tail end of 1991, Genesis had already completed their metamorphosis from art-rock journeymen to pop behemoth. This move began with the departure of Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett in the mid Seventies ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
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Swingin' Around the Christmas Tree by Bruguru Pros: Tony Bennett and Count Basie's Band. What more do you need?
Cons: None come to mind. I have this unusual problem with music. Most of the time, when I listen to something new, I can't decide immediately whether I like it or not. Indeed, I have to hear it several times before I know for sure, and then it either catches on with me, or it ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
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the man that grew from the gehtto by imhd8 Pros: the purest of poetry in the rarest form from a "thug".
Cons: none at all In the Autobiographical, “The Rose That Grew from the Concrete” by Tupac Shakur we see his outlook on life through his poetry. There are some more intriguing poems that stuck in my mind. The book starts off with a poem that obviously has much ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
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Don't Summon This Pumpkinhead by Dbbum Pros: Not much
Cons: Only four new tracks and the two remixes are terrible Punkinhed is the second album by Boondox, the newest artist to sign with Psychopathic Records. Despite his southern Georgia roots, Boondox has nothing to do with country music. Similar to Insane Clown Posse, Boondox wears wicked face paint (style of a ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
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Christine Brewer and "Dudamania" in Disney Hall by Stephen_Murray The raison d'être for spending the Thanksgiving weekend in LA was to hear soprano Christine Br ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
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"Boys For Pele:" Average Tori Amos Is Still Adequate Tori Amos (My 2700th Review!) by wlswarts Pros: Sound of voice, Lyrics, Instrumental accents
Cons: Style of vocals (often inarticulate), Musically dull for the most part. A number of Tori Amos fans I have talked with have told me that Amos is like Bjork: you either love or hate her works*. I am happy to stand in defiance of that absolutism and write from a middle ground that seems to baffle some of the Tori Amos fans ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
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American Gangster - Jay-Z Hustles You Out of Fifteen Dollars by madtheory Pros: A few passable tracks.
Cons: Unoriginal and repetitive lyrics, music that misses the mark. It’s not hard to comprehend why Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z felt enamored enough with celebrated criminal Frank Lucas to mirror his album, American Gangster, after the Denzel Washington / Russell Crowe biopic of the same name. ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
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Two Voices are Better than One on Folk Duets by quasar Pros: some fantastic songs, some unusual duet pairings, Ian & Sylvia songs all fabulous, varied
Cons: perhaps strays too far into other genres, Geoff & Maria Muldaur songs There's something very special about two voices blending together to create the perfect mix of melody and harmony. It can take a good song and make it great or transform a great song into an unforgettable experience. It's no mistake that so many of the ...
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Dec 02 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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15 Years of Work and 1 Pretty Standard Guns N Roses Album by knowncutter Pros: If you need adrenaline, Guns n' Roses style, look no further.
Cons: This isn't the masterpiece 15 years of work might suggest. To be completely honest with you, my vast and loyal readership, I had absolutely no idea a new Guns n' Roses album was in the works until sometime early this year. As far as I was aware, Guns n' Roses were a band long since deceased (I literally thought ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Digi Snax: I Refuse to Make a Pun about How It's "Not Tasty" by mastaghostface Pros: "Long Time Coming"; stellar beats
Cons: Whack guest verses; not ONE Wu general is present here; waste of good beats Can Rza stop with this Bobby Digital thing now? We get it: the misogynist, gangsta lyrics you spit are supposed to be from your alter ego (a weird excuse for being more commercial with out saying he’s a sell-out, I guess). As he’s said, Bobby Digital is ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Watercolors: Enjoyable Early Pat Metheny by Horswispr Pros: excellent early Metheny
Cons: some tunes too mellow for driving I-80 through Nebraska or Iowa Watercolors was Pat Metheny's second album. It came out in 1977 and featured Eberhard Weber on bass, Lyle Mays on keyboards, and Dan Gottlieb on drums. It is an album of dreamy contemporary jazz music that is largely acoustic (as compared to electric) ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
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Re-Review on Ms.MC by glvrican As time passes by, I start getting interested in different artists. Hell, since I was a child, Maria ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
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My Feedback? Janet, I wanna Rockwitchu by tjhassecrets Pros: Ms. Janet is back!
Cons: Too many interludes-- even for a Janet record; Sex-bit is getting old. Janet was on top of world from the mid-80s until 2004, when mediocre pop prince(ss) Justin Timberlake accidentally exposed Ms. Jackson's breasts during the Superbowl. The event, really, is trivial-- that said, it also ruined the next few years of her ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
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Sit in a circle facing the sun by GregRadiohead Pros: A few songs are good
Cons: Phish's worst studio album; bland Even though it wasn't the 'true' last Beatles album, it was hard to resist peering into Let It Be for hidden or overt messages. Paul wasn't dead, OK, but the band was...and why?? First there was the title, a kind of off-hand remark to fans: ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
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????????? by glvrican Pros: Pop masterpieces, A-list producers
Cons: Britney's presence or lack thereof I'm hurt. I'm caught in between of how many stars BLACKOUT should get. Yeah, it's the best Britney album she has ever put out... But where is she on this record? Where's the voice we all know? It's like a robot trying to impersonate Brit was put ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Disappointing Choices for This Christmas Collection by carstairs38 Pros: Fun arrangements of good songs
Cons: I'm disappointed they didn't include more originals. This is a tough review for me to write. I love most of the songs on Tennessee Christmas. I have loved some of them for years. But this disc could have been so much more.Let me see if I can explain.Tennessee ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
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Melissa Etheridge Sings About What It Is Like To Be Melissa Etheridge On "The Awakening!" by wlswarts Pros: Some interesting lyrics, A few good songs (instrumentally)
Cons: Too self-referential up front, Vocally unimpressive for Melissa Etheridge One of the weaknesses, I suppose, of my listening to an album eight times before reviewing it (at least!) is that the songs that annoy me on the first couple spinnings sometimes wear me down so I am less sick of them by the time I get around to my ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
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Sonorously Borodina (Olga Borodina: Arias) by smorg Pros: Borodina's sonic river of flowing magma. Everything is at least well sung.
Cons: She sings the bloody arias bloodlessly well. Balance favors the voice a bit too much. Even though there is an embrarassment of richness in the current crop of lyric mezzo sopranos, a solid dramatic mezzo soprano who can do the Verdi and the dramatic French repertoire justice is hard to come by. Among the not so many gracing our operatic ...
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Dec 01 '08 |
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One Night In The Florida Keys by pmills1210 Pros: Two fine songs from John Mellencamp
Cons: May be more geared toward Mellencamp completists From 1979-1996, John (Cougar) Mellencamp scored a number of hit singles on the Billboard charts. While many of his early songs were straightforward rock numbers, he has also mixed rural and soul elements to give his work a distinctive signature. The last ...
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Nov 30 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Whitey and everyone else is on the Moon by tiger62x Pros: Brilliance in prose, style and pre-cursor to today's rap.
Cons: Offensive, very offensive, to many people. I first heard Gil Scott Heron in the 1970's. Granted I was too young to run out in the streets and join any type of revolution. However I realized the power of his words, and the power of words in general. The power of words, which could be brutal, but ...
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Nov 30 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Weird Little Soundtrack Album by starcollector Pros: The folky stuff is really pretty nice!
Cons: A lot of this grows tedious... Disclaimer: Those looking for a brief description of the album will find what their looking for in the "Review Body" section. The section titled "Track Reviews" is meant only for those who want to read detailed descriptions of the songs, and ...
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Nov 30 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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RUTH BROWN: THE QUEEN OF RHYTHM AND BLUES by mike.holmes Pros: The voice and majesty of a true Queen-Ruth Brown along with great musicians
Cons: Too little variety for my tastes but still great I have been a fan of jazz my entire life but I also love other genres such as R & B, Blues and other offshoots of jazz. Actually, it's really difficult to say which music is an "offshoot" of another music. The basis of jazz certainly ...
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Nov 30 '08 |
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Do It 2 Me, Janet! by tjhassecrets Pros: Amazing production; catchy; better than Damita Jo.
Cons: A bit of a one-note album. Following the career damaging Superbowl incident, mega pop icon Janet Jackson's Damita Jo was more or less forgotten in the media frenzy-- aside from that, it's just her worst album to date. Proving that Ms. Janet can still make a crowd work, she ...
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Nov 30 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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