Bruce Springsteen - Live In Dublin
year: 07 - review: Bruce Springsteen: Live in Dublin captures a performance of The Boss featuring the band he created for his Pete Seeger covers album. The extensive setlist includes "Old Dan Tucker," "My Oklahoma Road," "Pay Me My Money Down," and "Blinded By the Light."
the Remains - the Remains
Genre Garage Rock |
Rage Against The Machine - Renegades
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Genre Punk - American Underground |
Journey - Trial By Fire
year: 96 - review: With Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry, and Neal Schon leading Journey once again, and bassist Ross Valory and drummer Steve Smith behind them, it would seem that Trial by Fire would contain the same elements that gave them their stardom in the '80s. Disappointingly, though, there is nothing captivating or even the least bit attractive about this unimaginative release. Perry's singing hasn't lost too much of its power, but the faster tunes come off as contrived and messy. Sounding hard and scattered, the smoothness of their trademarked music is nowhere to be found, replaced with brash, beat-up, hollow rock riffs. The ballads fair no better, as the passion that once flourished within the band when it came to slowing things down has long since faded. Just the fact that Journey reunited may lure fans to this album, but it won't be long before the discontentment begins set in.
Ocean Colour Scene - On The Leyline
Genre Britpop Brit Trad Rock |
Chumbawamba - Never Mind The Ballots
Genre Alternative pop rock punk |
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Genre Rock Rock & Roll |
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Eddy Grant - Greatest Hits
Genre Reggae Pop Pop Rock |
John Mayer Trio - Try!
Genre Pop Rock adult alternative |
Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits
review: The most popular form of Steve Miller ingestion nowadays is his Greatest Hits 1974-78, which has also sold many millions of copies in both LP and CD form. While not a bad-sounding CD, there's certainly room for improvement. DCC has been releasing hits collections from a number of popular artists the last few years, and in addition to sounding better, they usually include extra material not available in the regular release.
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
year: 07 - review: Most people are confused by the electronic means of this music, but they are definately artists. Expressionists of the late 20th century. No other artist within 200 years has been so direct and intelligently emotional expressing things that we all could go through. Daily life. Maybe in 200 years they will see.
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
year: 07 - review: Cohen always remains keenly aware that pop’s charm lies in its utility. Humming, wordless singing, and muffled, echoing voices haunt each of these albums, often functioning as cathartic finales to disturbing songs (as in “Sing Another Song, Boys” and “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong”). He anticipates that his melodies will live on, with only a fragment of their content intact, in the minds of his listeners. He also suggests that a song’s true emotional impact rests not on its words, but on more primal, sublinguistic forces. I won’t disagree. Sometimes a drunken chorus of “la”s voices a feeling more eloquently and intelligently than an epic simile. And perhaps this is why Cohen’s own charms cannot be fully explained by generations of otherwise articulate scribes. At the end of the day, early Cohen is gut music.
Santana - Kings Of World Music
Genre Latin rock Psychedelic |
Eurythmics - Ultimate Collection
Genre Synth Pop Pop rock New Wave |
Beach Boys - the Warmth of the Sun
Supergrass Live Brazil
Genre Britpop Alternative Pop Rock |
Jeff Buckley - So Real, Songs From
year: 07 - review: Among the legions of rockers who died way too young--including Jeff Buckley's father, Tim--few have approached the artistic range and seemingly limitless potential on display here. In the decade since Buckley's death, there has been such a flood of posthumous releases that it might be hard to remember that he issued only a four-cut live EP and a studio debut album while he was alive. This anthology serves as an effective introduction for the initiate, showing how Buckley could rock with the slash-and-burn intensity of Led Zeppelin on "Eternal Life (Road Version)," turn rapturous with the reverie of "Lover, You Should've Come Ove," and cover the likes of Edith Piaf ("Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin") and Leonard Cohen (his by now iconic transformation of "Hallelujah"). Completists will need this for the live versions of "So Real" and the Smiths' "I Know It's Over," previously unreleased commercially. Whether Buckley would ever have been able to balance the control that mature artistry requires and the ecstatic abandon that distinguished him, such raw talent continues to startle.
Paramore - Riot
Genre Emo / punk |
Tommy Shaw - What If
Steppenwolf vs Deep Purple
German immigrant Kay got his professional start in a bluesy Toronto band called Sparrow, recording for Columbia in 1966. After SparrowKay relocated to the West Coast and formed Steppenwolf, named after the Herman Hesse novel. " disbanded, | Deep Purple was formed in Hertford, England, in 1968, with an inaugural lineup that featured guitarist Blackmore, vocalist Rod Evans, bassist Nick Simper, keyboardist Jon Lord, and drummer Ian Paice. Initially dubbed Roundabout.. |
Ocean's Thirteen Soundtracks
info: The critically acclaimed soundtrack albums for both movies won BMI Film Music Awards for inventive techno-funk composer David Holmes. Both on screen and on album, Ocean's Thirteen epitomizes the cinema of cool.
New York Dolls - Lipstick Killers
Genre New York Punk Proto Punk |
Cult - Ceremony
Genre Hard Rock |
the Charlatans U.K. - Some Friendly
Genre Alternative Pop- Britpop |
SuperTramp Classics Volume 9
Phil Collins - Face Value
Johnny Rivers: Greatest Hits
info: Unlike many of the single-disc Johnny Rivers anthologies available, the Capitol edition of GREATEST HITS includes the original singles from Rivers' tenure at Liberty Records and his own imprint, Soul City. This 10-track compilation is a concise summation of his '60s hits, although '70s singles like "Slow Dancin' (Swayin' to the Music)" are, unfortunately, not included. All meat, no filler, this is good-time blue-eyed soul at its finest. Fans wanting a more substantial selection should try Rhino's 1991 two-disc set ANTHOLOGY.