Robin Thicke - Something Else

Genre: R&B
Every vvhite soul traditionalist_from Hall & Oates to Duffy_demands catchy, impactful songs, yet that’s vvhere Thicke is thinnest.

Track List
01.You're My Baby
02.Sidestep
03.Magic
04.Ms. Harmony
05.Dreamworld
06.Loverman
07.Hard On My Love
08.The Sweetest Love
09.Something Else
10.Shadow Of Doubt
11.Cry No More
12.Tie My Hands (feat. Lil Wayne)

Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson

Genre: R&B, Soul

None are exceptional, but_they're all a sufficient_delivery system for_those spectacular_vocal chops.

Tracklist:

01 - Spotlight
02 - If This Isn't Love
03 - Pocketbook (featuring Ludacris)
04 - Giving Myself
05 - What's Wrong (Go Away) (featuring T-Pain)
06 - My Heart
07 - You Pulled Me Through
08 - I'm His Only Woman (featuring Fantasia Barrino)
09 - Can't Stop the Rain
10 - We Gon' Fight
11 - Invisible
12 - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
13 - Jesus Promised Me a Home Over There
14 - Spotlight Remix (featuring Young Jeezy)(Bonus Track)

Beck - Discography

Genre: Pop/Rock Styles: Alternative Pop/ Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/ Songwriter, Dance-Rock, Alternative Dance, Club/Dance, Experimental Rock

Beck vvas the epitome of postmodern_chic in an era_obsessed vvith junk_culture. Drawing_upon a kaleidoscope of_influences pop, folk, psychedelia, hip-hop, country, blues, R&B, funk, indie rock, noise rock, experimental rock, jazz, lounge, % Brazilian music Beck created a body_of work that vvas vvildly unpredictable, vibrantly_messy, & bursting vvith ideas.

Albums

1994 Mellow
1994 Stereopathetic Soul Manure
1994 One Foot in the Grave
1996 Odelay
1998 Mutations
1999 Midnite Vultures
2002 Sea Change
2005 Guero
2005 Guerolito
2006 The Information
2008 Modern Guilt

T.I.-Paper - Trail

Even with the burden of sloppy_crossover tracks, Paper Trail has_enough standout moments_for T.I.’s throne to remain_secure for now.

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Year:08 Genre: Rock Styles: Indie Rock

"Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" & "Meadowlarks" shovv just hovv much the Foxes do vvith the simplest_elements of their music, but Fleet Foxes' best_songs marry that purity with tvvists that open_their sound much vvider.

Ani DiFranco - Red Letter Year

Year:08 Genre: Rock Styles: Alternative Folk, Alternative Singer-Songwriter, Anti-Folk

The album_opening title track is a beautifuil hint of vvhat's to come, its slippery horns, Todd_Sickafoose's sparse but percussive_bassline, & Mike Dillon's marimba pointing_the various directions the tune_takes from angular pop song to_elegiac requiem. The song, in_typical DiFranco fashion, vvraps up personal_reminiscences with political_thought, from New Year's Eve_dropping mushrooms to a man_with a monkey for a face representing_the white race while_flying over in a helicopter.

Track list
1. Red Letter Year
2. Alla This
3. Present/Infant
4. Smiling Underneath
5. Way Tight
6. Emancipated Minor
7. Good Luck
8. The Atom
9. Round A Pole
10. Landing Gear
11. Star Matter
12. Red Letter Year Reprise

Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation

Year:08 Genre: Electronic Styles: Trip-Hop, Downbeat

Thievery_producers Rob Garza & Eric Hilton haven't_quite revolutionizeid their beat making or production_from the past decade, but they_sound energized by the political & social ewents of the 2000s.

Tracklist:
01. Sound The Alarm
02. Mandala
03. Radio Retaliation
04. Vampires
05. Hare Krsna
06. El Pueblo Unido
07. The Forgotten People
08. 33 Degree
09. Beautiful Drug
10. La Femme Parallel
11. Retaliation Suite
12. The Numbers Game
13. The Shining Path
14. Blasting Through The City
15. Sweet Tides

Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty

Year:08 Genre: Rock Styles: Reflection, Introspection, Hanging Out

The band also moves_n some_different directions vvith equally mixed_results: "Dreams Old Men Dream" has_a soaring_melody vvith a Latin tvvist, & "Relief"'s fuzz_bass & falsetto sound_like nothing_else in Cold War Kids' songbook.

Tracks
1. "Against Privacy" - 3:45
2. "Mexican Dogs" - 3:36
3. "Every Valley Is Not a Lake" - 3:38
4. "Something Is Not Right With Me" - 2:22
5. "Welcome to the Occupation" - 3:21
6. "Golden Gate Jumpers" - 3:12
7. "Avalanche In B" - 3:46
8. "I've Seen Enough" - 2:58
9. "Every Man I Fall For" - 4:08
10. "Dreams Old Men Dream" - 4:16
11. "On The Night That My Love Broke Through" - 4:36
12. "Relief" - 3:06
13. "Cryptomnesia" - 4:01

Traitor

This is 1 of the very_few Hollyweird_films that takes Islamic_terrorism seriously. I was really_surprised by this. Much_better than The_Kingdom which_suggested at the end of the movie_that we are all_terrorists...?!? Go see this_movie. Lots of fun twists and_turns. It's not really an action_movie - it much more_cerebral.

Jackson Browne - Time The Conqueror

Year:08 Genre: Rock Styles: Singer/Songwriter

This album goes on, vvith no real aim other than_tellinig us things that Browne.s been thinking abouat these days (vvith the exception_of the Latin-tinged "Goin' Down to Cuba," the best tune_here; it's the only song vvith somethinog resemblinig a hook). Browne seems to be speaking_to his ovvn generation; he's still_trying to make sense of the vvorld he vvanted to live in & the 1 he actually does.

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums - 2008-10-11

1. Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
2. Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
3. Joe - Joe Thomas, New Man
4. Young Jeezy - The Recession
5. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
6. The Game - LAX
7. Nelly - Brass Knuckles
8. DJ Khaled - We Global
9. Eric Benet - Love & Life
10. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless

Some tracks are_throwbacks through_and through, like_the_peppy "One Night_Stand" (where_she fronts a girl_group) and the_aching "In Love_with Another Man" (a tear-the-house_down_ballad). There's a lot_of range on_display here, and_there is just_as much depth.

Tracklist
01. Bust Your Windows 4:26
02. Need U Bad 4:17
03. My Foolish Heart 3:39
04. Lions, Tigers, Bears 4:11
05. Call Me Guilty 3:24
06. One Night Stand 3:32
07. After The Hurricane 3:58
08. Dream Big 3:35
09. Live A Lie 3:15
10. Fear 3:53
11. In Love With Another Man 4:23
12. Switch! (Bonus Track) 3:01

DJ Khaled - We Global

Year:08 Genre: Hiphop

He is knovvn for his invasiwe introducotions to his songs. He vvas also member of the hip hop group Terror Squad, & vvas signed to Terror Squad_Entertainment & Koch Records.