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Not A Promising Debut For Donna Lewis With "Now In A Minute" by wlswarts Pros: A few decent lyrics, Generally sounds all right
Cons: Some breathy vocals that are annoying, Short! For quite some time, I did not know my mother that well. I grew up without her in my life and when I was in high school, we started to see one another more and interact. While we were getting to know one another, my mother learned quickly of the ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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From Chaos Comes Beauty by musicsucks Pros: ...
Cons: ... Who would have known that a group of guys from Omaha Nebraska could write songs that belong on the beach when they are so far away? 311 has done just that as well as rocked out hard over their career of genre-bending music. You can hear the metal, ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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A Symphony from the Angel of Music by jc_hall Pros: soaring vocals; mix of pop, hard rock, classical; stylish
Cons: not as moving as her Classics or Eden Her first studio album for five years since Harem, Symphony features all new songs and is recorded in Germany and produced by her long-time producer, Frank Peterson. For those of you familiar with Sarah Brightman, deserving superstar of ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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The tender Vocal Embrace of Sarah Vaughn by sj1and0 Pros: A heart warming performance.
Cons: None! There is nothing like being bathed in the light of the tender vocal embrace of Sarah Vaughn. She always seems to give a heart warming performance with much energy provided. She was a multitalented power house. Her phrasing involves loads of freedom ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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Seven Last Words by jlaurson Pros: A flexible, spirited performances of a fine work, if hardly without competition.
Cons: None, beyond the inevitable degree of emotional monotony of seven Adagios in a row. Heinrich
Schütz (1585-1672), Charles Gounod (1818-1893), César Franck (1822-1890), Théodore
Dubois (1837-1924), ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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I Want To Take Mariah Carey's "Music Box" & Smash It To Pieces by speeddemon531 Pros:
"Dreamlover". "I've Been Thinking About You". That's it. Cons: A collection of ballads on constant loop in my own personal jukebox from hell. Tons of folks complain about Mariah Carey's hip-hop identified, hoochie mama image now and contrast it to her chaste, ballad-belting early career. Granted, Mimi didn't need to vamp it up to the level that she has (when was the last video she made in ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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"Metamorphoseon" Not How I Remembered, But Still Decent Respighi by wlswarts Pros: An intriguing Classical artist well performed
Cons: Moments where the volume kicks down too low Some months back, I heard a piece on my local public radio station and I was so thrilled by it, that I have been in a search for it since. I could have sworn it was called the "Metamorphosea," but a little bit of research into it quickly lead me to ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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Somewhat Mozartian Symphonies by jlaurson Pros: Delightful musical entertainment from a sadly underrated composer.
Cons: The very deepest depths of classical music remain unplunged. Not behind every unknown composer rediscovered waits a hitherto hidden genius, a forgotten Mozart, or semi-Beethoven that fell between the cracks of music history. And despite so many delights that I have chanced upon, occasionally there is a sense of ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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Crazy Cello by jlaurson Pros: Fantastic(al) concerto that's loads of fun.
Cons: Sense of humor necessary. Marc Minkowski is not a conductor known for conventionalism, whether it be his interpretations or the repertoire itself. While he made a name for himself with French Baroque as the founder of Les Musiciens du Louvre, he has since shown his ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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Let Captain Jack Get You High Tonight (The Song) by wolfman309 Pros: A masterful piece of piano rock and roll.
Cons: None off the top of my head. You cannot go into a piano bar in the United States where the title track from this album does not get played at least once a night. That is unless it is banned from being played because they are sick of hearing it. Usually it comes up late in the ...
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Aug 29 '08 |
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Where In The Barnyard Do You Belong? by wolfman309 Pros: A great Pink Floyd album. One of their best.
Cons: Roger Waters starts to destroy the band. There is something ironic in a band doing a concept album about the evils of capitalism on their quadruple platinum selling record. Taking its cues from the George Orwell novel Animal Farm by using animals to represent the different classes of people. ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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"Singularity" Singled Out by neugierunner  Pros: Clean music, lyric booklet included, great, different album
Cons: I'm not a fan of the high pitched guitar distortions in many of the songs Being a diehard Mae fan, I pre ordered this cd as soon as I could in 2007! I was excited to see how they would follow up with an album as high quality as The Everglow. I was overall pleased with Singularity. Mae pulled off a different style of album ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
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Simon and Garfunkel Done Wrong: Keeping 2 Classic Albums On Two Discs! by wlswarts Pros: Great voices, Decent lyrics, Interesting musical variety.
Cons: Short, each disc is seriously short, Should have combined discs! Those who follow my music reviews will know that when it comes to classic recordings - ones that were originally made on record or audio cassette - I am realistically harsh about the transfers to compact disc. After all, compact discs have the capacity ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
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This bliss is but a drowning moment by pyfr Pros: Monica's sexy voice, enigmatic lyrics. Atmosphere is medieval and mystical, but rarely pretentious.
Cons: William's voice isn't as thrilling. Some of the heavier songs are weak. There aren’t many bands that have successfully fused Celtic medieval music and rock without sounding like a garage band gussied up for a second stage appearance at Scarborough Faire. Hard rockers Rainbow and Yngwie Malmsteen swirled the two with ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
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Hovhaness' The Rubaiyat: Exile, Desire and Prayer by telynor Pros: Some of these are really gorgeous to listen to.
Cons: It takes a while to get used to Hovhaness' music. Be patient. For some years now I've been exploring the works of Alan Hovhaness (full name: Alan Hovhaness Chakmakjian), an American composer of Armenian descent who sadly, passed away in 2000. He produced a tremendous body of work, including sixty symphonies, ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
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Long letter on a short piece paper by milesmusic Pros: Re-mastered Wilburys cuts. Dylan. Harrison. Petty. Orbison. Lynne.
Cons: None. This is an overdue collection released in 2007 and hopefully to be in print for a long time, unlike the original discs which were very hard to find before this. You really can't lose with anything in this entire package. It comes with three ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
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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 |
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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: - Forty-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, sloppy, frenetic, proud, tough and all manner of adjectives not usually ...
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Aug 28 '08 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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