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December 14, 2005

 

New Album Releases, week of 12-13-2005
Billie Holiday The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes is a six CD set. They put out a 10 disc set previously with outtakes and such. This looks to be about half the length- and probably thus twice the listenability.

This week American Idol also-ran Bo Bice puts out his debut album, wishfully titled The Real Thing. For starters, anyone interested in music should laugh heartily at any such label being attached to anyone associated with a faux-talent show like this. The fakeness is only worse when the corporate cheese whiz is presented as "Southern rock," which genre is particularly incompatible with this tv contrivance.

Oh, but that's not bad enough yet. From the AMG preview of this album, "Bice has been retooled as a generic modern rocker, partway between Nickelback and Bon Jovi." How many shades of awful does this sound like?

Look, anyone buying any American Idol related record needs to be put to the lash immediately, but this is a step beyond. Anyone buying a Bo Bice album is just asking for a trip to Camp Mimi- which might start becoming awfully crowded, as Amazon lists this in their top 10 sellers currently.

Beck puts out Guerolito this week, which consists of remixes of the whole album from last spring- as if that mediocrity needed to be re-mixed, re-packaged, and re-sold.

If we make it through December, maybe we'll get some new real music in the new year.

Here's the complete list of this week's major new releases, courtesy AMG:

Beck Guerolito Interscope
Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Dance

Bo Bice The Real Thing RCA
Post-Grunge, Pop/Rock

Anthony Hamilton Ain't Nobody Worryin' So So Def/Zomba
Neo-Soul, Urban

Billie Holiday The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes Verve
Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Swing, Ballads, Classic Female Blues, Standards, American Popular Song, Torch Songs

Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan Ramblin' Man V2
Indie Pop, Chamber Pop

Cypress Hill Greatest Hits from the Bong Sony
West Coast Rap, Latin Rap, Hardcore Rap

Daddy Yankee Barrio Fino en Directo Interscope
Reggaeton

Howie Day Live From... Sony
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter

Ludacris & DTP Ludacris Presents...Disturbing tha Peace Def Jam
Dirty South, Southern Rap

Fuel The Best of Fuel Epic
Post-Grunge, Alternative Metal, Thrash, Alternative Pop/Rock

Marek Janowski Hindemith: The Long Christmas Dinner Wergo
Modern Opera

Lyfe Jennings Lyfe 268-192 [Special Edition] Sony Urban Music/Columbia
Contemporary R&B

Marianne Beate Kielland J.S. Bach: Sacred Cantatas for Alto Naxos
Baroque Vocal Music

Lamb of God Killadelphia Sony
Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal

Juan Carlos Rivera Valderrábano: Silva de Sirenas Harmonia Mundi Franc
Renaissance Vocal and Chamber Music

Takuo Yuasa Toshiro Mayuzumi: Mandala Symphony; Bugaku; Symphonic Mood; Rumba Rhapsody
Naxos
Contemporary Orchestral Music

Original Score King Kong [2005 Original Score] Decca
Original Score, Film Music

Original Soundtrack The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - The Complete Recordings Reprise
Film Music, Soundtracks, Original Score

Slim Thug Already Platinum: Chopped and Screwed Geffen
Dirty South, Southern Rap, Hardcore Rap, Gangsta Rap

Snoop Dogg Presents Welcome to the Chuuch: The Album Koch
West Coast Rap, Gangsta Rap

Various Artists Ars subtilior: Dawn of the Renaissance Harmonia Mundi Franc
Renaissance Chamber Music

Various Artists Rawkus Records: Best of Decade I (1995-2005) Geffen
Hip-Hop, East Coast Rap

YoungBloodZ Ev'rybody Know Me La Face
Dirty South, Southern Rap, Party Rap
WARNING: FACTORY CORRUPTED CD

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