|
Up to the minute notes on the current state of free thinking and free living: Kentucky moonshine - original analysis and reporting from MoreThings, and all round pop culture museum of sight and sound - photo galleries, mp3 and video downloads.
Al Barger and MoreThings - getting people's goats since 1998.
Live free or die!
----
|
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
MUSIC SUSTAINS THE SOUL
Labels: new_album_releases
posted by Al at 12/14/2005 01:42:00 PM
Link Soup
morethings master
photo gallery index
MP3
new album
releases
lyrics
sammy davis
little richard photos
buddy holly pictures
fats domino images
chuck berry pictures 01/
02/
03/
04/
05/
06/
07/
08/
09/
10/
11/
12/
01/
02/
03/
04/
05/
06/
07/
08/
09/
10/
11/
12/
01/
02/
03/
04/
05/
06/
07/
08/
09/
10/
11/
12/
01/02/
03/
04/
05/
06/
07/
08/
09/
10/
11/
12
01/
02/
03/
04/
05/
06/
07/
08/
09/
10/
11/
12/01/
02/
03/
04/
05/
06/
07/
08/
09/
10/
11/
12/08/
09/
10/
11/
12/
la
24
lucille ball images
clint eastwood pictures lena
horne images team
america pictures
robert mitchum photos
bruce springsteen pictures
mariah carey pictures
ann coulter photos
george clooney images
loretta lynn pictures
beatles pictures
white stripes pictures
andy griffith pictures
kill bill pictures
beverly hillbillies pictures
robin williams
frank zappa pictures
jerry lee lewis pictures
richard pryor photos
june carter johnny cash pictures
vic mackey shield pictures u2 photos
four seasons images
james cagney images
elvis presley pictures
country music
blog
dolly parton pictures
olsen twins photos
tom petty photos
tori amos pictures
joaquin phoenix images David
Bowie photos
Quills movie images
reese witherspoon pictures rolling
stones photos
fiona apple images kim
novak images ray charles photos marx
brothers pictures
prince rogers nelson pictures blazing
saddles images
sinead o'connor images
eddie murphy photos aretha
franklin photos
south park pictures homer
simpson images
bob dylan pictures elizabeth
taylor photos madonna
images
saturday night live pictures jewel
kilcher photos willie
nelson images hee
haw pictures james
brown images pete
townshend photos
tina turner pictures
dixie chicks photos
elton john
images
emmylou harris images
guns
n roses pictures
paula abdul pictures
jodie foster photos
amy winehouse
eminem
frank sinatra photos
van
halen images
satan
blondie photos
merle haggard
images
rocky horror pictures
monty
python
|
|
