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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
