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April 12, 2006
New Album Releases, Week of 4-11-2006 The most interesting likely new music this week comes from Calexico, with their new album Garden Ruin. That should be worth a listen.
Toby Keith has a new album White Trash with Money. As modern commercial country music goes, he's probably toward the least bad.
The BeatlesThe Capitol Albums, Vol. 2 is basically some dumb crap to separate people from their money. Short version, the American record company butchered the Beatles early albums, slicing and dicing to make more albums than the Beatles really made. When they first issued the Beatles on CD in 1987, they fixed that foolishness, putting out the albums to correspond to the records the Beatles actually made.
This collection unfixes this mess. It is a CD release of several of the middle period butchered American releases. If you've got the proper CDs, then you don't need this. If you don't, then you should buy the right CDs, rather than this mess. Unless you have some peculiar jones for some mediocre George Martin orchestrations from Help!, there's not much good reason for this.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
The Beatles The Capitol Albums, Vol. 2 Capitol Pop/Rock, Merseybeat, British Invasion, Rock & Roll, Pop
Built to Spill You in Reverse Warner Bros. Indie Rock
Eagles of Death Metal Death by Sexy Downtown Hard Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Garage Punk
Show Dog Nashville/Universal New Traditionalist, Contemporary Country
Tom Ze Estudando o Pagode Luaka Bop Brazilian Pop, MPB
Basement Boys Basement Boys Presents Mudfoot Jones Savoy Jazz Jazz-House, House
Jeff Bates Leave the Light On RCA Country Contemporary Country, Country-Pop, Neo-Traditionalist Country
Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise What About That: New Year's Eve In Bloomington Kufala Contemporary Blues, Soul-Blues
Bratz Genie Magic Hip-O Teen Pop, TV Soundtracks, Television Music, Pop/Rock
Buckcherry 15 Eleven Seven Hard Rock, American Trad Rock, Post-Grunge
Bullets and Octane In the Mouth of the Young RCA Punk Revival, Alternative Metal, Alternative Pop/Rock
Calexico Garden Ruin Quarterstick Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Americana, Post-Rock/Experimental
Joseph Calleja The Golden Voice Decca Operatic Highlights
Ray Charles Ray Charles: Unreleased Night Train International R&B, Piano Blues, Urban Blues
Collegium Vocale Gent Lassus: Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales Harmonia Mundi Renaissance Sacred Choral Music
Field Music Field Music [Bonus Tracks] Memphis Industries Indie Pop, Chamber Pop
Sue Foley New Used Car Ruf Contemporary Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Roots Rock
The Grateful Dead Go to Heaven [Bonus Tracks] Rhino Jam Bands, Album Rock, Soft Rock
Judas Priest The Essential Judas Priest Sony New Wave of British Heavy Metal, British Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Ladytron Extended Play Rykodisc Indie Electronic, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop
Lambchop The Decline of Country & Western Civilization, Pt. 2: The Woodwind Years Merge Chamber Pop, Alternative Country-Rock, Indie Rock
Albert Lee Road Runner Sugar Hill Roots Rock, Country-Rock
Reinbert de Leeuw Louis Andriessen: Writing to Vermeer Nonesuch Contemporary Opera
Larry Levan Journey into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story Rhino Post-Disco, Garage/House, Disco
Keith Lockhart Symphonic Dances Reference Modern and Contemporary Orches\tral Music
Edwin McCain Lost in America Vanguard American Trad Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Moneen The Red Tree Vagrant Indie Rock, Emo, Punk-Pop
Mono You Are There Temporary Residence Experimental Rock, Noise-Rock, Post-Rock/Experimental, Instrumental Rock
Eddie Murphy Comedian Columbia/Legacy Standup Comedy
Birgit Nilsson Or sai chi l'onore Deutsche Grammophon Operatic Highlights
Danny O'Keefe O'Keefe Wounded Bird Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock
Pretty Girls Make Graves Elan Vital Matador Indie Rock, Punk Revival
Queen Stone Cold Classics Hollywood Album Rock, Pop/Rock, Glam Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Hard Rock, Arena Rock, British Metal
Josh Ritter The Animal Years V2 Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Country-Rock
Saves the Day Sound the Alarm Vagrant Punk-Pop, Punk Revival
Ken Vandermark Free Jazz Classics, Vols. 3 & 4 Atavistic Modern Creative, Structured Improvisation, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde, Modern Free
Various Artists The Tommy Boy Story, Vol. 1 Tommy Boy/Rhino Old School Rap, Electro, Freestyle, House, Urban
Imaad Wasif Imaad Wasif Kill Rock Stars Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop
Robin Williams A Night at the Met Columbia/Legacy Standup Comedy, Observational Humor, Political Comedy, Blue Humor
Wisely Parador Not Lame Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop Underground
