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November 11, 2008
New CD Album Releases, 11-11-2008: Cheap Trick, Christina Aguilera, Flaming Lips, Seal, Enya Christina Aguilera has a Target store only release Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits. It has four new songs.
The Flaming Lips have a soundtrack album for the seven years in gestation movie Christmas on Mars. On the one hand, anything fooled with for that long makes me suspicious. I'd expect the soup to be long cold, and for stuff to be just way too convoluted from way too long a time devoted to navel gazing. On the other hand, these guys are the authors of such classics as "Sponge Bob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy." So perhaps this needs a listen.
Seal has a new album of covers, Soul. He was always more from the clubs and not a classic style soul singer, so it may be more of a stretch than an obvious move. What exactly would he do with stuff like "I've Been Loving You Too Long"? Also, Seal often seems to me to be at least as notable for vocal skills and production as for his songwriting.
All that aside though, the cool thing is the big Cheap Trick At Budokan: 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition. I have a separate write-up on this beauty. Those 1978 performances performances were not as polished or nuanced in their arrangements as the studio versions, but you could just almost SEE the tongues of fire over their heads as they were filled with the holy ghost of Elvis speaking in foreign tongues to these Asian teenyboppers.
The supercool thing about this new three CD set is that it comes with a DVD of one whole show out of the two from which the original album was culled. That's just maximum coolness to us old dudes what have worn out a couple of copies of the original album to actually SEE the performances after all these years. This is highly recommeded.
Here's the listing of this week's new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Christina Aguilera Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits RCA Pop, Teen Pop, Pop/Rock, Dance-Pop, Urban, Neo-Soul, Contemporary R&B, Adult Contemporary
Cheap Trick At Budokan: 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition [3CD/1DVD] Epic/Legacy Album Rock, Arena Rock, Pop/Rock, Power Pop, New Wave, Early Pop/Rock, Hard Rock
The Flaming Lips Christmas on Mars Warner Bros. Noise Pop, Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental, Alternative Pop/Rock, Experimental Rock, Original Score New Order Movement [Collector's Edition] Rhino Dance-Rock, College Rock, Post-Punk, Club/Dance, Synth Pop
Taylor Swift Fearless Big Machine Contemporary Country, Country-Pop
T-Pain Thr33 Ringz Jive Urban, Pop-Rap
David Archuleta David Archuleta Jive Pop, Teen Pop, Adult Contemporary
Sara Bareilles Between the Line: Sara Bareilles Live at Fillmore Epic Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Natasha Bedingfield Pocketful of Sunshine [Bonus DVD] Epic Teen Pop, Dance-Pop, Adult Contemporary
The Boxmasters Christmas Cheer Vanguard Christmas, Alternative Country
Little River Band One Night In Mississippi Scream Marketing Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary
Live Live at the Paradiso Amsterdam Action Front/Vanguard Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Love Is All A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night What's Your Rupture New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Indie Pop
Luomo Convivial Huume Microhouse, Club/Dance
Andrea Marcon Vivaldi: Concertos for Two Violins Archiv Produktion Baroque Music for 2 Violins & Orchestra
Mudcrutch Mudcrutch Extended Play Live Reprise Country-Rock, Rock & Roll
New Order Brotherhood [Collector's Edition] Rhino Dance-Rock, College Rock, Alternative Dance, Alternative Pop/Rock, Club/Dance, Synth Pop
New Order Low-life [Collector's Edition] Rhino Dance-Rock, College Rock, Alternative Dance, Alternative Pop/Rock, Synth Pop, Club/Dance
New Order Power, Corruption & Lies [Collector's Edition] Rhino Dance-Rock, College Rock, Alternative Dance, Alternative Pop/Rock, Synth Pop, Club/Dance
New Order Technique [Collector's Edition] Rhino Dance-Rock, College Rock, Alternative Dance, Alternative Pop/Rock, House, Club/Dance, Synth Pop
Liping Zhang Arias EMI Classics Romantic & Post-Romantic Music for Voice & Orchestra
Original Soundtrack Rachel Getting Married [Soundtrack] Lakeshore Original Score, Soundtracks
The Postmarks By-the-Numbers Unfiltered Indie Pop
Cliff Richard The 50th Anniversary Album EMD Int'l Early Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Soft Rock, Teen Idol, Pop/Rock
Seal Soul Warner Bros. Neo-Soul, Adult Contemporary
The Sight Below Glider Ghostly International Experimental Ambient, Ambient Techno
Six Feet Under Death Rituals Metal Blade Heavy Metal, Death Metal/Black Metal
The Smiths The Sound of the Smiths Rhino College Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
23 Skidoo Just Like Everybody [LTM] LTM Post-Punk, Experimental, Industrial
Seal