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September 08, 2009
New CD Album Releases, 9-8-2009: The Beatles, Phish, Jay-Z The Beatles whole catalog finally gets a long awaited digitally re-mastered gussied up proper treatment this week with The Beatles: Stereo Box Set and The Beatles: Mono Box Set. It's about damned time.
"This is Sinatra at the opera" declares Jay-Z in "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" which is the lead single from The Blueprint 3. Besides the utterly ridiculous chutzpah of comparing his own dumb ass to Sinatra, one might explain it partly just through ignorance. Sinatra was totally not any kind of opera singer.
I'm not hearing anything even vaguely musically interesting, but does that really matter with this rap crap? He's tougher, badder and richer than you. In fairness, this crapola is currently #5 at Amazon. Good for him. It also features appearances by Kanye West, Rihanna and slumming from Alicia Keys.
Joy is the re-union album from Phish. On the one hand, this stuff is fairly indistinguished compositionally from my partial listening - about the mediocrity I would expect from this band. On the other hand, there are 10 songs on this album. So you might should be grateful that this "jam band" didn't just jack off for 80 minutes worth of CD on one song.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new CD releases:
The Beatles The Beatles: Stereo Box Set Capitol Pop/Rock, British Invasion, Rock & Roll, AM Pop, British Psychedelia, Folk-Rock, Merseybeat
Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 Roc Nation Hardcore Rap, East Coast Rap, Hip-Hop
Sondre Lerche Heartbeat Radio Rounder Indie Pop, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Os Mutantes Haih...Ou Amortecedor... Anti- Brazilian Pop, MPB
Phish Joy Jemp/ATO Jam Bands
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2 Ice H2O East Coast Rap, Gangsta Rap, Hardcore Rap
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses [20th Anniversary Collector's Edition - 2CD/1DVD] Silvertone/Legacy Dance-Rock, College Rock, Madchester, Alternative Dance, Britpop, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop, British Trad Rock, Indie Rock, Shoegaze
Vivian Girls Everything Goes Wrong In the Red Noise Pop, Indie Pop
Yo La Tengo Popular Songs Matador Noise Pop, Indie Rock
The A-Bones Not Now! Norton Garage Rock Revival, Rock & Roll
AIDS Wolf Dustin' off the Sphynx Skin Graft Experimental Rock, Noise-Rock
John Abercrombie Wait Till You See Her ECM Progressive Jazz, Post-Bop
BLK JKS After Robots Secretly Canadian Indie Rock, Worldbeat
Nathan Barr True Blood [Score] Varese Sarabande Original Score
The Beatles The Beatles: Mono Box Set Capitol Pop/Rock, British Invasion, Rock & Roll, AM Pop, British Psychedelia, Folk-Rock, Merseybeat
Boys Like Girls Love Drunk Columbia Emo-Pop
Brooks & Dunn #1s...and Then Some Arista New Traditionalist, Contemporary Country, Neo-Traditionalist Country
Circulatory System Signal Morning Cloud Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Rock
The Clean Mister Pop Merge New Zealand Rock, Indie Rock
Danko Jones Never Too Loud Bad Taste Alternative Metal, Hard Rock
Stephen Darlington Howard Goodall: Eternal Light EMI Classics Contemporary Choral Music
Howie Day Sound the Alarm Epic Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
Spencer Day Vagabond Concord Jazz Vocal Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Traditional Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Vocal Pop
Jackie DeShannon Jackie DeShannon Collectors' Choice Music Brill Building Pop, Early Pop/Rock
Jackie DeShannon Me About You/To Be Free [Bonus Track] Collectors' Choice Music Folk-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, AM Pop, Sunshine Pop
Early Day Miners The Treatment Secretly Canadian Indie Rock, Sadcore, Space Rock
The Feelies Crazy Rhythms [Bonus Tracks] Bar/None American Underground, College Rock, Jangle Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
The Feelies The Good Earth [Bonus Tracks] Bar/None College Rock, Jangle Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
A Fine Frenzy Bomb in the Birdcage Virgin Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
