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April 13, 2010
New CD Album Releases, 4-13-2010: Tom Lehrer, Jeff Beck, Natalie Merchant Not much big and new this week, but let's just take a minute to dig on the genius of The Tom Lehrer Collection. This collection features 26 cuts, largely recorded in the 1960s. This has pretty much all the obvious cuts. By his count, for being such a well known name over many years, he only published 37 songs.
Best of all, this comes with a bonus DVD including live 1967 performances in Oslo of, among other classics, "The Masochism Tango" and my personal springtime anthem "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park." Sweet.
"If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while." - Tom Lehrer
Emotion & Commotion is the first new album from Jeff Beck in seven years. I wouldn't think of Beck as a big time commercial artist, but I note that he is as high as #4 currently at Amazon.
The #1 seller at Amazon at the moment is Leave Your Sleep from Natalie Merchant. This two CD set is based on musical adaptations of 19th and 20th century British and American poetry. What I'm hearing sounds pretty listenable, though I'm not sure how memorable any of it will prove to be. It has just a little bit of Renaissance fair flavor to it, but not to a stilted degree.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new CD album releases:
Jeff Beck Emotion & Commotion Rhino Album Rock, Guitar Virtuoso, Jazz-Rock, Hard Rock, Instrumental Rock, Blues-Rock
Jason Castro Jason Castro Atlantic Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow Sony Music Emo, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Punk-Pop
MGMT Congratulations Sony Music Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
Natalie Merchant Leave Your Sleep Nonesuch Records Alternative/Indie Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Neo-Traditional Folk
Tony Allen Secret Agent World Circuit Afro-Beat, West African, Nigerian, African Traditions, Funk
Antena Bossa Super Nova LTM Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Bobby and Blumm A Little Big Sound Of A Handshake Indie Electronic, Indie Pop, Ambient Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Harlan T. Bobo Sucker Goner Records Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Country-Rock
Braid Frankie Welfare Boy Age 5 Divot Records Emo, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Laura Bell Bundy Achin' and Shakin' Mercury Nashville Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Country, Country-Pop
Cancer Bats Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones Good Fight Post-Hardcore, Alternative/Indie Rock, Heavy Metal
The Nels Cline Singers Initiate Cryptogramophone Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative, Guitar Jazz, Jazz Instrument
The Contrast God of Malfunction Wicked Cool
D.R.I. Crossover: Millennium Edition Beer City Records
Disappears Lux Kranky Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Dosh Tommy Anticon Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Lila Downs y la Misteriosa Lila Downs y la Misteriosa en Paris: Live a FIP World Village South American Traditions, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Alternative/Indie Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Cumbia, Latin Folk
Cesaria Evora Radio Mindelo: Early Recordings Columbia/Sony Western European Traditions, African Traditions, West African, Morna, Fado, Cape Verdean
Family Rise...The Very Best of Family Rebecca Art Rock, British Psychedelia, Psychedelic, Prog-Rock, Blues-Rock
Liza Ferschtman Works for violin solo by J. S. Bach & Ysaye Challenge Classics Baroque & Post-Romantic Violin Music
Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin Jane Birkin/Serge Gainbourg: Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus Universal Distribution Baroque Pop, French Pop, Cabaret, French Rock, French, Western European Traditions
Gucci Mane The Burrrprint 2 HD Asylum Dirty South, Gangsta Rap
Matthew Hawtin Once Again, Again Plus Records Ambient Techno, Techno
Margarita Hohenrieder Margarita Hohenrieder Plays Schumann & Mendelssohn Bartholdy Solo Musica Romantic Chamber Music
The Incredible String Band The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion Hannibal British Folk-Rock, British Folk, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic
The Incredible String Band The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Hannibal British Folk-Rock, British Folk, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic
The Incredible String Band The Incredible String Band Sepia Tone British Folk-Rock, British Folk, Folk-Rock, Psychedelic
The Incredible String Band Wee Tam & the Big Huge Collectors' Choice Music British Folk, British Folk-Rock, Psychedelic
Johann Johannsson And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees Type Sound Art, Experimental Electronic, Indie Electronic
Jonas Kaufmann Jonas Kaufmann Sings Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner Decca Classical & Romantic Opera Arias
Kaki King Junior Rounder Guitar Virtuoso, New Acoustic, Alternative Folk, Indie Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Progressive Folk, Indie Rock
Legendary Shack Shakers Agri-dustrial Colonel Knowledge Records Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Psychobilly, Punk Blues, Alternative Country-Rock
Tom Lehrer The Tom Lehrer Collection Shout! Factory Comedy
Little Claw Spit and Squalor Swallow the Snow Ecstatic Yod Experimental Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Madness Seven Virgin Records Punk/New Wave, Ska Revival, New Wave, Contemporary Pop/Rock
Mantler Monody Tomlab Indie Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Neo-Soul, Soul
matt pond PA The Dark Leaves MRI Associated Labels Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
Natalie Merchant Selections From Leave Your Sleep Nonesuch Records Alternative/Indie Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Neo-Traditional Folk
Raul Midon Synthesis Decca Records Neo-Soul, Soul
Stanton Moore Groove Alchemy Telarc Jazz Jazz-Rock, New Orleans R&B, Soul Jazz, Jazz-Funk
Murs/9th Wonder Fornever SMC Records Underground Rap
The Ocean Heliocentric Metal Blade Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal
Bryn Terfel Bad Boys Deutsche Grammophon Classical, Romantic, Post-Romantic, Modern & Contemporary Opera Arias
Yuja Wang Transformation: Stravinsky, Scarlatti, Brahms Deutsche Grammophon Baroque, Romantic & Modern Piano Music
Original Soundtrack The Hot Spot APO (Analogue Production Orig Soundtracks
Christian Prommer Drumlesson Zwei !K7 Clubjazz, Club/Dance, Electro-Acoustic
Rafter Animal Feelings Asthmatic Kitty Records Indie Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Revolting Cocks Got Cock? Megaforce Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Carrie Rodriguez Love and Circumstance Ninth Street Opus Americana, Alternative Country-Rock, Alternative Folk, Alternative/Indie Rock
Sightings City of Straw Jagjaguwar Experimental Rock, Noise-Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Iggy & the Stooges Raw Power Sony Music Distribution Detroit Rock, Album Rock, Proto-Punk, Hard Rock, Glam Rock
Subhumans Same Thoughts Different Day Alternative Tentacles
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt Dead Oceans Records Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
Prins Thomas Prins Thomas Full Pupp Experimental Rock, Post-Rock, Alternative Dance
Steve Vai Where the Other Wild Things Are: Live in Minneapolis Favored Nations Records
Woe of Tyrants Threnody Metal Blade Death Metal, Heavy Metal
Not much big and new this week, but let's just take a minute to dig on the genius of The Tom Lehrer Collection. This collection features 26 cuts, largely recorded in the 1960s. This has pretty much all the obvious cuts. By his count, for being such a well known name over many years, he only published 37 songs.