| | Reggae Gold 2005 CD (2 Customer Reviews)
Listening to the first third of REGGAE GOLD 2005, one might get the
impression that it would be more accurately titled DANCEHALL GOLD. The disc is heavily front-loaded with tracks by some of the biggest
dancehall artists around, including Beenie Man, Sean Paul, and the
Godfather of dancehall, Buju Banton himself. Eight songs in, however,
there's a drastic change-up, as things take a much more melodic turn,
with tunes from Bitty McLean, Beres Hammond, and others, mixing roots
reggae, rocksteady, and lovers rock. McLean's "Walk Away From Love,"
which juxtaposes the old David Ruffin Motown classic over a vintage Duke Reid Studio One track, is easily the highlight of the whole collection. Towards the end, things turn back around to dancehall with such heavy hitters as Sizzla and Elephant Man closing out the album on an up note. Nevertheless, it's still pretty tough to get that McLean track out of one's head. Reggae Gold 2005 Music Review Purchase Reggae Gold 2005 CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | George Harrison Gone Troppo CD (1982) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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Generally overlooked in the ex-Beatle's solo discography, 1982's GONE TROPPO finds George Harrison flirting with radio-friendly, synth-driven pop hooks of the early-1980s, while still demonstrating his penchant for great, timeless melodies. The opener, "Wake Up My Love," establishes the light, breezy tone of the album, which continues through the Caribbean-via-Fab Four vibe of the title ...
| | Soca Gold 2005 CDs (2005)
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| | T O K Unknown Language CD (2005)
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T.O.K. enjoyed a lot of breakout success in 2001 with their My Crew, My Dawgs album, which was exceptionally popular in the U.S. for a dancehall album, perhaps because it was so poppy. This was prior to Sean Paul's truly massive breakout in 2003, remember, so T.O.K.'s success is all the more remarkable in retrospect. By the time the group returned in 2005 with Unknown Language, however, the dancehall craze ignited by Sean Paul's "Get Busy" and its Diwali riddim had subsided quite a bit, supplanted by the reggaeton craze led by Daddy Yankee and his breakout "Gasolina" single. Not that T.O.K. cared either way, though (even if fans might have, given the long four-year wait). Trend or no trend, wait or no wait, their second album picks up right where their first one left off, with another large serving of catchy dancehall-pop well engineered for both dancing and singing along to. Highlights are plentiful here on Unknown Language, much as they had been on My Crew, My Dawgs. The album-opener, "Hey Ladies," gets the party started right from the get-go. ...
| | Strictly The Best Vol. 34 CD (2005)
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| | Strictly The Best Vol. 33 CD (2005)
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| | Reggae Gold 2006 CDs (2006) With DVD
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| | Jacob Miller Killer Rides Again CD (1990)
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| | Roy Harper Dream Society CD (1998)
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Thirty years and probably about as many albums since Roy Harper's debut, 1997's THE DREAM SOCIETY is a thoughtful, irreverent blast of folk-rock from one of the most idiosyncratic artists of his generation. Wisely avoiding any attempt to update the basic aspects of Harper's sound--12-string acoustic guitar, raspy voice, folk-rock arrangements with hints of jazz and blues--THE ...
| | John Gorka Company You Keep CD (2001)
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For the most part, Gorka offers low-energy singer/songwriter folk with shades of adult contemporary rock on The Company You Keep. Weary nostalgia dominates his introspective, observational lyrics. Whether it's first person or second person, the material muses over lost chances and making the best of things without offering any easy solutions, with a complacent though not self-satisfied attitude. Matters are livened, slightly, by the Bob Dylan-like organ of "Oh Abraham," and a variety of female harmony vocalists, including Mary Chapin Carpenter and Ani DiFranco. When he kicks out the jams, relatively speaking, for the odd up-tempo tune like the bar-band-rollicking "Joint of No Return," or "Around the House" (which ...
| | Christoph De Babalon If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It CD (1997) Import; Reissued
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Given the space that a 70-minute double record provides, Christoph de Babalon is given the room he needs to stretch out properly. His EPs are respectable on their own, but his ideas are too numerous and vast to be constricted by EP lengths. The 15 minutes of "Opium" recall Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II, but stripped of all sense of beauty. Beatless, the track ...
| | Best Of Blur CD (2000)
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This Blur collection consists of a two-CD/one-DVD set that presents the revered Britpop group's BEST OF anthology, a disc of live performances, and a comprehensive assemblage of the band's videos. Along with Damon Albarn and the lads' best-known tunes ("Girls & Boys," "Song 2"), the studio disc includes the funky, previously unreleased "Music Is My Radar," while the concert album presents some tracks not on the former disc, including the spiky "Stereotypes" and the revved-up "M.O.R." Rounding out the set are the group's videos, which include visually stunning clips for "To the End" and "The Universal," among others.
It's boring to point out omissions on hits compilations, especially when a collection is as generous as the 18-track The Best of Blur, but let's do it anyway. The Best of Blur largely bypasses the group's key album, Modern Life Is Rubbish, the record that invented Britpop, skewing in favor of the self-consciously "experimental" 13, which, for all of its attributes, wasn't a singles album. Plus, the group continues to punish the British record-buying public by not including the brilliant "Pop Scene" (to beat a dead horse, the single that invented Britpop), since nobody bought it at the time. So, without "Pop Scene," "Chemical World," or "Sunday Sunday," a crucial chapter of Blur's history is missing from The Best of Blur -- the chapter where they essentially became Blur. It's to their immense credit that the album doesn't feel like it's missing anything, since these singles (plus one album track) are dazzling on their own. Of course, the trick is that the record isn't assembled ...
| | Damned Punk Generation: The Best Of Oddities & Versions CD (2004)
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| | Perez Prado Mambo King CD (2004) (Import) Import; Remastered; Digipak; United Kingdom
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| | Leaether Strip Suicide Bombers CD (2006) Extended Play
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