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Brooklyn indie rockers the Virgins debut with their self-titled effort, which recalls the rock-&-roll swagger of the Strokes' IS THIS IT? leavened with some more overt 1980s influences of New York contemporaries such as Vampire Weekend. First single "Rich Girls" is the album's strutting calling card, with "Teen Lovers," the sneering "She's Expensive," and "Radio Christiane" among the other highlights. THE VIRGINS is available both on CD and as a vinyl LP.
Amp - Amended ProducRolling Stone (p.75) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Their debut screams debauchery, with its funk- and disco-spiked odes....The Virgins have a knack for songcraft -- scrabbling funk verses that surge into singalong rock choruses..."
Spin (p.105) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Over 38 taut minutes, these New York kids reflect the mirror-ball gleam of primo INXS and EMOTIONAL RESCUE-era Rolling sTones onto they lives of today's young, rich, and wasted." Virgins Songs | 1. | She's Expensive | |
| 2. | One Week of Danger | |
| 3. | Rich Girls | |
| 4. | Teen Lovers | |
| 5. | Fernando Pando | |
| 6. | Murder | |
| 7. | Hey Hey Girl | |
| 8. | Private Affair | |
| 9. | Radio Christiane | |
| 10. | Love is Colder Than Death | |
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Often, supergroups wind up dominated by one particular personality - think Eric Clapton in Derek & the Dominos, Jack White in the Raconteurs -- which makes the egalitarianism of Them Crooked Vultures all the more remarkable. Of course, when it comes down to it, it's a group of three natural-born collaborators: John Paul Jones, the old studio pro who gravitated toward provocative partners after Led Zeppelin's demise, teaming up with R.E.M. as easily as he did with avant-queen Diamanda Galas and nu-folkster Sara Watkins; Dave Grohl, who hopped into an empty drummer's chair whenever the opportunity presented itself; and Josh Homme, who set up a mini-empire based entirely on jam sessions. If Them Crooked Vultures brings to mind Homme's projects more than Grohl's or Jones', it's largely due to his role as lead vocalist and how guitar can push a rhythm section as powerful as this to the side, dominating with its grinding riffs and solos. Homme's predilection for precision does ...
| | Rosanne Cash List CD (2009)
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After the dark and chilling themes of 2006's BLACK CADILLAC, which saw Rosanne Cash dealing with the deaths of her mother, Vivian Liberto, her father, Johnny Cash, and her stepmother, June Carter Cash -- all of whom passed within a two-year span -- one might assume that her next project would move into an even deeper level of bleakness, but with THE LIST, it's immediately clear that she has instead found a more measured place to stand. It's a lovely and redemptive outing that looks back to go forward. When Cash turned 18, her father, alarmed that his daughter only knew the songs that were getting played on the radio, gave her a list of what he considered 100 essential American songs; Cash kept that list, and now she's drawn on it for this wonderfully nuanced outing that brims with a kind of redemptive timelessness. THE LIST is a renewal and a testament to life, and it belongs to her father as much as it belongs to her, a beautiful restatement of her father's passions, only ...
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| | Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: In Concert CDs (1970) With Book; With DVD; Anniversary Edition; Limited Edition
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Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York on November 27-28, 1969.
Returning to the American concert scene after a three-year layoff, the Rolling Stones recorded GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! during a triumphant two-date stand at Madison Square Garden in late November 1969 that found B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner opening for them. Having amassed an impressive recorded output during their three years away from touring, the Stones peppered their sets with hits, including "Honky Tonk Women," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and "Street Fighting Man." Tipping their collective hats to Chuck Berry, the band also included covers of "Carol" and "Little Queenie" alongside more blues-influenced numbers such as "Stray Cat Blues" and "Love In Vain."
Having been a member of John ...
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| | Letsallmakemistakes CDs (2000)
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This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by Matthew Herbert.
Though genius sampler/producer Matthew Herbert is less known for his mixing skills, his first DJ album succeeds on the same terms as his production work: toying with the formula of techno and concocting some seriously entertaining dance music in the meantime. From the beginning, Herbert flaunts his lack of experience by skewering the more perfectionist aspects of dance DJs, talking to himself during the intro: "Now, I must remember/I'm a human, I'm allowed to make mistakes." As for the musical portion of Let's All Make Mistakes, Herbert finds a range of producers in touch with his vision of skittery, frenetic, vaguely organic electro and acid house, calling on names like Si Begg, Mr. Oizo, Isolée, and Nightmares on Wax who share his half-serious outlook on serious dance. Herbert also allies himself with sound architects farther afield, but ones with common links to his minimalist bent and fascination with the music of sound. ...
| | R&B Sessions, Vol. 3 CDs (2006)
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Following the release of the two previous R&B Sessions records, volume three in the series also offers a selection of contemporary R&B from the U.S. and U.K. Because the label claims to want to show the diversity in the 2006 definition of R&B, there is quite a bit of variety between the songs, from hip-hop (Lifesavas' "Fa' Show") to pop anthems (Blu Cantrell's "Hit 'Em Up Style") to funky soul (Soulive and Chaka Khan's "Back Again") to slow jams (D'Nell's "Lace"). There are a fair amount of big names on the record, too (though not always their biggest songs), and though the focus seems to be on music released in the past four years, the second disc in the compilation also includes some big hits from the '90s (when's the last time you've heard "No Diggity," "Pony," and "Whatta Man" on the same mix?), which actually fit pretty nicely with the rest of the album. R&B Sessions, Vol. 3 is definitely not all-encompassing in any sense of the ...
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| | Fifty Foot Hose Cauldron CD (1968) (Import) Limited Edition; Reissue
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In the annals of '60s psychedelia, Fifty Foot Hose is a name that's seldom mentioned. However, the group's lone '60s release CAULDRON, is one of the most visionary slabs of weirdness to emerge from the West Coast during the peace-and-love era. The sound is roughly equivalent to early Jefferson Airplane with Karlheinz Stockhausen sitting in on electronics. Cork Marcheschi operated a sea of homemade electronic instruments, and his background in "serious" electronic music sidesteps any feeling of gimmickry.
Instead, ...
| | I Muvrini Anu Da Vulta-A L'Encre Rouge CD (2008) (Import)
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| | Enemy We'll Live & Die In These Towns CD (2007)
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This powerful 2007 release (the band's debut) was an immediate hit in the U.K., and later all over Europe, based largely on the anthemic first single, "Away from Here." Three other wall-pounding singles followed, capitalizing on the band's penchant for catchy, stirring numbers that owe much to the early Jam, right down to the melodic bass lines, Tom Clarke's Paul Weller-esque vocals, and a running theme of urban alienation and the need to break free.
The Enemy hail from Coventry, home of 2-Tone stars the Specials and the Selecter, but this young trio takes its retro cues instead from the bright and shiny mod pop of the Jam circa All Mod Cons and Setting Sons, adding more than a little Brit-pop vintage swagger à la the Stone Roses and Oasis. Their debut album, We'll Live and Die in These Towns, is isn't an unworthy addition to this long and respectable lineage, but at the same time, the Enemy are one of those bands with the unmistakable whiff of hype about them. Their initial pre-album singles were released on the Stiff Records label, the first new releases on that imprint since it had been shuttered 20 years beforehand, but following that buzz- and cred-building move, they were shifted over to Warner Bros., current holder of the Stiff insignia. Fully seven of this album's 11 tracks have been released as singles (the two best songs on the album, "Had Enough" and "Away from Here," were deserved Top Ten hits in the U.K.), a level of promotional overkill rarely seen since the days of Moby Grape, and the "controversies" that were circulated by the band and label's press agents -- feuds with popular disc jockeys, an incident where the group was banned from a festival, reportedly after setting fire to its trailer -- feel like a deliberate positioning of the relatively mild-mannered band as the new bad boys of rock & roll. (A stint opening for the superannuated Rolling Stones at their 2007 U.K. tour dates has an equally contrived "passing of the torch" feel.) The contrivance and falsity of the hype around the band shouldn't affect the music, but unfortunately, it does, highlighting the false notes in singer/songwriter Tom Clarke's tales of urban anomie, which ring less true than those of, say, Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner (and, crucially, lack his sardonic wit) and pointing out how very much he's copying late-'70s Paul Weller. The title track is an especially ...
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