Nicole Kidman playing a singing prostitute? Ewan McGregor channeling the Police? If the soundtrack to director Baz Luhrmann’s freakish musical Moulin Rouge has its way, we’ll all be wearing corsets and swinging from the ceiling while the former Mrs. Tom Cruise becomes our favorite new pop sensation. As daring as Luhrmann himself, the compositions test [...]
Sade’s brand of elegant pop/R&B owned the charts in the ’80s, making the Nigerian/British chanteuse one of those artists whose very name becomes the adjective to describe their sound. After an eight-year layoff, Sade and her core band (and longtime producer Mike Pela) are back with a CD that is both a stunning reaffirmation of [...]
Culled from the Columbia Records reissue packages, variously released under the multivolume Quintessential Billie Holiday umbrella, this package goes straight for the love songs, the heart of Holiday. Ranging from such playful lyrics as “Let’s Do It” and “Them There Eyes” to such essential Holiday as “You Go to My Head,” “The Very Thought of [...]
Includes 28 page Booklet Photos and Lyrics …CD 1: 1.Yesterday . 2.I’ll Follow The Sun . 3.I Need You (Harrison) . 4.Girl . 5.In My Life . 6.Words Of Love (Holly) . 7.Here, There, And Everywhere . 8.Something (Harrison) . 9.And I Love Her . 10.If I Fell . 11.I’ll Be Back . 12.Tell Me [...]
One of contemporary music’s premiere vocalists, Al Jarreau is the only singer ever to win GRAMMY® Awards in three distinct genre categories-R&B, pop, and jazz-a testament to his remarkable and enduring cross-over appeal. Jarreau’s most recent GRAMMY came at the 2007 ceremony, when he was honored with Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. With many of [...]
2008 UK compilation from the hit Country trio. Rascal Flatts is one of the most consistently awarded music acts in history. This collection shows the accumulated success of their studio albums of their incredible career. Rascal Flatts find themselves firmly atop the music world. Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney have scaled unbelievable [...]
This revamped version of the Carpenters’ two original Singles LPs may, despite the absence of some Top 40 charters, stand as the definitive single-CD collection of the duo’s hits. Included are most of the reasons Karen Carpenter’s bring-the-pain vocals are still revered by thrift-shopping college kids and their moms alike. Despite the act’s squeaky-clean image, Karen [...]
It begins with a twittering of birdsong lifted from “Across the Universe.” And once the triple-tracked a capella harmonies of “Because” enter, followed by snatches from “A Hard Day’s Night” and “The End,” leading into a fired-up “Get Back,” it becomes obvious that this is far more than just another Beatles compilation. This is Love, [...]
After a career spent tearing down the world with horror and disgust, Nick Cave finally sounds ready to start rebuilding from scratch. He’s begun to find a quiet grace, and perhaps even beauty, past all the darkness that’s long consumed him. Amid the ashes of a world unable to exorcise its demons, Cave actually finds [...]
