New album releases, week of 10-19-2004
Published October 20, 2004
Jin The Rest Is History Virgin
East Coast Rap
Juvenile Greatest Hits Cash Money
Southern Rap, Dirty South
Ulrich Krieger Walls of Sound II Sub Rosa
Contemporary Chamber Music
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists Shake the Sheets Lookout
Indie Rock
Le Tigre This Island Universal
Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Post-Rock/Experimental
Seymour Lipkin Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas (CD-ROM) Newport Classics
Romantic Piano Music
Mos Def The New Danger Geffen
Hip-Hop, East Coast Rap, Political Rap, Rap-Rock, Alternative Rap
The Music Welcome to the North Capitol
Britpop, Indie Rock
O'Ryan O'Ryan Universal
Urban, Teen Pop, Contemporary R&B
Original Soundtrack Alfie Virgin
Soundtracks, Pop/Rock
TV Original Soundtrack Everwood Nettwerk
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Sick of It All Out-Takes for Outcasts Fat Wreck Chords
Punk Revival
Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill Epitaph
Indie Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Lo-Fi
Rod Stewart Stardust...The Great American Songbook, Vol. 3 J-Records
Adult Contemporary
Various Artists Lif Up Yuh Leg an Trample Astralwerks
Party Soca, Calypso, Soca
Original Soundtrack Ray! [Original Soundtrack] Rhino
R&B, Soul
Various Artists Steal This Record: A Collection of Songs of Protest Koch
Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Folk-Rock, Soul, Psychedelic Pop
Johnny Winter Second Winter [Legacy Edition] Columbia/Legacy
Slide Guitar Blues, Modern Electric Texas Blues, Blues-Rock, Modern Electric Blues, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock, Arena Rock
Serguei Yakovenko Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Songs ECM
Contemporary Vocal Music
- New album releases, week of 10-19-2004
- Published: October 20, 2004
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I got the Mellencamp, 2 CDs @ 13.99 at Best Buy.
It's a nice collection, but you're right, it doesn't have Play Guitar on it! I also noticed it didn't have Big Daddy on there, which I recall getting a bit of radio play.....never really wanted to hear it, until I thought about whether it was on there, and sure enough, it isn't!
I just checked, and Play Guitar wasn't on the last collection either - overall, this looks more complete, with the luxury of having 2 CDs to spread it across - looks like Without Expression, which I think was the "new" tune on the last collection, has been omitted on this collection, so if you have the previous best of, I guess you might want to hang on to it.
Overall, it's nice to have a collection that collects all of the stuff from all of the labels that he has been on - good to see that they spent the money to license the more recent Columbia stuff.
I was going to recommend "Original Soundtrack Alfie," but then I realized that the title was a misnomer.
Does anyone even buy discs anymore? Each artist should just crank out liner notes and cover art and tell you where you can burn it and print the former....
Actually, yes they do still sell a lot of CDs. A couple of weeks ago, Billboard was reporting US CD sales up around 6% versus a year ago.
I absolutely still buy discs. I am a liner notes freak - and printing stuff out just doesn't cut it for me...
ultimately, I want something that is non-MP3 in it's original form....if I choose to make MP3s of it for listening on the go, that is my deal, but I like CDs, no doubt.
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What? No props to Jin, the first Asian American rapper?