New album releases, week of 11-02-2004

There's not a lot of promising looking stuff this week, and I'm frazzled from politicking. There's an album of John Lennon's acoustic demos from the '70s that might be worth a listen.

But there's only one possible choice for a new best-bet album: Team America: World Police Soundtrack. It took every bit of self-discipline for me to refrain from declaring their theme song "America, F*&^ Yeah" to be the official theme song of my just concluded senate campaign.

Here's the complete list of this weeks major new albums, courtesy of AMG:

SOUNDTRACK Team America: World Police Atlantic

John Lennon Acoustic Capitol
Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter

A Perfect Circle Emotive Virgin
Alternative Metal, Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Grunge

AFI AFI NIT
Emo, Punk-Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock

Beth Nielsen Chapman Hymns Emergent / 92e
Hymns, Latin Gospel, Inspirational

Chicks on Speed 99 Cents & Remixes Chicks on Speed
Electronica, Indie Rock, Club/Dance, Synth Pop, Indie Electronic

William Christie Handel: Serse Virgin Classics
Baroque Opera

Bill Cosby Fat Albert MCA
Standup Comedy

Jesse Ed Davis Jesse Davis/Ululu Wounded Bird
Roots Rock, Rock & Roll, Album Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Country-Rock, Blues-Rock

Iris DeMent Lifeline Flariella
Hymns, Country Gospel, Traditional Gospel, Southern Gospel

Eric Dolphy Complete Recordings Lonehill Jazz
Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde, Bop

Steve Earle Live From Austin TX New West
Heartland Rock, Americana, New Traditionalist, Roots Rock, Singer/Songwriter

Flat Earth Society Isms Ipecac
Progressive Big Band, Experimental Big Band, Big Band, Jazz-Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz, Avant-Prog

Grandaddy Artist's Choice: Below the Radio Ultra
Indie Pop

Bernard Haitink Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 and Other Orchestral Works EMI Classics
Post-Romantic Orchestral Music

Ronny Jordan After 8 Encoded Music
Contemporary Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Crossover Jazz

Robert Earl Keen, Jr. Live from Austin TX New West
Americana, Alternative Country, Progressive Country

John Lennon Rock 'n' Roll [Bonus Tracks] Capitol
Album Rock, Pop/Rock, Rock & Roll

Live
Awake: The Best of Live [CD & DVD]
Geffen
Post-Grunge, Alternative Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

The Minus 5 At the Organ Yep Roc
Pop Underground, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

Original Soundtrack The Polar Express Warner Brothers
Carols, Soundtracks, Christmas, Original Score, Film Music

The Panoply Academy Everything Here Was Built to Break Secretly Canadian
Post-Hardcore, Math Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Punk

The Rolling Stones Live Licks Virgin
Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, Album Rock

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players Kui Dong: Pangu's Song New World
Contemporary Chamber Music

Shannon Let the Music Play: The Best of Shannon Sony
Club/Dance, Urban, Electro, Freestyle, Hi-NRG

Shesus Ruined It for You [EP] Narnack
Indie Rock

Susan Tedeschi Live From Austin TX New West
Roots Rock, Modern Electric Blues, R&B, Contemporary Blues

Thievery Corporation Babylon Rewound ESL
Electronica, Acid Jazz, Club/Dance

Train Alive at Last Sony
American Trad Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

Travis Singles Epic
British Trad Rock, Britpop, Post-Grunge, Alternative Pop/Rock

Twista Kamikaze [Bonus Remixes] Atlantic
Gangsta Rap

Voodoo Glow Skulls Adiccion, Tradicion, Revolucion Victory
Ska-Punk, Third Wave Ska Revival

Al Wilson Show & Tell: The Best Of Fuel 2000
Soul, Smooth Soul, Urban

Darryl Worley Darryl Worley Dreamworks
Contemporary Country, Country-Pop

Wovenhand Consider the Birds Sounds Familyre
Folk-Rock, Experimental Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Alternative Country-Rock

Ying Yang Twins My Brother & Me [Bonus DVD] TVT
Party Rap, Southern Rap, Dirty South

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