I'm easily amused and this week I'm amused by the ebb and flow of new release weeks. Last week my cup runneth over. This week I could cancel my flood insurance and sleep peacefully, but I'm here and you're here so best we talk about something.
This week's story is the return of the Widow Cobain. Courtney Love has a new album out and she's dusting off her old moniker for its release. Hole's Nobody's Daughter features none of the other musicians from the band's '90s moniker. While other band members put a little of their personal stamp on the music, Hole was always the C-Love show and it is once again. After years of (mostly) deserved bad press, Nobody's Daughter has gotten some favorable reaction. Does anyone still care? Is anyone still interested in what she has to say, musically? I'm the wrong person to answer that question because I frankly gave nilly a fuck the first time around. I still don't.
Let's see… what else am I not buying this week? Ah, yes, we have The Adventures Of Bobby Ray from B.o.B. I'm passing on this one but a lot of you won't if iTunes sales are to be believed. Maybe I shouldn't pass on it. If you want to know more about the album and B.oB, our own Clayton Perry interviewed him. Do your homework, kids, and make your own call. Clayton also has an interview with Jo Dee Messina, whose new album is also out this week.
We've also got a slew of re-issues this week. Someone decided it's time to churn the Clapton catalog again. His discography has already been remastered. Now bonus tracks are being added to entice you buy. First up are Cream's Disraeli Gears (itself already re-issued in a deluxe package once) and 461 Ocean Blvd. I've got both. I'm saying no here, but they're yours if you want them as is the rest of our list…
Alcoholic Faith Mission
Let This Be The Last Night We
Ali Khan, Masood
The Yoga Sessions: Masood Ali
Alpha Rev
New Morning
Avi Buffalo
Avi Buffalo
B.o.B
B.O.B Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray
Balkan Beat Box
Blue Eyed Black Boy
Big Audio Dynamite
This Is Big Audio Dynamite
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Legend / [Rarities Edition]
Brian Posehn
Fart And Weiner Jokes
Britos, Federico
Voyage
Bullet For My Valnetine
Fever
Canned Heat
Woodstock Homecoming
Continuance
Carry Ourselves
Cosgrove, Miranda
Sparks Fly
Cosgrove, Miranda
Sparks Fly
Cream
Disraeli Gears / [Rarities Edition]
Daddy Yankee
Daddy Yankee Mundial
Datta, Reema
Here's My Heart
Devastations
Devastations
Dodsferd / Mortovatis
Until Your World Go Down
Dolly
Live From London / [Cd/Dvd Combo]
Dolly
9 To 5 – The Musical
Drowning Pool
Drowning Pool
Eric Clapton
461 Ocean Blvd / [Rarities Edition]
Fats Waller
Performance / [2 Cd]
Freddy Fender
Absolutely The Best Of Freddy Fender / [2 Cd]
Frog Eyes
Paul S Tomb: A Triumph
Gannon, Sharon
Sharanam
Gloryland 2: Bluegrass Gospel Classics
Gloryland 2: Bluegrass Gospel Classics
Gogol Bordello
Transcontinetnal Hustle
Hole
Nobody's Daughter
Jacky Terrasson
Push
Jim Brickman
Never Alone / [Cd/Dvd Combo]
Jo Dee Messina
Unmistakable Love
Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights
Pardon Me
Katrina & The Waves
Katrina & The Waves
Katrina & The Waves
Katrina & The Waves 2
King, Carole
The Essential Carole King
Landau, Michael / Robben Ford
Renegade Creation
Lonestar
Party Heard Around The World
Lynyrd Skynyrd
One More From The Road / [Rarities Edition]
Malin, Jesse And The St. Marks
Love It To Life
Marvin Gaye
I Want You / [Rarities Edition]
Mary Chapin Carpenter
The Age Of Miracles
Mcsherry, John
Soma
Meat Loaf
Bat Out Of Hell Ii: Back Into Hell / [Rarities Edition]
Melissa Etheridge
Fearless Love
Mynabirds, The
What We Lose In The Fire We Ga
Newman, David
To Be Home
Osborne, Anders
American Patchwork
P.B.Maa
Unconditional
Peter Frampton
Thank You Mr. Churchill
Piebald
Volume 1 (2cd)
Pipestone
As The Rez Turns – Round Dance
Rew, Kimberly
The Bible Of Bop
Silas Jr., Wayne
Unconditional – Round Dance So
Small Black
Small Black Ep
Something Corporate
Played In Space! The Best Of Something Corporate / [2 Cd]
Sons Of Sylvia
Revelation
Soundtrack
The Commitments / [Rarities Edition]
Taylor, Livingston
Last Alaska Moon
Ten Years After
Now
The Dirty Heads
Any Port In A Storm / [Edited]
The Dirty Heads
Any Port In A Storm / [Special Edition]
Tijoux, Ana
1977
Tort, David
Nervous Nitelife: David Tort
Trashcan Sinatras
In The Music
Two Door Cinema Club
Tourist History
Unnatural Helpers
Cracked Love & Other Drugs
Us From Outside
Inspired By The Threat Of Fail
Various
A Collection Of Kirtan Chant
Various
Bachata #1 2010
Various Artists
Punk Goes Classic Rock
Velvet Underground
Velvet Underground & Nico / [Rarities Edition]
Waves, The
Shock Horror!
White, Emily Jane
Victorian America
Wuthering Heights
Salt
Zinman, David
Mahler: Symphony No. 8