Woo doggies, but it's hardcore grrrrrrrrrl power this week in new releases. For starters, Sinead O'Connor has an album of reggae covers called Throw Down Your Arms recorded with Sly and Robbie. Sinead's obviously a high album to hear. The wicked Monkey flings poo in my ear to mock my devotion to Sinead. Still, this is sounding like a pretty good album.
Yet even higher to hear than Sinead, Fiona Apple and her new Extraordinary Machine. I get murky with the back story, but she recorded a whole album by this name and discarded it. This has been one of the top listening items of the year, the reason God made P2P- and I'll be right curious to see what she thinks is better than what she's tossed aside. It appears to have recordings of maybe half the songs from the bootleg. In any case, this is her third album, and first in about six years.
Liable to get lost in the shuffle, Liz Phair also has a new album this week, Somebody's Miracle.
Also in way of girl power, a Melissa Etheridge Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled.
The most powerful girl though, the greatest diva in the world, Celine Dion has a new album, On Ne Change Pas.
Looming over all the girl power though, Rhino has a fancy box set of 60s girl group stuff, One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found with the Shirelles and Motown and such- but no Phil Spector stuff. That's a whole separate universe though, and this just looks like the stuff. You want to get a young girl off of ignorant Ashlee Simpson and Britney albums and listening to real music? Here's the Christmas present.
Representing for the testosterone wielders, note new compilations from Frank Sinatra and Snoop Dogg. Frank Sinatra/Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra have The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Priority is puting out The Best of Snoop Dogg.
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1 - Tan The Man
A lot of good stuff coming in...
Broken Social Scene
Franz...
Fiona's new one will finally see the "official" light of day
2 - Shark
The Sinatra/Dorsey compilation should be worthwhile: two of the greatest in their fields.
A great intro for the neophyte interested in finding out what made Sinatra AND Big Bands appealing.
3 - BRICKLAYER
*scrolling down list...*
"The Master P Greatest Hits Collection?!?!?!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!"
*grabs car keys, codpiece, and keychain mace, bursts out door on way to nearest Walmart*
*bursts back into house, grabs boombox out of Lil' Brick's popsicle stained hands, opens lid, rips out Regis Philbin Christmas cd, throws it against the wall, shattering it into thousands of glistening,Merry pieces, lovingly removes Master P Greatest hits collection from jewel case womb, places it into boom box and presses play...crosses arms, cocks head to left, yells to Lil' Brick "Shorty, get my gun"...Lil' Brick returns with semi-automatic, fully loaded, home protection device*
"Where's my dogs at?"
*mini pinscher scuttles into room, sliding across hardwood floor, comes to shuddering halt against wall*
"MAKE 'EM SAY UUUUUUUNNNNNNNGGGGHHHHHHHH!"
*fires semi automatic weapon into ceiling, falls to knees, stares into thousands of broken pieces of Regis Philbin's Christmas cd, catches own crazed reflection, and pauses, stares through hole in roof up into the heavens, and beseeches from God...*
"Whuuuuurs myyyyyyy homies aaaaaaat?"
*single, lone tear rolls down cheek, falls onto tofutti fudgesicle stained carpet*
4 - vern halen
Chris Issak Christmas? Can't do it - Dwight Yoakam's "Santa Can't Stay" ruined new Christmas tunes forever after.
5 - Mark Saleski
c'mon vern, that's certainly better than, say, a Coldplay christmas record...yes?
6 - DJRadiohead
I am going to have to check out the Fiona record. Maybe we have another "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" here. The stories between the two albums share some similarities.
7 - Mark Saleski
i have to get the Fiona record just to compare it to the bootleg (which i may or may not have downloaded...)
8 - DJRadiohead
I was tempted to download the bootlegs for the same reason. As I understand it, one or two songs will be identical while others have been re-worked. You will have to give us a side-by-side review.
9 - Mark Saleski
i just might do that.
it'd be interesting to know what the real story was. i mean, i read that she was unhappy with what Brion did...which, given what i've heard, i find very hard to believe.
10 - vern halen
Coldplay Christmas? Can't even begin to imagine that one.....
11 - vern halen
Oh, I forgot - International Noise Conspiracy - I think Rick Rubin produced this new album. Maybe he'll get them to downplay their socialism through art agenda (is there such a thing?). You'd think someone would've told them by now that rock 'n' roll is more about Lennon than Lenin.
12 - godoggo
I wonder what that Andrew Hill is like? He's really one of the greats. Some of his stuff is kind like of Miles's '60s quintet with Monk on piano.
13 - visualsimplicity
Come on Bricklayer, how can you have a single, lone tear roll down your cheek, falling onto a tofutti fudgesicle stained carpet without having picked up the new Nickelback album too?
14 - sinead_celine
i love sinead's newest cd!!!
and here's a recent video of celine singing "pour que tu m'aime encore" in france. mediocre quality, but still she looked so good!!!!
http://rapidshare.de/files/6022236/PQTMAE_STARAC2k5.avi.html
15 - oinks
Fransz Ferdinand is bomb, and do you want to is bomb, i need to get to the store sooon