New Album Releases, Week of 10-11-2005 - Page 3

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• 1 - uao

  Oct 10, 2005 at 11:15 pm

  t.A.T.u.'s version of The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now" is a (very, very) guilty pleasure of mine.

• 2 - gypsyman

  Oct 11, 2005 at 7:28 am

  It's official. I'm an old fart. I can say that of all those recordings being, that I've only heard of four, and they were probably all performing before the others were born. Gang of Four were one of my favourite punk/funk groups in the eighties ("To Hell With Poverty" should have been the song I chose to represent me in a movie)Aside from them the other barely even make the contemporary title, Jackson Brown, The imaculate Dolly(who when she's allowed the freedom to what she wants, is wonderfull) and of course Hank, the original Rock and Roll star who burnt out going super nova in the back seat of a Cadie.
  
  I content myself with the fact that none of the young punks today could hold a candle to Hank for integrity and style.

• 3 - Vern Halen

  Oct 11, 2005 at 2:37 pm

  Hank III has his moments too.

• 4 - DJRadiohead

  Oct 11, 2005 at 2:41 pm

  Gypsyman, I feel the same way you do some days. I am sitting here listening to the legendary Otis Rush rather than subject myself to the contemporary crap being passed off as music. Otis. There's integrity and style, too.
  
  Al, you might want to bold type the part about Alicia Keys being defective.
  
  And when did Jackson Browne start carrying the macho bucket? The times they are a-changing.

• 5 - visualsimplicity

  Oct 11, 2005 at 5:05 pm

  Hey, 200 kmph in the Wrong Lane was a pretty good album and upon first listen, Dangerous and Moving seems to be along the same line. Good stuff.

• 6 - The Theory

  Oct 11, 2005 at 5:10 pm

  yeah. i've been listening to Dangerous and Moving for about a week now (but not non-stop... too much good music out there for that)... but it's solid. I don't find it quite as their first one... but i was always more into the Russian version of that, anyway. Wish there was more russian on this cd.
  
  but still. a cd i'm glad to have.

• 7 - visualsimplicity

  Oct 11, 2005 at 5:44 pm

  Yeah, Dangerous and Moving doesn't quite have the same impact as the previous offering but I think it's good enough that they've overcome the cliche of having a sophomore slump. It's a worthy offering. I'm diggin' it.
  
  (And I totally agree with you on the too much good music to listen to at the moment--I'm falling behind on a lot of them!)

• 8 - Viqi French

  Oct 11, 2005 at 7:55 pm

  As hard as I've tried, I'm just not able to get into Alicia Keys to the extent that so many other soul music fans do.
  
  I've tried considering her a musical step-child of Chaka Kahn, then Prince. But my friend has poo-poo'd the notion. "Puh-leeze!" he insists.
  
  I enjoy watching her televised performances, have mucho respect for her writing and accomplishments as a pianist. But vocally, she just doesn't warm me fully up. And how I wish...
  
  But of the rest of your list, I'm interested in what Jackson Browne and Gang of Four are doing. Mildly curious, also, about Ricky Martin. I hope he can recapture the fame. He's really still quite a joy to watch.
  
  Viqi

• 9 - Tan The Man

  Oct 11, 2005 at 7:58 pm

  Gang of Four is cool...

• 10 - BRICKLAYER

  Oct 12, 2005 at 8:50 am

  *scrolling down list*
  "The new TATU?!?!?!?!?!!?"
  *runs into bathroom*
  *2 minutes later*
  *walks slowly and contentedly out of bathroom, with rosy cheeks, and sleepy eyelids, grabs car keys, bullet belt, nunchucks, and pith helmet, proceeds to nearest Best Buy*
  *Bursts into house, rips boombox out of Lil' Brick's hands, opens lid, rips out Teletubbies singalong CD and throws it frisbee-like out window. Slowly, gently and lovingly removes TATU CD from jewel case womb and throws it frisbee-like out window. Removes CD booklet and sprints to bathroom*
  *1 minute later*
  *walks slowly and contentedly out of bathroom, with rosy cheeks, full lips, and slight limp, places Obituary's "Frozen in Time" CD loving and gingerly into boombox*
  *presses play*
  *sits back on pleather recliner, takes sip of half calf/decaf, closes eyes*
  *bangs head*
  

• 11 - Lifesaver

  Oct 20, 2005 at 12:25 am

  t.A.T.u.'s "Dangerous & Moving" is THE PERFECT follow-up to the first platform that t.A.T.u. had the first time around. So they broke free of Ivan Shapovalov, the manager who constructed their lesbian image they were contractually bound to. They COULDN'T EVEN TALK...that's why there were so few interviews & gossip. Now Lena & Yulia finally got the courage to change managers & stick up for their own artistry. (We've all seen this with N'Sync & Mandy Moore who, if they wanted to make it big at first, had to have creative constraints). They've broken free now (& the song Obezyanka Nol shouts how they were "monkeys", or puppets, to Shapovalov).
  This album is all about truth... and FREAKIN AWESOME SONGS. "All About Us" is just that...they're singing about what's real now... NOT an image. They don't need it anymore. It's tired. The video to this song would either make or break their comeback as a pop duo that can stand on their own two feet... and it SURPASSES anything they did before. It's an amazing song. The video shows a more polished t.A.T.u., definitely growing into gorgeous 20-somethings.
  "Loves Me Not" is rip-roaring and catchy. Here, the truth comes out again, this time about a bi-sexual love triangle, and how their relationship was alienated when a guy came into the picture.
  "Friend or Foe" is one of the best songs on the album. It was written very well & Sting plays bass in it. It's the second single & very rightly so.
  "Gomenasai" talks about the fragility of their relationship in real life. Behind all the false images of the past & about the real relationship they've made since they auditioned for the soloist positions in t.A.T.u. as girls. Not many know this, but when Yulia found out she was pregnant, the first person she called was Lena: not her parents, not anyone - Lena. In "Gomenasai" Yulia says she "wanted to call" Lena & ask her "for help/ I stopped myself". These songs on this album are like JOURNALS...it's SO gutsy & REAL.
  "Craving (I Only Want What I Can't Have) grew on me more & more. It's very catchy & chorus driven.
  "Perfect Enemy" is, in my opinion, about many things. 1) Their love/hate relationship. They're Russian. Come on. They have spats. Yulia's a firecracker & is a hot-tempered girl. Lena's more subdued & demure, but whatever tiffs they have, they're back together 5 minutes later. We all do that. This song is about how the person you love gets undoubtedly on your nerves. 2) It's pointed at Shapovalov & how they're no longer under his "domination". 3)Pointed at the audience. A sort of "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman" statement. They've grown up & let them sink into their own right. They need to breathe & just be themselves. They're OUR perfect enemy. The song has a wicked pin-prickly chorus of sounds that dig deep. It grew on me like moss.
  "Dangerous & Moving" is entirely catchy. Not as catchy as "All the Things She Said" or "Not Gonna Get Us", & is a little slower paced, but still has that Industrial/pop fusion that makes their sound hot. It's an awesome way to close the album.
  BUY THIS CD. IT'S NOT ABOUT RUSSIAN PSYCHOLOGIST MASTERMINDS anymore, IT'S ABOUT LENA & YULIA & t.A.T.u.

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