Looks like another week of thin gruel. Elton John does have a new album, though. Peachtree Road might be worth a listen. His recent albums have been pretty marginal, but this is the guy who wrote "Burn Down the Mission" and "Levon." Plus even just the titles of this have something of the weird creative flavor of classic era Elton.
I feel little but contempt for Shania Twain, as would any fan of country music. After maybe three albums, she's MORE than got enough HUGE STUPID (and I do NOT mean "stupid fresh") hits for a greatest hits album, though.
What with the Ashlee Simpson nonsense, even Britney Spears might start sounding relatively good at this point. I swear I'd be buying her Greatest Hits: My Prerogative before I'd listen to Shania Twain.
I'd also probably rather hear Britney than another album of Linda Rondstadt's pointless covers of Broadway standards. However, Hummin' to Myself is out this week, if anyone is just dying to hear Linda sing "Miss Otis Regrets." At least she's not butchering Elvis Costello.
Soundtrack's out now to the Spongebob movie, featuring among others Wilco, Ween and Motorhead.
Note also a new second greatest hits volume from Toby Keith, featuring "The Angry American" and "Beer for My Horses." I don't care much for his music, but the mere mention of his name seems to inflame the pinkos. That alone makes his album worth a mention. Liberals, just THINK how Toby must be savoring last week's humiliating defeats for the Democrats. Just THINK of it. That bastard.
Here's the complete list of this weeks major new albums, courtesy of AMG:
Elton John Peachtree Road Universal
Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Singer/Songwriter
The Bee Gees Number Ones [Bonus DVD] Polydor
Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary, Disco
Tony Bennett The Art of Romance Sony
Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Ballads, Show Tunes
Vanessa Carlton Harmonium A&M
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Neko Case The Tigers Have Spoken Anti
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Country-Rock
Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard [Deluxe Edition] Polydor
Album Rock, Pop/Rock
The Doobie Brothers Live at Wolf Trap Sanctuary
Boogie Rock, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock
Fabolous Real Talk Elektra
Hardcore Rap, Gangsta Rap
The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane [Expanded] Jetset
New Wave, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock, Jangle Pop
The Go-Betweens Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express [Expanded] Beggars Banquet
Indie Pop, New Wave, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock
Article comments
1 - BRICKLAYER
I shall purchase the NOFX, download some Shania, Britney and Vanessa, curse Mr. Keith, and continue to ponder the question: When will the Cattle Decapitation DVD be released?
2 - Phillip Winn
From "gently weeping" to "screaming and moaning" -- the guitar is versatile indeed!
3 - JR
I will be buying the Queen set, as that looks to have been recorded within days of when I saw them.
Hmmm, "On Fire"; isn't that a synonym for "flaming"?
4 - Tom Johnson
JR, you picked up on the same issue I had with this set - that name just seems so inappropriate. Regardless, I'll be picking this one up this week . . . the DVD is out next week in case anyone is interested.
5 - Eric Olsen
BRitney's amazing mutating breats seems to have shrunk again
6 - The Theory
I like "Harmonium" a lot. And that Neko Case cd should be fantastic. She has one of the best new (compared to, say, Emmylou or Loretta Lynn) female voices in country music.
7 - Bill Sherman
Can't help checking out the expanded Go-Betweens discs: 16 Lovers Lane is part of my personal soundtrack. . .
8 - Shhhh
Have you heard of the World Provider?
Better yeah, better then Brittanys ever changing breasts or 16 Lovers lane! Check out this bio i found plus his latest tours!
World Provider to take on the U.S (well part of it anyway)
Montreal-based The World Provider has humbly described himself as “The World’s Leading Casio Karaoke Striptease Entertainer.” His tunes range from lo-fi keyboard punk to ass-kicking rock anthems, by way of distorted, sped-up folk classics " performed entirely on cheap synthesizers of varying vintages. As for his high-energy, multiple-costumed live shows, one critic perhaps summarized it best when he declared: “anyone who’s seen the balls-out, carnivalesque crooner live knows he doesn’t do anything half-assed.”
The WP is often cited as a member of the International Canadian Jackass cabal (Peaches, Gonzales, Mocky, Taylor Savvy and Feist); the One-Man Band revival (Bob Log III, Quintron, Magas), the Canadian Costumed Casio Entertainer community (Leiderhosen Lucil, Canned Hamm, Just Like the Movies), and most recently the Montreal Synth Punk scene (Les Georges Leningrad, We Are Molecules, Echo Kitty, et al). While the WP has collaborated, performed, and/or simply had a few beers with all of these excellent entertainers, he (perhaps predictably) prefers to think of himself as in a class all his own.
The World Provider has previously released the underground cassette/CDR The Elements of Style (2000) and the limited
edition six-song mini-CD Deep Inside The World Provider (Perfect School, 2003). The official full-length début on Ta-Da! Records dropped earlier this year.
Check : www.theworldprovider.com for more info/mp3's etc...
or contact Jeff Waye/TaDa : tadarecords@yahoo.com
World Provider Tour Dates
Nov. 25
Montreal " Main Hall
Dec. 1
Toronto " Sneaky Dee’s
w/ Ninja High School, The Statutory Apes
Dec. 3
Lansing, IL - Muse Cafe
w/ Duct Tape Mustache
3422 Ridge Road
9 PM
Dec 4
TBA
Dec 5
TBA
Dec. 7
San Marcos, TX - Lucy’s On The Square
w/ Tuna Helpers http://www.thetunahelpers.org
141 E Hopkins
8 PM
Dec. 8
Austin, TX - Beerland
w/ Tuna Helpers and Zom Zoms
Dec. 9
Dallas, TX - Avenue Arts Venue
w/ Tuna Helpers
9 PM
Dec. 10
San Antonio, TX - Sam's Burger Joint
w/ Tuna Helpers
330 E. Grayson
Dec. 11
Denton, TX - JJ's Pizza
w/ Tuna Helpers
9458 Marsh Ln
9 PM
Dec. 13
New Orleans, LA - Circle Bar
1032 St. Charles
Dec 15
Athens, GA
Caledonia Lounge