Here is the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Annie Anniemal 679
Alternative Dance, Dance-Pop
The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business A&M
Party Rap, Pop-Rap, Club/Dance, Hip-Hop
Coldplay X&Y EMI
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Britpop, Alternative Pop/Rock
Shakira Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1 Sony
Latin Pop, Dance-Pop, Club/Dance, Urban, Adult Contemporary
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan V2
Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Going Places [Deluxe Edition] Shout Factory
Jazz-Pop, Pop, Instrumental Pop
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass S.R.O. [Deluxe Edition] Shout Factory
Jazz-Pop, Pop, Instrumental Pop
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass What Now My Love [Deluxe Edition] Shout Factory
Jazz-Pop, Pop, Instrumental Pop
Paul Anka Rock Swings Verve
Vocal Pop, Vocal Jazz
The Aquabats Charge!! NIT
Ska-Punk, Third Wave Ska Revival
Arditti String Quartet Ades: Piano Quintet; Schubert: "Trout Quintet" EMI Classics
Contemporary and Romantic Chamber Music
The Atomic Bitchwax Atomic Bitchwax III Meteor City
Stoner Metal, Hard Rock, Alternative Metal
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil Warner Brothers
Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, Post-Hardcore, Emo
Pat Benatar Greatest Hits Capitol
Arena Rock, Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Hard Rock
Terence Blanchard Flow Blue Note
Post-Bop, Crossover Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Funk
Junior Brown Greatest Hits Curb
Neo-Traditionalist Country, Honky Tonk, Americana, Alternative Country
Cardinal Cardinal Flydaddy
Indie Pop, Chamber Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
Beth Nielsen Chapman Look Sanctuary
Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Country
DJ Shadow Endtroducing... [Deluxe Edition] Island
Underground Rap, Electronica, Ambient Breakbeat, Trip-Hop, Hip-Hop
Death by Stereo Death for Life Epitaph
Punk Metal, Post-Hardcore
John Denver Rhymes & Reasons [Bonus Tracks] BMG Heritage
Folk-Rock, Soft Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Dream Theater Octavarium Atlantic
Neo-Prog, Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal
Article comments
1 - Marc Moss
Thank you for alerting us to all of the new album releases. I'm particulary excited by Gomez, The Aquabats, and The White Stropes. White Stripes, even though their promo single that we received @ the radio station where I work featured the horrible Comic Sans MS font on the disc itself.
That font should be destroyed.
2 - Mark Saleski
...do they have even ONE real song somewhere?
yes. please turn up your hearing aid.
3 - JR
Junior Brown has a best-of album. It doesn't have everything on it that I'd like, but that'd end up basically being a boxed set of everything he's recorded. If you don't have "Highway Patrol" or "My Wife Thinks You're Dead," then you need this.
Why? You could get them both on Guit With It, while you're saving up to buy the rest of his albums. So far as I can see, this Best Of has nothing new on it.
4 - Tom Johnson
I'm with Al on Black Eyed Peas. I can't stand 'em. They're one of the bands that, given the choice, I'd happily have wiped off the face of the earth. When they sing "get stupid," they sure got that right. Stupid and terrible. And now featured in seemingly every sporting event broadcast on TV. It is simply inescapable, and is absolutely one of the worst songs I've ever heard. Oh the humanities!
5 - BRICKLAYER
But that Fergie is a LOOKER!
6 - Tom Johnson
Fergie has a nice body. The face, however, is nasty. NAAASSSTY.
7 - Eric Olsen
I love the Black Eyed Peas. Songs aplenty.
8 - Al Barger
Black Eyed Peas fans, please tell me what are the memorable songs that they've made? What are the future standards that will be being played and covered by others 20 years down the line? Where's their "Shop Around" or "Purple Haze" or "Kiss"? I'm not hearing any.
JR, I appreciate your point about buying all the Junior Brown albums, but there are about half a dozen. If you're going to just get ONE, this would probably make a really good little father's day item.
9 - Sobriquet Magazine
When I first heard that "Where's the Love?" song, I thought it was a parody of horribly musicianship. I only wish it was.
10 - Sobriquet Magazine
And by "horribly musicianship," I mean "horrible musicianship"...
Anyway, I just can't grasp the Black Eyed Peas. I just don't hear what makes them good. I mean, I understood why people liked Outkast, but I just don't get "Where is the Love?" and the rest of the BEP ouevre.
11 - Phillip Winn
Erik G, I'm not sure I'd advertise my personal failings quite so prominently as you do, but I suppose you're just more honest than I am. Don't worry, we won't think any less of you for failing to recognize the things that make BEP so favored by so many of us. :-)
Al, none that you would recognize as memorable, of course, so what's the point in asking? For most people, however, both Where Is The Love? and Let's Get Retarded will echo around the mind for years to come.
The new album is pretty good, by the way. Not quite as stand-up as Elephunk, but it has some strong tracks.
12 - Phillip Winn
That darned Shakira album is itching my ears quite a bit. I'm tempted to buy it, though I comprende no espanol.