Let me get this out of the way: it’s GROUNDHOG DAY! Thank you, Bill.
It is the Groundhog Day edition of the New Album Releases and we pick up where we left off last week with some big names releasing some albums.
Joe Satriani
Live in Paris: I Just Wanna Rock
We start this week with a release from an artist near and dear to my heart. I’ve been listening to Satch for more than half my life and I own every CD he’s released. I’ve bought three different editions of Surfing With The Alien. I’m devoted. I’m obsessed. I’m… conflicted.
I have Live in San Francisco. I have Satriani Live. I’m having trouble convincing myself I need a third double-live album. The set list has many songs repeated across those first two live records (in addition to the live disc included as part of the Time Machine set). Buying this will feel a little like Groundhog Day for me, but I might be too co-dependent to skip a Satch release. He and I are boys. We’ve been together a long time. I might have to double down on this whether I need it or not. Feel free to advise and/or ridicule me in the comments below…
Nick Jonas & The Administration
Who I Am
I don’t really know what to say about this other than I feel an obligation to mention it. The Jonas Brothers are reasonably insipid and I imagine Nick’s record will be, as well. I am thankful the Jonas twerps have fallen out of favor with my nieces.
Lil Wayne
Rebirth
Lil Wayne is about to get fitted for a jump…suit. I might have bought this if he’d have at least had some integrity and truth in advertising and named the album Legal Fees or Legal Defense Fund.
With that, I turn you over to the full list.
Nick Jonas & the Administration
Who I Am
Lil Wayne
Rebirth
Midlake
The Courage of Others
The Album Leaf
A Chorus of Storytellers
Attitude Adjustment
The Collection
Emanuel Ax
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios
BT
These Hopeful Machines
Zuill Bailey
Bach: Cello Suites
Franklin Cox
The New Cello, Vol. 1
Carl Craig
The Album Formerly Known As…
Al Kent
Disco Love: Rare Disco & Soul Uncovered
Glossary
Feral Fire
Ma'alot Quintet
Rossini: Harmoniemusik for Wind Quintet
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Rarities Edition: Legend
Mighty Baby
Tasting the Life: Live 1971
Thomas Quasthoff
The Best Of Thomas Quasthoff
Madlib
Madlib Medicine Show No. 1: Before the Verdict
Ziggy Marley
Let's Go Back…Way Back, Vol. 1: Dancehall Originators
Original Soundtrack
Shutter Island [Music from the Motion Picture]
Pierced Arrows
Descending Shadows
Priestess
Prior to the Fire
Joe Satriani
Live in Paris: I Just Wanna Rock
Scuba
Sub:stance
The Soft Pack
The Soft Pack
Sourpatch
Crushin
Toro y Moi
Causers of This
The Units
History of the Units: The Early Years: 1977-1983
Various Artists
High All the Time, Vol. 2
Various Artists
Maximum Prog: 16 Rare Gems from the Golden Age of British Progressive Rock
Various Artists
Next Stop… Soweto
Various Artists
Nigeria Afrobeat Special
Various Artists
Pop Ambient 2010
Various Artists
The Psychedelic Salvage Company, Vols. 1-2
Wakey! Wakey!
Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said the Last Time I Saw You…
Whitefield Brothers
Earthology
George Winston
Love Will Come: The Music of Vince Guaraldi, Vol. 2
Rob Zombie
Hellbilly Deluxe 2