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Hallowed Ground
(1984)
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Violent Femmes
After the surprise success of their landmark debut, Violent Femmes could have just released another collection of teen-rage punk songs disguised as folk, and coasted into the modern rock spotlight alongside contemporaries like the Modern Lovers and Talking Heads. Instead they made Hallowed Ground, a hellfire-and-brimstone-beaten exorcism that both ...
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George Strait
(2000)
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George Strait
George Strait continues his foray into the neo-traditionalist country style that he helped to pioneer on his 24th album, the simply titled George Strait. His voice has deepened over the years but he sounds just as alive as he did on his 1981 debut, and his songs hold just as much pain. The stark "If It's Gonna Rain" and the rich "She Took the Wind ...
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Gold [Geffen]
(2005)
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Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond 's Gold is the kind of release that makes you wonder exactly who it is aimed at and -- more importantly for the label -- who will buy it. Too long to be the kind of quick overview of his years (1968-1972) with MCA that casual fans would want (and which already exists in 1999's The Neil Diamond Collection), it is also bereft of ...
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My Life
(2006)
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Ronnie Milsap
Prior to 2006's My Life, Ronnie Milsap had not made an album of new material for a major label in years. The last was True Believer, recorded for Liberty in 1993, which followed Back to the Grindstone, his parting of ways with RCA Records, by two years. Over that decade-and-a-half, Milsap wasn't exactly inactive -- he continued to play shows and ...
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Life [Original Soundtrack]
(1999)
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Original Soundtrack
Since Life stars Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, it shouldn't be surprising that its soundtrack is a collection of hip-hop and urban soul. It may be a little disingenuous, since the film is set in the depression, but a collection of hot dance music isn't going to sell records. That said, Music Inspired by the Motion Picture "Life" (the "inspired ...
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The Barbra Streisand Album
(1963)
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Barbra Streisand
Of course, the first thing that strikes you listening to the first Barbra Streisand album, recorded and released before the singer's 21st birthday, is that great voice. And it isn't just the sheer quality of the voice, its purity and its strength throughout its register, it's also the mastery of vocal effects that produce dramatic readings of the ...
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Book of Lightning
(2007)
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The Waterboys
Mike Scott recorded his ninth Waterboys record live in the studio, bringing along some old friends and re-igniting a fire that had been burning awfully low since 2003's deeply introspective and inconsistent Universal Hall. Opening with Book of Lightning's finest four minutes, the gorgeous "Crash of Angel's Wings," fueled by the instantly ...
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Kidults
(2001)
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Mandy Patinkin
Many recording artists who make children's albums shade them at least a little toward the parents, but Mandy Patinkin has made that tendency explicit starting with the title of Kidults. As on his previous albums, he borrows mostly from Broadway for material, but he is also trying to find songs for late baby boomers as well as babies, with mixed ...
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Forever Neil Diamond [Box Set]
(2006)
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Neil Diamond
While Madacy issues some pretty dodgy compilations, this three-disc set is simply the reissue of three pre-Columbia-period Neil Diamond recordings: Stones, Moods, and Touching You, Touching Me from his Uni period. There are as many covers as originals on these recordings, but as albums they all work -- and well. As is usual with Madacy, the cover ...
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Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
(2003)
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Do Make Say Think
Montreal's Godspeed You Black Emperor! may get most of the press south of the 49th parallel, but their labelmates Do Make Say Think are more than Toronto's answer to the Quebecois collective; over the course of four albums, their own brand of instrumental post-rock has grown in scope and complexity to a point that 2003's Winter Hymn Country Hymn ...
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Look at Us
(1965)
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Sonny & Cher
For their first album-length excursion in the wake of "I Got You Babe," Sonny & Cher don't tread too far outside the influence of Phil Spector, including covers of "Unchained Melody," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Why Don't They Let Us Fall in Love," of which the latter shows off the most appealing elements of each singers' voice. "It's Gonna Rain," ...
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Queer for the Ear, Vol. 2
(2005)
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Various Artists
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Together Again for the First Time
(2006)
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Mel Tormé & Buddy Rich
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Legends [Sony/BMG]
(2005)
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Nina Simone
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Chirpin'
(1977)
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The Persuasions
After two ill-advised albums for A&M with instruments, The Persuasions returned to their a cappella roots. No longer popular enough to chart, the music was in no way diminished. Highlights include a swinging version of the gospel standard "It's Gonna Rain" and a dramatic reading of Tony Joe White's "Willie and Laura Mae Jones." Rob Bowman, All ...
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Anthology
(2003)
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Bobby Womack
A repackaging of 1993's Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Collection, Anthology -- released by Capitol's The Right Stuff subsidiary in 2003 -- is an excellent overview (cheapo identikit design aside) that features just about every significant moment of Womack's most productive years. All his biggest hits, including "Lookin' for a Love," "Woman's ...
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The Fantasticks [1960 Original Off Broadway Cast]
(1960)
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Original Off Broadway Cast
On June 13, 1960, MGM Records made a recording of an off-Broadway musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt called The Fantasticks. At the time, the production was struggling to stay alive, and producer Lore Noto thought a cast recording might help generate more interest and some extra revenue. Since then, The Fantasticks has become a veritable Rock ...
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The Definitive Greatest Hits
(2005)
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Andraé Crouch
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Forever More
(2006)
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Neil Diamond
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If I Were a Carpenter/Inside Out [Remastered]
(2007)
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Bobby Darin
This combines both of the albums from Bobby Darin's brief folk-rock phase onto one CD, with the addition of five bonus tracks. Darin has been praised by some critics for his courage in moving to folk-rock in late 1966, at a time when his core audience would probably have been much happier if he'd continued to be the all-around mainstream pop ...
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Gospel's Top 20 Songs of the Century
(2001)
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Various Artists
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Freestyle Explosion, Vol. 1-5
(2000)
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Various Artists
Thump's Freestyle Explosion compilation series was an excellent, definitive overview of the Latin-influenced dance-pop style born and bred in the clubs of Miami. Thump repackaged all five volumes of the series into a limited-edition slipcased box set, giving devoted freestyle fans a handy way to pick them all up at once. While some of the artists ...
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Natural Woman/Is That All There Is?
(2003)
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Peggy Lee
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Time Between the Time
(1993)
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Laurie Beechman
On her 1990 debut album Listen to My Heart, Laurie Beechman, best known for her roles in Broadway shows like Cats and Les Miserables, predictably performed her songs from those shows along with a selection of other show music. Three years later, her second album, Time Between the Time again chose primarily from theater and film songs, but it had ...
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Rick's Rarities 1964-1974
(2004)
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Rick Nelson
It's true that Rick's Rarities is a vault-scraping exercise. The 23 tracks are about evenly divided between previously unreleased material on the one hand, and various items from non-LP singles and obscure soundtrack and compilation albums that haven't been on CD before on the other. It's not bad, though, even if it's not on the level of the best ...
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