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Chicago
: :The movie version of Kander and Ebb's Chicago was long in the making, but it's well worth the wait. Director Rob Marshall's main change was to turn the classic musical numbers into fantasy sequences, but of course this isn't obvious on CD. Most importantly, the arrangements are bursting with life while being true to the show's spirit, and the casting is simply inspired. Catherine Zeta-Jones actually started her career on the British boards (she was in The Pajama Game and 42nd Street), so her turn as slinky Velma Kelly isn't that ...
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Greatest Hits
: :David Gray s Greatest Hits, includes two brand new tracks produced by legendary Pink Floyd/Sex Pistols producer Chris Thomas. You re The World To Me and Destroyer mark the acclaimed singer-songwriter s first studio recordings since 2005 s Life In Slow Motion. The compilation is the first to feature songs from Gray s entire recording career, a period that encompasses seven albums, numerous record labels and in excess of 11 million albums sold worldwide.
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White Ladder
: 's Best of 2000:David Gray's glorious fourth record explodes in a wellspring of spacious, electronica-tinged folk-pop. He uses his bright growl of a voice to memorable effect, chewing on vowel sounds while spinning odes to lost love, the resiliency of young hearts, and the pain of experience. Gray's work finds the universality at the heart of folk music and tweaks it just enough to make it relevant for alternative audiences. --Matthew Cooke Amazon.com:English singer-songwriter David Gray recorded his fourth album, White Ladder, at home in 1998 and self-released it after three ...
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White Ladder
: 's Best of 2000:David Gray's glorious fourth record explodes in a wellspring of spacious, electronica-tinged folk-pop. He uses his bright growl of a voice to memorable effect, chewing on vowel sounds while spinning odes to lost love, the resiliency of young hearts, and the pain of experience. Gray's work finds the universality at the heart of folk music and tweaks it just enough to make it relevant for alternative audiences. --Matthew Cooke Amazon.com:English singer-songwriter David Gray recorded his fourth album, White Ladder, at home in 1998 and self-released it after three ...
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Richard Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg [Archive Edition]
from: Chandos
: 's Best of 2000:David Gray's glorious fourth record explodes in a wellspring of spacious, electronica-tinged folk-pop. He uses his bright growl of a voice to memorable effect, chewing on vowel sounds while spinning odes to lost love, the resiliency of young hearts, and the pain of experience. Gray's work finds the universality at the heart of folk music and tweaks it just enough to make it relevant for alternative audiences. --Matthew Cooke Amazon.com:English singer-songwriter David Gray recorded his fourth album, White Ladder, at home in 1998 and self-released it after three ...
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A New Day at Midnight
: :Loss and resilience figure heavily in A New Day at Midnight, David Gray's follow-up to his massively popular breakthrough, White Ladder, in 1999. Gray cloaks his painful subject in the kind of impressive songcraft that has marked his work since 1993's A Century Ends. Still, both Ladder and Midnight add a layer of flash to his dependable formula, as dashes of studio trickery and understated electronics (helped along by songwriting partner Clune) give Gray's wistful lyrics and bittersweet, emotive voice a tough-to-resist freshness. Midnight exploits Gray's singing for maximal effect, as ...
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Classical Wedding
: :Loss and resilience figure heavily in A New Day at Midnight, David Gray's follow-up to his massively popular breakthrough, White Ladder, in 1999. Gray cloaks his painful subject in the kind of impressive songcraft that has marked his work since 1993's A Century Ends. Still, both Ladder and Midnight add a layer of flash to his dependable formula, as dashes of studio trickery and understated electronics (helped along by songwriting partner Clune) give Gray's wistful lyrics and bittersweet, emotive voice a tough-to-resist freshness. Midnight exploits Gray's singing for maximal effect, as ...
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Sell, Sell, Sell
:Album Description:UK compilation featuring a track apiece from each of the nominated artists (including winners) from the BBC Radio 3 2004 show. Artist include, DJ Dolores & Orchestra Santa Massa, Panjabi MC, Mercan Dede Secret Tribe, Daaara J, Oumou Sangare, & many more. 32 tracks. Slipcase. Manteca. 2004.
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Shine: The Best of the Early Years
: :This is not the first collection of David Gray's 'pre-success' recordings, but it is the best one. Unlike many such collections of early works by noted artists, you're not seeing the artist's abilities in their infant state--each of these 15 songs is already great. The Mancunian musician's performing abilities were well developed by the time he first recorded in the early '90s; one might even argue that they sound best in the often stripped-down, more raw state on display here. The songs themselves, however, have definitely matured since Gray hit the ...
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
from: Sony
: :The characters of Daniel Handler's popular children's book series spring to life in this playfully macabre screen adaptation from director Brad Silberling. Contemporary scoring master Thomas Newman may launch the musical proceedings with the brief, Disney-esque flourish of 'The Bad Beginning,' but the sound of a needle being brusquely dragged across that record brings us to the composer's true intent: a teasing romp through occasionally dark, rhythmically charged musical corners. Employing his patent take on post-modern impressionism to a greater degree than he did in Finding Nemo, Newman gives a decidedly ...
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