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In Between Dreams
:Album Description:UK special edition of Jack Johnson's 2005 album adds one live bonus track 'Mudfootball' (featuring Donavon Frankenreiter & G Love). Universal. :For a man who gets his biggest kicks surfing the waves and strumming his guitar on a lonely beach in native Hawaii, singer-songwriter Jack Johnson has carved out quite a remarkable career on the mainland. His 2003 album, On and On, debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200 and subsequently went platinum on the back ...
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On and On
:Album Description:Japanese pressing limited edition price for Jack Johnson's 2003 album adds one bonus track. 17 tracks. Def Jam. :Jack Johnson has found himself a groove. Indeed, the Hawaiian surfing champion turned alternative pop-folk star really hasn't changed things one iota for his sophomore release. Fans of Brushfire Fairytales should be delighted with the results. The groove is a mellow one--most of the 16 tracks here are semi-acoustic--and that easy-going spirit filters into Johnson's lyrical philosophies. 'What will ...
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Brushfire Fairytales
:Album Description:Features a guest appearance from Ben Harper. :Fans of Willy Porter, Ben Harper, and G. Love will all want to check out Jack Johnson's engaging folk- and blues-inflected pop. Born in Oahu, Hawaii, Johnson, a former surfer and film-school graduate, has a knack for acoustic ballads whose calm surfaces hide a subtle but strong lyrical undertow. 'It seems to me that 'maybe' pretty much always means 'no,'' sings Johnson on 'Flake,' which features crony Harper on slide ...
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Grace
: :Resembling at times a soft-sung Robert Plant, Buckley was an intuitive vocalist capable of dizzying arabesques and choir-boy sweetness. He is joined here by a tight band for 10 tracks highlighting his stylistic range--Pearl Jam bluesy on 'Eternal Life,' impossibly serene on Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah,' art-school noisy on 'So Real,' Led Zep daring on 'Mojo Pin.' Unorthodox, this was the debut of '94. --Jeff Bateman
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Pieces of You
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: JEWELTitle: PIECES OF YOUStreet Release Date: 02/28/1995DomesticGenre: ROCK/POP :Jewel's debut album, Pieces of You, reveals a special voice--strong and focused on both the whispery verses and the hooky choruses. The recording also exposes an unfortunate tendency to present trite, hackneyed sentiments as if they were oracular visions from a young prophet to a jaded world. For the most part, Jewel sings to her own acoustic guitar accompaniment, but she ...
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Tidal
: :Tidal is the debut album by Fiona Apple, a New York singer-songwriter-pianist who was 18 years old at the time of its 1996 release. Apple is obviously talented--she has a dark, smoky alto and a knack for an arresting turn of phrase--but she's still several years away from realizing her potential. For every fresh lyric she writes ('Daddy longlegs, I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you'), she provides two examples of ...
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The Covers Record
: :Chan Marshall devised the Cat Power moniker in order to put a degree of separation between herself and the often-twisted individuals who inhabit her songs. Here, she takes another step back while also taking a step forward. As the album title indicates, these are covers of other people's songs. Yet she sings them with no less intensity than if they were her own. Mick Jagger may have snarled the definitive '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction,' but Marshall takes ...
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Little Earthquakes
: :Emotionally and musically intense, Little Earthquakes shows that the piano is as much a rock & roll instrument as the guitar. Tori Amos's debut (if one disregards Y Kant Tori Read, as one would be well advised to do) is at once listenable and challenging; she takes on every topic, from sex to gender to religion, in an uncompromising manner. Her music appears gentle at first, but this appearance is deceiving, as one quickly learns upon listening to ...
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XO
:Album Description:Japanese version featuring a bonus track: 'Miss Misery'. 's Best of 1998:Elliott Smith's fourth solo album and major-label debut, XO, brings narrative detail and a wide range of emotion to an indie meld of '60s-style rock and folk-pop. Whether in the broken stateliness of 'Waltz #2 (XO),' the Sgt. Pepper tribute of 'Baby Britain,' or the explosions of 'Amity' and 'Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands,' Smith's melodic and arrangement senses give his vulnerable vocals and brilliant wordcraft the ...
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Fight for Your Mind
: : Ben Harper Photos More from Ben Harper Diamonds on the Inside Both Sides of the Gun Welcome to the Cruel World Live From Mars The Will to Live Live at the Hollywood Bowl
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