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Simply Red - Greatest Hits
:Album Details:Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track. :Pop-soulful in an archaic, '60s manner; mildly provocative at the time of their appearance due to singer Mick Hucknall's uncloseted status; Simply Red are global superstars masquerading as an urban sophisticate cult item. Fans from the U.K. and other countries already know this. But in the States we don't quite believe that a group like this can be suave without being cheesy. America, here's your proof once again: the No. 1 smashes 'Holding Back the Years' and 'If You ...
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Justified
: :Common wisdom holds that debut albums have an autobiographical slant, so it's hard to believe that Justin Timberlake's first non-'N Sync outing doesn't purloin much of its subject matter from the singer's breakup with Britney Spears. Half the songs are about the abrupt severing of a romance and the singer's rather hard-hearted stance. Sure, he may have been the wronged party, but that doesn't excuse the inflexible emotional posture revealed in 'Cry Me a River,' 'Never Again,' and the sniping 'Last Night.' But Timberlake apparently thinks ...
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Mothership Connection
: :Common wisdom holds that debut albums have an autobiographical slant, so it's hard to believe that Justin Timberlake's first non-'N Sync outing doesn't purloin much of its subject matter from the singer's breakup with Britney Spears. Half the songs are about the abrupt severing of a romance and the singer's rather hard-hearted stance. Sure, he may have been the wronged party, but that doesn't excuse the inflexible emotional posture revealed in 'Cry Me a River,' 'Never Again,' and the sniping 'Last Night.' But Timberlake apparently thinks ...
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A Girl Like Me
: :With A Girl Like Me, the Barbadian teen-queen Rihanna is looking to transfer all claims of royalty to the summertime pop charts. If anybody's going to rule them, she pretty much proclaims by way of 'SOS,' a song no less irresistible, intoxicating, and all-out cool than 2005's 'Pon de Replay,' off her debut, she's it. That's not to say this new disc is anything like its predecessor overall. Where Music of the Sun was mostly what its title suggests--a romp through an anglo-friendly island with no ...
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Merry Christmas
:Album Description:Limited edition Japanese reissue of the 1994 Christmas album includes a bonus DVD (NTSC/Region 2). SME. 2005. :She's been hailed for her multi-octave vocal range--a tool that sometimes detracts from her pop recordings, but actually works quite beautifully in the context of this charming holiday collection. Fans will surely approve of Carey's renditions of slinky secular songs like 'Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)' and a nicely subdued 'All I Want for Christmas Is You.' But where she really surprises is in her unadorned delivery of ...
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Thought So...
: :The venerable Nightmares On Wax return with ''Thought So...,'' a sun-drenched collection of dub and heavy drums arriving just in time to wrap up summer madness. After paving the way for soul-minded beat-smiths like Madlib and Flying Lotus, this latest LP is another important step in an already iconic career. Buoyant and supremely catchy, ''Thought So...'' is another skillful combo of advanced production and vintage groove. In short, the record gives fans everything they have come to expect from Nightmares On Wax.
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Now
: 's Best of 2001:Three years after the scattered Embrya, new-soul prodigy Maxwell returns with Now, his most fully realized disc yet. While not as ambitious as D'Angelo or just plain flippin'-off-the-wall as Macy Gray, the singer-songwriter does claim a stance: acoustic-guitar-based, near-tone poems ('Sympton Unknown') and Kate Bush covers ('This Woman's Work') are hardly the stuff of your average pop-R&B love man. Maxwell's lush thickets of overdubbed vocals could stand as a fine listen on their own; the varied textures of the instrumental tracks make the ...
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In the Pocket
:Album Description:2008 WEA Flashback reissue of the 1976 album, In the Pocket which was the seventh album for singer-songwriter James Taylor. It contains the hit 'Shower the People', one of Taylor's classic compositions, which climbed to number 22 on the Billboard charts on September 18, 1976. The song 'Shower the People' was later covered by country music band 4 Runner on their 2003 album Getaway Car. 12 tracks.
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Silk Degrees
:Album Description:2008 WEA Flashback reissue of the 1976 album, In the Pocket which was the seventh album for singer-songwriter James Taylor. It contains the hit 'Shower the People', one of Taylor's classic compositions, which climbed to number 22 on the Billboard charts on September 18, 1976. The song 'Shower the People' was later covered by country music band 4 Runner on their 2003 album Getaway Car. 12 tracks.
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Unchained Melody: Very Best Of The Righteous Brothers
:Album Description:2008 WEA Flashback reissue of the 1976 album, In the Pocket which was the seventh album for singer-songwriter James Taylor. It contains the hit 'Shower the People', one of Taylor's classic compositions, which climbed to number 22 on the Billboard charts on September 18, 1976. The song 'Shower the People' was later covered by country music band 4 Runner on their 2003 album Getaway Car. 12 tracks.
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