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Armed Forces
Elvis Costello
Rock - Released January 5, 1979 | UMe - Elvis Costello
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After releasing and touring the intense This Year's Model, Elvis Costello quickly returned to the studio with the Attractions to record his third album, Armed Forces. In contrast to the stripped-down pop and rock of his first two albums, Armed Forces boasted a detailed and textured pop production, but it was hardly lavish. However, the more spacious arrangements -- complete with ringing pianos, echoing reverb, layered guitars, and harmonies -- accent Costello's melodies, making the record more accessible than his first two albums. Perversely, while the sound of Costello's music was becoming more open and welcoming, his songs became more insular and paranoid, even though he cloaked his emotions well. Many of the songs on Armed Forces use politics as a metaphor for personal relationships, particularly fascism, which explains its working title, Emotional Fascism. Occasionally, the lyrics are forced, but the music never is -- the album demonstrates the depth of Costello's compositional talents and how he can move from the hook-laden pop of "Accidents Will Happen" to the paranoid "Goon Squad" with ease. Some of the songs, like the light reggae of "Two Little Hitlers" and the impassioned "Party Girl," build on his strengths, while others like the layered "Oliver's Army" take Costello into new territories. It's a dense but accessible pop record and ranks as his third masterpiece in a row.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Social Living
Burning Spear
World - Released January 1, 1978 | Island Records (The Island Def Jam Music Group / Universal Music)
Burning Spear's seventh album was originally released in the U.K. by Island in 1978 and has always been difficult to find in the U.S. Blood and Fire's reissue makes it possible for average American reggae fans to hear what they've been missing, and it turns out that's quite a lot. Social Living picks up where the third Burning Spear LP, Marcus Garvey, left off -- more slow, dark songs about slavery, repatriation, and, of course, Garvey himself (four of the nine songs have his name in their titles). There are still no real tunes to speak of, just immensely dense grooves that thud and rumble along slowly and relentlessly to the accompaniment of distant horns and rattling nyahbinghi percussion. If this 2003 remaster edges out the original Island release in any way, it's in the mix: Island toned down Social Living (aka Marcus' Children) a bit to appeal to British audiences, but the Blood and Fire version absolutely throbs with bass and echoes like drums heard across vast distances. In this context, when Winston Rodney sings that "Jah no dead" it's impossible not to believe him; when he instructs you in the specifics of "Social Living," you find yourself submitting to his instruction. It's that kind of album.
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K.I.D.S.
Mac Miller
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released August 13, 2010 | Rostrum Records
Released in the summer of 2010, Pittsburgh emcee Mac Miller's fourth mixtape K.I.D.S. was his big breakthrough, kicking off an upward trajectory that culminated in a number-one placement for his official studio debut, Blue Slide Park. Combining head-nodding beats indebted to classic '90s boom-bap production and inspired samples from the likes of Nas, Lord Finesse, Owl City, and Empire of the Sun, K.I.D.S. showcased Miller's endearing, coming-of-age lyrics and steady bars delivered with his signature lackadaisical cadence. Highlights include "Nikes on My Feet," "The Spins," and "Paper Route" with fellow Pittsburgh rapper Chevy Woods. An underground hit supported by a sell-out 2011 tour, K.I.D.S. made its chart debut a decade after its release when it arrived on streaming services in 2020, landing just outside the Top 100 on the Billboard 200.© Neil Z. Yeung /TiVo
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year
High School Musical Cast
Film Soundtracks - Released January 1, 2008 | Walt Disney Records
Lost in the shuffle of the ever-growing High School Musical phenomenon -- growing so big, it can no longer be contained on the Disney Channel, it's now reaching theaters for its third and final installment -- is that the tween-sensation is actually a musical. Which means that despite its pop trappings, the soundtracks consist of full-blown show tunes, songs that serve the story and are sung by the rotating cast. This helps make the movies work, but it sentences the soundtracks to be mere souvenirs of the event, a record for fans to play endlessly, not a means to crossover to a wider pop audience. On HSM3, there are only two songs that stand out as potential pop singles, both not so coincidentally solo showcases for the franchise's two biggest stars, Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron. Hudgens has the album's best song in the slickly soulful "Walk Away" -- a tune that would have shown up Wilson Phillips circa 1990 -- that she sings better than Efron, whose "Scream" struts like *NSYNC circa 2000. But both are upstaged by stage brat Ashley Tisdale, who shows far more on-record charisma on her fame-hungry showcase "I Want It All," a song that has absolutely no chance of making sense outside of the senior skip-day plot line of High School Musical 3, but Tisdale performs with ingratiating vigor, using every chop she's learned as a stage kid. Of course, those very strengths are well-suited for a musical like High School Musical 3, where the songs are vehicles for showboating performances either on the screen or in a fan's bedroom -- and for those fans, this set, which is similar in every way to its two predecessors, will not disappoint.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Armed Forces
Elvis Costello
Rock - Released January 5, 1979 | UMe - Elvis Costello
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After releasing and touring the intense This Year's Model, Elvis Costello quickly returned to the studio with the Attractions to record his third album, Armed Forces. In contrast to the stripped-down pop and rock of his first two albums, Armed Forces boasted a detailed and textured pop production, but it was hardly lavish. However, the more spacious arrangements -- complete with ringing pianos, echoing reverb, layered guitars, and harmonies -- accent Costello's melodies, making the record more accessible than his first two albums. Perversely, while the sound of Costello's music was becoming more open and welcoming, his songs became more insular and paranoid, even though he cloaked his emotions well. Many of the songs on Armed Forces use politics as a metaphor for personal relationships, particularly fascism, which explains its working title, Emotional Fascism. Occasionally, the lyrics are forced, but the music never is -- the album demonstrates the depth of Costello's compositional talents and how he can move from the hook-laden pop of "Accidents Will Happen" to the paranoid "Goon Squad" with ease. Some of the songs, like the light reggae of "Two Little Hitlers" and the impassioned "Party Girl," build on his strengths, while others like the layered "Oliver's Army" take Costello into new territories. It's a dense but accessible pop record and ranks as his third masterpiece in a row.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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The Music That I Make
Leah Senior
Folk/Americana - Released August 18, 2023 | Poison City Records
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Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year
Kaonashi
Pop/Rock - Released May 21, 2021 | Equal Vision Records
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Spiral Legend (Live)
Tokai University Takanawadai Senior High School Wind Orchestra
Classical - Released April 2, 2008 | CAFUA
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D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
Junior Senior
Pop - Released April 3, 2002 | Crunchy Frog
On "White Trash," Junior Senior says it wants to sing like Nancy Sinatra, play like Stevie Wonder, and "show [it] has balls" like the New York Dolls, ambitions that would be more ridiculous if they didn't so accurately describe the Danish band's sound. Just as their Swedish counterparts, the Cardigans, once built clever pop songs on elements of bubblegum and lounge, Junior Senior makes dance music by mashing together disco, Prince-style electro-funk, '60s psychedelia, and garage rock. The results are goofy but undeniably exhilarating. D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat clocks in at a frenetic 32 minutes, leaving listeners little time to notice that its lyrics lack the jaded sophistication of the Cardigans' First Band on the Moon. "Come on in, hang your coats/Eat our chips, we've got loads" is a typical sentiment, and most of the songs seem to be about the fact that pint-sized mastermind Junior is into girls, while the giant Senior prefers boys. In other words, this stuff isn't likely to make you any smarter, but then, you don't need smarts to "shake your coconuts." You just need willing coconuts, though a giddy day-glo masterpiece like D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat helps a lot.© Daniel Browne /TiVo
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K.I.D.S.
Mac Miller
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released August 13, 2010 | Rostrum Records
Released in the summer of 2010, Pittsburgh emcee Mac Miller's fourth mixtape K.I.D.S. was his big breakthrough, kicking off an upward trajectory that culminated in a number-one placement for his official studio debut, Blue Slide Park. Combining head-nodding beats indebted to classic '90s boom-bap production and inspired samples from the likes of Nas, Lord Finesse, Owl City, and Empire of the Sun, K.I.D.S. showcased Miller's endearing, coming-of-age lyrics and steady bars delivered with his signature lackadaisical cadence. Highlights include "Nikes on My Feet," "The Spins," and "Paper Route" with fellow Pittsburgh rapper Chevy Woods. An underground hit supported by a sell-out 2011 tour, K.I.D.S. made its chart debut a decade after its release when it arrived on streaming services in 2020, landing just outside the Top 100 on the Billboard 200.© Neil Z. Yeung /TiVo
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Chroniques et fantaisies
Catherine Ringer
French Music - Released November 3, 2017 | SIX SARL
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The Senior
Ginuwine
R&B - Released March 25, 2003 | Epic
During hip-hop's reign at the top of the charts, a clever turn of catch phrase has often translated into multi-platinum sales, from "It's All About the Benjamins" to "Get Ur Freak On" to "Hot in Herre." Ginuwine's fourth album finds the R&B jack-of-all-trades attempting to get in on the game with tracks that mine urban lingo for potential hit combinations, from the golddigger dis track "Chedda Brings" to the club-life jam "Hell Yeah" to the partly self-explanatory "In Those Jeans" (as in "Is there any more room for me?"). As before, Ginuwine rises above most of his dozens of imitators in the contemporary R&B realm, with a set of productions -- from the returning Troy Oliver -- that fit his voice perfectly and rate as slightly edgier than the norm. Also unsurprising compared to his work from the past is Ginuwine exploring all aspects of love, moving from the explicitly carnal ("Sex," with Solé) to a poignantly paternal song ("Our First Born") within just a few minutes. After a parade of sexed-up R&B, though, it's refreshing to hit a pair of straight-ahead rap tracks near the end; Method Man lends his usual thug drawl to the excellent "Big Plans," while R. Kelly and Clipse add some spark to a remix of "Hell Yeah."© John Bush /TiVo
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High School Musical 3: Nos Années Lycée
High School Musical Cast
Film Soundtracks - Released January 1, 2008 | Walt Disney Records
Lost in the shuffle of the ever-growing High School Musical phenomenon -- growing so big, it can no longer be contained on the Disney Channel, it's now reaching theaters for its third and final installment -- is that the tween-sensation is actually a musical. Which means that despite its pop trappings, the soundtracks consist of full-blown show tunes, songs that serve the story and are sung by the rotating cast. This helps make the movies work, but it sentences the soundtracks to be mere souvenirs of the event, a record for fans to play endlessly, not a means to crossover to a wider pop audience. On HSM3, there are only two songs that stand out as potential pop singles, both not so coincidentally solo showcases for the franchise's two biggest stars, Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron. Hudgens has the album's best song in the slickly soulful "Walk Away" -- a tune that would have shown up Wilson Phillips circa 1990 -- that she sings better than Efron, whose "Scream" struts like *NSYNC circa 2000. But both are upstaged by stage brat Ashley Tisdale, who shows far more on-record charisma on her fame-hungry showcase "I Want It All," a song that has absolutely no chance of making sense outside of the senior skip-day plot line of High School Musical 3, but Tisdale performs with ingratiating vigor, using every chop she's learned as a stage kid. Of course, those very strengths are well-suited for a musical like High School Musical 3, where the songs are vehicles for showboating performances either on the screen or in a fan's bedroom -- and for those fans, this set, which is similar in every way to its two predecessors, will not disappoint.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Dub from Jamdown - Darker Than Blue
The Senior Allstars
Dub - Released June 26, 2015 | Echo Beach
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