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Christmas Songs
Diana Krall
Vocal Jazz - Released November 1, 2005 | Verve
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On her first full-length Christmas album, pianist/vocalist Diana Krall delivers a smoky, sophisticated, and slightly melancholy album perfectly suited to accompany egg nog cocktails and romantic afterglow holiday affairs. Although there isn't anything unexpected on Christmas Songs -- Irving Berlin's "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep" is as close to obscure as it gets -- Krall coos life into such standards as "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve," and "I'll Be Home for Christmas." It also doesn't hurt that she gains top-notch support from the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, whose urbane arrangements help bring to mind similar works by such iconic vocalists as Nat King Cole, June Christy, and Frank Sinatra. But it's not all deep sighs and bedroom eyes; on the contrary, Krall keeps things swinging with such uptempo numbers as the joyous "Jingle Bells," "Winter Wonderland," and the Blossom Dearie-inflected "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." If you like your holiday albums cool and classy, Christmas Songs is a stocking stuffer that's sure to please.© Matt Collar /TiVo
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Famous Blue Raincoat. Songs of Leonard Cohen
Jennifer Warnes
Folk/Americana - Released January 10, 1986 | Porch Light LLC
Jennifer Warnes was familiar with Leonard Cohen from a tour of duty as one of his backup singers in the early '70s, but this collection of Cohen's songs must have shocked her AM radio fans who knew her from her '70s country-pop hits and her movie themes, if they were even able to connect the woman who sang "It's the right time of the night for makin' love" with the one who declared "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin" over stinging guitar work by Stevie Ray Vaughan on the opening track here. As that pairing suggests, Warnes wisely took a tougher, more contemporary approach to the arrangements than such past Cohen interpreters as Judy Collins used to. Where other singers tended to geld Cohen's often disturbingly revealing poetry, Warnes, working with the composer himself and introducing a couple of great new songs ("First We Take Manhattan" and "Song of Bernadette," which she co-wrote), matched his own versions. The high point may have been the Warnes-Cohen duet on "Joan of Arc," but the album was consistently impressive. And it went a long way toward reestablishing Cohen, whose reputation was in a minor eclipse in the mid-'80s. A year later, with the way paved for him, he released his brilliant comeback album I'm Your Man. For Warnes, the album meant her first taste of real critical success: suddenly a singer who had seemed like a second-rate Linda Ronstadt now appeared to be a first-class interpretive artist.
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Songs Of Love And Hate
Leonard Cohen
Rock - Released March 1, 1971 | Columbia
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Silence Between Songs
Madison Beer
Pop - Released September 15, 2023 | Epic - Sing It Loud
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While Madison Beer got personal on her full-length debut, Life Support (2021), an album that tackled grief, breakups, and struggles with mental health, she gets even more vulnerable on the more restrained, ballad-heavy follow-up, Silence Between Songs. Working with around a dozen producers and co-writers, among them Life Support's Leroy Clampitt and One Love, its more intimate character was at least partly inspired by Lana Del Rey, who received her own advanced copy of the record. Jazz pianist and music polymath James Francies and Grammy-winning songwriter Tobias Jesso, Jr. were among the behind-the-scenes contributors to the lyrical "Dangerous," one of many strings-embellished (and sometimes rock-injected) ballads here that deal with relationships gone wrong. Also included in the 14-song set are the pulsing "Home to Another One" and "Sweet Relief," whose thumping bass rhythms are nonetheless accompanied by a wispy, introspective vocal delivery, and the '60s pop-inflected "I Wonder," which was written by Beer, Clampitt, Norwegian producer/songwriter Fred Ball (Rihanna, Jessie Reyez), and Lucy Healey (Chelsea Cutler, Delacey). Appearing soon after that song in the track list is the Turtles-sampling "Showed Me (How I Fell in Love with You)." For anyone who missed it in the meantime, she finally does deliver diva-styled pop with final kiss-off track "King of Everything" ("You're the king of nothing now"). Silence Between Songs became Beer's second straight album to debut in the U.K. Top 30 and the top half of the Billboard 200.© Marcy Donelson /TiVo
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Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
blink-182
Alternative & Indie - Released January 1, 2001 | Geffen*
Not too much has changed since we last left blink-182. You might hear the same snap, crackle, and pop that the trio has prided themselves on for almost ten years. There's even the continual cabbage-patch screech of Tom Delonge and support for rampant teen angst. But five albums later, these San Diego natives grab their rosy-cheek punkadelics and add a bit more of a flamboyant, passionate maturation on Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. When Enema of the State leaped onto the charts in 1999, the lyrical direction was 90 percent party-boy mentality, leaving little room for traces of a growth spurt. And while we're still feeling the continual back-drip of tracks from Enema, the fresh plethora of tunes from these rambunctious Toys-R-Us rockers have more purpose than ever. With a fight-for-your-right joviality that's often irresistible, songs like "Anthem Part 2" and "Stay Together for the Kids" house a indomitable school-kid voice where a surging vapor of knockout speed chords meet wrecking-ball percussion. The meanings are bucketed and spilled, with lines like "If we're f*cked up/You're to blame" ("Anthem Part 2"). And forget about escaping lyrics such as, "I'll never talk to you again/Unless your dad 'ill suck me off," which stems from the hilarious, almost brilliant 42-second clash called "Happy Holidays, You Bastard." "First Date" and "Roller Coaster" are only a couple of their tunes that act as therapy for post-pubescent dilemma, also present on previous efforts like Enema and Dude Ranch. Each song about the rotten girlfriend or unhip parent speaks loud and often to the 2000 MTV generation. Nevertheless, the dumped-in-the-amusement-park tone and lyrical progression are sharp, if not entertaining. The band's stint on the Vans Warped Tour, with veteran punksters such as Pennywise and Rancid, has become a supreme outlet for blink-182. Take Off Your Pants is one of their finest works to date, with almost every track sporting a commanding articulation and new-school punk sounds. They've definitely put a big-time notch in the win column.© Darren Ratner /TiVo
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Standing Room Only
Tim McGraw
Country - Released March 10, 2023 | Big Machine Records, LLC
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Firmly in his comfort zone, Tim McGraw doesn't stray from the expected on Standing Room Only. Working once again with Byron Gallimore, his producer since the beginning, McGraw sticks to the middle of the road, turning out ballads as well as love tunes and inspirational pop numbers that feel like ballads thanks to their immaculate polish. The smooth approach is the appeal of Standing Room Only -- it glides easily, it sounds as familiar and cozy as home -- but it's also something of a detriment. Not only do all the songs blend together on the album itself, the line separating Standing Room Only and Here on Earth -- or The Rest of Our Life, for that matter -- blurs easily: they all provide grist for an easy-listening mill, offering seamless comfortable entertainment on an endless Tim McGraw playlist.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Euphoric Sad Songs
Raye
Pop - Released November 20, 2020 | Polydor Records
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This first full-length album from the erstwhile Rachel Keen follows her 2018 EP Side Tape. Featuring the singles "Natalie Don't," "Secrets," "Please Don't Touch," and "Love Me Again," the album lives up to its title, setting intimate, vulnerable tales of heartbreak and longing to a pulsing dance-pop backing that sounds somewhat like a retro-futuristic vision of '80s synth pop.© John D. Buchanan /TiVo
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Hallelujah & Songs from His Albums
Leonard Cohen
Pop - Released June 3, 2022 | Columbia - Legacy
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Songs Of Experience
U2
Rock - Released December 1, 2017 | Universal-Island Records Ltd.
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Elijah is Bono’s son. Sian is The Edge’s daughter. They hold hands on the cover of these Songs Of Experience. Two “children” to evoke the world of 2017 and above all the legacy their parents intend to leave them…Recorded over three years with the help of an XL casting of producers such as Jacknife Lee, Ryan Tedder, Steve Lillywhite, Andy Barlow and Jolyon Thomas, this fourteenth studio album had to be the loud hailer of a world that is running less and less smoothly. Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s presidency and the migrant crisis are a good fuel for the writing of Bono, who’s still an expert in revolts. U2’s leader has the merit of being rather gifted in this area. Except that here, his starting point is something else. He says he’s been influenced by a conversation with his compatriot, the poet Brendan Kennelly, who would have advised him to write as if he was dead! Therefore, Bono imagined these songs as letters sent to his relatives, family, friends, and fans but also to himself. As for sound, we unsurprisingly find the spectacular 80s guitars from The Edge, whose hand has entered the rock history of the end of the 20th century. With a touch of modernity (the Auto-Tune on Love Is All We Have Left and Kendrick Lamar’s voice on Get Out Of Your Own Way) and a true quality in the band’s fundamentals, Songs Of Experience possesses enough arguments to keep the early fans of the Irish quartet excited and charm the others. © CM/Qobuz
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Songs For Young Lovers
Frank Sinatra
Lounge - Released January 1, 1954 | CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92)
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Songs for Young Lovers was the first album Frank Sinatra recorded for Capitol, as well as his first collaboration with Nelson Riddle. It was also one of the first -- arguably the very first -- concept album. Sinatra, Riddle, and producer Voyle Gilmore decided that the new album format should be a special event, featuring a number of songs arranged around a specific theme; in addition, the new format was capable of producing a more detailed sound, which gave Riddle more freedom in his arrangements and orchestrations. Songs for Young Lovers is a perfect example of this. Supported by a small orchestra, Sinatra and Riddle create an intimate, romantic atmosphere on the record, breathing new life into standards like "My Funny Valentine," "They Can't Take That Away from Me," "I Get a Kick Out of You," and "A Foggy Day." There is a breezy confidence to Sinatra's singing, and Riddle's arrangements are more complex than they initially appear.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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69 Love Songs
The Magnetic Fields
Rock - Released September 7, 1999 | Merge Records
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The Strength / The Sound / The Songs
Volbeat
Rock - Released September 26, 2005 | Mascot Records
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Songs From The Last Century
George Michael
Pop - Released January 5, 1999 | Sony Music UK
Unlike many covers albums, Songs from the Last Century is a cohesive, enjoyable diversion. With the help of co-producer Phil Ramone, George Michael has crafted a warm, intimate album built around a small combo of piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Orchestras, big bands, harps, and on one occasion, a rock band augment the basic combo, yet the flourishes never change the essential, close-knit nature of the group. For the first time ever, Michael sounds relaxed. He's lying back, singing songs he loves, not worrying about chart success, and the end result is quite fetching, even if it isn't perfect. The main flaw with Songs from the Last Century is that it's so smooth, it's occasionally a little sleepy, a trait that's emphasized by Michael's fairly predictable taste in covers -- "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," "My Baby Just Cares for Me," and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," among others. Nevertheless, he does bring style and sophistication to these standards, even such often-covered yet still difficult tunes as "Wild as the Wind." When his selections are idiosyncratic -- whether it's a jazzy reading of "Roxanne," the brassy "Secret Love," the little-remembered "I Remember You," or a revelatory reading of "Miss Sarajevo," a song commonly dismissed as a U2 side project -- the album is delightful. Certainly, Songs from the Last Century isn't a major work; it's a way for Michael to decompress and have some fun, and the diehards who stuck with him through the turbulent '90s are likely to be charmed.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Songs of Time Lost
Piers Faccini
Alternative & Indie - Released October 14, 2014 | No Format!
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The Road: Part II / Lost Highway
Unkle
Electronic - Released March 29, 2019 | Songs For The Def
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Swan Songs (Collector’s Edition)
Hollywood Undead
Rock - Released August 26, 2008 | Interscope Records*
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Zombies or not, Hollywood Undead are a true underground phenomenon. They built their reputation through word of mouth on social networking sites such as MySpace, and it was to the latter's fledgling record label offshoot that the six-member rap-rock troupe signed to in 2005. They later parted company with MySpace Records, preferring to seek another label rather than censor their lyrics, and it's hard to argue with their logic. Presented here in all its unedited glory, there's nothing particularly shocking about any of the lyrics on Swan Song -- in fact, there's very little that's interesting at all. Part of the problem lies in the fact that the group doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Much of the album is given over to ironic frat-boy party rap: marquee singles "Everywhere I Go" and "No. 5" play fast and loose with misogynist and homophobic slurs, but it's a cheap way to win a laugh, and the jokes become stale long before Hollywood Undead are finished with them. Insufferable though the lyrics are, there are some genuinely good ideas here. "Everywhere I Go" and "No Other Place," in particular, are as danceable as any single in recent memory, and the production value is strong throughout the album. However, their attempts to get serious are about as convincing as their pimp credentials (i.e. not very) and the more intensified the mood, the more interchangeable the rappers become (only Funny Man stands out for his booming baritone). Tracks like "Young" and "This Love, This Hate" represent a low point, as the emcees trade ever-more-exasperated Marshall Mathers impersonations to the backdrop of imposing Wall of Sound guitars and angsty chorus vocals. Clearly, they have talent, but a giant question remains as to whether Hollywood Undead have the self-confidence to drop the gimmicky exterior and deliver something a little more substantial than dated clichés and mildly offensive lyrics.© Dave Donnelly /TiVo
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Songs of Faith and Devotion (Deluxe)
Depeche Mode
Pop/Rock - Released March 22, 1993 | Venusnote Ltd.
In between Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion, a lot happened: Nirvana rewrote the ideas of what "alternative" was supposed to be, while Nine Inch Nails hit the airwaves as the most clearly Depeche-influenced new hit band around. In the meantime, the band went through some high-profile arguing as David Gahan turned into a long-haired, leather-clad rocker and pushed for a more guitar-oriented sound. Yet the odd thing about Songs of Faith and Devotion is that it sounds pretty much like a Depeche Mode album, only with some new sonic tricks courtesy of Alan Wilder and co-producer Flood. Perhaps even odder is the fact that it works incredibly well all the same. "I Feel You," opening with a screech of feedback, works its live drums well, but when the heavy synth bass kicks in with the wailing backing vocals, even most rockers might find it hard to compete. Martin Gore's lyrical bent, as per the title, ponders relationships through distinctly religious imagery; while the gambit is hardly new, on songs like the centerpiece "In Your Room," the combination of personal and spiritual love blends perfectly. Outside musicians appear for the first time, including female backing singers on a couple of tracks, most notably the gospel-flavored "Condemnation" and the uilleann pipes on "Judas," providing a lovely intro to the underrated song (later covered by Tricky). "Rush" is the biggest misstep, a too obvious sign that Nine Inch Nails was a recording-session favorite to unwind to. But with other numbers such as "Walking in My Shoes" and "The Mercy in You" to recommend it, Songs of Faith and Devotion continues the Depeche Mode winning streak.© Ned Raggett /TiVo
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ASCEND
illenium
Dance - Released August 16, 2019 | Astralwerks
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Ascend couldn't be a more appropriate title for Illenium's third album. The Denver-based EDM producer has been constantly on the rise since he began releasing singles in 2014, and both of his first two albums reached the Top Ten of Billboard's Dance/Electronic albums chart. Ascend hit the pole position, additionally debuting at number 14 on the Billboard 200. All of which is apropos for the artist's most accessible, earnest, and emotional collection of songs yet. Moving away from the festival-friendly dubstep and trap of his earlier work, this is an album of intense, personal songs dealing with subjects such as drug abuse and toxic relationships. The extensive list of guest producers and vocalists include X Ambassadors, Bipolar Sunshine, Foy Vance, and Georgia Ku. The album's biggest hit single, "Takeaway," is a collaboration with the Chainsmokers and singer Lennon Stella.© TiVo
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