Category: Music
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Backstreet Boys – The Hits
Artist: Backstreet Boys Title: The Hits Label: Jive Rating: 5/10 With the year rapidly coming to a close, now is the time to reminisce. It seems like every genre of music is being bombarded with some form of greatest hits compilation. This year’s slot for pop culture boy bands-The Backstreet Boys. With two of the…
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Goldie – Goldie.co.uk
Artist: Goldie Title: Goldie.co.uk Label: Moonshine Rating: 8/10 DJs are unknowns to the commercial world but the exception is drum and bass legend Goldie, the only DJ that has hit pop star status. You may recognize his famous gold teeth from successful films such as James Bond’s The World Is Enough and Guy Ritchie’s production,…
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Harry Connick, Jr. – Songs I Heard
Artist: Harry Connick, Jr. Title: Songs I Heard Label: Columbia Rating: 6/10 Songs I Heard is an album of Harry Connick Jr. performing kids songs. Here we go again. 1. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – Actually not entirely bad. I’m so very surprised. 2. The Lonely Goatherd – This is a little less listener-friendly. 3. Ding Dong! The…
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Harry Connick, Jr. – 30
Artist: Harry Connick, Jr. Title: 30 Label: Columbia Rating: 4/10 30 is an album that Harry Connick Jr. recorded on his thirtieth birthday, four years ago. As he did with 25 and 20, Connick performs songs that he loves and admires, all classic standards. 1. I’m Walkin’ – Known as it is sung by the…
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DMX – The Great Depression
Artist: DMX Title: The Great Depression Label: Def Jam Rating: 8/10 DMX has become a man at the forefront of an art form known as hip-hop. His growl, his words, his voice, and his style are unstoppable. When DMX speaks, people stop to listen. The Great Depression comes in with a poem called “Sometimes” that…
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Bush – Golden State
Artist: Bush Title: Golden State Label: Atlantic Rating: 3/10 Bush is still around? Wow, what a surprise. Golden State is arriving and it’s a sign these boys haven’t given up on a style that seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. Bush thinks they have the “Solutions”, but I just have more questions.…
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Remy Zero – Interview
How is everyone responding to the album? Did you give it to friends and family? We didn’t give it to them until we gave it to everybody else. We didn’t want to start getting comfortable in having people tell us we were great, which is what family members do because they love you. I try…
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Lina – Interview
inside the world of singer Lina Doing all this press and promotion, were you ready for it? No, I wasn’t really prepared for it. I didn’t know what to expect. I just go along with the program. What was your background before this? I never had the mentality of being a star, but not trying…
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Aphex Twin – Drukqs
Artist: Aphex Twin Title: Drukqs Label: London Rating: 7/10 Drukqs puts to rest any rumors that Aphex Twin (aka Richard James) would be calling an early retirement to his music career. Back from the shadows, Richard returns with a double album loaded with thirty tracks and a whole new mood to scare the shit out…
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Ozzy Osbourne – Down To Earth
Artist: Ozzy Osbourne Title: Down To Earth Label: Epic Rating: 6/10 Growing up listening to groups like Motley Crue and Ozzy, I never thought that either would ever run out of fashion. Some come, some go, but unbelievably, a few decades after Ozzy Osbourne got his start, he’s still here. He’s still making music, and…