Album Reviews
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A talented actor doth not a talented recording act make. This collection rounds up the material released by British actor Jess Conrad; though they occasionally show a spark of quality, the fare is mostly pop fare that was quickly becoming outdated, and it shows that ability in one artistic field doesn’t mean it will translate… Read more
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To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Hank Williams’ legendary Health & Happiness Show transcription recordings, BMG has remastered and reissued them in a handy two-disc set, offering up a fresh new look of a young talent in his prime. Read more
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To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Hank Williams’ legendary Health & Happiness Show transcription recordings, BMG has remastered and reissued them in a handy two-disc set, offering up a fresh new look of a young talent in his prime. Read more
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Two superb three-disc collections from the esteemed él Records offer up superb examples of the use of classical music and classical styles in modern cinema–one collection offers an overview of familiar music used in a variety of films, whilst the other documents the interplay between composer Federico Fellini and his primary orchestrator, Nino Rota. Read more
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Two superb three-disc collections from the esteemed él Records offer up superb examples of the use of classical music and classical styles in modern cinema–one collection offers an overview of familiar music used in a variety of films, whilst the other documents the interplay between composer Federico Fellini and his primary orchestrator, Nino Rota. Read more
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Billy Ocean made a splash in 1984 with his smash hit album Suddenly, which propelled him to a respectable success for the rest of the decade. Cherry Pop’s latest in its Remixes And Rarities offers up two discs’ worth of variants and hard-to-find remixes that serves as a nice reminder of what made Ocean so… Read more
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Billy Ocean made a splash in 1984 with his smash hit album Suddenly, which propelled him to a respectable success for the rest of the decade. Cherry Pop’s latest in its Remixes And Rarities offers up two discs’ worth of variants and hard-to-find remixes that serves as a nice reminder of what made Ocean so… Read more
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Fifty years after its release, the flawed third studio album from San Francisco psychedelic titans The Grateful Dead finds itself reissued. The album was the band experimenting in the studio in an attempt to make an innovative studio album, thanks to the arrival of sixteen track technology. Unfortunately, it would become the band’s costliest studio… Read more
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Fifty years after its release, the flawed third studio album from San Francisco psychedelic titans The Grateful Dead finds itself reissued. The album was the band experimenting in the studio in an attempt to make an innovative studio album, thanks to the arrival of sixteen track technology. Unfortunately, it would become the band’s costliest studio… Read more
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To honor the 60th anniversary of “The Day The Music Died,” German label Bear Family compiled a thorough and compelling scrapbook that encompasses and highlights of the talents lost that day, performers who appeared on the tour, musical tributes to the victims, and an in-depth booklet with super-rare photos and historical background of that fateful… Read more
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