Record Reviews
📝 2096 reviews| Artist | Title | Review |
|---|---|---|
| Amazing Rhythm Aces | Stacked Deck | <p>In contrast to such '70s country-rock outfits as the Eagles and Poco, whose members had passed through the West Coast folk-rock scene dominated by the Byrds, the Amazing Rhythm Aces were a Memphis-based band. Their debut album is an edgy effort, rooted in a purer Southern sound, and embracing a soulfulness that their West Coast rivals lacked. The country gospel tune "Life's Railway to Heaven," the funky "The 'Ella B'," the stomping "Hit the Nail on the Head," and the soulful "The Beautiful Lie" would never have been done in as raw, intense, or bracing a fashion by their rivals. Russell Smith brings a vocal performance to Charlie Rich's "Who Will the Next Fool Be" that sounds like he's channeling the ghost of Sam Cooke. And between those album highlights and the hits "Third Rate Romance" and "Amazing Grace (Used to Be Her Favorite Song)," the group works in a sweetly nostalgic piece called "King of the Cowboys," all about movie and television heroes.</p><p>—<strong>Bruce Eder</strong></p> |
| Tori Amos | Boys For Pele | |
| Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe | Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe | |
| Robyn Archer | Rough As Guts | |
| Ariel | Strange Fantastic Dream | |
| Ariel | Aloha | |
| Joan Armatrading | Joan Armatrading | |
| P.P. Arnold | Kafunta | |
| Chet Atkins | The Best Of Chet Atkins | |
| Australian Crawl | The Boys Light Up | |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | Eschenbach, Ravel, Koehne, etc | |
| Ayers Rock | Big Red Rock | <p>In 1974 Ayers Rock began recording their debut album, Big Red Rock, at Festival Records' 24-track studio in Sydney. They were dissatisfied with the sound, which failed to capture their music's "live" essence, and recorded it live-in-the-studio at Armstrong's in Melbourne that September. Kennedy told Margaret MacIntyre of Rolling Stone Australia, "Doing the album live was an experiment really and it seemed to work." Big Red Rock, released in November, peaked at number 32 on the Kent Music Report album chart. The album had "a more jazz-rock edge" and its single, "Lady Montego" (written by McGuire), was a new version of a song originally performed by Leo de Castro and Friends. According to Juke Magazine, "the single lifted to push the album, 'Lady Montego' received three weeks airplay and was then dumped." "Lady Montego" was Ayers Rock's most-aired single in Australia, and Kennedy said: "Without AM radio support you can't sell too well in this country." Juke called their songs "lyrically banal" but said the group compensated with "sheer talent", instrumentally and electronically.</p> <p>—<strong>Wikipedia</strong></p> |
| Ayers Rock | Big Red Rock [Remastered] | <p>In 1974 Ayers Rock began recording their debut album, Big Red Rock, at Festival Records' 24-track studio in Sydney. They were dissatisfied with the sound, which failed to capture their music's "live" essence, and recorded it live-in-the-studio at Armstrong's in Melbourne that September. Kennedy told Margaret MacIntyre of Rolling Stone Australia, "Doing the album live was an experiment really and it seemed to work." Big Red Rock, released in November, peaked at number 32 on the Kent Music Report album chart. The album had "a more jazz-rock edge" and its single, "Lady Montego" (written by McGuire), was a new version of a song originally performed by Leo de Castro and Friends. According to Juke Magazine, "the single lifted to push the album, 'Lady Montego' received three weeks airplay and was then dumped." "Lady Montego" was Ayers Rock's most-aired single in Australia, and Kennedy said: "Without AM radio support you can't sell too well in this country." Juke called their songs "lyrically banal" but said the group compensated with "sheer talent", instrumentally and electronically.</p><p>—<strong>Wikipedia</strong></p> |
| J.S. Bach | Brandendurg Concertos 1-6 | |
| J.S. Bach | The Great Composers Vol 10 | |
| J.S. Bach | Brandenburg Concertos 1,3,4,6. | |
| J.S. Bach | The Best Of Bach | |
| Chris Bailey | Savage Entertainment | |
| Angelo Bandalamenti | Music From Twin Peaks | <p>Composer Angelo Badalamenti (Cousins) set the tone for David Lynch's bizarre television soap with a haunting theme created from electric piano, synthetic strings, and the twangiest guitar this side of Duane Eddy. The love theme, appropriately enough, sounds like a funeral march. (The series' central character was found dead at the beginning of the first episode.) The rest of the music, instantly recognizable to anyone who saw even one episode of the series, borders on fever-dream jazz. Lynch favorite Julee Cruise sings the only three vocal songs. The music from Twin Peaks is dark, cloying, and obsessive -- and one of the best scores ever written for television.</p><p>—<strong>Brian Mansfield</strong></p> |
| Barefoot Servants | Barefoot Servants |
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