THE BEST ALBUM MEL C RELEASED...
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IT IS PURE ROCK,NEW SOUND, EDGIER & ROUGHER THAN "REASON" & "NORTHERN STAR". I REALLY LOVE THIS ALBUM CAUSE BY THE 1ST TRACK TO THE LAST ONE YOU CAN TELL HOW MELANIE C HAS CHANGED INTO A REAL STAR.

NO MORE SPORTY SPICE,SHE'S NO LONGER A SPICE GIRL BUT HER OWNSELF WHICH IS MELANIE C.

WHEN WILL THE U.S. MARKET WILL ACCEPT HER?

IT'S SHAME!!

YOU WON'T BE DESSAPOINTED WITH THIS PRODUCTION.
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Cornell Haynes J.r. a.k.a Nelly realesed his debut album "country grammar" I own this C.D. After two years with this C.d. it is still my favorite C.d. after i purchased this C.d. i also purchased Ludacris- back for the first time, ludacris- word of mouf, master p-gameface, eminem-marsahl mathers l.p, ja rule- pain is love. This C.D. is better than all of them even after two years. i will rate the songs for all you at the bottom.
  track 1- intro
  track 2- St. Louie(-4)
  track 3- Greed,hate,envy(+4)
  track 4- Country Grammar (+5)
  track 5- Steel The Show (3)
  track 6- Interlude
  track 7- Ride With Me (4)
  track 8- E.I. (4)
  track 9- Thicky Thick Girl (+3)
  track 10- For My (+5)
  track 11- Utha Side (+4)
  track 12- Tho Dem Wrappers (+3)
  track 13- Wrap Sumden (+5)
  track 14- Batter Up (+4)
  track 15- Never Let 'Em C U sweat (4)
  track 16- Luven Me (+5)
  track 17- Outro
2509638
Excellent album,....some very good rock & blues, keyboard & guitars and smooth vocals. If you like Pink Floyd or maybe King Crimson, you should like this,....if your more into ACDC, it'll be a little too mellow for you.
4798854
How did I like the c.d....come on it's the hip...arguably the best hip album, this, and road apple's... I love this disc.
604155
(4 and 1/2) To my suprise a I've seen a lot of negative reviews to this album.  You cannot deny the quality of the music on the album.  Each and every song is its own little world.  "Throw away you Television" is an amazing song...Anthony is amazing...Flea slaps is bass harder than anyone, while sounding better than anyone else out there...Chad Smith's banging drums, and psyhchedelic guitar from john.  There are to many good tracks to get into detail on each one.  Only a one or two songs that maybe get skipped, but usually you can listen to it all, It's heading more in the direction of Californication, rather than the Recently released Tricky album which featured John and Anthony.  I would like to see them coloborate again soon.  "By the way" sounds quite different from californication despite what I have read...This album is a must for any fan. buy it now.
4775690
I've had this album since 98, and even though I always enjoyed it, I never really liked it compared to the rest of MBM's work. It just seemed too random and chaotic at the time. After not listening to it for a year, I finally played it tonight. Now I'm amazed by all the stuff I took for granted. The first half of the album I always enjoyed, and still do. "Prime Audio Soup" is the most familiar track, and probably the most immediately accessable. Very hectic percussion, which is a constant in this album, and short blasts of sound. "Book of Shadows" is a good, relaxed dubby track. "Let's Have Fun" builds on an atmosphere of menacing atmospherics and bombastic drumming that still gives me chills. It's probably the standout track on the album. I've heard many people say the album falls apart after "Acid Again", and I agreed then. Now, I'd say it's where the album actually gets stronger. "Where Are You?/Enuff" pounds along as the background snarls and growls, a small melody coming up for air and going back down again, then the track just switches gears into pure unbridled lunacy. I think of carnival music from hell. It's great stuff. "Hail To The Bopp" brings down the hectic atmosphere momentarily with a spacy jazz jam. The calm is disrupted by the smothering bleeps and beats of "3 Floors Above You". No electronic artist can match the schizophrenic delusions this song draws out. Truly excellent stuff. "Funny Feeling" feels rather goofy in the beginning, but the acid jazz/dub breakdown at the end of the track saves it from being too kitsch. "The Thumb" is a good jazz jam, turning darker and frothier as it goes. "Wavy Line" is just a short electro number, and feels wasted but is ultimately unoffensive. "Wildlife" is odd. I think of the introduction to the show Peewee Herman had on saturday morning i watched when i was little. It's definitely a style change, but it's pulled off well, and i couldn't think of a better way to end the album.
Anyways, to cut it short, there's a LOT to this album. It's packed full of sounds, and is probably daunting to most people. But that works to the album's advantage. I've grown to like it more over time. It still sounds fresher than what's being released today, which is incredibly sad. A lot of people don't understand the impact Jack and crew have had. This album proves that they've been the best in their field all along.
1100952
"Boys for Pele" is Tori's third album, and probably my most favorite album of hers.  "Boys for Pele" was written in response to her breakup with a long time boyfriend and has got to be the one of the most powerful works in her album catalogue!
This album is a bit quirky but that is what makes it so brilliant!  Of course the lyrics are very deep and the musical arrangements are incredible.  And that what I love about this album so much.  The fact that the song might mean one thing to Tori but could mean a million different things to anyone else.  It's all in how you interpret the song.
There is so much raw and intense emotion on this album, and it's exploding from every single song on the album.  This one might not be a good intruoduction to Tori for someone who has never heard her work before.  If that's you, I would recommend starting from the beginning because you can't experience this kind of powerful and intense emotion without knowing where Tori has come from in the first place.  Although if you like Tori's work so far, then you MUST have this album!  There really aren't words to describe it!  I am trying, but I'm not doing it justice!
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How can you not like this album? Even though Madtv joked about it being a 12 year old album. This album is truly her best. I saw the rhythm nation video, and they could have went a little more controversial,but decided to stay safe with just dancing. Wow, it's upbeat and i really love the title track to this album. It's defiantly down loadable. The Knowledge has very good up tempo beats as well. I even saw Michael Jackson say this was one of his favorite tracks of all time. Really the reason that helped this album to be such as breakthrough was for the fact that it almost seems like a female version of Michael Jackson. Which i think really helped put this album on the map. The commentary tracks in between this album are also very great as well. You get a real sense of what she's trying to accomplish on this album. Black Cat is also one of my favorite tracks of all time. I really think that she did a great job of crossing genres when she came out with this song. It's actually an excellent 80's rock song. And that helped her have great cross-over appeal.
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28 songs for a one-CD price?  That in and of itself caught my attention when this album came out last year--never mind that it was the legendary Chili Peppers putting out such an effort.  But do the songs measure up?

In my opinion, they absolutely do.  You can't go wrong with the rock of the huge hit "Dani California", "Especially in Michigan", or "Readymade".  More mellow fare like "Desecration Smile", "Wet Sand", and "If" also hits the spot.  As others have stated, don't believe the folks who try to tell you this album is not catchy; it absolutely is.  While I liked most of the songs right away, repeated listens allowed me to truly observe how brilliant this music is.  Melodic, funky, catchy, rocking, mellow...it all blends together beautifully on these two CDs.

Yes, times have changed since the "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" days of 15 years ago.  I know that I have changed in the past 15 years...haven't we all (hopefully)?  No doubt the Chili Peppers have.  One thing that hasn't changed, however...their musical output continues to be brilliant.  This album will be looked upon as a classic 15-20 years from now.
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Mef's fourth solo album is a masterpiece. after the so so Tical 2000, and the horrible Tical 0, Mef brings back the style that first made us love him. 4:21... The Day After, comes during a tough time in hip hop. Radio only plays very commercial songs now, and they all song the same. Mef brings it back to the early 90's and reflects his life from then to now. And for the haters, just listen to the song Say, which in my opinion, is one of the best hip hop songs ever. Mef brings himself out on this track and tells everything, from not being able to make a album his way to the death of his friend ODB. Dirty makes a guest appearance on the song Dirty Mef, which really sounds like a song from the old 36 chambers days. The production from RZA and Erick Sermon (two of my favorite producers) bring out Mef at his best. Even the song with Redman, Walk On, has an old school to it and Mef and Red pass verses back and forth. Favorites include Is It Me, Problem, Fall Out, Dirty Mef ft. ODB, The Glide ft. Raekwon and LA the Darkman, Say ft. Lauren Hill, Ya'meen ft. Fat Joe and Styles P, Everything ft. Inspectah Deck and Streetlife, Walk On ft. Redman, Presidential MC ft. Raekwon and RZA, and 4 Ever ft. Megan Rochell. Highly Highly Recommended.
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First off, I would HIGHLY recommend rearranging the tracks of the album to something like the following, to get the most mileage out of this as an album. There isn't a song that I don't like off this album, but having a long unnecessary string of quieter songs has a tendency to wear on one's interest:

1. Born This Way
2. Set Me on Fire
3. Untraveled Road
4. I See Red
5. Glow
6. Give It To Me
7. Light Up
8. Like A Machine
9. Oxygen
10. In My Room

There, now that's out of the way, on to the review.

Ever since this album was streaming on iTunes FirstPlay last week, it's been popular to share negativity about this album. In fact, there has been so much negativity about this album from social media to Christian review sites alike, that I had serious doubts that Thousand Foot Krutch's seventh CD release was any good. Fortunately, this is a classic example of "just because a lot of people get together to say one thing, doesn't mean it's right/true" because there is plenty to like about this album-- not just because of what it offers, but what it sets as a precedent for TFK.

You will notice immediately that the heaviness in mood/tone that surround TFK's usual rock is gone from this record. That doesn't mean that the pulsing guitars and pace-driven drum beats are gone, they're still there; but the sense of desperation, brokenness, and despair isn't accompanied with them. This rock is tonally lighter with the melodies in a way that has never before been seen on a TFK album. And after having numerous rock songs from their catalog that repeat the heavy-mood motif, this is a definite breath of fresh air.

Also new is how Trevor McNevan approaches the vocals-- they are noticeably outside the cookie-cutter TFK boundaries. This album center-stages, for the first time in my opinion, the great range that McNevan has as a singer. Falsetto is thrown around, as is many deviations of pitch, alongside familiar rapping and "rough rock" singing (best way I could categorize that?). Again, a breath of fresh air, and it sounds excellent. There have been numerous times, while listening to the CD, where a smile creeps onto my face, because it's singing that you just don't expect from the standard TFK has given. The fact that it works so well begs to question, "Why haven't they tried this before?"

The big blunder in this record is not that they only have four "real" rock songs, because the others that are on there are not bad. Ballads/acoustics/slow songs have been proven on past TFK records to be memorable, if not AS memorable as their harder-hitting tracks (This Is A Call, Breathe You In, Wish You Well, etc.). The problem is how this album works cohesively, and again, I highly recommend rearranging the tracks like the example above for this album to be as cohesive as it ought to be, because it isn't with how they layered it. You can't arrange an album so top heavy with rock tracks and half nearly half of the rest of the record be slower songs-- it just doesn't flow, TFK-rock-style band or otherwise. It sends the album off on a lower note because of it, and muddles up the rest of the energy at the beginning. That being said, I would like to see more rock songs from them than softer ones, but they do both well.

Ultimately, this is an exciting time for Thousand Foot Krutch. After seven albums, they've shown that they can still be fresh and exciting, and it opens the door to many song possibilities as they keep refining this new territory. For the fans that want TFK to give more than they've already given, they just did, and set the bar higher for themselves moving forward.
2808878
I waited a while to write this review because I wanted to hear the album several times. As a true MCC fan, I understand some of the negative comments. This is very different than the MCC vocals we are used to. This album sounds better each time you hear it. Come on Come on, Only a Dream and Goodnight America are my favorites. The orchestral richness of the arrangements complements MCC's voice on most of the songs; however, there are few places where her voice is overwhelmed. Even so, this is MCC at her best. My 5 star review is totally earned.
395929
Because I have listened to it the most - its by far the best album i have - really its just because SO many of the songs are so damn good - i just listened to it again driving down Route 1 in Big Sur, and WOW - the songs blow you away.  A fantastic mix of raw emotion, musical control and poetics all mixed together - one thing i really like about MM is they are not afraid to stick to the 'each song must be close to 3 minutes long' rule - there are songs that go like 10 minutes (it seems at least) with a nice mellow original beat/groove.  Ive got all MM albums, and while i like all except for that bad last one - LCW is by far the best.  If your like me, you won't necessarily like it all that much the first time you hear it (if you haven't got hooked to MM yet) - but it intrigues you.  Then you listen to it again - then each time gets better and better.  I keep thinking im going to get sick of this album - but it was not meant to be.  My two cents
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How do you begin to even describe this album? It's sooo good that words just don't do it justice. I must admit I was never into the whole hiphop and jazz fusion thing but all of that changed when I picked up this album. I have to honestly say this is the BEST album I have ever heard. The reason why I say that is becuase I could just play it on random and enjoy every track without skipping a track. I must say I have never been able to listen to an entire album without doing that. I even found myself skipping through a couple of Pete Rock's, Elzhi, 2 Pac, Doom, even a couple of Tribe's tracks. But this one was special. From the moment I pushed the play button I was hooked, I listened to this album for 12 hours straight! It was almost as good as sex. The only thing that could beat this album was if I was listening to this album while having sex. I've never heard of these guys until someone recommended them to me over a hiphop forum. I usually download my music, but because this album was just that good I had drop the $30.00 just so that I can in some small way help get them out there.

Enough about how much I like the album, I will begin to tell you why I enjoy this album so much. From the beginning it kinda wraps you into a chill atmosphere when it opens up with Clin D'Oeil which has a really heavy dose of jazz with a dash of hiphop. This has to be my number 2 favorite track on this album, just simply because how it's put together. Everything is somewhat consistant with regards of the instrumentals until around Indonesia where hiphop has more of an influence and it almost seems as though hiphop and jazz are not present but they have merged to create a new style of music. Then in the later tracks this begins really evident until the very end where you end this fantastic journey with a fantastic outro utilizing mostly jazz. And I suppose with this they bring the message home basically by saying jazz is the way to go. The Jazz Liberators employ a variety of artists whose talents cover a broad spectrum and manages to effectively use their styles in conjunction with their music to produce a plethora of great tracks.

I like all of the tracks but my top 5 would be:
1) Cool Down
2) Clin D'Oeil
3) Vacation
4) Indonesia
5) Take A Time
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WOW! that's the first thing that I associate with Smash Mouth's latest effort, "Get the Picture". From the opening song to the final track this album just blows me away. Somehow, 4 albums in and still their only signiture is that every album is different. Best comparison is that this album is the PERFECT mix of "Astro Lounge" and "Smash Mouth"
Until today I was never quite so blown away as the first time I listened to "Fush Yu Mang" but now, "Get the Picture" has just become my favourite Smash Mouth album.
I think one of my favourite things about this new album in particular is that there isn't a single weak point to the album, on "Astro Lounge" I could have done without "Falling Horses" on the self titled album "keep it down" was the low point...on the first album...it all rocked, but this album is much like that. It starts off fast, and it keeps going hard till the end.
If you are a long time Smash Mouth fan, or if you've only heard 1 or 2 songs, and aren't sure what to expect, just expect a really great solid fun album, and I seriously recommend you pick this one up TODAY. The sooner the better.
These guys can do no wrong, they are one of the greatest bands of our time, and their albums are some of the most fun you can have. Great summer songs, Party songs, or just to listen to on your own or with a friend.
PERFECT 10 OUT OF 10
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This is one of the coolest late '50s Mel Torme recordings, and one of his first "concept" albums, available for a short time on compact disc. Traveling through a torid love affair in 25 ( TWENTY-FIVE !! ) tracks. Not only are there some of Mel's best love songs here, this rare recording also includes the rare dialogue from the original release. The music & pillow talk sounds fantastic on this 20-bit high definition mastered CD. Reissued in 1996 and no longer available. A collectable rare CD and A must for all MT fans......Steve
1540627
Love Mellancamp! This is a great song and album it's definitely got some of the best he's got to give