Tracks Best of Chris Isaak
- San Francisco Days
- Let's Have A Party
- Only The Lonely
- Can't Do A Thing (To Stop Me)
- Blue Spanish Sky
- Somebody's Crying
- Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
- Wicked Game
- You Owe Me Some Kind Of Love
- Blue Hotel
- Let Me Down Easy
- Two Hearts
- Dancin'
- Speak Of The Devil
- I Want You To Want Me
- King Without A Castle
- Forever Blue
- Please
Release date: 2006-09-18
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.97
Review Best of Chris Isaak / Chris Isaak:
Tracks ...By Request
- Picture Of You
- I Love The Way You Love Me
- All The Time In The World
- When You Say Nothing At All
- Key To My Life
- Coming Home Now
- Isn't It A Wonder
- So They Told Me
- A Different Beat
- Love Me For A Reason
- Baby Can I Hold You
- Words
- You Needed Me
- No Matter What
- All That I Need
- When The Going Gets Tough
- Father And Son
- I'll Never Not Need You
- So Good
Release date: 1999-05-31
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.94
Review ...By Request / Boyzone:Boyzone have always favoured covers-from their earliest singles (versions of 1970s pop groups the Detroit Spinners' "Working My Way Back To You" and the Osmonds' "Love Me For A Reason") to their first million-selling hit, a faithful reading of Australian high-pitched harmony singers, the Bee Gees' "Words". So the release of By Request compilation of cover versions in 1999 came as no real surprise, then. What is a surprise, however, is the amount of emotion and pathos Ronan and co-manage to invest in songs like Cat Stevens' "Father & Son" and Tracy Chapman's "Baby Can I Hold You"-far exceeding the brief most boy bands have of merely smiling sweetly at the camera and making sure the dance steps are inch perfect. Musically, all the songs here veer towards the brand of harmony-laden, lightweight dance-pop Boyzone have virtually claimed for their own. -Everett True.
Tracks Show Your Bones
- Cheated Hearts
- Dudley
- The Sweets
- Phenomena
- Turn Into
- Fancy
- Warrior
- Way Out
- Honeybear
- Gold Lion
- Deja Vu
- Mysteries
Release date: 2006-03-27
Run time: 42 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.87
Review Show Your Bones / Yeah Yeah Yeahs:Garage-rock? The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' second album demonstrates that if this New York art-school trio were ever anything to do with the stripped-down, lo-fidelity rock ethic, it was strictly by coincidence. Rather, Show Your Bones marks this band out as true 21st Century new-wavers, their sound filled out with gleaming layers of guitar and a dynamic that bucks and coils with devious ambition under vocalist Karen O's gasped, orgasmic yowl. True, like Fever To Tell, Shake Your Bones opens with a snarl and an surfeit of fiery rock-out gumption-see single "The Golden Mile" and "Phenomena", Karen chanting "Something like a phenomenon/You're something like a phenomenon" over crunchy, distorted stomp. But gradually, the album softens to yield emotional secrets. "Cheating Hearts" commences with a triumphant Nick Zinner fanfare apparently cribbed straight from the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant", but blossoms out into a passionate love song that flits between swooning poignancy and elatory triumph, while the hushed "Warrior" belies Karen and Nick's genesis as a singer-songwriter duo-at least until it rears into life like a rattlesnake, Karen letting loose gleeful kung-fu chops atop slices of choppy guitar. A second album that, far from feeling difficult, comes across as almost effortless in its excellence. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks How Dare You
- Art For Art's Sake
- How Dare You
- Iceberg
- Lazy Ways
- Head Room
- Rock 'n' Roll Lullaby
- I Wanna Rule The World
- Don't Hang Up
- I'm Mandy Fly Me
- Get It While You Can
Release date: 1997-07-14
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.72
Review How Dare You / 10cc:
Tracks Love in the Time of Science
- Summerbreeze
- Baby Blue
- Telepathy
- Wednesday's Child
- Fingertips
- Unemployed In Summertime
- Tuna Fish
- Dead Things
- Sea People
- Easy
- To Be Free
Release date: 1999-11-22
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.07
Review Love in the Time of Science / Emiliana Torrini:
Tracks Psychocandy: Remastered
- Sowing Seeds
- Just Like Honey
- You Trip Me Up
- Hardest Walk
- In A Hole
- My Little Underground
- Never Understand
- Living End
- Something's Wrong
- Taste The Floor
- Cut Dead
- Taste Of Cindy
- It's So Hard
- Inside Me
Release date: 2006-07-10
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.47
Review Psychocandy: Remastered / Jesus & Mary Chain:
Tracks Complete Greatest Hits
- Restless
- Beautiful
- If You Could Read My Mind
- Go Go Round
- Daylight Katy
- Summer Side Of Life
- Baby Step Back
- Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
- For Lovin' Me
- Stay Loose
- Circle Is Small
- Early Morning Rain
- Canadian Railroad Trilogy
- Cotton Jenny
- Pussywillows Cat Tails
- Race Among The Ruins
- Rainy Day People
- Bitter Green
- Carefree Highway
- Sundown
Release date: 2002-05-27
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.94
Review Complete Greatest Hits / Gordon Lightfoot:Although he rose from the ranks of journeyman 60s' folksingers to become a potent and consistent 70s hit-maker, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot's stock-in-trade was as much hard-eyed, dispassionate observation as it was romance or poetic whimsy. Perhaps that's why his songs have been covered by everyone from Elvis (this sets "Early Morning Rain") to Dylan. If there's such a thing as an alpha-male folkie, Lightfoot certainly fits the bill. Spanning the tongue-in-cheek chauvinism of 1965's "For Lovin' Me" and the cheatin' ways of "Sundown", to more introspective fare like "If You Could Read My Mind" and "Beautiful", this 20-track collection presents a concise primer on Lightfoot's career and craft. While his career peaked with one of the most unlikely Top Five hits ever, the gloom-laden 1976 narrative "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", Lightfoot's production tailed off sharply thereafter, though this anthology's "Stay Loose" (86) and "Restless" (93) are testament to his enduring skills as a songwriter and performer. -Jerry McCulley.
Tracks Rarities B-Sides and Other Stuff Volume 2
- The Rainbow Connection
- River
- Time After Time (with Cyndi Lauper)
- Angel (Live) (with Emmylou Harris)
- Unchained Melody
- Silence (DJ Tiesto ISOS Remix)
- Prayer of St. Francis
- Blackbird
- Ordinary Miracle
- Don't Let Go (with Bryan Adams)
- Pills (Live) (with The Perishers)
Release date: 2008-04-28
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.64
Review Rarities B-Sides and Other Stuff Volume 2 / Sarah McLachlan:
Tracks Chemical Chords
- Ecstatic Static
- Valley Hi
- One Finger Symphony
- Chemical Chords
- Nous Vous Demandons Pardon
- Silver Sands
- Self Portrait With Electric Brain
- Fractal Dream Of A Thing
- Three Women
- Vortical Phonotheque
- Daisy Click Clack
- Cellulose Sunshine
- Pop Molecule
- Neon Beanbag
Release date: 2008-08-18
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.00
Review Chemical Chords / Stereolab:
Tracks Virtuoso
- You Raise Me Up
- Carmen Fantaisie
- The Flight of The Bumble Bee
- La Califfa
- Paganini Rhapsody (on Caprice 24)
- Toccata
- Csardas - Gypsy Dance
- Serenade
- Somewhere
- Canon
- Nothing Else Matters
- Csardas - Gypsy Dance
- Eliza's Song
- Duelling Banjos
Release date: 2008-03-24
Run time: 49 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.99
Review Virtuoso / David Garrett:
Tracks Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits
- Your Latest Trick
- On Every Street
- Money For Nothing
- Love Over Gold
- Romeo And Juliet
- Sultans Of Swing
- Brothers In Arms
- So Far Away
- Calling Elvis
- Local Hero/Wild Theme
- Private Investigations
- Twisting By The Pool
- Tunnel Of Love
- Walk Of Life
- Lady Writer
- Heavy Fuel
Release date: 1999-06-18
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.25
Review Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits / Dire Straits:
Tracks Watershed
- I Dream of Spring
- Sunday
- Flame of the Uninspired
- Thread
- Coming Home
- Je fais la planche
- Once in a While
- Jealous Dog
- Close Your Eyes
- Upstream
- Shadow and the Frame
Release date: 2008-01-28
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.75
Review Watershed / K.D. Lang:Watershed is the first major project from celebrated Canadian chanteuse k. d. lang since 2004's Hymns of the 49th Parallel. Where Hymns explored the music of fellow Canadians such as Ron Sexsmith, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, Watershed represents the first set of original songs from lang in around eight years. Self-produced and arranged by musicians she has worked with a lot in the past, the most striking aspect of the album is its intimate, homely feel. Adding to the cozy ambience is the fact that Watershed brings most of lang's musical passions and influences-jazz, country, folk, bossa nova-under one roof, lending the project a dreamy, mellifluous coherence. But if the musical landscape is mellow and easy to traverse, Lang's lyrics can be less comfortable. Using her laid-back, often ethereal arrangements as sugar-candied coating for thornier topics, the singer serenades with stories of broken love, occasionally harsh self-analysis and the obligatory forays into existential angst. These contrastive elements only serve to make the album stronger, adding emotional weight to the airless arrangements of "Once in a While," and the delicate "Close Your Eyes," and conjuring up images of beauty on the string-laden "I Dream of Spring," and the wonderfully lazy "Sunday". Intelligent, mature and sophisticated, Watershed is the kind of perfect pop album it's difficult not to fall in love with immediately and forever. [+]-Paul Sullivan.
Tracks The Collection
- The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
- You Can All Join In
- Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
- (Roamin' Thro' The Gloamin' With) 40.000 Headman
- Freedom Rider
- Coloured Rain
- Pearly Queen
- No Face, No Name, No Number
- Berkshire Poppies
- Am I What I Was Or Am I What I Am
- Medicated Goo
- Hole In My Shoe
- Dear Mr. Fantasy
- John Barleycorn (Must Die)
- Rock 'N' Roll Stew
- Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
- Paper Sun
Release date: 2001-06-11
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.89
Review The Collection / Traffic:
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Tracks We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions / American Land Edition [CD+DVD]
- Erie Canal (DVD)
- Shenandoah (DVD)
- John Henry (DVD)
- O Mary Don't You Weep
- Bring 'Em Home
- Buffalo Gals (DVD)
- Froggie Went A Courtin'
- O Mary Don't You Weep (DVD)
- Jesse James
- John Henry
- My Oklahoma Home
- Mrs McGrath
- Pay Me My Money Down
- We Shall Overcome
- American Land
- Old Dan Tucker
- Jacob's Ladder (DVD)
- Pay Me My Money Down (DVD)
- Jacob's Ladder
- Erie Canal
- How Can I Keep From Singing
- Bring' Em Home (new live tour video)
- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
- American Land (new live tour video)
- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (new live tour video)
- Shenandoah
- Froggie Went A Courtin' (DVD)
- Eyes On The Prize
- DVD Exclusive 40 Minute "Making Of..." Film. Includes filmed performances of:
- Buffalo Gals
- Pay Me My Money Down (new live tour video)
Release date: 2006-10-02
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.16
Review We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions / American Land Edition [CD+DVD] / Bruce Springsteen:The premise was simple. Bruce Springsteen invites a dozen or so New York City musicians-packing banjos, fiddles, accordions and the like-to his New Jersey farmhouse for a three-day hootenanny and leaves the tape rolling. The results are sublime, his 21st album featuring their versions of songs harvested from Springsteen's dog-eared LPs by Pete Seeger. Not all written by Seeger, the songs are how the American folk icon interpreted them, and these organic recordings, with no rehearsals or overdubs, pay tribute with the simplicity and spontaneity he intended. It's not hard to link Springsteen's dissatisfaction with American politics to the protest song "We Shall Overcome" or even the Irish ballad "Mrs McGrath," where he alters the lyrics to read, "I'd rather have my son as he used to be/Than the King of America and his whole navy. " But the beauty of these Seeger Sessions are pieces that underscore the mood of the bandleader, which borders on down-home amusement: the bluegrass outlaw ballad "Jesse James," the Dylanesque "Pay Me My Money Down" and the euphoric "Jacob's Ladder," a gumbo-and-whiskey-fueled romp that could pass for the closing hymn at the Church of Asbury Park. -Scott Holter.
Tracks Freedom's Road
- Rural Route
- The Americans
- Jim Crow
- Someday
- My Aeroplane
- Our Country
- Heaven Is A Lonely Place/Rodeo Clown
- Forgiveness
- Freedom's Road
- Ghost Towns Along The Highway
Release date: 2007-04-23
Run time: 49 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.49
Review Freedom's Road / John Mellencamp:
Tracks Border Town: the Very Best of J.D. Souther
- White Wing
- Jesus In 3/4 Time
- Black Rose
- Pretty Goodbyes - Souther Hillman Furay Band
- If You Have Crying Eyes - Souther, J.D. & Linda Ronstadt
- Fast One
- Faithless Love
- I'll Take Care Of You
- Somebody Must Be Wrong
- All I Want
- How Long
- Silver Blue
- Say You Will - Souther, J.D. & Linda Ronstadt
- Till The Bars Burn Down
- You're Only Lonely
- Border Town - Souther Hillman Furay Band
- Trouble In Paradise
- Go Ahead And Rain
Release date: 2007-10-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.57
Review Border Town: the Very Best of J.D. Souther / J.D. Souther:
Tracks Pure Cult (Best Of The Cult)
- Love Removal Machine
- Wild Flower
- Rain
- The Witch
- Coming Down
- Resurrection Joe
- She Sells Sanctuary
- Spiritwalker
- Sweet Soul Sister
- Revolution
- Edie (Ciao Baby)
- Go West
- In The Clouds
- Star
- Heart Of Soul
- Sun King
- Lil' Devil
- Wild Hearted Son
- Fire Woman
Release date: 2000-06-05
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.90
Review Pure Cult (Best Of The Cult) / Cult:The hard-rocking Cult have come along way from the early Native American stylings of Dreamtime and the dodgy goth tendencies evident on their classic album Love. Blame Rick Rubin, who helmed Electric and steered them down the rocky road to metal heaven. This Best Of Collection brings together tracks from their entire career and is a worthy testament to their rites of passage. There are so many great tracks on here that it's hard to pick out individual tracks to heap praise on; however, perennial favourite "She Sells Sanctuary" is always worth a listen and still sounds as refreshing as it did in 1985. There are some dubious inclusions from the twilight years of their career, such as the sub-standard "Star" and "Coming Down (Drug Tongue)" but when they have to hold their own alongside tracks like "Fire Woman" and "Lil' Devil" it's hardly surprising that they are found wanting. Pure Cult is a fitting testament to one of Britain's finest rock bands. -Helen Marquis.
Tracks Ballads - The Love Songs Collection
- Don't Stop Looking For Love
- And I
- Mystical Experience
- I Love The Way You Love Me
- Coming Home Now
- Words
- You Needed Me
- Every Day I Love You
- Ben
- Paradise
- No Matter What
- All That I Need
- No Matter What
- Love Me For A Reason
- Key To My Life
- Baby Can I Hold You
- Isn't It A Wonder
- Father And Son
- Your Song
Release date: 2003-03-17
Run time: 71 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.72
Review Ballads - The Love Songs Collection / Boyzone:
Tracks Ray of Light
- Nothing Really Matters
- Ray Of Light
- Mer Girl
- Swim
- Drowned World (Substitute For Love)
- Candy Perfume Girl
- Skin
- Frozen
- Sky Fits Heaven
- Shanti/Ashtangi
- Power Of Goodbye
- Little Star
- To Have And Not To Hold
Release date: 1998-03-02
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.50
Review Ray of Light / Madonna:Never underestimate Madonna's power of persuasion: by nearly all critical accounts, Ray of Light, Madonna's first album of new material since 1994's Bedtime Stories, and her first since motherhood, is her richest, most accomplished record yet. While Ray of Light is being tagged as Madonna's big leap into electronica, it's important to note two things: first, her music has always had close ties to dance culture, and, second, her collaborator William Orbit is no Chemical Brother. Though it has all the latest blips, bleeps, and crackles electronica has to offer, Ray of Light is still largely an adult album, completely within Madonna's realm. Still, Orbit's tasteful sonic constructions provide Madonna with her most adventurous, hippest musical backdrop ever. What's more, the arrangements and production are understated enough to highlight an even bigger development: fresh from singing lessons on the Evita set, Madonna's vocal range, depth, and clarity have never been stronger. But larger pipes don't necessarily make for deeper, truer music. Never a master lyricist, Madonna's words have worked best when they've practically been slogans ("Vogue," "Express Yourself"). This time she goes for more emotional depth, and even tries her hand at ethno-techno-mysticism ("Shanti/Ashtangi"). She largely stumbles, however. The tone conveyed on songs like "Nothing Really Matters" is a self-centred pat on the back that belies her claim to a newly found altruism. [+]It's enough to make you wonder, now that Madonna's given up being our material girl, if maybe she's set her sights on becoming the centre of our spiritual world too. -Roni Sarig.
Tracks Whatever and Ever Amen
- One angry dwarf and 200 solemn faces
- Evaporated
- Missing the war
- Battle of who could care less
- Cigarette
- Kate
- Song for the dumped
- Brick
- Steven's last night in town
- Selfless cold and composed
Release date: 2000-08-21
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.96
Review Whatever and Ever Amen / Ben Folds Five:Ben Folds' Five's Whatever and Ever Amen is a fantastic collection of songs from a band beginning to believe in itself as something more than a novelty act. Having excised much of their regrettable tendency to flippancy with their first album, the three members of Ben Folds Five delivered a classic follow-up: the single "The Battle of Who Could Care Less" is a witheringly witty character study of middle-class wasters that could be thought of as an American companion piece to Pulp's "Common People". Angry and articulate, Whatever and Ever Amen is a rewarding exploration of the hitherto virgin territory between Elvis Costello and Jerry Lee Lewis. It also contained the instant live favourite "Song for the Dumped", which in one transcendentally splendid moment-Folds' exuberant yelp of "Well, fuck you, too / Give me my money back, you bitch"-managed to make the rest of rock's vast canon of unrequited affection feel somewhat redundant. -Andrew Mueller Think of Ben Folds as Billy Joel minus the Tin Pan Alley heritage and armed with a sweet, wry, slacker ethos. In a guitar-free trio setting, the Chapel Hill smart guy pounds the ivories with gusto while singing a tremendous batch of funny ("Kate"), poignant ("Brick," "Evaporated"), pissed-off ("Song for the Dumped"), and hugely refreshing (all 12 tunes here) songs. -Jeff Bateman.
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