Word: albums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coolest new additions to the Marley catalog is the just-released CD Chant Down Babylon (Tuff Gong/Island). The album features duets with Marley and some of today's best hip-hop performers, including Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes. The hip-hoppers supply new vocals, while Marley's are drawn from alternate takes in decades-old recording sessions. "We got the idea, well, from Daddy basically," says Marley's son Stephen, who served as executive producer. "It was one of his dreams to get to the urban youth of America...
Marley's musical message is having no trouble finding new audiences. Legend, the Jamaican singer-songwriter's greatest-hits album, is, after 15 years and 10 million copies sold, still on the Billboard charts. Songs of Freedom, a four-CD boxed set of Marley's music, has been reissued after selling out its initial limited-edition run of 1 million copies. Chris Blackwell, head of the multimedia-entertainment company Palm Pictures and the man who signed Marley to Island Records, says Marley's lasting appeal is rooted in his approach to music. "His music was never overexposed at the time...
...Reform Party nominee --Lou Bega's next single --Kathie Lee Gifford's Christmas special --Our neighbor's Y2K bunker --The Ask Jeeves Thanksgiving Day Parade float --Michael Jackson playing Edgar Allan Poe in a movie --Bill Gates' appeal --Y2K: The Movie --Willennium, the Will Smith album --Kurt Warner's second half --The recession --The presidential-campaign debates --The final episode of Shasta McNasty --Howard Stern dating --NHL Minnesota expansion team, the Wild --The debut of the trampolining competition at the Olympics --Bulgarian air-traffic controllers...
...Surprisingly enough, the album's strongest track is the only song on the album not written by the veteran singer/songwriter performing it. The Artist's cover of "Every Day is a Winding Road" is scarcely recognizable as the same song that Sheryl Crow sang. Instead, he has infused the pop song with a distinctly bluesy feel that indelibly claims it as the musical property of the Artist once known as Prince. The way he makes Crow's song his own reminds his listener of the immense musical talent that he possesses, a fact that will only make fans bemoan...
...Midnite Vultures adds soulful guitar licks, raging horns and many, many funk-inspired hooks to the usual mix of winsome melodies, carefully orchestrated electronic honking and bizarre lyrics produced by the world's hippest white guy. Played in its entirety last Sunday night on WFNX 101.7 FM, the album goes on sale...