Word: albums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Counting Crows' new album This Desert Life arrives in stores in 7,200 minutes...
...show that explores it on the WB. For each of life's cliched ironies encountered for the first time, there is a chat room to lament it on TeenGripe.com For every pimply punk buying a pop CD, another kid with a good complexion has just released a debut album. Being a teenager these days is as effortless as being a Renaissance Man during the Renaissance. These kids have no idea how hard it is living in an era that has outgrown grownups. They just... I dunno. Forget it. Whatever...
Then there's [The Artist]'s new CD, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. It's a terrific album, full of some of [The Artist]'s freshest, most focused music in years. It's being released by Arista--the first time [The Artist] has hooked up with a major label since 1996--but [The Artist] says he doesn't really have a contract with Arista, merely an "agreement." That agreement, [The Artist] says, is only two pages long. Two pages? Most pop acts need longer contracts just to cover the number of M&Ms that have to be in their dressing...
...recent years, [The Artist], 41, has been releasing records on his own label and selling them via the Internet. Some of those records have been sprawling; his 1998 album Crystal Ball was a five-CD set. Rave is smarter and trimmer, a single CD, 15 songs, with an impressive roster of guest stars that includes, among others, folk rocker Ani DiFranco, the rapper Eve and saxophonist Maceo Parker. And [The Artist]'s old pronounceable name makes a return on the new album. Rave's credits list Prince as the producer. [The Artist] adopted his old persona to recapture some...
...country singer, but Hill has made the kind of crossover album you can imagine being plugged at the end of some teen-oriented WB drama such as Dawson's Creek or Roswell. Like Shania Twain, Hill loves showmanship: one of the up-tempo numbers on this album is called Bringing Out the Elvis. But while Twain often comes across as gimmicky, the songs on Hill's new album--though none aspire to great art--are tastefully rendered. Hill even serves up a romantic cover of a Bruce Springsteen song, If I Should Fall Behind. As you listen, it's hard...