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...ALICIA KEYS, 20, whose Songs in A Minor is the musical surprise of the summer. Keys, a classically trained pianist, describes her sound as "Beethoven meets Wu-Tang, with a lot of soul." Besides reaching record buyers, she also grabbed Prince's attention with a cover of his B-side chestnut How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? "He invited me down to perform at this festival he just finished putting on in Minneapolis," says Keys. "Before he performed, he said, 'I just want to tell you I love your rendition.'" Then she went and ruined the moment...
...Phillips/Aimee Mann mold, except she was a musician way before either of those artists (“They Don’t Know,” Tracey Ullman’s musical hit of the 80s, is a cover of a MacColl song, as is the Lemonheads’ B-side “He’s on the Beach”). While some press releases for the album have called her a folkie, it wouldn’t be right to lump the versatile MacColl into the cliche of the female folk singer-songwriter; Tropical Brainstorm is Latin...
...Just looking at those that made Billboard's top 10 but missed the top spot, you could have: "Twist and Shout" (no. 2), "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (no. 2), "P.S. I Love You" (no. 10), "She's a Woman" (no. 4, although really it was the B-side to "I Feel Fine"), "Nowhere Man" (no. 3) and last but certainly not least "Strawberry Fields Forever" (no. 8, although really it was the double-A side to "Penny Lane"). And that's not even counting the great songs that were never released as singles, such as "Norwegian Wood...
...What did interest me, however, was LP number 5: "The Phil Spector Wall of Sound Vol. 5: Rare Masters." To an obsessive, of course, the words "rare master" are Pavlovian triggers like "never released", "obscure B-side" and "the Beatles butcher-cover." That it turned out to be a great record was irrelevant - I had no choice. I was Ahab, the white whale was off the starboard. Somehow I got the money (probably around six or seven dollars) and "Rare Masters" was in my hands...
...Harry Nilsson's "Paradise," which for years existed only as a rumor. And an unknown April Stevens solo cut - she was usually half of a brother-sister act with sibling Nino Tempo - called "Why Can't a Boy and Girl Just Stay In Love." There is an obscure B-side known as "Torpedo Rock," a deliberately obnoxious instrumental, typical of what Spector sometimes placed on flip sides so the impact of the A-side wouldn't be diluted...