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...shocking as his Katrina-inspired "George Bush doesn't care about black people" moment during a TV fund raiser for hurricane victims or so original as the self-love/self-hate tightrope walk of his debut The College Dropout. But if you think you're invulnerable to an atmospheric ballad with Maroon 5's chirpy Adam Levine (Heard 'Em Say) or a song called Roses about a sick grandma, you will be shocked at the stealthy power of West's storytelling. As for the music, one listen to Gone, built around an Otis Redding sample and some ecstatic string arrangements...
...Womack There's More Where That Came From; $13.98 Unlike most country singers, Womack knows that ballad singing isn't an Olympian test of lung capacity. She hush-sings her way through Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago and a delicate cover of Sonny Throckmorton's Waiting for the Sun to Shine, providing a much needed reminder that country, more than any other musical genre, still has the potential to offer instant intimacy. Best Tracks: Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago, Happiness, Waiting for the Sun to Shine...
...American Life.” Now, on “Confessions On A Dance Floor,” 48-year-old Madge brings another, deeper religion to the forefront: Disco. “Confessions” is a sweaty journey through a packed dancehall, with nary a ballad to be found. In her refreshingly bold “Non-Stop Mix,” the dozen songs overlap one another like a DJ starter pack scientifically formulated to simulate the club experience. Upon listening, you can almost feel the bodies rubbing against each other in a disco ball glow. While...
...have been hard to escape even if they had become dentists. Archie is a Gulf Coast legend raised in Drew, Miss., who starred at Ole Miss, where the campus speed limit is still 18 m.p.h. in recognition of his jersey number. He also inspired a popular Dixie ditty, The Ballad of Archie Who. As a pro, he owned New Orleans, despite the awful team. As a father, he worried about heaping expectations on his kids, so he stayed on the sideline. "I was scared to get too involved," says Archie. "I just thought, 'Look, you're asking for trouble.' They...
...soon adoring/You don’t want the truth the truth is boring.” Who knew that Britain’s pop master had thoughts past booze and broads? Williams then points the lyrics at himself, taking him to previously unexplored areas of introspection. In the gentle ballad “Make Me Pure,” he settles on his faults (“I got a ton of selfish genes and lazy bones beneath this skin”), and, paraphrasing St. Augustine’s fabled exhortation, he pleads to the Lord...