Monday, January 5, 2009

Alex Music blog

Alex Music blog

John Mayer - Inside Wants Out

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 05:15 AM PST

Review by William Ruhlmann @ allmusic.com After John Mayer hooked up with producer John Alagia, who had previously worked with Dave Matthews, for his second album, Room for Squares, a lot of people heard him as a second Matthews. But a listen to Mayer's first album, Inside Wants Out, half of which turned up in re-recorded form on Room for Squares, is liable to remind the listener more of an

Ace Of Base - The Bridge (1995)

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 02:22 AM PST

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine @ allmusic.com Ace of Base's sequel to their multi-platinum debut The Sign sounds like the same record on the surface. There are the same bouncy Europop beats, ingratiatingly catchy melodies, and shiny production. However, underneath that gloss is an improved sense of songwriting. Ace of Base still might not be innovators, but they don't need to be. Instead,

Yann Tiersen - Amelie OST (2001)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 01:00 PM PST

Track List 01. J'y suis jamais allé - 1:34 02. Les jours tristes (Instrumental) - 3:03 03. La valse d'Amélie (Original version) - 2:15 04. Comptine d'un autre été: l'après-midi - 2:20 05. La noyée - 2:03 06. L'autre valse d'Amélie - 1:33 07. Guilty (Al Bowlly) - 3:13 08. À quai - 3:32 09. Le moulin - 4:27 10. Pas si simple - 1:52 11. La valse d'Amélie (Orchestral version) - 2:00 12. La valse

Izzy - The best of Izzy (2004)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 12:00 PM PST

About Izzy (from www.IzzySings.info) Who is Izzy? Izzy is an exciting young soprano who prefers to be known simply by her nickname Izzy. She was born Isobel Cooper in a beautiful English village called Much Wenlock in Shropshire, England. Her first release on Manhattan Records in the U.S.A. is the eponymously titled CD Izzy a collection of arias and traditional songs from her two CD's previously

Izzy - New Dawn (2002)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 11:00 AM PST

Track List 01. Lascia Ch'io Pianga 02. Sull' Aria 03. Pavane 04. Un Bel Di Vedremo 05. The Water Is Wide 06. Le Temps Des Cerises 07. Scheherezade Fantasy 08. Steal Away (In Memory Of Grigore Haidu) 09. Greensleeves 10. Qui C'est Celluy 11. Helas, Pourquoy Me Suis Je Mariee 12. Laisses, Parler, Laisses Dire 13. Suo Gan 14. The Last Rose Of Summer (In Memory Of Neveljko Djudurovic) DL Link

Tracy Chapman - New Beginning (1995)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 10:04 AM PST

Review by William Ruhlmann @ allmusic.com One might assume that the difference between Tracy Chapman's third album, which spent less than three months in the charts and failed to go gold after her first two albums had sold in the millions, and her fourth, which restored her to substantial commercial success, was the album's hit single, "Give Me One Reason." In fact, after a disappointing start,

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It (2006)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 08:30 AM PST

Review by Corey Apar @allmusic.com The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus sounds nearly like what would result should Hawthorne Heights and Hoobastank have a love child. Basically alternative rock with occasional screamo tendencies, their slick and accessible debut, Don't You Fake It, comes ready for radio airwaves, while remaining just abrasive enough for the Warped Tour stage. Despite having a completely

Christina Aguilera - Keeps Gettin' Better (A Decade Of Hits) (2008)

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 05:57 AM PST

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine @allmusic.com When Christina Aguilera began her decade of hits back in 1999 she was instantly overshadowed by her fellow New Mickey Mouse Club alumni Britney Spears, who was first out of the gate with Baby One More Time and wound up out-selling Christina and every other teen pop act this side of *NSync in the first years of the new millennium. As the 2000s