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Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (Deluxe Edition) (2008) Posted: 13 Jan 2009 03:21 AM CST
In 2001 Jimmy Eat World released JIMMY EAT WORLD, (originally titled BLEED AMERICAN), featuring the now classic single "The Middle" — the ubiquitous summer smash hit of 2002 propelled the album to multiplatinum status, and years of slogging it out under the radar were finally rewarded with sold out tours, an appearance on Saturday Night Live, an MTV Video Award nomination, invitations to tour with Green Day, Weezer and Blink-182, and critical acclaim on year-end lists from Spin, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Blender and Alternative Press among others. Disc 1 01. Bleed American 02. A Praise Chorus 03. The Middle 04. Your House 05. Sweetness 06. Hear You Me 07. If You Don't, Don't 08. Get It Faster 09. Cautioners 10. The Authority Song 11. My Sundown 12. The Most Beautiful Things 13. No Sensitivity 14. Splash, Turn and Twist Disc 2 01. Cautioners 02. Firestarter 03. Get It Faster 04. Bleed American 05. A Praise Chorus 06. Softer 07. The Middle 08. If You Don't, Don't 09. Game Of Pricks 10. The Authority Song 11. My Sundown 12. Sweetness 13. Last Christmas 14. My Sundown 15. Spangle 16. Hear You Me 17. The Middle 18. Your House DL Link |
Posted: 13 Jan 2009 03:16 AM CST
Review by Andrew Leahey While other Christian artists have made greater inroads into the secular world of modern pop/rock, few have displayed the endurance -- not to mention the universality -- of Plumb. Rising to prominence in the wake of Jars of Clay, whose post-grunge single "Flood" further opened the gates for spirituality to enter the rock genre, Plumb has since emerged as a singer/songwriter whose work often transcends the confines of alternative Contemporary Christian Music. Blink is undoubtedly spiritual, yes, and tracks like "God Will Take Care of You" and "Children of the Heavenly Father" won't convert many atheists to Plumb's serene sounds. Still, there's a universal current to Blink, whose haunting sublimity often sounds like a mature, stripped-down offering from Evanescence. "Waves will crash around, but you will be safe in my arms," Plumb sings during the semi-lullaby "In My Arms," ostensibly to her newborn son (to whom Blink is dedicated). But why can't a listener assume she's singing to a lover? And why shouldn't Plumb's religious fan base interpret the lyrics as something God would say to his followers? There's a secular/sacred duality to such tunes, allowing Plumb to remain faithful to her beliefs without flaunting them to distancing effect. Of course, it doesn't hurt that her songwriting is nothing short of top-notch, with soft electronica flourishes bubbling around her haunting, honest alto. It's a clever mix of the Postal Service and sophisticated new age spirituality, with traces of latter-day Suzanne Vega thrown in for good measure. Those determined to dislike god-fearing music might not be swayed, but Blink is one of Plumb's strongest efforts to date. Track List 01 - My Sweet, My Lovely 04:02 02 - God Will Take Care Of You 04:55 03 - In My Arms 04:04 04 - Always 03:45 05 - Children Of The Heavenly Father 05:29 06 - Blink 03:57 07 - My Child 04:30 08 - Me 04:34 09 - Sleep 05:20 10 - Solomon's Song 05:18 DL Link |
Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae (2006) Posted: 13 Jan 2009 03:10 AM CST |
Posted: 13 Jan 2009 03:05 AM CST
Lindsay Lohan played a rock & roller in the 2003 remake of the classic Disney identity-change flick Freaky Friday, so perhaps it wasn't a huge stretch for her to leap from acting to singing for the teen idol, yet her 2004 debut, Speak, still feels more like a byproduct of an overdriven, overamplified celebrity culture than an actual album. After all, with just two hit films under her belt, Lindsay wasn't exactly a huge star -- particularly one with a proven track record, one who could regularly open movies or had a fan base ready to follow her to pop music. Nevertheless, it was impossible to read gossip columns, entertainment press, and blogs without reading about Ms. Lohan, whether it was details of her feud with Hilary Duff, debates over the authenticity of her breasts, praise for her role in Tina Fey's Mean Girls, reports of her breakup from That 70s Show actor Wilmer Valderrama, and tales of her partying. This relentless flow of stories made Lindsay Lohan a star even to people who never saw her films, the way that the constant coverage of Paris Hilton turned the heiress into a star. And like that creation of celeb culture, Lohan decided it was time to turn herself into a multimedia, cross-platform star, instead of simply an actress, and so Speak was recorded quickly and rushed into the stores at the end of the year. It should come as no surprise that the record sounds like a record that was created in the moment and for the moment, to be the soundtrack to Lohan's wild year. So, there are songs that allude to her partying ways -- most explicitly on the lead single "Rumors," where Lindsay bats her eyes for the camera as she pleads to be left alone (it's inexplicably called a bonus track here, btw) -- and the music is a blend of old-fashioned, Britney-styled dance-pop and the anthemic, arena rock sound pioneered by fellow tween stars Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson. Lohan may be a better singer than Britney -- she's mannered, but her voice is fuller than Mrs. Federline's razor-thin squeak -- but her record feels a lot more cynical than the equally calculated and polished efforts by Hilary and Ashlee, and it all boils down to this: Lindsay Lohan comes across as ridiculously oversexed and crass. On the cover, the starlet -- who officially turned 18 in July of 2004 -- looks like a thirtysomething porn star, and she has the heavy-breathing voice and double entendres to match ("I wanna come first" on "First," the lead song, or "I'm not above being under" on "Disconnected"); add to that, she's posed in nothing more than an unbuttoned dress shirt in the liner notes, while there's another picture of her with the word "sex" scrawled over it, twice. When paired with the loud, relentlessly ProTooled dance-pop and hooky but unmelodic songs on Speak, the whole thing is a slick, ugly nadir of 2000s pop culture -- the kind of thing that makes Blue Staters think that, gee, maybe the Red Staters were right when they said the U.S. is going to hell. Thing of it is, Lohan could make a good record -- she doesn't have a bad voice and is forceful on record. Speak, however, is not a good record. It's more like an open diary documenting a particularly embarrassing teenager spinning out of control. Track List 01. First 02. Nobody Til You 03. Symtoms Of You 04. Speak 05. Over 06. Something I Never Had 07. Anything But Me 08. Disconnected 09. To Know Your Name 10. Very Last Moment In Time 11. Magnets 12. Rumors DL Link Password: chasepop |
Posted: 13 Jan 2009 03:00 AM CST |
Mariah Carey - The Ballads (2008) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 09:52 PM CST |
Status Quo - XS All Areas - Greatest Hits (2004) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 09:47 PM CST |
Perry Como - Gold - Greatest Hits (2001) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 09:42 PM CST |
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion 2 (1991) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 09:37 PM CST |
Papermoon - When The Lights Go Down (208) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 09:31 PM CST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2009 09:20 PM CST
Track List 01. Bring It All Back 02. S Club Party 03. Two In A Million [Boyfriends And Birthdays Version] 04. You're My Number One [Miami 7 Version] 05. Reach [Original Version] 06. Natural [Single Version] 07. Never Had A Dream Come True 08. Don't Stop Movin' 09. Have You Ever 10. You [Single Version] 11. Alive [Album Version] 12. Love Ain't Gonna Wait For You [Radio Version] 13. Say Goodbye DL Link |
Posted: 12 Jan 2009 09:15 PM CST
Track List 01. Fool No More 02. Sundown 03. Don't Tell Me You're Sorry 04. Love To The Limit 05. Turn The Lights On 06. Searching For Perfection 07. One Thing I Know 08. Sail On Through 09. Big Fun 10. The Day You Came 11. Pretty Boy 12. Rush 13. I Just Came To Dance 14. Drawn To You 15. Tears On My Pillow DL Link |
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Matt Duke - Kingdom Underground (2008) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:54 PM CST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Tina Turner - Tina (Advance) (2008) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:48 PM CST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:43 PM CST
Track List 01 - Yesterday 02 - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 03 - Do You Want To Know A Secret 04 - For No One 05 - Michelle 06 - Nowhere Man 07 - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 08 - Across The Universe 09 - All My Loving 10 - Hey Jude 11 - Something 12 - The Fool On The Hill 13 - Till There Was You 14 - The Long and Winding Road 15 - Here Comes The Sun 16 - Blackbird 17 - And I Love Her 18 - She's Leaving Home 19 - Here, There And Everywhere 20 - Let It Be Part 1 / Part 2 |
Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:38 PM CST |
Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:32 PM CST CD1 (01) Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye (Quarantotto) (04:07) (02) Nigel Kennedy - Spring (Vivaldi) (03:08) (03) Placido Domingo - Be My Love (Brodszky) (03:12) (04) Myleene Klass - Chi Mai (Morricone) (03:34) (05) Bryn Terfel - Ode to Joy (Beethoven) (03:19) (06) Maria Callas - Un bel di vedremo (Puccini) (04:43) (07) Gabriela Montero - Italian Concerto (J.S. Bach) (02:33) (08) Luciano Pavarotti - Ed anche Beppe amo (Mascagni) (03:19) (09) Kate Royal - In trutina (Orff) (02:32) (10) Libera - Gloria (Saint-Saens & Prizeman) (03:25) (11) Natalie Clein - Chanson de matin (Elgar) (03:16) (12) Ingrid Flitter - Waltz in C sharp minor (Chopin) (03:36) (13) Paul McCartney & Kiri Te Kanawa - The world you're coming into (McCartney) (02:32) (14) Karl Jenkins - Stabat Mater (Jenkins) (03:42) (15) The King's Singers - Scarborough Fair (Trad.) (04:18) (16) Jon Lord & Nelson Goerner - Boom of the Tingling Strings (Lord) (06:31) (17) Alfie Boe & Natasha Marsh - Brindisi (Verdi) (03:01) (18) Natalie Dessay - Ah! non credea mirarti (Bellini) (04:48) (19) Choir of King's College, Cambridge - Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell) (02:30) (20) Sir Simon Rattle - Great Gate of Kiev (Mussorgsky) (06:00) CD2 (01) Natasha Marsh - Der Hölle Rache (Mozart) (03:10) (02) Placido Domingo - E lucevan le stelle (Puccini) (03:12) (03) Alison Balsom - Trumpet Concerto (Hummel) (03:33) (04) Rolando Villazon - L'amour, l'amour...Ah! leve-toi, soleil (Gounod) (04:20) (05) Sarah Brightman & Fernando Lima - Pasion (Lührs) (05:16) (06) Philippe Jaroussky - Qui ti sfido, o monstro infame! (Handel) (03:59) (07) Xuefei Yang - Romance de Amor (Trad.) (03:08) (08) Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu - Tonight (Bernstein) (03:47) (09) Nigel Kennedy - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 (Chopin) (05:24) (10) Michael Ball & Julian Lloyd Webber - Unexpected Song (Lloyd Webber) (03:17) (11) Howard Goodall & Alfie Boe - Agnus Dei (Goodall) (04:27) (12) Sarah Chang - Hungarian Dance No. 1 (Brahms) (03:20) (13) David Daniels - Sheep may safely graze (J.S. Bach) (04:22) (14) Leif Ove Andsnes - Clair de lune (Debussy) (04:40) (15) Monk of Silos - Veni creator spiritus (02:37) (16) Herbert von Karajan - Blue Danube Waltz (J. Strauss II) (03:48) (17) Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River (Kern) (03:52) (18) Jacqueline du Pre - The Swan (Saint-Saens) (02:51) (19) Andres Segovia - Suite espanola (Albeniz) (04:19) (20) Jose Carreras - Nessun dorma (Puccini) (04:11) CD1: Part 1 / Part 2 CD2: Part 1 / Part 2 |
George Stanford - Big Drop (2008) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:27 PM CST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:22 PM CST
CD 1 01 Holy, Holy, Holy - Steven Curtis Chapman.mp3 02 Take My Life (And Let It Be) - Chris Tomlin.mp3 03 For The Beauty Of The Earth - BarlowGirl.mp3 04 Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus - Casting Crowns.mp3 05 Fairest Lord Jesus - Natalie Grant.mp3 06 I Need Thee Every Hour - Jars Of Clay.mp3 07 I Surrender All - Brian Littrell.mp3 08 All The Heavens - Third Day.mp3 09 In Christ Alone - Newsboys.mp3 10 Just As I Am - Nichole Nordeman.mp3 11 Wonderful Maker - Jeremy Camp.mp3 12 Trust And Obey - Big Daddy Weave.mp3 13 There Is A Fountain - Selah.mp3 14 Here Is Love - Matt Redman.mp3 15 The Solid Rock - Avalon.mp3 CD 2 01 Doxology - David Crowder Band.mp3 02 The Wonderful Cross - Michael W. Smith.mp3 03 This Is My Father's World - Amy Grant.mp3 04 Old Rugged Cross, The - Bart Millard.mp3 05 It Is Well With My Soul - Rebbecca St. James.mp3 07 Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing - Mark Schultz.mp3 08 Draw Me Nearer - Caedmon's Call.mp3 10 Be Thou My Vision - Fernando Ortega.mp3 11 Grace That Is Greater - Building 429.mp3 12 Savior Like A Shepard Lead Us - Todd Agnew.mp3 13 All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name - Point Of Grace.mp3 14 Great Is Thy Faithfulness - Israel Houghton.mp3 15 Rock Of Ages - Chris Rice.mp3 After download if you see file "download.blog", plz rename that file becomes "song name.mp3" This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Tim McGraw - Greatest Hits 3 (2008) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:16 PM CST |
K-Ci & JoJo - Love (Japan Retail) Posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:11 PM CST |
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