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[27.Mar.07] :. Listening to songs like "(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay" and "Do the Funky Chicken" is like taking a stroll through the garden of sublime American soul music.
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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006
[10.Jan.07] :. The end of 2006 has inspired a lot of essays about how television is dead. The idea isn't new, and the essays are repetitive: they all mentioned YouTube, the "futuristic" ease of today's life,...
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[28.Nov.07] :. Better for people who value "lush" and "beautiful" over "exciting" or "jaw-dropping."
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[7.Nov.07] :. Wilson still possesses one of the great voices in rock history, and it is in full effect all over this album.
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[31.Oct.07] :. A half century later, a good jazz album from '58 has become timeless.
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[29.Oct.07] :. In Addis Ababa, I talked to a number of people from many different walks of life who absolutely love this guy.
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[24.Oct.07] :. He spits and he hollers and testifies and challenges listeners to watch out for his "Holy Ghost power" if they try to kick his ass.
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[12.Oct.07] :. By the time the rowdy horn stings hit, you're already online trying to figure out how much of your paycheck you can spend on salsa CDs.
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[29.May.07] :. The best thing about this is that it reminds us of the absolute genius of Stephen Sondheim.
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[10.May.07] :. Not just a best-of-year record, but maybe an all-timer.
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[13.Apr.07] :. Better start respecting Cortney Tidwell now, before she takes over the universe.
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[28.Sep.06] :. It's exhausting, it's exhilarating, it's excellent.
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[28.Sep.06] :. A record full of beauty and pain and fear and hope by five guys who know what the hell they're talking about.
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[22.Sep.06] :. In his rowdy Texas way, Bob Wills was just as avant-garde as any other musician America has ever had.
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[28.Aug.06] :. This album isn't just great, it's Album-of-the-Year HEROICALLY great.
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[17.Jul.06] :. This record changes everything. Witness a free-wheeling Americana near masterpiece.
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[2.Jun.06] :. No other album in 2006 will be this lovely, or this relentlessly weird.
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[11.Apr.06] :. It's pretty early in 2006 to talk about albums of the year -- but this record says it's time to start.
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[13.Dec.05] :. Shakira is the truth, people, and she's proven it twice over in 2005. She's made the best pop album of the year.
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[12.Dec.05] :. Can we give this woman some love, please?"
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[14.Nov.05] :. Nothing else this year integrates more types of music, both smoothly and not-so-smoothly, than Pour les Filles does.
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[25.Oct.05] :. This record has a great backstory: a psychedelic double album recorded in Brazil in 1974, released the next year but virtually unheard because of a warehouse fire that destroyed virtually every copy in existence.
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[24.Oct.05] :. The Day After is the finest mainstream hip-hop album of the year.
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[7.Oct.05] :. Stop Looking For 2005's Best Jazz Album: This Is It.
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[6.Oct.05] :. Marty Robbins should be in the all-time top echelon of country artists even if we're just only talking about "El Paso," one of the 10 greatest songs of all time.
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[25.Aug.05] :. Stuart knows how to make anything fun... even a religion that is being used as a bludgeon by our current presidential administration and many of our legislators.
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[15.Aug.05] :. Listen Here is adventurous without being pretentious, reckless but still controlled, both fun and challenging.
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[8.Jul.05] :. I just want to be the first to say it: this record is a psychedelic masterpiece.
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[15.Jun.05] :. 'Mexicanos' is this album in a nutshell. Ramos takes a basic cheesy polka beat and keeps loading elements on top of it to see what will happen.
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[25.May.05] :. Mannie Fresh has a very interesting mind. The word 'interesting' does not always mean something good, but here it does. This shit is bananas.
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[17.May.05] :. Poole might be the central missing link of American music.
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[13.Apr.05] :. There's a new she-riff in town, and her name is Brooke Valentine.
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[8.Apr.05] :. Dallas Wayne has constructed one of the great country albums of our time.
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[28.Mar.05] :. Babe Ruth had his Hank Aaron, and many people in the Hammond B-3 Jazz Organ Cult have just been afraid that Joey D will somehow eclipse Jimmy's legacy.
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[9.Mar.05] :. This review will be relatively short, as I have run out of synonyms for "amazing".
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[11.Feb.05] :. LCD has had mad buzz for three years without actually releasing an album. Which means, of course, that the knives were out for this record among the scenesters.
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[18.Jan.05] :. A bunch of crazed Romany punk funk rebels in the Czech Republic just made of my favorite records of last year.
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[12.Jan.05] :. Luiz Gayotto is a huge talent; large stretches of this record sound as weird/cool as anything Brian Eno did in the 1970s.
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[9.Apr.04] :. Anthony Hamilton's voice is a thing from God, a soaring pleading hard-edged thing, thick in that southern way, Al Green one minute and Otis Redding the next, a thing to treasure.
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[17.Oct.03] :. Gary Allan's always been searching for how to be both Californian and country, and here he's found it.
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