Complete Million Dollar Quartet, The - Million Dollar Quartet (The)

Advantages: Driven by musical passion. Great Jazz structures (+ lack of)
Disadvantages: All tracks are very similar (no variation)

...A must have for all JTQ fans. This album incorporates acid jazz with the classic James Taylor quartet sound. Opening with Joe's Diversions, the hammond organ sound takes lead throughout the album. Vocals from new singer Yvonne Yanney bring new light to the quartet - the most prominent track being 'It's all over'. For all jazz, and especially acid jazz fans, this album provides complex melodies and harmonies, whilst capturing the unusally simple structures of acid. The album is well produced, and the selection of tracks (11 in total) are well chosen. I would recommend this album to all fans of JTQ and jazz, and to those who are willing to try something new in their musical tastes. Truly a great album, full of musical passion.... Read review

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Advantages: Possibly U2's best (and that MUST be good!)
Disadvantages: errrm...

...U2's first new material to be released for 3 years has been eagerly anticipated, with rumours of a return to the original rock style that made the band in the early 80's. A far cry from the likes of "Pop" and "Zooropa", "All That You Can't Leave Behind" is destined to become another classic, in the same sort of league as "Achtung Baby" and even "The Joshua Tree". Kicking off the album is the brilliant single "Beautiful Day" - classic rock, classic U2. From then on the rest of the album is packed with top tune after top tune, most notably the uplifting "Elevation", lyrically sublime "Walk On" and finishing with the song written for the "Million Dollar Hotel" soundtrack, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Bono said that this album wasn't an album, it was a collection of singles. And if "Beautiful Day" is anything to go by, "All That You... Read review

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Advantages: Good Clean fun, with deep meaning lyrics
Disadvantages: None

...among American audiences. Foregoing the dourness and angst fashionable among its alternative peers, Barenaked Ladies served notice they were fun loving, spirited, and not above dipping into novelty. Sporting songs such as "If I Had a Million Dollars" (which featured the line, "If I had a million dollars, I'd buy you … a Picasso or a Garfunkel"), and a remake of "Be My Yoko Ono," Gordon unfurled a brand a humor that many people brushed off as juvenile, and out of step with the times. Nonetheless, the album occupied the No. 1 spot on the Canadian pop charts for eight weeks, and it remained in the Canadian Top 10 for ten months. Total sales ultimately topped 800,000, earning the band Group of the Year honors at the prestigious Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent of the Grammys). The mix of clever lyrics, example of this is the concert fave... Read review

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