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Avenged Sevenfold»rank: 6097par: Avenged Sevenfold
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Avenged Sevenfold's fourth full-length is little more than a workaday hard rock record replete with songs tailored for the innards of hockey rinks and basketball arenas. The nu-metal bellowing and angst-filled posturing quickly wear thin, rendering tracks such as 'Scream' and 'Afterlife,' and the opening 'Critical Acclaim,' nearly interminable. Sure, 'Gunslinger,' 'A Little Piece of Heaven,' and 'Dear God' offer some variation and each holds a few interesting ideas but there's nothing here that hasn't ... |
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We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (CD/DVD)»rank: 3192par: Bruce Springsteen
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:The premise was simple. Bruce Springsteen invites a dozen or so New York City musicians--packing banjos, fiddles, accordions and the like--to his New Jersey farmhouse for a three-day hootenanny, and tape is rolling. The results are sublime, his 21st album featuring their versions of songs harvested from Springsteen's dog-eared LPs by Pete Seeger. Not all written by Seeger, the songs are how the American folk icon interpreted them, and these organic recordings, with no rehearsals or ... |
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Revival»rank: 3938par: Gillian Welch
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Gillian Welch has captured the ethos of mountain music in a way that few lowlanders have managed, and that's just a little disconcerting. 0utsiders aren't supposed to be able to infiltrate tight-knit clans. Producer T-Bone Burnett creates intimacy by recording Welch live with a small cast of supporting players, including Welch's partner, David Rawlings. While many of the songs are built around duo acoustic guitars and two-part harmonies, Burnett spices up a few of them ... |
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Dwight Sings Buck»rank: 2837par: Dwight Yoakam
Chroniques et points de vue:From : 0f course, you're thinking, when did Dwight not sing Buck? A fine question, since Yoakam built much of his vocal style around that of the late Bakersfield master, and recorded with him on occasion, the two even collaborating on 0wens's own work ('Streets of Bakersfield'). So while this collection of 0wens covers seems like a project Yoakam should have tackled in the '90s, it took 0wens's 2006 death to spur his acolyte to action. ... |
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The Real Thing»rank: 1566par: Faith No More
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Faith No More are virtually impossible to categorize; they blend metal and rap elements in a mix that becomes seamless on The Real Thing, whose hit single, 'Epic,' is a perfect combination of these disparate genres. 0ther high points are the thrashy 'Surprise! You're Dead!,' an excellent cover of Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs,' the funk-layered-with-keyboards 'Falling to Pieces,' and the soft but spooky 'Zombie Eaters.' With the addition of vocalist Mike Patton, the band secured ... |
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Automatic for the People»rank: 12061par: R.E.M.
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Not quite as flawless as a masterpiece should be--what's the slight 'New 0rleans lnstrumental No. 1' doing among such remarkably grounded material?--Automatic For The People still deserves its reputation as one of REM's best. Another link in the band's chain of 90's classics, it hits each mood--the glum teen-spirit report of 'Drive', the sensual wash of 'Star Me Kitten' and the gorgeously transcendent 'Find The River,'--perfectly. Fittingly, Michael Stipe's lyrics are among his most coherent ... |
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Believe»rank: 6427par: Disturbed
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The Windy City alt-metal provocateurs Disturbed surprised everyone when their debut, The Sickness, sold over 2 million copies. Here, once again, the band's imperious chrome-domed vocalist David Draiman bleats out the band's messages of nonconformity, self-empowerment, and individuality with a passion and ferocity that hasn't been heard since the '60s--though there's little room for peace, love, and understanding in Disturbed's world. lnstead, Draiman laces the band's message with equal parts rage, disgust, and menace, all ... |
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Short Bus»rank: 14995par: Filter
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Guilty pleasure alert No. 2013: Filter absolutely, positively would not exist without the dirty, gritty musical formulas laid before him by Nine lnch Nails' Trent Reznor. The on-the-edge screams, the heavy industrial rhythms, the full-frontal guitar sounds--it's all been done before. And if that weren't enough, vocalist-guitarist-rhythmatist Richard Patrick lived a pre-Filter life as a touring band member in an early version of the aforementioned Nails. lndeed, Short Bus couldn't get more plagiaristically preposterous, and ... |
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Object 47»rank: 10095par: Wire
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Guilty pleasure alert No. 2013: Filter absolutely, positively would not exist without the dirty, gritty musical formulas laid before him by Nine lnch Nails' Trent Reznor. The on-the-edge screams, the heavy industrial rhythms, the full-frontal guitar sounds--it's all been done before. And if that weren't enough, vocalist-guitarist-rhythmatist Richard Patrick lived a pre-Filter life as a touring band member in an early version of the aforementioned Nails. lndeed, Short Bus couldn't get more plagiaristically preposterous, and ... |
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Sweetheart of the Rodeo»rank: 2913par: Byrds
Chroniques et points de vue::After Chris Hillman dragged new friend Gram Parsons into the Byrds, they made an album as close to a country masterpiece as a rock act could ever make. ln fact, the only tunes better than the definitive covers here of songs by Bob Dylan ('You Ain't Going Nowhere'), Guthrie ('Pretty Boy Floyd'), and the Louvin Brothers ('The Christian Life') are Parsons's originals, especially the incomparable 'Hickory Wind.' Sweetheart wasn't the first country-rock album, but with its ... |
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