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Now That's What I Call
Music Vol 58
~Various
Artists
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Audio CD - Emi/Virgin / July 26, 2004 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Now That's What I Call Music Vol.58 is another double-CD
triumph compiling the best music from the UK pop charts. Featured
here is the massive number one bust-up between Eamon, with "F**k It
(I Don't Want You Back)", and Frankee, with her stinging retort "F.U.R.B.
(F U Right Back)", plus chart... |
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Anastacia
~Anastacia
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Audio CD - Epic / March 29, 2004 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Anastacia, the self-titled third album from the former
wedding singer picks up where Freak of Nature left off,
completing her transformation from disco-pop diva to full-on rock
goddess. "Seasons Change" opens the album with a nu-metal guitar
riff and pretty much sets the tone for the other 11 songs....
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Friday's Child [ENHANCED]
~Will Young
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Audio CD - Bmg / December 1, 2003 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Any doubts concerning the longevity of Will Young's career post
Pop Idol can be put to rest with one listen of Friday's Child.
His first release, From Now On, was a mismatch of covers and
styles--hardly a good vehicle for the singer who had to go through
so much for the privilege. Now Young has... |
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Thank You
~Jamelia
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Audio CD - Parlophone / March 1, 2004 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Having taken three years off to have a baby, Jamelia--UK R&B's
one-time most likely star--has a lot of catching up to do.
Thankfully, Thank You extends way beyond where her self
assured debut, Drama, left off. If anything, watching from
the sidelines as R&B's taken over pop culture seems to...
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Confessions
~Usher
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Audio CD - Laface / March 22, 2004 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
A CD is always more compelling when you know it's lifted from the
artist's autobiography, and that's certainly the case with
Confessions, Usher's first record since 2001's 8701. The
Atlanta singer's string of hits over the past decade have been
decidedly under-18s rated, almost veering towards teen...
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Immaculate Collection
~Madonna
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Audio CD - Warner / November 1, 1990 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
This is the perfect way to hear Madonna: no album filler, just one
hit after another. As a singles artist, she works wonders: quick,
danceable tunes that are occasionally "controversial" but never set
out to change the world (and don't). The Immaculate Collection
begins with her earliest work... |
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Not That Kind
~Anastacia
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Audio CD - Epic / July 28, 2003 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Born in New York, raised in Chicago and caught in something of a
musical time warp, Anastacia Newkirk is a soul singer with an
incredible voice and a debut album that would be as happy in the
mid-1980s as it is at the turn of the century. Working with
producers whose credits include CeCe Penniston,... |
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A Present for Everyone
~Busted
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Audio CD - Mca / November 17, 2003 |
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Busted may look about as rock as Westlife, but A Present for
Everyone confirms that under those chiselled cheek bones and
polite smiles they're every inch the British Blink 182. For the most
part, the clean-cut trio's second album is full of the same dumb fun
as their first. Careering hyperactively... |
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Patience
~George Michael
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Audio CD - Columbia / March 15, 2004 |
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Amazon.co.uk
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It must be hard being a George Michael fan. Patience is only
his fourth studio effort in the 18 years since Wham! split, so its
release must be some cause for celebration. There always seems to
have been something preventing him from releasing a new album--from
arrests for lewd behaviour, protracted... |
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Freak of Nature
~Anastacia
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Audio CD - Epic / November 26, 2001 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Freak of Nature, the second album from former wedding singer
Anastacia Newkirk, continues the late-1980s funk pop revival that
her debut Not That Kind started. And in true 1980s style,
everything's big. From the striding groove of the title track to the
flag-waving chorus on "Paid My Dues" and the... |
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No Angel
~Dido
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Audio CD - Arista / October 16, 2000 |
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Amazon.co.uk
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Dido's debut is moulded from Sarah McLachlan's intimate soul, Sinead
O'Connor's Celtic yelp and Beth Orton's morose resolve--with all the
sharp edges rounded out. Sculpted by producers Rollo (her brother)
and techno-scientist Youth, No Angel is dream-pop mixed with
Portishead-esque trip-hop; the... |
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Play to Win
~Gabrielle
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Audio CD - Island / May 17, 2004 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Gabrielle's output has never been prolific but it's always been
understood that when she does release something, it'll be a gem.
Sadly there is nothing on Play to Win that could compete with
songs such as "Give Me a Little More Time" or "Dreams". Less soulful
than the usual fare, this album brings... |
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Three
~Sugababes
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Audio CD - Universal/Island / October 27, 2003 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
The lyrics "It's about the music, not about the face" hardly
represent a breakthrough in political pop theorising. But when the
Sugababes sing them on "Whatever Makes You Happy" (the second track
on Three, a rather literal title for the group's third
album), it's difficult to suspend one's... |
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In the Zone
~Britney Spears
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Audio CD - Jive / November 17, 2003 |
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Amazon.co.uk
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For Britney Spears, In the Zone is more than just her fourth
album; it's a pivotal moment which could decide the length of the
rest of her career. Having literally outgrown the role of teen
sensation, she now has to prove she's got what it takes to grow up
and fulfil her Madonna-sized ambition.... |
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Stripped
~Christina
Aguilera
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Audio CD - Rca / October 28, 2002 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Underneath all Christine Aguilera's coy affectations and vocal
gymnastics lurks a rare talent. With her second album, Aguilera
allows it to flower by abandoning all pretence of courting the
teenage market. Stripped is a seemingly effortless move into
weightier adult territory. Using her... |
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Justified
~Justin
Timberlake
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Audio CD - Jive / November 4, 2002 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Common wisdom dictates that a debut album be given an
autobiographical slant, so it's hard not to believe that
Justified, Justin Timberlake's first non-*N Sync outing, doesn't
purloin much of its subject matter from the singer's break-up with
Britney Spears. Half of the songs are about the... |
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Number Ones
~Michael
Jackson
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Audio CD - Epic / November 17, 2003 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Like the Beatles and Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson is one of the
handful of artists that can release an album of their number one
singles. Number Ones includes his solo chart toppers in the
UK and abroad from the period beginning with his Off the Wall
album right up to the new song "One More... |
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Free Me
~Emma Bunton
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Audio CD - Polydor / February 9, 2004 |
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Amazon.co.uk
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The title track from Free Me is so evocative of James Bond it
should come with a free Martini. On her latest album Emma Bunton
tries to reinvent herself as a modern Sandie Shaw. Following the
title track is a Sergio Mendes style piece of Brazilian pop. To
continue the club-tropicana feel there's... |
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The Very Best of Prince
~Prince
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Audio CD - Warner / July 30, 2001 |
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Amazon.co.uk
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Taken literally, the Very Best of Prince title is sure to
cause endless arguments. Nothing from Dirty Mind, not a trace
of the early Controversy, no "Erotic City", no non-LP cuts at
all, save some edited single-versions and a cold shoulder to the
criminally out-of-print Gold Experience. As a... |
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Busted [ENHANCED]
~Busted
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Audio CD - Mca / September 30, 2002 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
Conceivably, laddish London-based pop pin-ups Busted (or Charlie,
James and Mattie as our daughters-with-attitude would have it) are
what evil, plan-hatching marketing men ought to have in mind if they
decided the music world needed to be taken over by a milk-toothed,
mind-yer-"p"s-and-"q"s version... |
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Swing When You're Winning
~Robbie
Williams
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Audio CD - Chrysalis / November 19, 2001 |
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Amazon.co.uk
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Apparently, Swing When You're Winning was inspired by the
praise Robbie Williams received for his contribution to the
soundtrack on Bridget Jones's Diary. Recorded with an
18-piece band in Frank Sinatra's old stomping ground, the Capitol
Records Studio in LA, this collection of finger-clickin', Rat...
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Escapology [Explicit
Lyrics]
~Robbie
Williams
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Audio CD - Chrysalis / November 18, 2002 |
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Amazon.co.uk
Review
He's tried his hand at indie-rock, big-band swing and brash pop
music--so where does Robbie Williams' fifth album take the popular
British entertainer? Escapology is far removed from his
previous albums: it's a serious attempt to make something as
credible as it is accessible--so no more bubble-gum... |
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Folklore [ENHANCED]
~Nelly Furtado
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Audio CD - Polydor / November 24, 2003 |
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Amazon.co.uk
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On her second album, Folklore, Nelly Furtado takes a hard
left turn. The colourful but incomplete fusion of her debut,
Whoa, Nelly!, gives way on this tellingly titled record to an
approach that lets in some acoustic sounds which take the music in
an entirely different, richer direction. At times... |
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The Best of Leann Rimes
~LeAnn Rimes
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Audio CD - Curb / February 2, 2004 |
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Amazon.co.uk
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Not many artists can boast a Best Of album by their 21st
birthday, but then not everybody logs a Lolita-ish hit at age 13, as
the precocious Leann Rimes did with the retro "Blue" in 1996. In
many ways, that auspicious debut was her finest hour, full of
hypnotic, yodel-laced magic and savant-like... |
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