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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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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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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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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Review
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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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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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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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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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 Review
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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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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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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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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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 Review
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 Review
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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