Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (2006)

Tracklist:

1. "Fidelity" – 3:47
2. "Better" – 3:22
3. "Samson" – 3:10
4. "On the Radio" – 3:22
5. "Field Below" – 5:18
6. "Hotel Song" – 3:29
7. "Après Moi" – 5:08
8. "20 Years of Snow" – 3:31
9. "That Time" – 2:39
10. "Edit" – 4:53
11. "Lady" – 4:45
12. "Summer in the City" – 3:50
13. "Bartender" (bside)
    

Ni tan folk como Songs, ni tan ruso como Soviet Kitsch, ni tan jazzero/blusero como 11:11, este disco parece ser una transición de la vieja Regina "indie" a un sonido más pop comercial. Pero buenos temas eh!


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Outkast - The Love Below (2003)

Tracklist:

1. "The Love Below (Intro)" – 1:27
2. "Love Hater" – 2:49
3. "God (Interlude)" – 2:20
4. "Happy Valentine's Day" – 5:23
5. "Spread" – 3:51
6. "Where Are My Panties?" – 1:54
7. "Prototype" - 5:26
8. "She Lives in My Lap" (featuring Rosario Dawson) – 4:27
9. "Hey Ya!" – 3:55
10. "Roses" – 6:09
11. "Good Day, Good Sir" – 1:24
12. "Behold a Lady" – 4:37
13. "Pink & Blue" – 5:04
14. "Love in War" – 3:25
15. "She's Alive" – 4:06
16. "Dracula's Wedding" (featuring Kelis) – 2:32
17. "The Letter (Interlude)" - 0:20
18. "My Favorite Things" – 5:14
    
19. "Take Off Your Cool" (featuring Norah Jones) – 2:38
20. "Vibrate" – 6:33
    
21. "A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)" 4:50
    

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records in the United States. Issued as a double album, it clocks at over two and-a-half hours and consists of a solo album from both of the group's members. Speakerboxxx has Big Boi performing tracks that are rooted in basic hip hop, while The Love Below, the solo project of André 3000, covers musical styles such as soul, pop, funk, and jazz.

Most critics were also particularly more interesed in André's half of the album than on Big Boi's solo venture, due to the experimentation with several music genres on The Love Below. The intro of the album was already a trip on classical music, "Love Hater" has purely jazz influences (apart from a cover of "My Favorite Things", a Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein tune), and the rest was a combination of soul, funk, R&B, and hip-hop. Will Hermes from Entertainment Weekly pointed that André's album "is as strange and rich a trip as pop offers nowadays, a song cycle about love's battle against fear and (self-) deception that's frequently profound, hilarious, and very, very sexy."

Wikipedia

Sólo The Love Below de Andre 3000 (Speakerboxxx no).


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Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971)

Tracklist:

1. "All I Want" – 3:32
2. "My Old Man" – 3:33
3. "Little Green" – 3:25
4. "Carey" – 3:00
5. "Blue" – 3:00
6. "California" – 3:48
7. "This Flight Tonight" – 2:50
8. "River" – 4:00
9. "A Case of You" – 4:20
10. "The Last Time I Saw Richard" – 4:13

Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessential confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, Joni Mitchell's songs are raw nerves, tales of love and loss (two words with relative meaning here) etched with stunning complexity; even tracks like "All I Want," "My Old Man," and "Carey" -- the brightest, most hopeful moments on the record -- are darkened by bittersweet moments of sorrow and loneliness. At the same time that songs like "Little Green" (about a child given up for adoption) and the title cut (a hymn to salvation supposedly penned for James Taylor) raise the stakes of confessional folk-pop to new levels of honesty and openness, Mitchell's music moves beyond the constraints of acoustic folk into more intricate and diverse territory, setting the stage for the experimentation of her later work. Unrivaled in its intensity and insight, Blue remains a watershed.

by Jason Ankeny

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Regina Spektor - 11:11 (2001)

Track listing

1. "Love Affair" – 2:22
2. "Rejazz" – 3:37
3. "Back of a Truck" – 5:52
4. "Buildings" – 4:43
5. "Mary Ann" – 2:56
6. "Flyin" – 1:59
7. "Wasteside" – 2:22
8. "Pavlov's Daughter" – 7:43
9. "2.99 Cent Blues" – 3:33
10. "Braille" – 4:55
11. "I Want to Sing" – 3:56
12. "Sunshine" – 2:23

Su primer disco, probablemente el más crudo de todos. La mayoría de los temas son sólo voz y piano, en algunos se suma un contrabajo, y otros son sólo voz y contrabajo o directamente a cappella.

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Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992)

Track List

1. Crucify
2. Girl
3. Sillent All These Years
4. Precious Things
5. Winter
6. Happy Phantom
7. China
8. Leather
9. Mother
10. Tear In Your Hand
11. Me And A Gun
12. Little Earthquakes
    

With her haunting solo debut Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos carved the template for the female singer/songwriter movement of the '90s. Amos' delicate, prog rock piano work and confessional, poetically quirky lyrics invited close emotional connection, giving her a fanatical cult following and setting the stage for the Lilith Fair legions. But Little Earthquakes is no mere style-setter or feminine stereotype — its intimacy is uncompromising, intense, and often far from comforting. Amos' musings on major personal issues — religion, relationships, gender, childhood — were just as likely to encompass rage, sarcasm, and defiant independence as pain or tenderness; sometimes, it all happened in the same song. The apex of that intimacy is the harrowing "Me and a Gun," where Amos strips away all the music, save for her own voice, and confronts the listener with the story of her own real-life rape; the free-associative lyrics come off as a heart-wrenching attempt to block out the ordeal. Little Earthquakes isn't always so stomach-churning, but it never seems less than deeply cathartic; it's the sound of a young woman (like the protagonist of "Silent All These Years") finally learning to use her own voice — sort of the musical equivalent of Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia. That's why Amos draws strength from her relentless vulnerability, and that's why the constantly shifting emotions of the material never seem illogical — Amos simply delights in the frankness of her own responses, whatever they might be. Though her subsequent albums were often very strong, Amos would never bare her soul quite so directly (or comprehensibly) as she did here, nor with such consistently focused results. Little Earthquakes is the most accessible work in Amos' catalog, and it's also the most influential and rewarding.

by Steve Huey

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Dave Matthews Band - Crash (1996)

Tracklist:

1. "So Much to Say" – 4:06
2. "Two Step" – 6:27
3. "Crash Into Me" – 5:16
4. "Too Much" – 4:22
5. "#41" – 6:39
6. "Say Goodbye" – 6:12
7. "Drive In, Drive Out" – 5:55
8. "Let You Down" – 4:07
9. "Lie in Our Graves" – 5:42
10. "Cry Freedom" – 5:54
11. "Tripping Billies" – 5:00
12. "Proudest Monkey" – 9:11

It's tempting to label the Dave Matthews Band as torchbearers of the Grateful Dead's moderate rock fusion and send them off on the next summer tour featuring either Blues Traveler or the Spin Doctors. But there is more at work here, particularly on the band's second major-label release. Crash pairs soothing sounds (flute, acoustic guitar, six-string bass) with a dark emotional undercurrent. The South African (by way of Virginia) frontman reveals a rare intensity on the title track and the free-form "41," while the group shows that it's not afraid to let loose on songs such as the stirring "Too Much." Producer Steve Lillywhite adds an impressive sheen to the recordings. --Aidin Vaziri

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Frou Frou - Details (2002)

Tracklist:

1. Let Go
2. Breathe In
3. It's Good to Be in Love
4. Must Be Dreaming
5. Psychobabble
6. Only Got One
7. Shh
8. Hear Me Out
9. Maddening Shroud
10. Flicks
11. The Dumbing Down of Love

Review (allmusic.com):

Critics of electronica often complain that much of it has a cold, impersonal quality -- that warmth and humanity are missing from what can be a very producer-driven medium. But there is no law stating that electronica has to be cold; it all comes down to how the participants decide to use technology. And technology is used in a very human way on Details, a collaboration between producer Guy Sigsworth and singer/songwriter Imogen Heap. Together, Sigsworth and Heap comprise the British duo Frou Frou, which has the sort of name that listeners might expect from one of Europop's more bubblegum acts. Hearing the name Frou Frou, one might expect something along the lines of ABBA, Fun Fun, Jemma & Elise, Bananarama, or Aqua. But there is nothing bubblegum about Details -- quite the contrary. Tracks like "The Dumbing Down of Love" and the single "Breathe In" have an atmospheric, dreamy, ethereal outlook. Björk (who Sigsworth has worked with extensively) is a strong influence, and other valid comparisons range from Kate Bush to Dido. Although Sigsworth's high-tech production is attractive, this 2002 release isn't about production gloss for the sake of production gloss -- it's also about solid songwriting and expressive vocals. Had Sigsworth and Heap been forced to record an acoustic project, Details still would have had a lot going for it. Sigsworth uses technology to his creative advantage, but he doesn't hide behind it -- for Frou Frou, technology is not an attempt to compensate for weak singing or weak material. Ultimately, quality singing and composing are the things that make Details a cut above much of the electronic Europop that came out in 2002.

Electropop de calidad.


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Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977)

Track listing

1. "Overture/Cotton Avenue" – 6:41
2. "Talk to Me" – 3:45
3. "Jericho" – 3:22
4. "Paprika Plains" – 16:21
5. "Otis and Marlena" – 4:09
6. "The Tenth World" – 6:45
7. "Dreamland" – 4:38
8. "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" – 6:36
9. "Off Night Backstreet" – 3:20
10. "The Silky Veils of Ardor" – 4:01

Un disco extraño para Joni Mitchell; ya un poco alejada del folk/pop de sus principios y más cercano al jazz vanguardista (Paprika Plains) y a la música étnica de distintos lugares (The Thenth World es un samba brasilero y Dreamland suena como un ritual de indios norteamericanos).

Como siempre, Joni está acompañada por grandes músicos, entre otros, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Larry Carlton, etc.

Tiene 2 o 3 temas medio de relleno, pero aunque fueran todos temas de relleno aún así lo seguiría subiendo por una de las piezas de músicas más hermosas que escuché: Paprika Plains.



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Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live (1994)

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Gabriel except as noted.

Disc one

1. "Come Talk to Me" – 6:13
2. "Steam" – 7:45
3. "Across the River" (Stewart Copeland, Gabriel, David Rhodes, L. Shankar) – 6:00
4. "Slow Marimbas" – 1:41
5. "Shaking the Tree" (Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour) – 9:18
6. "Red Rain" – 6:15
7. "Blood of Eden" – 6:58
8. "Kiss That Frog" – 5:58
9. "Washing of the Water" – 4:07
10. "Solsbury Hill" – 4:42

Disc two

1. "Digging in the Dirt" – 7:36
2. "Sledgehammer" – 4:58
3. "Secret World" – 9:10
4. "Don't Give Up" – 7:35
5. "In Your Eyes" – 11:32

Personnel

• Peter Gabriel – vocals, harmonica, keyboards
• Tony Levin – bass, vocals
• Manu Katché – drums
• David Rhodes – guitar, vocals
• Jean-Claude Naimro – keyboards, vocals
• Levon Minassian – doudouk
• Shankar – violins, vocals
• Paula Cole – vocals

Pop de calidad. Recomiendo muchísimo conseguir el dvd en vivo de este mismo disco.



Come Talk To Me
Digging In The Dirt
Solsbury Hill



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Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008)

Tracklist:

1. "Gobbledigook" – 3:05
2. "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" (Within me a lunatic sings) – 4:05
3. "Góðan daginn" (Good day) – 5:15
4. "Við spilum endalaust" (We play endlessly) – 3:33
5. "Festival" – 9:24
6. "Með suð í eyrum" (with a buzz in our ears) – 4:56
7. "Ára bátur" (Oar boat/Boat of years) – 8:57
8. "Illgresi" (Weeds) – 4:13
9. "Fljótavík" [A place in Iceland] – 3:49
10. "Straumnes" [A mountain near Fljótavík] – 2:01
11. "All alright" – 6:21

Review de allmusic:

With their fifth full-length album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (translated as With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly), Sigur Rós have taken the poppy, sunshiny leanings of their previous album a step further into the light. The band has always been known for otherworldly soundscapes, and while there is enough of that here to keep the faithful happy, the band also writes straightforward, three-minute pop songs like the incredible catchy, sticky-sweet duo ("Gobbldigook," "Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur") that kick the album off like the first rays of the morning sun blazing through your bedroom window. That feeling continues on through the album as both the joyously soaring vocals and the buoyant melodies keep things floating happily on air. The arrangement of sound is quite different from previous albums, too. In the past their sound was characterized by a great wash of instruments merging together into great, gently heaving walls and waves of sound; on this album, for the most part, you can pick out individual instruments whether it's the acoustic guitar that underpins many of the songs (and provides the main backing on the intimate and quite lovely, and quite un-Sigur Rós-like, "Illgresi") or the lone piano that begins "Ára Bátur" (which does expand out into an epic undertaking with over 90 people including the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory Boy's Choir eventually playing on the track). Despite the few tracks that reach for the heavens, for the first time the band sounds grounded and stripped down. Songs like "Festival," with its pounding bassline and charging drums, and the melancholy album closer, "All Alright," which is based on a lonely piano figure (and features lyrics sung in English for the first time in the group's history), are firmly tethered to earth and shorn of excess artifice. In the past it was easy to be impressed with the sound of Sigur Rós, to be carried away by the grandeur of the band and be hit hard by the titanic emotions. On Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust you can really hear the human hearts behind the wall of sound, and while the emotional impact is on a smaller scale, somehow it is even more affecting.

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Gobbledigook
Íllgresi
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur


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The Cure - Disintegration (1989)

Tracklist:

1. "Plainsong" – 5:12
2. "Pictures of You" – 7:24
3. "Closedown" – 4:16
4. "Lovesong" – 3:29
5. "Last Dance" – 4:42
6. "Lullaby" – 4:08
7. "Fascination Street" – 5:16
8. "Prayers for Rain" – 6:05
9. "The Same Deep Water as You" – 9:19
10. "Disintegration" – 8:18
11. "Homesick" – 7:06
12. "Untitled" – 6:30

En mi opinión, la obra maestra de Robert Smith. Un disco de aquellos. Y es otra prueba de que se puede hacer música profunda con muy poco.

Melancólico, triste, depresivo, enojado son los adjetivos que mejor le caben, aunque también hay algunos temas "alegres" (un sentimiento de felicidad post-tragedia diría yo, los primeros 3 tracks).

Para escuchar un día de lluvia.

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Disintegration
Plainsong
Last Dance


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Regina Spektor - Songs (2002)

Tracklist:

1. "Samson" – 3:54
2. "Oedipus" – 4:50
3. "Prisoners" – 3:03
4. "Reading Time with Pickle" - 5:33
5. "Consequence of Sounds" - 5:09
6. "Daniel Cowman" - 4:51
7. "Bon idée" - 4:10
8. "Aching to Pupate" - 2:13
9. "Lounge" - 3:34
10. "Lacrimosa" - 5:14
11. "Lulliby" - 2:27
12. "Ne me quitte pas" - 4:38

Regina Spektor es una cantante/pianista/compositora nacida en Rusia, desde los 9 vive en Nueva York. Tiene una importante formación clásica, aunque su música se podría decir que es pop con influencias del jazz, soul/blues, hip hop, (y también clásico).

Sólo piano y la (hermosa) voz de Regina.


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Samson
Oedipus


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