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The Ultimate Collection
(more) »rank: 1011by: The Temptations
: :A brave effort at cramming one disc full of Temptations classics, The Ultimate Collection nevertheless makes a couple of puzzling choices. Why, for instance, include 'Error of Our Ways,' a very minor mid-'90s hit, and ignore 'Beauty Is Only Skin Deep' or 'I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You),' both number ones from their classic period? Still, for the price, it's hard to argue with. --Rickey Wright
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Barry White - All-Time Greatest Hits
(more) »rank: 1847by: Barry White
: essential recording:For those music buyers who have enjoyed Barry White's music since the early 1970s but may not be devoted enough for the three-CD box set Just for You, this 20-track compilation brings together all of White's major chart hits between 1973 and 1979, along with a couple of entries from his Love Unlimited Orchestra. White's distinctive vocal style--a deep, resonant baritone-bass that oozes sex appeal--was the icing on the cake for those hits; superlative string arrangements (courtesy of the late Gene Page) encased White in a lush setting, while White's hand-picked rhythm section ...
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Moondance
(more) »rank: 816by: Van Morrison
: essential recording:Van Morrison went a long way towards defining his wild Irish heart with his first two classic albums: the brooding, introspective Astral Weeks (1968), and the expansive, swinging Moondance. If the first was the work of a poet, its sequel was the statement of a musician and bandleader. Moondance is that rare rock album where the band has buffed the arrangements to perfection, and where the sax solos instead of the guitar. The band puts out a jazzy shuffle on 'Moondance' and plays it soulful on 'These Dreams of You.' The album includes ...
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Hot Buttered Soul
(more) »rank: 1302by: Isaac Hayes
:Album Details:24 Bit Remastered Series in a Digipak. :By 1969, black artists were following rock's lead and recording extended epics. At the forefront of such experimentation was big bad Isaac Hayes, coauthor of countless Stax classics and an artist in his own right. On this, his second album, Hayes takes two MOR-pop benchmarks, Burt Bacharach's 'Walk On By' and Jimmy Webb's 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix,' and spins them out into slow-building sermons lasting 12 and 18.5 minutes apiece. Heavily romantic, they predate by two years Barry White's symphonic adventures in the same ...
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The Very Best of Otis Redding
(more) »rank: 686by: Otis Redding
: :No other Otis compilation quite satisfies the way the old double-LP best-of does, but never mind: any way you hear Redding's many great moments is a good one. The Very Best splits ballads and up-tempo stuff half-and-half, letting you hear the great one's humanity in every mood--the pile-driving rock of 'Respect,' the preaching fervor of 'Try a Little Tenderness,' the nascent reflection of 'Dock of the Bay.' A record collection with no Otis is a poor thing: here's yours. --Rickey Wright
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Lessons In Love
(more) »rank: 1025by: Lloyd
: :After making his major mark on the music scene in 2004 via Southside the Top 20-placing love-struck anthem on which he collaborated with Ashanti, Lloyd released his debut disc of the same title. In the years that have followed, he’s proven himself as a legitimate industry player, generating hits like 2006’s chart-topping 'YOU' and the infectious 'GET IT SHAWTY' which saw Top two placement last year. The latter was spawned from his gold-selling sophomore disc, Street Love. In Summer of 2008, Lloyd returns with his third effort, Lessons In Love. The hard-driving lead-in single, 'How ...
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New York City
(more) »rank: 1357by: Brazilian Girls
:Album Description:Third album by the critically acclaimed group expands on their signature, multi-lingual sound while paying respect to their international roots and the city where they got their start. The album also features renowned Senagalese musician Baaba Maal as a guest vocalist on 'Internacional,' and Kenny Wollesen and The Himalayas on multiple tracks. '...the band's reputation as an energetic live act has set the table for a possible crossover to the mainstream...in the tradition of other left-of-center, genre-bending acts from New York such as Dee-Lite or the Talking Heads.' -Los ngeles Times '...unceasingly irresistible' - ...
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Music from the Motion Picture 'Purple Rain'
(more) »rank: 1249by: Prince & the Revolution
: essential recording:Maybe this music by Prince & the Revolution will never quite sound as, well, revolutionary as it did in 1984 (and nothing else has ever sounded like the extraordinary cooing and fluttering of 'When Doves Cry'), but it's a pop landmark in Prince's Artist-ic career. The hit movie was really just a big-screen showcase for Prince to perform these songs (some of them in tear-the-roof-off 'live' versions set in a Minneapolis club). I don't know why that warped sermonette introduces 'Let's Go Crazy' (one thing you've got to love about Prince: he's always ...
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Sketches of MD
(more) »rank: 1128by: Kenny Garrett
: :Throughout his illustrious career, saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist/composer Kenny Garrett has accumulated multiple Grammy® nominations, countless collaborations, and a long list of accolades from his peers. With Sketches of MD, Garrett adds several historic firsts to his résumé: the first live recording of the Kenny Garrett/Pharoah Sanders pairing, Garretts' first recorded set at New York City's famed Iridium Jazz Club, and his first release on Mack Avenue. In addition to Sanders, Garrett is joined on stage by Nat Reeves on bass, Benito Gonzalez on keys and Jamire Williams on drums
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Frank [Deluxe Edition]
(more) »rank: 3282by: Amy Winehouse
:Album Description:This 2 CD Deluxe set features Amy's first album 'Frank' and a second disc that features 17 previously unheard songs. These include original demos for the 'Frank' sessions, B-sides and remixes. Between the two discs there are 29 songs here!!
