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Tom Chaplin recommended Want One by Rufus Wainwright in Music (curated)

 
Want One by Rufus Wainwright
Want One by Rufus Wainwright
2003 | Singer-Songwriter
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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"It’s funny, this list, I’ve actually met a lot of the people I’ve chosen! Rufus came on tour with us in 2003, it was the first time we’d got on a tour bus and the first iPods had come out. Tim had an iPod, and I checked it out, I put it on and the album he had on there was Want One and I was completely blown away. He sounds a bit like Radiohead-does-classical, particularly on that record. I remember saying to him that he sounds a lot like Radiohead and he was a bit like, “Really?”, I don’t think he even knew their music. That album was written, I think, during the time he got clean from being really addicted to crystal meth. I mean it sent him blind and stuff, it was really serious. So the album tells that story, with just beautiful songwriting, and I don’t know if he ever got close to that album again in terms of song-writing, it’s such a phenomenal record. And I like orchestral arrangements if they’re done well, or else it can sound like Il Divo or something but he did it so well, mixing pop and classical."

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Anders Holm recommended Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys in Music (curated)

 
Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
1989 | Hip-hop, Rock
8.0 (4 Ratings)
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"That is the album. It’s got all the songs on there that I love. You know, like ‘High Plains Drifter.’ That was an era of Beastie Boys that was between where they were like frat-partying animals and were like, ‘Whoa, hold up. We can really be artists with this rap thing.’ I think they were on the first album, obviously it was a breakthrough. I think this was their statement album—their first statement album of many. I am a huge fan. “To be honest, I could have gone with Check Your Head or Ill Communication since those were more my era of when I was deep in music. I think I stole my brother’s Licensed To Ill tape. The first one I bought on my own was Check Your Head. After I got that I was like, 'Oh, this is the shit.' I went back to go buy Paul's Boutique. And Paul’s Boutique, along with the other few albums I chose, just sounded like it was from another planet. It existed always. There was nothing wrong with it. The voicemail, outgoing message about Paul’s Boutique: 'We are here in Brooklyn.' It was like, this is for real, I could go there. I could call that number. It just seemed, like, magical."

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    Night Network by The Cribs

    Night Network by The Cribs

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    The cribs are back and on blistering form, brandishing their brand new eighth album, night network....

Equals by Ed Sheeran
Equals by Ed Sheeran
2021
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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Mix of up beat and heart wrenching songs (1 more)
Lovely cover art
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Bloody Gooz Album
It has been sooooo long since I last got a CD. And oh how I have missed it! To my fellow 90s peeps: lyric booklets with art!!!!
I know, you can just Google the words, or watch a lyric version on YouTube, but this is different. Nostalgic. Plus, the art is wonderful. The colour and style is great, works well with the tone of the album and has a great simplicity to it.
Anyway, on to the music. I avoided Ed Sheeran at first, never one to hop on the hype train. But Toot Toot, thus guy does not dissapoint, and this album is no exception.
A great mix of up-beatand catchy songs, with some deep heart breakers to balance it out. It has something for all moods. Listen to it, then go back and listen again. There is wit and tenderness in his words that you do not see too often these days, and in a world of mainstream multiples, this album equals a little bit of diversity. From balards to rap, is there nothing he can't do?
Thanks Ed, and thanks @Smashbomb for my treat xxx
  
Singer Diana Krall's 13th album, Turn Up the Quiet, is one of the Observer's early favourites for the year's best jazz records. And there are some surprising turnouts from the Rolling Stones to Iggy Pop. A total mixed jazz bag this year:

From the coolest member of the Rolling Stones to a punk icon trying on his Sinatra fedora to a former bartender who mixes sounds through her trumpet, jazz music is anything if not diverse.


Loneliness Road by Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, and Bobby Previte with Iggy Pop

Loneliness Road by Jamie Saft, Steve Swallow, and Bobby Previte with Iggy Pop

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Over a career now spanning nearly thirty years, Jamie Saft has established himself as one of the...


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Fly Or Die by Jaimie Branch

Fly Or Die by Jaimie Branch

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A mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene and an active recent addition to the New York scene, Jaimie...


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Music from Our Soul by Charnett Moffett

Music from Our Soul by Charnett Moffett

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For his 30th Anniversary as a recording artist, Charnett Moffett delivers a far-reaching set of his...


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Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band by Charlie Watts

Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band by Charlie Watts

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Charlie Watts is considered by just about everyone to be the coolest man in rock, but he would be...


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Gratitude  by Dayna Stephens

Gratitude by Dayna Stephens

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Gratitude, saxophonist/composer/bandleader Dayna Stephens’ eighth album as a leader, is a gift...


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Maddie (37 KP) rated Masseduction by St Vincent in Music

Nov 16, 2017  
Masseduction by St Vincent
Masseduction by St Vincent
2017 | Electronic, Pop, Techno
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Powerful lyrics
Pop-synth feel
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No really, just listen to this album and hear what Annie is saying. She is a powerful, modern artist who can comment on society with a confidence and vulnerability that few have today.
  
Bangerz by Miley Cyrus
Bangerz by Miley Cyrus
2013 | Pop
"Bangerz" is neither the best nor worst pop album released this year, but it's inarguably the most fiercely individual.
Critic- Jason Lipshutz
Original Score: 7 out of 10

Read Review: http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/5740707/miley-cyrus-bangerz-track-by-track-review