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TINA TURNER/Tina: There’s been a nice version of the ADHD way to enjoy La Turner over the last few years. If the Time Life box set covering the best of the Ike & Tina era was too much, this follow up to “All the Best” and the expanded version of “Private Dancer” gives you all the modern era coverage of Turner you could want. Without too much over lap between this and the repack of a few year ago, slick, contemporary R&B had the bar raised with most of the material here. Timed to coincide with her victory lap tour currently under way, this is a nice serving of a lot from a lady that gives her all.
(Capitol)
NWA and Their Family Tree/various: It’s been a long time since we were straight out of Compton and felt like being evil4zaggin, but VH1 now finds them middle class enough to bring into your living room for a 20th anni retrospective and this set that showcases key tracks by them and those that came from them. It highlights an era nicely, and like most ground breaking things, time has made it all acceptable. This is gangsta when it was ruff and most people weren’t ready, and it still sounds like it’s the spiritual descendant from early 60s Bob Dylan. Certainly whitey will relate more than ever, but this seminal stuff with never be co-opted.
(Priority)
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN/Celebration in Song: The new Mrs. Amazon John let’s her new found happiness be reflected in this latest duet set that finds her facing off with MOR icons and those that want to be. Not stretching her métier to uncomfortable levels, she hits it right on the dime she knows well and gives old fans the kind of Starbucks experience that would have been expected under normal circumstances at the coffeehouse. A first class purveyor of ice cream sex for almost two generations, her fans know what they are showing up for and will not be disappointed.
(Capitol)
LOST HIGHWAY
LUCINDA WILLIAMS/Little Honey: Although never as broadly as iconic as she deserved to be, Williams is iconic nonetheless and this set shows that she has entered the pantheon of artists that can travel by one name as well as be the totem of their own genre of music. Now in her 50s, Williams lets go of the Leonard Cohen side of her music and comes in with a new sound for her as well as duets that could (shudder) get her own radio. Easily her best record since her first ‘real’ record on Rough Trade 20 years ago, enjoy her new found sense of humor and let le bon ton roulet with her as your guide through white, Ponchatrain soul. A winner throughout.
DVD SUPPLEMENT
THREE STOOGES Volume 4 1943-45: I finally figured out what’s wrong with too much of a good thing. After all the years of fans battling the man, we’re now only ten episodes away from having all the Curly’s easily accessible. Too much of a good thing means it’s over too soon. The tail end of this collection was filmed after Curly had his stroke, but it also proves we love him anyway. It’s surprising how many Stooge classics were rendered during this period but the proof is certainly in this tasty pudding, you puddinhead!. With Niagara Falls and “Microphonies” being worth the price of admission alone, this is the kind of stuff that keeps the Stooges legacy alive and well. A must have collection for knuckleheads everywhere!
Volume 31/Number 342
October 7, 2008
MIDWEST RECORD
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Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
©2008 Midwest Record
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