Editorial Product Review: essential recording:The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, 'Come Together' and 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Gatefold jacket/2 discs Printed sleeves :Radiohead's third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that's almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British 'new wave of new wave' band that rejects speed and hooks in favor of languorous texture ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:By 1975 Young had written some of the most enduring anthems in rock history. But from the slow, tension-building piano opening of 'Tonight's the Night,' he downshifts into darkness and Crazy Horse's folk-country melodies take on a guttural hum that would eventually speak to generations of punk and grunge musicians. Inspired by the overdose deaths of two of Young's friends, roadie Bruce Berry and guitarist Danny Whitten, the title track (and its closing reprise) is a ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Two 10' discs in gatefold jacket Printed sleeves 's Best of 2000:How is it that Kid A's opening track, laden with an electronic vocal stuttering 'bleh, bluh-bleh bleh bluh' is the most fascinating statement made in rock & roll this year? Because somehow, even when Radiohead blathers and blips nonsense, it's profound. The band's future-perfect musical grammar may be hard to decipher, and the melody is even more subliminal, but the journey traveled with ...
Editorial Product Review: : Radiohead Photos More from Radiohead OK Computer Amnesiac Kid A Pablo Honey Hail To The Thief I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings Amazon.com:While Radiohead saw its stock rising in 1994, it wasn't until 1995's The Bends that it really became a blue chip band. And for good reason. The quintet honed its talent for bombastic Brit Rock, yet still preserved an edge of unpredictability. Even singles like the title track didn't give in ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Two 10' discs in gatefold jacket Printed sleeves :More song-driven and acoustic than Kid A, Radiohead's Amnesiac isn't quite 'Kid B,' but it is unquestionably cut from the same far-out cloth, as the band revels in fascinating quirks and abject nihilism. It's also the first time in Radiohead's career that a new record hasn't meant a complete shift in artistic priorities. Surely, however, regardless of which was released first, they both deserve recognition; after ...
Editorial Product Review: :Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kill Em All, the debut album from Metallica and in anticipation of the band's ninth studio albumlater this year Warner Bros. Records, under direct supervision from the band, are reissuingtheir early albums, Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, ...And JusticeFor All, and Metallica (aka The Black Album) as both standard and deluxe vinyl editions. Ranked eighth on the list of the biggest sellinggroups in history, and one of the ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:An introductory drum roll drops out and is replaced by a single suspended electric guitar, which is then paralleled by a snare, filled in with the bass, and--crash!--'Cherub Rock,' the opening track, is enveloped in an explosion of metal guitar. So the journey begins. This album is pre-experimentation vintage Pumpkins. Produced by Butch Vig (Garbage, Sonic Youth, Nirvana's Nevermind), Siamese Dream is first about guitars. Lots and lots of guitars. A very close second is Jimmy ...
Editorial Product Review: 's Best of 1998:Just from the opening seconds of Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, you know it's going to be special: the acoustic guitar strum is catchy beyond belief, and Jeff Magnum's intonation lends credibility even to a line like 'When you were young, you were the King of Carrot Flowers.' Listening to In the Aeroplane is like stepping through Alice's looking glass; you enter a fantastic new universe that, while it doesn't always make sense logically, feels ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:UK 180 gram LP pressing. Contains a voucher enabling the purchaser to download MP3 versions of the songs within. Tracks, Sweet Home Alabama; I Need You; Don't Ask Me No Questions; Workin' For MCA; The Ballad Of Curtis Loew; Swamp Music; The Needle & The Spoon and Call Me The Breeze. Universal. 2008.
Usually we're fans of Logitech's gaming mice, but its highest-end G9 Laser Mouse is expensive, overly complex, and lacks the ergonomic thought we've come to expect. If you like to brag about dot-per-inch limits, perhaps the G9's 3,200dpi laser will be enough to sell you, but for the price, we expect the design to match.
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.