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Apologies for my lack of a post last week--I was literally out of the country, in Germany at the Reeperbahn Festival, which you can read about here if you'd like, thus had no relevant opinions whatsoever about music!

Rest assured, however, that if I were here, I'd probably have written fascinating analyses of the latest albums by Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Eat World, Seal, Phil Collins, Kenny Chesney, the Doobie Brothers, the fabulous reissue of David Bowie's Station To Station, Mark Ronson and the Gin Blossoms! And I'd be willing to bet that each account would be overly hyperbolic, deliberately goofy, include a few moronic puns, and also include a well-intentioned piece of misinformation, placed there purely to elicit a protest from unwitting readers just for kicks!

There might also have been excessive punctuation!

Sadly, though, no such blog exists--but suffice to say that if it did, it would likely be acclaimed throughout the world, garner several awards for its very craft, offer ten dollars to each individual reader, and look precisely like this one, but with different pictures!

And as always, appearances are everything!

John Lennon: Signature Box (Capitol)? It's always great fun reviewing the collected works of a major artist; one of my major regrets as a music critic was never getting around to reviewing the Beatles' mono box and calling it "disappointing"! But this great big new 11-CD box, gathering John Lennon's 1971-84 solo albums, can truly be assessed for its worth as a music collection, as it contains all of Lennon's major post-Beatle works, great and small, and while some of it is fabulous, some of it is not! Which is OK! As an object, it also offers up a 2-CD set of rarities, a special book containing essays from the family surprisingly plugging late ‘60s art-rock band Yes, and is indeed the very epitome of early 21st century tasteful packaging! Many of the songs are quite good as well! Should you buy it if you already have most of these albums? Sure, go ahead!

Toby Keith: Bullets In The Gun (Show Dog/Universal) ?I like Toby Keith, mostly because there is a certain directness to his songs that I know is placed there because it resonates with his loving audience--which means that, say, a song like "Get Out Of My Car"--really, an enviable song title--is likely aimed at that segment of America which has either uttered those words or would at one point have liked to! And the big questions, like who exactly is the song addressed to--a wife, a lover, a boyfriend, a cheap hussy, a bothersome wasp or spider, a parking ticket?--don't really matter in the scheme of things, especially since the album title's simple acceptance of a gun's very existence already sends out a subtle message to the buying audience! And I sure like that cover!

KT Tunstall: Tiger Suit (Virgin)? I'm a big fan of KT Tunstall, because she is a completely self-contained music generating music unit, is cute as a button, writes surprisingly catchy songs, and is generally--and I don't mean this literally--sharp as a tack! This new album, recorded in Berlin's classy Hansa Studios, is a tad less "organic" than is her norm thanks to noticeable contributions by a former Sneaker Pimp, but from where I stand, that's good, not bad! Wait a minute, let me move over a few feet. No, it's still good, even from here! Anyone who can put together a clever song with a few good hooks is OK in my book, and KT certainly can! And if her infamous legal turmoils with a certain baseball team have left an odd mark coloring her aesthetic stance, so be it!

David Archuleta: The Other Side Of Down (19 Recordings)? I don't know about you, but I'm a little tired of all this hubbub about American Idol participants and their ultimate worth as music artists! It's easy to call them meaningless, fame-craving empty vessels who will do absolutely anything they can in order to achieve a record deal--but is it really accurate? Can't some of them actually make a record that means anything to them personally? Well, in the case of young David Archuleta, who prior to his Idol stint spent several years at a local Sit ‘N Sleep shop spelling out the difference between Sealy, Simmons and Serta mattresses to potential customers, the answer is clearly Yes I Can! Unfortunately, a wealth of knowledge about quality pillows and comforters may not translate to the majority of today's record buyers, but you know what? Not everyone needs a new album, but everyone needs a brand new bed!

Joe Satriani: Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards (Epic)? There has been an unfortunate tendency among music critics, probably since the dawn of punk rock, to discount those musicians out there who are simply too technically adept as playing mind-numbing, hollow music that ultimately doesn't mean much compared to, I don't know, a simple "1-2-3-4" song intro by the Ramones! How dopey! Both can be equally meaningless! But let's face facts--Satriani has a great haircut, is Italian, plays a sexy red guitar, and isn't above making appearances on YouTube with Coldplay! Plus his music sounds better than ever! Frankly, I don't know what the heck most of these songs are about--the words are sort of inaudible--but that only makes them more timeless than ever! I'm completely digging this thing!

Faith Evans: Something About Faith (Entertainment One)? The first album in five years from Grammy-winning R&B songstress is a good one: substantial music, varied arrangements, guest appearances by Snoop Dogg and Keyshia Cole, and cover art straight out of the next National Velvet remake! I can't wait to hear it! Unfortunately, Something About Faith is a press release! Apparently the album itself will be called Faith's New Record! Literalism: the bane of our very existence!

Soundgarden: Telephantasm (A&M)? Sometimes bands who were once a great big deal sound kind of iffy years after the fact, but this is not the case with Soundgarden, whose collection here--a deluxe set featuring 2 CDs and a DVD--is a welcome reminder that these former rockin' dudes were once dudes who rocked! What I liked best about ‘em was they whether they were deliberately being ironic or not with their dopey HM posing--it was the late ‘80s/early ‘90s back then, don't forget--it really doesn't make much of difference, sonically speaking! And excess--which this band really excelled at--sounds great no matter what year you're hearing it! I recommend not only buying but playing it!

Bring Me The Horizon: There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Lets Keep It a Secret (Epitath)? Some say this British band is "defining the sound of modern metal as we know it"! Others say the years they spent as parking lot attendants and their extraordinary hatred of Plymouths has colored their music and lifestyle on profound levels! Still others suggest that were they to hire David Clayton-Thomas as their new lead singer and do nothing but perform "Spinning Wheel" repeatedly until they were booed offstage, that would be fascinating to watch! All I know is the guy on the album cover has great abs!

Fran Healy: Wreckorder (Ryko)? The first solo album from the singer and major writer from Travis is a good one--actually sort of better than that band's last few, if you ask me--because of the variety of songs, the depth of the writing, the guest appearances by Neko Case and Paul McCartney (on bass), and the fact that it's not bad to listen to while you're stuck on the 405 worrying about whether you're going to get to work on time! Of course, that may just be me! I figure if you're a teenaged guy named Fran, you'll probably spend a lot of time alone in your bedroom learning how to write good songs!

Bruno Mars: Doo-Wops & Hooligans (Elektra) Famous for writing hits galore for other people, Bruno Mars has just released his very first album! Its cover? Yellow!

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Band on the times!

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For Beatle fans, it's been an interesting few weeks: Within the past month, most of John Lennon's solo albums have been released, George Harrison's collaborations with Ravi Shankar have been repackaged, and--this week--Paul McCartney's Band On The Run is making the rounds once more!

Maybe just to put things in my own personal perspective, I've spent the last few weeks listening not only to the Lennon set but also the McCartney solo albums--from his very first solo album onward--and have attempted to hear all of them with the advantage of a 2010 perspective!

With no preconceptions about who was really the "cooler" Beatle--because, believe it or not, that's often been the means by which each artist's ultimate relevancy has been determined--I have to say it's been an enlightening few weeks!

Why? Because according to at least two policemen, driving around town listening to old ex-Beatles albums is a task best accomplished while actually wearing pants!

I suspect none of this would have ever happened had I never started listening to Grand Funk Railroad!

Paul McCartney & Wings: Band On The Run (MPL/Concord)? With age comes wisdom, and so it is that in 2010, a listen to Paul McCartney's best-selling post-Beatles classic reveals that yes indeed--it is the best post-Beatles album ever released by a member of the Fab Four! Aside from the not-insignificant fact that it bore actual hit records such as the title track, "Jet," and radio hits "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five" and "Bluebird," the album simply continues to sound fresh and would sound exactly the same to those who had no knowledge whatsoever that McCartney was once a member of the Beatles! Additionally, all those things that once seemed liabilities during the first few McCartney albums--most specifically Linda McCartney's backing vocals--now seem surprisingly accessible in the wake of the delightfully amateurish vocal hijinks that would follow via, say, the Marine Girls, the Slits, and those militant chicks from the Pacific Northwest! Plus, "Helen Wheels," the original version of which is included in the deluxe version of this set, may be the finest Moby Grape tribute ever recorded! Between this, Ram and McCartney II, I'm thinking Mr. McCartney still has much to be appreciated for! See if you don't agree!

Jason Aldean: My Kinda Party (Broken Bow)? Country star Jason Aldean continues to rise in popularity, not only because he's got his finger on the pulse of contemporary America, but when it comes to describing this country's soft white underbelly, he can't be beat! And so it is that My Kinda Party spells out precisely the goings-on that most of us have suspected, but have never been able to confirm, at the various Tupperware parties taking place in households well-to-do and otherwise in America's Deep South--where booze is cheap, thrills even cheaper, and a transparent orange sandwich-holder can arouse members of both sexes regardless of their age! I understand cider is often served!

N.E.R.D.: Nothing (Star Trak/Interscope)? It's said that N*E*R*D is an acronym for Nothing Ever Really Dies--but perhaps less well known is the fact that it also stands for Never Eat Red Donuts, Nubiles Entertaining Robotic Discourse, and, most significantly, Neurosis Enveloping Reticent Dentists! And so it is that the highly talented trio of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo and Shae Haley have returned, paying tribute not only to ‘60s DC Comics star Sgt. Rock, but to Woody Woodpecker, the Buffalo Springfield's "Bluebird" and--oh, let's just say Prince's "When Doves Cry"! In some ways strikingly similar to John Kay & Steppenwolf's underrated 1990 classic Rise & Shine, Nothing offers everything its very name implies times two!

The Sound Of Music: 45th Anniversary (Sony Legacy)? I will always be grateful to my parents for dragging me along to see original classics such as The Sound Of Music, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Funny Girl on Broadway, as they happened, when I was a mere squirt, and for playing those shows' original cast albums to the point of absurdity for years later, as I know every single word of every song performed in them and suspect I would probably end up singing them to myself in chronological order if I were ever lying comatose in a hospital bed and was struggling to maintain my sanity! Yeah, like that would ever happen! That said, I naturally was a snob when it came to seeing the actual movie versions of these productions, and thus feel no strong attachment to their respective film soundtracks--though I must say, 45 years later, adding a "bonus track" by a member of today's Glee cast certainly makes them infinitely more listenable and, I suspect, better pieces of art overall! If the hills have eyes, of course they're alive!

Brad Paisley: Hits Alive (Arista Nashville)? When it comes to Nashville superstars named Brad, you can't go wrong if you're thinking Paisley--and the so-called "triple threat" talent that BP clearly is can do no wrong here, in a fabulous greatest hits collection greatly aided by a second disc of stellar live performances! Additional bonus: they're all by him! Paisley's warmth, exuberance and outright accessibility will attract music fans of every stripe--after all, who wouldn't want to hear tracks named "Ticks" and "I'm Still A Guy"? Whatever you do, don't focus on the obvious anagram!

Good Charlotte: Cardiology (Capitol)? In this rough ‘n' tumble world, I think most of us don't spend enough time considering the plight of one-time popular "emo" pop-punk bands who are still out there trying to make a living, even though merely mentioning the name "Yellowcard" in today's hippest social gatherings is certain to raise titters among those inclined to chuckle at the word "titters"! And so it is that Good Charlotte, now 58 years old, hefty and suffering from chronic asthma, return with a new album detailing four unpleasant months recently spent in their local cardiology unit, where continual indignities involving both their hospital gowns and sigmoidoscopes have given them a perspective both unique and, it must be said, unenviable! Still, this baby rocks!

Frank Sinatra: Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection (Shout Factory DVD) ?One of the year's best video collections--and surprisingly massive in scope--this seven-disc DVD set showcases the legendary singer very much in his prime, including his first-ever 1965 TV special, his classic televised set with Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and a cast including Count Basie, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, and even Princess Grace of Monaco! An ambitious box set, lengthy, historic and never less than enjoyable, it's a superb documentation of one of America's most foremost entertainment icons and a natural Christmas present for the elders or young hipsters in your extended family! They won't even notice you sneaking behind the bar while they're watching it!

Huey Lewis & The News: Soulsville (W.O.W.)? Records like this prove precisely how much MTV devalued music as music during its historic run in the ‘80s! Like, if you merely mention Huey Lewis & The News in a contemporary social situation--and I don't know about you, but I'm always finding myself in those sort of things--the natural reaction will be something between a guilty smirk and a condescending glare implying how in the world could you have ever taken them seriously? But this album--featuring the ‘80s rockin' dudes covering much of the Stax Records archive--is well-played, well-sung, sincere stuff that 30 years later beats the pants off this band's MTV contemporaries! Literally! So it's embarrassing to watch!

Black Dub: Black Dub (Jive)? Exceptionally performed music by superstar producer/guitarist Daniel Lanois, drummer Brian Blade, bassist Daryl Johnson and singer Trixie (daughter of Chris) Whitley, Black Dub is one of those quirky albums that a major label releases now and then that appears to exist purely because it made musical sense--rather than it seemed to bear one incredibly great single and nine other pieces of insubstantial crud! As such, let's all ignore it and finally teach those nasty record labels that all we want are moronic hit records we don't have to pay attention to! Don't they get it? Then we can share a donut!

Matt And Kim: Sidewalks (Fader) Much like Dick & Dee Dee, Friend & Lover, Ashford & Simpson, Peaches & Herb, Mickey & Sylvia, Paul & Paula, Marvin & Tammi, the Captain & Tennile, Nancy & Lee, and Ike & Tina, Matt and Kim are air breathers!

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Break Your Heart Lyrics

Taio Cruz ft ludacris Break Your Heart lyrics

[Ludadris intro]
Now I might not be the worst of the best but you gotta respect my honesty so let me break your heart but I dont think theres anybody as bomb as me so you can take this chance and everybodys gonna be wonderin how you feel you might say this is Ludacris but Taio Cruz tell her how you feel.

Now listen to me baby
Before I love and leave ya
They call me heart breaker
I don't wanna deceive ya

If you fall for me
I'm not easy to please
Imma tear you apart
Told you from the start,
Baby from the start.

I'm only gonna break break ya break break ya heart. (x4)

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Theres no point tryin to hide it
No point trying to evade it
I know I gotta problem
By doin misbehaving

If you fall for me
I'm not easy to please


Imma tear you apart
Told you from the start,
Baby from the start.

I'm only gonna break break ya break break ya heart.
I'm only gonna break break ya break break ya heart.
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Ha
And I know karmas gonna get
Me back for being so cold.
Like a big bad wolf im born
To be bad an bad to the bone.
If you fall for me
Imma gonna tear you apart
Told you from the start

I'm only gonna break break ya break break ya heart.
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As we near the end of the year, the big guns are releasing all their wares!

In the old days, that might mean that the world's biggest recording artists are putting out their new albums just in time for holiday shoppers!

These days, though, it means that the world's biggest labels are throwing out absolutely anything with a major artist's name on it--purely so that they can afford to fill their yachts with gas while we the people lay rolling on the floor, broke, hungry, and wondering where our next meal is coming from!

Still, that 43-CD Miles Davis box set does look tempting, and I'm sure my son wouldn't notice if I sold his first-ever soccer trophy in order to buy it! Besides, food is great and all, but how long do you think all these great "deluxe versions" of?classic albums will be available?

Besides, anyone can have a son!

Taylor Swift: Speak Now (Big Machine)? I don't think it's an understatement to say the entire world is waiting for the brand new Taylor Swift album! Especially when it comes to the planet Glugg--whose residents are not only charismatic as heck but frankly represent Swift's biggest market! Swift's abilities as a songwriter, finely honed now after five full decades of living, feeling, and hurting, have never been so sharp--nor her words, her lost loves, her everyday dramas, so acutely depicted as they are here, on what many will call the album of a lifetime! Additionally, because she's blonde and considered attractive by some, her works merit all the more attention! Word is there are songs on this thing!

Bryan Ferry: Olympia (Astralwerks)? As per the recent agreement that all albums released this week will feature a comely blonde bearing a come-hither look on their cover--heck, why not?--this new album by Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry follows all expectations and then some! Superbly played music, well-penned songs, still reeking of the complete coolness that has followed the singer from Day 1, Olympia is a well-sculpted, highly enjoyable piece of art that puts most of the rest of this week's releases to shame! Still, whether the world was waiting for Ferry to cover such pivotal works as Traffic's "No Face, No Name, No Number" or Tim Buckley's "Song To the Siren"--songs that were literally perfect from the get-go and needed no covering--is debatable! But so's global warming,?and who cares?

Buddy Guy: Living Proof (Silvertone/Jive)? It's hard to argue with success, and Buddy Guy's remarkable career as a blues guitarist continues to grow as he's reached his 74th year! A strong album, bolstered with guest appearances by B.B. King and Carlos Santana, Living Proof is highly listenable through and through and might well be discussed purely for its cover graphic alone, which resembles that little piece of paper wrapped around a liquor bottle that sometimes you pull off because you're completely bored and, well, you just want to see if you can do it, according to reputable sources! Additional bonus: he's quite good!

Jeff Beck: Live And Exclusive From the Grammy Museum (Atco)? Speaking of incredibly cool guitarists, let's not forget Jeff Beck, whose latest album--a live set recorded in LA earlier this year--is typically impeccable, groovy, and better than any record produced by most other living humans! Featuring covers of such classics as "A Day In The Life," "Over The Rainbow" and "People Get Ready," the album is a fine showcasing of Beck's unnatural guitar skills and completely worth your purchasing! Perhaps you should buy it, look at the remainder of your music collection, and consider whether anything else you own has any value whatsoever! Then--I don't know--go see if you really can freeze vodka!

The Octopus Project: Hexadecagon (Peek-A-Boo) There's nothing like a great indie band who probably spent a lot of time listening to records by Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass and are completely into being repetitive just because it's possible! This latest set by the much acclaimed Octopus Project--a favorite among today's sophisticated oceanographers and marine biologists--is fine listening throughout, even when deliberately played in mono because that button is just sitting there on your receiver and you never really get to use it anymore! Incidentally, a hexadecagon is a 16-sided object! So it's twice as good as Chicago At Carnegie Hall!

Miles Davis: The Genius Of Miles Davis (Columbia/Legacy)? Hypothetically speaking, there are people who like Miles Davis and there are people who love Miles Davis! And in that second group, there are people who really, really love Miles Davis! If that describes you to a T, then I know what you want for Christmas! How about this extremely limited edition, 43-CD set consisting of the man's classic recordings for Columbia, packaged in a full-size trumpet case, including a replica of his original trumpet mouthpiece, a lithograph, a t-shirt, and--I don't know--bonus oxygen! Frankly, if I were a well-to-do music fan with limited options in terms of finding new music I liked and lots of money to spend, I'd probably buy this and never even open it! Just owning it would be enough! I'd probably also read the Wall Street Journal and sweat a lot!

John Cale & Band: Live At Rockpalast (M.I.G. Music)? John Cale made the LA papers recently for his live performance of his classic Paris 1919 album, so maybe the time is right to re-evaluate all the great work the former Velvet Underground dude has created in the last 40 years or so! Interested? If so, this 2-CD set, taken from a couple of live performances on German TV, is as good a place to start as any, as it features him performing much of his best material is an agreeable and highly compelling manner! Plus, it's good! Featuring tracks going as far back as his classic Vintage Violence set, the collection is a lengthy, comprehensive set sure to inspire humans the world over! The next necessary step? His overseeing the 5.1 surround version of Nico's Marble Index! Then perhaps a collaboration with Bret Michaels!

James Taylor: James Taylor (Apple)? You wouldn't know it now, but James Taylor was a pretty cutting-edge artist back in his early days, and this--his first album, originally issued on Apple in 1968 and now newly remastered and offered up again--may be his best album ever. Finely played, exquisitely arranged, and filled with a surprising number of songs that about as emotionally dark as you'd ever want, the album was the prelude to a career that would soon be massive but rarely again as focused on such harrowing subject matter. Very highly recommended. Plus: Dig the enthusiastic cover picture!

Ray Charles: Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters (Concord) He would've been 80 years old this year, but you can bet Ray Charles would have lost little of his magic. This welcome package, filled with newly discovered recordings--including a duet with Johnny Cash, no less--is?an excellent?set of 10 tracks extending back through the ‘70s, filled with the warmth and grit that made the singer such a legendary figure. There may be raw demos here, but in the case of Ray Charles, nothing ever really needed sweetening up. Check it out!

Michael Buble: Crazy Love Hollywood Edition (Reprise) Everyone's favorite contemporary crooner just took a trip to Hollywood Boulevard, bought some fine new shoes, and checked out the cement handprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre! Some call it post-rock, but I call it alternative!

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Wow Wee Paper Jamz Guitar - Style 5

Paper Jamz is the only affordable and innovative play instrument that provides an instant rock star experience and open-ended play!
The creative blend of technology and play is made possible with Active Graphics TechnologyTM which allows for circuit-embedded paper, enabling you to play like a pro by simply touching the paper surface!
Featuring three modes for jamming:
*Perfect Play: play perfect guitar to the 3 included hits
*Rhythm mode: control the guitar rhythm for each song
*Freestyle: play real chords - create your own songs!
*Karaoke: sing and play along with the 3 included songs

Features
*Built-in speaker with volume control
*Line out for earphone or speaker accessories (not included)
*Each includes 3 exclusive, licensed hit songs

Songs:

HEY THERE DELILAH
Words & Music by Tom Higgenson.
c 2005 WB Music Corp.(ASCAP), Fear More Music (ASCAP) And So Happy Publishing (ASCAP).
All Rights Administered By WB Music Corp

ALL STAR
Words And Music By Greg Camp
c 1999 WWarner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI) And Squish Moth Music (BMI).
All rights administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp

HELICOPTER
Written by Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong.
c 2005 EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD. All rights in the U.S. and Canada controlled and administered by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI).
All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Used by Permission.

Price: $23.89

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