"Usually, the music budget is what’s left over, particularly for TV, and it’s library music, you know? Non-descript. Ricky Gervais spoke to Smooth about picking songs for the series, telling us: "I’ve never had a budget like this, so I went crazy.
Margaret Dahlberg - 'Introspective Inquiries' Todd Rundgren - 'Can We Still Be Friends?'ĭeath Cab for Cutie - 'I Will Follow You Into the Dark'Įngland Dan and John Ford Coley - 'Love is the Answer' Kate Rusby - 'Who Will Sing Me Lullabies' Sufjan Stevens - 'The Only Thing (Live)' Season 3: McKenna sounds complacent discomfort suits her better.Jimmy Webb - 'If These Walls Could Speak'ĭave Thomas Junior - 'Little Piece of Nothing'ĭon Diablo & Dave Thomas Junior - 'Silence' “Lorraine” is evenly split between mercilessly detailed songs like these and frustratingly blank ones (“Sweet Disposition,” “Rocket Science”), which feel like hollow templates designed to be inhabited by other, less imaginative singers. On “All I Ever Do,” those decisions have consequences:Īnd cluttered up the house with Fisher-Price “You don’t get your picture on a local front page for falling in love at a reckless age,” she sings on “You Get a Love Song,” about making the best of misguided decisions. On “Lorraine” the tough quaver in her voice that’s always been there is hardened the lyrics, even about defiant love, are bitter cold. McKenna, who’d been a steady presence in the folk music world for years. But that plucked-from-obscurity story line always felt mildly insulting to Ms.
McKenna as a housewife who’d struck it big. McKenna appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in a segment that painted Ms. But isn’t that how you move into the mainstream? Follow-up Late Night Special ups the ante even more. On the strength of 'Grind with Me' and 'Your Body,' unapologetically sleazy brother act Pretty Ricky sold over 800,000 copies of their debut album, Bluestars.
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Sonically the record’s at least five years behind the curve. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. It’s lean and giddy dance-rock, related to the Rapture and the simple-but-clear aesthetic of DFA, the label and production team. Samson and Johanna Fateman, also from Le Tigre now it’s a trio with two guitarists, Michael O’Neill and Ginger Brooks Takahashi, with samplers doing the rest. The band began three years ago as a production and remix project of Ms. “Talk About Body,” the band’s first album, sounds alternative, but not off to the side it’s not the greatest record you’ll hear this year, but it’s pretty remarkable as a political and musical polemic. Samson, once of the band Le Tigre, is a woman with a mustache singing about female, gay and transgender equality, and her challenge is obvious: to make her issues universal rather than off to the side, to turn word and sound into a party-friendly message. 31, 2011 See how this article appeared when it was originally published on. J D Samson, the singer and songwriter behind the new trio MEN that’s in all caps, for emphasis is looking for a place where pop pleasures and political friction can become totally enfolded. Ricky Martin, Now as Himself Read in app By Jon Pareles, Ben Ratliff and Jon Caramanica Jan. He’s still a gutsy, emotive singer, and the music strives to be up to the minute. The sentiments in his new songs are open ended enough to double as self-affirmations for anyone feeling like an outsider. Martin is a pop star before he’s a crusader, and he’s clearly determined to reach a wide audience, both Spanish- and English-speaking. The album also includes “Será Será” (“It Will Be, It Will Be”), which promises those who feel “unequal, condemned, marginalized without mercy” that “the future now is yours,” and “Basta Ya” (“Enough”), which vows to stop “denying what I want” and decides, “I’ll be true to myself.” In “No Te Miento” (“I’m Not a Liar”) he insists that despite accusations and judgments, “With you I’ll lead an open life.” Yet Mr. Martin pulling a gag off his mouth, then juxtaposes him with gay and straight couples with equal signs painted on their chests. The video clip for the album’s first single in English, a lilting duet with Joss Stone called “The Best Thing About Me Is You,” shows Mr. The back story is upfront on Ricky Martin’s “Música + Alma + Sexo” (“Music + Soul + Sex”), his first studio album since 2005 and his first since he announced last year on his Web site that he is “proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.” On this album his usual exhortations to seize life’s pleasures mingle with coming-out manifestos, and he smiles through them all.
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